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795431

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medicine: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on aiding medical research using NHS data gathering.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	115852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring the health and care system in England realises the full benefits of sharing data in a safe, secure and legal way and is developing a simple, accessible way for patients to opt out of sharing their data for reasons other than their individual care and treatment.</p><p> </p><p>Recognising that sharing information and data offers immense potential to improve the National Health Service and social care system, unlock new treatments and medical breakthroughs, and improve our and others lives, we are keen to ensure these benefits are understood by the public.</p><p> </p><p>It is crucial, if data and information is to be used effectively to support better health and care outcomes that the public has trust and confidence that there are strong safeguards in place to protect their data from inappropriate use.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has committed to put the role of the National Data Guardian on a statutory footing. This function will work to ensure that citizens’ confidential information is safeguarded securely whilst being used legally and transparently.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also committed to supporting innovation and improvement through the safe and secure use of data from the health and care system. NHS Digital is the trusted national provider of high-quality information, data and IT systems for health and social care, with a statutory duty in the Health and Social Care Act 2012, to assure the quality of all the data it collects, publishes and makes available, under strict controls, to the research community.</p><p> </p><p>At present a wide range of data are collected from the NHS to support a range of secondary uses including within the research community. Recognising the value and importance of this data, NHS Digital has made a number of commitments to the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy. These include leading, alongside NHS England and Health Data Research UK, the development of Local Care Record exemplars and regional Digital Innovation hubs. The hubs will create controlled environments for real-world clinical studies and the comprehensive evaluation of new innovations so that patients can benefit from scientific breakthroughs much faster.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, NHS Digital has set out national standards and approaches for data and interoperability and sponsors the Professional Records Standards Body to define the standards needed for good care records which are the foundation of strong data for research.</p><p> </p><p>To support researchers understanding of the data access environment, NHS Digital is also rolling out a series of Roadshows for Researchers which will take place throughout the winter.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 05/12/2017 17:51:55 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

795432

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
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	Environmental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has plans to work with environmental health professionals to ensure that new environmental health standards are formulated and implemented when the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	115853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2017 answer text <p>We are committed to delivering a Green Brexit and to enhancing our environmental standards.</p><p> </p><p>The European Union (Withdrawal Bill) will make sure that the whole body of existing EU environmental law continues to have effect in UK law, providing businesses and stakeholders with maximum certainty as we leave the EU. We will also continue to uphold our international obligations through our multilateral environmental agreements.</p><p> </p><p>On 12 November the Secretary of State set out plans to consult on a new, independent and statutory body to hold government and potentially public authorities to account on environmental commitments once we have left the European Union. We are also proposing to consult on the creation of a new policy statement on environmental principles to apply after we leave the EU. This statement will underpin future policy-making.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 115851 115855 question first answered 08/12/2017 17:44:33 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

795434

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
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	Environmental Health
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 assessment he has made of the adequacy of EU environmental health standards, and what plans he has to implement higher environmental health standards in the UK when the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	115855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2017 answer text <p>We are committed to delivering a Green Brexit and to enhancing our environmental standards.</p><p> </p><p>The European Union (Withdrawal Bill) will make sure that the whole body of existing EU environmental law continues to have effect in UK law, providing businesses and stakeholders with maximum certainty as we leave the EU. We will also continue to uphold our international obligations through our multilateral environmental agreements.</p><p> </p><p>On 12 November the Secretary of State set out plans to consult on a new, independent and statutory body to hold government and potentially public authorities to account on environmental commitments once we have left the European Union. We are also proposing to consult on the creation of a new policy statement on environmental principles to apply after we leave the EU. This statement will underpin future policy-making.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 115851 115853 question first answered 08/12/2017 17:44:33 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

795437

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Harassment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that universities protect pro-Israeli student societies from intimidation on campuses.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	115858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>This government takes anti-Semitism extremely seriously. There is no place in our society, including within higher education, for hatred or any form of harassment, discrimination or racism, including anti-Semitism.</p><p> </p><p>Higher education providers (HEPs) have a clear responsibility to provide a safe and inclusive environment, and no staff or student should ever feel threatened or intimidated. It is essential that HEPs have clear policies and procedures which set out how they meet their responsibilities to ensure that all students and staff can live and work without discrimination, intimidation or harassment.</p><p> </p><p>In September 2015 the government asked Universities UK (UUK) to set up a Harassment Taskforce to consider what more can be done to address harassment and hate crime on campus, including anti-Semitism. The taskforce’s report, ‘Changing the Culture’, published in October 2016, recommended a zero-tolerance approach to harassment and hate crime.</p><p> </p><p>On 27 July 2017 UUK published a directory of case studies detailing the innovative projects universities addressing the taskforce’s recommendations. These included Goldsmith’s hate crime reporting centre (case study 11) which is a joint initiative with the local authority in Lewisham and Metropolitan Police to provide students and staff with a safe space to report incidents. These are published on UUK’s website: <a href="http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/reports/Pages/changing-the-culture-case-studies.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/reports/Pages/changing-the-culture-case-studies.aspx</a>. In addition, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has provided £1.8 million for projects to improve responses to hate crime and online harassment on campus.</p><p> </p><p>HEFCE is currently working with UUK to test the sector’s response to the Taskforce’s recommendations and the results of this will be published early in 2018.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 05/12/2017 16:07:38 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

795438

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
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	Animal Welfare: Sentencing
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 the draft bill to increase the sentence for animal cruelty will be available for public consultation.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	115859
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>As announced on 30 September, draft legislation to increase the maximum penalty for animal cruelty to five years will be published for consultation around the turn of the year.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 05/12/2017 17:28:09 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

795441

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
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	Spaceflight
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Government plans further to develop commercial space exploration in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	115862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government has an exciting ambition to take the UK into the commercial space age. We are actively supporting the development of a commercial market for small satellite launch and sub-orbital flight in the UK, by helping industry to develop new technologies, infrastructure and services. This will establish the UK as a world leading destination for space launch.</p><p> </p><p>We are putting in place new regulation, working internationally to secure agreements and evaluating proposals for grants that would help get the first missions from the UK off the ground.</p><p> </p><p>We are also an active player in international exploration programmes which help to support the development of commercial capabilities in the UK, such as the Goonhilly ground station.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 07/12/2017 10:32:37 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

795443

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all letters and communications it sends to disabled and vulnerable people are accessible and available in easy-read and alternative accessible formats.
tabling member constituency	Stirling
tabling member printed	Stephen Kerr
uin	115864
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>Where our customers need assistance to access our services and information, we make reasonable adjustments to meet their individual needs. This means the Department communicates with customers in a variety of different formats such as Braille, audio, large print, through third party interpreters or by arranging for a member of staff to visit the customer in their home.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is continuously working to improve its written customer communications products, including letters, forms and leaflets, so they are clear and accessible to as many of our customers as possible. We follow accessible design principles, including the use of plain language.</p><p> </p><p>Easy Read is available by request for certain kinds of information. As some of our letters are necessarily complex and difficult to translate into an Easy Read format, we support customers in other ways and will discuss the most appropriate method of communication with the customer, to meet their individual needs. We will be making more customer communications products available in Easy Read in 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 05/12/2017 14:43:38 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4604 label Biography information for Stephen Kerr

795453

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
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	Agriculture: Subsidies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will retain the three-crop rule in any future agricultural payment scheme after the UK has left the EU.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	115874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>As announced in the Queen’s Speech, we intend to introduce an Agriculture Bill in this parliamentary session. This Bill will support a thriving and self-reliant farming sector and deliver on the manifesto commitment to provide stability for farmers as we leave the European Union. The Three-Crop Rule is the type of well-meaning but ineffective rule that we want to review in favour of better environmental outcomes.</p><p> </p><p>The Government plans to consult ahead of the introduction of the Agriculture Bill. This will allow us to take on views from interested groups and individuals.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 05/12/2017 16:52:48 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

795457

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Helicopters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment the effect of the Civil Aviation Authority’s review of offshore helicopter safety CAP1145, published 20 February 2014, on offshore workers’ confidence in commercial helicopter transport in the North Sea.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	115878
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The review resulted in a number of wide ranging recommendations and actions and resulted in significant changes in safety that were introduced as quickly as possible and welcomed by everyone involved.</p><p> </p><p>The Civil Aviation Authority will continue to work with the helicopter operators, the offshore industries, international regulators, unions and pilot representatives to enhance offshore safety standards still further.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 05/12/2017 13:50:27 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

795460

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
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	Dairy Farming
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will take steps to end zero-grazing in dairy cows.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	115881
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>Good stockmanship is the key to high animal welfare and different methods of production have relative strengths and weaknesses. However I have held meetings with the Pasture Fed Livestock Association and we are giving consideration as to how we might support and encourage pasture-fed based systems in future agriculture policy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 06/12/2017 12:26:10 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy