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712428

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date	20/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeships in each NUTS 1 region her Department envisages will be created as a result of the apprenticeship levy in 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	68620
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>The Apprenticeships Levy comes into effect from April 2017, as part of a wider suite of reforms to improve the quality and sustainability of the apprenticeship system in England.</p><p> </p><p>Future availability and location of apprenticeships is dependent on employers recruiting apprentices and offering opportunities. We want to encourage more employers to offer more apprenticeships and our reforms provide them with the opportunity to do so. The apprenticeship service helps employers to select the appropriate apprenticeship for their needs; choose the training they want to purchase; choose an assessment organisation and advertise and recruit to their vacancies.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the reforms, employers across the country are designing new apprenticeships that meet their business and skills needs; the quality of apprenticeships is increasing through more rigorous end-point assessment and grading; and new funding policy will make it easier for employers so they can invest in apprentices and offer more opportunities.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 23/03/2017 12:54:18 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

712430

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Fly-tipping
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 her Department has to reduce fly tipping; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	68587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>We are committed to tackling fly-tipping and, as set out in the Government’s manifesto have given local councils the power to issue fixed penalty notices for small-scale fly-tipping. These new enforcement tools have been available to councils since May 2016, providing them with an alternative to prosecutions and assisting them in taking a proportionate enforcement response.</p><p> </p><p>This builds on other Government action to tackle fly-tipping, which has included:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>Introducing stronger powers for local authorities and the Environment Agency to seize vehicles of those suspected of waste crime.</p></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><p>Cracking down on offenders by working with the Sentencing Council to ensure sentences act as a real deterrent to offending. New guidance came into force on 1 July 2014.</p></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><p>Strengthening the waste duty of care by publishing a revised Waste Duty of Care Code of Practice, that provides guidance to local authorities, regulators, waste industry and all those that produce, keep, import, treat, have control or dispose of controlled waste on how to comply with their waste duty of care obligations.</p></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><p>Supporting the industry-led Right Waste Right Place campaign to promote Duty of Care to small businesses. The campaign will be targeting construction, retail and agricultural businesses.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>Chairing the National Fly-Tipping Prevention Group (NFTPG) to prevent and tackle illegal dumping. The NFTPG includes representatives from central and local Government, enforcement authorities, the waste industry, and private landowners. The NFTPG has published a Fly-tipping Partnership Framework outlining best practice for the prevention, reporting, investigation and clearance of fly-tipping to be adapted to suit local circumstances as well as a series of fly-tipping prevention guides for householders, businesses, landowners and local authorities.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 23/03/2017 11:09:39 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

712431

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Agriculture
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to publish the Green Paper on the future of the UK agricultural industry.
tabling member constituency	South Down
tabling member printed	Ms Margaret Ritchie
uin	68579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>We have robust engagement plans to inform and shape our future agriculture and land use policy options and take on board stakeholder views. Decisions on the timings of future legislation and consultation documents about agriculture and land use will be shared in due course. We want to ensure that everyone who is interested has the opportunity to have their say as we shape the vision for these vital industries, including through formal consultation and broader engagement opportunities.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 23/03/2017 17:28:16 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

712434

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Dogs
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 steps she is taking in response to the TB outbreak within Kimblewick Hunt's foxhounds to ensure that other hunts are free of TB.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	68539
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>Government veterinary experts have provided advice to the hunt kennels and hounds from the affected kennel have not been in contact with other hounds since the initial case was suspected. At this stage no further Government action is considered necessary in relation to other hunts.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 23/03/2017 11:02:39 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

712435

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Dogs
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 research her Department has commissioned to date into the spread of TB from hunting hounds to cattle.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	68540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>Bovine TB is a notifiable disease in all farmed and pet mammal species, including dogs. The disease has only very rarely been diagnosed in dogs, in this country and elsewhere, and investigations into bovine TB breakdowns in cattle herds have never identified the source of a breakdown as an infected dog.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 23/03/2017 17:33:11 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

712437

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Dogs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to cancel all hunting activities until foxhound packs across the UK are certified to be free of TB.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	68538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>We have no plans to do this.</p><p> </p><p>TB in dogs, caused by <em>Mycobacterium bovis</em> (the bovine TB bacterium), is extremely rare and dogs pose a very low risk of transmitting the disease.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 23/03/2017 11:00:15 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

712438

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Dogs
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 steps her Department is taking to investigate the source of the bovine TB outbreak within Kimblewick Hunt's foxhound packs.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	68536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>An epidemiological investigation into this incident is underway.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 23/03/2017 10:44:12 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

712440

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Dogs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy for TB in hunt packs operating in close proximity to cattle to be a notifiable disease.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	68537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>This control has been in place for some time for all pet and farmed mammals. Under the Tuberculosis (England) Order 2014 the detection of suspect TB lesions in carcases and the identification of <em>Mycobacterium bovis</em> from tissue or other samples (including dogs) is notifiable.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 23/03/2017 10:47:14 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

712447

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Occupied Territories: Demolition
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 his counterpart in Israel to reverse demolition orders relating to the village of Khan Al Ahmar in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
tabling member constituency	Salisbury
tabling member printed	John Glen
uin	68542
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>The Foreign Secretary, my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Mr Johnson), raised the UK’s concerns about demolitions, including the village of Khan Al Ahmar, with Prime Minister Netanyahu during his visit to Israel on 8 March. The Israeli High Court has approved a temporary injunction extending the deadline for the demolition order against the structures in Khan Al Ahmar to March 30.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 23/03/2017 15:38:12 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4051 label Biography information for John Glen

712449

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
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	Andargachew Tsege
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the legality of Andy Tsege's (a) trial, (b) arrest and rendition and (c) detention.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	68600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>​It is Mr Tsege's right and wish to have access to legal advice and that is why we have pursued this for him. I am pleased that, on 15 March, Mr Tsege had an introductory meeting with a lawyer, allowing him to discuss his options under Ethiopian law.</p><p>The Ethiopian and Yemeni authorities have both stated that they have a bilateral treaty that permits Mr Tsege's extradition to Ethiopia. Although we have requested sight of it, we have not seen this agreement and are not in a position to form a view as to the legality of the process in this case.</p><p>Our consular priorities continue to be Mr Tsege's wellbeing, his access to legal representation, and to ensure that the death sentence is not carried out.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 23/03/2017 14:14:30 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy