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626502

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department has given to other government departments on answering Written Parliamentary Questions using a reference to the gov.uk website without referring hon. Members to a specific page where the information sought can be found.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	51397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>Ministers are responsible for the answers they give to Parliamentary questions. As explained within the Guidance on Drafting Answers to Parliamentary Questions, it is the Minister’s right and responsibility to decide on how to fulfil their obligations as set out within the Ministerial Code. Each Department is responsible for issuing their own guidance to employees on the Departmental requirements for answers to Parliamentary Questions.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 04/11/2016 11:45:05 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

626506

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Brexit
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 1 November 2016 to Question 49982, which Minister will exercise the prerogative to trigger Article 50 of the Treaty on the Functions of the EU on behalf of the sovereign.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	51394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>The Prime Minister is clear that she will trigger Article 50 no later than the end of March next year.</p><p>The government is disappointed by Thursday's High Court judgement, but we have no intention of letting this change our timetable for triggering Article 50. We will appeal this judgement.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 04/11/2016 15:09:54 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 18840 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

626507

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Sanitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which government departments allow professional drivers making deliveries to departmental premises to use employee toilet facilities.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent South
tabling member printed	Robert Flello
uin	51435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>It is for individual departments to determine their own access arrangements. The Cabinet Office's own protective security arrangements apply to staff, contractors and all visitors. It is not the policy of the department to publish what those arrangements are.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 04/11/2016 09:41:10 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	1569 label Biography information for Robert Flello

626509

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Further Education and Sixth Form Education: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much (a) further education colleges and (b) sixth form colleges paid in VAT in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	51488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) publishes annual home VAT liabilities for each trade sector as defined by the ’Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities’. This is shown in Table 2.5 of the VAT Factsheet and includes home VAT liabilities for the ‘Education’ sector, and is available here: <a href="https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/Statistical%20Factsheets/VAT_Factsheet_16.xls" target="_blank">https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/Statistical%20Factsheets/VAT_Factsheet_16.xls</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC is not able to separate this data into amounts of VAT paid by further education and sixth form colleges.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/11/2016 14:05:21 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

626510

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Concentrix: Warrington
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in (a) Warrington and (b) Warrington North constituency have (i) been wrongly accused by Concentrix of falsely claiming tax credits and (ii) had tax credits wrongly withdrawn.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Helen Jones
uin	51504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs will be preparing a regional breakdown of mandatory reconsideration requests in due course.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/11/2016 14:06:23 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

626512

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) average waiting time was for a call to be answered, (b) average length of each answered call and (c) longest waiting time was to the HM Revenue and Customs' publicised helplines in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
uin	51310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) publishes regular performance reports, which are published on GOV.UK at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/business-plan-indicators" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/business-plan-indicators</a> .</p><p> </p><p>Improvements to services have been made and HMRC are now consistently answering 90% of calls first time, with an average speed of answer of under five minutes over the past six months</p><p> </p><p>The average length of each answered call for each month for the past available 12 months is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Minutes: seconds</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-15</p></td><td><p>09:13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-15</p></td><td><p>09:03</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-15</p></td><td><p>08:37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-16</p></td><td><p>08:20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-16</p></td><td><p>08:32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-16</p></td><td><p>08:37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-16</p></td><td><p>08:28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-16</p></td><td><p>08:34</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-16</p></td><td><p>08:45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-16</p></td><td><p>08:27</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-16</p></td><td><p>08:06</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-16</p></td><td><p>07:58</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/11/2016 14:09:11 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

626513

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Married People: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people are eligible for marriage tax allowance; and of those people, how many have taken it up.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	51521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>4.2 million couples are eligible for the Marriage Allowance. As of 2 November, over one million couples have successfully claimed the allowance.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/11/2016 14:11:36 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

626517

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Homelessness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when and how he plans to publish the work programme of the ministerial group on homelessness; and how voluntary and community organisations are represented on that group.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	51313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>We are driving action right across government to tackle the root causes of homelessness in England through the Ministerial Working Group on homelessness. We do not currently have any plans to publish a work programme for the Working Group, but are working across departments to make sure tackling homelessness is an integral part of every department’s planning. This is an ongoing process.</p><p>The Minister also chairs a regular roundtable meeting with voluntary sector organisations to make sure their views and expertise are fed into homelessness policy and to ensure that the future response to homelessness:</p><ul><li>is focused more on prevention than crisis;</li><li>develops a common understanding of ’what works’, and drives the spreading of good practice;</li><li>encourages services to join up around the needs of vulnerable homeless people, including through using data; and</li><li>maximises the opportunities presented by devolution in empowering local areas to restructure services from the bottom up and drive improvements in the service response.</li></ul><p>The government publishes a list of all ministerial meetings with external bodies on departmental business on a quarterly basis. This is available at <a href="http://www.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>.</p><p>Homelessness is a devolved issue in the rest of the UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 04/11/2016 14:49:31 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

626523

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Homelessness: Disability and Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the number of street homeless people with a (a) disability or (b) mental health condition.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	51498
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>Sleeping rough is rarely the result of a housing crisis alone and we know that many rough sleepers and homeless people have complex needs, such as mental health difficulties, which result in poor life chances.</p><p>The Government is committed to preventing and reducing homelessness for everyone. That is why we have launched a £40 million Homelessness Prevention Programme to ensure there is an end-to-end approach to prevent homelessness and rough sleeping, and provide the support people need to recover from their homelessness crisis. This includes £10 million of Social Impact Bond funding to provide targeted support for entrenched single homeless people, including those with physical and mental heath needs.</p><p>The Department does not hold information on the health needs of rough sleepers at a national level. There is information on the mental health support needs of rough sleepers in London available from the Greater London Authority at: <a href="https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/chain-reports" target="_blank">https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/chain-reports</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 04/11/2016 11:59:08 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

626528

registered interest
date	01/11/2016
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	Football: Clothing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make urgent representations to FIFA to ensure that football teams representing the constituent parts of the UK can display a poppy on their shirts during forthcoming international fixtures if they so choose.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	51511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2016 answer text <p>Our message to FIFA is clear. We believe that footballers representing Home Nations should, if they choose, be able to wear their poppies with pride to pay tribute to the bravery and sacrifice of servicemen and women killed in conflict and to help support the armed forces community. To have our players compete with poppies on their shirts would be particularly poignant as we continue to commemorate the centenary of the First World War.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 04/11/2016 13:18:41 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson