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1051370

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	04/02/2019
	date	30/01/2019
	date tabled	30/01/2019
	ddp created	30/01/2019 19:13:24
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	ddp modified	30/01/2019 19:19:45 04/02/2019 18:22:02
	hansard heading	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Statutory Instruments
	house id	1
	identifier	214570
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	04/02/2019 17:50:07
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2019 to Question 211247, which external organisations have been invited to view each Statutory Instrument in draft; and if he will publish the comments that those organisations have made on each instrument.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Workington
	tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 214570
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	214570
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>Information on stakeholder engagement, where applicable, is contained in the Explanatory Memorandum accompanying each Statutory Instrument (SI). For instance, Defra organised informal discussions with 23 stakeholders on The REACH Regulations 2019, and undertook targeted engagement with stakeholders for the Fisheries Regulations 2019 alongside coverage in the Fisheries White Paper.</p><p> </p><p>Defra has also invited some specialists, on a personal basis, to preview late stage drafts of SIs. This provides an opportunity for technical scrutiny before the SI is laid before Parliament. This is independent of a specialist’s right to comment on SIs once public or as a member of an organisation. So far 44 specialists have been involved.</p>
	creator	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

1051335

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	04/02/2019
	date	30/01/2019
	date tabled	30/01/2019
	ddp created	30/01/2019 19:11:55
	answering body	Department for International Development
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	ddp modified	30/01/2019 19:17:57 04/02/2019 17:44:08
	hansard heading	Venezuela: Reconstruction
	house id	1
	identifier	214469
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	04/02/2019 17:12:15
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what preparations her Department has made for urgent reconstruction work in Venezuela in the event of a change of Government.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 214469
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	214469
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>DFID does not have a bilateral presence in Venezuela. DFID continues to work closely with – and provide significant core funding to – the UN and Red Cross movement to alleviate the worsening humanitarian situation. In the event of a change in government in Venezuela, the international financial institutions will play a key role in supporting any reconstruction work.</p>
	creator	318 label Biography information for John Spellar
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1051211

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	30/01/2019
	date	30/01/2019
	date tabled	30/01/2019
	ddp created	30/01/2019 13:24:58
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	ddp modified	30/01/2019 13:25:09 30/01/2019 15:54:01
	hansard heading	Vocational Guidance: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	identifier	908817
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	30/01/2019 15:22:23
	question text	What steps she is taking to increase the number of career opportunities for young people in Northern Ireland.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
	tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 908817
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	908817
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>This Government is committed to increasing opportunities for all, and ensuring every young person in Northern Ireland is able to fulfill their potential.</p><p> </p><p>Our Industrial Strategy is helping provide employment opportunities for young people by supporting businesses to thrive and grow. Overall employment in Northern Ireland is at a record high and youth unemployment has dropped by over 10% since 2015.</p>
	creator	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

1051349

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	04/02/2019
	date	30/01/2019
	date tabled	30/01/2019
	ddp created	30/01/2019 19:12:32
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	ddp modified	30/01/2019 19:18:41 07/02/2019 10:54:02
	hansard heading	Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
	house id	1
	identifier	214456
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	04/02/2019 16:37:28
	question first ministerially corrected	07/02/2019 10:22:17
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many holdings were tested for bovine tuberculosis using interferon gamma testing; how many animals were tested in each of those holdings using interferon gamma tests; and of those animals tested, how many tested positive in each county of England in 2018.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 214456
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	214456
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The number of holdings in English counties that were subject to interferon gamma testing is set out in the attached table. This includes the number of animals that were tested and the number of samples that were positive.</p>
	creator	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1051216

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	30/01/2019
	date	30/01/2019
	date tabled	30/01/2019
	ddp created	30/01/2019 14:40:09
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	ddp modified	30/01/2019 14:45:13 30/01/2019 15:53:01
	hansard heading	Terrorism: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	identifier	908815
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	30/01/2019 15:21:30
	question text	What progress has been made on the consultation on addressing the legacy of Northern Ireland's past.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	South East Cornwall
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sheryll Murray
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 908815
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	908815
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The public consultation was launched on 11 May and ran for 21 weeks. The Government engaged with a wide range of stakeholders, victims’ and survivors’ groups, political parties, community groups and others, and attended over 30 events to promote it. We are carefully considering all the views received from over 17,000 responses and will provide an update in due course.</p>
	creator	4100 label Biography information for Mrs Sheryll Murray
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4100 label Biography information for Mrs Sheryll Murray

1051351

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	04/02/2019
	date	30/01/2019
	date tabled	30/01/2019
	ddp created	30/01/2019 19:12:37
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	30/01/2019 19:18:47 04/02/2019 17:39:02
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	1
	identifier	214627
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	04/02/2019 17:07:55
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether as a result of the ongoing judicial review into complaints in relation to the equalisation of state pension age, women that have lodged complaints that are being processed will have their complaints (a) paused or (b) closed until the judicial review is complete.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Ged Killen
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 214627
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	214627
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>This government and the various other bodies are acting no differently to all previous governments subject to a legal challenge on such an issue.</p><p> </p><p>Following the High Court’s decision on 30 November 2018 to grant the claimants permission to proceed to a full judicial review hearing on the changes to State Pension age, the department has reviewed its handling of such complaints.</p><p> </p><p>The department has concluded that the issue in the Judicial Review does impact on the ongoing complaints. Therefore, the DWP has decided to temporarily suspend action on current and future complaints on State Pension age matters until the final court decision in the judicial review. We do not think it is appropriate for the DWP to investigate a matter that is currently being considered by the High Court. An update explaining this will be added to the gov.uk website, and anyone who has an affected complaint we will notify. Matters that are unrelated to the judicial review will be progressed as normal under DWP’s complaints procedure.</p><p> </p><p>This approach is consistent with the decision taken by the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman. Following the decision of the High Court to grant permission for a judicial review to go ahead on the changes to State Pension age, the Parliamentary and Health Ombudsman’s office has confirmed that they will be taking no further action on current and future complaints they receive on changes to State Pension age until the court proceedings conclude.</p><p> </p><p>The Independent Case Examiner provides an independent review of complaints which remain unresolved following a final response from the DWP. As such, the Independent Case Examiner has also considered its position in light of the High Court decision. The Independent Case Examiner Office has no role to play in matters which are, or have been, the subject of legal proceedings. As a result, following the High Court decision, the Independent Case Examiners’ Office took action to close all live State Pension age complaints, in line with its agreed operational parameters.</p><p> </p><p>The table provides information on the number of cases closed at the Independent Case Examiner relating to State Pension age changes, and the rationale for closing them. The number rejected (b) may increase (complaints cannot currently be accepted due to the judicial review).</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Reason for complaint closure</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(a) Independent Case Examiner investigation report issued</p></td><td><p>192</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(b) Rejected (the complaint failed to meet the Independent Case Examiner acceptance criteria)</p></td><td><p>1,598</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(c) Withdrawn by complainant</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(d) Closed following the High Court decision to grant permission for a judicial review of the Department’s handling of the change to women’s State Pension age – it is not within the Independent Case Examiner remit to consider issues which are, or have been, subject to legal proceedings.</p></td><td><p>2,505</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In the event that the High Court makes no legal determination in respect of the complaint regarding State Pension age change, the Department will review its position once more and consider lifting the suspension.</p><p> </p><p>At this point the Independent Case Examiner Office could, at the request of the Department, also re-open those complaints closed as a result of the judicial review. This would be on the understanding that: (a) the matter is no longer the subject of legal proceedings and (b) there has been no legal determination on the issues which form the basis of the complaint to the Independent Case Examiner.</p>
	creator	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

1051285

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	04/02/2019
	date	30/01/2019
	date tabled	30/01/2019
	ddp created	30/01/2019 19:09:46
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	ddp modified	30/01/2019 19:15:24 04/02/2019 17:13:05
	hansard heading	General Electric: Rugby
	house id	1
	identifier	214614
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	04/02/2019 16:41:42
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for national security of the proposed relocation of some GE operations from Rugby to France.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 214614
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	214614
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>I refer the hon.Member to the answer I gave on 24 January 2019 to Question 210541 to the hon.Member for Llanelli (Ms Nia Griffith).</p>
	creator	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1051352

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	04/02/2019
	date	30/01/2019
	date tabled	30/01/2019
	ddp created	30/01/2019 19:12:39
	answering body	Department for Education
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	ddp modified	30/01/2019 19:18:51 04/02/2019 15:31:05
	hansard heading	Children: Social Services
	house id	1
	identifier	214628
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	04/02/2019 14:59:03
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of children in (a) the East Midlands, (b) Nottingham and (c) Nottingham North who are taken into social care by court order.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 214628
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	214628
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The government wants every child to be in a stable, loving home that is right for them.</p><p>One of the key principles of the legislation which underpins the UK’s child protection system, is that children are best looked after within their families. However, that is not always possible and, as a last resort, local authorities can apply to the courts for a care or supervision order where the child is suffering, or is at risk of suffering, significant harm. In making their decisions, the courts must be satisfied that the threshold for significant harm has been met and that taking the child from his or her family’s care will be in the child’s best interests.</p><p> </p><p>Where a child cannot live at home, we must make sure they are safe and receive the highest quality care, which is why we are working hard to improve the social care support for children across England through our reform programme, Putting Children First. We have also established the Children’s Social Care What Works Centre, whose initial research priority focuses on ‘what works in safely reducing the need for children to enter care’.</p><p>In the Autumn Budget, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced an additional £410 million for adult and children’s social care in 2019-20. A further £84 million is also being invested over the next 5 years through the Strengthening Families, Protecting Children programme. This will build on three of our most promising Innovation Programme projects, with the aim of improving social work practice to enable children to stay safely at home where that is in their best interests.</p><p>This investment is in addition to the almost £270 million the department has invested in our Innovation and Improvement programmes since 2014. There have been 4 programmes in local authorities in the East Midlands region and over 90 in local authorities across England to help innovate and re-design service delivery to achieve higher quality. The Creating Strong Communities model, for example, developed by North East Lincolnshire has been designed to fundamentally change the way local practitioners and partners in North East Lincolnshire work together to safeguard vulnerable children.</p><p>The number of children taken into care in the East Midlands region and Nottingham local authority area is shown in the attached table. The department does not collect this data by parliamentary constituency area.</p><p>Figures on children taken into care by legal status is published for England in Table C1 of the statistical release “Children Looked after in England including adoptions: 2017:2018” at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018</a></p><p> </p><p> </p>
	creator	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1051353

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	04/02/2019
	date	30/01/2019
	date tabled	30/01/2019
	ddp created	30/01/2019 19:12:42
	answering body	Department for Education
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	ddp modified	30/01/2019 19:18:56 04/02/2019 15:31:03
	hansard heading	Children: Social Services
	house id	1
	identifier	214629
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	04/02/2019 14:59:03
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in (a) the East Midlands, (b) Nottingham and (c) Nottingham North have been taken into social care by court order in the last (i) one, (ii) three and (iii) five years.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 214629
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	214629
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The government wants every child to be in a stable, loving home that is right for them.</p><p>One of the key principles of the legislation which underpins the UK’s child protection system, is that children are best looked after within their families. However, that is not always possible and, as a last resort, local authorities can apply to the courts for a care or supervision order where the child is suffering, or is at risk of suffering, significant harm. In making their decisions, the courts must be satisfied that the threshold for significant harm has been met and that taking the child from his or her family’s care will be in the child’s best interests.</p><p> </p><p>Where a child cannot live at home, we must make sure they are safe and receive the highest quality care, which is why we are working hard to improve the social care support for children across England through our reform programme, Putting Children First. We have also established the Children’s Social Care What Works Centre, whose initial research priority focuses on ‘what works in safely reducing the need for children to enter care’.</p><p>In the Autumn Budget, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced an additional £410 million for adult and children’s social care in 2019-20. A further £84 million is also being invested over the next 5 years through the Strengthening Families, Protecting Children programme. This will build on three of our most promising Innovation Programme projects, with the aim of improving social work practice to enable children to stay safely at home where that is in their best interests.</p><p>This investment is in addition to the almost £270 million the department has invested in our Innovation and Improvement programmes since 2014. There have been 4 programmes in local authorities in the East Midlands region and over 90 in local authorities across England to help innovate and re-design service delivery to achieve higher quality. The Creating Strong Communities model, for example, developed by North East Lincolnshire has been designed to fundamentally change the way local practitioners and partners in North East Lincolnshire work together to safeguard vulnerable children.</p><p>The number of children taken into care in the East Midlands region and Nottingham local authority area is shown in the attached table. The department does not collect this data by parliamentary constituency area.</p><p>Figures on children taken into care by legal status is published for England in Table C1 of the statistical release “Children Looked after in England including adoptions: 2017:2018” at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018</a></p><p> </p><p> </p>
	creator	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1051282

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	04/02/2019
	date	30/01/2019
	date tabled	30/01/2019
	ddp created	30/01/2019 19:09:38
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	ddp modified	30/01/2019 19:15:16 04/02/2019 15:41:02
	hansard heading	Suicide: Bereavement Counselling
	house id	1
	identifier	214538
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	04/02/2019 15:09:35
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's timescale is for rolling out bereavement services for families bereaved by suicide.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 214538
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	214538
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>Funding for mental health will increase by at least £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24, which includes funding to ensure bereavement support in every part of the country by 2023/24. The implementation programme noted in the Long Term Plan will contain further details on the roll-out of these services.</p>
	creator	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger