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1659493

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2023
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Mahmoud Abbas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterpart in the Palestinian National Authority on the comments made by the President of the Palestinian National Authority on the Holocaust on 24 August 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow East
	tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
	uin	198647
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2023 answer text <p>As the FCDO stated publicly on 8 September, the UK condemns the recent antisemitic remarks made by President Abbas. The UK stands firmly against all attempts to distort the Holocaust. Such statements do not advance efforts towards reconciliation. Officials at the British Consulate General in Jerusalem have raised this matter with the Palestinian Authority and the Foreign Secretary intends to do the same during his visit to the Occupied Palestinian Territories. President Abbas' comments are completely unacceptable and can only serve to exacerbate tensions and undermine efforts to achieve the negotiated two-state solution.</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan grouped question UIN 198646 question first answered 19/09/2023 16:07:47 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
	tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

1663111

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2023
	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	Smoking
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it remains the Government's policy to meet its smokefree 2030 target of an adult smoking prevalence of 5% or less.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow East
	tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
	uin	200965
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2023 answer text <p>Smoking rates in England have been consistently falling and are currently at the lowest rate on record at 12.7%, based on 2022 data.</p><p>The Government remains firmly committed to the ambition of England being Smokefree by 2030, namely a smoking prevalence of 5% or less, and recognises that progress must be accelerated to meet this bold ambition. On 4 October 2023, the Prime Minister unveiled plans to introduce a new law to stop children who turn 14 this year or younger from ever legally being sold cigarettes, in a bid to create the first ‘smokefree generation’. This announcement was accompanied with additional funding including £70 million extra per year to fund local stop smoking services and £5 million this year and then £15 million per year thereafter to fund national stop smoking marketing campaigns.</p><p>This is in addition to a range of other measures which we announced in April 2023. The measures included a new national swap to stop scheme to provide vapes to one million smokers to help them to quit, and an evidence-based financial incentives scheme to help all pregnant smokers to quit.</p><p>We are confident that these new measures, in addition to the actions we are already taking, will set us on course to achieve our Smokefree 2030 ambition. We will continue to monitor progress.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien grouped question UIN 200885 200948 201231 201316 question first answered 18/10/2023 14:14:32 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

1663112

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2023
	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	Smoking
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Written Statement of 17 April 2023, HCWS710, on Achieving Smokefree 2030: cutting smoking and stopping kids vaping, whether his Department has conducted modelling on the potential impact of the measures outlined in the statement on progress towards the target of reducing smoking rates to 5% or less by 2030.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow East
	tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
	uin	200966
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2023 answer text <p>Annex 1 of ‘Stopping the start: our new plan to create a smokefree generation’ sets out the modelling used to forecast changes in smoking prevalence over time based on legislating for a smokefree generation. This modelling is preliminary and will continue to be further refined ahead of publication of a full impact assessment.</p><p>Annex 1 is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/stopping-the-start-our-new-plan-to-create-a-smokefree-generation/annex-1-modelling-assumptions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/stopping-the-start-our-new-plan-to-create-a-smokefree-generation/annex-1-modelling-assumptions</a></p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien grouped question UIN 200880 200886 200929 200949 201232 201315 question first answered 18/10/2023 14:11:12 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

1663114

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2023
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Tobacco: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of (a) implementing additional tax measures for the tobacco industry and (b) ringfencing tax receipts from the tobacco industry to help fund steps the Government is taking to reduce smoking prevalence to 5% or less by 2030.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow East
	tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
	uin	200968
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government is unable to speculate on tax matters outside of fiscal events. As with all taxes, the Government keeps the tobacco duty system under review during its yearly Budget process.</p><p> </p><p>As announced by the Prime Minister on 4 October 2023, the Government is creating the first smokefree generation, by bringing forward legislation so that children turning 14 this year or younger will never be legally sold tobacco products. This will prevent future generations from ever taking up smoking, as there is no safe age to smoke. The command paper sets out the proposed actions the Government will take to tackle smoking and youth vaping including an additional £70 million per year to support local authority-led stop smoking services and can be accessed here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/stopping-the-start-our-new-plan-to-create-a-smokefree-generation#:~:text=This%20publication%20sets%20out%20proposed,ensure%20the%20law%20is%20enforced" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/stopping-the-start-our-new-plan-to-create-a-smokefree-generation#:~:text=This%20publication%20sets%20out%20proposed,ensure%20the%20law%20is%20enforced</a></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 19/10/2023 09:28:52 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
	tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

1669653

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2023
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Alternative Fuels
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the use of (a) low carbon and (b) synthetic fuels for L-Category vehicles in the transition to net zero.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow East
	tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
	uin	1533
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2023 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The consultation on when to end the sale of new non-zero emission L-category vehicles was open to responses from 14 July to 21 September 2022 and was supported by a thorough programme of stakeholder engagement. We are now analysing the responses and will bring forward the Government’s response in due course.</p><p>The Government’s approach to delivering its ambitions for greener transport is not outcome neutral - the end goal must be zero exhaust emissions. Vehicles that burn synthetic fuels still emit air pollutants at the exhaust. However, the Government understands the need to decarbonise vehicles on the road today and the potential contribution synthetic fuels can make. This is why the Government has increased targets for the supply of low carbon fuels under the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) and will continue to review that scheme to ensure that it can continue to support delivery of its carbon budgets.</p><p>Synthetics and other alternative fuels can be expensive, energy intensive to produce and do not always improve air quality. They show greatest potential in areas that are difficult to electrify, such as aviation. Relying on synthetic fuels to decarbonise road transport would put the UK at risk of failing to meet its economy wide targets on both CO<sub>2</sub> and air pollution emissions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Cambridgeshire answering member printed Anthony Browne question first answered 21/11/2023 12:29:07 answering member 4801 label Biography information for Anthony Browne
	tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

1669654

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2023
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Carbon Emissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to take account of the life cycle analysis of L-Category vehicles when phasing out new non zero emission variants.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow East
	tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
	uin	1534
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2023 answer text <p>The consultation on when to end the sale of new non-zero emission L-category vehicles was open to responses from 14 July to 21 September 2022 and supported by a thorough programme of stakeholder engagement. We are now analysing the responses and will bring forward the Government’s response in due course.</p><p> </p><p>Analysis of lifecycle emissions is an important consideration as we accelerate the transition to a zero-emission fleet of road vehicles. Whilst there is no internationally recognised method of measuring lifecycle emissions in any transport sector, the Department’s Transport Energy Model, published in 2018, and the externally commissioned Lifecycle Analysis of UK Road Vehicles, published in 2021, provide clear assessments of the relative environmental impacts of different road vehicle technologies and fuels in the UK.</p> answering member constituency South Cambridgeshire answering member printed Anthony Browne question first answered 21/11/2023 12:35:05 answering member 4801 label Biography information for Anthony Browne
	tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

1669656

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2023
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Carbon Emissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with his EU counterparts about their decision not to set a date for the phase out of new non zero emission L-Category vehicles.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow East
	tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
	uin	1535
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2023 answer text <p>The UK’s exit from the European Union has provided the opportunity for this country to develop its own regulatory approach to decarbonising its entire fleet of new road vehicles, supporting UK industry and riders in the process.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Cambridgeshire answering member printed Anthony Browne question first answered 21/11/2023 12:26:58 answering member 4801 label Biography information for Anthony Browne
	tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

1672950

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2023
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress he has made on reducing the backlog of asylum cases.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow East
	tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
	uin	900293
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>Provisional data indicates that between the end of November 2022 and October 2023 the legacy backlog reduced by 64% and we remain on track to clear the legacy backlog by the end of the year as per the Prime Minister’s commitment last year.</p><p>We will continue the steps we are already taking to speed up asylum processing whilst maintaining the integrity of the system. This includes better performance management, overtime, and shorer, focussed interviews.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/11/2023 15:52:15 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

1673243

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2023
	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	Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, by which date in early 2024 her Department plans to publish the Major Conditions Strategy.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow East
	tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
	uin	3774
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2023 answer text <p>Following publication of the Strategic Framework, we will continue to develop the strategy, informed by the Call for Evidence and ongoing engagement. Our intention is to publish the Major Conditions Strategy in early 2024.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 05/12/2023 09:45:00 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman

1678995

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2023
	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	Cancer
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies on prevention of the Cancer Research UK publication entitled, Longer, better lives: A manifesto for cancer research and care.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow East
	tabling member printed	Bob Blackman
	uin	7548
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government welcomes the Cancer Research UK report which rightly highlights progress made against cancer. We have invested over £100 million into cancer research in 2021/22 through the National Institute for Health and Care Research. We are working closely with research partners in relevant all sectors and are confident the Government's continued commitment to cancer research will help us to continue to make progress, leading to continued improvements for cancer patients.</p><p>Cancer is being diagnosed at an earlier stage, more often, with survival rates improving across almost all types of cancer and the National Health Service seeing and treating record numbers of cancer patients over the last two years.</p><p>Our Major Conditions Strategy will set out how we will improve cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment and we have opened 135 community diagnostic centres offering over five million additional tests, including for cancer.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 08/01/2024 10:46:34 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4005 label Biography information for Bob Blackman