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917532

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date	05/06/2018
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	Wines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support small vineyards in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	150237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>Defra does not distinguish between small or large vineyards, but has been working hard to support the growth and development of our flourishing domestic wine production sector as a whole.</p><p> </p><p>Under the current Rural Development Programme we have provided £2.736m in direct support for vineyard projects against total project costs amounting to £7.086m. This funding has been used to support various initiatives including infrastructure projects such as helping build or develop wineries or tourist facilities, to purchase winery equipment, and even the development of a smartphone app that will amongst other features, show users where their nearest vineyard is located.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 11/06/2018 13:05:33 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

917533

registered interest
date	05/06/2018
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	Continuing Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of funding for the NHS was allocated to NHS continuing healthcare in the (a) 2016-17 and (b) 2017-18 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	150160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2018 answer text <p>NHS Continuing Healthcare is funded by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) from their overall revenue allocations. It is for CCGs to make decisions on funding based on the needs of their local populations, however, when someone is assessed as eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare, CCGs are responsible for funding the full care package to meet their assessed needs.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016/17, the overall spend for NHS Continuing Healthcare packages of care was £3,112,362. It is estimated that is approximately 2.9% of the overall 2016/17 NHS Mandate revenue allocation.</p><p> </p><p>In 2017/18, the overall spend for NHS Continuing Healthcare packages of care was £3,152,965. It is estimated that is approximately 2.9% of the overall 2017/18 NHS Mandate revenue allocation.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 13/06/2018 13:53:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

917534

registered interest
date	05/06/2018
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	Continuing Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of funding for the NHS his Department plans to allocate to NHS continuing healthcare in the (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	150161
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2018 answer text <p>NHS Continuing Healthcare is funded by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) from their overall revenue allocations. It is for CCGs to make decisions on funding based on the needs of their local populations, however, when someone is assessed as eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare, CCGs are responsible for funding the full care package to meet their assessed needs.</p><p> </p><p>It is estimated that spending on NHS Continuing Healthcare will increase by over 20% by 2020/21, or an average of approximately 3.9% per year.</p><p> </p><p>It is not currently possible to accurately estimate the proportion of overall National Health Service spend on NHS Continuing Healthcare for future years.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 13/06/2018 13:54:52 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

917535

registered interest
date	05/06/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Portsmouth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has assessed the effect on tourism of the reduction in the level of train services to Portsmouth Harbour under new Southern Rail timetable.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	150243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Transport has not made any assessment of the impact of the new Southern Rail timetable on tourism in Portsmouth. Timetables are agreed between the train operating company and Network Rail.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 12/06/2018 07:32:17 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

917536

registered interest
date	05/06/2018
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	Continuing Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to take steps to reduce the growth in spending on NHS continuing healthcare without reducing the standards of care provided to patients.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	150162
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2018 answer text <p>NHS England’s NHS Continuing Healthcare Strategic Improvement Programme aims to provide fair access to NHS Continuing Healthcare in a way which ensures better outcomes, better experience, and better use of resources.</p><p> </p><p>Planned efficiencies are not predicated on changes to eligibility or on limiting the care packages available. Clinical commissioning groups have a responsibility to ensure high standards of care and a reduction in the growth in spending will not impact this.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 13/06/2018 13:56:53 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

917537

registered interest
date	05/06/2018
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	Planning Permission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many planning applications rejected by their relevant planning authority have subsequently been granted by the Planning Inspectorate in each calendar year since 1 January 2011; and if he will publish that same data by planning authority.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Gareth Snell
uin	150208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>The relevant information can be found at:</p><p><br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/planning-inspectorate-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/planning-inspectorate-statistics</a></p><p><br>Table 2.4 gives overall planning appeals received and allowed back to 2010 (by financial year)</p><p><br>Table 5.1 gives the local authority splits for Planning for the last financial year (2017/18 only)</p><p><br>We also publish the entirety of our appeals data (in the interest of transparency) at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/planning-inspectorate-appeals-database" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/planning-inspectorate-appeals-database</a></p><p><br>which is published every quarter and covers a rolling 5 years’ worth of appeal decisions.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 12/06/2018 16:30:01 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4595 label Biography information for Gareth Snell

917538

registered interest
date	05/06/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Food
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to help eradicate world hunger.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	150238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>DFID puts the Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2) to end hunger, achieve food security and improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture, at the centre of our work to eradicate extreme poverty, deliver inclusive economic development and build resilience.</p><p> </p><p>Spend through our bilateral and multilateral agriculture programmes to reduce hunger and under-nutrition has increased, from £243million (2012) to £484 million (2015) and roughly £600 million in 2016. We are also working to shape the multilateral agenda. The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program harness both public and private investments for SDG2 and implements through a range of multilateral institutions.</p><p> </p><p>DFID is a global leader in addressing acute hunger through humanitarian and famine relief. DFID has also committed to improve the nutrition of 50 million people overseas by 2020 and published a Position Paper setting out our plans. Total spend on nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive programmes has increased, from £304 million (2012) to £667 million (2015).</p><p> </p><p>We are also supporting robust monitoring of progress against the agreed indicators for SDG2 to be achieved by 2030.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 12/06/2018 13:55:13 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

917539

registered interest
date	05/06/2018
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	Continuing Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to take steps to reduce the growth in spending on NHS continuing healthcare without reducing the number of patients who are eligible for continuing healthcare funds; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	150163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2018 answer text <p>NHS England’s NHS Continuing Healthcare Strategic Improvement Programme aims to provide fair access to NHS Continuing Healthcare in a way which ensures better outcomes, better experience, and better use of resources.</p><p> </p><p>The programme will not change the threshold for eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare, which is based on a multidisciplinary assessment of needs as set out in the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care, together with secondary legislation to give statutory effect to the eligibility criteria and the decision-making processes.</p><p> </p><p>There should be no quota or cap on access to NHS Continuing Healthcare funding and the programme does not aim to reduce spending on NHS Continuing Healthcare, but to reduce the rate of growth of expenditure. The projection is for spending on NHS Continuing Healthcare to increase by over 20% by 2020/21, or an average of approximately 3.9% per year.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 13/06/2018 13:58:31 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

917540

registered interest
date	05/06/2018
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	Continuing Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to reduce the growth in spending on NHS continuing healthcare without increasing the number of continuing healthcare patients who are placed in residential care facilities; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	150164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2018 answer text <p>Eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare is determined following a multidisciplinary assessment of needs as set out in the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care.</p><p> </p><p>If an individual is eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare and requires a placement in a nursing or residential care home this will be determined locally by the clinical commissioning group, in accordance with the National Framework.</p><p> </p><p>The National Framework makes it clear that an individual’s preferences must be taken into account when agreeing the contents and setting of a care package.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 13/06/2018 13:59:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

917541

registered interest
date	05/06/2018
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	Peacekeeping Operations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of UK citizens serving as UN peacekeepers.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	150239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2018 answer text <p>740 British forces personnel are currently serving in seven UN missions in six countries: primarily in South Sudan, Cyprus and Somalia, with smaller deployments to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Mali and Libya. Further data including a detailed breakdown of troop contributions to UN missions by country can be found on the UN website at <a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/troop-and-police-contributors" target="_blank">https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/troop-and-police-contributors</a>.</p><p>Alongside troops and police, there are 12,830 civilians currently serving in UN peacekeeping operations. These civilians are employed directly by the UN. A number of these civilians will be British citizens. Information on the number of British citizens working for the United Nations is not collected by the British Government. Data relating to civilian personnel in UN peacekeeping missions can be found on the UN website at https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/data.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 12/06/2018 15:41:54 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker