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857665

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date	08/03/2018
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	River Lea: Pollution Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Environment Agency in preventing oil spills in the River Lea; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	904264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the replies previously given on 6 March 2018, PQs 129872, 129873, 129874 and 129875. Whilst it is not possible to prevent all oil spills into the river, in this incident, the Environment Agency have traced the waste oil to a potential polluter, details of which cannot currently be released due to the ongoing investigation. In previous incidents where oil pollution was not traced to a particular source, the Environment Agency carried out pollution prevention visits at industrial premises which drain to the Pymmes Brook.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 14/03/2018 16:07:32 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

857708

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
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	Money Laundering and Sanctions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the timetable is for implementing the Government's new anti-money laundering and sanctions regime.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	131609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>The Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill will come into force on a day appointed by the Secretary of State, who may choose to commence different clauses on different days. This will ensure that there is no gap when the anti-money laundering and sanctions regimes in force now, under the EU, are transferred to the new UK framework. The exact timetable required will be dependent on the ongoing withdrawal negotiations with the EU.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 13/03/2018 17:31:43 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

857709

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
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	Neonicotinoids: EU Action
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February 2018 to Question 126415, and with reference to the conclusion published on 28 February 2018 from the European Food Safety Authority on the risk to wild bees and honeybees from the use of neonicotinoid pesticides, if he will set out the Government's policy on the banning of neonicotinoids; by what date the Government is asking for negotiations to restart on the matter of neonicotinoids; if he will take steps to ban neonicotinoids in the UK in the event of undue time being taken at EU level on that matter; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	131610
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government set out its policy on neonicotinoids on 09 November: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/environment-secretary-backs-further-restrictions-on-neonicotinoid-pesticides" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/environment-secretary-backs-further-restrictions-on-neonicotinoid-pesticides</a></p><p> </p><p>The Government supports further restrictions on neonicotinoids, based on the latest evidence.</p><p> </p><p>A number of EU Member States indicated that they wished to see the outputs of the European Food safety Authority (EFSA) work before reaching a position on neonicotinoids. Now the EFSA work is complete, negotiations on this issue should restart in the coming months.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 14/03/2018 12:02:22 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

857744

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what scoping of the state of the prison estate was conducted prior to the formulation of (a) lot 1, (b) lot 2, (c) lot 3 and (d) lot 4 and before the declaration of preferred bidders for the prison facilities management contracts awarded by the Government in 2014; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	St Helens South and Whiston
tabling member printed	Ms Marie Rimmer
uin	131645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>The four prison facilities management contracts referred to were awarded by the Department in January 2015 and services commenced in June 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Prospective bidders were permitted to undertake site visits to establishments during the procurement process to familiarize themselves with the estate.</p><p> </p><p>Prospective bidders were provided with information on the number and type of assets in establishments that they were required to maintain. Following the award of the contract the successful bidders were allowed a six month period to verify the number and type of assets in establishments with the information provided by the Department during the procurement.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 13/03/2018 17:37:44 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4457 label Biography information for Ms Marie Rimmer

857745

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) names of providers and (b) value of each of the bids was of tenders submitted for (a) lot 1, (b) lot 2, (c) lot 3 and (d) lot 4 for the prison facilities management contracts awarded in 2014.
tabling member constituency	St Helens South and Whiston
tabling member printed	Ms Marie Rimmer
uin	131646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>The names of providers who submitted tenders are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Lot 1</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Lot 2</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Lot 3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Lot 4</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Regions</strong></p></td><td><p>North East, North West, Yorkshire and Humberside</p></td><td><p>East Midlands, West Midlands, Wales</p></td><td><p>East of England, London</p></td><td><p>South West, South Central, Kent and Sussex</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Successful bidder</p></td><td><p>Amey</p></td><td><p>Amey</p></td><td><p>Carillion</p></td><td><p>Carillion</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unsuccessful bidders</p></td><td><p>Mitie, Sodexo, Carillion</p></td><td><p>Mitie, Sodexo, Carillion</p></td><td><p>Mitie, Sodexo, Amey</p></td><td><p>Mitie, Sodexo, Amey</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>All Tender prices were entered into a permutation table which calculated the most economically advantageous submission for each Package Order or combination of Package Orders. The most economically advantageous permutation of tenders are as follows:</p><p> </p><p>Package Order E: £117,861,047 (Amey)</p><p>Package Order F: £ 93,429,773 (Amey)</p><p>Package Order G: £ 98,790,002 (Carillion)</p><p>Package Order H: £ 100,195,572 (Carillion)</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not publish the value of unsuccessful bidders due to commercial sensitivity.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 13/03/2018 17:43:26 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4457 label Biography information for Ms Marie Rimmer

857767

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
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	Nuclear Weapons
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 has held discussions with his Russian counterpart on that country’s development of new nuclear weapons; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	131668
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p><em>Ministers and senior officials have raised nuclear and missile issues with members of the Russian government on a number of occasions. </em><em>We regret </em><em>President Putin's</em><em> decision to develop </em><em>these</em><em> n</em><em>ew</em><em> systems rather than working towards strategic stability</em><em>. We remain completely confident in NATO's ability to deter nuclear and missile threats from Russia. </em></p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 13/03/2018 17:18:18 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

857768

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
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	North Korea: Nuclear Weapons
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 has held discussions with his US and South Korean counterparts on the Chinese-Russian proposal for the suspension of joint military exercises by those countries in exchange for North Korea halting its nuclear and missile test programmes.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	131669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>The Foreign Secretary regularly discusses the DPRK with his US and South Korean counterparts. Russia and China have promoted a 'freeze for freeze roadmap' as a route into negotiations on the nuclear issue. Both the US and South Korea have said the Chinese and Russian proposal is unacceptable as it falsely equates North Korea's continued pursuit of <em>illegal</em> nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes in violation of multiple UN Resolutions and <em>lawful</em> defensive military co-operation between allies and partners. The Foreign Secretary has also made this clear to his Chinese and Russian counterparts.</p><p>We welcome the news that President Moon Jae-In and Kim Jong Un plan to hold a leaders summit and that Kim Jong Un is willing to hold direct talks on denuclearisation with President Trump by May. We welcome too North Korea's commitment to suspend nuclear and missile tests while dialogue continues. We note that North Korea accepts that scheduled military exercises will still go ahead as planned.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 13/03/2018 17:22:42 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

857777

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Academies: Property
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much his Department has spent from the public purse on the purchase and development of land and buildings for academies and free schools to date.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	131678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government has committed to invest more than £23 billion in the school estate between 2016-17 and 2020-21. This includes a combination of formula and bid-based allocations to schools, local authorities and academy trusts and centrally delivered programmes.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s free school programme was introduced in 2010 and is currently the only programme responsible for both purchasing and developing land and buildings for schools. As of 1 March 2018, there are 391 open free schools, 35 studio schools and 49 university technical colleges (UTCs), which will provide over 256,000 places when at capacity.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s total capital costs for free schools, UTCs and studio schools in each financial year since the inception of the programme, are provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Free Schools Capital Costs<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£1m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£50m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£275m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£704m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£761m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£931m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£965m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>TBC<sup>2</sup></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><sup>1</sup> Rounded to the nearest £1 million.</p><p><sup>2 </sup>This figure will be available in July of this year once the department lays the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s annual accounts before Parliament.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A detailed assessment of the capital budget required for each free school project is carried out both before site purchases and again before construction contracts are signed. All variations to the capital budget are reviewed and approved through an established and audited capital approval process and significant variations are escalated to Ministers, the Education and Skills Funding Agency Accounting Officer and, if required, HM Treasury.</p><p> </p><p>Capital funding for individual free schools, UTCs and studio schools, where costs have been finalised and are no longer commercially sensitive, are published on GOV.UK at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-funding-for-open-free-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-funding-for-open-free-schools</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Data publications for our other main capital funding programmes can be found at the following links:</p><p>Schools Condition Allocations and Devolved Formula Capital: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-allocations</a>.</p><p>The Priority Schools Building Programme: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/priority-school-building-programme-psbp" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/priority-school-building-programme-psbp</a>.</p><p>Basic Need:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/basic-need-allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/basic-need-allocations</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 13/03/2018 17:50:22 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

857785

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Undocumented Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of the offence of illegal working since the introduction of that offence.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	131686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>Centrally held court proceedings data indicates that no offenders were found guilty of illegal working up to the end of 2016. Court proceedings data for 2017 will be available in May 2018.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to identify how much has been collected in fines from persons convicted of this, or any other, offence as our systems enable us to capture the total amount of financial imposition but do not allow that to be broken down by offence type. To extract information on financial imposition by offence type we would need to conduct a manual search of all current financial penalty accounts within our fine database.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 131687 question first answered 13/03/2018 17:50:31 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

857786

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Undocumented Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justcie, how much money has been obtained in fines from people found guilty of an offence of illegal working since the introduction of that offence.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	131687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>Centrally held court proceedings data indicates that no offenders were found guilty of illegal working up to the end of 2016. Court proceedings data for 2017 will be available in May 2018.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to identify how much has been collected in fines from persons convicted of this, or any other, offence as our systems enable us to capture the total amount of financial imposition but do not allow that to be broken down by offence type. To extract information on financial imposition by offence type we would need to conduct a manual search of all current financial penalty accounts within our fine database.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 131686 question first answered 13/03/2018 17:50:31 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield