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1060482

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Taxation: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on the use of tax raising powers available to that Government.
tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
uin	909253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>I have regular discussions with Scottish Government ministers on a wide range of issues that are important to Scotland’s economic performance. The Scottish Government must work with us on ensuring that Scotland’s economy thrives, but making Scotland the highest taxed part of the UK is setting the wrong signal.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 20/02/2019 15:36:51 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1060560

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Military Decorations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, will the medal submissions previously submitted to the 2012 Medal Review be automatically reconsidered by the new Advisory Military Sub-Committee of the Honours and Decorations Committee without having to be resubmitted.
tabling member constituency	Ross, Skye and Lochaber
tabling member printed	Ian Blackford
uin	220922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The process for assessing historic medals claims will be a matter for the independant Advisory Military Sub-Committee and will be announced by the Cabinet Office in due course.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 19/02/2019 12:08:28 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4390 label Biography information for Ian Blackford

1060562

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Family Planning
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether the Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) initiative, upon which her Department is represented on the Reference Group, is working with the She Decides campaign either informally or formally; and whether her Department has allocated funding to (a) the She Decides campaign and (b) joint projects between the She Decides campaign and the FP2020 initiative.
tabling member constituency	Stone
tabling member printed	Sir William Cash
uin	220758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>The Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) secretariat has not worked with the She Decides campaign. The UK has not allocated any funding to the She Decides campaign.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>DFID works with many partners who support women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. A Minister attended the She Decides launch event, and we were delighted that She Decides held a spotlight event during the Family Planning Summit in London in 2017.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 20/02/2019 14:48:40 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	288 label Biography information for Sir William Cash

1060563

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Maternity Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the finding that her Department's global results claim on saving maternal lives was unable to be confirmed on page i, paragraph 1 of the Executive Summary of the Independent Commission for Aid Impacts report of October 2018, Assessing DFID’s results in improving Maternal Health: An impact review, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of that finding.
tabling member constituency	Stone
tabling member printed	Sir William Cash
uin	220759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>We welcome the Independent Commission for Aid Impact’s impact review on DFID’s results in improving maternal health. The recommendations will feed into DFID’s strategic planning.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Despite the helpful points that the report highlights, we stand by our estimates for the overall number of maternal lives we saved. We used an internationally respected modelling tool – the Lives Saved Tool. We were forced to make some assumptions, however, and therefore used the tool conservatively, excluding some results from large programmes where we could not be sure of accuracy. This was our best way to account for UK Aid to the taxpayer.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 20/02/2019 14:49:51 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	288 label Biography information for Sir William Cash

1060564

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Maternity Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the finding that her Department's recent emphasis on family planning had generated significant shortterm results, but at the expense of a more balanced approach to building up health systems on page 24, paragraph 4.20 of the Independent Commission for Aid Impacts report of October 2018, Assessing DFID’s results in improving Maternal Health: An impact review, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of that finding.
tabling member constituency	Stone
tabling member printed	Sir William Cash
uin	220760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>We welcome the Independent Commission for Aid Impact’s impact review on DFID’s results in improving maternal health. The recommendations will feed into DFID’s strategic planning.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Increasing our family planning portfolio from 2013 was an important move – this was a neglected area with an enormous potential impact, not only for women’s lives but also to societies and economies. Our spending on maternal health was not, however, reduced during this time.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 20/02/2019 14:51:18 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	288 label Biography information for Sir William Cash

1060565

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Maternity Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the finding that her Department overestimated the number of maternal lives its programmes had saved during the 2011 to 2015 by 23,000 lives on page 25, paragraph 4.26 of the Independent Commission for Aid Impacts report of October 2018, Assessing DFID’s results in improving Maternal Health: An impact review, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of that finding.
tabling member constituency	Stone
tabling member printed	Sir William Cash
uin	220761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>We welcome the Independent Commission for Aid Impact’s impact review on assessing DFID’s results in improving maternal health. The recommendations will feed into DFID’s strategic planning.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The report is right that we revised our estimate down as our information changed. Models continually incorporate better data as it becomes available. The maternal lives saved figure reduced when better data from Bangladesh and Ethiopia became available. Additionally, results from a large multi-country programme were excluded to avoid any potential for over-estimation.</p><p> </p><p>A full update is available in this report: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/update-on-results-achieved-by-the-dfid-between-2011-and-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/update-on-results-achieved-by-the-dfid-between-2011-and-2015</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 20/02/2019 14:52:07 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	288 label Biography information for Sir William Cash

1060568

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
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	Food: Imports
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 plans to make it his policy to subject imported products to the same (a) targets and (b) labelling requirements with respect to calorie reduction regulations as those required of UK manufacturers.
tabling member constituency	Bolton West
tabling member printed	Chris Green
uin	220924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2019 answer text <p>The calorie reduction programme that Public Health England (PHE) oversees on behalf of Government challenges all sectors of industry to achieve a 20% reduction in calories in key foods contributing significantly to intakes of children up to 18 years by 2024. The programme is at an early stage with stakeholders having been consulted on initial draft proposed guidelines only in autumn 2018. No decisions have been taken at this stage of development on the guidelines and whether or how these will apply to imported products. PHE is considering the points raised through the consultation and is aiming to publish the guidelines in mid-2019.</p><p>In March 2017 PHE published guidance to assist local authorities in supporting and working with small businesses on voluntary reduction initiatives including calories. This guidance is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/encouraging-healthier-out-of-home-food-provision" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/encouraging-healthier-out-of-home-food-provision</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 220925 question first answered 22/02/2019 14:56:10 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4398 label Biography information for Chris Green

1060569

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
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	Food
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support small businesses to prepare for the new calorie reduction regulations that Public Health England are introducing.
tabling member constituency	Bolton West
tabling member printed	Chris Green
uin	220925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2019 answer text <p>The calorie reduction programme that Public Health England (PHE) oversees on behalf of Government challenges all sectors of industry to achieve a 20% reduction in calories in key foods contributing significantly to intakes of children up to 18 years by 2024. The programme is at an early stage with stakeholders having been consulted on initial draft proposed guidelines only in autumn 2018. No decisions have been taken at this stage of development on the guidelines and whether or how these will apply to imported products. PHE is considering the points raised through the consultation and is aiming to publish the guidelines in mid-2019.</p><p>In March 2017 PHE published guidance to assist local authorities in supporting and working with small businesses on voluntary reduction initiatives including calories. This guidance is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/encouraging-healthier-out-of-home-food-provision" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/encouraging-healthier-out-of-home-food-provision</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 220924 question first answered 22/02/2019 14:56:10 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4398 label Biography information for Chris Green

1060572

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in relation to the Child Maintenance Service policy law and decision-making guidance, entitled relevant other child decision making guidance, whether checks are undertaken during the annual review to ensure that they continue to meet the criteria for the deduction to the non-resident parent's gross weekly income.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	220953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The annual review ensures that the child maintenance liability is based on the paying parents most up to date earnings and reflects any changes in their income during the most recent complete tax year.</p><p> </p><p>Paying parents are legally required to inform the Child Maintenance Service of any change to their circumstances which could affect their child maintenance liability, including changes with regard to other children they are responsible for.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 19/02/2019 15:11:51 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1060573

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) current and (b) projected cashflow is for the High Speed 2 project in the next (i) 12 months, (ii) five years and (iii) 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
uin	220774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>High Speed 2’s (HS2) funding envelope is £55.7bn (in 2015 prices).</p><p> </p><p>At Spending Review 2015, HS2’s annual budgets were set for five years to 2020/21. In 2019/20 HS2’s budget is set at £4.694bn and in 2020/21 it is set at £4.647bn</p><p> </p><p>Future HS2 budgets will be set at the Spending Review later this year.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 20/02/2019 18:24:46 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis