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1142795

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
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	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Cambridge Analytica
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will publish the minutes of meetings between Cambridge Analytica and (a) his predecessor, the Rt Hon. Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, (b) his Ministers, (c) his special advisers and (d) his officials in December 2016.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	284184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>​No minutes relating to meetings between Cambridge Analytica and the then Foreign Secretary, the then Minister for Europe and the Americas, Special Advisors or Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office officials in December 2016 are held by this department.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 05/09/2019 16:07:19 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1142121

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, which social media advertising campaigns his Department ran in the last 12 months; and what audience targeting each of those campaigns used.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	282460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>Between 1 August 2018 and 31 July 2019, the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland ran the following social media advertising campaigns:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Campaign</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Channel</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Audience selection and targeting </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Delivering for Scotland</p></td><td><p>Twitter</p></td><td><p>in Scotland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Devolution and public spending</p></td><td><p>Twitter</p></td><td><p>in Scotland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland’s Trade</p></td><td><p>Twitter</p></td><td><p>in Scotland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Defence and Security</p></td><td><p>Twitter</p></td><td><p>in Scotland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Budget 2018</p></td><td><p>Twitter</p></td><td><p>in Scotland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brexit</p></td><td><p>Twitter</p></td><td><p>in Scotland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Culture is GREAT</p></td><td><p>Facebook &amp; Instagram</p></td><td><p>16-65, 18-65, in Scotland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland’s Trade</p></td><td><p>Facebook &amp; Instagram</p></td><td><p>16-24, 18-65, in Scotland, Women, Interests: business, entrepreneurship, small business, parents</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Budget 2018</p></td><td><p>Facebook &amp; Instagram</p></td><td><p>18-65, in Scotland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Devolution and public spending</p></td><td><p>Facebook &amp; Instagram</p></td><td><p>18-65, in Scotland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brexit</p></td><td><p>Facebook &amp; Instagram</p></td><td><p>18-65, in Scotland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Defence and Security</p></td><td><p>Facebook &amp; Instagram</p></td><td><p>18-65, in Scotland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Delivering for Scotland</p></td><td><p>Facebook &amp; Instagram</p></td><td><p>18-65, in Scotland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ayrshire Growth Deal</p></td><td><p>Facebook &amp; Instagram</p></td><td><p>18-65, Ayr</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Borderlands Growth Deal</p></td><td><p>Facebook &amp; Instagram</p></td><td><p>16-65, Biggar, Cumnock, Dumfries, Dunbar, Eyemouth, Gorebridge, Haddington, Hawick, Kelso, Lanark, Langholm, Lauder, Newton Stewart, Peebles, Penicuik, Selkirk, Stranraer, West Calder</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Delivering for Scotland</p></td><td><p>LinkedIN</p></td><td><p>Across Scotland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Devolution and public spending</p></td><td><p>LinkedIN</p></td><td><p>Across Scotland</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfries and Galloway answering member printed Mr Alister Jack question first answered 03/09/2019 10:50:02 answering member 4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1139004

registered interest
date	15/07/2019
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	Sheep: Transmissible Encephalopathies
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 bring forward legislative proposals to enable the identification of the age of ovine animals other than by the eruption of the permanent incisor under the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (2018).
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	277203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government is preparing to consult on amendments to the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (2018) in line with changes to EU rules, which would permit the introduction of an optional method of ageing of sheep alternative to dentition.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 23/07/2019 15:53:24 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1138700

registered interest
date	12/07/2019
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much his Department has spent on social media advertising in each month since July 2017.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	276557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2019 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales has not spent any money on social media advertising since July 2017.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 18/07/2019 12:13:15 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1137202

registered interest
date	05/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Navy: Military Bases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many visits there have been to UK naval bases by foreign vessels carrying nuclear weapons in each of the last ten years; which bases those vessels visited; and what nations those vessels originated from.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	273805
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2019 answer text <p>It is UK and NATO policy to neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons onboard specific ships or submarines at any particular place or time, for the purposes of safeguarding national security and international relations.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 10/07/2019 13:46:58 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1136308

registered interest
date	02/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	HMS Audacious
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when HMS Audacious will enter service.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	272211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2019 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 21 February 2019 to Question 220928 to the hon. Member for Dunfermline and West Fife (Mr Chapman).</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 08/07/2019 16:52:20 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew attachment 1 file name 20190221_220928_HMS_Audacious.docx title 220928 - HMS Audacious
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1136326

registered interest
date	02/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	HMS Talent and HMS Triumph
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when HMS Talent and HMS Triumph will be based at HMNB Clyde; and when and where those vessels will be decommissioned.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	272213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The planned out-of-service dates for Royal Navy submarines are withheld as disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the capability, effectiveness or security of the Armed Forces.</p><p>An error has been identified in the answer given to the hon. Member to Question 269749 answered on 3 July 2019 which stated that the three Trafalgar Class submarines were based at Her Majesty's Naval Base (HMNB) Clyde. While all Royal Navy submarines operate under the administrative command of the Submarine Flotilla, on current plans HMS Talent's base port change will take place in the next few weeks and HMS Triumph's in 2020.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 272215 question first answered 09/07/2019 15:24:00 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1136333

registered interest
date	02/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Trafalgar Class Submarines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 1 July 2013 to Question 162999 on Trafalgar Class Submarines, whether those planned end of service dates remain the same for each boat.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	272215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2019 answer text <p>The planned out-of-service dates for Royal Navy submarines are withheld as disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the capability, effectiveness or security of the Armed Forces.</p><p>An error has been identified in the answer given to the hon. Member to Question 269749 answered on 3 July 2019 which stated that the three Trafalgar Class submarines were based at Her Majesty's Naval Base (HMNB) Clyde. While all Royal Navy submarines operate under the administrative command of the Submarine Flotilla, on current plans HMS Talent's base port change will take place in the next few weeks and HMS Triumph's in 2020.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 272213 question first answered 09/07/2019 15:24:00 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1134817

registered interest
date	26/06/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Warships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many ships and submarines of each type are in service in each branch of the armed forces; and where each ship and submarine is based.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	269749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2019 answer text <p>The following table lists how many ships and submarines of each type are in service in the Royal Navy and where each ship and submarine is based as at 1 June 2019.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Naval Vessels in Service as at 1 June 2019</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Type of Vessel</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Based</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aircraft Carrier</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>HMNB Portsmouth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Type 45 Destroyer</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>HMNB Portsmouth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Type 23 Frigate</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>HMNB Portsmouth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hunt Class Mine Counter Measure Vessel</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>HMNB Portsmouth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Offshore Patrol Vessel – River Class</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>HMNB Portsmouth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Inshore Patrol Boat</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>HMNB Portsmouth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Offshore Patrol Vessel - Helicopters</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>HMNB Portsmouth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Landing Platform Dock</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>HMNB Devonport</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Type 23 Frigate</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>HMNB Devonport</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ocean Survey Vessel</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>HMNB Devonport</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Survey Vessel Hydrographic/Oceanographic</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>HMNB Devonport</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Inshore Survey Vessel</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>HMNB Devonport</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ice Patrol Ship</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>HMNB Devonport</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ship Submersible Nuclear Trafalgar Class</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>HMNB Clyde</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sandown Class Mine Counter Measure Vessel</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>HMNB Clyde</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Faslane Patrol Boat Squadron</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>HMNB Clyde</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ship Submersible Nuclear Astute</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>HMNB Clyde</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ship Submersible Ballistic Nuclear</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>HMNB Clyde</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Royal Navy Gibraltar Squadron</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>Gibraltar</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fleet Tanker</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>Not base ported</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fleet Replenishment Ship</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>Not base ported</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Landing Ship Dock</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>Not base ported</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Primary Casualty Receiving Ship/Aviation Training Ship</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>Not base ported</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>85</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 03/07/2019 14:35:36 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1133850

registered interest
date	21/06/2019
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	Radioactive Waste
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 his Department has made of the environmental effects of the dumping of radioactive waste in Hurd Deep and Atlantic Deep as detailed in the Ministry of Defence archived document entitled British Isles Explosive Dumping Grounds.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	267753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2019 answer text <p>Dumping of radioactive waste (before being banned under the London Convention of 1972 for highly contaminated and in 1993 for low contaminated waste) was subject to approval by the MAFF Approval Committee, whose procedures included careful checks on the containment and transport of the waste. Both the Hurd Deep and Atlantic Deep sites have been subject to monitoring.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Hurd Deep:</strong></p><p> </p><p>From 1946 to 1993, the UK disposed of amounts of both civilian and radioactive waste at sea, in accordance with national policy and legislation, and with later international agreements regulating such disposals. These disposals were seen at the time as routine and uncontroversial.</p><p> </p><p>The total estimated activities in curies (TBq) for these dumpings were: Alpha activity, 400 curies (14.8 TBq); Beta-Gamma activity, 1,200 curies (44.4 TBq). The very low active waste (mainly sludges) dumped into the Hurd Deep was packed in approved light metal drums to permit rapid dispersion of the contents. The UK regularly monitors the Channel Island States and report the results in the annually produced RIFE (Radioactivity in Food and the Environment) report series. These reports can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/radioactivity-in-food-and-the-environment-rife-reports" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/radioactivity-in-food-and-the-environment-rife-reports</a></p><p> </p><p>In addition, Cefas and the Food Standards Agency have jointly published a peer reviewed paper (MARINE RADIOACTIVITY IN THE CHANNEL ISLANDS, 1990 – 2009) which looked further at time trends over around 20 years. UK monitoring shows that there is no evidence for significant releases of radioactivity from the Hurd Deep site and the effects of discharges from local sources have continued to be of negligible radiological significance.</p><p> </p><p><strong>North Atlantic Dump site:</strong></p><p> </p><p>The Nuclear Energy Agency’s (NEA) surveillance of the North-East Atlantic dump site used by OECD/NEA member countries (including the UK) started in 1977 and ended in 1995. In 1985, the OECD/NEA Co-ordinated Research and Environmental Surveillance Programme (CRESP) delivered a report on the dump site. The report concluded that the North-East Atlantic dump site posed negligible human radiological risk although the report noted that in the absence of baseline data on the benthic biology, it was difficult to draw firm conclusions about the environmental impacts. A new report on the dump site conducted by CRESP in 1996 reached the same conclusions.</p><p> </p><p>A summary of the “Historic Dumping of Low-Level Radioactive Waste in the North-East Atlantic” was recently compiled by the Radioactive Substances Committee of OSPAR. OSPAR’s document can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.ospar.org/site/assets/files/1173/factsheet_historic_dumping_final.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ospar.org/site/assets/files/1173/factsheet_historic_dumping_final.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 28/06/2019 15:32:54 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock