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795269

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date	27/11/2017
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Economic Situation: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what specific opportunities for the Welsh economy he has identified that are currently precluded by the UK's membership of the European Union.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	115690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>The Welsh economy approaches its departure from the EU in a strong position. Such strength is demonstrated in Wales’s ability to attract globally recognised brands such as Aston Martin and Qatar Airways. As we leave the EU we are seeking to take advantage of all opportunities available to us and build on this demand for Welsh goods and services. We will work with industry in Wales to help forge a new culture of exporting and ensure we are working to equip them with the tools and opportunities they need to succeed in the global marketplace.</p><p> </p><p>For instance, leaving the EU presents a major opportunity for Welsh and wider UK agriculture and we are working towards achieving the best possible deal for the agricultural industry across the UK. We want to secure a deep and comprehensive Free Trade Agreement as an alternative to membership of the Single Market, which preserves our access to EU markets for red meat, including Welsh lamb, and all agricultural products.</p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns question first answered 30/11/2017 11:02:35 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

795296

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking improve its accountability to visa applicants who have experienced administrative errors relating to their applications.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	115717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>UK Visas and Immigration continually reviews its visa operation to improve performance and accountability. Customer feedback, including complaints, are taken into account to ensure we offer value for money; which includes improving the services we offer, the quality of the decisions we make, and the provision of an excellent customer service.</p><p>More widely, we have assurance regimes which aim to increase consistent quality and identify good and weak practice within the department. We utilise three regimes; operational oversight, independent business reviews and third party reviews, in conjunction with wider Home Office, in order to develop and ensure best practice.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 115718 question first answered 30/11/2017 08:26:01 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

795297

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of administrative errors it makes.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	115718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>UK Visas and Immigration continually reviews its visa operation to improve performance and accountability. Customer feedback, including complaints, are taken into account to ensure we offer value for money; which includes improving the services we offer, the quality of the decisions we make, and the provision of an excellent customer service.</p><p>More widely, we have assurance regimes which aim to increase consistent quality and identify good and weak practice within the department. We utilise three regimes; operational oversight, independent business reviews and third party reviews, in conjunction with wider Home Office, in order to develop and ensure best practice.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 115717 question first answered 30/11/2017 08:26:01 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

795385

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
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	Landfill
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 proportion of waste collections goes to landfill in (a) Mid Sussex constituency, (b) West Sussex and (c) England.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	115806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>Information on the collection and management of all local authority waste for England, including figures for individual local authorities is published on an annual basis. Latest published figures are for 2015/16. For England 19.6 per cent of all local authority waste was disposed to landfill and West Sussex County Council sent 36.6 per cent of all its waste to landfill in 2015/16.</p><p> </p><p>Data are reported at a local authority level rather than on the basis of parliamentary constituencies, so it is not possible to provide information for the mid Sussex constituency.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 30/11/2017 10:51:02 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

795466

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Tax Collection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has plans for Making Tax Digital to be mandatory for businesses below the VAT threshold; and if he will make statement.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	115887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable member to my written statement to the House on 13 July which is available here.</p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2017-07-13/HCWS47/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2017-07-13/HCWS47/</a></p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 30/11/2017 11:07:50 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

795488

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Human Trafficking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether safehouses for the victims of human trafficking have a statutory duty to inform social workers which county the victims have been placed in;and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	115909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>When a victim of modern slavery is referred into the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) they are offered access to a safe house or outreach support to facilitate their recovery. Details of the location of safe houses are not shared widely to ensure the safety of residents. Victims of modern slavery who are resident in safe houses are assisted by their support worker to access the support they need from statutory services.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 30/11/2017 08:59:21 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

795497

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether applicants refused further leave to remain in the UK who had been granted recourse to public funds can continue to receive such public funds until their appeal rights against such a refusal have been exhausted.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	115918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>Applicants who have recourse to public funds, can continue to receive such funds until their appeal is finally determined if they had valid leave when they made their application, and that leave and conditions were extended when their leave expired.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 30/11/2017 08:59:30 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

794257

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 8 November 2017 to Question 110581, on pupils: health, what steps her Department takes to ensure that schools in England are compliant with the statutory guidance entitled Supporting pupils with medical conditions at school.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	115230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>Ofsted’s Common Inspection Framework requires inspectors, in making judgements upon schools, to pay particular attention to the outcomes of a range of groups of pupils, including those with medical needs. Ofsted included guidance to inspectors on this matter in their March 2017 school inspection update, reminding inspectors that they should consider how schools are meeting the needs of pupils with medical conditions.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 30/11/2017 10:33:21 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

794281

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
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	Social Security Benefits: Autism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what specialist support is being provided to welfare claimants with (a) Asperger’s Syndrome and (b) other conditions on the spectrum, to assist them in the application process; and what plans he has to introduce an application format that takes into account an individual's specific needs.
tabling member constituency	Hertsmere
tabling member printed	Oliver Dowden
uin	115254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has an established approach to identifying and providing an appropriate level of support to all its customers who are vulnerable. DWP identifies any “individual who is identified as having complex needs and/or requires additional support to enable them to access DWP benefits and use our services” as being vulnerable. This definition ensures that we have consistency and continuity in the type and level of service that is being offered and that it supports the customer appropriately whatever their individual needs.</p><p> </p><p>DWP adopts this approach, at all points of contact with the customer, and uses its records to ensure, where an individual is identified as being vulnerable, we take all reasonable steps to try to mitigate any risks.</p><p> </p><p>DWP will continue to follow our established approach working with the individual and with their consent we will, where necessary, contact any relevant organisations to provide the appropriate levels of support.</p><p> </p><p>DWP continually monitors our products and services to ensure we are meeting the needs of our customers and, where necessary, make any changes that improve the level of service we provide.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 30/11/2017 10:14:45 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden

794335

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many losses and special payments have been made by his Department in the 2017-18 financial year to date; and what the value of those losses and payments have been.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	115308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>Data for 2017/18 is not yet available. It is standard for the department to collate and validate data on losses and special payment at two intervals during each financial year (up to the end of Period 9 in December in preparation for the annual accounts and again at Period 12 in March as part of year-end). We are unable to confirm 2017/18 figures until the data has been verified, validated, finalised and signed off by the relevant business area, for inclusion in the department’s 2017/18 annual accounts. Data for this financial year to the end of December 2017 should be available from the beginning of February. We welcome any subsequent request to share data on losses and special payment up to the end of December 2017 as per the estimated timing above. For general information, any losses and special payments in excess of £300,000 will be included in the department’s Consolidated Annual Report and Accounts for 2017/18. This will be available on the department’s GOV.UK website, in due course at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-annual-reports" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-annual-reports</a>.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 30/11/2017 10:31:27 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard