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1173314

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
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	Pharmacy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care what steps he is taking to improve services provided by community pharmacists.
tabling member constituency	Southend West
tabling member printed	Sir David Amess
uin	900450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>Through our ‘pharmacy first’ approach, we want to unlock the potential of community pharmacy.</p><p>Our landmark five-year contractual framework sets out an expanded role for community pharmacy to help people stay well closer to home.</p><p>This winter, more than 114,000 people with minor illnesses or medication needs have received same-day consultations with their highly skilled local community pharmacist following a new referral service from NHS 111.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 28/01/2020 16:09:41 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	44 label Biography information for Sir David Amess

1173383

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the equity of paying the equivalent of (a) £6.28 an hour for a newly trained army reservist, or (b) £4.68 an hour for a new recruit to the army reserves.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
uin	8320
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to my previous answer on 9 September 2019 to Questions 286771, 286772, 286773 and 286774.</p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer grouped question UIN 8321 question first answered 30/01/2020 14:51:09 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer attachment 1 file name 286771 - Reserve Forces Pay.docx title 286771 - Reserve Forces Pay
tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

1173384

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of (a) army reserves rates of pay and (b) the method by which those rates are calculated from regular army pay scales.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
uin	8321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to my previous answer on 9 September 2019 to Questions 286771, 286772, 286773 and 286774.</p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer grouped question UIN 8320 question first answered 30/01/2020 14:51:09 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer attachment 1 file name 286771 - Reserve Forces Pay.docx title 286771 - Reserve Forces Pay
tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

1173388

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
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	Poverty: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will introduce a target to (a) reduce child poverty to four million children by 2021, (b) reduce child poverty to two million children by 2025 and (c) eradicate child poverty by 2030.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	8229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave on 27 January to question number 6646.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2020-01-22/6646/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2020-01-22/6646/</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 30/01/2020 15:50:23 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1173396

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
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 steps he is taking to tackle the sale of loan charge products.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	8422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government and HMRC are determined to continue to tackle promoters of tax avoidance schemes. It is not acceptable for promoters to market tax avoidance schemes which do not work and deprive the Exchequer of tax that is owed, and it is unfair to the vast majority of taxpayers who pay in full and on time.</p><p> </p><p>In December 2019 the Government announced in its response to the Independent Loan Charge Review further measures to tackle promoters of avoidance schemes that will reduce the scope for promoters to market tax avoidance schemes.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will:</p><p> </p><p>• Ensure HMRC can more effectively issue stop notices to promoters to make it harder to promote schemes that do not work;</p><p> </p><p>• Prevent promoters from abusing corporate entity structures that sell schemes to avoid their obligations under the Promoters of Tax Avoidance Scheme (POTAS) rules;</p><p> </p><p>• Ensure HMRC can obtain information about the enabling of abusive schemes as soon as they are identified, and enabler penalties are felt without delay when a scheme has been defeated at tribunal;</p><p> </p><p>• Ensure that HMRC can act decisively where promoters fail to provide information on their avoidance schemes; and</p><p> </p><p>• Make further technical amendments to the POTAS regime so that it continues to operate effectively and to ensure that the General Anti Abuse Rule (GAAR) can be used to counteract partnerships as intended.</p><p> </p><p>Further detail on these measures will be set out at the Budget.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 30/01/2020 11:50:58 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1173398

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
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	Ophthalmic Services
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 increase capacity in NHS eyesight services and ensure all patients are seen within a safe time frame.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	8394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>Clinical commissioning groups are responsible for commissioning secondary care ophthalmology services to meet local need. We would expect services to be commissioned in line with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance where it is available or best available evidence and for patients to receive treatment, in line with their clinical priority, without any undue delay at any stage of their referral, diagnosis or treatment.</p><p> </p><p>National Health Service patients have a right in the NHS Constitution to drugs and treatments recommended by the NICE, where the patient's clinician considers it appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, the goal of the outpatients transformation programme is to avoid 30 million face-to-face outpatients appointments and reduce face-to-face visits to hospital outpatients by up to a third by 2023/24. NHS England and NHS Improvement estimate that this could save up to £1 billion in expenditure. If the programme achieves its goals, it will mean the successful creation of a digital-first outpatients service, which gives all appropriate patients the option for a virtual outpatients appointment. NHS England and NHS Improvement advise that ophthalmology has been identified as the first priority speciality for the National Outpatient Transformation Programme.</p><p>Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) is a national clinical improvement programme, working with frontline clinicians to identify and reduce unwarranted variations in service delivery and clinical practice. NHS England advise the GIRFT report into ophthalmology shared with providers in December 2019, identifies a number of recommendations for service improvement to help to free up capacity and help to address the issue of delays to follow-up appointments.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 30/01/2020 11:32:42 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1173399

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
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	Visual Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients have suffered severe or permanent loss of sight whilst awaiting treatment; and what the cost to the NHS has been in compensation claims for sight loss due to delays in receiving treatment in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	8395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>Data is not collected in the requested format.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 30/01/2020 11:39:41 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1173401

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
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	Ofgem: Carbon Emissions
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 plans she has to amend Ofgem’s remit to incorporate the Government’s Net Zero target.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	8397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>Ofgem will have an important role in the transition to net zero and already has various powers and duties in relation to decarbonisation, including a duty to consider reductions in targeted greenhouse gas emissions. The regulator is planning to publish a decarbonisation &quot;action plan&quot; in February and we look forward to working closely with Ofgem to help them to implement the contents of the plan.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 30/01/2020 11:19:26 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1173402

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
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	Solar Power: Business Rates
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 discussions her Department has had with the Treasury on the application of business rates to solar power.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	8398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>This Government will conduct a fundamental review of business rates.</p><p> </p><p>Ministers and officials regularly discuss a range of issues and topics with counterparts across Government, including on the issue of business rates.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 30/01/2020 11:19:33 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1173418

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Iran: International Military Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the instruction was given to IMS Ltd to settle its debt with Iran's MOSDAF agency.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	8399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>Due to ongoing legal proceedings, it would not be appropriate to comment.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey grouped question UIN 8400 8401 question first answered 30/01/2020 15:09:16 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq