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971553

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Co-operatives: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What plans he has to increase fiscal support for the co-operative sector.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	906797
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>This Government recognises the value of co-operatives and other mutually owned businesses, which are worth more than £36 billion to our economy.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2010, the government has reduced the corporation tax rate from 28% to 19% today, which benefits all businesses, including co-operatives, supporting investment, jobs, and growth.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 11/09/2018 14:54:03 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

969146

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Think Tanks
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department has taken to support local think tanks in countries in which it operates.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	171421
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Think tanks are an important component of the kind of vibrant, open and diverse ecosystem of civil society organisations that we enjoy in Britain. Effective policy making means hearing expert voices and opinions and being accountable for the decisions we make and think tanks are part of that equation. DFID is acting to ensure that developing countries and their citizens benefit from the same critical friend relationship with this important component of civil society.</p><p> </p><p>DFID builds the capacity of think tanks through our programmes in the developing countries with whom we partner. For example, DFID provides funding to the <a href="http://www.thinktankinitiative.org/" target="_blank">Think Tank Initiative (TTI)</a>, which seeks to build the capacity of independent social and economic policy think tanks to provide evidence-based advice to policy makers. Think tanks supported by TTI push for more open policy making at national, regional and global levels, and deliver new research and policy engagement on important policy areas including poverty reduction, tax, transparency, growth, democratic transition, trade, regional integration, and climate change.</p><p> </p><p>TTI is a ten year joint-funded programme, which runs until September 2019, funding 43 think tanks in 20 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America. DFID’s current commitment is £6.5m for Phase Two.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 11/09/2018 14:55:00 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

969145

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Africa: Poverty
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with her French counterpart on sharing best practice on poverty reduction in Africa.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	171420
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The UK and France have a historically strong development partnership and work together in a number of areas including gender, education and climate change, as well as in the Sahel. The Secretary of State and I have held several meetings with the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the French Development Agency (AFD) to share best practice and to improve donor coordination, particularly as the UK scales up its engagement in the Sahel.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 11/09/2018 14:47:00 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

969147

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Africa: Poverty
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of the role of Regional Economic Communities of Africa in contributing to poverty reduction.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	171422
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Regional Economic Communities (RECs) provide an important contribution to poverty reduction. RECs are essential building blocks for Africa’s trade and economic integration. The focus of RECs’ work varies from region to region - depending on context they play an important role coordinating work to reduce barriers to trade, develop regional infrastructure, promote trade, and maintain peace and security.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 11/09/2018 14:59:59 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

964813

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	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 Services: Foreign Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2018 to Question 160799 on Health Services: Foreign Nationals, whether he has received representations from (a) asylum seekers, (b) vulnerable migrants and (c) organisations representing (i) migrants and (ii) asylum seekers on urgent care being withheld from patients.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	169659
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The National Health Service is a residency-based healthcare system, with a requirement to be ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom in order to access NHS-funded healthcare. Providers of relevant NHS services are required to make and recover charges from overseas visitors where relevant services have been provided to them and no exemption applies.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not mandate any specific processes to determine the residence or chargeable status of patients. In order to identify those who may not be entitled to NHS-funded treatment, and to do so in a way that avoids racial profiling and discrimination, all patients need to be asked baseline questions to indicate whether they are ordinarily resident in the UK or if they may be an overseas visitor who should be assessed for charges.</p><p> </p><p>However, it is up to providers of NHS care to assure themselves that they are doing everything reasonable to determine the eligibility of patients who are entitled to receive free NHS care, an entitlement based on residency not nationality.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has published extensive guidance on implementing the overseas visitor charging regulations. This guidance is for use by all frontline staff providing National Health Service funded services, as well as the providers and commissioners of those services. It is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-overseas-visitors-hospital-charging-regulations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-overseas-visitors-hospital-charging-regulations</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The guidance clearly sets out that urgent or immediately necessary care must never be withheld, regardless of an individual’s ability to pay for the treatment. Clinicians are required to make the decision on whether treatment is urgent or immediately necessary for those patients identified as not eligible for NHS-funded care, taking into account a realistic expectation of when the individual is expected to leave the UK. As a result of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 patients are required to pay in advance if treatment is decided by a clinician to not be non-urgent. The Department has been carrying out a review of these Amendment Regulations, with evidence submitted by 31 organisations or individuals representing vulnerable migrants. The evidence is currently being considered and stakeholders will receive an update in due course.</p><p> </p><p>It is also worth noting that that the Charging Regulations already have extensive safeguards in place for the most vulnerable. Refugees, asylum seekers, some state supported failed asylum seekers and victims of modern slavery are all exempt from the Charging Regulations.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 169657 169658 169660 question first answered 11/09/2018 13:35:25 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

964814

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	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 Services: Foreign Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2018 to Question 160799 on Health Services: Foreign Nationals, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effect of Government policy on deterring vulnerable non-UK citizens from seeking treatment on the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	169660
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The National Health Service is a residency-based healthcare system, with a requirement to be ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom in order to access NHS-funded healthcare. Providers of relevant NHS services are required to make and recover charges from overseas visitors where relevant services have been provided to them and no exemption applies.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not mandate any specific processes to determine the residence or chargeable status of patients. In order to identify those who may not be entitled to NHS-funded treatment, and to do so in a way that avoids racial profiling and discrimination, all patients need to be asked baseline questions to indicate whether they are ordinarily resident in the UK or if they may be an overseas visitor who should be assessed for charges.</p><p> </p><p>However, it is up to providers of NHS care to assure themselves that they are doing everything reasonable to determine the eligibility of patients who are entitled to receive free NHS care, an entitlement based on residency not nationality.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has published extensive guidance on implementing the overseas visitor charging regulations. This guidance is for use by all frontline staff providing National Health Service funded services, as well as the providers and commissioners of those services. It is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-overseas-visitors-hospital-charging-regulations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-overseas-visitors-hospital-charging-regulations</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The guidance clearly sets out that urgent or immediately necessary care must never be withheld, regardless of an individual’s ability to pay for the treatment. Clinicians are required to make the decision on whether treatment is urgent or immediately necessary for those patients identified as not eligible for NHS-funded care, taking into account a realistic expectation of when the individual is expected to leave the UK. As a result of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 patients are required to pay in advance if treatment is decided by a clinician to not be non-urgent. The Department has been carrying out a review of these Amendment Regulations, with evidence submitted by 31 organisations or individuals representing vulnerable migrants. The evidence is currently being considered and stakeholders will receive an update in due course.</p><p> </p><p>It is also worth noting that that the Charging Regulations already have extensive safeguards in place for the most vulnerable. Refugees, asylum seekers, some state supported failed asylum seekers and victims of modern slavery are all exempt from the Charging Regulations.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 169657 169658 169659 question first answered 11/09/2018 13:35:25 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

964811

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	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 Services: Foreign Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to Answer of 10 July 2018 to Question 160799 on Health Services: Foreign Nationals, what processes his Department has put in place to monitor the effectiveness of NHS care providers in relation to determining the eligibility of patients; and what steps he has taken to ensure that the eligibilty criteria does not result in discrimination.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	169657
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The National Health Service is a residency-based healthcare system, with a requirement to be ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom in order to access NHS-funded healthcare. Providers of relevant NHS services are required to make and recover charges from overseas visitors where relevant services have been provided to them and no exemption applies.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not mandate any specific processes to determine the residence or chargeable status of patients. In order to identify those who may not be entitled to NHS-funded treatment, and to do so in a way that avoids racial profiling and discrimination, all patients need to be asked baseline questions to indicate whether they are ordinarily resident in the UK or if they may be an overseas visitor who should be assessed for charges.</p><p> </p><p>However, it is up to providers of NHS care to assure themselves that they are doing everything reasonable to determine the eligibility of patients who are entitled to receive free NHS care, an entitlement based on residency not nationality.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has published extensive guidance on implementing the overseas visitor charging regulations. This guidance is for use by all frontline staff providing National Health Service funded services, as well as the providers and commissioners of those services. It is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-overseas-visitors-hospital-charging-regulations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-overseas-visitors-hospital-charging-regulations</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The guidance clearly sets out that urgent or immediately necessary care must never be withheld, regardless of an individual’s ability to pay for the treatment. Clinicians are required to make the decision on whether treatment is urgent or immediately necessary for those patients identified as not eligible for NHS-funded care, taking into account a realistic expectation of when the individual is expected to leave the UK. As a result of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 patients are required to pay in advance if treatment is decided by a clinician to not be non-urgent. The Department has been carrying out a review of these Amendment Regulations, with evidence submitted by 31 organisations or individuals representing vulnerable migrants. The evidence is currently being considered and stakeholders will receive an update in due course.</p><p> </p><p>It is also worth noting that that the Charging Regulations already have extensive safeguards in place for the most vulnerable. Refugees, asylum seekers, some state supported failed asylum seekers and victims of modern slavery are all exempt from the Charging Regulations.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 169658 169659 169660 question first answered 11/09/2018 13:35:25 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

964812

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	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 Services: Foreign Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to Answer of 10 July 20178 to Question 160799 on Health Services: Foreign Nationals, what steps he has taken to ensure that urgent care is not withheld from patients.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	169658
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The National Health Service is a residency-based healthcare system, with a requirement to be ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom in order to access NHS-funded healthcare. Providers of relevant NHS services are required to make and recover charges from overseas visitors where relevant services have been provided to them and no exemption applies.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not mandate any specific processes to determine the residence or chargeable status of patients. In order to identify those who may not be entitled to NHS-funded treatment, and to do so in a way that avoids racial profiling and discrimination, all patients need to be asked baseline questions to indicate whether they are ordinarily resident in the UK or if they may be an overseas visitor who should be assessed for charges.</p><p> </p><p>However, it is up to providers of NHS care to assure themselves that they are doing everything reasonable to determine the eligibility of patients who are entitled to receive free NHS care, an entitlement based on residency not nationality.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has published extensive guidance on implementing the overseas visitor charging regulations. This guidance is for use by all frontline staff providing National Health Service funded services, as well as the providers and commissioners of those services. It is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-overseas-visitors-hospital-charging-regulations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-overseas-visitors-hospital-charging-regulations</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The guidance clearly sets out that urgent or immediately necessary care must never be withheld, regardless of an individual’s ability to pay for the treatment. Clinicians are required to make the decision on whether treatment is urgent or immediately necessary for those patients identified as not eligible for NHS-funded care, taking into account a realistic expectation of when the individual is expected to leave the UK. As a result of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 patients are required to pay in advance if treatment is decided by a clinician to not be non-urgent. The Department has been carrying out a review of these Amendment Regulations, with evidence submitted by 31 organisations or individuals representing vulnerable migrants. The evidence is currently being considered and stakeholders will receive an update in due course.</p><p> </p><p>It is also worth noting that that the Charging Regulations already have extensive safeguards in place for the most vulnerable. Refugees, asylum seekers, some state supported failed asylum seekers and victims of modern slavery are all exempt from the Charging Regulations.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 169657 169659 169660 question first answered 11/09/2018 13:35:25 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

963997

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Social Media: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department is taking steps to educate young people about the potential dangers of social media outside of formal education.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
	tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
	uin	169652
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The Department wants to support all young people to be happy, healthy and safe. There is a focus on ensuring the curriculum provides children and young people with knowledge on internet safety. The computing curriculum ensures that pupils are responsible and competent users of information and communication technology. This autumn, the National Centre of Computing Education will be launched, which will support the teaching of computing.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is also making Relationships Education compulsory in all primary schools, Relationships and Sex Education compulsory in all secondary schools and Health Education compulsory in all state-funded schools.</p><p>The Department is currently consulting on the draft regulations that will make the subjects compulsory, as well as the accompanying guidance: <a href="https://consult.education.gov.uk/pshe/relationships-education-rse-health-education/" target="_blank">https://consult.education.gov.uk/pshe/relationships-education-rse-health-education/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The draft guidance sets out that teaching about internet safety, including the benefits and risks of social media, should be integrated into these subjects. The draft guidance also provides examples of resources from reputable organisations that can be used by schools and any other organisation working with children and young people. For example, the UK Council for Child Internet Safety recently published “The Education for a Connected World framework” which describes the digital knowledge and skills that children and young people should have the opportunity to develop at different ages and stages of their lives. The framework is designed to support schools, colleges, parents and children’s organisations.</p><p>More information on the framework can be found at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/683895/Education_for_a_connected_world_PDF.PDF" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/683895/Education_for_a_connected_world_PDF.PDF.</a></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/09/2018 16:08:15 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill