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1063552

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date	18/02/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Flybmi: Insolvency
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to repatriate UK passengers stranded overseas by the collapse of Flybmi; and whether they intend to take action to minimise the cost of such repatriations to the UK taxpayer.
tabling member printed	Lord Myners
uin	HL13790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department recognises that this is a disruptive time for passengers, and the government’s immediate priority is to support those affected.</p><p> </p><p>The Department of Transport is working closely with the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and the travel industry to ensure that the collapse of Flybmi is managed with minimal impact to affected passengers. Given the number of consumers affected, the CAA believes that there is sufficient capacity available in the market to repatriate passengers as necessary. The CAA has put in place comprehensive consumer advice to allow passengers to make their own travel arrangements. The majority of such passengers will be able to recover costs through their credit / debit card bookings, or from travel insurance. A significant number of affected passengers also hold tickets from other airlines who will be responsible for making alternative flights. The CAA has also received a strong positive response to its request to industry to make discounted rescue fares available, and details have been made available on the CAA website. These actions ensure that the cost of repatriation to the UK will not be borne by HMG and therefore UK taxpayers.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 21/02/2019 16:13:45 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners

1063585

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Asylum: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many pending tribunals involving asylum application cases there were on 1 January of each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	222575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>The number of registered asylum appeals outstanding in the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal as at 1<sup>st</sup> January<sup>2</sup> in each of the years requested is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>6,407</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>10,143</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>10,497</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>4,838</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2,045</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><sup>1 </sup>The data are Management Information taken from the tribunal’s case management system. They do not form part of the published statistics.</p><p>² Outstanding data on 1<sup>st</sup> January is at close of business on 31st December of the previous year.</p><p> </p><p>Tribunal statistics are published on a quarterly basis and are available at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</p><p> </p><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service has worked extensively to reduce the outstanding caseload and improve timeliness for all appeal types in the Immigration and Asylum Chamber. This has seen the live caseload in the First-tier Tribunal more than halve from 64,800 to 31,500 between July 2016 and September 2018. The average duration has also improved from 52 weeks in the period July to September 2017 to 39 weeks in the period July to September 2018. For asylum appeals in the same period the average time has come down from 28 weeks to 25 weeks.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/02/2019 16:46:09 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1063586

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Open Individual Export Licences: Cryptography
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if he will publish the manufacturers in receipt of Open Individual Export Licences for (a) 5E002, (b) 5A002 and (c) 5D002 on UK Strategic Export Control Lists (i) 2018-04-16 to Bahrain; (ii) 2018-04-16 to Egypt; (iii) 2018-04-16 to Jordan; (iv) 2018-04-16 to Kuwait; (v) 2018-04-16 to Lebanon; (vi) 2018-04-16 to Oman; (vii) 2018-04-16 to Pakistan; (viii) 2018-04-16 to Qatar; (ix) 2018-04-16 to Saudi Arabia; and (x) 2018-04-16 to United Arab Emirates.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	222576
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>I am withholding the names of those in receipt of the Open Individual Export Licences as disclosure would prejudice commercial interests.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 21/02/2019 12:08:38 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1063591

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line: Buckinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2019 to Question 216885 on High Speed 2 Railway Line: Buckinghamshire, how long those sites will accommodate construction workers; and whether construction workers' families will also be accommodated on the sites.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Dame Cheryl Gillan
uin	222580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>Based on the Environmental Statement, the approximate duration for accommodation is 3 years 6 months at the A41 Bicester Road compound and 3 years 9 months at the Small Dean compound. The sites are for construction workers and not families.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 21/02/2019 14:23:36 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan

1063592

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much under contract (a) has been paid and (b) will be paid by (i) HS2 Ltd and (ii) his Department in relation to High Speed Two to (A) Dods Group Plc for parliamentary monitoring and political services and (B) Edge Picture Company for corporate training, promotional and broadcast media films.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Dame Cheryl Gillan
uin	222596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>The HS2 overall funding envelope is £55.7bn and we report annually via HS2 Ltd’s annual reporting account on overall spending.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 21/02/2019 16:37:10 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan

1063599

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
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	Homelessness: Nottinghamshire
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 much funding (a) Ashfield District Council and (b) Broxtowe Borough Council have received from the Homelessness Relief Fund.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	222603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities, including both Ashfield District Council and Broxtowe Borough Council, receive funding to prevent and relieve homelessness from my Department. This includes preventing homelessness core funding and flexible homelessness support grant funding. However, we do not operate a fund called the Homelessness Relief Fund and are therefore unable to provide the specific information you request.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 21/02/2019 13:38:43 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

1063601

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Music: English Baccalaureate
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of the introduction of the EBacc on the number of students studying music post-14.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	222586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>The English Baccalaureate (EBacc) should be studied as part of a broad and balanced curriculum. The attached table shows that the proportion of students taking GCSE music since 2010 when the EBacc was introduced has fluctuated but remained broadly stable.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/02/2019 13:06:53 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 222586_Pupils_Studying_GCSE_Music_2010_to_2018.pdf title 222586_Pupils_Studying_GCSE_Music_2010_to_2018
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1063605

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason claimants of universal credit are subject to a five week delay before payment in cases where the claimant is (a) transferring from another benefit; (b) has just left a weekly paid job and (c) has just left a job with a zero hours contract.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	222590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>All Universal Credit claimants are subject to an initial assessment period, regardless of the circumstances that have led to a claim. Assessment periods allow for Universal Credit awards to be adjusted on a monthly basis, ensuring that if a claimant’s income falls, they do not have to wait several months for a rise in their Universal Credit award.</p><p>To support claimants with the move to Universal Credit, we have announced that from July 2020 their existing DWP legacy benefit will continue for two weeks with no requirement to repay the overlap. A similar run-on is already in place for Housing Benefit claimants who move to Universal Credit as a result of a change in circumstances.</p><p>New claimants to Universal Credit can also apply for a Universal Credit Advance in their first month if they need some financial support until the first regular payment of Universal Credit is made.</p><p>We have previously increased the maximum amount available for advances from 50 per cent to 100 per cent of the total award, and increased the repayment period from 6 months to 12 months.</p><p>It was also announced in the 2018 Budget that from October 2021 we will extend the maximum period over which advances can be recovered from 12 to 16 months. This will enable the maximum possible advance return to current levels for all claimants.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 21/02/2019 16:38:03 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1063606

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 18 February 2019 to Question 220054 on Universal Credit, if she will make an assessment of the effect of the five week waiting time for universal credit on levels of indebtedness among claimants.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	222591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department offers a range of support to support claimants until their first Universal Credit payment.</p><p> </p><p>Over the last year we have introduced an additional 2 weeks of Housing Benefit to eligible claimants to support them when they move to Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>We have increased the amount and repayment period for Universal Credit new claim and benefit transfer advances. From October this year we will reduce the maximum rate at which deductions can be made from a Universal Credit award from 40% to 30% of the standard allowance. From October 2021 the recovery period will increase from 12 to 16 months.</p><p> </p><p>At the Autumn Budget 2018, we also announced the introduction of a two-week continuation of Income Support and the income related elements of Employment and Support Allowance and Jobseeker’s Allowance from July 2020.</p><p> </p><p>There is no assessment planned of this nature.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 21/02/2019 16:49:21 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1063609

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
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	Universal Credit: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 18 February to Question 220052 on Universal Credit, if she will publish the evidential basis for the statement that the indications at this stage are that Universal Credit actually helps to clear these arrears over time; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	222594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>Following the initial work summarised in the NAO report with a single housing provider, we are currently carrying out analysis of this issue with a number of housing providers, to investigate and understand the true level of rent arrears for their tenants, what is causing them and any impacts Universal Credit may be having. It will be published when completed.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 21/02/2019 15:43:46 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms