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856826

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date	07/03/2018
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the effect on low-income families of the roll-out of universal credit in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Danielle Rowley
uin	904148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>Universal Credit is transforming lives across the country. Research shows that UC claimants spend more time searching for work and applying for work than those on previous benefits. There are now over 100,000 fewer workless households in Scotland than 7 year ago.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 07/03/2018 16:18:29 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4628 label Biography information for Danielle Rowley

853247

registered interest
date	02/03/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps the CPS has taken as a result of the BBC Panorama programme, Undercover: Britain's Immigration Secrets of 4 September 2017.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	130696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>Sussex Police have sought early investigative advice from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), South East Area, in respect of possible criminal offences. The CPS has received some documentation and had a meeting with the officer in charge of the investigation in February 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The police investigation is still ongoing and CPS will only be in a position to provide advice regarding charging or otherwise once all the papers are received.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 07/03/2018 16:06:31 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

853248

registered interest
date	02/03/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Government response to the Fifth Report of the International Development Committee, Session 2014-15, HC 816, whether the Department has developed its position paper on health systems strengthening.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	130697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>As recognised by the Fifth Report of the International Development Committee, DFID is a world-leader in health systems strengthening. A good health system delivers quality services to all people when and where they need them, addresses the social determinants of health such as nutrition and sanitation, and can prevent and respond to shocks such as disease outbreaks. DFID is in the final stages of developing a position paper on how we will work with developing countries to create strong and resilient health systems.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 07/03/2018 16:42:48 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

853251

registered interest
date	02/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Immigration: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of time was that it took to process an immigration appeal in the last twelve months; and what targets are set for processing and bringing to a conclusion such appeals.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
uin	130700
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>The average time taken to clear an immigration appeal in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) between October 2016 and September 2017 was 57 weeks.</p><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service does not routinely publish targets for processing immigration appeals.</p><p> </p><p>Published data is only available up to September 2017.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 07/03/2018 17:28:08 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

853252

registered interest
date	02/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Strikes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect on students of the loss of teaching hours as a result of the university lecturers’ pension strike.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Jo Swinson
uin	130701
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>Universities are autonomous institutions and it is for them to assess the impact of the strike action on their provision. While the Department for Education has not made its own assessment, we remain concerned about any impact of the strikes on students and expect universities to put in place measures to maintain the quality of education that students should receive.</p><p> </p><p>We note that the Universities and Colleges Employers Association, which represents UK higher education organisations as employers, polled the 56 universities, which were the focus of strikes on 22 and 23 February 2018. Results of this polling indicate that the overall impact in four out of five institutions was between ‘none’ and ‘low-medium’.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 07/03/2018 16:18:53 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson

853253

registered interest
date	02/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of his Department’s cloud-hosting contracts have been awarded to (a) hyperscale cloud providers and (b) UK SMEs; and what the value was of those contracts in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	North Wiltshire
tabling member printed	James Gray
uin	130702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>It will take some time to gather the information required to answer the hon. Member's question. I will write to the hon. Member shortly.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb question first answered 07/03/2018 15:46:22 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
tabling member	261 label Biography information for James Gray

853255

registered interest
date	02/03/2018
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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of his Department’s cloud-hosting contracts have been awarded to (a) hyperscale cloud providers and (b) UK SMEs; and what the value of those contracts was in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	North Wiltshire
tabling member printed	James Gray
uin	130704
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>a) Core Defra currently has two direct contracts with ‘public cloud-hosting’ providers:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Amazon Web Services (AWS) from January 2017</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Microsoft Azure from July 2017 via Defra’s Microsoft Enterprise Licence Agreement</li></ul><p> </p><p>The expenditure is as follows:</p><p> </p><ul><li>AWS - £35,561.96 (2017/2018)</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Microsoft Azure – Zero spend to date</li></ul><p> </p><p>b) None</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 07/03/2018 17:02:59 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	261 label Biography information for James Gray

853262

registered interest
date	02/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to change IT systems to allow information on the (a) average length of time for a decision on asylum support applications and (b) length of stay in initial accommodation for people applying for s95 non-emergency asylum support to be published.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	130711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office monitors closely the performance of asylum support application decision making and has a range of targets for processing support applications depending on the nature of the application being made. However information on processing times and the length of stay in initial accommodation is not recorded in a format suitable for publication and there are no plans to publish such statistics at this time.</p><p>We are working with the National Asylum Stakeholder Forum to consider what more information could be made publicly available once the new IT system for asylum support casework has been fully implemented later this year.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 07/03/2018 15:23:41 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

853266

registered interest
date	02/03/2018
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	Support for Mortgage Interest: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 1 March 2018 to Question 129578, how many households in Yorkshire and the Humber his Department has written to regarding the change in Support for Mortgage Interest from a benefit to a loan.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	130715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>Information on the number of Support for Mortgage Interest claimants in Yorkshire and the Humber is published here: <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-02-19/128199/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-02-19/128199/.</a></p><p>The Department has put in place a programme to contact all SMI claimants and that programme is nearing completion.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 07/03/2018 17:07:35 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

853276

registered interest
date	02/03/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Social Services: Minimum Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the total sleep-in back pay liability for providers in (a) North Norfolk constituency and (b) the Norfolk County Council area; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	130725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Worsley and Eccles South (Barbara Keeley) on 26 February 2018 to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-02-21/128962/" target="_blank">128962</a>.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 07/03/2018 17:30:17 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb