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1109197

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 1 April 2019 to Question 237753, how many of the schools currently awaiting rebrokering have been waiting for longer than (a) one month, (b) six months, (c) one year, (d) two years and (e) three years or more.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	240010
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>As at 27 March 2019, our records show that 93 academies are in the process of transferring to different trusts.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 shows the amount of time that these academies have been awaiting transfer, following approval from the Regional Schools Commissioner (RSC) for the academy to move trust.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1: the amount of time academies have been awaiting transfer for</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Numbers of academies transferring between trusts</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Less than one month</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Between one and six months</p></td><td><p>47</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Between six months and one year</p></td><td><p>31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Between one year and two years</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>93</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: 27 March 2019 Academies MI System</p><p> </p><p>Academies may transfer to other trusts in a range of circumstances. In some cases, the relevant RSC may intervene due to concerns about academy performance. A substantial majority of academy transfers are voluntary agreements between trusts. For example, we are encouraging single academy trusts to join multi academy trusts which is happening at a steady rate.</p><p> </p><p>When transferring an academy from one trust to another, there may be a number of things that can take time to resolve with the incoming trust who has agreed to take on the school, such as issues relating to land, or private finance initiative contracts; financial matters; or the process of transferring staff from one trust to another.</p><p> </p><p>Where there are concerns regarding an academy’s performance, we would seek to, wherever possible, put in place school improvement support while the transfer is underway.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 08/04/2019 16:59:40 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1108709

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2019
	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	Advertising: Statistics
	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 steps his Department is taking to tackle the use of potentially misleading statistics in advertising.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	239231
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>Advertising in the UK is regulated by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the industry’s independent regulator, which enforces the Advertising Codes through a system of self-regulation and co-regulation with Ofcom. The Codes apply to all media, including broadcast and online. They incorporate all relevant legislation and set standards for accuracy and honesty to which advertisers must adhere, including specific conditions on advertising to children, causing offence and social responsibility.</p><p> </p><p>The ASA is recognised by the government, the courts and trading standards as the ‘established means’ for the enforcement of misleading advertising, and the Codes include rules designed to ensure that advertisers do not mislead consumers. It has a range of sanctions it can take against non-compliant advertisers and, as a last resort, can refer some to Trading Standards.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 08/04/2019 16:37:51 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1109265

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	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	Circuses: Animal Welfare
	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 he has to safeguard the welfare of wild animals touring with travelling circuses in the event that the Welfare of Wild Animals in Travelling Circuses (England) Regulations 2012 expire before a ban on the use of those animals in circuses is in place.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	239985
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Oxford and West Abingdon, Layla Moran, on 16 October 2018 to PQ 176633.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 08/04/2019 16:40:19 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1108899

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2019
	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	Dogs: Smuggling
	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 20 March 2019 to Question 231392, on Dogs: Smuggling, what plans the Government has to (a) develop its long-term strategy for pet travel and (b) to deter puppy smuggling after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	239339
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>Defra is considering a number of options for increased deterrent and improved enforcement as part of a long term strategy for pet travel. Stricter penalties, including the possibility of introducing Fixed Penalty Notices, are being considered. We are also evaluating the benefits of ensuring visual checks on all travelling pets, besides the documentary and identification checks that all pets are currently subject to at the UK border.</p><p>In July 2018, Defra hosted a well-attended workshop with key stakeholders from national and local government, NGOs, transport carriers, veterinary groups and others, including the Animal Health and Welfare Board of England, Border Force, RSPCA, Dogs Trust, Battersea Dogs and Cats Home and Canine and Feline Sector Group.</p><p>Through group discussions throughout the day, ideas for a 2030 vision were identified under five themes: Animal Welfare; Biosecurity; Enforcement; Consumer Demand; Sales &amp; Licensing. These ideas, and others generated through ongoing work in this area, will inform the future long term strategy for pet travel.</p><p>Defra is committed to tackling the puppy smuggling journey from end to end – putting the spotlight on both supply and demand. We continue to work with border enforcement partner agencies, including Border Force, to ensure our enforcement work keeps pace with this evolving crime.</p><p>After the UK leaves the EU, the rules will not change in the short term for pets entering the UK under the Pet Travel Scheme or commercial import rules. However, looking to the future, leaving the EU will open up new opportunities for managing our own pet travel arrangements, including ensuring there are robust controls on disease and animal welfare. Defra is considering a number of options for increased deterrent and targeted enforcement as part of a long term strategy for pet travel.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 239341 question first answered 08/04/2019 16:45:18 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1108902

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2019
	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	Dogs: Smuggling
	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 20 March 2019 to Question 231392, on Dogs: Smuggling, what plans his Department has to tighten regulations to tackle the illegal importation of dogs into the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	239341
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>Defra is considering a number of options for increased deterrent and improved enforcement as part of a long term strategy for pet travel. Stricter penalties, including the possibility of introducing Fixed Penalty Notices, are being considered. We are also evaluating the benefits of ensuring visual checks on all travelling pets, besides the documentary and identification checks that all pets are currently subject to at the UK border.</p><p>In July 2018, Defra hosted a well-attended workshop with key stakeholders from national and local government, NGOs, transport carriers, veterinary groups and others, including the Animal Health and Welfare Board of England, Border Force, RSPCA, Dogs Trust, Battersea Dogs and Cats Home and Canine and Feline Sector Group.</p><p>Through group discussions throughout the day, ideas for a 2030 vision were identified under five themes: Animal Welfare; Biosecurity; Enforcement; Consumer Demand; Sales &amp; Licensing. These ideas, and others generated through ongoing work in this area, will inform the future long term strategy for pet travel.</p><p>Defra is committed to tackling the puppy smuggling journey from end to end – putting the spotlight on both supply and demand. We continue to work with border enforcement partner agencies, including Border Force, to ensure our enforcement work keeps pace with this evolving crime.</p><p>After the UK leaves the EU, the rules will not change in the short term for pets entering the UK under the Pet Travel Scheme or commercial import rules. However, looking to the future, leaving the EU will open up new opportunities for managing our own pet travel arrangements, including ensuring there are robust controls on disease and animal welfare. Defra is considering a number of options for increased deterrent and targeted enforcement as part of a long term strategy for pet travel.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 239339 question first answered 08/04/2019 16:45:18 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1109061

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Food Banks: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether he plans to visit a food bank in April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	240089
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>I currently have no plans to visit a food bank in my capacity as Secretary of State for Scotland in April 2019.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 08/04/2019 16:39:02 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1109358

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Health Services (Cross-border Health Care and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 1 April 2019 to Question 237070 on Health Services (Cross-border Health Care and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, if she will place a copy of the Department of Health for Northern Ireland legislative review in the Library.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	240555
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">I will reply as soon as possible.</del> <ins class="ministerial"> <p><ins class="ministerial">Department of Health for Northern Ireland officials completed a legislative review in August 2017 as part of Northern Ireland Civil Service’s preparations for EU exit. My officials will discuss with the Department of Health in Northern Ireland the appropriate publication of information relating to the review.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">EU Exit Statutory Instruments are taken through Westminster to correct inoperabilities or provide technical fixes under the powers in section 8 of the European Union Withdrawal Act 2018.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In this case, the regulations were developed by the Northern Ireland Civil Service and, in the absence of a Stormont Executive, under the terms of the Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions Act, the Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health for Northern Ireland gave his clearance for the Health Services (Cross-Border Health Care and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 on 31 January 2019, to issue to the Department of Health and Social Care for laying in Westminster.</ins></p></ins></p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 08/04/2019 17:00:48 question first ministerially corrected 09/04/2019 12:40:14 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose previous answer version 112752 answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1109359

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Health Services (Cross-border Health Care and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the Answer of 1 April 2019 to Question 237070 on Health Services (Cross-border Health Care and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, if she will publish all written records of (a) the decision made by UK Government Ministers that in the interest of legal certainty in Northern Ireland, the UK Government would take through the necessary secondary legislation at Westminster for Northern Ireland in close consultation with the Northern Ireland departments and ( b)which Ministers made that assessment.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	240556
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>I will reply as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 240555 question first answered 08/04/2019 17:00:48 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1109013

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2019
	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	Homelessness: Sikhs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of homeless people who died outdoors in the last 12 months were Sikh.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	240066
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>The ONS recently published a statistical report on the deaths of homeless people in England and Wales. This does not break down the number of deaths by religion. The full ONS report can be found at the following website: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/deathsofhomelesspeopleinenglandandwales" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/deathsofhomelesspeopleinenglandandwales</a>.</p><p>Every death of someone sleeping rough on our streets is one too many and we take this matter extremely seriously. The Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy. This sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. The Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period.</p><p>In it’s first year, the Rough Sleeping Initiative provided over 1,750 new bed spaces and 500 staff.</p><p>It should not happen that people die prematurely and on the street because they are homeless. Whilst we recognise that suitable housing is a key part of the solution, health services have a significant role to play, alongside other public services. The MHCLG is working with the DHSC to ensure that rough sleepers have the health care they need, when they need it. The 10 year NHS long-term plan sets out that the NHS will invest up to £30 million on health services for people sleeping rough from 2019/20.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 08/04/2019 16:46:09 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1104663

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	London Capital & Finance: Insolvency
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to launch an independent review into the Financial Conduct Authority's regulatory oversight of London Capital and Finance Plc.
	tabling member printed	Lord Myners
	uin	HL14788
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>On 1 April, the Economic Secretary announced that he will use powers under the Financial Services Act 2012 to direct the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to launch an investigation into the events at London Capital &amp; Finance and the circumstances surrounding them. This followed a request from the FCA Chair, Charles Randell, to the Economic Secretary to launch such an investigation.</p><p> </p><p>The investigation will be led by an independent person appointed by the FCA, with the approval of HM Treasury.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 08/04/2019 16:53:27 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
	tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners