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1003887

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date	09/11/2018
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether he has plans to close his Department's office at 1 Caspian Point, Cardiff.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	189828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales plans to relocate its Cardiff Office from Caspian Point, Cardiff Bay to the new UK Government Hub in the centre of Cardiff. This relocation is currently planned for late 2020.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 13/11/2018 11:39:02 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1003670

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the cost was of (a) electricity and (b) natural gas used by her Department in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	189717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland Office has been charged the following for (a) electricity and (b) natural gas in each of the last three years:</p><p> </p><p><strong>(a) </strong>electricity</p><p> </p><p><strong>2017/18 - </strong>£ 88,642</p><p><strong>2016/17 - </strong>£ 51,133</p><p><strong>2015/16 - </strong>£ 69,032</p><p> </p><p><strong>(b) </strong>natural gas</p><p> </p><p><strong>2017/18 - </strong>£ 9,029</p><p><strong>2016/17 - </strong>£ 6,265</p><p><strong>2015/16 - </strong>£ 11,178</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 13/11/2018 16:12:23 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1003749

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Billing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what proportion of contracts issued by her Department and contractors include provisions to impose, as between parties to the subcontract, that any payment due from the contractor to a subcontractor under the contract is to be made no later than the end of a period of 30 days from the date on which the relevant invoice is regarded as valid and undisputed, as required by the Public Contract Regulations 2015.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	189577
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland Office includes, as standard, a payment clause in all contracts involving subcontractors, requiring payment to be made to contractors within 30 days and that these terms apply to any subcontractors they may have.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 13/11/2018 16:04:42 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1003721

registered interest
date	09/11/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed Two: Pay and Working Hours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the (a) annual salary and (b) number of hours worked each month for each member of the board of HS2 Ltd.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Dame Cheryl Gillan
uin	189517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>Non-Executive Directors are paid a fee rather than a salary and this information, together with the salaries of Executive Directors, is disclosed in the Annual Report and Accounts available at <a href="https://www.hs2.org.uk/documents/collections/hs2-ltd-corporate-reports/" target="_blank">https://www.hs2.org.uk/documents/collections/hs2-ltd-corporate-reports/</a>. Non-Executive Board members are required to work an average of two days per calendar month as per their Terms and Conditions of Appointment and receive a fee of £950 per day. Additional days worked are remunerated at the same daily rate upon presentation of days worked. Therefore we do not record hours. The Non-Executive Chairman receives an annual rate of £200,000 on the expectation of an average time commitment of 2.5 days per week.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 13/11/2018 16:43:19 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan

1002667

registered interest
date	06/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to make British Overseas Territories citizens exempt from the five year residency requirement to join the UK armed forces.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	188918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>British Overseas Territory Citizens (BOTC) have never been subject to the five year UK residency criteria which has been removed for citizens of Commonwealth member countries. BOTC have one of six types of British nationality which already makes them eligible to apply to join the British Armed Forces, and they serve as part of the British cohort. As at 1 April 2018 there were 130 BOTC serving in the trained strength of the British Armed Forces.</p><p>However, for security reasons the Armed Forces continue to have UK residency criteria to ensure the appropriate security standards which all applicants are required to meet. This will vary depending on the Service and role being applied for but applications are considered on a case by case basis.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 13/11/2018 15:51:57 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1002622

registered interest
date	06/11/2018
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	Access to Work Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Her Department's Access to Work Statistics, published on 30 October 2018, how many people who applied for Access to Work provision who were rejected because of the Access to Work cap in each month for which information is available; and how many of those people were classified as deaf.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	188909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>Access to Work awards are capped at £57,200.00 this year. If a customer’s application for support is likely to be affected by this upper limit, their application is not rejected. An Access to Work adviser will work with the customer and their employer in order to ensure that appropriate support can still be offered. For example, Access to Work may offer such customers a managed personal budget to enable more flexibility of support.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 13/11/2018 14:53:19 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1002733

registered interest
date	06/11/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	National Cyber Security Centre: Labour Turnover
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the staff turnover rate at the National Cyber Security Centre has been in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	188908
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p><strong> </strong>The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) was established formally on 3 October 2016. At that time, the NCSC had a team of approximately 700 people. At the end of its second year, in October 2018, the NCSC had a team of approximately 850 people. For national security reasons we will not be providing further releases on staff numbers or turnover.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 13/11/2018 17:47:12 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1002660

registered interest
date	06/11/2018
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	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of the voluntary erasure code in cases where a GP is under investigation.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	188904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department has made no assessment of the adequacy of the General Medical Council’s (GMC) voluntary erasure code in cases where a general practitioner (or any other doctor) is under investigation.</p><p> </p><p>The GMC is the independent regulator of doctors in the United Kingdom, and is responsible for considering and approving applications for voluntary erasure from the medical register.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 13/11/2018 11:50:24 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1002658

registered interest
date	06/11/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Nigeria: Bridge International Academies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will publish the final report commissioned by her Department to assess the relative quality of education provided by Bridge.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	188897
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>The report <em>“Learning in Lagos: Comparing student achievement in Bridge, Public and Private Schools”</em> has now been completed and will be available on Devtracker by the end of the month.</p><p> </p><p>The “Developing Effective Private Education – Nigeria” (DEEPEN) programme supported improved learning outcomes for almost 1.5 million girls and boys in Lagos by providing technical assistance and supporting innovation for the private education market to improve the quality of education it provides to children, especially to poor children. This included some funding to Bridge International Academies. As part of the evaluation of this programme a report was produced to compare student achievement in Bridge, public and private schools.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 13/11/2018 17:59:18 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1002555

registered interest
date	06/11/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shipping: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what representations the Government has made to the International Maritime Organisation on impact assessments for the large-scale use of scrubbers on marine environments and ecosystems.
tabling member constituency	St Austell and Newquay
tabling member printed	Steve Double
uin	188873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, played an active role in the development of the Guidelines for the use of scrubbing technology at both European and international level. Ships’ installed scrubbers must be approved in accordance with the Guidelines before operating in UK waters.</p><p> </p><p>Along with other European States, we recognise that more ship owners are installing these systems in order to comply with the 0.5% sulphur cap, and that large numbers of ships using scrubbers in enclosed waters might have an impact on local water quality. This is why we have asked for more evidence from ship owners and industry associations about the content of wash water, and there are a number of ongoing studies being undertaken by the industry on the issue. At this stage, we are not aware of any significant issues which have been found, but we will seek further amendments to the IMO Guidelines if it becomes clear that additional controls are needed.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 13/11/2018 16:47:32 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4452 label Biography information for Steve Double