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470363

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	Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the reasons are for the difference between the duty imposed on cider with alcohol content of 7.5 per cent and beer with a similar alcohol content.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Mr David Burrowes
uin	30978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2016 answer text <p>There are higher duty rates on both beer and cider above 7.5 per cent alcohol by volume compared to standard strength beers and ciders. This is to encourage the production and consumption of lower strength products.</p><p> </p><p>The Chancellor keeps all duty rates under review as part of the Budget process.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 17/03/2016 17:54:31 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1518 label Biography information for Mr David Burrowes

470364

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	Taxation: Domicil
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2016 to Question 29027, how many people currently have non-domicile tax status.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	30975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2016 answer text <p>For the 2013-14 tax year (the latest tax year for which information is available), there were 118,000 non-domiciled individuals who completed a Self-Assessment return (rounded to the nearest 100).</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 17/03/2016 17:30:42 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

470365

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	Employee Ownership
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on employee ownership schemes of the decision by HM Revenue and Customs to withdraw its valuation check service; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	31012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2016 answer text <p>It is not anticipated that HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) withdrawal of some valuation services will impact the take up of employee ownership schemes.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has announced the withdrawal of income tax and PAYE post-transaction valuation checks, but has not withdrawn those valuation services that are most relevant to employee ownership schemes. These consist of:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>Enterprise Management Incentives (EMI),</p></li><li><p>Company Share Option Plans (CSOP),</p></li><li><p>Save As You Earn share option schemes (SAYE),</p></li><li><p>Share Incentive Plans (SIP) and</p></li><li><p>Employee Shareholder Status (ESS).</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has, however, announced a review of the valuation services for those schemes and is consulting interested parties. Most people submit acceptable valuations in respect of these schemes, and HMRC is therefore considering whether the valuation service offered continues to be needed.</p><p> </p></li></ul> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 17/03/2016 17:28:51 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

470417

registered interest
date	14/03/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to evaluate the effect of the introduction of education, health and care plans.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	30971
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2016 answer text <p>The department will draw on evidence from a wide range of sources to determine whether the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) provisions of the Children and Families Act have improved outcomes for children with SEND.</p><p> </p><p>The department published details in March 2015 of our intention to use a combination of local accountability measures, data and analysis and independent inspection to evaluate how the SEND system is performing, which parts are working well and whether outcomes are improving for children and young people. The publication can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/416347/Accountability_Publication.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/416347/Accountability_Publication.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>In May, Ofsted and CQC will begin inspecting local area effectiveness in meeting their responsibilities towards children and young people who are disabled and/or have special educational needs. Inspections will include education, health and care plans.</p><p> </p><p>We will draw on a wide range of statistics on pupils with SEND, including information on educational attainment, absence and exclusions and research into families and young people’s experience of the new system. Statistics on pupils with SEND can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-special-educational-needs-sen" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-special-educational-needs-sen</a></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 17/03/2016 17:58:06 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

470504

registered interest
date	14/03/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many referrals were received by the Counter-Terrorism Internet Referral Unit in each of the last five years; how many of those referrals were investigated by that unit in full; how many of those investigations led to a recommendation being made for web content to be removed; and on how many occasions web content was removed following such a recommendation.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	30893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2016 answer text <p>The Counter-Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU) receive referrals from a number of sources including the public and law enforcement partners. The unit also self-generates referrals.</p><p>All referrals are assessed by CTIRU against UK terrorism legislation (Terrorism Act 2000 and 2006). Those that breach this legislation are referred to industry for removal. If industry agrees that it breaches their terms and conditions, they remove it voluntarily.</p><p>Referrals made to industry by CTIRU have led to over 150,000 pieces of terrorist-related material being removed to date from various online platforms. Overall, removals at the request of CTIRU have increased from around 60 items a month in 2010, when CTIRU was first established, to over 4000 a month in 2015.</p><p>For reasons of national security we do not publically disclose the detailed allocation of funding for counter terrorism by capability.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes grouped question UIN 30894 question first answered 17/03/2016 17:56:43 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes previous answer version 51921 answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

470506

registered interest
date	14/03/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total (a) budget and (b) full-time equivalent workforce was of the Counter-Terrorism Internet Referral Unit in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	30894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2016 answer text <p>The Counter-Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU) receive referrals from a number of sources including the public and law enforcement partners. The unit also self-generates referrals.</p><p>All referrals are assessed by CTIRU against UK terrorism legislation (Terrorism Act 2000 and 2006). Those that breach this legislation are referred to industry for removal. If industry agrees that it breaches their terms and conditions, they remove it voluntarily.</p><p>Referrals made to industry by CTIRU have led to over 150,000 pieces of terrorist-related material being removed to date from various online platforms. Overall, removals at the request of CTIRU have increased from around 60 items a month in 2010, when CTIRU was first established, to over 4000 a month in 2015.</p><p>For reasons of national security we do not publically disclose the detailed allocation of funding for counter terrorism by capability.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes grouped question UIN 30893 question first answered 17/03/2016 17:56:43 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes previous answer version 51922 answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

470523

registered interest
date	14/03/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of officials of his Department took sick leave for reasons relating to stress in each of the last five years; and what proportion of total sick leave that leave was in each such year.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	30864
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2016 answer text <p>The tables below set out the information you have requested on sickness absence taken by officials in the Ministry of Justice relating to stress for each year in which figures are currently available. Data prior to 2011 is not available as this information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>Total Number of staff Sick with Stress</p></td><td><p>Proportion of staff off with Stress</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-2015</p></td><td><p>2,593</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-2014</p></td><td><p>2,344</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-2013</p></td><td><p>2,043</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-2012</p></td><td><p>2,221</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Proportion of Sick Days due to Stress</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-2015</p></td><td><p>15%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-2014</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-2013</p></td><td><p>11%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-2012</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The information includes staff within Ministry of Justice Headquarters, National Offender Management Service, Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal Service, Office of the Public Guardian and Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority for all four years. Staff within Legal Aid Agency are included from 2013 and UK Supreme Court is in scope for 2011-2012.</p><p> </p><p>As a department we are actively managing attendance in order to reduce the number of days lost due to sickness. A large proportion of staff absence is within the Prison Service and the challenges they face do not bear a direct comparison with the working conditions of most civil servants. They perform a difficult, physical and sometimes dangerous job.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 17/03/2016 17:44:44 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

470637

registered interest
date	14/03/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Warships
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the National Security Council has been involved in establishing the national requirement of 19 destroyers and frigates, and whether close allies were also consulted.
tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
uin	HL6980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2016 answer text <p>The National Security Council was consulted at each stage of the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR). It gave direction on the full strategic approach required from Defence, rather than individual capability planning decisions. This Review also featured unprecedented levels of consultation with our closest allies.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 17/03/2016 17:17:20 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

458819

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Housing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Ministry of Defence takes into account (1) a spouse’s employment, (2) children’s education requirements, and (3) children’s health and disability requirements, when considering whether to relocate or retain military quarters for a couple or family in the context of a change of posting within 50 miles.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hodgson of Abinger
uin	HL6853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2016 answer text <p>Entitlement to Service accommodation at a duty station normally ends when the next assignment begins, whether or not the new duty station is within 50 miles of the previous location. However, Service personnel may apply to retain their Service accommodation at their previous duty station. The Ministry of Defence will consider each case in light of the policy criteria, taking account of all the factors specified within the application. Such factors may include a spouse's employment, children's education requirements and children's health and disability requirements.</p><p>More information on the policy, how to apply, and the factors included within MOD's consideration, can be found at paragraph 0725 of Volume 1, Part 1 of the Tri-Service Accommodation Regulations (Joint Service Publication 464) which is available at the following link:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/jsp-464-tri-service-accommodation-regulations-tsars</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 17/03/2016 17:31:05 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe attachment 1 file name 20130114JSP464Part1_Amend14.pdf title JSP464 - Tri Service Accommodation Regulations
tabling member	4301 label Biography information for Baroness Hodgson of Abinger

458853

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	F-35 Aircraft
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what testing has been done on software systems for UK F-35 Lightning II fighters for resistance to hacking.
tabling member printed	Lord Moonie
uin	HL6887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2016 answer text <p>The F-35B Lightning II aircraft and its Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS) have both been designed to be resilient against cyber attack and will be the subject of testing throughout the life of the programme.</p><p>Risk assessments of the aircraft and ALIS vulnerability to cyber attacks are conducted continuously. In addition, all classified data transmission to and from the F-35B Lightning II aircraft is fully encrypted.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 17/03/2016 17:18:16 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	621 label Biography information for Lord Moonie