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890089

registered interest
date	23/04/2018
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	Personal Independence Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have had a reduction in the amount of their benefit entitlement as a result of the transfer from disability living allowance to personal independence payment.
tabling member constituency	Bradford South
tabling member printed	Judith Cummins
uin	137139
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2018 answer text <p>The latest available data covering claimants whose benefit entitlement was reduced as a result of the transfer from Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) can be found in the statistical tables “Personal Independence Payment: DLA to PIP reassessment outcomes, October 2017” published in December 2017 here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2017%20" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2017</a></p><p> </p><p>Table 8B (Summary of DLA to PIP Reassessment Outcomes) shows the volume of claimants who have had their awards increased, unchanged and decreased after reassessment from DLA to PIP. The latest date for which published data is available is 31st October 2017 and comparisons of DLA and PIP awards for reassessment claimants are published annually.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 25/04/2018 13:23:01 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4391 label Biography information for Judith Cummins

887864

registered interest
date	20/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Small Claims: Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to allow people to submit evidence by e-mail to the Money Claims Online website.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	136859
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2018 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) launched the new online money claims service on 26 March 2018. This new digital service already allows people to submit email responses and some correspondence. As the service is developed, HMCTS expects to extend the functionality to include the emailing of evidence.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/04/2018 15:08:53 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

887865

registered interest
date	20/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Shipbuilding: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to support SMEs to tender for contracts issued as a result of the National Shipbuilding Strategy.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
uin	136860
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2018 answer text <p>The National Shipbuilding Strategy aims to re-energise the UK's shipbuilding industry by encouraging participation from the wider UK shipbuilding enterprise, ensuring that we receive bids from the widest range of suppliers possible. This will ensure that the UK remains globally competitive, and that the Ministry of Defence procurement process is as competitive as possible.</p><p>We are committed to making it easier to do business with defence, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). As part of this we are working to improve our engagement with smaller businesses; making it easier for them to find opportunities and win defence business.</p><p>Since March 2016 we have implemented a range of measures to support SMEs, including revising our polices, advertising all our contracts above £10,000 online, and requiring our prime contractors to similarly advertise subcontract opportunities. Furthermore, we have introduced a new Supplier Portal page, bringing together the key information for suppliers of all sizes.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb question first answered 25/04/2018 16:16:53 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

887866

registered interest
date	20/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence: Radar
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to (a) support and (b) grow the UK defence radar industry.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
uin	136861
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 13 April 2018 to Question 135615 to the hon. Member for Bridgend (Madeleine Moon).</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb question first answered 25/04/2018 16:18:00 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb attachment 1 file name 20180413_135615_Defence_Radar.docx title WQnA extract on Defence Radar
tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

887867

registered interest
date	20/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Type 45 Destroyers: Radar
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to upgrade the Sampson radars on the Type 45 destroyers to provide those destroyers with ballistic missile detection and tracking capability.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
uin	136862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2018 answer text <p>There has been some initial investment to investigate the potential for anti-ship Ballistic Missile Defence enhancements to the Type 45 destroyers. These investigations include the Sampson Multi-Function Radar. No decisions have yet been made.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb question first answered 25/04/2018 16:17:30 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

887868

registered interest
date	20/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence: Radar
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons the existing Type 102 radar held in storage by BAE Systems is not currently deployed.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
uin	136863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2018 answer text <p>The Type 102 radar system is held in storage as there is, currently, no operational requirement to deploy it.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb question first answered 25/04/2018 16:16:01 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

887871

registered interest
date	20/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Leasehold: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to provide support to owners of new-build leasehold homes who are charged fees other than ground rent by the freeholder.
tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
uin	136866
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to promoting fairness and transparency for leaseholders and freeholders. We want to ensure that consumers only pay for the services that they receive, that costs should be transparent, communicated effectively and that there should be a clear route to challenge or redress if things go wrong.</p><p>As announced on 21 December 2017, the Government will introduce legislation so that, in future, ground rents on newly established leases of houses or flats are set at a peppercorn (zero financial value).</p><p>In addition, on 1 April, the Department published its response to the recent call for evidence on <em>Protecting consumers in the letting and managing agent market</em>. Proposals include establishing a working group to take forward work on regulating letting and managing agents as well as to consider under what circumstances fees such as service charges, administration charges and other charges placed on properties are justified, how they should be presented to consumers and to explore the best means to challenge fees which are unjustified.</p><p /><p><br></p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 25/04/2018 15:53:29 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn

887873

registered interest
date	20/04/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Wakefield City Academies Trust
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 19 April 2018 to Question 135939, how much funding his Department provided to former Wakefield City Academy Trust schools and their new trusts by 1 April 2018.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	136868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2018 answer text <p>The department has worked with all the schools and the new trusts to provide appropriate support and resources, including funding, so that each of the schools has what they require to improve pupil outcomes and secure the financial future for those schools.</p><p>Further detail on funding for the schools and their new trusts remains sensitive at this stage in the process. The department annually publishes transparency data on a key strand of relevant funding: ‘Academy trust transfers and grant funding’. This provides information on grant funding given to schools and trusts. The data shows funding provided where academies have joined new trusts in the financial year 2013-17 until 2016-17. Additional grant information for the year 2017-18 will be published in July 2018.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 25/04/2018 16:53:05 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

887874

registered interest
date	20/04/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Wakefield City Academies Trust
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 19 April 2018 to Question 135939 on Wakefield City Academies Trust (WCAT), if he will list the (a) nine WCAT schools for which new trusts have been identified but which have not yet transferred to them and (b) one WCAT school for which no new trust has been identified.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	136869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2018 answer text <p>The department has publicly confirmed the new trusts for 20 of the 21 Wakefield City Academies Trust schools. The nine schools for which trusts have been identified, but they have not moved, is in the table below. For the remaining school, Mexborough Academy, Delta Academies Trust remains the preferred trust. The Regional Schools Commissioner is working to confirm the final trust for Mexborough Academy as soon as possible. Our priority continues to be to minimise disruption for all concerned and move all the schools into strong new trusts as quickly as possible in the interests of pupils.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Academy </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>New Trust </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Balby Carr Community Academy</p></td><td><p>Astrea Academy Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Carr Lodge Academy</p></td><td><p>Exceed Learning Partnership</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Willow Academy</p></td><td><p>Inspiring Futures Academy Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Havercroft Academy</p></td><td><p>Outwood Grange Academies Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hemsworth</p></td><td><p>Outwood Grange Academies Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Freeston Academy</p></td><td><p>Outwood Grange Academies Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wakefield City Academy</p></td><td><p>Outwood Grange Academies Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West End Academy</p></td><td><p>Waterton Academy Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kinsley Academy</p></td><td><p>Waterton Academy Trust</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 25/04/2018 16:48:58 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

887876

registered interest
date	20/04/2018
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	Health and Safety Executive: Job Satisfaction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of staff morale in the Health and Safety Executive.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	136871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2018 answer text <p>HSE does not specifically measure morale but it does measure engagement throughout the year through a monthly Pulse survey which uses the same index as the Civil Service People Survey. HSE last measured this in March 2018 and HSE’s overall engagement index was 52 per cent, which is one percentage point higher than 2017 People Survey. The following link will take you to the results for each Department including DWP and HSE:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-people-survey-2017-results--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-people-survey-2017-results--2</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 25/04/2018 13:58:00 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock