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1010570

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Domestic Waste: Health Hazards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 12 October 2018 to Question 174604, whether he has made an assessment of the effect on public health of local authorities charging for the collection of garden waste.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	193362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government has not carried out any assessments of the effect on public health of local authorities charging for garden waste collection. Local authorities are able to charge for garden waste collection and make local decisions on whether to levy a charge ideally in consultation with local residents.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 28/11/2018 17:34:53 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1010573

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance he has given to Police and Crime Commissioners on the use of (a) reserves and (b) deficit budgets for the purposes of providing for pension costs.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	193363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office has established a working group with representatives of Police and Crime Commissioners and forces to determine the best way to manage the potential impact of increased pensions costs</p><p>The Budget made clear that part of these costs will be met from the Treasury Reserve in 2019/20. As the Chancellor set out in his speech, the Home Secretary will review police spending power ahead of the 2019/20 provisional police funding settlement which is expected to be published next month</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 07/03/2019 17:59:59 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1010576

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Housing: Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2018 to Question 190338 on Housing: energy, how much Homes England plans to spend on increasing the energy efficiency of the existing housing stock over the next (a) five and (b) 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	193364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>Homes England are rightly focused at ensuring more homes are built where the country needs them most, and therefore have no specific commitments regarding energy efficiency of existing stock.</p><p>However, this Government is firmly committed to raising energy efficiency in existing homes and has launched a number of initiatives to tackle this issue. In particular the Clean Growth Strategy aims to ensure that as many homes as possible will be upgraded to an Energy <br> Performance Certificate Band C by 2035, where practical, cost effective and affordable.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 28/11/2018 16:16:55 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1010592

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Incinerators: Health Hazards
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 has (a) undertaken and (b) made an assessment of the outcomes of studies produced by other bodies of the effects on (a) air quality and (b) human health of different sized waste incinerators.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	193365
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) funded the Small Area Health Statistics Unit, and King’s College London, to carry out a study to further extend the evidence base as to whether emissions from modern municipal waste incinerators affect human health.</p><p> </p><p>This study has considered municipal waste incinerators across England, Wales and Scotland, which varied in licensed throughput from 3,500 to 750,000 tonnes per year, and a number of which were located in urban areas.</p><p> </p><p>The study found that the amount of particulate matter people are exposed to from the emissions of different sized incinerators is very low.</p><p> </p><p>The first of a series of papers from this study was published on 22 November 2018. The paper ‘Fetal growth, stillbirth, infant mortality and other birth outcomes near UK municipal waste incinerators; retrospective population based cohort and case-control study’ is available to view at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412018316398" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412018316398</a></p><p> </p><p>The paper found no evidence of a link between exposure to particulate matter emitted from modern municipal waste incinerators as modelled from emissions data, or living close to modern municipal waste incinerators, and infant mortality, low birth weight, still birth or the other birth outcomes investigated.</p><p> </p><p>Further papers are currently under review at peer-reviewed journals and will be published once this process is complete.</p><p> </p><p>PHE’s position remains that well run and regulated modern municipal waste incinerators are not a significant risk to public health.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 193366 question first answered 28/11/2018 17:36:37 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1010593

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Incinerators: Health Hazards
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 has made an assessment of the effects on human health of waste incinerators situated in urban areas.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	193366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) funded the Small Area Health Statistics Unit, and King’s College London, to carry out a study to further extend the evidence base as to whether emissions from modern municipal waste incinerators affect human health.</p><p> </p><p>This study has considered municipal waste incinerators across England, Wales and Scotland, which varied in licensed throughput from 3,500 to 750,000 tonnes per year, and a number of which were located in urban areas.</p><p> </p><p>The study found that the amount of particulate matter people are exposed to from the emissions of different sized incinerators is very low.</p><p> </p><p>The first of a series of papers from this study was published on 22 November 2018. The paper ‘Fetal growth, stillbirth, infant mortality and other birth outcomes near UK municipal waste incinerators; retrospective population based cohort and case-control study’ is available to view at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412018316398" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412018316398</a></p><p> </p><p>The paper found no evidence of a link between exposure to particulate matter emitted from modern municipal waste incinerators as modelled from emissions data, or living close to modern municipal waste incinerators, and infant mortality, low birth weight, still birth or the other birth outcomes investigated.</p><p> </p><p>Further papers are currently under review at peer-reviewed journals and will be published once this process is complete.</p><p> </p><p>PHE’s position remains that well run and regulated modern municipal waste incinerators are not a significant risk to public health.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 193365 question first answered 28/11/2018 17:36:37 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1010594

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Incinerators: Health Hazards
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 he takes to assess the potential effects on human health of proposed waste incinerators.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	193367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>In order to be allowed to operate, waste incinerators must obtain an environmental permit from the Environment Agency. Under environmental permitting, the Environment Agency is responsible for ensuring that the proposed plant will comply with all relevant legislation and that it will not cause significant harm to the environment or human health.</p><p> </p><p>Checks that the Environment Agency carries out to assess the potential health effects of proposed waste incinerators include:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>Making sure that the proposed plant will meet the requirements of relevant European directives, including emission limits and the use of best available techniques to prevent or minimise emissions.</p></li><li><p>Carrying out an environmental impact assessment of emissions from the plant to ensure that it will not give rise to significant pollution or cause environmental standards to be exceeded, and a specific human health risk assessment for dioxin emissions.</p></li><li><p>Taking into account scientific opinion, including advice provided by Public Health England (PHE) on the health effects of incinerators. The Environment Agency also consults PHE, the Food Standards Agency and the relevant local authority’s Director of Public Health for their views on every EfW plant application they receive.</p></li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 27/11/2018 17:35:33 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1010692

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Eritrea: Religious Freedom
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the level of religious freedom and tolerance in Eritrea.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	193383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>​The overwhelming majority of people in Eritrea can practise their religion peacefully and are allowed to do so. However, the detention of individuals and groups from proscribed religious groups, and senior individuals from religious organisations, is of concern. The UK regularly raises this matter at UN Human Rights Council dialogues on Eritrea.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 23/11/2018 14:44:40 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1010697

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Eritrea: Emigration
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 people seeking to leave Eritrea; and what steps the Khartoum Process is taking to reduce this.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	193384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>There are no reliable figures for the number of people leaving Eritrea.</p><p>The UK plays a leading role in the Khartoum Process. It is a member of the steering committee, and has ensured the €46 million Better Migration Management (BMM) programme, which supports the Process, includes projects to improve the capacity of governments in the region to manage their borders, alongside the protection and support of migrants. The UK has offered its support to the Eritrean Government's Chairmanship of the Khartoum Process in 2019, drawing on our own experience as chair in 2016.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 26/11/2018 16:56:52 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew