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1121526

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date	11/04/2019
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	101 Calls: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether there is a requirement for telephone providers to have a 15 pence service charge for calls made to the police on the non-emergency 101 number.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	244013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>There is no obligation on telecom service providers to supply the 101 service free of charge as is the case with 999/112 under the 2003 Communications Act. Calls to 101 cost 15p from a mobile device or landline phones, from anywhere in the country and regardless of duration. Calls are free from payphones. The public have always paid to contact the police by telephone for non-emergencies and the 15p cost of the call goes to the telephony providers to cover the cost of carrying the calls. The police and government receive no money from calls to 101.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 29/04/2019 15:04:14 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1121338

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Deer: Conservation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he had had with his counterparts in devolved Administrations on a UK-wide deer cull to tackle damage to countryside and crops.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	244091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>I have not had any discussions with the devolved administrations on this.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 29/04/2019 12:36:37 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1121512

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) Entry Clearance Officers and (b) Entry Clearance Managers are employed on a permanent and full time basis in decision-making hubs in (a) Pretoria, (b) Abuja, (c) Lagos, (d) Accra, (e) Croydon and (f) Sheffield.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	244085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish the information requested.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 29/04/2019 15:17:39 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1121491

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
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	Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit: Dupuytren's Contracture
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if the Minister will take steps to ensure that no recipient will be financially disadvantaged by the delay to including Dupuytren's Contracture in the list of prescribed diseases for Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit by April 2019.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	244053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The usual Departmental rules will apply in relation to backdating and posthumous claims, which means that claims may be backdated by up to three months from the date of claim, provided relevant evidence is available. Posthumous claims can be made within twelve months of the date of death. However, benefit cannot be paid in respect of a period prior to the date the disease is legally added to the schedule of prescribed diseases.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/04/2019 12:45:37 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1121406

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
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	Internet: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will fund an initiative to offer training on use of the internet for elderly people in their local area in cooperation with local councils.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	244095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>Government is committed to helping elderly people acquire basic digital skills as part of our broader strategy to reduce digital exclusion as outlined in the Digital Strategy.</p><p> </p><p>The ‘Future Digital Inclusion’ programme delivered through Online Centres based in libraries and other community spaces has supported over 1 million adult learners to develop their basic digital skills, including elderly people.</p><p> </p><p>Government has also published plans to introduce an entitlement to full funding for basic digital courses from 2020, similar to the entitlements already in place for maths and English. This will provide adults of any age the opportunity to undertake improved qualifications based on new national standards free of charge.</p><p> </p><p>Through its £400,000 Digital Inclusion Innovation Fund, the Government is supporting three pilot projects aimed at addressing the digital exclusion of older and disabled people. One pilot, is developing “smart homes” for elderly people to improve their digital skills, supported by their peers and younger ‘digital buddies’.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 245824 question first answered 29/04/2019 15:08:02 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1121397

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
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	Mobile Libraries: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure the adequacy of the level of funding to ensure a mobile library in each local authority area.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	244094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 requires local authorities in England to provide a comprehensive and efficient library service, within available resources. In considering how best to deliver this statutory duty, each local authority is responsible for determining local needs, which may include the provision of a mobile library service.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 29/04/2019 11:47:26 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1121446

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Electronic Tagging
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 28 March 2019 to Question 234706 on Offenders: Electronic Tagging, how many offenders have taken part in each of the GPS electronic tagging pilots in each month since the pilots started.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	244087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The tables below provide information on the number of individuals on a GPS tag per month during the Ministry of Justice GPS pilot. The Pilot ran in two regional police force clusters: the Midlands (Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and West Midlands) and BeNCH (Bedfordshire, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire). The learning from the Pilot has been incorporated into the new national location monitoring service announced by the Secretary of State on 16 February. This will help strengthen supervision, enforce exclusion zones and give victims greater peace of mind. More detail about the Pilot, including the cohorts involved, can be found here <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/process-evaluation-of-the-global-positioning-system-gps-electronic-monitoring-pilot" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/process-evaluation-of-the-global-positioning-system-gps-electronic-monitoring-pilot</a></p><p> </p><p>The numbers of new starts in the Pilot dropped to zero a few months before the end of the Pilot. This was because the Pilot was scheduled to last for 18 months, ending on 31 March 2018. As most electronic monitoring orders last several months, the MoJ imposed a cut-off date for fitting new tags three months before the Pilot was due to end. This ensured that decision makers were not, for example, ordering new tags to be fitted only a few weeks before they would have to be removed.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 shows the total number of individuals wearing a GPS tag at the end of every month.</p><p> </p><p>Table 2 shows the number of new GPS starts each month.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 29/04/2019 16:39:49 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1121437

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
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	Personal Independence Payment: British Students Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the financial effect on students in receipt of personal independence payments (PIP) caused by her policy that students in receipt of PIP who are studying abroad must return to the UK every 12 weeks in order to not lose their rights to their benefits.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	244132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The rules allowing for temporary absence abroad apply to Attendance Allowance, Carer’s Allowance, Disability Living Allowance and Personal Independence Payment and were subject to consultation in 2012 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/dla-reform-and-pip-completing-the-detailed-design" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/dla-reform-and-pip-completing-the-detailed-design</a>). Under that consultation we had originally proposed a temporary absence rule of four weeks. However, respondents to the consultation told us that the time period was too short and would negatively impact on certain people such as:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Full time students studying abroad as part of their degree course</li><li>People volunteering abroad</li><li>Disabled athletes travelling to race meetings/competitions</li><li>Those undertaking summer internships</li><li>Disabled people who require extra time to travel and recuperate</li></ul><p> </p><p>As a consequence of this consultation, and the suggestions received, we amended our proposal so that a period of 13 weeks would be allowed. This period of time was chosen in part to cover term time absences for students and also to allow people a longer period to visit families living abroad where a long journey may be required.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/04/2019 12:57:52 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1121556

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Shipping: Noise
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of underwater noise emissions from commercial shipping on wildlife in UK territorial waters.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	244061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>Under the UK Marine Strategy, the UK Government is working to ensure that underwater noise-generating human activities do not pose a significant risk to marine ecosystems.</p><p> </p><p>We currently have a limited understanding of the distribution of noise in UK seas and its impact on vulnerable species. To address this in relation to sources of continuous noise such as shipping, the UK has established a noise monitoring network, consisting of long-term monitoring stations deployed in coastal waters. The information from this monitoring network will be matched with species distributions and used to inform future policy.</p><p> </p><p>At present, it remains unclear whether changes in shipping activity have resulted in an increase in continuous noise levels. The International Maritime Organization has made recommendations to improve efficiency standards in newly built ships, which will also make them less noisy (more hydrodynamic ships are more efficient and also tend to create less noise).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 29/04/2019 15:10:57 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1121521

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
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	Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
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 19 March 2019 to Question 232109 on Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations, whether the design of the proof of concept will take account of the potential effect of reducing conditionality requirements on the Department’s ability to safeguard vulnerable claimants.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	244201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 4 April 2019 to Questions <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=239290" target="_blank">239290</a>, <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=239290" target="_blank">239291</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=239290" target="_blank">239292</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Small numbers of participants involved may limit the ability to breakdown the data by specific groups.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 244198 244199 244200 question first answered 29/04/2019 17:12:57 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova