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1359427

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date	15/10/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will commit to new funding for local authorities to repair damaged roads and potholes.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	56484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>This Government recognises that maintaining local roads is a key priority for local communities and businesses.</p><p> </p><p>At the last Spending Review, the Chancellor committed £1.125 billion in 2021/22 for local roads maintenance including the £500 million Potholes Fund committed in the manifesto. This represents a £125 million increase on typical annual funding from Spending Review 2015.</p><p> </p><p>Maintenance in London, including repairing potholes, is a matter for Transport for London and the London Boroughs. This Government has supported TfL with c£4bn in emergency Covid support since the start of the pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>We will set out future highways maintenance funding at Spending Review 2021.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 25/10/2021 07:59:01 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1359440

registered interest
date	15/10/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cars: Fuels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will take steps to give priority access to key workers and disabled people to fuel their cars during fuel supply chain pressures.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	56518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>This is a matter for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 25/10/2021 16:32:51 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1359442

registered interest
date	15/10/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will prioritise the safe passage to the UK for Afghanistan’s junior female football team.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	56523
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office is working at pace to finalise visas for Afghanistan’s Girls Development National Youth football team and looks forward to welcoming them to the UK shortly.</p><p>We have been working closely with the NGOs and relevant partners to ensure that there are adequate arrangements in place to support the safe relocation of the team members and their families in the UK. This remains a priority for the Home Office and FCDO who continue to support the team in Pakistan and work through the application process.</p><p>The Government is committed to doing all it can to support those most in need, including vulnerable women and girls, and those at risk who have had to flee Afghanistan.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 26/10/2021 12:01:40 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins previous answer version 27245 answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1359582

registered interest
date	15/10/2021
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	Housing: 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 steps he is planning to take to decarbonise domestic heating supply.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	56677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2021 answer text <p>The Heat and Buildings Strategy sets out how the Government is taking ‘no-regrets’ action now for decarbonising domestic heating supply, particularly on heat pumps, whilst supporting ongoing trials and other research and innovation on our future heating systems, including on hydrogen. The Government will make a decision on the potential role for hydrogen in heating buildings by 2026, learning from the Hydrogen Village pilot. Heat pump technology will play a key role in all scenarios, so for those who want to install them now, the government is supporting them to do so.</p><p> </p><p>The Government want, to ensure that, in future, heat pumps are no more expensive to buy and run for consumers, the fossil fuel boilers. Households will benefit from £5,000 government grants through the £450 million Boiler Upgrade Scheme to help install low-carbon heating systems, part of more than £3.9 billion of new funding to decarbonise heat and buildings. With this transition taking place over the next 14 years, no-one will be forced to remove their existing fossil fuel boilers. This will enable homeowners to easily make green choices gradually and in an affordable, practical and fair way,</p><p> </p><p>A £60m innovation fund has been launched to make clean heat systems smaller and easier to install and cheaper to run. This will support the Government’s new target for all new heating systems installed in UK homes by 2035 to be either using low-carbon technologies, such as electric heat pumps, or supporting new technologies like hydrogen-ready boilers, where the government is confident it can supply clean, green fuel.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 22/10/2021 12:46:03 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands previous answer version 25589 answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1359940

registered interest
date	15/10/2021
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	Youth Centres: Hornsey and Wood Green
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will commit to allocating funding to youth centres in Hornsey and Wood Green constituency.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	57216
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>The Youth Investment Fund (YIF) is designed to achieve levelling up across the country. The YIF will invest in safe spaces for young people in the areas of greatest need, giving them access to support from youth workers and enabling them to engage in beneficial activities. Plans for the fund are subject to the 2021 Spending Review, following the DCMS review of its offer to young people.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 25/10/2021 14:40:42 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1359969

registered interest
date	15/10/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Festivals and Special Occasions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his policy is on (a) non-Christian festivals such as Eid and Diwali being recognised more in state schools and (b) allowing non-Christian students to get a legal holiday for their religious festivals.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	57217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>Schools play an important role in preparing pupils for life in modern Britain. This involves supporting pupils to understand the society in which they grow up and teaching about respect for other people and for difference. All schools are required to actively promote fundamental British values, including mutual respect and tolerance for those of different faiths and beliefs.</p><p>The government does not specify how schools should teach religious education or the topics that religious education must cover. State funded schools either follow a locally agreed syllabus for religious education or design and deliver their own curriculum. This leaves them free to recognise or teach about non-Christian festivals if they choose to.</p><p>The Education (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2006, as amended, sets out that schools should treat a pupil’s absence as authorised if it is on a day exclusively set apart for religious observance by the religious body to which the parent belongs.</p><p>The department does not define which specific days schools should authorise for religious observance, though generally, it may be a day when the pupil’s parents would be expected by the religious body to which they belong to stay away from their workplace in order to mark the occasion. We advise schools to seek advice from the relevant religious body if they are in doubt.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 25/10/2021 10:56:41 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1359971

registered interest
date	15/10/2021
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	Ivory Act 2018
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to implement the Ivory Act 2018.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	57218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>Once commenced, the Ivory Act will introduce one of the toughest bans on elephant ivory sales in the world by banning the dealing in items made of or containing elephant ivory, regardless of their age, unless they fall within one of the narrow and carefully defined exemptions.</p><p><br> We plan to implement the Ivory Act this winter and for the ban to come into force in spring 2022.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 56140 question first answered 25/10/2021 14:28:20 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1360011

registered interest
date	15/10/2021
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	Ambulance Services: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of London Ambulance Service proposals to replace 68 ambulance stations with 18 ambulance deployment hubs on (a) patient care and (b) response times.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	57219
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made. The London Ambulance Service (LAS) advises that it is at an early stage in developing its estates strategy, including understanding how any changes would impact patient care. The LAS will engage with the public and stakeholders on any proposed changes.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 26/10/2021 16:56:39 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1360026

registered interest
date	15/10/2021
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	Coronavirus: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department is providing to people with a pathological fear of needles in order to support those people to get the covid-19 vaccination.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	56684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>Vaccinators at vaccine sites have received the appropriate training to make sure everyone feels safe. The process is overseen by clinicians who if required would be able to provide further assistance. We recommend that individuals with a needle phobia contact the vaccination centre directly prior to attendance to determine what mitigations they have for relevant patients and if any special arrangements could be identified to help the recipient feel more comfortable.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 26/10/2021 09:22:29 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1360042

registered interest
date	15/10/2021
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, if he will set up a 24 hour suicide prevention helpline for people who are feeling suicidal as a result of facing the loan charge.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	56698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>The Government takes concerns about the wellbeing of all taxpayers seriously and recognises that the Loan Charge can add significant pressures for some taxpayers.</p><p> </p><p>Following Lord Morse’s Independent Loan Charge Review, the Government has taken further steps to mitigate the impact of the Loan Charge to ensure that the right support is in place for those who need it.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC operates a settlement helpline for taxpayers who have used disguised remuneration avoidance schemes, and all call handlers are trained to identify taxpayers who might need additional support.</p><p> </p><p>It would be inappropriate for HMRC, as a tax authority, to set up a helpline for those in severe mental distress. For taxpayers who need specialised help, HMRC advisors suggest they contact organisations like Samaritans or Mind.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has a well-established approach to helping those who are struggling to pay their liabilities in full. HMRC will agree a sustainable and manageable payment plan to spread the tax liability for anyone who is unable to pay in full.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 57147 question first answered 25/10/2021 15:10:56 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West