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1663081

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date	13/10/2023
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	Water: Pollution Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information on the Government’s proposed amendments to the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill on nutrient neutrality the Office for Environmental Protection had access to in the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	200935
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>The Secretary of State discussed the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill with Dame Glenys Stacey on 31 August 2023, and sent a follow-up letter on the same day. The letter is published on the Office for Environmental Protection’s website <a href="https://www.theoep.org.uk/report/proposed-changes-laws-developments-will-weaken-environmental-protections-warns-oep" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 23/10/2023 13:21:54 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1663129

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Sizewell C Power Station: Government Shareholding
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 19 September 2023 to Question 199094 on Sizewell C Power Station: Construction, what the expected value of the Government’s shareholding in Sizewell C is in the 2023-24 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	200983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government became an equal-shareholder in the Sizewell C project with EDF in November 2022, following an historic investment of c.£700m. This Summer the Government has invested a further £511m in the project.</p><p> </p><p>The value of the Government’s shareholding in the financial year 2023-24 is subject to the outcome of the equity raise process started on September 11<sup>th</sup> 2023, as well as to the project’s wider development. Both of these processes are ongoing and commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine answering member printed Andrew Bowie question first answered 20/10/2023 06:58:27 answering member 4601 label Biography information for Andrew Bowie
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1663430

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Supermarkets: Customers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of regulating the use of loyalty cards by supermarkets.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	201284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government recently ran a consultation which included questions on the display of prices for loyalty card schemes and other promotions. The Government is analysing the responses to this consultation and will respond in due course.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 23/10/2023 13:25:43 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1663473

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Conversion Therapy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent estimate she has made of when the proposed ban on sexual orientation and gender identity conversion practices will be in place; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	201327
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>No one in this country should be harmed or harassed for who they are and attempts at so-called ‘conversion therapy’ are abhorrent. That is why we are carefully considering this very complex issue. We will be setting out further details on this in due course</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 197041 200427 200488 200489 200490 200494 200797 201578 201589 question first answered 25/10/2023 16:16:39 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1663670

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Slavery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 June 2023 to Question 188925 on Slavery: Victims, if she will publish her findings following consideration of the scope and process of any possible alternative assurance process; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	201524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>We are continuing to keep under consideration the process and scope of any assurance process in respect of negative conclusive grounds decisions in the National Referral Mechanism. There are currently no planned statements or publications in respect of this ongoing work.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 23/10/2023 13:56:45 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1663674

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 September 2023 to Question 198491 on Asylum: Applications, how many legacy cases her Department plans to process in (a) October, (b) November and (c) December 2023.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	201528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>We have taken immediate action to speed up asylum processing whilst maintaining the integrity of the system. This includes simplifying guidance and streamlining processes. We have also introduced shorter, focussed interviews, making the interview process more efficient.</p><p>The asylum backlog of legacy cases had fallen by over 35,000 cases, between the end of November 2022 and the end of August 2023, and has continued to fall since the last publication of statistics.</p><p>Information on the legacy backlog is published online in the IMB_02 Tab of the data table regarding Statistics relating to the Illegal Migration Act - GOV.UK (<a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7CMark.McLaughlin2%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C13fafc2fb7e04b123d6308dbce3cef89%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638330533328633817%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=S6SmN5XuJffLuwEqfIL%2BQbqt84HF93ZEckLz%2BayoJOw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>). This data is provisional and has not been cleansed to remove duplicates.</p><p>In the year ending June 2023, there were 23,702 initial decisions made on asylum applications, 61% more than in the previous year. This is in part due to an increase in the number of asylum decision makers employed by the Home Office.</p><p>We are confident that with increased capacity and improved efficiency this will help deliver further significant output over the coming months.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 23/10/2023 14:03:54 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1663675

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 September 2023 to Question 198491 on Asylum: Applications, how long the training lasts for newly recruited decision makers; who provides the training for newly recruited decision makers; and what steps she is taking to (a) provide support to new decision makers and (b) monitor the (i) quality and (ii) consistency of decision making.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	201529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>Asylum Operations provides staff with specialist training through a comprehensive programme of classroom-based learning and a mentoring framework as part of our plan for a highly skilled workforce. This is delivered by a dedicated team of senior grade trainers and higher-grade technical experts, thereby helping to maintain case-working expertise and improve decision maker capability.</p><p>Work has been undertaken to review and redesign the training of Asylum decision makers. The focus of the project is to ensure that the right training is given at the right time. The expectation is that by moving to this model it will help decision makers become more productive in a quicker timeframe as the training will be more focused on the type of casework that they are assigned and the tasks they will need to undertake at that time.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 23/10/2023 11:14:08 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1663705

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Help: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2023 on Migrant Help: Standards, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of an increase in the headcount for Migrant Help on the service standards they provide; what rectification actions are still outstanding; what progress Migrant Help have made on improving standards to the level set out in their contract; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	201558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office continues to work with Migrant Help in line with their contract to ensure that they take all rectification actions to bring about improvements. Migrant Help have increased their headcount to respond to the significant increase in demand for their services which is due to increased volumes of those destitute asylum seekers requiring accommodation.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 23/10/2023 13:39:33 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1663706

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Help
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time equivalent Home Office staff have dealt with complaints about matters that have not been resolved through Migrant Help in the last 12 months; and how many complaints have been received as of October 2023.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	201559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>The data requested cannot be provided as it comes from live operational databases that have not been quality assured.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 26/10/2023 10:00:10 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1663707

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
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, what discussions she has had with her counterpart in Pakistan on immigration enforcement action against Afghan nationals who are in Pakistan awaiting final checks on UK visa applications; what steps she is taking to prevent Afghan nationals in this position being sent back to Afghanistan on the grounds that documentation allowing them to be in Pakistan has expired; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	201560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office is unable to comment on ongoing discussions taking place with Pakistan on this.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 23/10/2023 16:54:03 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas