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1141984

	registered interest
	date	25/07/2019
	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	Social Security Benefits: Telephone Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of recording all calls from benefits claimants to ensure that complaints can be followed up.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	282395
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>The Department acknowledges the merit and does record inbound calls to DWP’s helplines in order to make improvements to service and follow-up on any complaints received.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 05/09/2019 13:32:44 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1129323

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has plans to (a) make an assessment of the level of attacks on retail workers and (b) review the effectiveness of sanctions for perpetrators of such attacks.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	259437
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the devastating impact that violence and abuse can have, not only for victims, but also for businesses, and the wider community. This is why it is vital that we continue to work closely with retailers, the police and others to tackle these crimes.</p><p>The Home Office Commercial Victimisation Survey (CVS) is a survey of the extent of crime against business premises in England and Wales and includes a specific focus on crimes against wholesale and retail premises. Compared to the 2016 survey results, the 2017 CVS showed a statistically significant increase in assaults and threats (up from 524 incidents per 1,000 premises to 1,433 incidents per 1,000 premises).</p><p>To address this issue I chair the National Retail Crime Steering Group (NRCSG) which brings together partners including the police, trade bodies and retailers and oversees a range of work to tackle retail crime, including violence and abuse towards shop workers.</p><p>In addition, on 5 April the Home Office launched a call for evidence on violence and abuse towards shop staff. The aim of this work is to strengthen our understanding of the issue, including how existing legislation is being applied. The call for evidence closes on 28 June.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 10/06/2019 15:49:06 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1122129

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Knives: Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of knives carried on the streets in Yorkshire and the Humber.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	245977
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government is very concerned about increases in knife crime and its impact on victims, families and communities. The action we are taking is set out in our Serious Violence Strategy and includes new legislation in the Offensive Weapons Bill, raising awareness among young people of the dangers of carrying a knife, supporting local early intervention projects and continuing police action under Operation Sceptre. The latest anti-knife crime week of action under Operation Sceptre took place from 11-18 March.</p><p>We are encouraging the police to use stop and search. It is a vital policing tool when used correctly and officers have the Government's full support to use these powers in a targeted way that is fair, lawful and effective. The Home Secretary has announced he is relaxing voluntary best practice guidance around the use of Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, which allows officers to stop and search anyone in a designated area in anticipation of serious violence.</p><p>The changes will allow the police to more quickly and effectively use these powers in anticipation of serious violence, safeguarding the public. <br>We have also listened to the police request that we introduce new Knife Crime Prevention Orders to help them to divert those involved in knife crime away from a violent lifestyle. The Government introduced the new Order in the Offensive Weapons Bill, currently awaiting Royal Assent.</p><p>The Offensive Weapons Bill includes specific new knives offences, in par-ticular making it an offence to possess certain offensive weapons in private, and stopping knives being sent to residential addresses after they are bought online unless the seller has arrangements with a delivery company to verify age. These measures are designed to help the police in their re-sponse to knife crime.</p><p>In addition to supporting the police on law enforcement, our Serious Vio-lence Strategy stresses the importance of early intervention to tackle the root causes of serious violence and provide young people with the skills and resilience to lead productive lives free from violence. This is why we are providing £22 million to support early intervention and prevention projects through our Early Intervention Youth Fund which is already supporting 29 projects in England and Wales, including the Box Clever project in Humber-side.</p><p>We are also supporting a national knife crime media campaign - #knifefree - to raise awareness of the consequences of knife crime. Its initial campaign was launched in March 2018 across England and Wales and activity includ-ed video on demand, street posters, social media, digital audio and video and partner engagement. The latest campaign went live on 1 April 2019.</p><p>Last October, the Government also announced a new £200 million Youth Endowment Fund to be delivered over 10 years to support interventions with children and young people at risk of involvement in crime and violence, focusing on those most at risk to steer them away from becoming serious offenders. This is now up and running and the charity Impetus, working in partnership with the Early Intervention Foundation and Social Investment Business, is operating the Fund.</p><p>In addition, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced in the Spring Statement on 13 March that there will be £100 million additional funding for the police in 2019/20 to tackle serious violence, including £80m of new funding from the Treasury. The majority of the investment will largely go towards supporting police forces most affected by the violence we are see-ing, but the funding will also support Violence Reduction Units, bringing to-gether a range of agencies, including health, education, social services and others, to develop a multi-agency approach to preventing serious violence.</p><p>The Prime Minister also hosted the Serious Youth Violence Summit from 1 – 4 April that underlined the whole of Government approach we are taking to tackle this issue. At this summit, the Prime Minister announced she would be chairing a new Ministerial Taskforce, supported by a dedicated Cabinet Office team, to oversee the cross-government programme of ac-tion.</p><p>On 1 April, we also launched our consultation on a new legal duty to ensure public bodies take action to prevent serious violence. The consultation will close on 28 May. It explores how a legal duty will support effective multi-agency work. It is open to everyone to respond and can be found here https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/serious-violence-new-legal-duty-to-support-multi-agency-action.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 25/04/2019 14:37:05 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1104824

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Debts: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to protect people whose partners fraudulently take out debts in their name without their knowledge.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	236531
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>Our landmark draft Domestic Abuse Bill and consultation response, published in January, includes further measures to help tackle domestic abuse, including introducing a statutory definition of domestic abuse to include a range of behaviours that go beyond physical abuse and explicitly recognise economic abuse.</p><p>We are including economic abuse in the new statutory definition of domestic abuse to acknowledge the life-changing impact that economic abuse can have on a victim’s life.</p><p>The Joint Fraud Taskforce is leading an ambitious programme of work to prevent all forms of fraud and protect the most vulnerable in our society who are often targeted by fraudsters.</p><p>We are working closely with UK Finance to support their work to encourage banks and the wider financial services sector to improve the support they provide to victims of domestic abuse accessing their services.</p><p>We will continue to work with UK Finance to encourage banks and financial authorities to do more to support victims of domestic abuse and help them move forward to escape debt, joint accounts, and mortgages</p><p>We have provided funding to the National Skills Academy to develop and deliver financial capability training for frontline workers to support individuals who are experiencing economic domestic abuse.</p><p>We will provide approximately £250,000 until 2020 to create a national advice service for banks and building societies, increase the capacity of existing telephone casework services for victims of domestic abuse and develop resources to help people identify if they are experiencing economic abuse.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 03/04/2019 17:53:55 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1104815

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Disclosure and Barring Service: Tata Consultancy Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the decision for Tata to replace Capita as IT providers for the Decision Barring Service, whether his Department has met with the Information Commissioner's Office to ensure that data is kept securely by Tata.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	236522
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The contract awarded has provisions and obligations to protect personal data handling and includes a specific schedule relating to security requirements. The Disclosure and Barring Service meets with the Information Commissioner's Officer quarterly to encourage a close working relationship and to share best practice.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 02/04/2019 15:45:27 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1122120

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2019
	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	Heart Diseases: 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, what steps his Department is taking to prepare cardiac units for the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	245973
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>We have now reached agreement with the European Union on an extension until 31 October 2019 at the latest, with the option to leave earlier as soon as a deal has been ratified. Although Parliament has rejected leaving without a deal multiple times, this remains the legal default at the end of the extension period, unless a deal is passed by Parliament.</p><p>In light of the extension, Departments will make sensible decisions about the timing and pace at which some of this work is progressing, but we will continue to prepare for all exit scenarios. We remain focused on ensuring our smooth and orderly withdrawal from the EU with a deal as soon as possible.</p><p>The Department is considering the impact on our EU exit preparations and we are working closely with our stakeholders to review our position.</p><p>While we never give guarantees, we are confident that, if everyone does what they need to do, the supply of medicines and medical products, including for supplies of clinical trials and investigations, will be uninterrupted in the event we leave the EU without a deal.</p><p>In terms of EU exit preparations for local National Health Service organisations, on 18 April 2019 Professor Keith Willett, EU Exit Strategic Commander at NHS England and NHS Improvement, wrote to clinical commissioning group and trust Chief Executives to update them on the further extension to Article 50, and the actions that now need to be taken locally to continue to prepare for the United Kingdom’s exit from the EU. Further details are available in Professor Willett’s letter that NHS England and NHS Improvement has published online at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/20130418-KW-EU-exit-letter-final-.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/20130418-KW-EU-exit-letter-final-.pdf</a></p><p>These actions will also apply to cardiac units as they are within trusts.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 30/04/2019 10:04:54 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1143575

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Landfill Tax
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much landfill tax was collected in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	285441
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Information on the amount of landfill tax collected is routinely published online by HM Revenue &amp; Customs. This includes information about the amount of revenue collected since 2010. This can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/landfill-tax-bulletin" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/landfill-tax-bulletin</a></p><p> </p><p>Total cash receipts for landfill tax, as published in Table 1 on the gov.uk website, are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>£million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>1,065</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>1,090</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>1,092</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>1,189</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>1,144</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>919</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>874</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>757</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19 p</p></td><td><p>686</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Calendar Year</p></td><td><p>£million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>1,046</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>1,114</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>1,112</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>1,108</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1,174</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>987</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>922</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>742</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>707</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>p = Provisional. Unusually high or low figures may be changed on receipt of amendments to returns data.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke question first answered 09/09/2019 10:07:51 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1122125

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2019
	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	Agriculture
	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 recent steps he has taken to ensure the sustainability of the UK agriculture sector in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	245976
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>It is in everyone’s interests to secure a good deal with the EU and that is what we are committed to.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst preparing for all outcomes, as any responsible Government would, we have also been preparing for the possibility of no deal, which is why we have contingency plans in place to minimise disruption for the food and farming sector as much as possible.</p><p> </p><p>We remain confident in the resilience of our world leading agricultural sectors and their ability to thrive outside the EU.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 25/04/2019 11:41:17 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1134156

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Motorways: Accidents
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) traffic incidents and (b) fatal traffic incidents there have been on (i) traditional motorways, (ii) motorways running a Smart Motorway Scheme, and (iii) motorways with an all-lane running scheme in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	268573
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>In 2017, the latest year for which figures are available, there were 4,778 reported road accidents involving personal injury on motorways in Great Britain, of which 77 were fatal accidents. These figures can be found in the published Department for Transport statistics table RAS10001: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/755701/ras10001.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/755701/ras10001.ods</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Non-injury accidents are not recorded in these statistics. The statistics for motorways are not broken down further for smart motorways or smart motorways with all-lane running.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 27/06/2019 13:32:16 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1129074

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many roads managed by Highways England as part of the Strategic Road Network have illegal levels of nitrogen dioxide.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	259426
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>Highways England’s Air Quality Strategy published in August 2017, sets out the company’s actions to improve air quality on the strategic road network. This supports the Government’s Air Quality Plan for Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) in UK (2017), which established the Government’s commitment to improve air quality on the Strategic Road Network (SRN).</p><p> </p><p>Highways England’s Delivery Plan 2018-2019, published in July 2018, provides an update on progress and this year’s Delivery Plan with a further update will be published this summer.</p><p> </p><p>Highways England have agreed with the Department for Transport a programme of work to assess and deliver improvements in air quality on the SRN, with a focus on 101 SRN road links which have been identified by Government’s Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) model as exceeding NO2 limit values.</p><p> </p><p>Highways England are analysing these road links through their programme of work to identify what measures can be implemented to deliver compliance as quickly as possible. The total number of roads affected will be lower, as some roads have more than one link in exceedance along the whole route.</p><p>We anticipate that the programme of improvement activity will be published later this year, once the appropriate links have been assessed and mitigation measures identified.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 259427 question first answered 06/06/2019 12:55:02 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel