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	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	Visas: India
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will respond to EDM 876 on visitor visas for people from India.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
	tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
	uin	137600
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The UK continues to work with India to develop our bilateral relationship to deliver real benefits to both countries.</p><p>Visitors from India are important to our tourism market and the Government is committed to offering the most efficient and customer focused visa service in India.</p><p>Since January 2016 the UK has offered a two-year validity visit visa to Chinese nationals for the same price as a six-month visa. This is a pilot scheme, which we are running to assess the benefits and impacts of such an approach, and which will be subject to proper evaluation. There are currently no plans to extend this pilot to any other countries.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 30/04/2018 15:05:06 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

891308

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	West Bank: Demolition
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the humanitarian effects of recent trends in the number of demolitions and evictions in the West Bank.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	138070
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>Demolitions of Palestinian homes and buildings, and evictions of the residents, cause unnecessary suffering to ordinary Palestinians, are harmful to the peace process and, in most circumstances, are contrary to international humanitarian law. According to the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian affairs, 97 structures were demolished or seized in the West Bank in the first quarter of 2018 (January-March), including homes and livelihood structures. The humanitarian effects include impact to children’s education, displacement, psychological distress and damage of livelihoods. The UK continues to make clear to the Israeli authorities our serious concerns over the demolitions and evictions of Palestinians from their homes.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 02/05/2018 16:56:18 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

891309

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Sustainable Development
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the role of his Department is on contributing to UK implementation of UN Sustainable Development Goal 12 on sustainable consumption and production.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	138078
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>HM Treasury supports the wider work of the government on this issue through spending but also sets environmental tax policy, encouraging more sustainable production and consumption.</p><p> </p><p>For example, the Carbon Price Support incentivises investment in renewable energy and has contributed to a rapid decline in the use of coal in power generation. This helps to deliver cleaner energy for manufacturers and consumers. In the construction industry, the Aggregates Levy is shifting demand towards recycled and byproduct building materials and reducing the need to quarry for new materials. Tax is also transforming how we deal with waste. Since the Landfill Tax was introduced in 2000, the amount of waste going to landfill has decreased by 65% in the UK. Recycling has increased from 18% to 44% over the same period.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury is now exploring how the tax system or charges could be used to make the production and consumption of single-use plastics more sustainable. The Chancellor further supported this goal by committing £20m to businesses and universities, acting now to stimulate new thinking and rapid solutions in this area.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 02/05/2018 12:54:02 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

891310

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Private Rented Housing: Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has (a) commissioned and (b) completed an (i) external and (ii) internal analysis of the effect of the roll-out of universal credit on the availability of private rented accommodation for households receiving the housing element of universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	137907
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to working with the Department for Work and Pensions and stakeholders across the private rented sector to understand how we can make best use of our financial levers and existing powers to support tenants to access good quality and affordable accommodation. Universal Credit is already significantly improving the rate at which those claiming benefits return to work. Being in employment improves the housing choices of those who would otherwise have remained dependent on benefits.</p><p>More than 1 million people in England who rent privately are in receipt of Housing Benefit and the housing element of Universal Credit (over 200,000 in London). In December 44 per cent of households claiming housing support under Universal Credit were in the private rented sector.</p><p>The Government is helping benefit claimants to access the private rented sector where LHA rates have diverged the most from local rents through further Targeted Affordability Funding in 2018/19 and 2019/20 and enhanced Discretionary Housing Payment funding for local authorities to protect the most vulnerable claimants impacted by welfare reforms such as freeze to LHA rates.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 30/04/2018 14:51:48 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

891311

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Internet
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to Answer of 29 March 2018 to Question 132881 on Government Departments: Internet, if he will publish the data for each publication from his Department in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	137912
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>Information on Cabinet Office ministerial gifts, hospitality, travel and external meetings is published quarterly. To date, the page views for each set of data are as follows:</p><p> </p><p>January – March 2017 <strong>1976</strong></p><p>April – June 2017 <strong>2401</strong></p><p>July – September 2017 <strong>1636</strong></p><p>October – December 2017 <strong>622</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-transparency-publications" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-transparency-publications</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 15/05/2018 16:02:20 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

891312

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2018
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Music: Intellectual Property
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether he plans to include protection of music intellectual property rights within a future Digital Charter.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	138071
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The purpose of the Digital Charter is to make the internet work for everyone. It is a rolling programme of work to agree norms and rules for the online world and put them into practice. As part of the Charter we are looking at the legal liability that online platforms have for the content shared on their sites.</p><p> </p><p>The creative industries sector deal will also help the whole of the creative industries protect and enforce their copyright including through an expansion of voluntary work with industry along the lines of the IPO’s groundbreaking search roundtable process<strong>.</strong></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 30/04/2018 09:31:18 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

891313

	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	Social Services: Hemsworth
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of social care capacity in the Hemsworth constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	137913
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2018 answer text <p>Commissioning social care is a matter for local authorities who are best placed to understand the needs of local people and communities, and how best to meet them. This includes understanding local needs for residential and nursing care home beds. For this reason, the Care Act 2014 placed duties on local authorities to shape their local markets so that there is an adequate supply of provision which ensures all adult social care service users have a choice of high quality services.</p><p> </p><p>Hemsworth constituency is in Wakefield local authority. Wakefield’s number of care home beds has been stable at around 2,800 over the past five years, whilst its number of domiciliary care agencies has grown by around 25%.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has given councils access to up to £9.4 billion more dedicated funding for social care over three years. The action we have taken means that overall, councils are able to increase spending on adult social care in real terms for each of the three years from 2017/18.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 01/05/2018 14:18:38 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

891314

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Environment Protection: Public Bodies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the quantum of additional funding to be provided to enable the establishment of a new UK Environmental Protection Agency.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	138079
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has been allocated £310m additional funding in 2018-19 from the Reserve to address additional activities arising from the UK’s exit from the European Union. These activities include establishing a new environmental body. The government will be consulting shortly on environmental governance, including proposals for this body.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 30/04/2018 15:33:27 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

891315

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Interserve
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department collects information on the proportion of funding allocated to Interserve which is spent by that company on subcontracting work.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	137914
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>Cabinet Office does not hold information centrally on non SME subcontractor spend by individual Strategic Suppliers.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 03/05/2018 14:13:38 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

891316

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Annuities: Low Incomes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the oral contribution of the Economic Secretary to the Treasury of 19 October 2016 sale of annuities Official Report, column 812, what the timetable is for his Department to publish plans to support pensioners on low incomes with annuities.
	tabling member constituency	South Thanet
	tabling member printed	Craig Mackinlay
	uin	138082
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>In October 2016, the Government announced that it would not continue with proposals to create a secondary market in annuities. The conditions required for a competitive market could not be balanced with sufficient consumer protections and it would not have been appropriate to allow a market to develop which would have produced poor outcomes for consumers.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring that older people are able to live with the dignity and respect they deserve and the State Pension is the foundation of state support for older people, with a full new State Pension now worth £164.35 per week. In addition, the Government provides Pension Credit which targets help towards the poorest pensioners who for whatever reason have been unable to provide for their retirement.</p><p> </p><p>The Government also provides bus passes for free travel once an individual reaches the female State Pension age and Winter Fuel Payments to help with heating costs during the winter.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 30/04/2018 14:54:30 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4529 label Biography information for Craig Mackinlay