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1132977

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	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	Thalidomide
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to renew the health grant scheme for thalidomide survivors beyond 2022-23.
	tabling member constituency	Wigan
	tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
	uin	266268
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>The future of budgets outside of the NHS England resource settlement will be confirmed later this year at Spending Review 2019, and as part of that process, we will be considering how thalidomiders can be best supported in future.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 24/06/2019 15:30:10 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

1132906

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	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	Social Rented Housing: Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June 2019 to Questions 263119 on Social Rented Housing Regulation, what the timetable is for the publication of his Department's review of social housing regulation.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	266206
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>Our review of social housing regulation will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 24/06/2019 16:40:30 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1132990

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	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	Kashmir: Human Rights
	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 will make an assessment of the accuracy of reports that officials of the Srinagar Deputy Commissioner’s office banned Amnesty International from holding an event for the publication of its report on alleged human rights and rule of law violations by Indian state authorities under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	266274
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2019 answer text <p>We are aware of the Amnesty International report and understand that an event was cancelled, the reasons for which are a matter for Amnesty International and the Indian authorities.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 26/06/2019 13:32:05 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1132991

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	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	Kashmir: Human Rights
	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 will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the conclusions of the Amnesty International report Tyranny of a lawless law: detention without charge or trial under the Jammu and Kashmir public safety act, published on 12 June 2019.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	266275
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2019 answer text <p>​We are aware of the Amnesty International report regarding the Public Safety Act in India-administered Kashmir, and we note both the concerns and recommendations raised in the report. The British Government works, extensively across our diplomatic network to encourage States to ensure their domestic legislation meets international standards on human rights. We continue to urge States to honour in practise their human rights obligations and to uphold the rule of law.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 26/06/2019 13:35:08 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1132992

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	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	HIV Infection: Drugs
	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 his speech of 30 January 2019 to the AIDS free cities global forum, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding available to local authorities in London to enable the doubling of places on the PrEP Impact Trial.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	266276
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2019 answer text <p>HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is currently available through the three year, NHS England funded PrEP impact trial, which is providing HIV prevention drugs to people at high risk of HIV infection. Expansion of the trial is underway across the country following my Rt hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care’s announcement in January that the trial would be expanded to 26,000 people. In London, boroughs have agreed to provide over 4,000 extra places on the trial, which represents a 60% increase in the number of trial places. Participation in the trial is on a voluntary basis and it is for clinics and local authorities to decide whether they wish to take part.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 26/06/2019 16:17:06 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1132993

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	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	Livestock: Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has received a copy of the Farm Animal Welfare Committee’s report on standards for animal welfare during transport.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	266277
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government has received the Farm Animal Welfare Committee’s advice on the welfare of animals in transport and this advice has also been sent to the devolved administrations.</p><p>We are considering the report and we intend to publish the Government’s response to it along with the report itself this summer.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 26/06/2019 16:57:26 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1132995

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Marriage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the timetable is for the Government and the Law Commission to agree on the terms of reference for the Law Commission’s full review of the law governing weddings.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	266279
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government announced in the Budget that it would invite the Law Commission to review the law on how and where couples may marry in England and Wales. The Government has been finalising the terms of reference with the Law Commission and expects to announce the details shortly.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 25/06/2019 13:37:57 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1132996

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Pakistan: HIV Infection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans his Department has to support the international response to the recent HIV outbreak in Pakistan.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	266280
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>We are closely tracking reports of an outbreak of just over 600 new cases of HIV, 75% of them among children, in a town called Ratto Dero in Sindh province. The UK government invests significantly in the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, which works closely with the provincial government in Sindh.</p><p> </p><p>There has been an intensive effort to test the population for HIV to establish the extent of the outbreak. Over 20,000 people have been tested to date. We are in close contact with the Global Fund and are working with them to ascertain whether any further assistance is needed, for example to make treatment available for those who need it and prevent onward transmission.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 25/06/2019 15:34:25 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1132997

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Sub-Saharan Africa: HIV Infection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce gender inequalities in HIV diagnosis in sub-Saharan Africa.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	266281
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>It is not acceptable that young women, particularly in Africa, have the highest number of new HIV infections and deaths from AIDS. That is why the UK government puts the empowerment of girls and women at the heart of everything we do and is an essential component of our fight against AIDS.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently the second biggest donor to the Global Fund, which has embraced gender equality as central to accomplishing its mission. We also integrate HIV prevention and treatment into sexual, reproductive health and rights and maternal and child health programmes across much of sub-Saharan Africa. By promoting comprehensive sexuality education (through key programmes such as the Girls Education Challenge) and driving efforts to prevent violence against women and girls, we are also helping to reduce the risk of HIV infection among vulnerable women and girls.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 25/06/2019 15:41:58 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1132998

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: HIV Infection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether his Department has plans to review its approach to HIV and AIDS in response to the UN goal to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	266282
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>The UK is a world leader in efforts to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, including through our major investment in the Global Fund.</p><p>Our programmes focus on integrating the HIV response, building on improvements in access to treatment, while seeking to reduce new infections, particularly among adolescent girls, women and other groups still left behind who face stigma and discrimination. DFID has no immediate plans to review this approach, which is based on the evidence of what works.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 25/06/2019 15:43:20 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown