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1088737

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2019
	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	Broadband: North Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Spring Statement of 13 March 2019, HCWS1407, what the delivery timescale is for Wave 3 allocations for Local Full Fibre Networks in north Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	232532
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>All projects allocated funding as part of the Local Full Fibre Networks (LFFN) Wave 3 must have completed the portion of their build funded by DCMS by March 2021. This is the end of our LFFN funding window from HM Treasury. These projects contain varying degrees of additional funding from Local Bodies themselves - who of course may choose to self fund these projects beyond this date.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 19/03/2019 11:26:34 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1087190

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Coeliac Disease: Food
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made on the effect on the supply chains of coeliac produce of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	231369
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>The UK has a high degree of food security, built on access to a range of sources including strong domestic production and imports from other countries. This will continue to be the case whether we leave the EU with or without a deal.</p><p>Our Food Security and Resilience team have been meeting weekly with industry and retailers to make sure we are prepared for all scenarios. The Government has well established ways of working with the food industry to minimise potential disruption and we are using these to support contingency planning.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 15/03/2019 11:43:44 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1082724

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2019
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions he has had with the Home Secretary on trends in violent crime in Wales; and what the outcomes were of those discussions.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	229131
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>The Home Secretary and I have regular discussions on a range of issues. Furthermore, ministers from my Department are members of the Inter-Ministerial Group on the Serious Violence Strategy.</p><p>The Government’s Serious Violence Strategy, published in April 2018, sets out the action we are taking to address serious violence and in particular the recent increases in knife crime, gun crime and homicide.</p><p>The Strategy outlines an ambitious programme of robust commitments and actions. It sets out a very significant programme of work involving a range of Government Departments and partners in the public, voluntary and private sectors.</p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns question first answered 11/03/2019 12:34:52 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1086767

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2019
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Electoral Register: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent discussions he has had with the Minister for the Cabinet Office on increasing electoral registration and voter turnout in Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	230657
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>I have regular discussions with the Minister for the Cabinet Office and the Minister for the Constitution on a range of issues, including electoral matters. The Government’s major reforms to the electoral registration system, including the introduction of Individual Electoral Registration have resulted in record levels of electors registering to vote in Wales and participating in our democracy.</p><p> </p><p>The Government set out its priorities for democratic engagement for 2019 and beyond in its report <em>Democratic Engagement: Respecting, Protecting and Promoting Our Democracy</em>, published in January. The report highlights the Government's commitment to ensuring everyone can make their voice heard free from abuse, making voting easier and more accessible for vulnerable and under-registered groups, and introducing measures to protect electors’ votes.</p><p> </p><p>The Wales Act 2017 devolved powers over National Assembly elections and local government elections in Wales. Officials from the UK Government and the Welsh Government are discussing areas for greater collaboration such as canvass reform and voter registration.</p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns question first answered 14/03/2019 17:29:37 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1082707

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2019
	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	Health and Care Professions Council: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on staffing levels of the changes to the Health and Care Professions Council registration fees from October 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	229129
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>Following public consultation, the Health and Care Professions Council’s (HCPC) is planning to raise its annual fees by £16. If adopted, the HCPC’s annual registration fee will rise from £90 to £106 a year from October 2019. The HCPC registration fees will remain the lowest of any of the United Kingdom-wide health and care regulators. Registration fees are tax-deductible and this fee rise will amount to just over £1 a month extra for most of the HCPC’s registrants.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has made no assessment of the potential effect on staffing levels of the changes to the HCPC’s registration fees from October 2019. The HCPC is independent of Government, funded by registrants’ fees on a costs recovery basis.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 11/03/2019 17:18:27 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1088329

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2019
	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	Health: Students
	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 the Government is taking to reduce the prevelance of (a) stress, (b) loneliness, (c) anxiety, and (d) substance misuse among undergraduate students.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	231917
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department of Health and Social Care is working closely with the Department for Education to improve the mental health of undergraduate students. Our joint document, ‘Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision: a green paper’, includes a commitment to build a new national strategic partnership with key stakeholders to improve the mental health of 16 to 25 year olds in schools, colleges and universities, by facilitating coordinated action, experimentation and robust evaluation on leadership, prevention and improved data collection.</p><p>To support this, the NHS Long Term Plan commits to a comprehensive expansion of mental health services, including a new approach to mental health services for people aged 18-25, supporting transitions to college and to adulthood, with services being adapted to create a comprehensive offer for 0-25-year olds.</p><p>NHS England is working closely with Universities UK through the Mental Health in Higher Education programme to build the capability and capacity of universities to improve student welfare services and improve access to mental health services for the student population, including focusing on suicide reduction, and improving access to psychological therapies to support treat students suffering from stress and anxiety.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/03/2019 14:21:04 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1088456

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Knives: Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many incidents of knife crime there were in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland, and (d) Northern Ireland in each of the last nine years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	231918
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2019 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 18/03/2019 15:21:29 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ231918.pdf title UKSA Response
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1088736

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Marine Protected Areas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many square kilometres of marine protected areas there were in (a) the UK and (b) UK overseas territories in each year for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	232531
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>a) Marine Protected Areas in the UK:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Area (km<sup>2</sup>)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>73,890</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>82,952</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>143,497</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>143,651</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>165,252</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>207,477</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>209,185</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>b) Marine Protected Areas in UK overseas territories:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>UK OT</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>MPA (km<sup>2</sup>)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Date of designation</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>British Antarctic Territory South Orkney Islands Southern Shelf MPA</p></td><td><p>94,000</p></td><td><p>2009</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos)</p></td><td><p>640,000</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Georgia and Sandwich Islands</p></td><td><p>1,240,000</p></td><td><p>2012; enhanced in 2013 &amp; 2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pitcairn Islands</p></td><td><p>840,000</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Helena</p></td><td><p>445,000</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>3,259,000</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In addition to these Marine Protected Areas, as announced in the Spring Statement, the UK Government is backing an Ascension Island bid to protect 100% of its offshore waters. Ascension Island plans to designate over 445,00km<sup>2</sup> of its waters as a fully protected no-take Marine Protected Area.</p><p> </p><p>Tristan da Cunha has committed to designating a comprehensive marine protection regime across its 750,000km<sup>2</sup> maritime zone by 2020.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 19/03/2019 16:14:24 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1088227

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Permitted Development Rights: Urban Areas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect of changes to permitted development rights on the long-term viability of high streets and town centres.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	231916
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2019 answer text <p>Through our consultation <em>Planning Reform: Supporting the high street and increasing the delivery of new homes</em> which closed on 14 January 2019, we have consulted a range of proposals and considered the responses received.</p><p>As announced in the written ministerial statement made on 13 March 2019, HCWS1408, it is now our intention to bring forward a range of reforms. To support the high street we intend to introduce additional flexibilities for businesses. These include new permitted development rights to allow change between high street uses.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 18/03/2019 16:09:29 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1088460

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2019
	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	Photonics: Research
	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 much funding the Government has allocated to research into (a) photonics and (b) optoelectronics in each (a) nation and (b) region of the UK in each year for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	231920
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2019 answer text <p>UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funds high quality research and innovation for BEIS as part of the Government’s wider ambition to increase the UK’s total R&amp;D investment to 2.4% of GDP by 2027. All proposals are assessed through peer review and funding is not usually ringfenced for particular research areas or topics.</p><p> </p><p>Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) is the primary funder of these areas within UKRI. The table below summarises the value of all current grants from EPSRC, in research and training for the relevant research portfolios: Photonic Materials, Optoelectronic Devices and a combined figure for Optical Communications and Optical Devices and Subsystems.</p><p> </p><p>Please note other research is being carried out in this area, both in other UKRI councils and outside of UKRI, but we are unable to determine the monetary value of this in the time allowed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Photonic Materials</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Optoelectronic Devices and Circuits</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Research into other Photonic Technology (Communications and </strong> <strong>Optical Devices)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Research</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Training</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Research</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Training</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Research</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Training</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>£ 65.78M</p></td><td><p>£ 19.43M</p></td><td><p>£ 51.92M</p></td><td><p>£ 5.76M</p></td><td><p>£48.21M</p></td><td><p>£12.71M</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>£ 65.46M</p></td><td><p>£ 21.40M</p></td><td><p>£ 54.87M</p></td><td><p>£ 6.56M</p></td><td><p>£51.87M</p></td><td><p>£11.57M</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>£ 60.29M</p></td><td><p>£ 18.74M</p></td><td><p>£ 48.24M</p></td><td><p>£ 6.63M</p></td><td><p>£48.97M</p></td><td><p>£10.67M</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>My rt. hon. Friend Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer announced in the Spring Statement an £81 million investment in a national Extreme Photonics Application Centre in Oxfordshire. In addition, EPSRC has confirmed continued funding for two existing Centres for Doctoral Training in ICT Photonics as well as investment in a new CDT which will contribute to this area</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/03/2019 11:24:58 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 108508 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane