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1081852

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date	04/03/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Fossil Fuels: Export Credit Guarantees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of additional carbon dioxide that has been emitted in each of the last five years as a result of UK Export Finance funding for fossil fuel projects overseas.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	228121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>UK Export Finance (UKEF) reports estimated operational greenhouse gas emissions through its website (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ukef-environmental-social-and-human-rights-risk-management" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ukef-environmental-social-and-human-rights-risk-management</a>). UKEF reports this for all projects it supports which fall under the OECD Recommendation on Common Approaches and Social and Environmental Due Diligence and where operational phase annual greenhouse gas emissions are calculated to exceed 25,000 tonnes of CO<sub>2</sub> equivalent.</p> answering member constituency Meon Valley answering member printed George Hollingbery question first answered 07/03/2019 16:31:30 answering member 4016 label Biography information for Sir George Hollingbery
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1081857

registered interest
date	04/03/2019
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	Civil Society
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to page 33 of the Government's August 2018 Civil Society Strategy, what steps his Department has taken explore further initiatives based on the learnings from the funding model adopted by the social sector during the Grenfell response.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	228125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>The voluntary and community sector was vital to the response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy, helping those in need at an extremely distressing time and coordinating resources and funding to support those affected.</p><p>MHCLG worked closely with London Funders and other partners to bring organisations together and work at pace across boundaries, in the interests of the emergency response - stepping outside normal processes, contributing over £1.75 million specifically to support charities and community organisations playing an integral role in the response to the fire.</p><p>The Government continues to work collaboratively with sector partners to navigate opportunities, as demonstrated by on ongoing work to build socially and economically empowered communities. Our work includes detailed economic assessment of assets in community ownership to get a better understanding of ‘what works’ to support communities; simplified bidding process on the Pocket Parks and the Open Doors programme, and support for the MyCommunity website to sign-post community organisations to a wide range of information and best practice.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 07/03/2019 17:31:06 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1081858

registered interest
date	04/03/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Civil Society
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 37 of the Government's August 2018 Civil Society Strategy, what progress has been made on his Department's target of training a further 3,500 people in community organising through a national network of Social Action Hubs and partnerships with public and social sector organisations by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	228126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>Government is fully committed to the Civil Society Strategy: it is the beginning of an ambitious, evolving work programme to help build a strong society. Following the success of the Community Organisers Programme (2011-2015), we launched the Community Organisers Expansion Programme in early 2017 to train 3,500 more individuals, across England, by March 2020.</p><p> </p><p>By March 2019, 2,000 people have been trained in community organising through a variety of routes; via 20 Social Action Hubs (grass roots organisations developing local practice of community organising and social action), public sector training courses, and partnerships with organisations including Local Trust, NALC, Neighbourhood Watch, and the National Citizen Service.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 07/03/2019 13:28:21 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1081860

registered interest
date	04/03/2019
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	NHS: Voluntary Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 41 of the Government's August 2018 Civil Society Strategy, what steps his Department has taken with NHS England to strengthen volunteering within the NHS, spreading impact volunteering opportunities in priority areas across the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	228128
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department is committed to working closely with NHS England on delivering the ambitions in the NHS Long Term Plan.</p><p> </p><p>The Long Term Plan sets out well designed volunteering initiatives, including a £2.3 million programme to fund Helpforce. The aim of the programme is to build an infrastructure for volunteering in the National Health Service so that it is ready to be adopted at scale across the service and to develop a model of support for all volunteering which operate in NHS settings.</p><p> </p><p>Helpforce is working with 12 NHS hospital trusts to develop high-impact volunteer innovations that will be refined and shared to help other trusts in the United Kingdom adopt effective volunteer services.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 07/03/2019 12:21:14 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1081862

registered interest
date	04/03/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Civil Society
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 41 of the Government's August 2018 Civil Society Strategy, what steps his Department has taken to further embed and scale people taking action as a core part of how public services are delivered and explore how the government can best continue to back and scale high impact social value initiatives.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	228129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2019 answer text <p>The government is investing £7.5m in innovative social action projects, including early years interventions, support for savers, and initiatives that help people to volunteer throughout the lifecourse.</p><p> </p><p>We are also supporting local authorities to embed social action in the way they deliver their services. We have reached over 900 commissioners, civil society organisations and councillors across the country through our Enabling Social Action Programme. In February, we announced the ten places who will receive a share of £2.3 million to devise programmes that enable people to take action on the issues they care about.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 07/03/2019 14:18:10 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1081873

registered interest
date	04/03/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Heathrow Airport: Pollution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has undertaken an impact assessment on (a) noise pollution and (b) air pollution that would be caused by the changes to flight paths proposed under the Heathrow Airspace and Future Operations Consultation.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	228135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>The Appraisal of Sustainability<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup> that accompanies the Airports National Policy Statement provides a strategic level assessment of the potential noise and air pollution impacts, based on indicative flight paths.</p><p> </p><p>If expansion proceeds, the exact noise and pollution impacts will depend on the final flight path design which must be approved through the Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) Airspace Change Process.</p><p> </p><p>This regulatory process will provide further opportunities for stakeholders to be informed by, and comment on, more detailed flightpath proposals. The process also requires that the feedback received by the sponsor of the change is taken into consideration fully before the final proposal is submitted to the CAA for regulatory approval.</p><p> </p><p><sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/appraisal-of-sustainability-for-the-proposed-airports-national-policy-statement" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/appraisal-of-sustainability-for-the-proposed-airports-national-policy-statement</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 11/03/2019 15:15:30 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed