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973175

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Hare Coursing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2018 to Question 129098, how many reports of hare coursing were received in each year since 2014; and how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there have been relating to hare coursing in 2018 to date.
	tabling member constituency	South Cambridgeshire
	tabling member printed	Heidi Allen
	uin	174788
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>Offences of hare coursing may be prosecuted using offences created by the Game Act 1831, the Night Poaching Act 1828 and the Hunting Act 2004.</p><p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold any record of the number of reports of hare coursing offences made to the police.</p><p>The CPS does not maintain a central record of the number of prosecutions for offences of hare coursing. This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 09/10/2018 10:42:11 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4516 label Biography information for Heidi Allen

973192

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Local Government: Elections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the number of people turned away from polling booths during the Voter ID pilot at the Local Elections was in comparison to the number of people charged with voter ID fraud over the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	174750
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to making sure that our electoral system is fit for the future. Vulnerabilities cannot be allowed to undermine the integrity of our democracy.</p><p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission collates and publishes information on allegations of electoral fraud at elections each year. Reports for 2014 - 2017 polls are available on the Electoral Commission website and a report covering polls held in 2018 will be published in due course.</p><p> </p><p>The success of the voter ID pilots proves that this is a reasonable and proportionate measure and voters were fully aware of the changes on polling day. The overwhelming majority of electors who turned up to vote did so with the right documents and had confidence in knowing how to cast their vote.</p><p> </p><p>The evaluations of the voter ID pilots which include data on the number of people turned away from polling stations can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-subject/electoral-fraud/voter-identification-pilot-schemes" target="_blank">https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-subject/electoral-fraud/voter-identification-pilot-schemes</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733128/Electoral_Integrity_Project_-_Local_Elections_2018_-_Evaluation.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733128/Electoral_Integrity_Project_-_Local_Elections_2018_-_Evaluation.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 09/10/2018 11:02:44 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

973193

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Constituencies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the total cost to the public purse was of the Boundary Commission Review.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	174751
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>The information is not yet available. Figures for expenditure over each previous financial year are published by the separate Boundary Commissions for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland as part of their annual reports.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 09/10/2018 11:03:47 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

973196

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Knives: Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many criminal incidents which included the use of a bladed weapon were reported to the police in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	174754
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply and I would be depositing a copy in the Library of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 09/10/2018 11:03:11 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ174754.pdf title UKSA response
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

973303

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cybercrime: USA
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 12 October 2017 to Question 106493 on Cybercrime: USA, whether the National Cyber Security Centre plans to publish the outcome of its pilot; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	174710
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has committed to publish its findings when the ongoing review of the pilot of the model to receive, review and remediate vulnerability disclosures concludes. This will involve an update on the NCSC website, along with an ISO/IEC 29147 compliant vulnerability disclosure process.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 09/10/2018 10:59:58 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

973344

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Billing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister of the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure that all Government suppliers are signatories of the Prompt Payment Code.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	174704
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>In 2015 the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy strengthened the Prompt Payment Code. The majority of government's 28 strategic suppliers are signatories the Prompt Payment Code, promising to pay suppliers, including small businesses in their supply chain, promptly and fairly. A list of these signed suppliers has been published on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>. Payment practices of those strategic suppliers who are not signatories to the Code, are regularly monitored to ensure that they are in line with the aims of prompt payment policy.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, all public sector buyers must have 30 day payment terms in their contracts and through their supply chains; they must also publish their payment performance bi-annually.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 09/10/2018 11:00:33 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

972261

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Employment: Pregnancy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of workplace support provided to pregnant women and new mothers.
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	uin	906879
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>There is a range of advice and guidance available for pregnant women and new mothers and their employers. This sets out legal rights and obligations, and good practice - supporting pregnant women and new mothers in the workplace.</p><p> </p><p>It is periodically reviewed – for instance, we are currently looking at the advice and guidance on GOV.UK regarding pregnancy and maternity discrimination to see how we can improve it.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 13/09/2018 15:24:05 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

973185

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the 2018-19 Main Estimates, how much funding his Department has allocated to prepare for the UK to leave the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	174775
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>HM Treasury has already allocated over £2 billion of additional funding to departments and the devolved administrations for EU exit preparations so far. A full breakdown of how this was allocated to departments can be found in my rt. hon. Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury’s Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS540, made on the 13 March 2018: <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 09/10/2018 13:50:30 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

973214

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Citizens Advice: Merseyside
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the level of Government funding for the Citizens Advice Service in (a) Wirral and (b) Merseyside was in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Wallasey
	tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
	uin	174635
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>This is not information that central government either holds or requests since funding for local Citizens Advice, including those in the Wirral and Merseyside, is provided by local not central government.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 09/10/2018 13:48:52 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

973218

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Wallasey
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to support micro-enterprises in Wallasey constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Wallasey
	tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
	uin	174639
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>Through our Industrial Strategy, we will make sure that we are using all the tools we have to support business growth in places such as the Liverpool City Region boosting productivity and ensuring an economy that works for everyone.</p><p> </p><p>We are helping small businesses grow through access to detailed advice and guidance on GOV.UK and the Business Support Helpline. We have already invested £12 million in the 38 Growth Hubs inthe Local Enterprise Partnership areas providing tailored advice to businesses across England. We are providing a further £24m to continue funding Growth Hubs for the next 2 years. The Liverpool City Region Growth Hub, which covers Wirral and the Wallasey constituency, has supported over 15, 632 businesses and helped 3,500 individuals to start a business.</p><p> </p><p>In February 2017, through the government-owned British Business Bank (BBB), we launched the £400 million Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund to give small businesses in the North access to finance to help them start-up and grow. 40 investments or loans have been made in the Liverpool City Region worth £8m with two investments made in the Wallasey constituency, totalling £350, 000.</p><p> </p><p>The Regional Growth Fund which was established to help create jobs and businesses grow has contracted £97.2m to businesses in the Liverpool City Region helping to create or safeguard 11,264 jobs. Of this £8.4m has been contracted to businesses in Wirral supporting 188 jobs.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, we have invested over £1.5 billion through the Local Growth Fund in North West projects to boost local economies. We will invest £332m in Liverpool City Region Local Enterprise Partnership area creating 15,400 jobs. This will support projects such as the Wirral Metropolitan College Extreme Low Energy Project and a number of improvements to the key route networks in your constituency.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst grouped question UIN 174640 question first answered 15/10/2018 16:02:19 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle