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1121347

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date	11/04/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Royal Bank of Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the Financial Conduct Authority on the planned timeframe for the publication of a report on the second phase of its investigation into the Royal Bank of Scotland's Global Restructuring Group.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	244146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>On 31 July 2018, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced it would publish a fuller account of its findings following the conclusion of its investigation into the Royal Bank of Scotland’s Global Restructuring Group.</p><p> </p><p>The FCA is an independent non-governmental body. In view of this independence, it would not be appropriate for the Government to comment on the timeframe for the publication of the FCA’s findings.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 23/04/2019 13:04:47 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1121350

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
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	Personal Independence Payment: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of disabled people who have had to leave work as a result of receiving lower rates of support from personal independence payment in comparison to disability living allowance.
tabling member constituency	South Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Heidi Allen
uin	244174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>No such estimate has been made. Personal Independence Payment (PIP) can be paid to disabled people irrespective of their employment status and, as such, no details of an individual’s employment status are gathered during the course of their claim or award.</p><p> </p><p>PIP is a more modern, dynamic and fairer benefit than its predecessor, Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and focuses support on those experiencing the greatest barriers to living independently. 31% of people claiming PIP receive the highest level of support, compared to 15% of DLA’s working-age claimants and 39% of reassessment claimants are getting a higher award on PIP compared to when they were on DLA.</p><p>People with a health condition or disability, who require additional support getting to and from work, can apply for an Access to Work grant.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 23/04/2019 14:10:07 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4516 label Biography information for Heidi Allen

1121352

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
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	Heroin and Morphine: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to reduce the numbers of deaths from misuse of heroin and morphine in (a) coastal communities and (b) Portsmouth.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	244175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for assessing local needs and commissioning drug prevention, treatment and harm reduction services to meet these needs. This includes helping to prevent drug-related deaths from the misuse of heroin and morphine in coastal communities. Public Health England (PHE) supports local authorities to do this by providing advice, guidance and tools.</p><p>Locally, PHE is supporting the South East substance misuse network, which includes Portsmouth, to review a range of opportunities to prevent drug misuse deaths including engaging more people at risk in treatment, improving the physical and mental wellbeing of people in treatment, improving access to naloxone, developing local arrangements for reviewing deaths and near misses, and developing drug alert and early warning systems.</p><p>Nationally, the Department and PHE have made it easier for drug services to supply naloxone, published updated clinical guidelines for drug treatment and worked with a network of treatment providers to establish good practice guidance on managing drug-related death risk factors and to improve partnership between treatment providers and other healthcare services. Updated clinical guidelines can be viewed at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/drug-misuse-and-dependence-uk-guidelines-on-clinical-management" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/drug-misuse-and-dependence-uk-guidelines-on-clinical-management</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 23/04/2019 13:59:41 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1121360

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Personal Savings: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to encourage the elderly to accrue personal savings.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	244002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting people of all incomes and at all stages of life to save.</p><p> </p><p>Older people will continue to benefit from a number of measures this Government has introduced in recent years.</p><p> </p><p>The amount of money that people can save into their ISAs each year (the annual subscription allowance) has been increased to a record £20,000.</p><p> </p><p>Since April 2016, individuals have also been able to benefit from a new Personal Savings Allowance of up to £1,000 for basic rate taxpayers and up to £500 for higher rate taxpayers.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of these measures, over 95% of people with savings income pay no tax on that income.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 23/04/2019 13:07:19 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1121380

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
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	Radioisotopes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has with NHS England on ensuring adequate supplies of Choline for cancer (a) scans and (b) diagnoses.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	244179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department has been in regular contact with NHS England regarding the availability of Choline used for PET scanning. Choline supplies are currently available and NHS England has taken a number of steps to stabilise the availability of Choline going forward to ensure adequate supply remains available for PET scanning.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 23/04/2019 14:02:40 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1121381

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
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	Cataracts: Surgery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guideline his Department has issued to Hospitals and Care Commissioning Groups on operations for cataracts.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	244016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>We are committed to the prevention and detection of eye disease, which are both key to preserving sight along with access to timely treatment.</p><p> </p><p>National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines published in 2017 make clear the expectations on cataract surgery. The guidelines can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng77" target="_blank">https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng77</a></p><p> </p><p>While commissioning decisions must remain a matter for individual clinical commissioning groups all National Health Service bodies are required to carefully consider NICE guidelines in making such decisions.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 23/04/2019 14:05:52 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1121383

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of two-year olds eligible for 15 funded hours of early education and care have taken up that entitlement in each local authority area in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	244103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>The percentage of 2-year-olds benefitting from funded early education by local authority in each of the last 3 years is published in Table 8LA of the ‘Education provision: children under 5 years of age’ statistical release: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2018</a>.</p><p>The number of 2-year-olds benefitting from funded early education by local authority is published in Table 1LA of the ‘Education provision: children under 5 years of age’ statistical release.</p><p><br> As at January 2018: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2018</a>.</p><p> </p><p>As at January 2017: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2017</a>.</p><p> </p><p>As at January 2016: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/education-provision-children-under-5-years-of-age-january-2016</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/04/2019 13:51:01 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1121384

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of total funding on the funded early education offer for (a) two, (b) three and (c) four year olds is spent in (i) PVI settings, (ii) maintained settings and (iii) childminder settings in the latest year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	244104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>​We plan to spend around £3.5 billion on our early education entitlements this year alone – more than any other government.</p><p>The department publishes data from local authority planned early years budget in the early years funding benchmarking tool.</p><p>The tool provides a breakdown of spend by early years provider types, including budget information for private, voluntary and independent (PVI) setting and maintained settings for 2 year olds and 3-4 year olds.</p><p>Budget information for childminders are included within the PVI total budget. The data is as reported by the local authorities and the latest data from 2018-19 is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-benchmarking-tool</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/04/2019 12:24:20 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1121386

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Premium
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children in receipt of the early years pupil premium achieved a good level of development in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	244106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. ​</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/04/2019 12:30:15 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell