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887234

registered interest
date	19/04/2018
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	Pension Credit and 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 assessment she has made of the effect of universal credit and pension credit regulations on couples where one person is over the pension age and the other is below that age.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	136798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2018 answer text <p>Currently, when one member of a couple has reached Pension Credit qualifying age, that member may claim Pension Credit for the couple. Under the Welfare Reform Act 2012, in order to ensure that the younger partner is subject to the same labour-market conditions as other people of the same age, couples needing benefit support where one member of the couple has yet to reach Pension Credit qualifying age will need to claim Universal Credit rather than Pension Credit. This will apply to new claims only. Existing claims to Pension Credit from such couples will be protected.</p><p>A number of Impact Assessments were published to support the passage of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 through Parliament; including the Universal Credit Impact Assessment on 10 December 2012. This can be found on GOV.UK at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/220177/universal-credit-wr2011-ia.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/220177/universal-credit-wr2011-ia.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 24/04/2018 15:11:20 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

884967

registered interest
date	16/04/2018
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	Israel: Bedouin
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to Israeli counterparts in advance of the high court hearing on the demolition of school buildings in Khan al-Ahmar which is due to take place on 25 April 2018.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	135955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2018 answer text <p>The UK remains concerned by proposals to demolish the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar. We have repeatedly called on the Israeli authorities to halt proposals to demolish this community, and we will continue to make representations including in discussions with the Israeli Ambassador this week. An official from our Consulate General in Jerusalem attended an event on 18 April in Khan al-Ahmar to show our support for the community.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 19/04/2018 16:23:39 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

882444

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
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	Genito-urinary Medicine: Clinics
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 he has made of the effect on the provision of services provided by sexual health clinics of moving responsibility for and funding of those clinics to local authorities.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	135506
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>The delivery of open access sexual health services is mandated for all local authorities. Sexual and Reproductive Health Profiles have been developed by Public Health England (PHE) to support local authorities, public health leads and other interested parties to monitor the sexual and reproductive health of their population and the contribution of local public health related systems. The Department closely monitors the range of indicators and outcomes at national level. Progress continues to be made: for example, in 2016, more people than ever were tested for sexually transmitted infections and the number of people infected fell, the under-18 conception rate in 2016 was 18.9 conceptions per thousand women aged 15 to 17 years; this is the lowest rate recorded since comparable statistics were first produced in 1969, declining by 10% since 2015 and 45% since 2010. The United Kingdom is one of the first countries in Europe to witness a substantive decline in HIV diagnoses. In 2016, 5,164 people were newly diagnosed with HIV in the UK (3,938 men and 1,226 women), representing an 18% decline from the 6,286 diagnoses reported in 2015. The decrease was most apparent in gay and bisexual men. In this group, the number of HIV diagnoses reported steadily increased from 2,850 in 2007 to 3,570 in 2015, and then decreased by 21% to 2,810 in 2016.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/04/2018 16:23:03 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

882445

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
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	Burma: Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he supports the creation of an independent body to (a) investigate, (b) document, (c) collect, and (d) analyse evidence of human rights violations in Burma.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	135507
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2018 answer text <p>The British Government has consistently made it clear that we seek justice to be done for the Rohingya. In line with the recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar, the British Government is considering how to support better co-ordination between organisations collecting evidence and testimony in Bangladesh. We are discussing this with international partners.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 19/04/2018 15:16:50 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

873769

registered interest
date	28/03/2018
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	Genito-urinary Medicine: Clinics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the trends in the (a) availability of sexual health clinics and (b) waiting times for appointments to see clinicians in those clinics.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	134883
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government has mandated local authorities to commission comprehensive open access sexual health services, including free sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment, notification of sexual partners of infected persons and free provision of contraception. Local authorities are responsible for commissioning sexual health clinics based on local population need. The location and opening times of sexual health clinics are for local determination.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 17/04/2018 13:20:44 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

873770

registered interest
date	28/03/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Community Relations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether her Department has (a) made and (b) received representations from the charitable sector on the effectiveness of people-to-people or coexistence projects.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	134884
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>DFID has engaged with several stakeholders in the people-to-people community, including not-for profit organisations, in considering the effectiveness of people-to-people projects. Ministers approved the ‘People for Peaceful change’ business case which reviewed the effectiveness of people-to-people programming including through analysis of independent research. The relevant documents can be found on the DevTracker page at this address: <a href="https://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/projects/GB-GOV-1-300366" target="_blank">https://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/projects/GB-GOV-1-300366</a></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 16/04/2018 14:50:20 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

873771

registered interest
date	28/03/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Israel: Palestinians
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what consultation her Department had prior to the announcement of the People For Peaceful Change project in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories .
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	134885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>During the scoping phase of DFID’s People for Peaceful Change programme, officials consulted with local civil society organisations working in the people-to-people field in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 16/04/2018 14:51:26 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

873774

registered interest
date	28/03/2018
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	Developing Countries: Sexual Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many staff in his Department work on (a) the preventing sexual violence initiative and (b) the preventing sexual violence team of experts; and of those staff, how many are deployed overseas.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	134888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2018 answer text <p>We have three staff working full time in London on the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI). The Team sits within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Gender Equality Unit, and additional staff from the unit dedicate a significant proportion of their time to PSVI. Furthermore, PSVI work is mainstreamed and taken forward by staff around our network of posts. They advance PSVI as part of a broader portfolio, including through our work on Women, Peace and Security, Girls' Education and wider human rights. This makes it very hard to establish the exact number of staff who work in some capacity on PSVI issues</p><p>The UK’s PSVI Team of Experts (ToE) is one part of the Civilian Stabilisation Group (CSG), a roster of external experts managed by the UK Government Stabilisation Unit. The CSG offer a skillset that is not available in the Civil Service. The ToE currently consists of 38 independent experts (26 women), including criminal lawyers, policing advisers, gender based violence experts, international investigating officers, training experts and psychosocial experts. In 2017, twenty experts were deployed to ten countries to provide training and mentoring to judges, prosecutors and members of the armed forces on gathering and preserving evidence of sexual violence, prosecution and protection of civilians. Additional expertise on gender issues is regularly deployed from the wider CSG.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 17/04/2018 15:25:27 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

873780

registered interest
date	28/03/2018
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	Burma: Armed Conflict
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of levels of violence and displacement in Rakhine State.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	134894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>We remain deeply concerned by the suffering inflicted on the Rohingya people. Violence in Rakhine has decreased, but about 100 people a day are still crossing the border. More than 688,000 Rohingya have fled from Burma to Bangladesh since late August 2017.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 16/04/2018 11:52:23 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

873781

registered interest
date	28/03/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Bangladesh: Rohingya
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent estimate she has made of the number of Rohingya refugees crossing the Bangladesh-Burma border; and what assessment she has made of the capacity of refugee camps in Bangladesh to cope with the number of refugees entering that country.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	134895
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>The UN estimates that 1,000 people a week are still crossing the border from Burma to Bangladesh. Existing refugee camps are already overcrowded. In light of the imminent monsoon and cyclone season we are encouraging the Government of Bangladesh to reduce the population density of the existing camps by allocating additional land that is at lower risk of flooding and landslides, and to put evacuation plans in place including to safe places such as cyclone shelters.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 16/04/2018 14:40:40 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden