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993753

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2018 to Question 180221 on Ministry of Defence: Written Questions, what the time frame is for the completion of that work.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	182872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>We expect the work to be completed and to be able to provide a substantive answer to the hon. Member's questions before this year's November recess commences.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 29/10/2018 16:41:24 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew previous answer version 81204 answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

993767

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Performing Arts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visitor visas have been refused to international performers sponsored to attend a UK festival in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	182884
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>The UK continues to welcome artists, entertainers and musicians coming to the UK to perform and take part in festivals and events. The Home Office is working with the creative sector to better understand their needs, clarify visa requirements and ensure processes are as smooth as possible.</p><p>Information relating to visitor visas is released quarterly as part of the Home Office’s Immigration Statistics, which are available here - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#visas" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#visas</a>. Standard visitors can undertake all the permitted activities as set out in the Immigration Rues. Data is not available to identify those visitors performing at festivals. To acquire data with that level of detail would require a manual examination of all records.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 31/10/2018 16:58:10 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

993768

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the (a) effectiveness and (b) equity of the UK visit visa application process; and what plans he has to review that application process.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	182885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>The visa system is kept under continuous review. UK Visas and Immigration is delivering a programme of ongoing improvements to the visa customer journey. Changes are being made to the visit visa application process to facilitate increasing demand, and to ensure customers receive a more flexible and efficient service.</p><p>These include; a new online application service, with streamlined and intuitive forms, self-service channels for providing supporting evidence and biometrics, and expanding access to our premium and priority service options.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 31/10/2018 17:13:43 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

993772

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of visitor visas were (a) granted and (b) refused for each nationality in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	182886
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>The information available relates to total entry clearance visitor visas granted, and refused, and is published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics, Visas volume 1 table vi_01_q, latest edition at</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#visas" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#visas</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 31/10/2018 17:24:56 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

988855

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Prime Minister
answering dept id	23
answering dept short name	Prime Minister
answering dept sort name	Prime Minister
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Prime Minister, with reference to her oral Answer of 12 September 2018, Official Report, column 749, when she plans to write to the hon. Member for Edinburgh North and Leith in relation to Questions 136216 and 135115 tabled in April 2018 and March 2018 on the visit of Aggregate IQ founders to Downing Street.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	180220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>The transparency data published on a quarterly basis relates to ministerial meetings with external organisations and individuals. I have not met Aggregate IQ and there was therefore nothing to publish in the transparency data.</p> answering member constituency Maidenhead answering member printed Mrs Theresa May question first answered 22/10/2018 15:51:20 answering member 8 label Biography information for Mrs Theresa May
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

988859

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to publish an substantive Answer to Questions 142890 and 142899, on Clyde Naval Base: Submarines, tabled on 10 May 2018 by the hon. Member for Edinburgh North and Leith.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	180221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>The work to retrieve and assess the data to provide a substantive answer to the hon. Member's questions is still ongoing. Once the process is complete I will provide a response, placing a copy in the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 22/10/2018 15:29:49 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

988873

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department has spent on social media advertising in each month since May 2017.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	180222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland’s social media expenditure for the given period is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Twitter</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Facebook/Instagram</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>2017-2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>£468.68</p></td><td><p>£0.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>£0.00</p></td><td><p>£400.29</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>£0.00</p></td><td><p>£499.93</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>£0.00</p></td><td><p>£490.75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>£0.00</p></td><td><p>£499.82</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>£1,460.51</p></td><td><p>£3,436.95</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>£1,812.41</p></td><td><p>£3,090.28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>£590.49</p></td><td><p>£2,435.23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>£16.32</p></td><td><p>£96.39</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>£3,025.32</p></td><td><p>£6,875.66</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>2018-2019</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>£20.00</p></td><td><p>£285.45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>£202.21</p></td><td><p>£736.11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>£32.70</p></td><td><p>£2,944.14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>£0.00</p></td><td><p>£1,105.28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>£667.37</p></td><td><p>£1,068.14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>£1,051.35</p></td><td><p>£214.62</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 24/10/2018 14:51:30 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

988875

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Advertising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department has spent on non-social media advertising in each month since May 2017.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	180223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland has spent the following on advertising on Google. We have not purchased advertising on any other non-social media channel.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Google</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>£1,647.38</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2018-2019</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>£0.33</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>£15.48</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 24/10/2018 14:55:28 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

988876

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Public Relations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the cost to the public purse was of his Department's communications team in the most recent financial year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	180224
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>The communications team in the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland is resourced to support the Secretary of State and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland with effective engagement and communication with the public.</p><p> </p><p>This includes supporting communications on: the UK Government’s preparations and plans for EU Exit, the delivery and implementation of significant new powers over tax and welfare to the Scottish Parliament through the Scotland Act 2016, and information on UK Government policies and initiatives including City Deals, the UK Industrial Strategy, UK aid, pensions, security and foreign affairs. The communications team also supports other UK Government departments with providing information to the public in Scotland.</p><p> </p><p>The cost of the communications team in the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland in the financial year 2017-2018 was £713,225.90</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 24/10/2018 14:53:52 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

988877

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Facebook
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether it is his policy to place adverts on Facebook after that company introduces its transparency register.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	180225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>Digital advertising is a cost-effective way for the Government to reach audiences with important information on UK Government policies such as pensions, start-up loans, cyber security, minimum and living wage rates, support for childcare costs and other important information the public needs to be aware of.</p><p><br> All of the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland’s Facebook posts are made publicly available to general audiences in Scotland.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 24/10/2018 14:52:47 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock