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1109475

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	A34: Accidents
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) deaths and (b) injuries on the A34 in the last (i) 12 months, (ii) five years and (iii) six months.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	240641
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2019 answer text <p>Data for the last 6 and 12 months have not yet been published by DfT; figures for 2018 are due to be published in summer 2019. The table below shows the figures for the last 5 years for which DfT have data:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Fatalities and all casualties on the A34 by severity, 2013 to 2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Fatalities</p></td><td><p>All casualties</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>731</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>685</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>725</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>678</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>593</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NB: All casualties figures include the fatalities figures.</p></td><td><p><em>Source: DfT Stats19</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 10/04/2019 13:22:26 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1109469

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	A34: Oxfordshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2019 to Question 206852 on A34: Oxfordshire, whether work has started on safety improvements for the A34.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	240640
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>Highways England is continuing to work on the design of the improvements with the aim of starting delivery in the 2019/20 financial year.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 08/04/2019 08:53:12 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1109395

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2019
	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	Air Pollution: Nurseries and Schools
	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 plans his Department has to (a) limit vehicle emissions and (b) reduce the levels of toxic air-borne particulates near schools and nurseries.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	240600
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government is fully committed to tackling air pollution. We have put in place a £3.5 billion plan to improve air quality and reduce harmful emissions, and have also published our new world leading Clean Air Strategy which the World Health Organization has praised as “an example for the rest of the world to follow”.</p><p> </p><ol><li>Through the 2017 Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) plan, we are working with a number of local authorities to introduce measures which will reduce exposure to vehicle emissions in order to achieve compliance with legal NO2 limits in the shortest time possible. The plan sets out that we have committed £3.5 billion to support air quality and cleaner transport. This includes over £67 million invested since 2013 in retrofitting vehicles (mainly buses) with pollution reducing technology and help to reduce vehicle emissions. We have pledged to end the sale of new conventional diesel and petrol cars and vans by 2040 – the Road to Zero strategy published by the Department for Transport last year sets out new measures to help us achieve our 2040 mission. We have also been closely involved in the development of new European vehicle emission tests and encourage their early adoption.</li></ol><p> </p><ol><li>The Government provides support for local authorities to tackle locally identified air pollution issues as they are best placed to target action to improve air quality in their area, which includes around schools and nurseries.</li></ol><p> </p><p>Local authorities have a duty to monitor and assess air quality and to take action to reduce pollution where these breach statutory limits. They already have discretionary powers to restrict car access to schools and enforce anti-idling laws in problem areas like outside schools.</p><p> </p><p>Defra’s Air Quality Grant Programme provides funding to local authorities for projects in local communities to tackle air pollution and reduce emissions which may include local action targeting schools and nurseries. Defra has awarded over £60 million in funding since the air quality grant started in 1997.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 08/04/2019 15:01:13 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1109394

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2019
	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	Air Pollution: Schools
	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 his Department has made of the effect on levels of air pollution of road closures near schools.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	240599
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities undertake local monitoring of air pollution.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 08/04/2019 13:10:12 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1109584

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what information an asylum seeker needs to provide in order to make an application for asylum.
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	uin	HL15053
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>In order for a claim for asylum to be registered, the claimant will need to express a fear of serious harm or persecution that means they cannot return to their own country.</p><p><br>They will be asked to provide, if available, documentation regarding their identity, age, nationality, countries and place(s) of previous residence, previous asylum applications, travel routes and travel documents for both themselves and their dependants. Additional information and documentation that are relevant to the circumstances of the individual may be requested to assist in the decision making process.</p><p>Further information on claiming asylum in the UK can be found at https://www.gov.uk/claim-asylum.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 09/04/2019 16:24:52 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1109585

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their process for considering an application for asylum.
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	uin	HL15054
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>Asylum decision-makers carefully consider protection needs by assessing all available evidence provided by the claimant in the context of published country information.</p><p>They receive extensive training on considering asylum claims and must follow published Home Office policy guidance. Protection is normally granted where a well-founded fear of persecution or serious harm in their country of origin is established.</p><p>Those who are found not to need protection are refused but have a right of appeal to the independent courts. Once their appeals rights are exhausted they are required to leave the UK.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 09/04/2019 16:25:50 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1109586

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what data is collected and recorded from an asylum seekers' application for asylum.
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	uin	HL15055
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and records a broad range of personal and case specific information via electronic systems which varies on a case to case basis depending on which route the application takes. <br>For example, we collect information to help establish identity, including biometrics.</p><p>Other non-electronic information may also be collected and stored by teams and this would be extremely difficult to quantify. For example, information about the reasons why the applicant is claiming asylum could be a record of oral testimony, written statements or other documentary they wish to submit in support of their claim.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 09/04/2019 16:28:47 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1109587

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Religion
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 18 February (HL13432), whether they have plans to aggregate the number of people claiming asylum on the grounds of religious persecution.
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	uin	HL15056
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>The basis of a person’s asylum claim is recorded on their individual Home Office file, but not in a way that can be easily aggregated.</p><p>We do not have any plans to aggregate the number of people claiming asylum on the grounds of religious persecution.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 09/04/2019 16:26:02 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

1109483

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2019
	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	Autism: Health Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has put in place to mark world autism awareness week between 1 and 7 April 2019; and what steps the Government is taking to ensure that people with autism have equal opportunities in all areas of society.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
	uin	240514
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to raising awareness and understanding of autism in line with the cross-Government autism strategy and the Autism Act 2009. On 21 March 2019, I responded to the Backbench Business Debate on autism services on behalf of the Government.</p><p> </p><p>During autism awareness week 2019, I undertook a Ministerial visit on 1 April to the National Autistic Society’s Birch House Service in Godalming to meet with autistic people and carers. On 3 April, I chaired the Annual Autism Accountability meeting which reports on progress in implementing the autism strategy, ‘Think Autism’. On 4 April, my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care undertook a Ministerial visit to the Sycamore Trust to meet with autistic people and carers.</p><p> </p><p>On 5 April 2019, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced, in an article for the Politics Home website, the development of a public autism awareness raising campaign to improve awareness and understanding of autism. The Department is working together with stakeholders including autistic people and carers to develop this. We expect the campaign will be launched by the end of the year.</p><p> </p><p>Government Departments are taking forward actions and strategies to raise awareness and understanding of autism, and to adjust services to make them more accessible to autistic people. For example, these include:</p><p> </p><p>- In July 2018, the Department for Transport published its, ‘Inclusive Transport Strategy: Achieving Equal Access for Disabled People’. The Department for Transport is committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with hidden impairments such as autistic people have the same access to transport and opportunities to travel as everyone else; and</p><p>- Through the Disability Confident scheme, the Department for Work and Pensions is engaging with employers, offering guidance and helping to promote the skills, talents and abilities of autistic people and associated hidden impairment conditions. Over 11,000 employers have signed up. A Disability Confident Toolkit has also been developed to provide comprehensive information on autism and hidden impairments, as well as guidance on employment and local authority services. In addition, Access to Work has a hidden impairment support team that aims to give advice and guidance to help employers support employees with conditions such as autism, learning disability and/or mental health conditions and it offers eligible people an assessment to find out their needs at work and help to develop a support plan.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/04/2019 10:45:09 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1109457

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2019
	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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 April 2019 to Question 213911 on bovine tuberculosis: disease control, for what reason that correction was issued; and what the figures referred to in the original answer to that question.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	240477
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>A revised answer was issued because the original question asked about one specific cull area in Dorset, whereas the original answer provided data for the entire county of Dorset.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 09/04/2019 15:06:35 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew