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1127076

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2019
	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	Cybersecurity
	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 he plans to update the content of the Cyber Essentials programme.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	255315
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>An independent academic evaluation of the effectiveness of Cyber Essentials found that its security controls work well to mitigate the vast majority of Internet-based threats. These security controls are kept under continual review. The primary objective for Cyber Essentials is to help all organisations mitigate cyber security risks, especially small and medium-sized organisations. The Government continues to work to ensure Cyber Essentials has the greatest impact for the majority of the target audience and is currently developing the scheme to ensure a) the journey to certification is as simple as possible, and b) the technical controls remain fit for purpose in the ever-changing cyber threat landscape.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 254783 question first answered 23/05/2019 15:57:24 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

1127164

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Model Aircraft
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of the forthcoming Drone Registration Scheme on aero modellers flying of small air vehicles that are not drones.
	tabling member constituency	South Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Alberto Costa
	uin	255347
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2019 answer text <p>The Drone Operator Registration Scheme will apply from November 2019 and is one of several new measures to address the safety and security challenges that unmanned aircraft pose. It will help law enforcement agencies to tackle the misuse of such aircraft effectively, alongside new Police powers, which will be introduced in the upcoming Drones Bill.</p><p> </p><p>In response to the Department’s 2018 consultation on unmanned aircraft, the Government stated that any alternative approach for model flyers must be achieved without imposing undue burden on the state and the taxpayer, whilst also being efficient and enforceable, without compromising the integrity of the policy. Any blanket exemption from registration and competency tests for aero modellers, or having the associations register their members into the registration scheme, will not meet these criteria.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 24/05/2019 09:23:16 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	4439 label Biography information for Alberto Costa

1127189

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Development Aid: Fracking
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much (a) official development aid and b) non-official development aid has been spent via the Prosperity Fund by his Department to provide fracking expertise to foreign Governments since 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	255375
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The Department for International Development has not used the Prosperity Fund to spend any ODA or non-ODA to provide fracking expertise to foreign Governments.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 21/05/2019 15:50:33 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1127190

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2019
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Fracking
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much (a) official development aid and (b) non-official development aid has been spent via the Prosperity Fund by his Department to provide fracking expertise to foreign Governments since 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	255376
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>Through the Prosperity Fund, the FCO has spent around £87,000 Official Development Assistance (ODA) on projects intended to improve the environmental regulation of shale gas development in China since 2016.</p><p>The UK regulatory regime for Shale gas is considered among the most robust and stringent in the world. Sharing UK expertise within the UK oil and gas sector, including on environmental regulation, can help ensure that the exploration or development of resources like natural gas is done to a high standard and is managed as part of a transition to low carbon energy system, as well as supporting economic development and poverty reduction</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 21/05/2019 14:36:05 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1127191

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Fossil Fuels
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the report entitled A False Promise of Prosperity, published by Platform in October of 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	255377
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The Prosperity Fund has considered the findings of the report; we are confident the Prosperity Fund programmes are consistent with the UK government’s commitments, under the Paris Agreement.</p><p> </p><p>Within the portfolio, there are a considerable number of programmes where we are working with partner countries to increase their resilience to climate change, to reduce emissions, and to transition to a sustainable low carbon economy.</p><p> </p><p>The Fund’s energy related initiatives do not directly finance oil and gas exploration or production. They aim to help create policy and business environments that improve energy access, strengthen energy markets, encourage investment and promote energy efficiency. In turn this will improve energy security, and enable a faster transition to a cleaner, low carbon economy. This is consistent with the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in their Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5<sup>o</sup>C that oil and gas will continue to be an essential part of the global energy mix as we transition to a low carbon economy.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 21/05/2019 16:01:20 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1127192

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Fossil Fuels
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings the report entitled A False Promise of Prosperity, published by Platform in October 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	255378
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The Prosperity Fund has considered the findings of the report; we are confident the Prosperity Fund programmes are consistent with the UK government’s commitments, under the Paris Agreement.</p><p> </p><p>Within the portfolio, there are a considerable number of programmes where we are working with partner countries to increase their resilience to climate change, to reduce emissions, and to transition to a sustainable low carbon economy.</p><p> </p><p>The Fund’s energy related initiatives do not directly finance oil and gas exploration or production. They aim to help create policy and business environments that improve energy access, strengthen energy markets, encourage investment and promote energy efficiency. In turn this will improve energy security, and enable a faster transition to a cleaner, low carbon economy. This is consistent with the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in their Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5<sup>o</sup>C that oil and gas will continue to be an essential part of the global energy mix as we transition to a low carbon economy.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 21/05/2019 15:59:41 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1127196

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Higher Education: Registration
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the expected timeframe is for the Office for Students to complete the registration of a higher education establishment.
	tabling member constituency	Burton
	tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
	uin	255317
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>There is no set timeframe for how long it takes the Office for Students (OfS) to process an application. This is because a final registration decision is dependent on a number of factors. These include the completeness of the application, the scale of the information requested by the assessor during the assessment process and the length of time taken by the provider to respond to such information requests. The time taken for the provider’s bespoke access and participation plan to be negotiated and approved also has an impact on the length of the process.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 21/05/2019 15:17:45 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

1127198

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Higher Education: Registration
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many higher education establishments (a) received and (b) did not receive their registration within the timeframe expected of the Office for Students.
	tabling member constituency	Burton
	tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
	uin	255318
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>As higher education establishments may choose to apply for registration onto the Office for Students’ (OfS) register at any time, there is no set deadline or timeframe for when they should receive a decision on their applications. To date, 356 higher education establishments have successfully registered with the OfS since the OfS started accepting applications.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 21/05/2019 15:59:52 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

1127199

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Higher Education: Registration
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) average length of time and (b) longest time was for a higher education establishment to receive their registration from the Office for Students.
	tabling member constituency	Burton
	tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
	uin	255319
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>There is no meaningful average time for higher education establishments receiving an outcome on their Office for Students (OfS) registration application. This is because the time taken from initial receipt of the application to a final registration decision is dependent on a number of factors. These factors include the completeness of the application initially submitted, the scale of the clarificatory information requested by the assessor during the assessment process and the length of time taken by the provider to respond to such information requests. In addition, other factors include the time taken for the provider’s access and participation plan to be negotiated and approved, the likelihood of the provider to breach its ongoing conditions of registration, including the ways in which that would impact its students. Furthermore, consideration is also given to the overall readiness of the provider to be regulated.</p><p> </p><p>In cases where decisions that have been reached more quickly often relate to circumstances where the provider has submitted a near-complete application or where queries during the assessment have been minimal. In addition, more timely decisions can be made where the risk assessment suggests that the provider is unlikely to breach any of its ongoing conditions of registration. Cases that have taken longer to assess have typically involved several attempts to obtain relevant information from the provider. The risk assessment also suggests either that the provider does not satisfy one or more initial conditions of registration (in which case the provider may make representations against the proposed decision to refuse registration), or that the provider may be at increased risk of breaching one or more of its ongoing conditions of registration once registered. In these cases, the OfS is likely to conclude that the interests of students are best protected by taking regulatory action with which the provider must comply, such as applying specific conditions of registration or enhanced monitoring arrangements. Such occurrences would lengthen the timeframe for a decision on an application.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 23/05/2019 10:03:45 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

1127217

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Numeracy: Primary Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of administering the multiplication tables check in schools in each of the next five financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	255336
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The multiplication tables check (MTC) is developed and delivered by the Standards and Testing Agency (STA), an executive agency of the Department for Education.</p><p>The STA’s planned expenditure for the MTC over the next five financial years is currently being considered, and will be dependent upon the outcome of the current (2019) national pilot; as a result, definitive final figures are not available at this time.</p><p>However, based on current project spend, service development and project costs to-date, and budget planning assumptions, it is estimated that the check will cost between £650,000 and £700,000 per annum to administer - this equates to around 1.2% of STA’s annual budget. Department officials will be able to confirm the actual figure(s) later in the year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/05/2019 15:11:54 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner