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747454

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Iraq Committee of Inquiry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he expects the lessons learned investigation across Whitehall co-ordinated by the National Security Adviser to report.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	2445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government has received the report of Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee on the Iraq Inquiry, and will be responding in due course, setting out the lessons learned.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 26/07/2017 10:11:18 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

747457

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Places of Worship Security Funding Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Jewish places of worship from each denomination had applied for funding under the Places of Worship Security Funding Scheme by 1 June 2017 in each region.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	2481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p>Jewish places of worship are unable to apply under the places of worship security scheme as a separate commitment was already in place to fund Jewish community sites via a grant administered through the Community Security Trust (CST).</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 13/07/2017 15:55:21 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

747474

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Tools: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of reported thefts of tools from trades vehicles has resulted in a prosecution in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Halifax
tabling member printed	Holly Lynch
uin	2357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service does not maintain a central record of the number of people who have been prosecuted for offences of thefts of tools from trades vehicles. This information could only be obtained by examining Crown Prosecution Case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 13/07/2017 14:17:01 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4472 label Biography information for Holly Lynch

747480

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
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	Chechnya: LGBT People
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 Russia on recent reports of torture and murder of gay people in Chechnya.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	2444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The UK remains deeply concerned by the continued persecution of members of the LGBT community in Chechnya. Through a statement issued on 7 April by the former Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister of State, Baroness Anelay of St Johns, the UK was one of the first countries to express concern and call for a full and thorough investigation to be undertaken by the Russian authorities, to ensure that perpetrators of human rights abuses are brought to justice. I delivered a statement condemning the reports in the House of Commons following the tabling of an Urgent Question on 20 April. On 28 April, The Foreign Secretary co-signed a letter to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov urging his government to investigate the reports and ensure the safety of activists and journalists investigating these abuses. UK officials in Russia continue to raise our concerns directly with the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and are working closely with the relevant NGOs who are supporting victims fleeing the persecution in Chechnya.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 11/07/2017 17:11:01 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

747494

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Abortion: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to her letter of 29 June 2017 on funding for abortions for Northern Irish women in England, what assessment she has made of whether Northern Irish doctors will be able to (a) formally refer women to and (b) inform women of these abortion services in England without fear of prosecution.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	2513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>We are currently discussing with key stakeholders the details of the scheme. Further information will be available in due course.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 11/07/2017 16:13:37 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

747497

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Qualifications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 14 January 2013, Official Report, column 533W, on teachers: qualifications, how many people have obtained each type of school-based qualification in (a) music, (b) drama, (c) theatre-studies and (d) art in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	2651
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/08/2017 answer text <p>The number and percentage of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 achieving[1] each type of school based qualification in (a) Music, (b) Drama, (c) Theatre studies and (d) Art for the years 2013/14 - 2015/16 are shown in the attached table. Drama and Theatre Studies are grouped together as part of the school performance tables and are therefore presented together in the data.</p><p> </p><p>The percentages of the total GCSE cohort entered for each subject are included in the attached table. The GCSE cohort is defined as all pupils who entered at least one GCSE subject and consists of 603,305 pupils in 2013/14, 597,477 pupils in 2014/15 and 584,013 pupils in 2015/16.</p><p> </p><p>Caution should be taken when interpreting the ‘percentage of GCSE cohort entered for Art/Music/Drama &amp; Theatre Studies’. GCSE Art, Music and Drama &amp; Theatre studies are categories comprising more than one subject and a pupil may have been entered for multiple subjects, whereas, the GCSE cohort figures relate to individual pupils. Therefore, this figure slightly over-estimates the number of pupils entering these subject areas.</p><p>Data for the years 2009/10 – 2012/13 are not provided because collating this information is complex due to changes in the school performance tables and a lack of published content prior to 2012[2], therefore producing this data would incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p>The number of entries to the requested subjects, and grades achieved, is published at school level as part of the ‘Key Stage 4 performance tables’ underlying data[2].</p><p>Caution should also be used when comparing this data with that provided on 14 January 2013, Official Report, column 533W[3] due to methodological changes in the intervening years.</p><p> </p><p>[1] ‘Achievement’ (or a pass) has been defined as any result which does not count as a ‘Fail’ or ‘Ungraded’ for that particular qualification. For more information on the grading structures in place for the different qualifications noted, see the Ofqual register: <a href="https://register.ofqual.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://register.ofqual.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>[2] This data is available for download from: <a href="https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/download-data" target="_blank">https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/download-data</a> by selecting the year you require and downloading ‘Key stage 4 qualification and subject data’ for that year.</p><p>[3] <a href="https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm130114/text/130114w0003.htm" target="_blank">https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm130114/text/130114w0003.htm</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/08/2017 17:08:41 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 2651 Table.docx title 2651_table
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

747502

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Reorganisation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the oral evidence from the Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to the Public Accounts Committee on the HMRC estate on 25 January 2017, Q14, HC 891, which eight principles HMRC used to determine the location of its regional centres.
tabling member constituency	Dundee West
tabling member printed	Chris Law
uin	2583
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) established a clear set of eight location principles to determine the location of its regional centres. These were:</p><ul><li>· Sustainable large sites – having the capacity to hold all HMRC’s requirements for the region in a single building, ideally accommodating no less than 1,500 staff.</li><li>· Talent pipeline – offering access to a pipeline of future talent, with the skills HMRC needs, for example, close to universities and colleges.</li><li>· Single location career paths – offering the chance to build careers and skills to a senior level in a number of professions in a single location without the need to move.</li><li>· Catchment for a mix of business activity – the right grouping of existing teams to allow a diverse mix of business activities to be brought together in the same place.</li><li>· Digital infrastructure – having high capacity, high speed digital infrastructure and mobile networks to benefit customers and staff.</li><li>· Facilities for HMRC’s people – access to good housing, schools and recreational facilities, so HMRC can recruit and retain staff.</li><li>· Market rates- delivering good value for money in property and labour costs.</li><li>· Robust long-term infrastructure – locations with the right infrastructure for the long term such as strong transport links within the region and nationally.</li></ul><p>HMRC values its people and wants as many as possible to move with the work to the regional centres. In addition to the eight location principles, it looked at where its staff live and initially assessed more than 40 of its existing medium to large sized locations against the principles as possible regional centres. These included: Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Blackburn, Bolton, Bradford, Bristol, Cardiff, Chatham, Chesterfield, Dover, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Grimsby, Harwich, Ipswich, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Maidstone, Manchester, Newcastle, Northampton, Nottingham, Peterborough, Peterlee, Preston, Plymouth, Reading, Redruth, Sheffield, Shipley, Solent (including Portsmouth), Southend-on-Sea, Stockton-on –Tees, Taunton, Telford, Workington, Worthing, Wrexham. For areas where a particular town was part of a conurbation, the conurbation was assessed as part of those listed above, for example Sunderland and Washington as part of Newcastle.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s Programme Business Case has received approval from the Chief Secretary to the Treasury.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 2581 2582 question first answered 11/07/2017 16:01:06 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law

747503

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Location
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the oral evidence from the Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to the Public Accounts Committee on the HMRC estate on 25 January 2017, Question 14, HC891, which locations HMRC initially considered as possible regional centres.
tabling member constituency	Dundee West
tabling member printed	Chris Law
uin	2581
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) established a clear set of eight location principles to determine the location of its regional centres. These were:</p><ul><li>· Sustainable large sites – having the capacity to hold all HMRC’s requirements for the region in a single building, ideally accommodating no less than 1,500 staff.</li><li>· Talent pipeline – offering access to a pipeline of future talent, with the skills HMRC needs, for example, close to universities and colleges.</li><li>· Single location career paths – offering the chance to build careers and skills to a senior level in a number of professions in a single location without the need to move.</li><li>· Catchment for a mix of business activity – the right grouping of existing teams to allow a diverse mix of business activities to be brought together in the same place.</li><li>· Digital infrastructure – having high capacity, high speed digital infrastructure and mobile networks to benefit customers and staff.</li><li>· Facilities for HMRC’s people – access to good housing, schools and recreational facilities, so HMRC can recruit and retain staff.</li><li>· Market rates- delivering good value for money in property and labour costs.</li><li>· Robust long-term infrastructure – locations with the right infrastructure for the long term such as strong transport links within the region and nationally.</li></ul><p>HMRC values its people and wants as many as possible to move with the work to the regional centres. In addition to the eight location principles, it looked at where its staff live and initially assessed more than 40 of its existing medium to large sized locations against the principles as possible regional centres. These included: Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Blackburn, Bolton, Bradford, Bristol, Cardiff, Chatham, Chesterfield, Dover, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Grimsby, Harwich, Ipswich, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Maidstone, Manchester, Newcastle, Northampton, Nottingham, Peterborough, Peterlee, Preston, Plymouth, Reading, Redruth, Sheffield, Shipley, Solent (including Portsmouth), Southend-on-Sea, Stockton-on –Tees, Taunton, Telford, Workington, Worthing, Wrexham. For areas where a particular town was part of a conurbation, the conurbation was assessed as part of those listed above, for example Sunderland and Washington as part of Newcastle.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s Programme Business Case has received approval from the Chief Secretary to the Treasury.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 2582 2583 question first answered 11/07/2017 16:01:06 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law

747504

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Reorganisation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the oral evidence from the Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to the Public Accounts Committee on the HMRC estate on 25 January 2017, Question 4, HC891, on what date ministerial approval was given for HMRC's strategic outline case for regional centres; and if he will make a statement before the summer recess.
tabling member constituency	Dundee West
tabling member printed	Chris Law
uin	2582
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) established a clear set of eight location principles to determine the location of its regional centres. These were:</p><ul><li>· Sustainable large sites – having the capacity to hold all HMRC’s requirements for the region in a single building, ideally accommodating no less than 1,500 staff.</li><li>· Talent pipeline – offering access to a pipeline of future talent, with the skills HMRC needs, for example, close to universities and colleges.</li><li>· Single location career paths – offering the chance to build careers and skills to a senior level in a number of professions in a single location without the need to move.</li><li>· Catchment for a mix of business activity – the right grouping of existing teams to allow a diverse mix of business activities to be brought together in the same place.</li><li>· Digital infrastructure – having high capacity, high speed digital infrastructure and mobile networks to benefit customers and staff.</li><li>· Facilities for HMRC’s people – access to good housing, schools and recreational facilities, so HMRC can recruit and retain staff.</li><li>· Market rates- delivering good value for money in property and labour costs.</li><li>· Robust long-term infrastructure – locations with the right infrastructure for the long term such as strong transport links within the region and nationally.</li></ul><p>HMRC values its people and wants as many as possible to move with the work to the regional centres. In addition to the eight location principles, it looked at where its staff live and initially assessed more than 40 of its existing medium to large sized locations against the principles as possible regional centres. These included: Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Blackburn, Bolton, Bradford, Bristol, Cardiff, Chatham, Chesterfield, Dover, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Grimsby, Harwich, Ipswich, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Maidstone, Manchester, Newcastle, Northampton, Nottingham, Peterborough, Peterlee, Preston, Plymouth, Reading, Redruth, Sheffield, Shipley, Solent (including Portsmouth), Southend-on-Sea, Stockton-on –Tees, Taunton, Telford, Workington, Worthing, Wrexham. For areas where a particular town was part of a conurbation, the conurbation was assessed as part of those listed above, for example Sunderland and Washington as part of Newcastle.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s Programme Business Case has received approval from the Chief Secretary to the Treasury.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 2581 2583 question first answered 11/07/2017 16:01:06 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law

747524

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
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	Small Businesses: Advisory Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to increase the availability of free and low-cost financial and business advice for small and medium-sized enterprises.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	2429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is in regular contact with businesses and finance providers to understand the needs of small businesses. Our industrial strategy will address the barriers many of them face to scaling up and growing by improving access to finance across the country and back institutions which can drive growth and private sector equity investment.</p><p>Government is taking a number of steps to ensure small businesses can access support, including the UK’s business-led Productivity Council with £13 million to provide practical tools to businesses to improve productivity.</p><p>The Business Support Helpline provides signposting, diagnostic support and business improvement advice to pre-starts, start-ups, and existing businesses across phone and digital channels nationally.</p><p>The Government has also provided £38million to support and invest in the creation of a network of 38 Growth Hubs across England as an integral part of the Government’s ambition to drive local growth and productivity.</p><p>In addition, applicants to the Start Up Loans programme get access to mentors who provide them with advice alongside their loan, thereby enhancing their chances of success. At the end of May 2017, the Start Up Loans programme had lent £319m to more than 48,000 entrepreneurs.</p><p>We have invested an additional £400 million in the British Business Bank to catalyse later stage venture capital investments by the private sector. This will unlock £1 billion of equity funding, in later stage venture capital. And we will work with them to further understand the obstacles firms face accessing capital outside London and the South East.</p><p>The British Business Bank produces the Business Finance Guide, in partnership with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a further 21 business and finance organisations, to increase smaller businesses’ understanding of the finance options available to them. This is also available as an online, interactive at <a href="https://thebusinessfinanceguide.co.uk/" target="_blank">https://thebusinessfinanceguide.co.uk/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 2427 question first answered 11/07/2017 16:16:39 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves