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711343

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Credit Reference Agencies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of reasons for the 86 per cent increase in complaints to the Financial Ombudsman on the activities of credit reference agencies between 2014-15 and 2015-16; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	68013
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>This question has been passed on to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). The FOS will reply to directly to the Honourable Member by letter. A copy of the letter will be placed in the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency Brighton, Kemptown answering member printed Simon Kirby question first answered 20/03/2017 15:02:19 answering member 3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

711344

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Household Cavalry
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his plans are for the relocation of the Household Cavalry in the event that all or part of Hyde Park Barracks is sold.
	tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
	tabling member printed	Wayne David
	uin	68009
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence is reviewing how it provides state ceremonial and public duties within London. So far no decisions have been made on the future of Hyde Park Barracks and therefore, no decisions have been taken about future re-provision arrangements.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 20/03/2017 16:22:59 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

711345

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free School Meals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment the Government has made of the potential effect of auto-registration for free school meals on the (a) uptake of free school meals and (b) amount of pupil premium funding allocated to schools.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Ian Austin
	uin	68012
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>We are determined to give every child, regardless of their background, the very best start in life. Both free school meals (FSM) and the pupil premium (which links to FSM eligibility) are key to this, and we want all parents whose children are entitled to free school meals to apply for them.</p><p> </p><p>The current eligibility criteria for free school meals requires the parent (or pupil) to be both in receipt of a specified benefit and to make a request for the meal to be provided free of charge. To support this, the Department for Education provides an electronic Eligibility Checking System (ECS), which allows local authorities to quickly check data held by DWP, the Home Office and HMRC in order to establish FSM eligibility. The Department has also provided a model registration form and accompanying guidance which schools can use as part of their enrolment process.</p><p> </p><p>We want to make it as simple as possible for schools and local authorities to determine eligibility for FSM, and the Department is looking at what can be done in the longer term to make the FSM registration processes even more efficient.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 20/03/2017 17:24:32 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

711346

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2017
	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	British Overseas Territories: Companies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to encourage the Overseas Territories to introduce public registers of beneficial ownership.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	68006
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to my response of 17 March to written question 67174.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 20/03/2017 17:43:42 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

711347

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2017
	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	British Virgin Islands: Tax Havens
	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 representations he has made to the Premier of the British Virgin Islands on the Panama Papers.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	68008
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>None. Financial regulation is a matter for the BVI Government, which has made clear its commitment to addressing the concerns raised. In November 2016, the BVI Financial Services Commission imposed a record administrative penalty against Mossack Fonseca's BVI operation, citing breaches of BVI's Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Code and its Regulatory Code.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 20/03/2017 17:46:57 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

711349

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2017
	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	Parliamentary Organisations: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, how much has been paid since May 2015 to head hunters by (a) the House of Commons Commission, (b) the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, (c) the Inter-Parliamentary Union, (d) the British American Parliamentary Group and (e) any other body grant-funded by the House of Commons Commission.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	68010
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2017 answer text <p>Since May 2015 the House of Commons Commission has made payments totalling £203,676 to Executive Search recruitment agencies (‘head hunters’). This includes fees for online and press advertising, where appropriate, for which the agencies pay and for which we reimburse them. I have asked the House authorities to send to the hon. Member contact details of the responsible officers of the grant-funded bodies so that he can seek that information from them. The Commission does not require them to report on any use of head hunters or the costs of any such use.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 22/03/2017 10:33:53 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

711350

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2017
	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: Palestinians
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2017 to Question 66575, what evidence he has of officially sanctioned incitement or incitement to violence by the Israeli Government.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Ian Austin
	uin	68011
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>We have no evidence of any officially sanctioned incitement, or incitement to violence, by the Israeli government. We deplore all incitement to violence and raise cases of concern with both the Israeli and Palestinian authorities as required. We have urged the Israeli and Palestinian leadership to avoid engaging in, or encouraging, the type of action and language which will make it more difficult to achieve a peaceful negotiated solution to the conflict. We continue to support Palestinian calls to reinstate the Tripartite Committee as the appropriate channel to deal with any such allegations.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 20/03/2017 14:34:35 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

711351

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Companies: Ownership
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to encourage the Crown Dependencies to introduce public registers of beneficial ownership.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	68007
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2017 answer text <p>The UK Government works closely with the Crown Dependences on tax and transparency issues. Our priority is the implementation of the new bilateral arrangements concluded with them in 2016, which are due to come into effect by June this year. Under these arrangements, the Crown Dependencies have committed to establish, where they have not already done so, central registers of beneficial ownership information, or similarly effective systems and to give UK law enforcement and tax authorities near real-time access to beneficial ownership information on corporate and legal entities incorporated in their jurisdictions. Nevertheless, it remains the Government’s ambition for public registers to become the global standard. If this happens, we would expect the Crown Dependencies to follow suit.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 21/03/2017 11:32:42 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 41247 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

711353

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2017
	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	Foreign Companies: Ownership
	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 he intends to publish a consultation or call for evidence on enhancing the transparency of beneficial ownership information of foreign companies that own properties in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	68005
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government remains committed introducing the register of beneficial ownership for foreign companies that own UK property, which was announced at the Anti-Corruption summit in 2016.</p><p> </p><p>This register is an important element of the forthcoming anti-corruption strategy. It will give assurance that the UK is a hostile environment for hiding the proceeds of corruption or laundering money.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 20/03/2017 16:27:49 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

711354

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Freedom of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the average response rate was of the Law Officers' Departments to individual Freedom of Information requests in each month since July 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	68035
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is detailed in the following table. The percentage figure shows how many Freedom of Information requests were answered on time.</p><p>Data for February and March 2017 has not been provided as the majority of requests received in these months are still being processed.</p><p>HMCPSI did not receive any FOI requests in August, September and December 2016, or in January 2017.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>July 2016</p></td><td><p>Aug 2016</p></td><td><p>Sept 2016</p></td><td><p>Oct 2016</p></td><td><p>Nov 2016</p></td><td><p>Dec 2016</p></td><td><p>Jan 2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>GLD</p></td><td><p>98%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AGO</p></td><td><p>93%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>94%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HMCPSI</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CPS</p></td><td><p>85%</p></td><td><p>94%</p></td><td><p>97%</p></td><td><p>93%</p></td><td><p>96%</p></td><td><p>94%</p></td><td><p>95%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SFO</p></td><td><p>80%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>94%</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>89%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 20/03/2017 17:13:54 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne