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1457636

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date	21/04/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Religious Freedom: Commonwealth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will take steps to ensure that the encouragement of freedom of religion and belief in member countries is discussed at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Rwanda in June 2022.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	154051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2022 answer text <p>The Commonwealth Charter, to which all Commonwealth members are committed, emphasises 'the need to promote tolerance, respect, understanding, moderation and religious freedom'. The UK looks forward to a re-affirmation of the Charter's values at the Kigali Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 26/04/2022 14:57:38 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1457679

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
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	Aviation: Research
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 outcomes of funding awards provided by the Future Flight Challenge to date.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Beth Winter
uin	154460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2022 answer text <p>The Future Flight challenge has to date supported 48 ambitious R&amp;D projects, committing £32m of funding, most of which is supporting smaller businesses. The evaluation is underway, and we are seeing promising signs such as high levels of industrial support, the creation of skilled jobs and several industry ‘firsts’ being delivered.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 26/04/2022 16:59:16 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4809 label Biography information for Beth Winter

1459021

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what progress her Department has made on securing UK membership of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
tabling member constituency	Poole
tabling member printed	Sir Robert Syms
uin	906465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2022 answer text <p>The UK recently reached a major milestone in the accession process to CPTPP, by moving to market access negotiations with this trading bloc.</p><p> </p><p>These negotiations will see new, beneficial trading relationships agreed with CPTPP members. Tariffs will be reduced on UK goods exports, and services markets will open up further to British business, through advanced provisions that facilitate digital trade and modern rules on data. We aim to conclude negotiations by the end of 2022.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 21/04/2022 16:28:57 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	245 label Biography information for Sir Robert Syms

1459022

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Digital Technology: Exports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps her Department has taken to increase exports of digital services.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Dehenna Davison
uin	906467
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2022 answer text <p>The UK has been at the forefront of seizing the benefits of digital trade, including through our FTA programme. For example, the UK-Singapore Digital Economy Agreement, signed in February, represents the most innovative digital trade agreement ever signed. Already, DIT has engaged nearly 100 companies through a webinar and trade mission on the benefits of the deal for business. The Department also has a Digital Exporting Programme which helps SME to increase exports through digital channels, for example those in the music industry. So far, the Programme has supported in excess of 10,000 companies.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 21/04/2022 16:27:58 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4737 label Biography information for Dehenna Davison

1459023

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Overseas Trade: Central Asia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps her Department is taking to increase trade with central Asian countries.
tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
uin	906468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2022 answer text <p>Fast growing economies such as Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan provide an abundance of opportunities for British business across a wide range of sectors.</p><p> </p><p>My Department is supporting British business to grab these opportunities through trade dialogues and regular business to business exchanges, including the annual United Kingdom-Kazakhstan Inter-Governmental Commission that I co-chaired late last year in Astana.</p><p> </p><p>We are working hard to remove trade barriers with Uzbekistan too.For example, an update to their Intellectual Property regime, removing barriers for British businesses could be worth over £11million per year.</p> answering member constituency North East Hampshire answering member printed Mr Ranil Jayawardena question first answered 21/04/2022 16:26:54 answering member 4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena
tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

1459024

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Agreements: USA
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what progress her Department has been made on securing a free trade agreement with the United States.
tabling member constituency	Wellingborough
tabling member printed	Mr Peter Bone
uin	906470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2022 answer text <p>We have had five productive rounds of negotiations to date and agreed a significant proportion of legal text across multiple chapters.</p><p> </p><p>My Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for International Trade attended the first UK-US Future of Atlantic Trade Dialogue last month and hosted the second in Aberdeen this week to progress mutual priorities with USTR Katherine Tai.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 27/04/2022 15:27:18 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	1581 label Biography information for Mr Peter Bone

1459025

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Agreements: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment her Department has made of the extent to which UK free trade agreements support women's rights and gender equality.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Ms Anum Qaisar
uin	906472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2022 answer text <p>Promoting gender equality and women’s economic empowerment is central to the Government’s ‘Modernising Trade’ agenda and features explicitly in UK negotiation objectives.</p><p> </p><p>We are using our FTAs to open new opportunities for women. We have already secured dedicated chapters with Japan, Australia, and New Zealand as well as important additional commitments across these agreements.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 27/04/2022 15:20:17 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4917 label Biography information for Ms Anum Qaisar

1459092

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fraud: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle online financial fraud.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	157358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2022 answer text <p>Online fraud is a devastating and pernicious crime can cause devastating financial and emotional harm to victims. The Government has been working with partners in the public and private sectors to keep the public safe and bring these fraudsters to justice.</p><p>We have introduced the Online Safety Bill, which will tackle online fraud and fraudulent advertising. Fraud is included as priority offence on the face of the Bill. This means that companies will have to take robust, proactive action to ensure that user-generated fraud is not readily published or exposed to users on their platforms. The Online Safety Bill also contains a fraudulent advertising duty covering Category 1 &amp; 2A companies (user-to-user services with the highest reach and search functions). These duties will have significant impact on some of the highest harm fraud types, including romance, pension and investment frauds.</p><p>DCMS is also leading work on developing the Online Advertising Programme, which will be considering further regulation of online advertising which will also help to reduce online fraud.</p><p>We have also been working closely with the National Cyber Security Centre who launched their Suspicious Email Reporting Service in April 2020. This has already led to over 11 million reports received and the removal of over 78,000 scams and 144,000 harmful websites to date. We continue to encourage the public to report fraud to Action Fraud and to forward any suspicious emails to <a href="mailto:report@phishing.gov.uk" target="_blank">report@phishing.gov.uk</a> and suspicious texts to 7726, free of charge.</p><p>Industry have been working hard on tackling the threat of online fraud, including through the Online Fraud Steering Group (OFSG), which is a public-private group co-chaired by the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC), UK Finance and Tech UK.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 27/04/2022 15:28:22 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1459093

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
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	Sepsis: Hospitals
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 people in NHS hospitals have contracted sepsis in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	157359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text Data on the number of people in National Health Service hospitals who have contracted sepsis is not currently held centrally. Reliable estimates of incidence and prevalence of sepsis are not available due to an inconsistency in definitions used to describe sepsis and in coding practice between professionals and organisations. NHS England and NHS Improvement are working to achieve more consistent early identification and treatment of sepsis to improve survival rates and long term outcomes for patients. answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 28/04/2022 11:07:06 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1459094

registered interest
date	21/04/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help tackle the theft of keyless vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	157360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2022 answer text <p>We are continuing to work closely with police and motor manufacturers through the National Vehicle Crime Working Group to tackle vehicle-related thefts. This includes taking forward discussions with manufacturers about how to further build intelligence to prevent thefts of vehicles using electronic compromise.</p><p>The National Vehicle Crime Working Group has established a horizon-scanning group to identify potential future trends, threats and vulnerability in vehicle security and vehicle-related crime. Through this group we engage closely with academics, vehicle manufacturers and policing leads to undertake research and implement actions to mitigate future opportunities to criminally exploit technological and design changes in the automotive industry.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 27/04/2022 16:37:26 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon