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1568823

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2023
	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	Wines: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what progress his Department on reviewing rules on the sale of pint sized bottles of English sparkling wine.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	127841
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2023 answer text <p>The quantities in which pre-packed alcohol, including English sparkling wine, can be sold will be considered as part of the Government’s review of EU-derived law. An update will be provided in due course.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 26/01/2023 16:00:29 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1544662

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2022
	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	Wildlife: 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, whether her Department is taking steps to help tackle the illegal wildlife trade.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	93594
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2022 answer text <p>The United Kingdom is taking steps to help protect endangered animals and plants from poaching and illegal trade to benefit wildlife, local communities and the economy, and protect global security.</p><p> </p><p>HMG has committed over £46 million between 2014 and 2022 on work to directly counter illegal wildlife trade (IWT), including through the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund. Our actions include: training border force agents and building capacity through the British military to train rangers and disrupt poaching in targeted African countries; developing behaviour change campaigns to discourage purchases of wildlife products; supporting legislative reform to increase penalties and conviction rates for wildlife crime; and helping communities to protect the wildlife they rely on for their livelihoods.</p><p> </p><p>We are also contributing £250 million to the Global Environment Facility between 2018-2022, which includes the world's biggest fund for tackling IWT, the Global Wildlife Programme (GWP), supporting IWT projects across 32 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In June this year, at the Stockholm +50 meeting, Lord Goldsmith announced the UK Government’s pledge of £330m to the eighth replenishment of the Global Environment Facility (GEF8) covering the period 2022 – 2026. The GEF8 replenishment delivered a record breaking $5.33bn with a 46% increase in biodiversity funding. This includes the Wildlife Conservation for Development programme which will combat Illegal and High-Risk Wildlife Trade through a supply-chain approach to curbing poaching, disrupting trafficking, and reducing demand for illegal, unsustainable, and high zoonotic-risk wildlife within and between countries.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 30/11/2022 17:39:43 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1548842

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2022
	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	Water Companies: Fines
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will bring forward proposals to increase the Environment Agency's minimum civil fine for each breach of the rules by water companies to £250 million.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	104219
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2022 answer text <p>Following your announcement as Secretary of State for Defra in October, Defra is preparing a consultation on plans to increase the cap on fines the Environment Agency can impose on water companies for serious breaches of rules.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 14/12/2022 16:36:04 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1672422

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2023
	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	Waste Disposal
	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 of the potential merits of increasing the ability of local authorities to design local waste disposal services.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	3302
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>Subject to compliance with regulations and having regard to any statutory guidance, local authorities currently have the ability to design their local waste disposal services.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 04/12/2023 14:28:37 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1551238

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Unpaid Work
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the value to the British economy of unpaid household work.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	109656
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text The ONS produce regular estimates of unpaid household labour. This data is currently up to date until 2016, when the total value of unpaid household service work was £1.24 trillion, equivalent to 63.1% of gross domestic product. Estimates for 2017 to 2021 are due to be released in Q4 2022.<p> </p><p>The Government has provided the Office for National Statistics (ONS) with an additional £25 million to help implement the recommendations of Sir Charles Bean’s 2016 Review of Economics Statistics, including through an initiative called ‘Beyond GDP’ that aims to address the limitations in GDP by developing broader measures of welfare and activity. Part of this work is looking to improve estimates of unpaid household work, and integrate them into extended measures of GDP such as Net Inclusive Income.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 19/12/2022 14:16:17 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1548845

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2022
	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	Universal Credit: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of job offers to Universal Credit claimants are refused; and what proportion of these refusals his Department accepts without sanctioning the claimant.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	104221
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2022 answer text <p>The information is not readily available and to provide it would incur a disproportionate cost. All conditionality requirements, which include accepting job offers, are tailored to a claimant’s circumstances so they are reasonable and achievable, and agreed between the claimant and their Work Coach.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 14/12/2022 14:45:32 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1670385

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2023
	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	Tumours: Medical Treatments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NICE assessments of rare tumour type treatments consider both the failure rate of radiotherapy and the success rate of new treatments.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	2190
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2023 answer text <p>In its evaluations of new health technologies, including for rare diseases, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) takes into account all health-related costs and benefits, including evidence of comparative outcomes against existing treatment options such as radiotherapy. Full details of the process and methods used by NICE in undertaking evaluations are set out in NICE health technology evaluations: the manual, published on the NICE website and available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nice.org.uk%2Fprocess%2Fpmg36%2Fchapter%2Fintroduction-to-health-technology-evaluation&amp;data=05%7C01%7CMD.Support%40dhsc.gov.uk%7C333109cf26904e79aba608dbe7825f03%7C61278c3091a84c318c1fef4de8973a1c%7C1%7C0%7C638358319347196670%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=hNltwwubSKJyLzQAyiKcpnHhf45seq1SehLv59TkbCo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.nice.org.uk/process/pmg36/chapter/introduction-to-health-technology-evaluation</a></p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 20/11/2023 16:42:51 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1644219

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2023
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Traffic Lights
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the effectiveness of schemes to use traffic signals at peak times only on (a) junctions and (b) roundabouts.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	189353
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>Decisions on whether to implement part-time traffic lights are for local authorities to make. As such the Department has made no such assessment. As mentioned in my response to UIN 188610 I would be happy to discuss specific examples with the Rt Hon. Member and my officials.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 19/06/2023 14:43:28 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1686477

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2024
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to recover tax avoided through disguised remuneration tax avoidance schemes from people who (a) recommended, (b) promoted and (c) operated those schemes.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	12465
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2024 answer text <p>HMRC has taken action to tackle the promoters of avoidance schemes, implementing a wide range of actions to disrupt their activities and supply chains, including publishing the details of promoters.</p><p> </p><p>However, liability for the tax is always that of the individual and there is no legal mechanism to transfer disguised remuneration liabilities from the scheme users to the promoters.</p><p> </p><p>As of 31 December, HMRC has published the details of 59 promoters, 23 directors and details of 64 tax avoidance schemes.</p><p>HMRC has also issued over 20 stop notices to promoters and published details of 16 of these arrangements. Publishing this information supports taxpayers in identifying tax avoidance schemes so they can steer clear of or exit them.</p><p> </p><p>The current Finance Bill is introducing tougher consequences for promoters of tax avoidance. This includes a new criminal offence to strengthen the deterrent to promoting tax avoidance, making it clear promoters must stop promoting these schemes, and a power enabling HMRC to act more quickly to disqualify directors of companies involved in tax avoidance.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 08/02/2024 12:59:47 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1686480

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2024
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will have discussions with HMRC on ending actions on the loan charge.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	12468
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2024 answer text <p>The Loan Charge was introduced to ensure that people who had not had tax deducted from their incomes paid their fair share.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has already had an independent review. In 2019 Lord Morse led an independent review of the Loan Charge and its implementation. Lord Morse had full discretion over how the review was run, whom he consulted, and the recommendations made. The Government accepted 19 of his 20 recommendations, which benefited more than 30,000 people, including around 9,500 who were removed from the scope of the Loan Charge entirely.</p><p> </p><p>As well as recommending changes to the policy, Lord Morse was clear that the Loan Charge was necessary, in the public interest and should remain in force.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 12467 question first answered 08/02/2024 14:24:32 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena