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1038763

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2019
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Trade Promotion
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Fairhead on 20 September 2018 (HL10343), whether they have now received the regional trade plan of each of Her Majesty's Trade Commissioners; and if so, whether they will publish those plans.
	tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
	uin	HL12726
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>All of Her Majesty’s nine Trade Commissioners have completed their first Regional Trade Plans, which set out how each region will meet the Department’s objectives overseas. These have all been discussed at the Departmental Board. Over the coming months, Trade Commissioners will be refreshing their plans to ensure they remain fully updated.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for International Trade does not intend to publish Regional Trade Plans at present, as they are internal documents. However, for the future, we are considering what information may be appropriate to publish and when.</p> answering member printed Baroness Fairhead grouped question UIN HL12727 question first answered 23/01/2019 14:18:01 answering member 4690 label Biography information for Baroness Fairhead
	tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley

1038764

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2019
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Trade Promotion
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Fairhead on 20 September 2018 (HL10343), which Trade Commissioners, if any, have not yet submitted their regional trade plan.
	tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
	uin	HL12727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>All of Her Majesty’s nine Trade Commissioners have completed their first Regional Trade Plans, which set out how each region will meet the Department’s objectives overseas. These have all been discussed at the Departmental Board. Over the coming months, Trade Commissioners will be refreshing their plans to ensure they remain fully updated.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for International Trade does not intend to publish Regional Trade Plans at present, as they are internal documents. However, for the future, we are considering what information may be appropriate to publish and when.</p> answering member printed Baroness Fairhead grouped question UIN HL12726 question first answered 23/01/2019 14:18:02 answering member 4690 label Biography information for Baroness Fairhead
	tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley

1041694

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Maternity Leave
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many employed mothers of babies who were admitted to neonatal care used their full 52 weeks of maternity leave entitlement in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	208911
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government does not routinely collect data on the length of maternity leave taken by employed mothers of babies who were admitted to neonatal care. The most recent data on the length of maternity leave taken by all mothers is from the Maternity and Paternity Rights Survey in 2009, which collected data from parents of children born in 2008 across Great Britain.</p><p>This shows that in 2008, 23% of all employed mothers took 52 weeks of Statutory Maternity Leave or more (e.g. by taking annual leave in addition).</p><p>We are currently undertaking a new survey of parents which will provide updated information on family-related leave and pay entitlements, including the length of Maternity Leave taken by mothers in general. Mothers who gave birth prematurely or whose babies were admitted to neonatal care are within the scope of this survey, but it may not be possible to identify them, nor to draw conclusions given that they will represent only a small number of respondents.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 23/01/2019 14:04:36 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1041695

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Fathers: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to support working fathers whose babies have been admitted to neonatal units.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	208912
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>Employed fathers have a number of workplace employment rights which can be used to help care for their children or to support the other parent, subject to meeting qualifying conditions. These include Paternity Leave and Pay, Shared Parental Leave and Pay, Unpaid Parental Leave and time off for dependants. Where a child is born prematurely, fathers have the flexibility to take Paternity Leave and Pay within 8 weeks of the expected date of birth rather than within 8 weeks of the actual birth.</p><p>The Government is sympathetic towards the traumatic experiences of parents whose babies have been admitted to neonatal care units. This is why officials in the Department are currently conducting an informal review of the provisions available to parents or premature and sick babies and those experiencing multiple births, as part of the evaluation of Shared Parental Leave.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 23/01/2019 14:04:42 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1041645

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Motorways: Accidents
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what comparative assessment his Department has made of the prevalence of traffic incident’s on all-lane running motorways and motorways with hard-shoulders; and will he make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
	tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
	uin	208815
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>Highway England have studied the first two completed All Lane Running schemes on the M25 where the hard shoulder was permanently converted to a running lane. These reviews found that the schemes have delivered an overall 27% safety improvement.</p><p> </p><p>Highways England have always been clear that the benefits of smart motorways will not be delivered at the expense of safety and each smart motorway scheme must meet a strict safety objective, which is to be at least as safe as before the smart motorway was introduced.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/01/2019 10:47:13 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1041646

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Road Traffic Offences: Motorways
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what (a) research and (b) assessment his Department has undertaken into trends in the level of non-compliance on Smart Motorways.
	tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
	tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
	uin	208816
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>Highways England published three-year monitoring reports for the M25 junctions 5-7 and 23-27 All Lane Running schemes on 16<sup>th</sup> July 2018, which included compliance information. They indicate an overall improvement in the red-X compliance rate on both schemes between the three-year and one-year reports.</p><p> </p><p>The majority of drivers obey red-X signals. Highways England continue to work closely with the Police to issue warning letters to drivers who fail to comply with a red-X, as well as running a range of driver information campaigns.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/01/2019 11:10:53 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1041647

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Road Traffic Offences: Motorways
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has set a minimum acceptable level red-X non-compliance on smart motorways.
	tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
	tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
	uin	208817
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>There is no acceptable level of red-X non-compliance and Highways England are working to reduce non-compliance to as low a level as possible.</p><p>In partnership with the Police, Highways England have issued over 160,000 formal warning letters across different Smart Motorway locations to drivers identified as wrongly using the hard shoulder or contravening red-X signals. Their judgement is that these letters are having a positive effect, with repeat offences declining significantly.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/01/2019 10:38:33 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1042341

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many non-disclosure agreements his Department entered into in 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
	tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
	uin	209314
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) does not centrally hold information on non-disclosure agreements as there is no legal or business requirement to do so.</p><p>Within the standard terms of contracts signed with suppliers for the provision of goods and service to the MoJ there are clauses about interaction between the parties, how to protect the parties’ best interests and safeguard commercial and sensitive information which have been present in government contracts for a long time. These clauses are not considered to be Non-Disclosure Agreements and are not intended to stop criticism of Ministers, the Department or its policies.</p><p> </p><p>Since January 2011, details of central government contracts above the value of £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder. Contracts published prior to 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive Those published after 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 209315 209316 209317 209318 209319 209320 209321 209322 209323 209324 209325 209326 question first answered 23/01/2019 11:38:56 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1042342

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many non-disclosure agreements his Department entered into in 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
	tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
	uin	209315
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) does not centrally hold information on non-disclosure agreements as there is no legal or business requirement to do so.</p><p>Within the standard terms of contracts signed with suppliers for the provision of goods and service to the MoJ there are clauses about interaction between the parties, how to protect the parties’ best interests and safeguard commercial and sensitive information which have been present in government contracts for a long time. These clauses are not considered to be Non-Disclosure Agreements and are not intended to stop criticism of Ministers, the Department or its policies.</p><p> </p><p>Since January 2011, details of central government contracts above the value of £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder. Contracts published prior to 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive Those published after 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 209314 209316 209317 209318 209319 209320 209321 209322 209323 209324 209325 209326 question first answered 23/01/2019 11:38:56 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1042343

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many non-disclosure agreements his Department entered into in 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
	tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
	uin	209316
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) does not centrally hold information on non-disclosure agreements as there is no legal or business requirement to do so.</p><p>Within the standard terms of contracts signed with suppliers for the provision of goods and service to the MoJ there are clauses about interaction between the parties, how to protect the parties’ best interests and safeguard commercial and sensitive information which have been present in government contracts for a long time. These clauses are not considered to be Non-Disclosure Agreements and are not intended to stop criticism of Ministers, the Department or its policies.</p><p> </p><p>Since January 2011, details of central government contracts above the value of £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder. Contracts published prior to 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive Those published after 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 209314 209315 209317 209318 209319 209320 209321 209322 209323 209324 209325 209326 question first answered 23/01/2019 11:38:56 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning