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1002170

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Prostitution: Research
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2018 to Question 175782 on Prostitution, to list the institutions that tendered unsuccessfully for funding to carry out research into the nature and prevalence of prostitution in England and Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Reigate
	tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
	uin	187979
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office is unable to list the institutions that tendered unsuccessfully for funding to carry out research into the nature and prevalence of prostitution in England and Wales. This is commercially sensitive information owned by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales, who formally commissioned the research. Equally, the research application itself is commercially sensitive and belongs to the University of Bristol. It is for them to decide whether to publish information within it.</p><p>During the application process, a question on approach to conducting the research in an impartial manner was given the highest weighting in scoring. The University of Bristol has therefore set out in detail how they will ensure ideological neutrality in their approach to this work.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 187983 question first answered 16/11/2018 12:19:57 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt

1002176

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Prostitution: Research
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2018 to Question 175781 on Prostitution, if he will publish the assurances given by the Centre for Gender and Violence Research during the tendering process that their research would satisfy the criteria for the research project to be conducted in an impartial manner.
	tabling member constituency	Reigate
	tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
	uin	187983
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office is unable to list the institutions that tendered unsuccessfully for funding to carry out research into the nature and prevalence of prostitution in England and Wales. This is commercially sensitive information owned by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales, who formally commissioned the research. Equally, the research application itself is commercially sensitive and belongs to the University of Bristol. It is for them to decide whether to publish information within it.</p><p>During the application process, a question on approach to conducting the research in an impartial manner was given the highest weighting in scoring. The University of Bristol has therefore set out in detail how they will ensure ideological neutrality in their approach to this work.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 187979 question first answered 16/11/2018 12:19:57 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt

982689

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Prostitution
	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 his Department's competitive tender process for a research project on the impact of sex work in the UK, whether (a) an assessment was made of the campaigning activities of those academic institutes that bid and (b) criteria were applied in that process to ensure academic independence.
	tabling member constituency	Reigate
	tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
	uin	175781
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office has provided £150,000 to fund research specifically into the nature and prevalence of prostitution in England and Wales. The research was awarded via fair and open competition. As part of the tendering process, each applicant was asked how they would conduct this work in an impartial manner.</p><p>Each of the bidders that applied to carry out this work had previous experience of researching issues related to prostitution and sex work, and set out relevant experience in their application. This was reviewed by the Department before the award was made.</p><p>The University of Bristol were awarded the contract and are currently undertaking the work.</p><p>As part of the research, the University of Bristol research team are running a survey to seek input from those with a range of views and experiences. Officials and Ministers are regularly monitoring the progress of the research, and it will be reviewed prior to publication in spring 2019.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 175782 175783 175784 question first answered 16/10/2018 13:28:51 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt

982690

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Prostitution
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department made an assessment of the evidence on the Nordic model which the Centre for Gender and Violence Research at Bristol University submitted to the 2016 Home Affairs Select Committee inquiry into prostitution before awarding that university a contract to carry out research into the impact of sex work in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Reigate
	tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
	uin	175782
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office has provided £150,000 to fund research specifically into the nature and prevalence of prostitution in England and Wales. The research was awarded via fair and open competition. As part of the tendering process, each applicant was asked how they would conduct this work in an impartial manner.</p><p>Each of the bidders that applied to carry out this work had previous experience of researching issues related to prostitution and sex work, and set out relevant experience in their application. This was reviewed by the Department before the award was made.</p><p>The University of Bristol were awarded the contract and are currently undertaking the work.</p><p>As part of the research, the University of Bristol research team are running a survey to seek input from those with a range of views and experiences. Officials and Ministers are regularly monitoring the progress of the research, and it will be reviewed prior to publication in spring 2019.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 175781 175783 175784 question first answered 16/10/2018 13:28:51 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt

982691

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Prostitution
	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 ensure the objectivity of the research commissioned by his Department into the impact of sex work in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Reigate
	tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
	uin	175783
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office has provided £150,000 to fund research specifically into the nature and prevalence of prostitution in England and Wales. The research was awarded via fair and open competition. As part of the tendering process, each applicant was asked how they would conduct this work in an impartial manner.</p><p>Each of the bidders that applied to carry out this work had previous experience of researching issues related to prostitution and sex work, and set out relevant experience in their application. This was reviewed by the Department before the award was made.</p><p>The University of Bristol were awarded the contract and are currently undertaking the work.</p><p>As part of the research, the University of Bristol research team are running a survey to seek input from those with a range of views and experiences. Officials and Ministers are regularly monitoring the progress of the research, and it will be reviewed prior to publication in spring 2019.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 175781 175782 175784 question first answered 16/10/2018 13:28:51 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt

982692

	registered interest
	date	08/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Prostitution
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has in place to review the final report of his Department's research project into the impact of sex work in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Reigate
	tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
	uin	175784
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office has provided £150,000 to fund research specifically into the nature and prevalence of prostitution in England and Wales. The research was awarded via fair and open competition. As part of the tendering process, each applicant was asked how they would conduct this work in an impartial manner.</p><p>Each of the bidders that applied to carry out this work had previous experience of researching issues related to prostitution and sex work, and set out relevant experience in their application. This was reviewed by the Department before the award was made.</p><p>The University of Bristol were awarded the contract and are currently undertaking the work.</p><p>As part of the research, the University of Bristol research team are running a survey to seek input from those with a range of views and experiences. Officials and Ministers are regularly monitoring the progress of the research, and it will be reviewed prior to publication in spring 2019.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 175781 175782 175783 question first answered 16/10/2018 13:28:51 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt

627410

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's policy is on Chief Constables replying to letters from Members of Parliament.
	tabling member constituency	Reigate
	tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
	uin	51588
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2016 answer text <p>Policy on responding to correspondence, including letters from Members of Parliament, is a matter for individual forces. Concerns about these policies, or correspondence itself, should be raised with the force in question or with the directly elected Police and Crime Commissioner.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 08/11/2016 16:20:52 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt

513608

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Trident Submarines
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department's capital programme prepared for Budget 2016 included revised estimates for the Trident Successor project.
	tabling member constituency	Reigate
	tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
	uin	34406
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2016 answer text <p>As stated in the Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015, our latest estimate is that manufacturing the four Successor submarines is likely to cost a total of £31 billion, including inflation over the lifetime of the programme. We will also set a contingency of £10 billion. The MOD budget for the Spending Review period published in Budget 2016 included this latest estimate for the relevant period.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 34407 question first answered 26/04/2016 16:06:30 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt

514413

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Trident
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress his Department has made since the publication of the National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015 on the Trident renewal programme in November 2015; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Reigate
	tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
	uin	34747
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2016 answer text <p>Further to the Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015, we are investing an additional £642 million in the design of the Successor submarine and ordering additional long-lead items, including for the fourth submarine. Negotiations with industry remain on-going on options for the subsequent investment stages and their scope, time and cost. The 2016 Annual Update to Parliament, which sets out progress on the Successor submarine programme, is planned for later this year.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 29/04/2016 13:41:44 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt

515783

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Conflict: Sexuality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the Government's policy is on (a) including within Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions 1949 prohibition of the targeting of individuals based on actual or perceived sexual orientation and (b) whether the consequences under international law of targeting individuals on the ground of sexual orientation are the same as targeting on the grounds of race, colour, religion or faith, sex and birth or wealth.
	tabling member constituency	Reigate
	tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
	uin	35741
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government does not target individuals based on their actual or perceived sexual orientation. Common Article 3 prohibits adverse distinction founded on race, colour religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 04/05/2016 13:58:36 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt