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1111093

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date	10/04/2019
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	Nurseries: Non-domestic Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what business rate relief is available to independent nursery providers; and on what basis that relief is calculated.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	243301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2019 answer text <p>Since Budget 2016 the Government has introduced a range of business rates measures in England worth £13 billion over the next five years. This includes switching the annual indexation of business rates from the retail price index to the consumer price index, representing a cut in business rates every year to all ratepayers, including nurseries, and saving businesses over £6 billion over the next five years. It also includes doubling small business rate relief from 50 per cent to 100 per cent for eligible businesses and raising the threshold for 100 per cent relief from £6,000 to £12,000. Eligible businesses with a rateable value between £12,000 and £15,000 will be entitled to tapered relief. Independent nursery providers may therefore be eligible for small business rate relief if they occupy a single property with a rateable value below £15,000. After the 2017 revaluation, the Government established a £300 million fund to enable local authorities to provide additional targeted support to their local businesses.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 17/04/2019 14:23:35 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1111098

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Welfare State: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps she is taking to help ensure the continuation of the additional welfare support package due to end next year.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Emma Little Pengelly
uin	243543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Communities in Northern Ireland is responsible for the delivery of the various mitigation schemes relating to welfare reform in Northern Ireland. Their officials are ensuring that appropriate advice in relation to welfare mitigations is available for an incoming Minister.</p><p>In addition, the Northern Ireland Affairs and Work and Pensions Committees are holding a joint inquiry into welfare policy in Northern Ireland. The inquiry will consider the impact of the mitigation package, and how the alternative payment arrangements in Northern Ireland are working in practice.</p><p>It is for the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland to provide the necessary information to facilitate this inquiry.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 243544 question first answered 17/04/2019 14:37:04 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4611 label Biography information for Emma Little Pengelly

1111099

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Welfare State: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether she plans to meet Professor Eileen Evason to discuss the scheduled review of the welfare reform supports put in place by the Northern Ireland Executive and due to end next year.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Emma Little Pengelly
uin	243544
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Communities in Northern Ireland is responsible for the delivery of the various mitigation schemes relating to welfare reform in Northern Ireland. Their officials are ensuring that appropriate advice in relation to welfare mitigations is available for an incoming Minister.</p><p>In addition, the Northern Ireland Affairs and Work and Pensions Committees are holding a joint inquiry into welfare policy in Northern Ireland. The inquiry will consider the impact of the mitigation package, and how the alternative payment arrangements in Northern Ireland are working in practice.</p><p>It is for the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland to provide the necessary information to facilitate this inquiry.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 243543 question first answered 17/04/2019 14:37:04 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4611 label Biography information for Emma Little Pengelly

1111102

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Crowdfunding
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on schools in England using crowdfunding to raise money for supplies.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	243362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not collect information about how many schools use crowdfunding to raise money for supplies. Schools’ financial returns show that income from donations and voluntary funds has remained steady at about 0.7% of schools’ overall budgets since 2011-12.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 23/04/2019 07:25:36 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1111106

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
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	Cannabis: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what advice has been issued to Clinical Commissioning Groups on the criteria for the prescription of medicinal cannabis.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	243575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2019 answer text <p>The Chief Medical Officer and NHS England issued a letter on the 31 October 2018, and a supplementary letter on 20 November 2018, providing guidance to clinicians, the National Health Service and independent organisations following the rescheduling of cannabis-based products for medicinal use on 1 November 2018. This signposts interim guidance issued by the Royal College of Physicians, British Paediatric Neurology Association and Association of British Neurologists.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), has been commissioned to develop guidelines on the prescribing of cannabis-based medicinal products by October 2019. The guidance will focus on four indications: chronic pain, intractable nausea and vomiting, treatment-resistant epilepsy and spasticity. It will be based on the best available international evidence and produced using NICE’s world-renowned process for delivering such guidelines. This guidance will update and replace the interim guidance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 17/04/2019 12:26:52 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1111112

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Investment: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons the mini-bond market is not regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich West
tabling member printed	Mr Adrian Bailey
uin	243341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>It is not a regulated activity for firms to issue their own securities, including mini-bonds, due to an exemption within the Regulated Activities Order 2001. This exemption exists to ensure that companies in the real economy can raise finance to fund their business without having to become authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).</p><p> </p><p>However, to protect consumers, the marketing and promotion of such securities, including mini-bonds, are subject to the financial promotion restrictions set out in the Financial Services and Markets Act. This requires that the content of any financial promotion be approved by an FCA authorised firm unless an exemption applies. It is the responsibility of the FCA authorised firm to ensure the financial promotion is clear, fair and not misleading. Authorised firms that fail to meet these requirements may be subject to enforcement action by the FCA.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury keeps the regulatory framework for financial services under review, and updates it as necessary. We are committed to maintaining a strong and safe financial system, with high standards of consumer protection. On 1 April, I announced that I will direct the FCA to launch an investigation into the events at London Capital &amp; Finance, a firm which issued mini-bonds in order to fund loans that it made to other parties. This followed a request from the FCA Chair, Charles Randell, to launch such an investigation.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 23/04/2019 13:02:29 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	320 label Biography information for Mr Adrian Bailey

1111113

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
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	Pregnancy Tests
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 April 2019 to Question 239926 on Pregnancy Tests, for what reason previous studies were not considered robust; and what the extensive limitations were.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	243382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>The Commission on Human Medicines Expert Working Group on Hormone Pregnancy Tests considered that the key limitations of previous studies related to the accuracy of recording of what drug was taken by the women; clarity over the timing of administration during pregnancy; adjustment for confounding factors; selection of controls; and the statistical methodology.</p><p> </p><p>The Expert Group used a quality scoring system to evaluate the quality of each individual study according to a set of seven pre-defined quality criteria. The criteria and score agreed by the Expert Working Group for each study are published in Annex 27 of the final report.</p><p> </p><p>The criteria for selecting members of the Expert Working Group were based on the expertise needed to evaluate all aspects of the questions before the Group and the types of data that would need to be assessed. Membership included those with expertise in pharmaco-epidemiology, including perinatal and paediatric epidemiology, medical statistics, embryology, clinical genetics, gynaecology, reproductive endocrinology, toxicology and pharmacology.</p><p> </p><p>The process for selecting members was in line with established policy for expert groups of the Commission on Human Medicines, with the nominations being agreed by the Commission and endorsed by Ministers.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 243383 question first answered 15/04/2019 14:23:24 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1111114

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
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	Hormone Pregnancy Tests Expert Working Group
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 criteria were for selecting members of the Expert Working Group for Hormone Pregnancy Tests.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	243383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>The Commission on Human Medicines Expert Working Group on Hormone Pregnancy Tests considered that the key limitations of previous studies related to the accuracy of recording of what drug was taken by the women; clarity over the timing of administration during pregnancy; adjustment for confounding factors; selection of controls; and the statistical methodology.</p><p> </p><p>The Expert Group used a quality scoring system to evaluate the quality of each individual study according to a set of seven pre-defined quality criteria. The criteria and score agreed by the Expert Working Group for each study are published in Annex 27 of the final report.</p><p> </p><p>The criteria for selecting members of the Expert Working Group were based on the expertise needed to evaluate all aspects of the questions before the Group and the types of data that would need to be assessed. Membership included those with expertise in pharmaco-epidemiology, including perinatal and paediatric epidemiology, medical statistics, embryology, clinical genetics, gynaecology, reproductive endocrinology, toxicology and pharmacology.</p><p> </p><p>The process for selecting members was in line with established policy for expert groups of the Commission on Human Medicines, with the nominations being agreed by the Commission and endorsed by Ministers.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 243382 question first answered 15/04/2019 14:23:24 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1111115

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	River Thames: Boats
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he last met with (a) Transport for London and (b) the Port of London Authority to discuss the effect of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s proposals on older UK passenger boats on the tidal River Thames.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	243482
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>Ministers have regular meetings with the Port of London Authority (PLA) and Transport for London to discuss a range of matters. Both PLA and Transport for London were advised of the consultation.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 23/04/2019 14:03:42 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1111117

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Department for International Development: Secondment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2019 to Question 234782 on Department for International Development: Secondment, what the length of secondment is for those 74 staff already deployed.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	243538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>DFID continues to work to support other government departments’ increased resource demands as a result of the UK’s exit from the EU, whilst ensuring continued delivery of its core business. DFID is working closely with OGDs to match to urgent EU Exit resource requirements across government. Deployment periods are varied, depending on the nature of the work required but do not exceed the Government’s no deal response period.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 16/04/2019 16:16:32 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill