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1036917

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date	07/01/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Pay
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the number of workers in the UK who are paid more than £21,000 a year.
tabling member printed	Lord Green of Deddington
uin	HL12559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Letter from </strong><strong>John Pullinger</strong><strong>, National Statistician, to The Lord Green, dated 9 January 2019.</strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Dear Lord Green,</p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what the estimate of the number of workers in the UK is who are paid more than £21,000 a year <strong>(HL12559).</strong></p><p>The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings [1] (ASHE), carried out in April each year is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. ASHE is used to produce estimates of the number of employee jobs, which are defined as those held by employees and not the self-employed. Please note that ASHE is based on a 1% sample of employee jobs taken from HM Revenue and Customs' Pay As You Earn (PAYE) records. Consequently, individuals with more than one job may appear in the sample more than once.</p><p>The estimate of employee jobs earning more than £21,000 per year in April 2018 [2] (the latest period for which ASHE estimates are available) in the UK is 12,826,000. This estimate includes apprentices and is based upon employees that have been in their current job for at least a year and are on an adult rate of pay. Yours sincerely, John Pullinger</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/previousReleases" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/previousReleases</a></p><p>[2] 2018 data are provisional.</p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 10/01/2019 16:27:03 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4346 label Biography information for Lord Green of Deddington

1036999

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Rape: Convictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the conviction ratio was for rape offences in the 12 months to June 2018.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Ann Coffey
uin	205826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>Conviction ratios for individual offences are currently published up to December 2017. Figures for individual offences such as rape for 2018 are subject to ongoing data processing and validation and will be published in May 2019. The conviction ratio for rape offences in the 6 months to December 2017 can be calculated using the Outcomes by offence data tool at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017</a>.<ul><li>Drag the ‘Year’ and ‘Quarter’ variables into the Filter box and select 2017 and Q3 and Q4</li><li>Search for ‘rape’ in the ‘Offence’ filter and ensure all rape offences (19C to 19H) are selected</li><li>The conviction ratio can be calculated as the number of convictions as a proportion of the number of proceedings</li></ul>Conviction ratios for more recent periods are currently only published for higher level offence groups (in this case, sexual offences) and the latest figures are available in the Overview Tables here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-june-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-june-2018</a>.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/01/2019 16:53:51 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	458 label Biography information for Ann Coffey

1037000

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Hope Valley Line
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department plans to allocate funding for improvements to the Hope Valley line.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	205946
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department is updating the business case for the Hope Valley Capacity scheme to secure a ‘Decision to Deliver’. When we are in a position to announce a delivery date, it will be with the assurance that it is value for money and deliverable by that date. We anticipate being in that position later this year.</p><p> </p><p>Network Rail are undertaking pre-construction planning to enable the scheme to be delivered as quickly as possible. They will be working with the train operators to assess the best way to deliver the scheme with the least disruption to passengers and freight.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 10/01/2019 16:23:38 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1037001

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
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	Mental Health Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to increase funding for children's mental health services in the next financial year.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	205947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan, published on 7 January 2019, announced that mental health services will continue to receive a growing share of the National Health Service budget, with funding to grow by at least £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24. Under this Long Term Plan, funding for children and young people’s mental health services will grow faster than both overall NHS funding and total mental health spending.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 10/01/2019 15:26:53 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1037012

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
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	Mental Health Act 1983 Independent Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timetable is for the Government's response to the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act published on 6 December 2018.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	205860
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>We welcome the publication of final report of the independent review of the Mental Health Act 1983, which was commissioned by the Prime Minister.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will consider the report and its recommendations in detail and respond in due course. We remain committed to reforming mental health law and have committed to develop and bring forward legislation when parliamentary time allows.</p><p> </p><p>We have already accepted two of the recommendations of the review; the establishment of new statutory advance choice documents, so that people’s wishes and preferences carry far more legal weight, and the creation of a new role of ‘nominated person’ to be chosen by the patient to replace the current nearest relative provisions. This will support the review’s overall purpose of increasing patient rights and improving the way the Act works for people.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 205229 205230 question first answered 10/01/2019 15:29:01 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1037016

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, to publish the legal advice it has received in respect of leaving the European Economic Area Agreement [1994] specifically regarding Her Majesty's Government's legal submissions to the High Court in the case of R (Yalland and Wilding) v SSEU [2017] that Article 126 as giving rise to termination of the EEA Agreement ipso jure; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	205956
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>As a matter of course, the Government does not publish legal advice.</p><p>The EEA Agreement only applies to the UK in its capacity as an EU Member State. The EEA Agreement will no longer operate in respect of the UK when we leave the EU. However, at the March European Council we agreed with the EU that the UK is to be treated as a Member State for the purposes of international agreements for the duration of the implementation period. This includes the EEA Agreement. Alongside the Withdrawal Agreement, the EU undertook to notify its treaty partners that the UK is to be treated as a Member State for the purposes of EU international agreements during the implementation period.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 14/01/2019 12:27:23 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1037018

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	Parliamentary Estate: Newspaper Press
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, on what commercial basis newspapers and other publications are distributed from stands in the parliamentary estate.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	205960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The newspapers that are available in the library and reception areas across the parliamentary estate are purchased as part of a larger contract that is held jointly by the House of Commons and House of Lords. The contract was awarded following an open procurement carried out in 2015/16. It was awarded to Jones Yarrell Leadenhall (Menzies Distribution Plc) for an initial three year period with the option to extend for a further two years.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 11/01/2019 12:36:13 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1037020

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
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	Nicaragua: Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the authorities in Nicaragua on upholding the human rights of (a) Amaya Coppens and (b) other human rights defenders in that country; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	206030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The UK is deeply concerned about the Nicaraguan Government's repression against its citizens who criticize the Government, including human rights defenders. The persecution includes intimidation, harassment, arbitrary detention and torture. The UK continues to call on Nicaragua to end this repression and cease its mistreatment of human rights defenders. We are aware of the particular case of Amaya Coppens, a Belgian/Nicaraguan dual citizen student protestor. As Belgium itself does not have a presence, the resident Luxembourg mission in Managua has been allowed access to trial hearings.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 11/01/2019 13:59:49 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1037023

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Port of Dover: Road Traffic
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what cost was incurred to the public purse by congestion testing between Manston airport and the Port of Dover on 7 January 2019.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	206033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>The cost to reimburse hauliers for operational costs, and reimbursement for site management costs incurred by the owners of Manston airfield, was £60,000-65,000. There will also have been some small costs to Kent Police and Kent County Council to enable their staff to attend the trial.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 10/01/2019 16:02:17 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1037025

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Christ Church College: Disciplinary Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has had discussions with the University of Oxford on its governance following the suspension of the Dean of Christ Church cathedral and college Oxford; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	205879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>There have been no discussions. Higher education providers’ governance arrangements are matters for the Office for Students (OfS), the independent regulator of higher education in England.</p><p>The OfS requires all registered providers to meet the public interest governance principles, which include that all providers must operate openly, honestly, accountably and with integrity and demonstrate the values appropriate to be recognised as an English higher education provider.</p><p>If providers fall short, the OfS has powers to intervene. The OfS considers a range of factors before deciding whether an intervention is required, including reputational damage to the higher education sector caused by the actions of a provider registered with the OfS.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 205880 question first answered 10/01/2019 17:29:50 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell