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1002741

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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	Ali Salman
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2018 to Question 152848 on Ali Salman, what assessment his Department has made of potential extent of due process violations during the prosecution of the case of Bahraini political opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	188693
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Rt Hon. member will have seen my statement of 4 November where I expressed my concerns on the further sentencing of Sheikh Ali Salman. I understand that he now has a further opportunity of appeal. <br> <br>The UK has raised this case at senior levels with the Government of Bahrain. Most recently, I discussed my concerns on the sentencing with the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the UK on 5 November. We will continue to closely monitor the case.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 12/11/2018 16:07:34 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1002742

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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	Ali Salman
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment the Government has made of the validity of the reported statement by the Government of Qatar denying communications with Bahraini political opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	188694
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Rt Hon. member will have seen my statement of 4 November where I expressed my concerns on the further sentencing of Sheikh Ali Salman. I understand that he now has a further opportunity of appeal.</p><p>The UK has raised this case at senior levels with the Government of Bahrain. Most recently, I discussed my concerns on the sentencing with the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the Court of St James’ on 5 November. We will continue to closely monitor the case as it makes its way through the judicial system. Should we have concerns we will raise them at an appropriately senior level with the Government of Bahrain.</p><p>It would be inappropriate for me to comment on statements by the State of Qatar concerning the Kingdom of Bahrain.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 12/11/2018 17:27:49 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1002744

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	United Arab Emirates: Military Aid
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assistance his Department has provided to the Government of the United Arab Emirates on counter terrorism in Yemen in (a) 2016, (b) 2017 and (c) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	188696
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence did not provide assistance to the government of the United Arab Emirates on counter-terrorism in Yemen in 2016, 2017 or 2018.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 12/11/2018 15:48:32 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1002745

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Channel Tunnel: Domestic Visits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and which (a) ministers and (b) officials of his Department have visited the Channel Tunnel at Folkestone over the last 12 months; when those visits took place; and how long was spent at the border in each of those visits.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	188697
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Channel Tunnel was last visited by a Department for Transport Minister when the Secretary of State for Transport, Rt Hon Chris Grayling MP, visited on 25 October 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Numerous officials from across the Department for Transport engage with and visit the Channel Tunnel in the course of their duties. Due to the number and variety of official level engagements it is not possible to provide a detailed breakdown of these visits as the information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 12/11/2018 14:19:03 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1002735

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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	Help to Buy Scheme
	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 help to buy equity loans have been made since the start of that scheme; and of those loans what proportion were for leasehold properties.
	tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
	tabling member printed	Teresa Pearce
	uin	188801
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>Help to Buy: Equity Loan has helped 169,102 households buy a new-build home from its launch on 1 April 2013 until 31 March 2018.</p><p>To end March 2018, overall, 24.9 per cent of these were for leasehold properties: 12.0 per cent of houses were leasehold and 92.8 per cent of flats were leasehold.</p><p>Statistical data is set out at Table 9, 9a and 9b in the quarterly statistical release to March 2018:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/734061/HTB_EL_and_HTB_NewBuy_statistical_release.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/734061/HTB_EL_and_HTB_NewBuy_statistical_release.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/11/2018 17:20:36 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4003 label Biography information for Teresa Pearce

1002629

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's Advice Note 19, Advice for building owners on spandrel panels-window panels-infill panels on external walls, published on 17 October 2018, whether the Government has examined Cross-laminated timber cladding as part of its investigation into the risks of non-aluminium composite material combustible cladding materials.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	188834
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Building Research Establishment has informed building owners where samples of cladding materials submitted under the Government’s screening programme were not aluminium composite material and has catalogued those samples for further consideration by the Department in its on-going work to assess potential risks associated with non - Aluminium Composite Materials (ACM) cladding. The Department has also commissioned Building Research Establishment to undertake further research into non - ACM cladding materials.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 188835 188836 188837 question first answered 12/11/2018 17:20:02 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1002632

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's Advice Note 19, Advice for building owners on spandrel panels-window panels-infill panels on external walls, published on 17 October 2018, whether the Government has examined expanded polystyrene external wall insulation as part of its investigation into the risks of non-aluminium composite material combustible cladding materials.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	188835
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Building Research Establishment has informed building owners where samples of cladding materials submitted under the Government’s screening programme were not aluminium composite material and has catalogued those samples for further consideration by the Department in its on-going work to assess potential risks associated with non - Aluminium Composite Materials (ACM) cladding. The Department has also commissioned Building Research Establishment to undertake further research into non - ACM cladding materials.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 188834 188836 188837 question first answered 12/11/2018 17:20:02 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1002635

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's data release entitled Building Safety Programme: Monthly Data Release for September 2018, whether the Government plans to conduct further testing on the 1,393 samples held at the Building Research Establishment containing non-aluminium composite material combustible cladding materials.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	188836
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Building Research Establishment has informed building owners where samples of cladding materials submitted under the Government’s screening programme were not aluminium composite material and has catalogued those samples for further consideration by the Department in its on-going work to assess potential risks associated with non - Aluminium Composite Materials (ACM) cladding. The Department has also commissioned Building Research Establishment to undertake further research into non - ACM cladding materials.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 188834 188835 188837 question first answered 12/11/2018 17:20:02 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1002636

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's Building Safety Programme: Monthly Data Release, published on 14 September 2018, whether the Government plans to conduct further testing on the 1,393 samples held at the Building Research Establishment containing non-aluminium composite material combustible cladding materials.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	188837
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The Building Research Establishment has informed building owners where samples of cladding materials submitted under the Government’s screening programme were not aluminium composite material and has catalogued those samples for further consideration by the Department in its on-going work to assess potential risks associated with non - Aluminium Composite Materials (ACM) cladding. The Department has also commissioned Building Research Establishment to undertake further research into non - ACM cladding materials.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 188834 188835 188836 question first answered 12/11/2018 17:20:02 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1002534

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) number and (b) outcome of appeals against decisions by local authorities on special educational needs, and their preceding education health and care plans, there were (i) in each local authority area and (ii) for each condition in each of the last five years; and what the cost to the public purse was of such appeals in that same period.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	188821
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>Due to the volume of data required to answer the question in respect of appeals against special education needs decisions made by local authorities, I will arrange for this information, broken down by local authority, to be placed in the Library of the House.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the cost to the public purse for these appeals prior to the 2015/16 Financial Year is not available at this time, but I can confirm that the total cost of the operation of the First-tier Tribunal (Special Educational Needs and Disability) (FtT SEND) was:</p><p> </p><p>In 2015/16 - £2,983,418</p><p>In 2016/17 - £3,347,986</p><p>In 2017/18 - £4,008,647</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 12/11/2018 17:34:14 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy