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577433

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Department for Exiting the European Union: Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the resources for the Department for Exiting the European Union have been drawn from the administration budget allocated in the 2015 Spending Review and Autumn Statement.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	45412
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>Detailed work is underway to establish the budget required to fulfil the department’s set-up and responsibilities. The budget of the Department will be set out to the House and approved as part of the supplementary estimates in the new year, as is standard practice.</p><p>The new Department for Exiting the European Union is appropriately resourced for its work.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 45413 question first answered 12/09/2016 12:33:28 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

577434

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Service: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to draw additional resources needed for the Civil Service to prepare and negotiate for Britain's exit from the EU from the administration budget allocated in the 2015 Spending Review and Autumn Statement.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	45413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>Detailed work is underway to establish the budget required to fulfil the department’s set-up and responsibilities. The budget of the Department will be set out to the House and approved as part of the supplementary estimates in the new year, as is standard practice.</p><p>The new Department for Exiting the European Union is appropriately resourced for its work.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 45412 question first answered 12/09/2016 12:33:28 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

577437

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Equitable Life Assurance Society: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to compensate Equitable Life policy holders who, to date, have not been eligible for compensation.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	45345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The Equitable Life Payment Scheme was set up in 2011 to make payments to all those affected by the government maladministration of Equitable Life identified by the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman in her 2008 report.</p><p> </p><p>After making payments of over £1.1 billion to more than 900,000 policyholders, the Scheme has now closed.</p><p> </p><p>A final report on the Scheme’s achievements will be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Brighton, Kemptown answering member printed Simon Kirby question first answered 12/09/2016 10:31:41 answering member 3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

577521

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what mechanisms of accountability his Department has used when working with the Southern Health Trust.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	45541
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The previous Minister of State for Health, Alistair Burt, met with the interim Chairman of Southern Health Trust on 16 May and 7 June. There are no current plans for any further meetings. NHS Improvement oversees NHS trusts and foundation trusts, and is accountable to the Department for this work and its other functions.</p> answering member constituency South West Surrey answering member printed Mr Jeremy Hunt grouped question UIN 45540 45542 question first answered 12/09/2016 08:29:38 answering member 1572 label Biography information for Jeremy Hunt
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

577523

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he next plans to meet the Chairman of the Southern Health Trust.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	45540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The previous Minister of State for Health, Alistair Burt, met with the interim Chairman of Southern Health Trust on 16 May and 7 June. There are no current plans for any further meetings. NHS Improvement oversees NHS trusts and foundation trusts, and is accountable to the Department for this work and its other functions.</p> answering member constituency South West Surrey answering member printed Mr Jeremy Hunt grouped question UIN 45541 45542 question first answered 12/09/2016 08:29:37 answering member 1572 label Biography information for Jeremy Hunt
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

577524

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Katrina Percy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with the Chairman and Board of the Southern Health Trust on Katrina Percy.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	45542
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The previous Minister of State for Health, Alistair Burt, met with the interim Chairman of Southern Health Trust on 16 May and 7 June. There are no current plans for any further meetings. NHS Improvement oversees NHS trusts and foundation trusts, and is accountable to the Department for this work and its other functions.</p> answering member constituency South West Surrey answering member printed Mr Jeremy Hunt grouped question UIN 45540 45541 question first answered 12/09/2016 08:29:38 answering member 1572 label Biography information for Jeremy Hunt
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

577583

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to publish regular updates on progress on accepting Syrian refugees into the UK.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	45348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office is committed to publishing data in an orderly way as part of the regular quarterly Immigration Statistics, in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p><p>Latest statistics published on 25 August confirmed that a total of a total of 2,898 Syrians have been resettled under the scheme since it began, 2,646 of these arriving since 1 October 2015.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 12/09/2016 12:37:47 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

577602

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders were released without being considered for deportation by (a) sex, (b) ethnicity and (c) country of origin in 2016.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	45384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes quarterly statistics on the number of foreign national offenders that have been released without consideration, within the Immigration Statistics release on the GOV.UK website:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-enforcement-data-may-2016</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-enforcement-data-august-2016</p><p>With regards to their sex, ethnicity and country of origin, it is the general policy of the Home Office not to disclose data where it refers to five individuals or less so that the identities of individuals can be protected. As less than five individuals have been released without consideration, the data is not disclosable.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 12/09/2016 12:37:29 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

577657

registered interest
date	07/09/2016
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	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Walsall North of 3 August 2016 on legislation on dangerous dogs related to a constituency case.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Mr David Winnick
uin	45353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Rural Affairs and Biosecurity, Lord Gardiner, replied to the letter of 3 August from hon. Member for Walsall North on 12 September.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 12/09/2016 12:08:23 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	316 label Biography information for Mr David Winnick

576724

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Funerals: Insurance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take legislative steps to prohibit funeral expenses insurance plans from paying out less to customers than has been paid in.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South
tabling member printed	Stewart Malcolm McDonald
uin	45188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>Funeral expenses insurance is a commercial product and the Government does not believe it would be appropriate to interfere in the market in the way the Honourable Member for Glasgow South describes. The respective capabilities of insurers to assess risk is a key element on which they compete and helps to ensure there is a diversity of products and efficient pricing in the market.</p><p> </p><p>Insurance is a risk transfer mechanism. At a basic level insurers group together large numbers of people, who all face a similar risk, and collect money from each of them through premiums. This pooling principle lies behind funeral cover insurance policies. These protect policyholders from the risk of dying early and not having accumulated the level of savings they would wish to leave behind to cover the costs of their funeral. The premiums of those who live long enough to contribute more than they would receive in benefits from the policy are used to pay the shortfall from those who die earlier.</p><p> </p><p>Therefore it is possible for those with funeral cover insurance to pay more in premiums than they will receive in benefits. An alternative option to such insurance would be to save this money which would mean an individual would not receive less than they put in. However they would then face the risk that, should they die earlier than expected, they would not have accumulated as much in savings as they would have received in benefits from an insurance policy.</p><p>It is important that consumers understand the nature of their funeral cover insurance policies. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which regulates the insurance industry, has produced an Insurance Conduct of Business Sourcebook (ICOBS) in order to set the standards required of insurance firms in relation to their business. ICOBS rules include a requirement that customers are given all the appropriate information required to make an informed decision ahead of purchasing an insurance product. The rules also state that communications should be clear, fair and not misleading. This means that where there is a possibility that a funeral plan may pay out less than was paid in, this must be clearly disclosed to the consumer before they purchase the product.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brighton, Kemptown answering member printed Simon Kirby question first answered 12/09/2016 11:11:13 answering member 3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby
tabling member	4461 label Biography information for Stewart Malcolm McDonald