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798009

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date	05/12/2017
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Representation of the People Act 1918: Anniversaries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities how funding announced in the Spring 2017 Budget to mark the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918 has been allocated.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	116916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>In the Budget my Rt hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that £1.2 million of the centenary fund will go directly to seven Centenary Cities and towns in England with a strong suffrage history, to strengthen the reach and legacy of regional activity to inspire a new generation with this story.</p><p>A further £1.5 million will be available to organisations and communities through a grants scheme. The Government Equalities Office (GEO) have appointed a grant administrator to oversee the application and award process and I will write to all Members with details of the scheme including application criteria shortly.</p><p>The rest of the £5 million fund will be spent on a statue of Millicent Fawcett, to be erected in Parliament Square; on activities to increase young people’s engagement with democracy; and on activities to increase women’s engagement with political representation. GEO will announce further details in due course.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 05/12/2017 17:56:53 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

800856

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Systems
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps the Government plans to take to ensure the effective operation of the UK legal system after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Giles Watling
uin	902760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government have made it a top priority to ensure that there is a smooth legal transition, both in our negotiations with the EU and as a matter for our domestic implementing legislation.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 05/12/2017 17:44:53 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

800857

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	HM Courts and Tribunals Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of trends in access to justice resulting from court and tribunal service closures in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Bedford
tabling member printed	Mohammad Yasin
uin	902761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>We are investing over £1bn to transform our justice system providing new ways to access justice online, reducing the need to travel to a court or tribunal building in many cases.</p><p>We will continue to monitor the performance of the justice system as we roll out our programme of reforms.</p><p>Any court or tribunal that we are considering closing is done so through a consultation and an impact assessment is published alongside this.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 05/12/2017 17:33:57 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4598 label Biography information for Mohammad Yasin

800858

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Rape: Sentencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	Whether there are plans to review sentencing guidelines for rape committed by people under 18.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	902762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>Sentencing guidelines are not set by the Ministry of Justice. They are set by the independant Sentencing Council.</p><p>I can however confirm, new guidelines on sentencing under 18s for sexual offences came into effect in June.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 05/12/2017 17:32:26 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

800860

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Overcrowding
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to reduce overcrowding in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	902750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>Most of our prison estate is uncrowded. However we recognise crowding is an issue and in 2016-17 the average percentage of prisoners in crowded accommodation was 24.5%.</p><p>Our reforms will see us close down and redevelop ageing prisons and deliver high-quality, modern establishments fit for today's demands. Our new prison estate will have up to 10,000 modern prison places that create the physical conditions for Governors to achieve better educational, training and rehabilitation outcomes.</p><p>Reducing overcrowding is a central aim of the estate modernisation and the new prisons will be designed with this in firmly in mind.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 05/12/2017 17:34:02 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

795969

registered interest
date	04/12/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: South East
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 born on 3 May 2000 or earlier are in possession of a firearms licence registered in (a) Woking, (b) Gosport, (c) Bromley or (d) Watford local authority who are aged (i) under 24, (ii) 25 to 49, (iii) 50 to 64 and (iv) 65 or older.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	116281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes information on Firearm certificate holders by age and police force within table E2 of the <em>‘Firearm and Shotgun Certificates in England and Wales Statistics - Financial Year 2016/17’ </em>publication.</p><p> </p><p>This is available from the Home Office webpage on GOV.UK at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/624004/firearm-shotgun-certificates-england-wales-march-2017-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/624004/firearm-shotgun-certificates-england-wales-march-2017-tables.ods</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 05/12/2017 14:03:53 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

797781

registered interest
date	30/11/2017
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	Local Plans: Calderdale
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he has the power to redraft the local plan for Calderdale council.
tabling member constituency	Halifax
tabling member printed	Holly Lynch
uin	116689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>In his Written Statement of 16 November 2017 (HCWS254), the Secretary of State announced his intention to commence the formal intervention process with 15 local authorities who have not adopted a Local Plan since 2004, including Calderdale. These authorities have until 31 January 2018 to explain why they have failed to adopt a plan and what they will put in place to speed up plan production.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 05/12/2017 17:11:05 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4472 label Biography information for Holly Lynch

797782

registered interest
date	30/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the appropriateness of the rule in relation to the Special Grant under which police forces are not able to claim additional funding for emergency or terrorism-related incidents unless they have spent one per cent of their budget on such incidents; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	116690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>Ministers have the discretion to waive the one per cent rule and this is considered on a case by case basis.</p><p>The Prime Minister has already indicated the Government will pay for all the policing costs sought by Greater Manchester police following the terrorist attack at Manchester Arena.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 05/12/2017 17:32:49 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

797788

registered interest
date	30/11/2017
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Unemployment: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which measures in the industrial strategy will help to reduce the rate of unemployment in the West Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	116696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government’s Industrial Strategy sets out a long term plan to boost the productivity and earning power of people throughout the UK. It also builds on previous reforms to allow local leaders to focus where they will have the greatest economic impact. We will agree Local Industrial Strategies that build on local strengths and deliver on economic opportunities. These will be long-term, evidence-based, and aligned to the national Industrial Strategy.</p><p>The Government is pleased to have agreed a further devolution package with the West Midlands: the detail of this deal demonstrates the Government’s commitment to mayoral devolution, the Midlands Engine and promoting local economic growth.</p><p> </p><p>Key measures to support employment include:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>Joint work to establish one of the first Skills Advisory Panels – a new partnership between the West Midlands Combined Authority, local employers, post-16 skills providers and central government which will bring together data and intelligence on local labour market demand and influence skills provision, including the implementation of T-level qualifications in the local area.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>A career learning pilot testing new approaches to helping adults to upskill and reskill throughout their working lives.</p><p> </p><p>In March 2017 we announced a flagship £20million Midlands Skills Challenge to improve skills across the Midlands. This includes:</p><p> </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>£11 million to provide additional Work Coaches in order to deliver targeted employment support to unemployed people across Birmingham, Solihull and Black Country, with the aim of supporting claimants furthest from the labour market and improve the employment rate in these areas.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>And £2 million to offer English-language training to people in the Midlands, whose lack of ability to speak English is holding them back from accessing employment.</p></li></ul><p> </p><p>Finally, in the three months ending September 2017, compared to the same period in 2010, the unemployment rate in the West Midlands fell from 9.0% to 5.7%, a decrease of 3.3 percentage points, meaning 87,000 fewer people unemployed (Labour Force Survey, November 2017).</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 05/12/2017 15:09:57 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

797790

registered interest
date	30/11/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Crossrail Line: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, (a) who will carry out and (b) by what date, the independent review of funding and financing for Crossrail 2 announced in Autumn Budget 2017.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	116698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to Crossrail 2 which is why we see an independent review to examine the funding and financing options to pay for the scheme as a crucial next step to give the scheme the best chance of success.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is working with Transport for London and the Mayor of London to identify a suitably experienced individual to lead the review. We are also working with them to determine the precise timescales but we anticipate the review being in a position to deliver outputs next year. I will update the house when further details are available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 05/12/2017 16:02:56 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms