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1076645

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date	25/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the effect of changes in the number of firefighters on fire service capacity to respond to emergency calls.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	909399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>Recent data show that the average total response time to primary fires has remained the same as last year, and for secondary fires has increased by 1 second since last year.</p><p>Total response times have risen gradually since 1994 but are now starting to stabilise.</p><p>Fire and rescue services have the resources they need to do their important work.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 25/02/2019 18:08:30 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

1076693

registered interest
date	25/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Disclosure and Barring Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What plans he has to make changes to the Disclosure and Barring Service after the Supreme Court judgment of 30 January 2019.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	909409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The judgment found two aspects of the disclosure regime to be incompatible with the Article 8 right to private life.The Government will carefully consider the details of this complex judgment.</p><p>Any legislative changes will not only conform to the judgment, but will continue to ensure that the disclosure regime supports effective protection for children and vulnerable adults.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 25/02/2019 16:44:40 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1076694

registered interest
date	25/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Gloucestershire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to increase the number of police officers in Gloucestershire.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	909410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>Decisions on the numbers of police officers in a force are for Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners, held to account by the communities they serve.</p><p>The Gloucestershire PCC has announced he will increased precept by £24 in 2019/20 meaning they will increase funding by £8.5 million compared to 2018/19.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 25/02/2019 16:46:13 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

1076695

registered interest
date	25/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner: Mayors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What oversight he has of the consultation to merge the role of West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner with that of West Midlands Mayor.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	909411
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government supports the second devolution deal for the West Midlands which envisaged incorporating the role and powers of the PCC into the Mayoralty.</p><p>A two-stage public consultation is being carried out locally to seek views on the transfer. The conduct of the consultation is a matter for the West Midlands Combined Authority.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 25/02/2019 16:47:50 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1064657

registered interest
date	21/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to tackle domestic abuse.
tabling member constituency	Chichester
tabling member printed	Gillian Keegan
uin	909406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>On 21 January we published a landmark draft Domestic Abuse Bill, containing a ground-breaking series of measures to promote awareness, support victims, tackle perpetrators and improve services.</p><p>We have also published a package of non-legislative actions that will see further support for children, the elderly, disabled, male and migrant victims and those in the LGBTQ community.</p><p>We have already committed over £100million to tackle violence against women and girls, including £20m for victims of domestic abuse and £40 million for safe accommodation services.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 25/02/2019 17:47:59 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan

1064670

registered interest
date	21/02/2019
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	China: Uyghurs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Chinese counterpart on the treatment of Uighur Muslims in China.
tabling member constituency	Crewe and Nantwich
tabling member printed	Laura Smith
uin	224366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2019 answer text <p>We have serious concerns about the human rights situation in Xinjiang Province and the Chinese government’s deepening crackdown; including credible reports that over 1 million Uighur Muslims have been held in re-education camps, and reports of widespread surveillance and restrictions targeted at ethnic minorities.</p><p>Ministers and senior officials have been raising our concerns directly with the Chinese authorities for some time, and will continue to do so. I raised our concerns about Xinjiang with Vice Minister Guo Yezhou during my visit to China on 22 July 2018. The Foreign Secretary also raised our concerns about the region with Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his visit to China on 30 July 2018.</p><p>During China’s Universal Periodic Review at the UN Human Rights Council on 6 November 2018, the UK made a statement which described our concern about the treatment of ethnic minorities in China, including Uighurs. We issued a specific recommendation, calling on China to not only implement the recommendations by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on Xinjiang, but also to allow the UN to monitor the implementation.</p><p>Following the Universal Periodic Review, the Minister for the Commonwealth and UN issued a <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/universal-periodic-review-31st-session-minister-for-human-rights-statement" target="_blank">statement</a> where he said: “I am very concerned about the human rights situation in Xinjiang, including the re-education camps and the widespread surveillance and restrictions targeted at ethnic minorities, particularly the Uighurs. The UK and many of our international partners have made clear during China’s UPR that this is a priority issue. We recommended that China should implement CERD recommendations in Xinjiang and allow the UN to monitor implementation.”</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 27/02/2019 16:09:43 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4648 label Biography information for Laura Smith

1064671

registered interest
date	21/02/2019
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	Animal Welfare
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 he has made of the adequacy of enforcement of laws on animal cruelty.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	224329
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2019 answer text <p>The animal welfare laws in England contain effective powers to enable their robust enforcement.</p><p> </p><p>Any person or organisation, such as the RSPCA, can take forward private prosecutions under the Animal Welfare Act 2006. The RSPCA in particular investigates many allegations of animal welfare offences where additional powers are needed, for example to gain entry or to seize animals. The RSPCA will often work in partnership with the police or local authorities who have these specific powers under the Act.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government is increasing the maximum penalty for animal cruelty offences from six months’ to five years’ imprisonment.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 28/02/2019 14:34:45 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1064672

registered interest
date	21/02/2019
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	Liver Diseases: Transplant Surgery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS news story entitled Machine that keeps livers 'alive' may boost transplant rates, published in April 2018, whether the NHS has any plans to commission further research on such liver storage facilities.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	224330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2019 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published a report in January on machine perfusion, which are machines that provide organs with blood, nutrients, and medicines outside the body. NICE said that these machines are safe to use, but that evidence on their efficacy is limited and should only be used with special arrangements for clinical governance.</p><p> </p><p>Normothermic machine perfusion is currently being used for livers in one hospital in the United Kingdom on a trial basis. This technology is still considered novel and experimental. NHS Blood and Transplant, as the organ donation organisation for the United Kingdom, is supporting National Health Service hospitals’ research into perfusion technology and how it can enable more organs to be used for transplantation. NHS Blood and Transplant’s Research, Innovative and Novel Technologies Advisory Group oversees the use and progress of novel technologies for transplantation and will monitor the effectiveness of the use of these machines in the UK. When there is more evidence, it will make a recommendation on whether they should be commissioned.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 27/02/2019 16:08:11 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1064673

registered interest
date	21/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Disadvantaged
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department provides funding to programmes that aim to support children from broken families.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	224331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2019 answer text <p>At Autumn Budget, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced an extra £410 million to address pressures on social care services, along with £84 million over 5 years to support up to 20 local authorities to improve their social work practice and decision-making, enabling them to work more effectively with the most vulnerable children and their families.</p><p>This builds on the £200 billion government has already made available to councils up to 2020 to provide services in the best interests of local residents, including those for children and young people.</p><p>The government will continue to work closely with the sector to consider long-term children’s services funding as part of the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 01/03/2019 12:05:14 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1064674

registered interest
date	21/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Army: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to reduce the proportion of army personnel that cannot be sent overseas due to medical reasons.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	224332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2019 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 12 February 2019 to Question 216134 to the hon. Member for Romford (Mr Andrew Rosindell).</p><p>For the Army, the health and wellbeing of personnel is a priority. A range of initiatives and policies are continuously being developed and implemented to address the conditions which most frequently cause medical downgrades.</p><p>The introduction earlier this year of new Physical Employment Standards for Ground Close Combat (GCC) roles followed evidence from research as part of a five-year programme that aims to reduce musculo-skeletal injury and optimise operational effectiveness. Work is now under way to develop the most suitable standards for non-GCC roles.</p><p>Additionally, there are a number of initiatives that aim to provide long-term support to address poor lifestyle choices and weight management issues, which we recognise as an issue for modern society. For example, some units are trialling a Healthy Living programme, using wearable technology linked to an online application which aims to instil a personal responsibility culture for soldiers to maintain their fitness.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 28/02/2019 15:53:57 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood attachment 1 file name 216134_Armed_Forces_Health.docx title 216134 - Armed Forces; Health
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon