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1027450

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2018
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Candidates: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government is taking to encourage women to participate in politics.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Giles Watling
	uin	908346
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>One of our aims for the Women’s Suffrage Centenary was to ensure more women participate in politics and decision-making. Whether that is to vote, to campaign or to stand for election, women must be there making the decisions.</p><p>Over the course of this year, the Centenary Fund has supported nearly 320 small and large projects. Many of them are designed to encourage participation by offering women across the country information and training to take part in civic society at all levels.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/12/2018 16:02:47 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

980100

	registered interest
	date	02/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to improve the condition of local roads.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Giles Watling
	uin	906933
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government has committed investment of more than £6 billion to highways maintenance between 2015 and 2021. This funding includes an action fund to help combat potholes totalling £296 million between 2016 and 2021. The Department published its latest statistics on road conditions in England in January 2018, which showed that at that time local classified roads had been improving overall, with fewer local roads to be considered for maintenance. The Department recognises, however, that the severe frosts of 2018 are likely to have affected local road quality.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 11/10/2018 13:13:19 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

923037

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2018
	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	Local Government Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps his Department is taking to ensure fairness in the allocation of funding to local government.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Giles Watling
	uin	905895
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>We are undertaking a Fair Funding Review of local authorities’ relative needs and resources to address concerns about the fairness of the current system.</p><p>We are making good progress, in collaboration with the sector, in order to introduce a simpler, fair and transparent funding formula.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 18/06/2018 14:40:11 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

917241

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2018
	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	Cats and Dogs: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	When his Department plans to publish its response to the evidence that it received on banning third party sales of puppies and kittens in England.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Giles Watling
	uin	905706
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2018 answer text <p>We will set out the results of our call for evidence in due course.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 07/06/2018 10:46:12 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

895116

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2018
	answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
	answering dept id	203
	answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
	answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
	hansard heading	Agriculture
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on negotiations on farming policy for when the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Giles Watling
	uin	905125
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>We continue to work closely with ministers and officials from all departments, including the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to further our preparations for exit from and new partnership with the EU. The Secretary of State continues to have regular conversations with Cabinet colleagues on all aspects of exiting the EU, including on agriculture policy.</p><p> </p><p>All ministers are clear that leaving the EU means leaving the Common Agricultural Policy, and making our own decisions for our own farmers’ benefit for the first time in around half a century.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 03/05/2018 12:29:42 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
	tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

869270

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2018
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Wildlife: Smuggling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps his Department is taking to tackle the illegal wildlife trade.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Giles Watling
	uin	904598
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>The UK is taking a leading role in ending the illegal wildlife trade globally. The Government is funding practical action to reduce demand, strengthen enforcement and develop sustainable livelihoods in the communities affected by the illegal wildlife trade. We will host an ambitious high-level international conference in October to push for further progress.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 27/03/2018 15:44:29 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

800856

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Systems
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps the Government plans to take to ensure the effective operation of the UK legal system after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Giles Watling
	uin	902760
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government have made it a top priority to ensure that there is a smooth legal transition, both in our negotiations with the EU and as a matter for our domestic implementing legislation.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 05/12/2017 17:44:53 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

1043711

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Education: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress her Department has made on improving girls’ access to education throughout the world.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Giles Watling
	uin	210047
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2019 answer text <p>The UK is a global leader on girls’ education and DFID spearheads the UK Governments global campaign, Leave No Girl Behind, which promotes 12 years of quality education and learning for all girls.</p><p> </p><p>Between 2015 and 2018, UKAid provided by DFID has supported 5.6 million girls to gain a decent education.</p><p> </p><p>Through our investment in this area, we are supporting the most marginalised girls to attend school, learn whilst they are there, and help ensure the critical transition from primary to secondary education.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is also leading by example, building evidence of what works in DFID’s flagship Girls’ Education Challenge. Our largest single programme anywhere, reaching 18 countries and up to 1.5 million girls. In the coming months it will reach 250,000 highly marginalised girls who have never attended or dropped out of school due to poverty, motherhood, disability or conflict.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 24/01/2019 15:30:13 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

1020669

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2018
	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	Housing: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to help young people get on the housing ladder.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Giles Watling
	uin	199925
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p>Government-backed schemes have supported over half a million households into home ownership since 2010. The Help to Buy: Equity Loan has helped nearly 184,000 households purchase a new-build home from its launch in 2013 until June 2018 and 81 per cent of sales were to first time buyers. The recent Evaluation of Help to Buy: Equity Loan from 2015 to 2017 found that 63 percent of first-time buyers were under 35 years old. Our reforms to Stamp Duty, introduced at Budget 2017, have already benefited 180,500 people who pay the tax.</p><p>But we understand there is more to do. The revised the National Planning Policy Framework places an expectation on local authorities that on major sites, 10 per cent of affordable housing provision should be dedicated to home ownership products, such as shared ownership, rent to buy or starter homes.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 14/12/2018 14:39:57 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

1017328

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2018
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	International Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to strengthen the rules-based international order.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Giles Watling
	uin	197482
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>The rules-based international system has made the world collectively more prosperous and safe than ever before. Today, upholding and strengthening this system is a priority for the government. We are reinvigorating and expanding the UK's diplomatic network in order to reinforce our friendships and alliances, to defend the values of democracy and human rights, to reform the multilateral architecture where needed, and to reach agreement on new rules in evolving policy areas. This will allow the UK to play a leading role in shaping a rules-based international system fit for the future.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 06/12/2018 14:20:13 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling