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1058708

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date	11/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what gender awareness training staff at HMRC have undertaken in relation to their role in enforcing payment of national minimum wage rates; and whether HMRC has a gender awareness strategy in place for implementing that role.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	219468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The government is determined that everyone who is entitled to the NMW receives it. If anyone thinks they are not receiving at least the minimum wage, they can contact Acas, in confidence, on 0300 123 1100 or submit a query online using the link <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pay-and-work-rights-complaints" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pay-and-work-rights-complaints</a> .</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Staff across HMRC contribute to enforcing NMW, including lawyers, technical advisers, and those specialising in criminal investigations.</p><p> </p><p>All HMRC staff are required to complete mandatory training on Equality &amp; Diversity, with a mandatory requirement for all managers to undertake the training on Unconscious Bias. In addition to these, HMRC has a selection of other gender awareness training courses available, which staff are encouraged to undertake as a part of their continuous professional development.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has a Gender Policy, which provides guidance on implementing all relevant legislative obligations, including the General Equality Duty in the Equality Act 2010 which applies to public sector organisations.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 19/02/2019 16:44:00 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1058718

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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	International Broadcasting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, in how many media markets do (a) Russia Today, (b) Press TV and (c) BBC World broadcast for 24 hours.
tabling member constituency	Berwick-upon-Tweed
tabling member printed	Anne-Marie Trevelyan
uin	219523
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>We do not hold this information. Ofcom, as the UK’s audiovisual regulator, currently licenses BBC World News and Russia Today for the purposes of AVMSD but it does not collect this type of information either. According to BBC’s own audience measurement data, World News is available in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide and around 454 million households.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 19/02/2019 16:33:28 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan

1058724

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Governors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of tenure is for prison governors in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	219587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>We commend our hard working governors, who do a vital job in protecting the public every day.</p><p> </p><p>As at 30<sup>th</sup> September 2018, the average length of service in current post, for prison governors in England and Wales, was 2.6 years.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 19/02/2019 11:44:12 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1058740

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Brexit: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) civil servants and (b) Ministers that are working on plans to strengthen the Welsh economy in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
tabling member printed	Jonathan Edwards
uin	219384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p><em><strong>The Government as a whole is working to ensure that EU Exit Implementation is carried out to a high quality. This includes planning for a range of scenarios, and all G</strong></em><em><strong>overnment departments</strong></em><em><strong> have been involved in no deal planning. </strong></em><em><strong>However, the percentage of time and personnel spent on exiting the EU without a deal - or specific activities related to this - is not recorded or easily accessible. </strong></em></p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 19/02/2019 17:28:53 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	3943 label Biography information for Jonathan Edwards

1058794

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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	Research: Finance
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’s commitment to increase public investment in research and development by £7 billion by 2021-22 is dependent on the outcome of the forthcoming Spending Review.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	219416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government committed at Budget 2017 to increase public investment in Research &amp; Development by £7 billion by 2021-22. This is not dependent on the outcome of the forthcoming Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/02/2019 17:43:43 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1058867

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Seaborne Freight
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has plans to award the contract formerly held by Seaborne Freight to a new firm.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	219300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department continues to investigate options for promoting freight capacity for the eventuality of a no-deal exit with constriction on the Dover and Channel Tunnel routes.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 19/02/2019 13:48:29 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1058887

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Restraint Techniques
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2019 to Question 211736 on Prison Service: Pay, whether Operational Managers that are not up to date with their Control and Restraint training are entitled to claim the required hours addition allowance.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	219426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The payment of Required Hours Addition (RHA) is not linked to any the completion of any training, including control and restraint. RHA is made to recompense for having to work unsocial and predictable working hours, and is automatically paid as a separate salaried element (pensionable) on taking up duty in a qualifying role.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 19/02/2019 13:32:27 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

1058904

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Armed Conflict: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Office, what programmes his Department (a) promotes and (b) funds to rehabilitate and reintegrate former child soldiers into their communities.
tabling member constituency	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
tabling member printed	John Lamont
uin	219527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>​The UK is firmly committed to ending the recruitment and use of child soldiers and to protecting all children affected by armed conflict.</p><p>The UK is an active member of the United Nations Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC), which leads the international response to the issue of child soldiers and child protection. This includes pressing those parties to conflict listed in the UN Secretary-General's annual report on CAAC to enter into concrete action plans with the UN to verify and release any child soldiers associated with armed groups and forces and to prevent re-recruitment. We apply diplomatic pressure to listed governments and armed groups, and fund projects to help protect and rehabilitate vulnerable children. We also press for the inclusion of child protection in peacekeeping responses through UN mandate renewals and resolutions.</p><p>The UK is the largest single financial contributor to the office of the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for CAAC contributing £800,000 in the last five years. We have shown our support for the SRSG's recently launched Global Coalition for Reintegration (GCR) by joining the 'Friends of Reintegration' group, a forum to generate new ideas for supporting reintegration programmes for children formerly associated with armed groups. The GCR is working to provide more reliable funding to ensure higher quality, longer-term reintegration programming and prevention of re-recruitment for all children formerly recruited and used by armed groups and forces. The UK has confirmed that it will be increasing its funding to the office of the SRSG for CAAC to £450,000 for the FY19/20 to continue assisting the SRSG with her current mandate, and will be giving an additional £50,000 to fund extended activities pertaining to the GCR.</p><p>In 2018, the UK endorsed the Safe Schools Declaration, a political commitment to reduce the impact of conflict on education, and the Vancouver Principles, a political commitment to ensure that child protection and preventing the recruitment and use of children by armed forces and armed groups are operational priorities during the conduct of United Nations peace operations. As a member of the Group of Friends of CAAC in Geneva, we also participated in a joint statement to the 37th session of the Human Rights Council in March 2018, in which we reiterated our strong support for the mandate of the SRSG for CAAC. We worked very closely with Sweden and others to agree Resolution 2427 adopted by the UN Security Council in July 2018, to strengthen protection mechanisms for children in armed conflict.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field grouped question UIN 219529 question first answered 19/02/2019 16:24:51 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4608 label Biography information for John Lamont

1058905

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Central African Republic: Armed Conflict
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Office, what steps his Department is taking to prevent the recruitment of children by (a) armed forces and (b) groups in the Central African Republic.
tabling member constituency	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
tabling member printed	John Lamont
uin	219528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>​The UK recognises the recruitment of children by armed groups is a significant problem in the Central African Republic (CAR). Partners of the Department for International Development (DFID) based in CAR integrate child protection principles throughout all programmes, ensuring that the dignity and safety of children is paramount in all services. We were the fourth largest donor to the CAR Humanitarian Response in 2018 and the largest donor to the CAR Humanitarian Fund. Through the CAR Humanitarian Fund, 59,318 (16,000 DFID attributable) girls and boys were supported with protection focussed activities, including 11,420 (3,083 DFID attributable) children with identification, documentation, tracing and reunification support. 31,309 (8,453 DFID attributable) children also benefitted from psychological support activities, protection mechanism and life-saving message training while 176 teachers and parents were trained on psychosocial support.</p><p>UNICEF has reported that since 2014 approximately 13,000 children have been released from armed groups in CAR. The UK is also funding War Child UK to reach conflict-affected boys and girls in CAR and help them to receive education and psychosocial support, integral services for facilitating recruitment prevention. Through our humanitarian partners in CAR, we will continue to monitor the situation on the ground to prevent more children from being recruited into armed groups.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 19/02/2019 16:30:16 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4608 label Biography information for John Lamont

1058906

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Armed Conflict: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Office , what funding his Department has allocated to programmes to prevent the recruitment of children by armed forces and groups.
tabling member constituency	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
tabling member printed	John Lamont
uin	219529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>​The UK is firmly committed to ending the recruitment and use of child soldiers and to protecting all children affected by armed conflict.</p><p>The UK is an active member of the United Nations Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC), which leads the international response to the issue of child soldiers and child protection. This includes pressing those parties to conflict listed in the UN Secretary-General's annual report on CAAC to enter into concrete action plans with the UN to verify and release any child soldiers associated with armed groups and forces and to prevent re-recruitment. We apply diplomatic pressure to listed governments and armed groups, and fund projects to help protect and rehabilitate vulnerable children. We also press for the inclusion of child protection in peacekeeping responses through UN mandate renewals and resolutions.</p><p>The UK is the largest single financial contributor to the office of the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for CAAC contributing £800,000 in the last five years. We have shown our support for the SRSG's recently launched Global Coalition for Reintegration (GCR) by joining the 'Friends of Reintegration' group, a forum to generate new ideas for supporting reintegration programmes for children formerly associated with armed groups. The GCR is working to provide more reliable funding to ensure higher quality, longer-term reintegration programming and prevention of re-recruitment for all children formerly recruited and used by armed groups and forces. The UK has confirmed that it will be increasing its funding to the office of the SRSG for CAAC to £450,000 for the FY19/20 to continue assisting the SRSG with her current mandate, and will be giving an additional £50,000 to fund extended activities pertaining to the GCR.</p><p>In 2018, the UK endorsed the Safe Schools Declaration, a political commitment to reduce the impact of conflict on education, and the Vancouver Principles, a political commitment to ensure that child protection and preventing the recruitment and use of children by armed forces and armed groups are operational priorities during the conduct of United Nations peace operations. As a member of the Group of Friends of CAAC in Geneva, we also participated in a joint statement to the 37th session of the Human Rights Council in March 2018, in which we reiterated our strong support for the mandate of the SRSG for CAAC. We worked very closely with Sweden and others to agree Resolution 2427 adopted by the UN Security Council in July 2018, to strengthen protection mechanisms for children in armed conflict.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field grouped question UIN 219527 question first answered 19/02/2019 16:24:52 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4608 label Biography information for John Lamont