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944696

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding his Department spends from the proceeds of crime to support people affected by drug related harm.
tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
uin	166219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2018 answer text <p>Assets recovered under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) are distributed to operational agencies under the Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme (ARIS). Broadly, 50% of recovered assets are returned to operational agencies in England and Wales - including police, CPS and HM Courts Service – with the expectation that they will be reinvested in asset recovery or community projects. The Home Office share of recovered assets is a core part of its settlement under the Comprehensive Spending Review. It contributes to core expenditure programmes such as policing and the NCA.</p><p>From 2011 to 2016, £307m of ARIS monies returned to operational partners was used to fund further asset recovery work, crime reduction and community projects.</p><p>The Home Office is committed to publishing an annual report on asset recovery statistics, including the use of ARIS funds. The first of these was published in September 2017 and the second will be published in September 2018. This report does not include detailed information on specific projects.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 27/07/2018 13:37:53 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan

947103

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
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	Ivory
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the estimated total number of items in the UK which fall within the Ivory Bill's definition of pre-1947 items with low ivory content.
tabling member printed	Lord Inglewood
uin	HL9793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2018 answer text <p>During the consultation on our ivory ban, we sought evidence from the antiques trade and others, including on the nature and number of items in the UK that are made of or contain ivory. However, the data available is limited and we are therefore unable to specify how many items fall under this exemption.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, once the ban is in force, we will be publishing headline data on the number of exemption certificates that have been issued for each category of exemption.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 27/07/2018 13:34:36 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	1980 label Biography information for Lord Inglewood

947104

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
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	Hippopotamuses: Zambia
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the proposal for a cull of hippos to be conducted by trophy hunters on the Luangwa River in Zambia.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL9794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2018 answer text <p>The UK Government has not made an assessment of the proposal for a cull of hippos on the Luangwa River in Zambia.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 27/07/2018 13:03:33 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

947106

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
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	Hippopotamuses: Ivory
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the proposal for a cull of hippos to be conducted by trophy hunters on the Luangwa River in Zambia, whether they will bring forward consultation and legislation to ban the trade in ivory from hippos; and whether they plan to bring forward amendments to the Ivory Bill to include hippo ivory.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL9796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2018 answer text <p>The Ivory Bill will enact a ban in commercial dealing in elephant ivory in the UK that could directly or indirectly fuel the poaching of elephants. There is a delegated power within the Bill to allow the Secretary of State to extend the Bill to cover other ivory bearing species, such as the hippopotamus, through a regulation. The Government has committed to consulting on extending the ban as soon as possible. This consultation is necessary in order to ensure compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), otherwise the whole ban would be put at risk.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 27/07/2018 13:00:09 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

947107

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
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	Hippopotamuses: Zambia
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact the proposed cull of hippos to be conducted by trophy hunters on the Luangwa River in Zambia will have on the ban on the trade in ivory contained in the Ivory Bill.
tabling member printed	Lord Jones of Cheltenham
uin	HL9797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2018 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of the impact of the proposed cull of hippos to be conducted by trophy hunters on the Luangwa River in Zambia on the ban on the trade in ivory contained in the Ivory Bill. The Government has announced it will consult as soon as possible on extending the ivory ban to hippos. This consultation will allow an assessment to be made of all the appropriate evidence.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 27/07/2018 12:59:30 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	248 label Biography information for Lord Jones of Cheltenham

945515

registered interest
date	20/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Pupil Exclusions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children excluded for 2017-18 were children with special educational needs or disabilities; and what proportion of such children were excluded by their schools for the reason given as Other.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	166506
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2018 answer text <p>The attached tables give the percentage of permanent and fixed period exclusions for pupils with and without special educational needs (SEN), and the percentage of exclusions of pupils with SEN that were recorded with a reason of 'Other'. The figures cover academic year 2016/17, figures for 2017/18 are not yet available.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 27/07/2018 11:46:09 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi attachment 1 file name 166506_attachment_permanent_and_fixed_period_exclusions.xls title 166506_permanent_and_fixed_period_exclusions
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

945520

registered interest
date	20/07/2018
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of universal credit claimants who did not qualify for a payment as a result of receiving two wage payments during an assessment period in each of the last 12 months; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	166475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p /><p /> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 27/07/2018 09:15:27 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

945537

registered interest
date	20/07/2018
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	Alternative Fuels: Heating
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Public Accounts Committee report on renewable heat incentive in Great Britain published on 16 May 2018, what steps his Department is taking to identify low cost heat alternatives for off-grid homes.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
uin	166478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2018 answer text <p>Decarbonising heat in buildings, making buildings more energy efficient, and identifying cost-effective fossil fuel alternatives for off-grid homes, is a priority for this Government. The Clean Growth Grand Challenge of our modern Industrial Strategy aims to maximise the advantages from the global shift to clean growth for UK industry. In May, the Prime Minister announced the first mission of the Grand Challenge, to halve the energy used in new buildings by 2030, and reduce the costs of energy efficiency measures in existing buildings. This complements the Clean Growth Strategy, where we have committed to phasing out high carbon heating, by 2030, starting with new build. Off-grid homes are key to making these policies a success.</p><p> </p><p>The Public Accounts Committee report on the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) in Great Britain identified that the higher upfront costs of low carbon technologies could be a barrier to participating in the RHI scheme. In response, the Department introduced new regulations, which came into force on 27 June 2018, allowing householders to assign their right to RHI payments to a third party that has paid for all, or part, of their renewable heating system.</p><p> </p><p>Beyond the RHI, which has funding agreed out to 2021, the Department intends to design and implement a clear framework through to the 2030s for domestic and non-domestic buildings off the gas grid. From 19 March to 11 June 2018 we held a public Call for Evidence as a first step in developing this policy framework. The Department is now analysing the evidence received in response to this document and aims to publish a response to the Call for Evidence later in 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/07/2018 12:09:13 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter

945541

registered interest
date	20/07/2018
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	Water: Consumption
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 steps his Department has been taking to reduce water consumption since May 2018.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	166449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government is working with the water industry to agree an ambitious average target for per capita consumption and to identify and implement the most cost-effective and impactful measures needed to meet it, as set out in the 25 year environment plan.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government expects water companies to enhance their activities promoting water efficiency in areas affected by the dry weather, in line with their statutory drought plans. For example, through increasing capacity to fix leaks more quickly and through sharing water saving messages.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 27/07/2018 10:34:17 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

945564

registered interest
date	20/07/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Tourism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the effect of local festivals on the growth of local tourism.
tabling member constituency	Gloucester
tabling member printed	Richard Graham
uin	166490
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2018 answer text <p>VisitBritain research shows that in 2016, over one million of the UK’s inbound visitors come here with attending a festival in mind, spending nearly £1.2bn during their visit.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Arts Council has carried out research into the benefits of local events on the community and economy. For example, the SO Festival in East Lindsey is estimated to have increased footfall from 30,000 to 83,000. The Grinagog Festival in Torquay submitted a report for their 2018 festival estimating that there was £150,000 direct economic impact based on 2,400 paying customers.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 27/07/2018 10:30:28 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	3990 label Biography information for Richard Graham