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756333

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Housing Benefit: Veterans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of the under-occupancy charge on ex-service personnel.
	tabling member constituency	Aberavon
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
	uin	7619
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 7620 question first answered 11/09/2017 14:29:05 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

756334

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Housing Benefit: Veterans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many ex-service personnel have been affected by the under-occupancy charge.
	tabling member constituency	Aberavon
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
	uin	7620
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 7619 question first answered 11/09/2017 14:29:06 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

622568

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Iron and Steel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate she has made of the level of procurement of British steel by her Department in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Aberavon
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
	uin	50635
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2016 answer text <p>The information is not centrally held in the form requested. Over the last year Government has acted to level the playing field for UK steel producers in light of the complex global challenges faced by the UK steel sector. Last December Government issued guidance to central government departments on how to ensure that they take full account of the value provided by UK steel producers when conducting their procurement activities. This guidance is also being extended to the wider public sector.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 07/11/2016 17:55:50 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

768906

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Housing Benefit: Veterans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support his Department provides to ex-service personnel who face the under-occupancy charge.
	tabling member constituency	Aberavon
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
	uin	107118
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>The policy to remove the spare room subsidy applies to all working age Housing Benefit and Universal Credit claimants living in and under-occupying social housing without exception.</p><p> </p><p>A couple of easements apply. For example an extra bedroom is provided for those who require overnight care from a non-resident carer and for couples who are unable to share a bedroom due to disabilities.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2011, the Government has provided local authorities with around £900 million in Discretionary Housing Payment funding to support vulnerable Housing Benefit and Universal Credit claimants who are unable to mitigate the impact of welfare housing reforms.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/10/2017 16:22:10 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

758314

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much is owned to resident parents by non-resident parents in child support arrears in each local authority in Scotland in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
	tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
	uin	9076
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2017 answer text <p>Child Support Agency</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>As at July 2017 the total amount of Child Support Agency Arrears for each Local Authority in Scotland was as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Local Authority </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Arrears owed (£ Million)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aberdeen</p></td><td><p>8.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aberdeenshire</p></td><td><p>10.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Angus</p></td><td><p>5.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Argyll &amp; Bute</p></td><td><p>4.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Clackmannanshire</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dumfries &amp; Galloway</p></td><td><p>6.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dundee</p></td><td><p>9.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Ayrshire</p></td><td><p>6.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Dunbartonshire</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Lothian</p></td><td><p>4.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Renfrewshire</p></td><td><p>2.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Edinburgh</p></td><td><p>12.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Falkirk</p></td><td><p>7.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fife</p></td><td><p>19.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow</p></td><td><p>28.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Highland</p></td><td><p>11.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Inverclyde</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlothian</p></td><td><p>4.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Moray</p></td><td><p>4.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Ayrshire</p></td><td><p>8.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Lanarkshire</p></td><td><p>19.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Orkney Islands</p></td><td><p>0.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Perth &amp; Kinross</p></td><td><p>6.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Renfrewshire</p></td><td><p>8.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scottish Borders</p></td><td><p>5.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shetland</p></td><td><p>1.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Ayrshire</p></td><td><p>5.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Lanarkshire</p></td><td><p>14.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stirling</p></td><td><p>3.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Dunbartonshire</p></td><td><p>5.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Lothian</p></td><td><p>8.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Western Isles</p></td><td><p>1.2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Child Maintenance Service</p><p> </p><p>Information on the total value of arrears on cases in each Local Authority in Scotland for the Child Maintenance Service could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p>1) Numbers are rounded to the nearest 100,000.</p><p> </p><p>2) Cases have been allocated to a local authority in Scotland by matching the residential postcode of the parent with care for all cases administered on the CS2 and CSCS computer systems, as well as cases managed off system, to the Office for National Statistics Postcode Directory.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 15/09/2017 11:32:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

765986

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what percentage of Child Support Agency Arrears are deemed uncollectable in (a) Aberdeen City (b) Aberdeenshire and (c) Scotland.
	tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
	tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
	uin	106321
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2017 answer text <p>For the Child Support Agency (CSA), Page 7 of the Client Funds Account publication provides figures on the CSA Arrears deemed uncollectable. The publication can be accessed at this link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/578767/hc855-client-funds-account-2015-16-1993-and-2003-cms.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/578767/hc855-client-funds-account-2015-16-1993-and-2003-cms.pdf</a></p><p>Information on geographical breakdowns on the Client Funds Account is not routinely recorded for management information purposes and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 12/10/2017 16:29:23 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

672189

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2017
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Government Equalities Office: EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, which EU directives relating to her Department's responsibilities are awaiting transposition into UK law.
	tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
	tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
	uin	59849
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2017 answer text <p>There are no EU directives relating to the work of the Government Equalities Office awaiting transposition into UK law.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/01/2017 17:33:30 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

748560

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Employment and Support Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants in the employment and support allowance work-related activity group are also affected by the removal of the spare room subsidy.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Neil Gray
	uin	3193
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>At end-November 2016 there were 52,000 claimants in Great Britain in the employment and support allowance work-related activity group who had a deduction from their housing benefit due to the removal of the spare room subsidy. Discretionary Housing Payments are available to support vulnerable claimants requiring additional assistance with their housing costs.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 10/07/2017 13:59:49 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1234419

	registered interest
	date	15/09/2020
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Events Industry: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what support the Government plans to provide to the events sector during autumn and winter 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Altrincham and Sale West
	tabling member printed	Sir Graham Brady
	uin	90050
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2020 answer text <p>DCMS appreciates the important role that the events sector plays in the UK’s economy, and that the Covid-19 pandemic presents a significant challenge to many businesses operating in these sectors.</p><p>The Secretary of State provided a major £1.57 billion support package for key cultural organisations to help them through the coronavirus pandemic. This funding will provide targeted support to organisations across a range of cultural and creative sectors. This support package will benefit cultural sector services by providing support to cultural venues and many other organisations in the Creative Industries that host live events, to stay open and continue operating.</p><p>From 15th August, and as part of the Government’s 5 stage roadmap to get performing arts and live entertainment sectors back up and running as soon as possible, organisations can now put on live indoor performances in front of a socially-distanced audience. This is in addition to the earlier announcement that from 11 July we can all enjoy performances outdoors with social distancing.</p><p>We are committed to continuing to work with the events sector to understand the difficulties they face and help them access support through these challenging times and through recovery. We recognise that the events industry and its supply chain has been severely impacted by Covid-19.</p><p>We are continuing to meet with stakeholders, including through the Events &amp; Entertainment and Visitor Economy working groups and the Events Industry Senior Leaders Advisory Panel, to discuss the specific issues facing the sector.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 21/09/2020 14:58:55 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	435 label Biography information for Sir Graham Brady

872668

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Clinical Priorities Advisory Group
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February to Question 128018, on Clinical Priorities Advisory Group, on what date NHS England plans to announce (a) announce the results of the prioritisation process and (b) make funding available for approved medicines policies.
	tabling member constituency	Alyn and Deeside
	tabling member printed	Mark Tami
	uin	134482
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2018 answer text <p>NHS England has advised that it is expected that the recommendations from the relative prioritisation process will be received by the Specialised Services Commissioning Committee (SSCC) meeting on 19 June 2018. The aim will be to communicate the results as soon as possible following the SSCC meeting.</p><p>A process of relative prioritisation for determining discretionary investment in new specialised services was first introduced in 2016/17. Investment decisions are informed following advice from NHS England’s independently chaired Clinical Priorities Advisory Group and against a budget that is fixed annually. In 2016/17 and again in 2017/18, £25 million was set aside for this purpose. This was considered an appropriate level of investment in the context of NHS England’s Specialised Commissioning function having to achieve overall efficiency savings of approximately 2.7% and approximately 2.5% in 2016/17 and 2017/18 respectively in order to meet the financial pressures resulting from demographic growth and the legal requirement to fund all positive National Institute for Health and Care Excellence technology appraisals. Once funding is distributed following this relative prioritisation process, spend is not separately monitored.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 134484 134486 question first answered 04/04/2018 13:20:07 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1383 label Biography information for Mark Tami

872670

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	NHS: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what process was used to forecast budgetary need in order to determine the £25 million annual budget allocation for products undergoing review by the NHS England specialised commissioning prioritisation process.
	tabling member constituency	Alyn and Deeside
	tabling member printed	Mark Tami
	uin	134484
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2018 answer text <p>NHS England has advised that it is expected that the recommendations from the relative prioritisation process will be received by the Specialised Services Commissioning Committee (SSCC) meeting on 19 June 2018. The aim will be to communicate the results as soon as possible following the SSCC meeting.</p><p>A process of relative prioritisation for determining discretionary investment in new specialised services was first introduced in 2016/17. Investment decisions are informed following advice from NHS England’s independently chaired Clinical Priorities Advisory Group and against a budget that is fixed annually. In 2016/17 and again in 2017/18, £25 million was set aside for this purpose. This was considered an appropriate level of investment in the context of NHS England’s Specialised Commissioning function having to achieve overall efficiency savings of approximately 2.7% and approximately 2.5% in 2016/17 and 2017/18 respectively in order to meet the financial pressures resulting from demographic growth and the legal requirement to fund all positive National Institute for Health and Care Excellence technology appraisals. Once funding is distributed following this relative prioritisation process, spend is not separately monitored.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 134482 134486 question first answered 04/04/2018 13:20:07 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1383 label Biography information for Mark Tami

872672

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	NHS: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the (a) annual budget, (b) total annual expenditure and (c) rationale for how budget allocations were arrived at was for products reviewed by the NHS England specialised commissioning prioritisation process for the last three years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Alyn and Deeside
	tabling member printed	Mark Tami
	uin	134486
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2018 answer text <p>NHS England has advised that it is expected that the recommendations from the relative prioritisation process will be received by the Specialised Services Commissioning Committee (SSCC) meeting on 19 June 2018. The aim will be to communicate the results as soon as possible following the SSCC meeting.</p><p>A process of relative prioritisation for determining discretionary investment in new specialised services was first introduced in 2016/17. Investment decisions are informed following advice from NHS England’s independently chaired Clinical Priorities Advisory Group and against a budget that is fixed annually. In 2016/17 and again in 2017/18, £25 million was set aside for this purpose. This was considered an appropriate level of investment in the context of NHS England’s Specialised Commissioning function having to achieve overall efficiency savings of approximately 2.7% and approximately 2.5% in 2016/17 and 2017/18 respectively in order to meet the financial pressures resulting from demographic growth and the legal requirement to fund all positive National Institute for Health and Care Excellence technology appraisals. Once funding is distributed following this relative prioritisation process, spend is not separately monitored.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 134482 134484 question first answered 04/04/2018 13:20:07 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1383 label Biography information for Mark Tami

1139818

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Cancer: Children and Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to ensure that the target set out in the NHS long term plan that 50 per cent of teenagers and young adults with cancer will be able to take part in clinical trials by 2025.
	tabling member constituency	Alyn and Deeside
	tabling member printed	Mark Tami
	uin	278391
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is working with NHS England, cancer charities, teenage and young adult cancer patients, and clinicians towards meeting this NHS Long Term Plan commitment.</p><p>The NIHR Clinical Research Network has held two summits. The first summit, held in 2017, developed a clear strategy. The second summit, held in April this year, focused on ensuring that the strategy’s objectives were still fit for purpose, and that the right stakeholders were engaged to ensure successful delivery. The NIHR Clinical Research Network is now funding a dedicated teenage and young adult cancer research nurse in each of its 15 Local Clinical Research Networks, with posts made available from 1 April 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/07/2019 16:06:24 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1383 label Biography information for Mark Tami

999675

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Hospitals: Hygiene
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2017 to Question 8915 on Hospitals: Hygiene, when he plans to publish the data on hospital hand hygiene compliance.
	tabling member constituency	Amber Valley
	tabling member printed	Nigel Mills
	uin	187024
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2018 answer text <p>The 2008 Health and Social Care Act’s code of practice on the prevention and control of infections requires adequate provision of hand washing facilities, information on the importance of compliance with hand hygiene for visitors, regular refresher training for health professionals and support for patients to wash their hands. The Care Quality Commission monitors compliance with this code.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement leads on infection prevention and control and is developing a plan that will standardise policies and guidance on hand hygiene and will be looking at a national hand hygiene data collection and reporting methodology. This project is still in development and we will be able to advise on timelines as further updates are received from NHS Improvement.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 07/11/2018 12:58:07 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4136 label Biography information for Nigel Mills

794253

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Discretionary Housing Payments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has plans to discontinue discretionary housing payments.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	115226
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2017 answer text <p>Discretionary housing payment funding is allocated to Local Authorities to help housing benefits recipients with both housing costs needs and the impact of housing welfare reforms.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Details of the Government’s plans to continue Discretionary Housing Payment funding for Great Britain to the end of the Spending Review Period were stated in the Summer Budget 2015.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 29/11/2017 16:23:01 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

753031

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Department for Work and Pensions: Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff in his Department have responsibilities relating to the UK leaving the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	5515
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>EU Exit is an all-of-government operation. The Department for Exiting the European Union is doing detailed work with departments to prepare for the upcoming negotiations by understanding the risks and opportunities of leaving the EU and to coordinate planning.</p><p>Members of staff across the Department for Work and Pensions are working closely with the Department for Exiting the European Union to consider the implications of EU Exit on DWP policy objectives, and to provide advice and analysis to Ministers on EU Exit and exit-related issues.</p><p> </p><p>Given the interactions between EU Exit work and the Department’s other priorities, it would not be possible to give an accurate figure.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/07/2017 15:11:48 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

781462

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Local Housing Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans he has to review the local housing allowance rate to ensure it is accurately aligned with the rental market.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	110664
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>Local Housing Allowance rates are monitored annually against the 30th percentile of local rents which are collected by the Rent Services in England, Scotland and Wales. The Rent Services publish the 30th percentile data alongside the Local Housing Allowance rates each year on their respective websites.</p><p> </p><p>There are no plans to lift the four year freeze to Local Housing Allowance rates before April 2020. The Government recognises however, that the impact of this measure will vary, especially in areas of high rental growth and in view of this has made available 30 per cent of the savings to create Targeted Affordability Funding. This funding is used to increase Local Housing Allowance rates in areas where local rents have diverged the most. For example in 2017/18, 48 LHA rates have been increased by 3 per cent. Further Targeted Affordability Funding will be made available in 2018/19 and 2019/20.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 06/11/2017 16:21:06 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

754245

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Department for Work and Pensions: Welsh Language
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which of his Department's online services are available in the Welsh language only on request.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	6064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2017 answer text <p>Most DWP services are available in Welsh without the need for a request, via the online services provided by the Department through <a href="https://www.gov.uk/cymraeg" target="_blank">GOV.UK </a>:</p><p> </p><p>Jobseekers Allowance Online</p><p>Carer’s Allowance</p><p>Access to Work</p><p>Reporting Benefit Fraud</p><p>Universal Jobmatch</p><p>Budgeting Loan</p><p>Find a Lost Pension</p><p>Check Your State Pension</p><p>State Pension Online</p><p>Tell Us Once</p><p> </p><p>An Online complaints portal, to allow customers to raise any complaints about Jobseekers Allowance or Universal Credit, is also available in Welsh from the DWP corporate pages on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit can be claimed online in English. We are planning a Welsh Language solution due in 2018. In the interim, Universal Credit can be claimed in Welsh over the telephone via our Service Centres.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 06/09/2017 10:11:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

896392

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Department of Health and Social Care: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what training his Department has provided to (a) general civil servants, (b) fast stream civil servants and (c) senior civil servants on devolution and inter-governmental relations; how many such courses have taken place; and how many civil servants have attended such training courses in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	140636
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>The Department offers the Policy Certificate to all civil servants (including fast streamers and senior civil servants) within the Department and the Department’s arm’s length bodies (ALBs). The Department Devolution Policy Certificate module has been running since February 2015. Since February 2015 this module has run 19 times and 191 people registered to attend this training session, which includes representatives from the Department’s ALBs.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/05/2018 11:15:18 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

897934

	registered interest
	date	04/05/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Department of Health and Social Care: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what training his Department has provided to (a) general civil servants, (b) fast stream civil servants and (c) senior civil servants on understanding the scrutiny and legislative roles of the UK Parliament; how many such courses have taken place; and how many civil servants have attended such training courses in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	141335
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>The Department runs three training courses on understanding the scrutiny and legislative roles of the United Kingdom Parliament: legislation, Parliamentary accountability and select committees. Further information on registrations for these courses is in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Name of Module</p></td><td><p>Date introduced</p></td><td><p>Number of Sessions</p></td><td><p>Number of Registrations</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Legislation</p></td><td><p>March 2015</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Parliamentary Accountability</p></td><td><p>February 2015</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>265</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Select Committees</p></td><td><p>March 2016</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>117</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p> </p><p>These courses are open to civil servants at all grades, including fast streamers, as well as staff in our arm’s length bodies. Therefore the total number of registrations will include non-civil servants as well as civil servants. These courses have been running since February 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Information on organisation and grade of attendee is collected in our feedback forms. However, not all attendees return feedback forms and this data is not an accurate representation of the grades of people who attended.</p><p> </p><p>Between November 2017 and January 2018 the Department also ran three workshops on secondary legislation for staff with statutory instruments due to be laid. 16 civil servants attended these workshops; information on grade was not collected.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 15/05/2018 10:34:32 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1226477

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2020
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Arts and Cultural Heritage: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to his press notice entitled £1.57 billion investment to protect Britain’s world-class cultural, arts and heritage institutions, published on 5 July 2020, how much of the £1.57 billion after the deduction of Barnett funding consequentials will be spent on cultural, arts and heritage institutions in Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	76612
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2020 answer text <p>The £1.57 billion culture recovery package - the biggest ever one-off cash-injection in UK culture - is new money and under the Barnett formula the Welsh Government received £59 million.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>It is up to the Welsh Government to decide how this funding is spent but we hope they will use it to support arts, heritage and culture in Wales, as we are doing in England.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 01/09/2020 06:35:15 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

792650

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance his department has published in how to measure a room subject to the bedroom tax.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	114577
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>We need to keep the system simple for both claimants and landlords. The Government therefore has no plans to review the removal of the spare room subsidy so that local authorities are required to measure bedrooms.</p><p> </p><p>When calculating housing benefit, local authorities take account of the number of bedrooms as designated by the landlord and compare this with the composition of the household in order to establish whether or not to apply a reduction due to under-occupation. Information about the size of those bedrooms is not required.</p><p> </p><p>It is up to landlords and tenants to decide between them whether a property is appropriate for their needs, including financial viability.</p><p> </p><p>The Government provides £60 million per year specifically for this policy, to Local Authorities through Discretionary Housing Payment funding to help support vulnerable people, which includes £25 million per year for disabled people living in significantly adapted accommodation.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 114578 114579 question first answered 27/11/2017 16:51:46 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

792651

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which areas of a room may be discounted as non usable floor space from measurements for the removal of the spare room subsidy.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	114578
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>We need to keep the system simple for both claimants and landlords. The Government therefore has no plans to review the removal of the spare room subsidy so that local authorities are required to measure bedrooms.</p><p> </p><p>When calculating housing benefit, local authorities take account of the number of bedrooms as designated by the landlord and compare this with the composition of the household in order to establish whether or not to apply a reduction due to under-occupation. Information about the size of those bedrooms is not required.</p><p> </p><p>It is up to landlords and tenants to decide between them whether a property is appropriate for their needs, including financial viability.</p><p> </p><p>The Government provides £60 million per year specifically for this policy, to Local Authorities through Discretionary Housing Payment funding to help support vulnerable people, which includes £25 million per year for disabled people living in significantly adapted accommodation.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 114577 114579 question first answered 27/11/2017 16:51:46 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

792652

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to review the implementation of the removal of the spare room subsidy.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	114579
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>We need to keep the system simple for both claimants and landlords. The Government therefore has no plans to review the removal of the spare room subsidy so that local authorities are required to measure bedrooms.</p><p> </p><p>When calculating housing benefit, local authorities take account of the number of bedrooms as designated by the landlord and compare this with the composition of the household in order to establish whether or not to apply a reduction due to under-occupation. Information about the size of those bedrooms is not required.</p><p> </p><p>It is up to landlords and tenants to decide between them whether a property is appropriate for their needs, including financial viability.</p><p> </p><p>The Government provides £60 million per year specifically for this policy, to Local Authorities through Discretionary Housing Payment funding to help support vulnerable people, which includes £25 million per year for disabled people living in significantly adapted accommodation.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 114577 114578 question first answered 27/11/2017 16:51:46 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1247404

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2020
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Cultural Heritage: Sussex
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding from the Culture Recovery Fund has been allocated to the culture and heritage sector in (a) Sussex and (b) Arundel and South Downs constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Arundel and South Downs
	tabling member printed	Andrew Griffith
	uin	109778
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2020 answer text <p>Excluding the BFI awards which are still being processed, across arts and heritage the following sums have been awarded:</p><ol><li><p>Awards across Sussex (defined as the counties of East Sussex and West Sussex): £9.64m (71 awards)</p></li></ol><ol start="2"><li><p>Arundel and South Downs constituency specifically: £250,226 (5 awards)</p></li></ol><p>Please note that some awards may be subject to change depending on changing circumstances and need. Geographic allocation is determined by applicant postcode and may not directly relate to where any associated activity occurs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 12/11/2020 16:32:33 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith