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1695475

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Civil Proceedings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to paragraphs 7.16 and 7.17 of the Ministerial Code, on how many occasions Ministers in his Department have informed the Law Officers that they are the defendants in a libel action in (a) their personal capacity, (b) their official position and (c) both since 19 December 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	18252
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2024 answer text <p>The fact that the Law Officers have advised or have not advised and the content of their advice must not be disclosed outside Government without their authority.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 15/03/2024 13:57:03 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1695504

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Bank Services: Freezing of Assets
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of financial institutions he expects to participate in the suspended accounts scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	18253
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2024 answer text <p>We are committed to developing a scheme that satisfies the objectives of both industry and government and it will be open to members across the whole financial sector.</p><p>As a voluntary scheme, we are currently working closely with the financial sector on the detail, to ensure that it is attractive to as many participants as possible.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 19/03/2024 16:12:44 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1690098

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2024
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Community News Project: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of Meta ending funding for the Community News Project on local journalism.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	14677
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>The government is committed to supporting local and regional newspapers as pillars of communities and local democracy. They play an essential role in holding power to account, keeping the public informed of local issues and providing reliable, high-quality information.</p><p>The government is disappointed to see that Meta is closing its Community News Project. We are working to support journalism and local newsrooms to ensure the sustainability of this vital industry.</p><p>We are introducing a new, pro-competition regime for digital markets. The regime, which aims to address the far-reaching power of the biggest tech firms, will help rebalance the relationship between publishers and the online platforms on which they increasingly rely. This will make an important contribution to the sustainability of the press.</p><p>Additionally, our support for the sector has included the delivery of a £2 million Future News Fund, the extension of a 2017 business rates relief on local newspaper office space until 2025; the publication of the Online Media Literacy Strategy; and the BBC also supports the sector directly, through the £8m it spends each year on the Local News Partnership, including the Local Democracy Reporting Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez grouped question UIN 14678 14679 14680 question first answered 27/02/2024 11:13:52 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1690099

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2024
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Community News Project: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had discussions with Meta on funding for the Community News Project.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	14678
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>The government is committed to supporting local and regional newspapers as pillars of communities and local democracy. They play an essential role in holding power to account, keeping the public informed of local issues and providing reliable, high-quality information.</p><p>The government is disappointed to see that Meta is closing its Community News Project. We are working to support journalism and local newsrooms to ensure the sustainability of this vital industry.</p><p>We are introducing a new, pro-competition regime for digital markets. The regime, which aims to address the far-reaching power of the biggest tech firms, will help rebalance the relationship between publishers and the online platforms on which they increasingly rely. This will make an important contribution to the sustainability of the press.</p><p>Additionally, our support for the sector has included the delivery of a £2 million Future News Fund, the extension of a 2017 business rates relief on local newspaper office space until 2025; the publication of the Online Media Literacy Strategy; and the BBC also supports the sector directly, through the £8m it spends each year on the Local News Partnership, including the Local Democracy Reporting Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez grouped question UIN 14677 14679 14680 question first answered 27/02/2024 11:13:52 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1690101

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2024
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Local Broadcasting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the viability of local media.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	14679
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>The government is committed to supporting local and regional newspapers as pillars of communities and local democracy. They play an essential role in holding power to account, keeping the public informed of local issues and providing reliable, high-quality information.</p><p>The government is disappointed to see that Meta is closing its Community News Project. We are working to support journalism and local newsrooms to ensure the sustainability of this vital industry.</p><p>We are introducing a new, pro-competition regime for digital markets. The regime, which aims to address the far-reaching power of the biggest tech firms, will help rebalance the relationship between publishers and the online platforms on which they increasingly rely. This will make an important contribution to the sustainability of the press.</p><p>Additionally, our support for the sector has included the delivery of a £2 million Future News Fund, the extension of a 2017 business rates relief on local newspaper office space until 2025; the publication of the Online Media Literacy Strategy; and the BBC also supports the sector directly, through the £8m it spends each year on the Local News Partnership, including the Local Democracy Reporting Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez grouped question UIN 14677 14678 14680 question first answered 27/02/2024 11:13:52 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1690104

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2024
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Local Broadcasting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what support her Department provides to local media.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	14680
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>The government is committed to supporting local and regional newspapers as pillars of communities and local democracy. They play an essential role in holding power to account, keeping the public informed of local issues and providing reliable, high-quality information.</p><p>The government is disappointed to see that Meta is closing its Community News Project. We are working to support journalism and local newsrooms to ensure the sustainability of this vital industry.</p><p>We are introducing a new, pro-competition regime for digital markets. The regime, which aims to address the far-reaching power of the biggest tech firms, will help rebalance the relationship between publishers and the online platforms on which they increasingly rely. This will make an important contribution to the sustainability of the press.</p><p>Additionally, our support for the sector has included the delivery of a £2 million Future News Fund, the extension of a 2017 business rates relief on local newspaper office space until 2025; the publication of the Online Media Literacy Strategy; and the BBC also supports the sector directly, through the £8m it spends each year on the Local News Partnership, including the Local Democracy Reporting Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez grouped question UIN 14677 14678 14679 question first answered 27/02/2024 11:13:52 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1689252

	registered interest
	date	16/02/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Recruitment and Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of (a) hiring and (b) training a new (i) police officer, (ii) police community support officer and (iii) special constable was as of 12 February 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	14178
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government delivered its commitment to deliver 20,000 additional police officers by March 2023. There are now over 149,000 officers in England and Wales, higher than the previous peak before the Police Uplift Programme, in March 2010.</p><p>The Government is determined to ensure that the police have the resources they need. Compared with 2019-20, there has been a total settlement increase of up to 30.7% in cash terms, which enabled the recruitment of 20,000 additional officers nationally.</p><p>Decisions about police recruitment, including how recruitment and selection processes are run, are a matter for Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners and are therefore managed locally by forces. This is done within a national application, assessment and selection framework, in line with national guidance maintained by the College of Policing.</p><p>It would be for individual forces to provide localised data regarding the costs of training and hiring police officers, police community support officers and special constables.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/02/2024 15:46:20 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1689253

	registered interest
	date	16/02/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	National Crime Agency: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of (a) hiring and (b) training a new National Crime Agency officer was in 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	14179
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>The NCA does not routinely capture generalised costs to hire and train NCA officers.</p><p>This is due to the variety of roles in the Agency, specialised training and individual vetting requirements.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/02/2024 15:47:43 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1689372

	registered interest
	date	16/02/2024
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Timesharing: Misrepresentation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has taken steps with Cabinet colleagues to ensure compensation payments to consumers who were missold timeshares are delivered in a timely manner.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	14271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>The regulations surrounding the sale of timeshares and credit agreements relating to timeshares provide routes of redress where consumers have been misled.</p><p> </p><p>Firstly, it is an offence under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 for traders to mislead consumers, and it is punishable by a fine up to the statutory maximum enforced by local authority Trading Standards. The regulations provide for the consumer to seek redress through the courts where they have been misled.</p><p> </p><p>Regarding the timeshare market specifically, the Timeshare, Holiday Products, Resale and Exchange Regulations 2010 provide protections for consumers buying and selling timeshares and other long-term “holiday club” memberships, including provision for consumers to withdraw from their contract.</p><p> </p><p>In cases where a consumer took out a regulated financial product to purchase the timeshare, they may be able to make a compensation claim to the loan provider and may have recourse to Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS).</p><p> </p><p>The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Handbook, which sets out the rules on how the FOS should handle complaints, states that ‘the ombudsman will attempt to resolve complaints at the earliest possible stage’. Ensuring timely outcomes is one of the FOS’s main priorities for 2024-25 and it has set itself the target of resolving 90 per cent of cases within 5 months.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hitchin and Harpenden answering member printed Bim Afolami question first answered 26/02/2024 10:54:30 answering member 4639 label Biography information for Bim Afolami
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1681053

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Separation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether a Minister in her Department leads on policy on supporting children through parental separation.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	9054
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2024 answer text <p>Ministers work closely across government to support children, including those going through parental separation.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is responsible for private family law, which includes marriage and divorce. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the MoJ responsible for this is Lord Bellamy KC.</p><p>In my role as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children, Families and Wellbeing at the department, I work closely with Lord Bellamy KC at the MoJ, including through the national Family Justice Board, which we jointly chair.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 17/01/2024 16:36:06 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris