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100186

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether missed or inadequate hydrocortisone administration is included in the NHS list of Never Events.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
	uin	211233
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>Missed or inadequate hydrocortisone administration is not currently included in the list of ‘never events’.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We can confirm that the current list of Never Events is under review and there is a consultation underway which opened online on the 6 October 2014 and closes on 31 October 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 28/10/2014 15:28:25 question first ministerially corrected 28/10/2014 16:30:53 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman previous answer version 24770 answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison answering member 3918
	tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

1010636

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2018
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Arms Trade: Cameroon
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether his Department plans to review arms sales to the Government of Cameroon.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	193544
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government takes its export control responsibilities extremely seriously.</p><p> </p><p>The UK operates one of the most<del class="ministerial"> thorough and</del> robust export control<ins class="ministerial"> regimes</ins> <del class="ministerial">systems</del> in the world. The Government will not grant export licences where to do so would be inconsistent with the Consolidated EU and National Arms Exports Licensing Criteria, which include<ins class="ministerial"> the respect for</ins> <del class="ministerial">an assessment of</del> human rights and fundamental freedoms in the country of final destination.<ins class="ministerial"> The Government will not grant a licence where there is a clear risk that the items to exported might be used for internal repression.</ins></p><p>Extant<del class="ministerial"> licenses</del> <ins class="ministerial">licences</ins> can be revoked at any time if the situation changes in Cameroon<ins class="ministerial"> and those licences are no longer assessed as being consistent with the licensing criteria</ins>.</p><p><br /> The policy remains as announced to parliament in a Written Ministerial Statement on 25 March 2014: <a href="https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm140325/wmstext/140325m0001.htm#14032566000018" target="_blank">https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm140325/wmstext/140325m0001.htm#140325660000</a></p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 23/11/2018 14:58:43 question first ministerially corrected 26/11/2018 11:00:41 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart previous answer version 86882 answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1029525

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Unexplained Wealth Orders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Office, how many Unexplained Wealth Orders have been invoked in each month since they were introduced.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	204624
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Home Office does not comment on particular cases. The SFO investigates and prosecutes only the most serious or complex fraud, bribery and corruption cases.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The decision to commence an investigation is that of the Director alone. Government cannot interfere with the operational independence of investigative or prosecutorial agencies. As new tools, it is important that courts and law enforcement establishes the use and process to ensure that they deliver the correct objectives.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Three UWOs have been applied for, and all granted, since the UWO power came into force in January. The UWOs concern two assets under one investigation in relation to an Azerbaijan national. As new tools, it is important that courts and law enforcement establishes the use and process to ensure that they deliver the correct objectives. </ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 25/01/2019 16:05:32 question first ministerially corrected 28/01/2019 15:29:02 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace previous answer version 97424 answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1061227

	registered interest
	date	14/02/2019
	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	General Practitioners: Oxford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of GP appointment waiting times in Oxford.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	221835
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The proportion of general practitioner (GP) appointments by date and time between booking date and appointment date in Oxford Clinical Commissioning Group for the months November 2017 to December 2018 is presented in the attached table. The data on GP appointments are from a new data collection and are still experimental i.e. the data and collection method are still being refined and improved. NHS Digital’s data on ‘time from booking to appointment’ does not take into consideration that many patients will be appropriately booking ahead as part of the continuity of care they receive for long-term conditions. Other factors that drive the time from a booking to an appointment include appointment availability at the practice, patient availability, the urgency of the appointment and GP advice.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/02/2019 17:24:06 question first ministerially corrected 21/02/2019 10:24:53 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine attachment 1 file name 221835 formatted table.docx title GP appointments Oxford CCG previous answer version 103151 answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine attachment 1 file name PQ221587 attached tables.docx title PQ221835 attached table
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1242530

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Training: Remote Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money from the public purse has been spent on The Skills Toolkit online learning platform in each year since the beginning of that platform.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	102155
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2020 answer text <p>The Skills Toolkit was announced in April 2020 and the cost of developing the platform in this financial year is £798,700. This includes the launch and the two subsequent expansions of the platform. A further £325,700 has been spent on communications activities to promote the platform.</p><p><del class="ministerial">As of 4 October there have been a total of 118,011 starts of the courses on the platform and 19,564 course completions. As of 11 October, the platform had 1.2 million page views.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">As of 1 November 2020 there have been an estimated 119,000 course registrations. As of 1 November 2020 there have been 1,323,450 page views. These are experimental statistics and further information can be found in the official statistical release of 27 November 2020 in the following link: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships." target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships.</a></ins></p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 19/10/2020 16:09:57 question first ministerially corrected 17/12/2020 18:41:06 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan previous answer version 54420 answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1260410

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	National Savings and Investments: Cheques
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will place in the Library the NS&I policy on sending paper prize warrants to its customers.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	128253
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2020 answer text <p>Since 2011, Premium Bonds holders have been able to have their prizes paid directly into a UK bank account in their name. Since March 2020, <del class="ministerial">nearly half a million</del> <ins class="ministerial">more than 750,000 </ins>customers have switched from receiving paper warrants (cheques) to having their prizes paid directly into their bank account or automatically reinvested. As of December 2020, 82.5% of Premium Bonds prizes were either paid directly into a UK bank account or reinvested back into Premium Bonds.</p><p>The decision by NS&amp;I announced on 17 September 2020 to pay all Premium Bonds prizes direct to customers’ bank accounts was informed by changing customer behaviours. It will make managing Premium Bonds prize distribution quicker, more cost-effective and have a much lower environmental impact.</p><p>Paying prizes directly to the customers bank account also reduces the proportion of Premium Bonds prizes from going unclaimed.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 15/12/2020 14:19:06 question first ministerially corrected 04/01/2021 13:26:49 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen previous answer version 69294 answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

42301

	registered interest
	date	10/03/2014
	answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electorial Commission
	answering dept id	36
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what the electoral registration figures were in each ward in the recent confirmation dry run conducted in Oxford East constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
	uin	191199
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2014 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission informs me that the confirmation dry run involved matching all entries on the electoral registers against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Customer Information System database. Entries would be marked as green if they matched with DWP, amber if they were a partial match or red if there was no match.</p><p> </p><p>The ward results for the Oxford East constituency were as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Ward</p></td><td><p>Green matches</p></td><td><p>Amber matches</p></td><td><p>Red matches</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barton &amp; Sandhills</p></td><td><p>75.6%</p></td><td><p>2.1%</p></td><td><p>22.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blackbird Leys</p></td><td><p>77.9%</p></td><td><p>2.2%</p></td><td><p>19.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Carfax</p></td><td><p>17.6%</p></td><td><p>2.1%</p></td><td><p>80.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Churchill</p></td><td><p>54.1%</p></td><td><p>2.4%</p></td><td><p>43.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cowley</p></td><td><p>70.3%</p></td><td><p>2.5%</p></td><td><p>27.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cowley Marsh</p></td><td><p>55.6%</p></td><td><p>2.5%</p></td><td><p>41.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Headington</p></td><td><p>63.4%</p></td><td><p>3.1%</p></td><td><p>33.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Headington Hill &amp; Northway</p></td><td><p>53.8%</p></td><td><p>1.9%</p></td><td><p>44.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hinksey Park</p></td><td><p>60.8%</p></td><td><p>2.7%</p></td><td><p>36.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Holywell</p></td><td><p>7.5%</p></td><td><p>1.2%</p></td><td><p>91.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Iffley Fields</p></td><td><p>63.6%</p></td><td><p>3.3%</p></td><td><p>33.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Littlemore</p></td><td><p>72.8%</p></td><td><p>2.2%</p></td><td><p>25.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lye Valley</p></td><td><p>68.6%</p></td><td><p>2.2%</p></td><td><p>29.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Marston</p></td><td><p>77.2%</p></td><td><p>1.7%</p></td><td><p>21.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northfield Brook</p></td><td><p>79.0%</p></td><td><p>1.7%</p></td><td><p>19.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Quarry &amp; Risinghurst</p></td><td><p>73.3%</p></td><td><p>2.5%</p></td><td><p>24.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rose Hill &amp; Iffley</p></td><td><p>75.4%</p></td><td><p>2.5%</p></td><td><p>22.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Clement's</p></td><td><p>42.1%</p></td><td><p>3.3%</p></td><td><p>54.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Mary's</p></td><td><p>36.1%</p></td><td><p>4.0%</p></td><td><p>59.9%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Results for all wards are available on the Commission's website here: <a href="http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0003/163146/Confirmation-dry-run-2013-Results-Wards.xls" target="_blank">http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0003/163146/Confirmation-dry-run-2013-Results-Wards.xls</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 19/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
	tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

43706

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if he will take steps to regulate hydraulic fracturing to minimise the leakage of methane from shale gas production into the environment.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
	uin	192703
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text <p>The Environment Agency has set out its regulatory controls over leakage of methane from shale gas exploration in its draft technical guidance. The Agency expects operators to aim for 100% containment of fugitive emissions of methane on shale gas exploration sites and the operator will need to provide details of how their monitoring, inspection and maintenance regime will achieve this. The Environment Agency is assessing its regulation of full production facilities and the expectation is that the requirement for 100% containment will remain in place.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
	tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

43867

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what criteria his Department used in the decision to include the Garden Bridge in the Government's National Infrastructure Plan.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
	uin	192746
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The National Infrastructure Plan 2013 sets out the government's long-term plan to ensure that it can deliver the investment required to meet the UK's infrastructure needs to 2020 and beyond. The Garden Bridge is not one of the Government's ‘Top 40' projects as set out in the Plan, but it is part of the ‘infrastructure pipeline', which includes large capital programmes of investment worth £50 million or over.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 25/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

43913

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicle crossings of the Thames were made through the Rotherhithe and Blackwall tunnels in 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
	uin	192748
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Data for 2013 are not yet available; the remainder of this answer refers to 2012 data.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A table providing the 2012 estimated annual average daily flows (AADFs) for road links covering the Rotherhithe and Blackwall Tunnels (for both directions combined) are shown in the table below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2012 AADF</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Motor Vehicles</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rotherhithe Tunnel</p></td><td><p>32,615</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blackwall Tunnel</p></td><td><p>69,243</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These figures give estimates of the number of vehicles travelling along individual sections of road on an average day of the year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To calculate an estimate of the annual usage of the tunnels (for both directions combined); these daily AADF estimates would be multiplied by the 365 days in a year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>AADF data for individual motorway and ‘A' road links for 2000 – 2012 are available on our website, here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://data.gov.uk/dataset/gb-road-traffic-counts" target="_blank">http://data.gov.uk/dataset/gb-road-traffic-counts</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 25/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith