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226225

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to respond to the results of his Department's consultation on umbrella companies.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	Mr John Spellar
uin	226951
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2015 answer text <p>The government will respond in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 17/03/2015 16:49:19 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

225443

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the Economic Secretary to the Treasury plans to reply to the letters of 16 January 2015 and 19 February 2015 from the hon. Member for Warley on the sovereign debt restructuring process.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	Mr John Spellar
uin	226540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p>I have replied to the Hon Member.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 11/03/2015 17:16:17 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

225512

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: Road Signs and Markings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that electronic signs on motorways provide information that is up-to-date.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	Mr John Spellar
uin	226541
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>The Highways Agency regularly monitors the accuracy of variable message signs (VMS) on motorways to ensure that information to customers is both as timely and accurate as possible. This is done through a variety of channels, including regular reviews of how incidents on the strategic road network have been managed, and by seeking feedback from customers.</p><p> </p><p>The Highways Agency’s seven Regional Control Centres are measured on the speed with which signs (and signals) are set and cleared in response to incidents on the network. This ensures signs are not displaying messages for longer than is necessary following an incident.</p><p> </p><p>By improving data flow and processing, the Highways Agency is also looking to further improve the quality and timeliness of all its information services. A new system to be used in the Highways Agency’s National Traffic Operations Centre is currently under testing. The system will speed up the identification of incidents, in turn ensuring even more timely and accurate information can be published on variable message signs and other information services e.g. smartphones and websites.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 12/03/2015 11:08:57 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

225513

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance his Department provides to Highways Agency patrol staff on time taken for the restoration of normal running on motorways following accidents.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	Mr John Spellar
uin	226542
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>The Highways Agency is leading CLEAR (Collision, Lead, Evaluate, Act, Re-open) which aims to reduce the time taken to re-open motorways following an incident and will minimise both the economic impact of closures and the delay experienced by road users.</p><p> </p><p>Performance information is provided by monthly reporting across the Agency. This information is disseminated to Highways Agency patrol staff by monthly report, which includes tabular, graphical and infographic formats. The current performance measure is average incident duration times.</p><p> </p><p>From 1 April 2015 the performance metric will be refined to monitor all incidents between 0600-2200hrs - on the motorway network where a physical closure has occurred, which can be a lane closure, total motorway closure or a rolling closure – all of which results in an effect to the traffic flow. The duration of the closure is recorded and measured with a target of 85% of incidents cleared within 1 hour. This will continue to be monitored and reports disseminated to patrol staff on a monthly basis.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 12/03/2015 11:13:23 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

178059

registered interest
date	05/02/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Trade in Services Agreement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent progress has been made on the Trade in Services Agreement.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	Mr John Spellar
uin	223599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>The Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) negotiations have now entered their eleventh round, with ten negotiation rounds completed by the end of 2014. The talks started formally in March 2013. Participants agreed on a basic text in September 2013 and most participants have indicated which of their services markets they are prepared to open and by how much. There is no set deadline for ending the negotiations but the talks are progressing well, with broad consensus across many areas.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Full details of progress in the negotiation and the EU approach can be found at <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/tisa/" target="_blank">http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/tisa/</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/02/2015 14:03:32 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

172829

registered interest
date	08/01/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which main contractors were responsible for engineering work north of King's Cross station during the Christmas 2014 period.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	Mr John Spellar
uin	220205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>The work was undertaken by the “Northern S&amp;C Alliance”. The Northern S&amp;C Alliance is one of two contractual alliances recently set up by Network Rail and comprises Network Rail and Amey Rail, the contractual obligations of Amey Rail being discharged by the AmeySersa Joint Venture.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 14/01/2015 13:32:48 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

172553

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Prescription Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the annual value of the market in the UK of the illicit sale of pharmaceuticals; and what steps he is taking to restrict that market.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	Mr John Spellar
uin	220047
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>In the United Kingdom, there are strict legal controls on the retail sale, supply and advertisement of medicinal products and these controls apply equally to medicines sold or supplied via internet or e-mail transactions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Illegal trading in medicines and medical devices can have a direct impact on the health of the UK public and consequently breaches in legislative requirements are taken very seriously. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has responsibility for enforcing medicines legislation and during the course of last year received over 4,500 reports of suspect activity involving medicines and medical devices, 270 of which led to a criminal investigation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There are no figures to quantify the total value of illegal trading in medicines but during 2014, 4,512 packages containing an estimated 6<strong>,</strong>028,538 doses were seized by the MHRA at the UK Border. The MHRA has estimated that seizures from April 2014 to date have a likely re-sale value of £11.5 million – this includes £9.5 million seized during Operation Pangea.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>MHRA works closely with UK Border Force and joint exercises which targeted imports from countries known to source non-compliant medicines have been undertaken. Training to identify suspicious trading in medicines has been provided to UKBF personnel and a national Strategic Threat Assessment on pharmaceutical crime is being developed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>MHRA monitors the internet for websites operating outside legal requirements and, in collaboration with Internet Service Providers, takes steps to close down sites both in the UK and abroad.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>MHRA also works with industry and other stakeholders to identify illegal activity involving medicines and hosts both Falsified Medicines and Pharmaceutical Industry Stakeholder Groups.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>MHRA actions aim to tackle both supply and, equally important, demand for illegally traded medicines and has instigated a number of public awareness campaigns delivered by the MHRA and also by MHRA in conjunction with other stakeholders such as the General Pharmaceutical Council, patient groups and the pharmaceutical industry.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>New requirements for wholesalers and distributors of medicines introduced by the Falsified Medicines Directive were implemented in the UK in August 2013 and strengthen controls on the regulated supply chain.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 14/01/2015 15:44:43 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

172573

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Prisoners: Dogs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to Police Forces in England and Wales of looking after dogs owned by people in prison or other custody in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	Mr John Spellar
uin	220046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 12/01/2015 15:27:36 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

172579

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Forced Labour Convention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to ratify the International Labour Organisation Protocol to the Forced Labour Convention.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	Mr John Spellar
uin	220089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>The UK supported the introduction of the 2014 Protocol to the Forced Labour Convention, and is undertaking a wide range of activity to tackle forced labour, as well as other forms of modern slavery. We are committed to ratifying the Protocol, which we consider the UK already meets, and will do so following consultation with other Departments and the Devolved Administrations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 14/01/2015 16:36:17 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

172588

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, what (a) security and (b) immigration checks are made on casual staff working in Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	Mr John Spellar
uin	220048
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>The House Service ceased to engage casual workers last year. It does, however, engage staff supplied by agencies from time to time to meet unexpected demands and peaks of work.</p><p>Agency workers, in common with directly employed staff, are security cleared to Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) level and immigration/right to work checks are undertaken. The latter is done by requiring documentary evidence and in line with HMG’s Baseline Personal Security Standard.</p> answering member constituency Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross answering member printed John Thurso question first answered 14/01/2015 13:10:53 answering member 1399 label Biography information for Viscount Thurso
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar