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1134222

registered interest
date	25/06/2019
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	Climate Change
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 his Department is taking to ensure a coordinated response across Government on tackling climate change.
tabling member constituency	Eddisbury
tabling member printed	Antoinette Sandbach
uin	268601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>Climate change is one of the most urgent and pressing challenges we face today, and tackling it is a cross-government priority.</p><p> </p><p>The Clean Growth Inter-Ministerial Group, which brings together ministers from across government, is responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Clean Growth Strategy and driving ambitious clean growth, decarbonisation and wider environmental policies.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 01/07/2019 14:09:15 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4506 label Biography information for Antoinette Sandbach

1134440

registered interest
date	25/06/2019
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	Cataracts: Surgery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average cost to the NHS is of carrying out a cataract operation.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	268959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>Latest published data – for 2017-18 – shows that the average unit cost to the National Health Service of carrying out a cataract operation is £803.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 01/07/2019 15:37:02 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

1134442

registered interest
date	25/06/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Network Rail
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 transfer of Network Rail's System Operator responsibilities to the devolved regional routes on the effectiveness of Network Rail; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	269065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>Decisions on the devolved regional routes as part of their Putting Passengers First programme are a matter for Network Rail. The Department for Transport is supportive of the proposals in Putting Passengers First and will continue to engage with Network Rail as they implement the programme.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 01/07/2019 16:03:27 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

1134443

registered interest
date	25/06/2019
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: County Durham
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 20 June 2019 to Question 265489 on Personal Independence Payment, for what reason recent correspondence on casework enquiries to hon. Members states that waiting times for personal independence payments mandatory reconsiderations are 10 to 12 weeks in County Durham and table 7D, entitled MR clearance time (median calendar days), normal rules, by year of clearance, region and local authority of her Department's quarterly statistical publication, Personal Independence Payment: April 2013 to April 2019 states that such waiting times are 39 median calendar days.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	269031
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>The figures published in table 7D of the publication “Personal Independence Payment: April 2013 to April 2019” are based on median calendar days that a Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) is cleared in each Financial Year. Clearance times can vary over time, and the median time is the middle value if all the times were ordered from lowest value to highest value.</p><p> </p><p>Table 7C of the same publication shows median clearance times by month for Great Britain as a whole, with April 2019 being the latest month official statistics have been published for.</p><p> </p><p>There is no legislative clearance target for a mandatory reconsideration. However, from late May 2019 claimants have been advised that, as a guide, they should hear from the Department within 10 weeks.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 01/07/2019 14:01:58 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1134446

registered interest
date	25/06/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Magilligan Prison
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps she is taking with the Secretary of State for Justice to ensure the construction of the new Magilligan Prison in the absence of devolved Government in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	268995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>Responsibility for prisons in Northern Ireland is primarily a devolved area. As a result of the devolution of policing and justice in 2010, the Department of Justice (DoJ) is solely responsible for the management of the prison estate.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 01/07/2019 14:08:50 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1134447

registered interest
date	25/06/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Self-assessment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was paid in fines by people who submitted tax returns after the deadline of 31 January in each year since 2018.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	268996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>Analysis of self-assessment penalty data is complex and HMRC are currently investigating whether it is possible to provide the requested figures. I shall write to the Honourable Member shortly and place a copy of the letter in the Library of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 01/07/2019 15:54:22 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1134448

registered interest
date	25/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the number of (a) fixed-term and (b) permanent school exclusions by local authority area for each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	269043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>The national statistics release, ‘Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England: 2016 to 2017’ includes information on the number and rate of permanent and fixed period exclusions.</p><p>The release is available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2016-to-2017</a>.</p><p>In the underlying data, the file ‘national_region_la_school_data_exc1617.csv’ includes information at local authority level by year.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/07/2019 16:11:24 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1134449

registered interest
date	25/06/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Unmanned Air Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress his Department has made in the past year in combating the use of drones to supply illegal drugs to prisoners.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	268997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>We are taking decisive steps to tackle the use of drones as a supply route for organised criminals to bring contraband, including drugs, into prisons.</p><p> </p><p>Prisons use netting and window grilles to stop drones from delivering contraband successfully. To deter criminals, HM Prison and Probation Service is also working closely with the police to arrest suspected drone operators and secure convictions. Thanks to such joint working, and following the largest investigation of its kind, an organised criminal gang of 15 were collectively sentenced in October 2018 to nearly 40 years in prison for using drones to deliver drugs into Merseyside prisons. The ringleader received a sentence of 10 years, the highest single sentence for drone-related activity to date.</p><p> </p><p>Where contraband gets into prisons using a drone, our counter-measures assist us to retrieve them and frustrate further criminal activity. In respect of drugs, our Drugs Taskforce is working with law enforcement to restrict supply. It has also developed a national Prison Drug Strategy which was published in April to reduce demand for drugs and build recovery, as well as restrict supply. We have also invested £70 million to improve safety, security and decency in prisons, allowing us to fund new X-ray body scanners, improved searching techniques, phone-blocking technology and a financial crime unit to target organised crime group members operating in prisons.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 01/07/2019 16:35:30 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1134450

registered interest
date	25/06/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Apprentices: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which Department is responsible for allocating funding from the apprenticeship levy in Northern Ireland in the absence of a devolved Administration.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	268998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department for the Economy has policy responsibility for apprenticeships.</p><p> </p><p>Northern Ireland does not receive any funding directly from the Apprenticeship Levy. Instead it receives a Barnett consequential of spend in England which is funding from the Levy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 01/07/2019 14:01:34 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1134451

registered interest
date	25/06/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effect of the 2019 Loan Charge on the (a) mental health and (b) livelihoods of people affected by that Charge.
tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
uin	268968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government published a report on the loan charge in March 2019. The report was required by section 95 of Finance Act 2019, but goes wider than the review set out in legislation, explaining the rationale for the charge and considering its impacts. The report also provides information on how HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) support individuals affected by the loan charge including, where appropriate, referring individuals who need additional support to organisations such as Samaritans and Mind. The report is available online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/report-on-time-limits-and-the-disguised-remuneration-loan-charge" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/report-on-time-limits-and-the-disguised-remuneration-loan-charge</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 01/07/2019 15:52:23 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis