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891845

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2018
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Parliament: Telephone Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what, if any, has been the annual saving to the two Houses of the outsourcing of the switchboard service; and how are the costs of that service apportioned between the two Houses.
	tabling member printed	Lord Palmer
	uin	HL7286
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2018 answer text <p>The Senior Deputy Speaker has asked me, as Chairman of the Services Committee, to respond on his behalf.</p><p>The saving projected when the outsourced switchboard provider, 3C Ltd, changed to Capita PLC in May 2012 was £1.53m. The saving was projected over the course of 7 years, meaning that the average forecast annual saving was £218.57k. Saving over the full 7 year term is now forecast to be £1.88m, providing an average annual saving of £269.33k. The actual saving after 6 years has been £1.45m, with an average annual saving of £242.36k.</p><p>Until 31 March 2015, 20% of costs were apportioned to the House of Lords and 80% to the House of Commons. Since 1 April 2015, 30% of costs are apportioned to the House of Lords and 70% to the House of Commons.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Laming question first answered 10/05/2018 11:41:49 answering member 2079 label Biography information for Lord Laming
	tabling member	3192 label Biography information for Lord Palmer

891846

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2018
	answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
	answering dept id	204
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
	hansard heading	Parliament: Telephone Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what has been the saving to the two Houses arising from the changes to the opening hours of the switchboard service that were introduced in February.
	tabling member printed	Lord Palmer
	uin	HL7287
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2018 answer text <p>The Senior Deputy Speaker has asked me, as Chairman of the Services Committee, to respond on his behalf.</p><p>The changes made in 2017-18 to the service, including the changes in opening hours introduced in February 2018, have delivered a saving of £23.1k in the financial year 2017-18 and are forecast to deliver a saving of £124.3k in the financial year 2018-19.</p><p>The service changes included a change to the call answering Service Level Agreement from 90% of calls being answered in 10 seconds to 85% of calls being answered in 20 seconds, and a change of opening hours during sitting times and recesses, including closure on Sundays and UK Bank Holidays.  The change to the Service Level Agreement, of 85% of calls being answered in 20 seconds, remains a higher standard than the Service Level Agreements of many top companies renowned for delivering excellent service.</p> answering member printed Lord Laming question first answered 10/05/2018 11:42:54 answering member 2079 label Biography information for Lord Laming
	tabling member	3192 label Biography information for Lord Palmer

891324

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Windrush Generation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which company her Department has contracted to manage (a) part or (b) the whole of the Windrush generation helpline.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	137915
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>No third party has been contracted to manage all, or part, of the helpline.</p><p> </p><p>To ensure people had access to the support they needed without delay, between 17 and 20 April ‘Windrush’ related call handling was supported by Sitel. The dedicated Windrush helpline went live on 20 April and is managed and staffed internally from within the Department.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 08/05/2018 14:43:07 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

891399

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether records are kept on the religion of people detained in immigration removal centres; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	137931
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>Under Rule 21 of the Detention Centre Rules 2001, if detainees on admission to an immigration removal centre (IRC) wish to declare that they belong to a particular religion, that information must be recorded. This information is recorded by the IRC service providers on their own internal detainee management systems and is used to inform the religious provision available at the IRC.</p><p>Due to the differing recording methods in place at each of the individual centres information on the religion of people detained in IRCs in each of the last five years could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 137932 question first answered 09/07/2018 17:36:45 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

891318

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential relationship between adverse childhood experiences and (a) violence perpetration by and (b) victimisation of that child.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	138077
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>The Serious Violence Strategy sets out our assessment of the risk and protective factors which impact on an individual’s likelihood of becoming involved in serious violence as a victim or perpetrator.</p><p>The impact of adverse childhood experiences are highlighted within this context and through the Police Transformation Fund the Home Office is providing £7m to the four police forces in Wales and Public Health Wales to develop and test a new approach to prevent and mitigate adverse childhood experiences.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 03/05/2018 15:55:12 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

891400

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people detained in immigration removal centres have identified as (a) Christian, (b) Sikh, (c) Muslim, (d) Jewish, (e) Hindu and (f) atheist in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	137932
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>Under Rule 21 of the Detention Centre Rules 2001, if detainees on admission to an immigration removal centre (IRC) wish to declare that they belong to a particular religion, that information must be recorded. This information is recorded by the IRC service providers on their own internal detainee management systems and is used to inform the religious provision available at the IRC.</p><p>Due to the differing recording methods in place at each of the individual centres information on the religion of people detained in IRCs in each of the last five years could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 137931 question first answered 09/07/2018 17:36:45 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

891450

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Diaries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many page views there were of his Department's Ministerial diaries in each of the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	137922
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2018 answer text <p>Information on Ministry of Justice ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and meetings is <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/moj-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings" target="_blank">published quarterly</a>, the following data covers quarterly releases for the last 12-months:</p><p> </p><p>To date, the page views for each set of data are as follows:</p><ul><li>The January – March 2017 quarterly release has had <strong>62 unique views* </strong></li><li>The April – June 2017 quarterly release has had <strong>63 unique views* </strong></li><li>The July – September 2017 quarterly release has had <strong>65 unique views*</strong></li><li>The October – December 2017 quarterly release - <strong>Not yet published.</strong></li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>*How many times the data download link has been clicked (unique).</strong></p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 16/05/2018 15:49:31 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee previous answer version 54715 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

891471

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2018
	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	Muscular Dystrophy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the suitability of the Single Technology Appraisal process for new treatments for patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
	tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
	tabling member printed	Dame Cheryl Gillan
	uin	137885
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body responsible for developing authoritative, evidence-based guidance for the National Health Service on whether drugs and other treatments represent an effective use of NHS resources.</p><p> </p><p>NICE assesses most significant new drugs through its technology appraisal programme and has been able to recommend a number of drugs licenced for the treatment of rare diseases for routine use on the NHS. NICE also operates a separate highly specialised technology (HST) evaluation programme for the assessment of very high cost drugs for the treatment of very small numbers of patients. Decisions on the most appropriate programme for individual drugs and other treatments are made through an established topic selection process that includes a public consultation and thorough consideration against a set of published criteria.</p><p> </p><p>NICE published HST guidance recommending ataluren for treating Duchenne muscular dystrophy with a nonsense mutation in the dystrophin gene in July 2016 and is currently developing guidance, through its technology appraisal and HST programmes, on other drugs for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 03/05/2018 15:58:20 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan

891337

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2018
	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	Madagascar: Elections
	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 the Government is taking to help promote dialogue between the Government of Madagascar and members of the opposition on the electoral laws recently adopted by that country's Parliament.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	137996
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>​In response to the events of 21 April in Antananarivo, the UK, France, Germany and the EU issued a joint public statement on 22 April. This condemned the violence and called on all political actors to act responsibly. It also called for the rights of freedom of expression and of peaceful assembly to be respected. Our Ambassador in Madagascar, along with other international partners, have made representations at the highest level regarding this, as well as for the constitutionality of the electoral process to be respected, and for the elections themselves to be conducted in a free, fair, transparent and inclusive manner. The UK will work closely with SADC and other international partners on the ground in Antananarivo to support dialogue and a peaceful resolution to the current political tensions. The first round of dialogue took place on 25 April in advance of the deployment of envoys from SADC, the AU and the UN. During SADC’s most recent visit to Antananarivo on 3 April, their delegation met with our Ambassador and with the key Malagasy political actors, and stressed the importance of stability in the run-up to elections.</p> answering member constituency Uxbridge and South Ruislip answering member printed Boris Johnson question first answered 03/05/2018 15:58:35 answering member 1423 label Biography information for Boris Johnson
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

891338

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2018
	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	Madagascar: Politics and Government
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterparts in Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states on a potential role for that organisation in mediating dialogue between the Government of Madagascar and its opposition; and what assessment he he has made of the outcome of the visit undertaken by an SADC delegation to Madagascar on 3 April 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	137997
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>In response to the events of 21 April in Antananarivo, the UK, France, Germany and the EU issued a joint public statement on 22 April. This condemned the violence and called on all political actors to act responsibly. It also called for the rights of freedom of expression and of peaceful assembly to be respected. Our Ambassador in Madagascar, along with other international partners, have made representations at the highest level regarding this, as well as for the constitutionality of the electoral process to be respected, and for the elections themselves to be conducted in a free, fair, transparent and inclusive manner. The UK will work closely with Southern African Development Community (SADC) and other international partners on the ground in Antananarivo to support dialogue and a peaceful resolution to the current political tensions. The first round of dialogue took place on 25 April in advance of the deployment of envoys from SADC, the AU and the UN. During SADC’s most recent visit to Antananarivo on 3 April, their delegation met with our Ambassador and with the key Malagasy political actors, and stressed the importance of stability in the run-up to elections.</p> answering member constituency Uxbridge and South Ruislip answering member printed Boris Johnson question first answered 03/05/2018 16:01:15 answering member 1423 label Biography information for Boris Johnson
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry