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431555

registered interest
date	23/11/2015
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
hansard heading	Energy: Meters
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Statement by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth on 18 November (WS305), whether the assertion that every home and small business will get smart meters means that it will be compulsory to have them installed.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL3818
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government has placed an obligation on energy companies to take all reasonable steps to install smart meters at all domestic and smaller non-domestic premises by the end of 2020. However, there is no obligation on customers to accept a smart meter if they do not wish to have one installed.</p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth question first answered 25/11/2015 15:12:37 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

431671

registered interest
date	23/11/2015
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	Pets: Sales
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 steps she is taking to reduce the sale of exotic animals online.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	17199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>We are currently reviewing animal licensing schemes, including that for the sale of pet animals, and aim to consult publicly on a set of proposals shortly. In the meantime, the welfare of all animals, including exotics, at the point of sale is protected by the Pet Animals Act 1951. The Act covers sales over the internet as long as the person selling the animals is based in Great Britain. However, we understand the concerns about internet sales and have been working closely with the Pet Advertising Advisory Group (PAAG), a group of animal welfare, veterinary, keeping and industry organisations, who have agreed, with several internet advertising sites, a set of minimum standards for animals sold over the internet. The work has so far resulted in over 130,000 inappropriate adverts being removed from the internet. We will continue to work with the PAAG so that more internet sites adopt the minimum standards.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 25/11/2015 11:05:20 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

431368

registered interest
date	20/11/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Foreign Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2015 to Question 12011, when the consultation on making property ownership by foreign companies more transparent will begin.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	17111
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to him on 14 October 2015 to UIN: 12011.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 25/11/2015 11:36:37 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

431385

registered interest
date	20/11/2015
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	Pets: Sales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to amend the Pet Animals Act 1951 to reflect the increasing number of animals sold over the internet.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	17102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>Defra is reviewing the Pet Animals Act 1951, which already covers sales of pet animals over the internet, as part of a wider review of some of the animal related licensing schemes. We are aiming to consult on a set of proposals shortly.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 25/11/2015 13:00:20 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

431395

registered interest
date	20/11/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Deportation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people whose applications for asylum were rejected have been repatriated in 2015 to date.
tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
uin	17137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>The table below provides the number of people removed or departing voluntarily from the UK who had sought asylum at some stage.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="7"><p><strong>Asylum removals and voluntary departures from the United Kingdom, January to June 2015 (1,2,3)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p><strong>Asylum: Total Enforced</strong></p></td><td><p>Asylum: Home</p></td><td><p>Asylum: EU Member State (if different)</p></td><td><p>Asylum: Other and destination unknown</p></td><td><p><strong>Asylum: Total Voluntary Departures</strong></p></td><td><p>Asylum: Home</p></td><td><p>Asylum: EU Member State (if different)</p></td><td><p>Asylum: Other and destination unknown</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January to <br>June 2015</p></td><td><p><strong>1,943</strong></p></td><td><p>1,585</p></td><td><p>290</p></td><td><p>68</p></td><td><p><strong>904</strong></p></td><td><p>709</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>177</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(1) Removals are recorded on the system as at the dates on which the data extracts were taken.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>(2) Recorded on the system as having claimed asylum at some point.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>(3) These figures are provisional and may subsequently differ when the tables are revised, due to data cleansing and data matching exercises that take place after the extracts are taken.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It is not possible within these figures to say at what stage in the asylum process individuals have reached at the time of their removal, including whether their claim has failed at that point, as those departing voluntarily can do so at any stage without necessarily notifying the Home Office.</p><p>The Home Office publishes quarterly and annual statistics on the number of removals and voluntary departures from the United Kingdom, within the Immigration Statistics release. Data relating to removals and voluntary departures are available in tables rv_05 and rv_05_q in Immigration Statistics: April – June 2015 on the GOV.UK website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.</p><p>Figures for July to September 2015 will be available from the above website on Thursday 26 November 2015.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 25/11/2015 15:59:04 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

431405

registered interest
date	20/11/2015
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to page eight of the Stormont Agreement and Implementation Plan, published on 17 November 2015, what the further financial support of around £500 million from the Government will consist of and for what purposes it can be used.
tabling member constituency	Fermanagh and South Tyrone
tabling member printed	Tom Elliott
uin	17138
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>The financial support of around £500m consists of:</p><p>- £160m in Additional Security Funding;</p><p>- £25m to tackle Continuing Paramilitary Activity;</p><p>- £3m to establish and fund a Monitoring and Implementation body; and</p><p>- £60m for Shared Future measures.</p><p>Additionally, welfare deductions stopped when the Assembly passed a consent motion for UK legislation to implement reforms. The UK Government will refund the deduction due for the remainder of the year, which is estimated to be around £40m.</p><p>The Executive is also to develop effective Spend to Save proposals. The Treasury will work with them to finalise proposals, help fund them (up to £125m), and let the Executive keep half the savings that can be verified by the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR). The parties project that this will generate significant savings in the next five years, taking the total package over £500m.</p><br /> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 25/11/2015 15:37:53 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4367 label Biography information for Lord Elliott of Ballinamallard

431414

registered interest
date	20/11/2015
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Databases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many of the streams of data collected by his Department are (a) used by the Department, (b) read by how many people and (c) unused or unread.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	17139
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>I have interpreted the question to be asking for the number of datasets compiled by the department. This information is not currently available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 25/11/2015 15:27:18 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

431431

registered interest
date	20/11/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 9 November (HL3457), what specific steps they are taking to help Syrian refugees in the "Jungle" camp at Calais who wish to claim asylum in the UK.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL3782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>Migrants in Calais in need of protection, including Syrians, should claim asylum in France. Other than in very limited circumstances under the Dublin Regulation, where a migrant who has lodged an asylum application in another Member State has close family ties to the UK, the UK has no responsibility to help refugees who are in other EU Member States to come here to claim asylum. Consequently, there is no provision in the Immigration Rules for them to do so. However, Border Force officers and representatives from the French Government carry out regular joint communications visits to the camps, informing all nationalities of migrants of their options to seek support, including claiming asylum, in France.</p><p>The UK Government is spending £1.1 billion in and around Syria on humanitarian aid, caring for refugees and helping the Governments of Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey to cope with the huge numbers of refugees they have received. After the United States, Britain is the biggest donor country in the region. The Government has also expanded the Syrian Resettlement Scheme. This scheme is helping the most vulnerable people in the region by offering them protection in the UK. The Government intends to resettle 20,000 Syrians in need of protection during this Parliament.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 25/11/2015 15:33:08 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

429355

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Data Protection: EU Action
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will support the inclusion of a specific exemption for Holocaust research in the forthcoming European General Data Protection Regulation.
tabling member constituency	Brentwood and Ongar
tabling member printed	Sir Eric Pickles
uin	16952
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>I agree that it is vital that the General Data Protection Regulation, currently being negotiated, provides safeguards to enable historical researchers and archivists to continue with important work.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 25/11/2015 11:13:48 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	33 label Biography information for Lord Pickles

429364

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
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	Department of Energy and Climate Change: China
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, who she met during her visit to China in November 2015; and what was (a) discussed and (b) agreed at those meetings.
tabling member constituency	South Down
tabling member printed	Ms Margaret Ritchie
uin	16985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>During her visit the Secretary of State met a number of her counterparts, supported the two week long Food is GREAT Campaign in China and took with her the largest ever UK delegation to the Food and Hotel China trade show. She signed agreements to open the markets for UK barley and pigs trotters worth up to £190m over 5 years and discussed the forward plan for opening up the markets for poultry, beef and lamb. She discussed shared priorities with the Minister of Agriculture and the Minister of Water Resources and agreed programmes of closer collaboration.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 16984 question first answered 25/11/2015 12:52:35 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick