Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed grouped question UIN question first answered answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

827946

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support people who are affected by the gap between receiving existing benefit payments and receiving their first instalment of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	123906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>In order to manage this transition, claimants migrating from legacy benefits will be offered a Universal Credit Benefit Transfer Advance.</p><p>This is a one-off recoverable advance of 100 per cent of a claimant’s expected Universal Credit entitlement. Claimants are not required to demonstrate financial need in order to receive the advance and it is recovered in equal instalments, interest-free, over a period of up to twelve months through deductions in the claimant’s monthly award. Exceptionally, this period can also be extended by up to three months.</p><p>From April 2018, all claimants already receiving Housing Benefit will also receive two weeks worth of additional Housing Benefit payments at the beginning of their Universal Credit claim. This is in addition to their Universal Credit support for housing costs.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 30/01/2018 12:14:07 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

827947

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Productivity: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to boost regional productivity in the Yorkshire and Humber region.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	123907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>As set out in the Autumn Budget 2017 and the Industrial Strategy White Paper, the Government will drive productivity in every region of the UK by investing in infrastructure, developing skills, and supporting business. To date, the Yorkshire and Humber region has received more than £1.3 billion from the Local Growth Fund. The Autumn Budget announced a number of further measures which will benefit the region: an £840 million Transforming Cities Fund, which cities such as Leeds and Bradford will be able to bid into for funding to invest in productivity improving transport projects; up to £35 million to trial cutting-edge technology across the rail network, including along the Trans-Pennine route between Manchester, Leeds and York; and two new Tech Nation Hubs in Leeds and Sheffield, linking local tech businesses into a UK-wide network of hubs.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 30/01/2018 12:52:53 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

827952

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
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	Cancer: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress has been made in implementing the NHS England Cancer Strategy in Yorkshire and the Humber.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	123912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>Cancer is a priority programme for the Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP). It is also a national clinical priority and a key recommendation from the independent Cancer Taskforce in the Cancer Strategy for England was to establish local Cancer Alliances as the decision-making body in relation to the planning and delivery of the Strategy locally.</p><p>Work has been undertaken with stakeholders and the former Cancer Strategy Groups to shape the local cancer ambition and the transition to Cancer Alliances. Within Yorkshire and the Humber there are three Cancer Alliances:</p><p>- South Yorkshire, Bassetlaw and North Derbyshire;</p><p>- West Yorkshire and Harrogate; and</p><p>- Humber, Coast and Vale.</p><p> </p><p>Each of the Cancer Alliances has a Board which has developed a work programme which is aligned to and therefore accountable to the STP for delivery. The delivery plans and/or progress update for each Cancer Alliance can be found here:</p><p> </p><p>South Yorkshire, Bassetlaw and North Derbyshire:</p><p><a href="https://smybndccgs.nhs.uk/download_file/view/263/359" target="_blank">https://smybndccgs.nhs.uk/download_file/view/263/359</a></p><p><a href="https://smybndccgs.nhs.uk/download_file/view/264/359" target="_blank">https://smybndccgs.nhs.uk/download_file/view/264/359</a></p><p>West Yorkshire and Harrogate:</p><p><a href="http://www.wyhpartnership.co.uk/download_file/view/208/240" target="_blank">http://www.wyhpartnership.co.uk/download_file/view/208/240</a></p><p>Humber, Coast and Vale:</p><p><a href="http://humbercoastandvale.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Communication-180112.pdf" target="_blank">http://humbercoastandvale.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Communication-180112.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 30/01/2018 14:24:14 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

827958

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
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	Universal Credit: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time is for claimants calling the universal credit helpline.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	123918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>Internal management information data indicates that between April and December 2017, the average speed of answer across all Universal Credit helplines was 4 minutes and 45 seconds.</p><p> </p><p>The Department operates a virtual telephony platform, which enables it to manage fluctuating call demands by increasing or decreasing the number of agents it uses to handle calls.</p><p> </p><p>Each week, the Department matches the required capacity and resources to its telephony forecast to ensure it meets demand and delivers a good service across all channels. This capacity is designed to scale up in line with new claims as the service expands further this year.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 30/01/2018 14:28:16 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

827960

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Carillion: Insolvency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what analysis he has made of the exposure of schools following the liquidation of Carillion.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	123920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>Our priority has been to ensure schools can continue to operate as usual. Government is supporting the Official Receiver, so that services to schools and other public services can continue. To date, all schools have remained open and no significant issues have been reported.</p><p>Local authorities and academy trusts are responsible for their own contracts. The Department has worked with local authorities and academy trusts to make sure they have robust contingency plans in place and that these have been actioned, where required. Information available to the Department indicates that the number of local authority and academy trust schools, covered by catering, facilities management or other service contracts which could affect the day to day running of a school is relatively low. The department, local authorities and trusts also contract with Carillion for the delivery of a small number of school building projects, where work may need to be re-procured.</p><p>The Department is continuing to monitor developments and provide support where it is needed to help minimise any disruption.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 30/01/2018 17:20:06 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

827963

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there are plans to provide financial assistance to asylum seekers who have to travel to Liverpool to appeal asylum decisions.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	123923
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>Asylum appeal hearings are not held in Liverpool. Asylum seekers are not required to travel to Liverpool to appeal against their asylum decisions or attend their asylum appeal hearing.</p><p>The Home Office implemented a new policy on 30 March 2015 which requiring all failed asylum seekers (FAS) who have exhausted their appeal rights, but who wish to make an asylum further submission, to do so in person. Those who wish to submit further submissions on asylum or human rights grounds are required to telephone the further submissions unit and book an appointment to submit their further submissions in person in Liverpool.</p><p>There are no plans to provide financial assistance to those individuals wishing to submit their further submissions in person in Liverpool. However, in exceptional circumstances, for example due to a disability or severe illness, further submissions from failed asylum seekers may be accepted either through local arrangements or by post, providing that supporting evidence is submitted, as specified within the published further submissions policy which can be accessed at the following:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/502334/Further_Submissions_API_v9_0_EXT.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/502334/Further_Submissions_API_v9_0_EXT.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 29/01/2018 15:36:56 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

828031

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Arms Trade: India
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many UK arms export licenses have been granted to India in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	123991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>All export licence applications are considered on a case-by-case basis against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria, known as the Consolidated Criteria, based on the most up-to-date information and analysis available, including reports from NGOs and our overseas network.</p><p>The Government publishes Official Statistics (on a quarterly and annual basis) on export licences granted and refused on GOV.UK and can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/strategic-export-controls-licensing-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/strategic-export-controls-licensing-data</a></p><p>Currently this includes information up to 30 September 2017. Information covering 1 October to 31 December 2017 will be published in April 2018. The data for 2017 is therefore only available for January – September 2017. The figures for licences granted for military exports are as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>India</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Indonesia</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Saudi Arabia</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>626</p></td><td><p>173</p></td><td><p>148</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>570</p></td><td><p>154</p></td><td><p>148</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>615</p></td><td><p>180</p></td><td><p>194</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>619</p></td><td><p>190</p></td><td><p>119</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q1-Q3 2017</p></td><td><p>469</p></td><td><p>172</p></td><td><p>134</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 123992 123993 question first answered 30/01/2018 10:01:01 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

828032

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Arms Trade: Indonesia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many UK arms export licenses have been granted to Indonesia in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	123992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>All export licence applications are considered on a case-by-case basis against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria, known as the Consolidated Criteria, based on the most up-to-date information and analysis available, including reports from NGOs and our overseas network.</p><p>The Government publishes Official Statistics (on a quarterly and annual basis) on export licences granted and refused on GOV.UK and can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/strategic-export-controls-licensing-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/strategic-export-controls-licensing-data</a></p><p>Currently this includes information up to 30 September 2017. Information covering 1 October to 31 December 2017 will be published in April 2018. The data for 2017 is therefore only available for January – September 2017. The figures for licences granted for military exports are as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>India</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Indonesia</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Saudi Arabia</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>626</p></td><td><p>173</p></td><td><p>148</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>570</p></td><td><p>154</p></td><td><p>148</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>615</p></td><td><p>180</p></td><td><p>194</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>619</p></td><td><p>190</p></td><td><p>119</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q1-Q3 2017</p></td><td><p>469</p></td><td><p>172</p></td><td><p>134</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 123991 123993 question first answered 30/01/2018 10:01:01 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

828033

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Arms Trade: Saudi Arabia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many UK arms export licenses have been granted to Saudi Arabia in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	123993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>All export licence applications are considered on a case-by-case basis against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria, known as the Consolidated Criteria, based on the most up-to-date information and analysis available, including reports from NGOs and our overseas network.</p><p>The Government publishes Official Statistics (on a quarterly and annual basis) on export licences granted and refused on GOV.UK and can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/strategic-export-controls-licensing-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/strategic-export-controls-licensing-data</a></p><p>Currently this includes information up to 30 September 2017. Information covering 1 October to 31 December 2017 will be published in April 2018. The data for 2017 is therefore only available for January – September 2017. The figures for licences granted for military exports are as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>India</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Indonesia</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Saudi Arabia</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>626</p></td><td><p>173</p></td><td><p>148</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>570</p></td><td><p>154</p></td><td><p>148</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>615</p></td><td><p>180</p></td><td><p>194</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>619</p></td><td><p>190</p></td><td><p>119</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Q1-Q3 2017</p></td><td><p>469</p></td><td><p>172</p></td><td><p>134</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 123991 123992 question first answered 30/01/2018 10:01:01 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

828146

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to prevent young people committing violent crimes.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	124106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government is delivering a range of action to prevent violent crime including action to tackle knife crime and gang related violence and exploitation.</p><p>Our work to tackle knife crime includes early intervention and prevention work with key partners such as the charity Redthread who intervene with young people in hospital at the ‘teachable moment’. We have awarded £765,000 from a new anti-knife crime community fund launched in October 2017 to support local communities to tackle knife crime. 47 different projects have been supported through the community fund, and the projects awarded funding were particularly aimed at helping young people.</p><p>We are also supporting the Operation Sceptre national week of action by police forces to tackle knife crime which is taking place in February. Police forces will be undertaking weapon sweeps, targeted stop and search operations, undertaking test purchasing, encouraging the use of surrender bins, and carrying out educational activities with young people.</p><p>Through the Ending Gang Violence and Exploitation (EGVE) programme the Home Office is providing match funding for local area and strategic reviews in areas experiencing gang related issues and challenges to test and build local resilience towards tackling these types of criminal activity, especially county lines. 13 local areas were reviewed in 2016/17 and a further 15 areas are benefiting from these reviews in 2017/18. This supports our wider work to tackle county lines and especially preventing young people becoming offenders or victims through county lines drugs dealing with its associated violence and exploitation. The new Drugs Dealing Telecommunications Restriction Orders (DDTROs) introduced in December will also help tackle county lines drugs dealing.</p><p>We have provided funding for 12 Young People’s Advocates to work directly with gang-affected women and girls. We have also provided funding in 2017/18 of over £280,000 to 16 local EGVE projects, including projects delivering gang, knife and county lines awareness training for young people, practitioners and foster carers, community sports and arts projects and mentoring programmes.</p><p>An action plan to tackle the use of acid and other corrosives in violent attacks was announced by the Home Secretary in July 2017. This included actions to improve the policing response and also the introduction of a voluntary set of commitments for retailers to not sell certain particularly harmful corrosive substances to under 18s. The agreement with retailers was introduced earlier this month.</p><p>The Government will be publishing a Serious Violence Strategy shortly.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 25/01/2018 16:50:07 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel