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837680

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date	06/02/2018
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	Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What progress the NHS has made on meeting the A&E waiting time target by March 2018.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	903790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>Latest data shows that over two million people were seen in accident and emergency (A&amp;E) in December 2017 and despite increasing demand, nearly nine out of 10 people are assessed and then admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours. The National Health Service is now seeing over 1,800 more patients within four hours every single day compared to 2009/10.</p><p>The Government has given the NHS an additional £1.6 billion to support and improve performance. The investment will be used to treat a quarter of a million more patients in A&amp;E and for improved A&amp;E performance, with the overall four hour standard achieved within the course of next year.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 06/02/2018 16:14:41 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

837946

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date	06/02/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Radicalism: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support her Department is giving to the Web Guardians programme.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	126976
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office supports civil society organisations to deliver activity locally as part of the Prevent strategy. Web Guardians, run by the JAN Trust, is one of the programmes that have been supported in this way. It aims to helps mothers use the internet and keep their children safe online from the risks of radicalisation.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 20/02/2018 11:10:26 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

837948

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	South Sudan: Famine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the statement of 7 December 2017 by the UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, what steps she is taking to prepare for famine in South Sudan in March this year.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	126978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The South Sudanese people are experiencing food insecurity at unprecedented levels, and there is a real risk of another famine in parts of the country this year.</p><p>The UK’s Humanitarian Assistance and Resilience in South Sudan programme is getting lifesaving food, water, and medicine to hundreds of thousands of people in South Sudan. Our programmes are designed to respond flexibly to the most urgent needs, and we regularly monitor and review them to make sure we target the most vulnerable. With the international community and our implementing partners, the UK helped to alleviate the famine declared in parts of South Sudan in February 2017.</p><p>This year, UK Aid is working with partners like the World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Humanitarian Air Service to get food and nutrition supplies to key locations across the country – by truck, helicopter or barge. So far this year, the WFP has dispatched almost 20,000 metric tonnes of food to vulnerable communities, as well as prepositioning supplies to meet future anticipated needs.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 20/02/2018 13:42:22 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

837954

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date	06/02/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Slavery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to set up (a) care standards and (b) an inspection regime to improve standards of care for victims of modern slavery.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	126984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>As part of the recently announced package of the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), Government committed to adopting the Trafficking Survivor Care Standards drafted by the Human Trafficking Foundation with contributions from a range of non-governmental organisations, including a number of subcontractors of the Victim Care Contract.</p><p>We are currently working with stakeholders, including subcontractors of the Victim Care Contract, to update the standards and design a compliance regime. The standards will then be incorporated into future care contracts for adult victims of modern slavery. In the meantime, we will work with subcontractors to ensure they are meeting the minimum standards.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/02/2018 11:31:41 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

837955

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Slavery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the extent of variations across the regions and constituent parts of the UK in approaches to tackling modern slavery; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	126985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The 2017 Annual Report on Modern Slavery contains a range of analyses on how modern slavery is tackled across the country and how law enforcement agencies respond to the issue across jurisdictions in England and Wales.</p><p>The report is available at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2017-uk-annual-report-on-modern-slavery" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/2017-uk-annual-report-on-modern-slavery</a></p><p>The 2017 HMICFRS report on the policing response to modern slavery includes further information and assessment of current law enforcement response variations.</p><p>The report is available at: <a href="http://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/wp-content/uploads/stolen-freedom-the-policing-response-to-modern-slavery-and-human-trafficking.pdf" target="_blank">www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/wp-content/uploads/stolen-freedom-the-policing-response-to-modern-slavery-and-human-trafficking.pdf</a></p><p>The Home Office remains committed to working closely with the police and other external stakeholders to ensure a more consistent and unified response to modern slavery across the UK.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/02/2018 11:33:53 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms