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521517

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Electrical Goods: Fires
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether his Department uses government fire statistics to assess the effect of faulty electrical goods on the number of fires.
	tabling member constituency	Makerfield
	tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
	uin	38445
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>My Department uses Government fire statistics on the number of fires in faulty electrical products, as part of the evidence to inform policy on the safety of electrical products.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 06/06/2016 12:50:02 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

731792

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	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	Children: Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, (a) how many and (b) what level of fines have been levied against husbands or partners who avoided paying child maintenance in each year since the introduction of the Child Support Act 1991; and what other sanctions have been imposed on people in that period.
	tabling member constituency	Makerfield
	tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
	uin	708
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The only fines that can be imposed relating to child maintenance are as a result of criminal prosecution for failure to provide information or providing false information for the purposes of calculating the child maintenance liability. These fines are imposed by a court, information about fines is not recorded by my Department for management information purposes, and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Within child maintenance enforcement, “sanctions” generally refers to powers used as a last resort, when other enforcement actions have not resulted in successful collection of arrears.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>DWP publish information on enforcement actions.</p><p> </p><p>Information on both civil and criminal enforcement actions undertaken by the Child Support Agency (CSA) is only available from April 2007. This can be found in Table 22 of the latest CSA Quarterly Summary of Statistics, available at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-march-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-march-2017</a> . This includes information on a variety of enforcement actions, including commitment to prison and disqualification from driving (in the Committals section), along with information on the number of prosecutions that have been undertaken.</p><p> </p><p>Information on civil and criminal enforcement action undertaken by the Child Maintenance Service is published on Table 16 of the Child Maintenance Service Experimental Statistics, which contains data between September 2015 and March 2017. The publication can be accessed online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme-aug-2013-to-mar-2017-experimental" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme-aug-2013-to-mar-2017-experimental</a> . These statistics do not include detail on the different types of enforcement action, so do not include the number of sanction actions taken.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 27/06/2017 09:55:29 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

983102

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	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	NHS: Disclosure of Information
	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 he is taking to make NHS data by clinical commissioning group available for analysis by (a) charities and (b) other bodies that represent patients.
	tabling member constituency	Makerfield
	tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
	uin	176258
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>National Health Service Data is available for charities and other bodies that represent patients to apply for via the Data Access Request Service at NHS Digital. This data can be filtered in a variety of methods, such as by clinical commissioning groups. Further information, including how to apply can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-request-service-dars/data-access-request-service-dars-process" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-request-service-dars/data-access-request-service-dars-process</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/10/2018 11:55:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

470335

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Debts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons his Department reduced the debt servicing to income ratio used as an indicator of household vulnerability and indebtedness from 30 per cent to 25 per cent.
	tabling member constituency	Makerfield
	tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
	uin	30907
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>In 2010 a report for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills used a debt servicing to income ratio of 25%. In subsequent annual reports up until 2013 a debt servicing to income ratio of 30% was used. It is an established convention that Minsters of one Administration cannot see the documents of a previous Administration. I am therefore unable to provide the information requested by the hon. Member.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 21/03/2016 15:35:11 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

1088467

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2019
	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	Shellfish: Animal Welfare
	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 his Department has made an assessment of (a) the sentience of decapod crustaceans and (b) their capability to feel pain; whether decapod crustaceans are included in the definition of animal in the draft sentience Bill; and when he plans to publish the Farm Animal Welfare Council investigation into decapod crustacean sentience.
	tabling member constituency	Makerfield
	tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
	uin	231995
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government is aware of research in relation to the sentience of decapod crustaceans and their ability to feel pain. We are continuing to engage with stakeholders to further refine the Government’s proposals on animal sentience, including which animals are covered by those proposals. The Farm Animal Welfare Committee’s advice on the definition of sentience will be published soon.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 21/03/2019 17:42:23 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
	tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

647382

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps his Department is taking to assist women born in the 1950s who are affected by changes in state pension age equalisation.
	tabling member constituency	Makerfield
	tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
	uin	907550
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2016 answer text <p>This issue was debated during the passage of the Pensions Act 2011 and the Government made concessions worth £1.1bn.</p><p> </p><p>As a result, no women will experience increases of more than 18 months. In fact, for 81% of all the women affected by the changes, the increase to their State Pension age will not exceed 12 months.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has no plans to introduce further transitional arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 29/11/2016 14:37:27 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

662796

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Overpayments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total amount of benefit and tax credit debt (a) repaid and (b) written-off was in each financial year from 2003-04 to 2015-16 in each region and constituent part of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Makerfield
	tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
	uin	58574
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2017 answer text <p>The information is not readily available in the form requested and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The overall amounts for benefit repaid, written off and owed at the end of the financial year can be found in DWP’s Annual Report and Accounts. The following link provides information for the latest financial year 2015 -2016: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/534934/print-ready-dwp-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-2016.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/534934/print-ready-dwp-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-2016.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The overall amounts of tax credit debt, repayments, remissions and write-offs are published in HMRC’s Annual Report and Accounts. The 2015-16 report is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/537876/HMRC_Annual_Report_and_Accounts_2015-16-_print_.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/537876/HMRC_Annual_Report_and_Accounts_2015-16-_print_.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 58575 question first answered 12/01/2017 11:44:42 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

662798

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Overpayments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total amount of benefit and tax credit debt owed was at the end of each financial year from 2003-04 to 2015-16 in each region and constituent part of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Makerfield
	tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
	uin	58575
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2017 answer text <p>The information is not readily available in the form requested and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The overall amounts for benefit repaid, written off and owed at the end of the financial year can be found in DWP’s Annual Report and Accounts. The following link provides information for the latest financial year 2015 -2016: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/534934/print-ready-dwp-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-2016.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/534934/print-ready-dwp-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-2016.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The overall amounts of tax credit debt, repayments, remissions and write-offs are published in HMRC’s Annual Report and Accounts. The 2015-16 report is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/537876/HMRC_Annual_Report_and_Accounts_2015-16-_print_.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/537876/HMRC_Annual_Report_and_Accounts_2015-16-_print_.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 58574 question first answered 12/01/2017 11:44:42 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

521518

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Electrical Goods: Counterfeit Manufacturing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to raise awareness of the dangers of purchasing counterfeit electrical goods.
	tabling member constituency	Makerfield
	tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
	uin	38446
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2016 answer text <p>The Intellectual Property Office does not undertake any awareness raising activities that specifically highlight the dangers of purchasing counterfeit electrical goods.</p><p> </p><p>The Intellectual Property Office works with partners including trading standards, Border Force and industry on a range of initiatives to tackle IP crime. . These initiatives include outreach campaigns aimed at consumers and workplaces, as well as enforcement action and support for businesses. They are not however focused on counterfeit electrical goods in isolation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 21/06/2016 13:25:50 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot previous answer version 2026 answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
	tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue

521519

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Electrical Goods: Counterfeit Manufacturing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what meetings he has had with (a) Amazon, (b) eBay and (c) other online retailers on the prevention of the sale of counterfeit electrical goods in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Makerfield
	tabling member printed	Yvonne Fovargue
	uin	38447
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2016 answer text <p>Details of Ministerial meetings, are published quarterly on gov.uk at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=ministerial+meetings&amp;publication_filter_option=transparency-data&amp;topics%5B%5D=all&amp;departments%5B%5D=all&amp;official_document_status=all&amp;world_locations%5B%5D=all&amp;from_date=&amp;to_date=" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=ministerial+meetings&amp;publication_filter_option=transparency-data&amp;topics%5B%5D=all&amp;departments%5B%5D=all&amp;official_document_status=all&amp;world_locations%5B%5D=all&amp;from_date=&amp;to_date=</a></p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 21/06/2016 13:24:14 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot previous answer version 2030 answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
	tabling member	4034 label Biography information for Yvonne Fovargue