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896300

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date	02/05/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Burma: Armed Conflict
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment she has made of the humanitarian situation in Kachin and Karen states in Myanmar.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	140552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The UK is deeply concerned about the intensifying conflict in Kachin and Karen states, including credible reports of human rights abuses and violations. As well as ensuring specific references to the situation in Kachin in the UN Human Rights Council’s resolution on Human Rights in March 2018, the UK has recently agreed funding in Kachin with a local partner for food, shelter, education and sanitation responses for up to 2,600 people. We are also in discussions with partners regarding funding for those affected in Karen state and will continue to urge all parties to abide by the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 09/05/2018 16:36:48 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

896315

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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	Incinerators
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 plans he has to amend the pollution inventory reporting guidance sent to incinerator operators.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	140553
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>The Environment Agency plans to issue updated pollution inventory reporting guidance to incinerator operators before the end of 2018. The updated guidance will apply to the reporting returns for 2018 which operators need to submit during January or February 2019.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 15/05/2018 15:44:10 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

896418

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Sudan: Chemical Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Sudanese Government on its alleged use of chemical weapons; and what steps the Government is taking to ensure that those allegations are investigated.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	140554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The British Government, alongside other states, encouraged the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to look into allegations of chemical weapons use made by Amnesty International in October 2016. The OPCW asked the Government of Sudan, as a State Party to the Chemical Weapons Convention, to share all relevant information and offered its assistance in any investigation. The Sudanese authorities reported to the OPCW that their national investigations came across no evidence of chemical weapon use in the Jebel Marra region. The United Nations has reported that the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) had not come across any evidence of chemical weapons use in Jebel Marra.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 09/05/2018 14:14:07 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

896534

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Horn of Africa: Migration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much funding the Government is providing to the Khartoum process.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	140555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>UK funding to support the Khartoum Process goes via the EU's Emergency Trust Fund (EUTF). The EUTF's current funding window (2015 - 2020) for the Horn of Africa, including the Khartoum Process, is 1.2bn euros, of which the UK contributes approximately 15%.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 09/05/2018 14:10:31 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

896563

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	East Africa: Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to tackle gender-based violence in relation to refugees covered by the Khartoum process in East Africa.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	140556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2018 answer text <p>The UK is a respected international leader on tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG) in all forms, and is taking a range of actions to prevent and address the effects of gender-based violence on refugees, including in East Africa. In November 2017, the Secretary of State for International Development announced £12 million of new funding over a three-year period for the UN Trust Fund to End VAWG, with dedicated funding to prevent and address violence against women and girl refugees. The UK is also investing £25 million over five years in a flagship research and innovation programme in preventing and addressing VAWG, which includes working with women and girls among Somali refugees in Kenya. The UK is a member of the steering group for the Khartoum Process, and has ensured the €46 million Better Migration Management programme that supports the process includes projects to improve the protection and support of migrants.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 10/05/2018 14:54:43 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

895288

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Red Diesel: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to review the taxation of red diesel.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	139936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>At Spring Statement 2018, the Chancellor announced a call for evidence, jointly with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, into whether red diesel for non-road mobile machinery discourages the purchase of cleaner alternatives. Red diesel for agricultural use will be out of scope, as will fishing vessels, home heating and other static generators. The consultation document will be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 08/05/2018 13:55:33 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

895298

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
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	Incinerators: Dudley
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 amendments were made to the periodic emission limit values for particulate matter made in the variation number CP3136XQ to the permit given to MES Environmental for its Dudley incineration plant.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	139937
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>Amendments were made to change the emission limit value (ELV) for particulate matter which is measured on a periodic (twice yearly) basis to the same value as that of the half hourly ELV for particulate matter which is measured on a continuous basis. This was in line with the Waste Incineration Directive which was in force at the time and remains in line with the current requirements of the Industrial Emissions Directive.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 08/05/2018 11:22:44 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

895306

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
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	Incinerators: Runcorn
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 April 2018 to Question 135379, on Incinerators, for what reason the decision document sent to Runcorn EfW facility when granting permit No EPR/EP3731XL states on page 32 that current monitoring techniques will capture fine particles (PM2.5) and the resulting permit condition requires a full analysis of particulate size.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	139938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>The decision document states:</p><p> </p><p>“Whilst the [Environment] Agency is confident that current monitoring techniques will capture the fine particle fraction (PM2.5) for inclusion in a measurement of total particulate matter, a permit condition has been included that will require a full analysis of particle size distribution in the flue gas, and hence determine the ratio of fine to coarse particles.”</p><p> </p><p>The reason for this statement is that total particulate matter (TPM) includes PM2.5 as well as particulates of other sizes and therefore by monitoring TPM emissions, emissions of PM2.5 will also be captured.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 08/05/2018 11:25:43 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

895542

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which (a) principal and (b) parish councils have set up (i)by themselves and (ii) with others local energy generation schemes.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	139939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold a register of local authority local energy schemes.</p><p> </p><p>National Planning Policy Guidance and Planning Policy Guidance stipulate that plans should provide a positive strategy for renewable and low carbon energy and heat. Planning authorities should support community-led initiatives for renewable and low carbon energy, including developments outside areas identified in local or strategic plans that are being taken forward through neighbourhood planning.</p><p> </p><p>In 2017, the Clean Growth Strategy, which supports the Industrial Strategy, announced a Local Energy Programme, which supports local actors, community groups, local authorities and combined authorities to develop their own energy strategies and deliver their own energy programmes.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/05/2018 16:34:37 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

894795

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Nigeria: Christianity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment she has made of the security situation in Nigeria after reports of the killing of two Catholic priests and 15 parishioners in Benue State; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	139356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>We condemn the recent attack in Benue State, which included an attack on a church and up to fifty houses. We are deeply saddened by the suffering and loss of life. We are concerned by the substantial increase in serious clashes between farmers and cattle herders in recent months. We urge the Government of Nigeria to hold those responsible to account and to work with the affected populations to develop a sustainable solution to the conflict.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 03/05/2018 16:19:03 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew