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1109823

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date	04/04/2019
answering body	Church Commissioners
answering dept id	9
answering dept short name	Church Commissioners
answering dept sort name	Church Commissioners
hansard heading	Lambeth Conference
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, if the Archbishop of Canterbury will invite bishops from the Anglican Church in North America and the Anglican Church in Brazil to the Lambeth 2020 conference.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	240952
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>I have met recently with the Archbishop of Canterbury to discuss attendance at the Lambeth 2020 conference.</p><p>The publication of information about those invited to the Lambeth Conference in 2020 is a matter for the Archbishop of Canterbury, not the Church Commissioners.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Dame Caroline Spelman question first answered 08/04/2019 15:58:18 answering member 312 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Spelman
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1109825

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Church Commissioners
answering dept id	9
answering dept short name	Church Commissioners
answering dept sort name	Church Commissioners
hansard heading	Voting Behaviour
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, what steps the Church is taking to improve democratic participation among its lay members.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	240953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>The Church of England encourages responsible democratic participation in its schools and parishes, as one of the stakeholders involved with UK Parliament Week, and as a provider of hustings and other forms of engagement at election times. The General Synod is the Church’s own national legislative body, to which lay members can be elected. The Ecclesiastical Committee of Parliament is expected soon to consider a Church Measure that will reform and simplify Church representation rules on elections for Parochial Church Councils, Deanery and Diocesan Synods.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Dame Caroline Spelman question first answered 08/04/2019 15:57:40 answering member 312 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Spelman
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1109827

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Church Commissioners
answering dept id	9
answering dept short name	Church Commissioners
answering dept sort name	Church Commissioners
hansard heading	Pregnancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, what steps the Church is taking to support women with unplanned pregnancies.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	240954
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>The Church of England provides a wide range of pastoral care through its national network of 12,600 parishes and 18,000 active ordained clergy assisted by 10,000 licensed lay ministers. This care is offered to all regardless of Church affiliation or religious belief. The most effective pastoral care builds a relationship through which a person can be accompanied through difficult situations - rather than offering a service in which the person becomes the client.</p><p>Pastoral care at parish level is extended to women with unwanted pregnancies on the basis that ‘<em>Every possible support, especially by Church members, needs to be given to those who are pregnant in difficult circumstances and care, support and compassion must be shown to all whether or not they continue with their pregnancy.</em>’ (General Synod July 2017: written answer was given by the Chair of Mission and Public Affairs Council in response to a question on the 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the 1967 Abortion Act).</p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Dame Caroline Spelman question first answered 08/04/2019 15:57:11 answering member 312 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Spelman
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1109828

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Church Commissioners
answering dept id	9
answering dept short name	Church Commissioners
answering dept sort name	Church Commissioners
hansard heading	Church Services: Attendance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, what steps the Church is taking to increase attendance at church services.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	240955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>Strategic Development Funding has been made available to develop the capacity of Church of England dioceses to increase church attendance. 2017 a total of £44million was awarded to 27 projects in 20 dioceses. In 2018, £61.6 million was awarded to 20 new projects in 20 dioceses. One third of these new initiatives focus on work with children and young people, and the majority are located in deprived areas.</p><p> </p><p>In 2018 the Church of England formed an Evangelism and Discipleship Department, based at Church House, Westminster, to enable a strategic national approach by developing specific interventions and resources to enable and equip its million regular worshippers to be able to talk about and live out their faith. This supplements work at a Diocesan level to develop more growing churches: <a href="https://www.churchofengland.org/more/church-resources/evangelism-and-discipleship" target="_blank">https://www.churchofengland.org/more/church-resources/evangelism-and-discipleship</a></p><p> </p><p>The Church of England is developing 1,000 new evangelists in the over the next five years. Other measures include working with a number of dioceses around a Culture of Invitation to help parishioners to invite people to their church ( <a href="http://www.cultureofinvitation.com/" target="_blank">http://www.cultureofinvitation.com/</a> ), helping churches to ensure that those coming for baptisms, funerals and weddings are welcomed and invited to continue attending their local church (<a href="https://www.churchofengland.org/life-events/christenings" target="_blank">https://www.churchofengland.org/life-events/christenings</a> ), and the Talking Jesus Course, which is a simple 6 week video-based course to inspire ordinary Christians to share their faith in natural and relevant ways: <a href="https://talkingjesus.org/" target="_blank">https://talkingjesus.org/</a></p><p> </p><p>Seven million people engaged with the Church of England via digital media channels last Christmas through the ‘Follow the Star campaign’. Two million used it to identify a church to attend through the resource <a href="http://www.achurchnearyou.com/" target="_blank">www.achurchnearyou.com</a> The Church’s use of digital and social media has won awards for innovation, and there are now worship and liturgy resources available via Alexa and a variety of Apps.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Dame Caroline Spelman question first answered 08/04/2019 15:55:51 answering member 312 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Spelman
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1109833

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offenders: Deportation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of foreign national offenders have successfully appealed a deportation order under Article (a) 3, (b) 6 and (c) 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
tabling member printed	Dominic Raab
uin	241028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>Information on how many and what proportion of foreign national offenders have successfully appealed a deportation order under Article (a) 3, (b) 6 and (c) 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, in each year since 2010 is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Data on deportation appeal outcomes is published by HM Courts and Tribunals Service on a quarterly basis. A link to the latest published statistics is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2018." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2018.</a> The data in table FIA_3 of the Main Tables (October to December 2018) is the closest match to the requested information.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 09/04/2019 09:09:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab

1109841

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: EU Countries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government has taken to ensure that people are aware of how much time they need to have left on their passports in order to travel to the EU after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	241034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office has a duty to inform citizens and businesses about how leaving the EU might affect them, and to advise on the steps they may need to take to prepare for EU Exit.</p><p><br>Alongside business as usual operational communications, HM Passport Office (HMPO), working with Home Office, is part of the Cabinet Office-led Public Information Campaign to help achieve this. This includes campaign activity focused on passport renewal and EU citizens’ rights. This campaign includes print, out of home and TV advertising.</p><p><br>On 8th January 2019 a separate passport marketing campaign launched as part of the wider cross-government EU Exit Public Information Campaign. The passport-specific activity, via social media and digital advertising, encourages customers who are planning to travel to Europe post-EU Exit to check the validity of their passport using the online checker. To date 2.3 million users have checked their passport validity.</p><p><br>To support this marketing activity, HMPO has been working with other government departments and stakeholders from across the travel industry, asking them to share messages on their own customer channels. This work included the distribution of a toolkit including promotional materials in October 2018.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 09/04/2019 09:25:00 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1109842

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Croydon
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people living in (a) Croydon North constituency and (b) the London borough of Croydon are designated as having no recourse to public funds.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	241042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>The no recourse to public funds (NRPF) condition is applied to the leave of most migrants in the UK as a legitimate means of maintaining and protecting our economic resources.</p><p>In those cases where leave has been, or is being, granted for family or private life reasons the NRPF condition can be lifted on application to the Home Office if that is necessary to meet the welfare needs of children. In addition, immigration legislation specifically provides for children to remain eligible for support from a local authority under section 17 of the Children Act 1989, and an assessment of welfare needs will be part of providing that support.</p><p>Information about NRPF is held on individual case files for applications, which do not indicate whether an individual is part of the UK’s resident population. Wider population data, such as that requested in relation to the London Borough of Croydon, and that requested for all households nationally, is not held by the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 241043 241044 question first answered 09/04/2019 09:28:32 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1109843

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effect on the well-being of children of their parents being subject to no recourse to public funds.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	241043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>The no recourse to public funds (NRPF) condition is applied to the leave of most migrants in the UK as a legitimate means of maintaining and protecting our economic resources.</p><p>In those cases where leave has been, or is being, granted for family or private life reasons the NRPF condition can be lifted on application to the Home Office if that is necessary to meet the welfare needs of children. In addition, immigration legislation specifically provides for children to remain eligible for support from a local authority under section 17 of the Children Act 1989, and an assessment of welfare needs will be part of providing that support.</p><p>Information about NRPF is held on individual case files for applications, which do not indicate whether an individual is part of the UK’s resident population. Wider population data, such as that requested in relation to the London Borough of Croydon, and that requested for all households nationally, is not held by the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 241042 241044 question first answered 09/04/2019 09:28:32 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1109845

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: EU Countries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the guidance is on time left on passports for travel to the EU after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	241036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>Our guidance relating to the changes to the rules for travel to Europe is in the event that the UK leaves the European Union without a deal. If the UK leaves the EU with no deal we advise that:</p><p><br>1. You should have at least 6 months left on your passport from your date of arrival. This applies to adult and child passports</p><p>2. If you renewed a passport before it expired, up to 9 extra months may have been added to your new passport’s expiry date. Any extra months on your passport over 10 years may not count towards the 6 months that should be remaining for travel to most countries in Europe.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 09/04/2019 09:13:43 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1109846

registered interest
date	04/04/2019
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what role Ofgem is currently playing in monitoring the renewable heat incentive scheme in Northern Ireland; and if she will make an assessment of the level of Ofgem's presence in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Lady Hermon
uin	240971
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>Ofgem is primarily responsible for administering the RHI Scheme on a day-to-day basis on behalf of the Department for the Economy.</p><p> </p><p>Ofgem’s involvement is in accordance with the Energy Act 2011.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 09/04/2019 09:52:57 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	1437 label Biography information for Lady Hermon