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1128267

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date	22/05/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Post Offices: Rural Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to support rural post office branches.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	257530
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>While the Government sets the strategic direction for the Post Office, it allows the company the commercial freedom to deliver this strategy as an independent business.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises the critical role that post offices play in communities and for small businesses across the UK. This is why the Government committed to safeguard the post office network and protect existing rural services. Thanks to significant Government investment of over £2 billion since 2010 the overall number of post offices across the UK remains at its most stable in decades with over 11,500 branches.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 06/06/2019 09:33:46 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

1128281

registered interest
date	22/05/2019
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of subject access requests made to the Child Maintenance Service were responded to within the correct timescale since the General Data Protection Regulation came into force; and what steps she is taken to reduce the level of the backlog of those requests.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	257543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>Data is not available to show the number of Right of Access requests that included a request for Child Maintenance Group records prior to 5/11/2018.</p><p>Therefore, the following information shows the number Right of Access Requests that included a request for Child Maintenance Group records from 5/11/2018</p><p><strong>CMG RECORDS REQUESTS COMPLETED</strong></p><p>For the period 5/11/2018 to 21/5/2019:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Number of Right of Access Requests where the CMG records have been supplied (regardless of the other records that were requested within the RAR) within statutory deadline</p></td><td><p>1130</p></td><td><p>66.9%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Regarding the current workload we have the following measures in place:</p><p>We have secured an additional resource to support existing colleagues</p><p>As a contingency we have cross skilled staff that we can utilise if required</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 05/06/2019 17:14:11 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

1128303

registered interest
date	22/05/2019
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	Pet Travel Scheme: Cats
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many kittens and cats entered the UK under the Pet Travel Scheme in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	257555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>In 2018, 28,979 cats and kittens entered Great Britain under the Pet Travel Scheme. This data is not publically available, but is held by the Animal and Plant Agency (APHA). APHA only holds data on the number of pets entering Great Britain (rather than the UK as a whole).</p><p> </p><p>This statistic is based on information provided by checkers employed by approved carriers of pet animals. It is a true reflection of the information that we have access to, however, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of this data, as it is provided to us by third parties.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 05/06/2019 16:48:04 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1128335

registered interest
date	22/05/2019
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	Pet Travel Scheme
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 information Animal and Plant Health Agency holds on animals imported into the UK under the Pet Travel Scheme; and (a) when and (b) for what reasons that Agency stopped recording the country of origin of animals imported under that scheme.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	257572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>Currently the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) holds data on the total number of animals entering Great Britain under the Pet Travel Scheme, and the number of animals that failed the compliance checks.</p><p> </p><p>APHA stopped recording the country of origin of compliant animals imported under the scheme in 2016. Detailed data on non-compliant pet animals, including the country in which the paperwork accompanying the animal was issued, is always collected.</p><p> </p><p>In previous years the country of origin data was taken from a legacy database (Pets database) which was deployed in 2006 when the throughput of pet animals was much lower. Pet carriers recorded details of pet animals entering Great Britain, including the country of origin.</p><p> </p><p>APHA introduced a new system to establish the quality of the submitted data available from the Pets Database. This new system more accurately records the number of pet animals entering the country but does not record the country in which the paperwork was issued or the country the animal travelled from.</p><p> </p><p>When the new system was introduced to verify throughput figures it was identified that recording the country of origin for compliant animals would place an undue burden on the carriers given the volume of pets travelling (the number of pets entering Great Britain has increased from 91,308 in 2006 to 336,446 in 2018).</p><p> </p><p>Collecting the country of origin data for compliant pet imports has not proved useful in deterring puppy smuggling as it is essentially collecting information on legal movements; however APHA are looking at how this data could be accurately collected in the future and the likely costs that would be involved.</p><p> </p><p>There is no legal requirement for the country of origin to be recorded, and we always relied on the good will of the carriers to record this information.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 05/06/2019 16:45:35 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1128380

registered interest
date	22/05/2019
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	Sports
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 his Department is taking to encourage the hosting of major sporting tournaments in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	257494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the wide-ranging benefits that hosting major sports events can bring.</p><p>My Department works closely with UK Sport and the national governing bodies of sport, as well as local, regional and devolved partners, to ensure that the UK successfully bids for and stages a wide range of the world’s biggest sporting events.<strong><br></strong></p><p> </p><p>The 'Gold Framework' publication sets out the processes as to how the Government and UK Sport work together with our sports bodies in bidding and staging major sports events. Our approach has been successful, with over 100 major international sporting events secured for the UK since the London 2012 Games.</p><p> </p><p>We have a strong programme of events to look forward to, including the Cricket World Cup, Netball World Cup and Cycling Road World Championships this year, the EURO 2020 men's Championships next year, and the EURO women's Championships and Rugby League World Cup in 2021.</p><p> </p><p>We are also looking forward to hosting the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, welcoming thousands of athletes and officials from around the world and showcasing the best that the UK has to offer to a global audience of 1.5 billion.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 06/06/2019 09:26:35 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

1128391

registered interest
date	22/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Homelessness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners were recorded as being of No Fixed Abode on their arrival in custody in each prison in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	257596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>Everyone should have a safe and suitable home to live; having somewhere to live gives people a stable platform from which to access health services, hold down a job and reduces the likelihood of them reoffending.</p><p>The Government published its Rough Sleeping Strategy in August 2018, launching a £100 million</p><p>initiative to reduce and ultimately eliminate rough sleeping across England. As part of this</p><p>strategy, Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government</p><p>(MHCLG), will be investing approximately £6m in a pilot scheme to support ex-offenders secure</p><p>suitable accommodation upon release; the pilots will operate in HMPs Pentonville, Bristol and</p><p> </p><p>Staff in both National Probation Service and Community Rehabilitation Companies work together with local authorities and other providers of accommodation with the aim of ensuring all offenders under our supervision have accommodation especially when they are released from prison.</p><p> </p><p>The table below provides data on the number of prisoners that declared their accommodation status as of ‘No Fixed Abode’ on their reception into custody in each prison in each year since 2010. The data for 2014 is not held.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>PRISONS</strong></p></td><td colspan="4"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Altcourse </strong></p></td><td><p>489</p></td><td><p>601</p></td><td><p>859</p></td><td><p>1047</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Bedford </strong></p></td><td><p>549</p></td><td><p>537</p></td><td><p>197</p></td><td><p>373</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Belmarsh</strong></p></td><td><p>266</p></td><td><p>334</p></td><td><p>328</p></td><td><p>245</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Birmingham </strong></p></td><td><p>696</p></td><td><p>1062</p></td><td><p>1056</p></td><td><p>1036</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Brinsford </strong></p></td><td><p>95</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>126</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Bristol </strong></p></td><td><p>347</p></td><td><p>490</p></td><td><p>572</p></td><td><p>557</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Bronzefield</strong></p></td><td><p>338</p></td><td><p>736</p></td><td><p>1006</p></td><td><p>1022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Bullingdon </strong></p></td><td><p>500</p></td><td><p>635</p></td><td><p>725</p></td><td><p>904</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Cardiff </strong></p></td><td><p>800</p></td><td><p>838</p></td><td><p>845</p></td><td><p>838</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Chelmsford </strong></p></td><td><p>523</p></td><td><p>520</p></td><td><p>508</p></td><td><p>484</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Doncaster</strong></p></td><td><p>701</p></td><td><p>605</p></td><td><p>623</p></td><td><p>683</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Dovegate </strong></p></td><td><p>192</p></td><td><p>292</p></td><td><p>525</p></td><td><p>560</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Drake Hall</strong></p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Durham </strong></p></td><td><p>490</p></td><td><p>541</p></td><td><p>926</p></td><td><p>943</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Eastwood Park </strong></p></td><td><p>323</p></td><td><p>454</p></td><td><p>532</p></td><td><p>514</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Elmley </strong></p></td><td><p>606</p></td><td><p>880</p></td><td><p>1082</p></td><td><p>1115</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Exeter </strong></p></td><td><p>660</p></td><td><p>694</p></td><td><p>723</p></td><td><p>695</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Forest Bank </strong></p></td><td><p>878</p></td><td><p>1008</p></td><td><p>898</p></td><td><p>1252</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Foston Hall </strong></p></td><td><p>139</p></td><td><p>162</p></td><td><p>197</p></td><td><p>297</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Glen Parva </strong></p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Hewell </strong></p></td><td><p>655</p></td><td><p>873</p></td><td><p>873</p></td><td><p>1027</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>High Down </strong></p></td><td><p>631</p></td><td><p>531</p></td><td><p>283</p></td><td><p>333</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Hollesley Bay </strong></p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Holloway </strong></p></td><td><p>336</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Holme </strong></p></td><td><p>248</p></td><td><p>291</p></td><td><p>128</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Hull </strong></p></td><td><p>620</p></td><td><p>642</p></td><td><p>670</p></td><td><p>661</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Isle of Wight </strong></p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Kirkham </strong></p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Leeds </strong></p></td><td><p>758</p></td><td><p>619</p></td><td><p>571</p></td><td><p>764</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Leicester </strong></p></td><td><p>179</p></td><td><p>226</p></td><td><p>253</p></td><td><p>348</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Lewes </strong></p></td><td><p>449</p></td><td><p>411</p></td><td><p>480</p></td><td><p>625</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Lincoln </strong></p></td><td><p>299</p></td><td><p>338</p></td><td><p>514</p></td><td><p>437</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Liverpool </strong></p></td><td><p>444</p></td><td><p>526</p></td><td><p>555</p></td><td><p>467</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Low Newton</strong></p></td><td><p>103</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>103</p></td><td><p>173</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Manchester </strong></p></td><td><p>547</p></td><td><p>687</p></td><td><p>580</p></td><td><p>449</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>New Hall </strong></p></td><td><p>176</p></td><td><p>205</p></td><td><p>233</p></td><td><p>259</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Norwich </strong></p></td><td><p>451</p></td><td><p>561</p></td><td><p>647</p></td><td><p>553</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Nottingham </strong></p></td><td><p>759</p></td><td><p>988</p></td><td><p>923</p></td><td><p>1226</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Parc </strong></p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Pentonville </strong></p></td><td><p>768</p></td><td><p>808</p></td><td><p>908</p></td><td><p>811</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Peterborough</strong></p></td><td><p>349</p></td><td><p>472</p></td><td><p>764</p></td><td><p>544</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Peterborough Female </strong></p></td><td><p>205</p></td><td><p>339</p></td><td><p>496</p></td><td><p>558</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Preston </strong></p></td><td><p>343</p></td><td><p>439</p></td><td><p>465</p></td><td><p>630</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Stoke Heath </strong></p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Swansea </strong></p></td><td><p>314</p></td><td><p>316</p></td><td><p>365</p></td><td><p>346</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Thameside </strong></p></td><td><p>1229</p></td><td><p>1188</p></td><td><p>1463</p></td><td><p>1611</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Wandsworth </strong></p></td><td><p>1421</p></td><td><p>1682</p></td><td><p>1541</p></td><td><p>1423</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Winchester </strong></p></td><td><p>576</p></td><td><p>572</p></td><td><p>628</p></td><td><p>540</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Woodhill </strong></p></td><td><p>406</p></td><td><p>499</p></td><td><p>554</p></td><td><p>474</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Wormwood Scrubs </strong></p></td><td><p>1165</p></td><td><p>1103</p></td><td><p>1063</p></td><td><p>1096</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Notes</em></p><p>1) The Basic Custody Screening Tool (BCS) is completed on entry to custody for all prisoners for each calendar year 2015-2018. It therefore will include a mix of those received into custody on remand and those sentenced from court. Using just the BCS, there is no way to determine which of those received into custody on remand were released un-convicted, therefore it is important to stress that this data covers prisoners, and can’t be used to describe offenders, as some of those counted will ultimately not have been found guilty of any offence.</p><p>2) NFA on reception is determined where the answer to question B3.1 OR B3.4 on the BCS has been answered as ‘NFA’. If B3.1 is answered NFA then B3.4 isn’t made available to be answered, so it is not possible to double count NFA within the same BCS.</p><p>3) The two questions are: B3.1 – What was your accommodation status before prison &amp; B3.4 – What type of housing did you live in before you came to prison</p><p>4) These questions from the BCS Part 1 are recorded as per the prisoner’s answers and are not assessed.</p><p>5) The total number of prisoners shown is for the number of fully completed BCS Part 1s for each year, based on the Reception Date for each prisoner.</p><p>6) A proportion of prisoners will enter custody multiple times each year and for this PQ all responses have been included as a prisoner may provide different answers to these questions over time.</p><p>The figures have not been checked by statistician</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 05/06/2019 16:50:57 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1128415

registered interest
date	22/05/2019
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	Iran: Iraq
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he make an assessment of the effectiveness of paragraph 8 of UN Security Council Resolution 598 in relation to consultations with Iran on current disputes.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	257386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>We assess that ongoing dialogue with all Middle East countries and partners remains critical for protecting security and stability in the region. We welcome any measures that serve to improve that dialogue and reduce tensions. We are concerned by the general risks of unintended escalation, which would not be in any party’s interests. We are in touch with our key partners and advising Iran not to take any escalatory steps.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 05/06/2019 16:49:43 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching