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1132798

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the police force prices for goods and services in (a) 2015 and (b) 2016; and whether there is a policing-specific rate of inflation.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	266144
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>The data for 2015 and 2016 has been published at <a href="https://www.police.uk%20" target="_blank">https://www.police.uk </a>and is published by individual Force.</p><p>There is no police specific rate of inflation applied to the commonly bought items.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 24/06/2019 15:09:26 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1132808

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Educational Testing Service: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department made of the reliability of ETS’s validation systems before awarding that company a licence to deliver the TOEIC English language test in 2011.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	266059
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>The licence which allowed TOEIC English language testing to be used for immigration purposes was awarded following a tendering process. As part of this process the Home Office assessed both the equivalence of each tester's English test to a recognised European Standard and security arrangements around testing.</p><p>Details of the security requirements which ETS Global BV were bound to adhere to were provided to the HASC in August 2016. A copy of these requirements can be found at Annex C of <a href="http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/home-affairs-committee/english-language-testing/written/36543.pdf%20" target="_blank">http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/home-affairs-committee/english-language-testing/written/36543.pdf </a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/06/2019 15:13:29 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1132828

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	Hospices: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the financial sustainability of children’s hospices.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	266060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>No recent assessment has been made. The vast majority of hospices were established from charitable and philanthropic donations and are therefore primarily charity-funded and independently run. However, they receive some statutory funding from clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and the Government for providing local services. The amount of funding is a local matter.</p><p><br> On average, adult hospices received approximately 30% of their overall funding from National Health Service sources. Proportionally less public funding is received by children’s hospices than adult hospices, and this amounts to around 15%, and this is largely due to differences in their development and non-clinical care they provide.</p><p> </p><p>To compensate for the lower levels of statutory funding children’s hospices receive, NHS England manages the Children’s Hospice Grant, which is awarded and administered annually. The Children’s Hospice Grant will provide a contribution of £12 million in 2019/20.</p><p><br> As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England committed to increase its contribution to children’s palliative care over the next five years by match funding CCGs who commit to increase their investment in local children’s palliative and end of life care services including children’s hospices. Subject to CCGs increasing investment, NHS England will match this by up to £7 million a year by 2023/24. This increase is in addition to the Children’s Hospice Grant. We would expect hospices to be significant beneficiaries of the additional funding, and in many areas, children’s hospices are the main providers of children’s palliative and end of life care services.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 24/06/2019 15:26:44 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1132871

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Sustainable Development
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 assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU with no deal on his Department’s ability to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 9 in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	266134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>Leaving the EU, either with or without a deal, will not affect our commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals or delivering the Industrial Strategy, our long-term plan to boost the productivity and earning power of people throughout the UK.</p><p>This government has made a record investment in infrastructure with £37bn committed through the <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeisgov.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2Fbeis%2F278%2FSitePages%2FInfrastructure.aspx%23NPIF&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGavin.Ansdell%40beis.gov.uk%7Cccb5486144e2403564d408d6f5700166%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C636966258734257343&amp;sdata=JlCdAEHUSolSLfBJREiYIu9%2F%2FxZTYIs90g1XJ0YSfbE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">National Productivity Investment Fund</a> by 2023-24. This includes £2.5bn for <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeisgov.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2Fbeis%2F278%2FSitePages%2FInfrastructure.aspx%23TCF&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGavin.Ansdell%40beis.gov.uk%7Cccb5486144e2403564d408d6f5700166%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C636966258734257343&amp;sdata=IVQb7LfCIvrqfbhytkgkGrCOuXkeGyvzX7CRdqh0pu4%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Transforming Cities Fund​</a>, £5.5bn for the <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeisgov.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2Fbeis%2F278%2FSitePages%2FInfrastructure.aspx%23housing&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGavin.Ansdell%40beis.gov.uk%7Cccb5486144e2403564d408d6f5700166%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C636966258734267333&amp;sdata=VdNWFCAF9%2BPiaA2ZCQ%2B1pUzY3SCTn4WxDT%2BfQfp3USU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Housing Infrastructure Fund​</a>, and £740m for <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeisgov.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2Fbeis%2F278%2FSitePages%2FInfrastructure.aspx%23digital&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGavin.Ansdell%40beis.gov.uk%7Cccb5486144e2403564d408d6f5700166%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C636966258734267333&amp;sdata=cbC3nHT%2Fp30vFKkyrWZcEjoFulggDCNdOnK5Xy4Jbs0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">digital infrastructure</a>. Government spending on infrastructure (Gross Fixed Capital Formation) is up 3% in the last year, with public and private sector investment totalling over £358bn in 2018.</p><p>Sector Deals are supporting billions of pounds of investment from the public and private sector and important sectoral reforms on issues such as technology diffusion and workforce diversity.</p><p>The Clean Growth Grand Challenge and in particular the mission ​to establish the world’s first net-zero carbon industrial cluster by 2040 and at least one low-carbon cluster by 2030, demonstrates our commitment to more sustainable industrialisation for the future of our country.</p><p>Innovation lies at the heart of the Industrial Strategy resulting in the biggest increase in R&amp;D funding ever<sup>. </sup>We have committed an extra £7bn by 2021/22 including £1.7bn already allocated to innovative programmes supporting industry and researchers through the first two waves of the<a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeisgov.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2Fbeis%2F278%2FSitePages%2FIdeas.aspx%23ISCF&amp;data=02%7C01%7CGavin.Ansdell%40beis.gov.uk%7Cccb5486144e2403564d408d6f5700166%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C636966258734277331&amp;sdata=tKXx273%2B9u8xVc0mJ5Cv1mfBOg0DQ8R5zqrJtX4%2Fi%2Fo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank"> Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund</a>​.​</p><p>The UK’s first Voluntary National Review (VNR) will be published shortly. The VNR will review UK action both domestically and internationally in support of Goal 9. It will also outline key challenges and next steps, recognising that while progress is being made, there is more work to do.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 24/06/2019 15:28:31 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1132892

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Venezuela
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were deported to Venezuela in (a) 2017, (b) 2018 and (c) 2019 to date.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	266192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>The number of enforced returns from the UK by year and country of destination is published in table rt_05q (returns data tables, volume 5) in ‘Immigration Statistics, year ending March 2019’, available from the GOV.uk website at: <br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/803187/returns5-mar-2019-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/803187/returns5-mar-2019-tables.ods</a></p><p>The term 'deportations' refers to a legally-defined subset of returns which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. Information on those deported is not separately available and therefore the published statistics refer to all enforced returns. Information for April to June 2019 will be published on 22 August 2019.</p><p>The information requested on Venezuelan nationals in same-sex marriage that have been deported to Venezuela is not available in a reportable format.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 266194 question first answered 24/06/2019 15:12:09 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1132894

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation: Venezuela
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Venezuelan nationals in same-sex marriages have been deported to Venezuela since 2017.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	266194
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>The number of enforced returns from the UK by year and country of destination is published in table rt_05q (returns data tables, volume 5) in ‘Immigration Statistics, year ending March 2019’, available from the GOV.uk website at: <br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/803187/returns5-mar-2019-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/803187/returns5-mar-2019-tables.ods</a></p><p>The term 'deportations' refers to a legally-defined subset of returns which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. Information on those deported is not separately available and therefore the published statistics refer to all enforced returns. Information for April to June 2019 will be published on 22 August 2019.</p><p>The information requested on Venezuelan nationals in same-sex marriage that have been deported to Venezuela is not available in a reportable format.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 266192 question first answered 24/06/2019 15:12:10 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1132896

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crime Prevention: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the press release of 18 June 2019 entitled Home Office allocates £35 million to Police and Crime Commissioners in 18 local areas, whether any areas requesting funding for a violence reduction unit had their bid rejected.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	266196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>As announced on 18 June, the £35 million VRU funding has been provisionally allocated to Police and Crime Commissioners in 18 local areas experiencing the highest volumes of serious violence. Funding has provisionally been allocated with reference to data on hospital admissions relating to injury with a sharp object.</p><p>These areas have been notified of their provisional allocations and have been invited to submit a light-touch application form, setting out their proposals for spend. Once received, the Home Office will review applications to ensure consistency with funding requirements before the final awards are confirmed.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 24/06/2019 15:15:04 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1132911

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: CTF Partners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his (a) Department and (b) Department's agencies have entered into contracts with CTF Partners since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	266211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>Records of Government contracts above £10,000 in central government and £25,000 in the wider public sector are published on Contracts Finder: <a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search</a></p><p> </p><p>These show no records of any contracts with CTF Partners since 2015</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 24/06/2019 15:25:31 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1132928

registered interest
date	18/06/2019
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Rape: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of reported rape cases that were passed to the Crown Prosecution Service by the police forces of England and Wales were returned to the police for further evidence to be gathered in 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	266227
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>Rape is a horrific crime which has a significant and profound impact on victims. It is vital to ensure that cases are investigated thoroughly in order to bring them to justice. To achieve this, it is necessary in many cases to seek further information before a prosecutor is able to determine whether or not to charge. This process ensures that cases are as robust as possible once they reach the court.</p><p>In 2017-18, cases were referred back to the Police for 61% of suspects in cases recorded as rape in the system. Whilst one situation where the CPS may refer a case back to the Police is to request further evidence, it could also be in instances when the Police have sought ‘early investigative advice’ from the CPS to assist in determining the evidence required for a charge. It is not possible to separate cases where the CPS has requested further evidence and when the Police have sought early investigative advice.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 24/06/2019 15:26:16 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

1132954

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	Gangs and Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the press release of 22 February 2019 entitled £9.8 million fund to confront knife and gang crime culture, how many families in each project area have been assisted by the fund; and what support they have received.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	266245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2019 answer text <p>The Troubled Families Programme is a £920 million programme to help up to 400,000 families with multiple and complex needs, including those at risk of becoming involved in crime and serious violence. The Supporting Families Against Youth Crime Fund has provided a further £9.8 million to help 21 places further enhance how their local Troubled Families Programme helps tackle youth violence and gangs. Each of the projects are designed to respond directly to the needs of their community and so the support provided to families varies in each local area. They include diversionary activities such as boxing and residential courses, resilience building, out of hours mentors, conflict resolution and whole family counselling. Local areas awarded funding will provide monitoring data later this year.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 24/06/2019 15:13:25 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh