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971609

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date	11/09/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Africa: Think Tanks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate her Department has made of the number of think tanks located in each African country it operates in.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	173584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>DFID does not hold estimates for the total number of think tanks located in each African country it operates in. DFID’s funding via the Think Tank Initiative (TTI) supports 18 think tanks in eight countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 17/09/2018 16:23:44 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

971622

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
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	Solar Power: Redundancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has been made of the cost to the public purse of redundancies as a result of proposals to close of the (a) feed-in and (b) export tariff for solar power.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	173592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>An Impact Assessment was published on 19 July alongside the consultation on the closure the Feed-in Tariff scheme. Information provided through the consultation will be used to provide an updated Impact Assessment to accompany the Government response in due course.</p><p> </p><p>The Impact Assessment and consultation can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/feed-in-tariffs-scheme" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/feed-in-tariffs-scheme</a>.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 17/09/2018 15:21:50 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

971708

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
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	Electronic Cigarettes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control’s proposal for a worldwide ban on advertising, promoting and sponsoring e-cigarettes on the Government’s tobacco control plan; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	173548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is not proposing a worldwide ban on advertising, promoting and sponsoring of e-cigarettes. The Government supports proportionate regulation of e-cigarettes to ensure non-smokers and children are protected from accessing these products, and has implemented the European Union Tobacco Products Directive which ensures such proportionate regulation.</p><p> </p><p>A search of the Department’s Ministerial correspondence database has identified two items of correspondence received in the last six months about his Department's participation in the 8th Conference of the Parties (CoP) to the WHO FCTC in October 2018. This figure represents correspondence received by the Department’s Ministerial correspondence unit only. The Department has also answered five Parliamentary Questions related to CoP in the last six months.</p><p> </p><p>As a global leader on tobacco control, the Department will engage constructively at the CoP, working closely with fellow members of the European Union and with other partners to continue to support measures proposed to reduce global harms from tobacco and ensure WHO FCTC Secretariat work proposals offer value for money.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 173549 173550 question first answered 17/09/2018 14:00:27 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

971709

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
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	WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what representations he has received on his Department's participation in the 8th Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in October 2018.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	173549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is not proposing a worldwide ban on advertising, promoting and sponsoring of e-cigarettes. The Government supports proportionate regulation of e-cigarettes to ensure non-smokers and children are protected from accessing these products, and has implemented the European Union Tobacco Products Directive which ensures such proportionate regulation.</p><p> </p><p>A search of the Department’s Ministerial correspondence database has identified two items of correspondence received in the last six months about his Department's participation in the 8th Conference of the Parties (CoP) to the WHO FCTC in October 2018. This figure represents correspondence received by the Department’s Ministerial correspondence unit only. The Department has also answered five Parliamentary Questions related to CoP in the last six months.</p><p> </p><p>As a global leader on tobacco control, the Department will engage constructively at the CoP, working closely with fellow members of the European Union and with other partners to continue to support measures proposed to reduce global harms from tobacco and ensure WHO FCTC Secretariat work proposals offer value for money.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 173548 173550 question first answered 17/09/2018 14:00:27 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

971710

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
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	WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's priorities are for the Eighth session of the Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control to be held in October 2018.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	173550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is not proposing a worldwide ban on advertising, promoting and sponsoring of e-cigarettes. The Government supports proportionate regulation of e-cigarettes to ensure non-smokers and children are protected from accessing these products, and has implemented the European Union Tobacco Products Directive which ensures such proportionate regulation.</p><p> </p><p>A search of the Department’s Ministerial correspondence database has identified two items of correspondence received in the last six months about his Department's participation in the 8th Conference of the Parties (CoP) to the WHO FCTC in October 2018. This figure represents correspondence received by the Department’s Ministerial correspondence unit only. The Department has also answered five Parliamentary Questions related to CoP in the last six months.</p><p> </p><p>As a global leader on tobacco control, the Department will engage constructively at the CoP, working closely with fellow members of the European Union and with other partners to continue to support measures proposed to reduce global harms from tobacco and ensure WHO FCTC Secretariat work proposals offer value for money.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 173548 173549 question first answered 17/09/2018 14:00:27 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

971712

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
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	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if all SMETS1 meters are now interoperable.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
uin	173483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>SMETS1 meters will become fully interoperable once they are enrolled into the dedicated national smart metering communications infrastructure, run by the Data and Communications Company (DCC).</p><p> </p><p>The enrolment of SMETS1 meters into the DCC will be completed by the end of 2020.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 173484 question first answered 17/09/2018 15:21:41 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

971714

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
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	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when will all SMETS1 meters be fully interoperable.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
uin	173484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>SMETS1 meters will become fully interoperable once they are enrolled into the dedicated national smart metering communications infrastructure, run by the Data and Communications Company (DCC).</p><p> </p><p>The enrolment of SMETS1 meters into the DCC will be completed by the end of 2020.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 173483 question first answered 17/09/2018 15:21:41 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

971717

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
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 visits Natural England make to landholdings in cull zones to ensure that reasonable biosecurity controls are being applied as required under the terms of badger cull licences; and how many landholders have not met those biosecurity standards in each year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	173505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>Natural England (NE) visits 5% of randomly selected cattle-keeping landholders within each Year 1 application area to sense-check biosecurity practices on the ground. These visits are supported by data available from visits conducted by the Animal and Plant Heath Agency (APHA). For 2018 Year 1 areas, between 30-55% of participants had been subject to an APHA visit in response to Bovine TB breakdowns from 2015 to early 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Disease control recommendations are provided to cattle-keepers based on measures that are practicable, proportionate and appropriate for the particular circumstances; having regard to the Bovine TB Biosecurity Five-Point Plan. These recommendations are categorised into ‘Advisory’ or ‘Required’. Advisory recommendations can cover a number of aspects of the disease risk on a farm and are reflective of the discussion held with the cattle-keeper regarding ways of minimising this risk. For example, recommendations might cover future options to reduce disease risk should a cattle keeper be able to invest in infrastructure within the yard. As such, a high number of Advisory recommendations does not necessarily indicate that cattle keepers are not demonstrating that reasonable biosecurity measures are in place.</p><p> </p><p>‘Required’ recommendations are provided for situations where badgers are presenting an immediate risk of disease spread to cattle and the resolution measure is practicable, proportionate and appropriate for the particular circumstances. An example of such a measure is securing feed stores to prevent them being accessible to badgers overnight.</p><p> </p><p>Should a concerning biosecurity issue be identified during the 5% visits, NE would conduct additional visits to determine whether the issue was more widespread throughout the area and act accordingly.</p><p> </p><p>A summary of the NE biosecurity visits and resulting recommendations from 2015 to 2018 is provided in the table below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of Visits</p></td><td><p>Number of ‘Advisory’ recommendations</p></td><td><p>Number of ‘Required’ recommendations</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>69</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>133</p></td><td><p>340</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>96</p></td><td><p>187</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>123</p></td><td><p>276</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 17/09/2018 15:04:59 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

971718

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Great Western Railway: Fares
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on the amount of fare income that First Great Western derived from first class travel in (a) 2015, (b) 2016 and (c) 2017.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	173631
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>This information is commercially confidential.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 17/09/2018 14:45:49 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

971719

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	East West Rail Line: Railway Signals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what signalling system is planned to be used on the East-West rail link.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	173632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>The East West Rail programme will be delivered in a phased approach with the Western Section Phase 1 already delivered with conventional signalling and the Western Section Phase 2 to also be delivered with conventional signalling. The Central Section Phase 3 is currently in its definition phase and its signalling system is yet to be confirmed. However, the possibility of using a digital European Train Control System (ETCS) across East West Rail is being explored and could be implemented in the future, across all phases, should it provide significant additional benefits for the programme.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 17/09/2018 14:48:24 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald