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444133

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date	12/01/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Environment Protection: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of how much will accrue to the Exchequer as a result of the Carbon Price Support legislation in each year until 2020.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	22145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2016 answer text <p>The most recent forecast of receipts from the Carbon Price Floor was published by the OBR in their ‘Economic and fiscal outlook supplementary fiscal tables – November 2015’, available at <a href="http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/economic-fiscal-outlook-november-2015/" target="_blank">http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/economic-fiscal-outlook-november-2015/</a>.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 15/01/2016 13:17:15 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

444139

registered interest
date	12/01/2016
answering body	Church Commissioners
answering dept id	9
answering dept short name	Church Commissioners
answering dept sort name	Church Commissioners
hansard heading	Churches: South West
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 grants the Church Commissioners have given to churches in (a) Devon and (b) Cornwall from the Roof Repair Fund in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Torridge and West Devon
tabling member printed	Mr Geoffrey Cox
uin	22084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2016 answer text <p>The Listed Places of Worship Roof Repair Fund grants are distributed by the National Heritage Memorial Fund, on behalf of the Government. There has been one round of grants to date, announced in March 2015,</p><p>(a) 22 churches in Devon were offered grants totalling £1,199,700</p><p>(b) 7 churches in Cornwall were offered grants totalling £492,700.</p><p /> <p>A second round to distribute a further £25 million allocated by the Treasury is currently open, with applications closing on Friday, 26 February.</p><br /> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Mrs Caroline Spelman question first answered 15/01/2016 09:51:56 answering member 312 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Spelman
tabling member	1508 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Cox

444148

registered interest
date	12/01/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Television Licences: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what change there has been in the number of black and white television licences held in Northern Ireland between 1 January 2012 and 1 January 2015.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	22131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2016 answer text <p>According to TV Licensing, between 1 January 2012 and 1 January 2015, the number of black and white licences in Northern Ireland decreased by 404 licences, from 1,140 to 736.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 15/01/2016 11:37:18 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

444149

registered interest
date	12/01/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Television Licences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what was the number of households with black and white television licences per thousand households in (a) the UK as a whole and (b) in Northern Ireland in (i) 2012 and (ii) 2015.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	22132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2016 answer text <p>According to TV Licensing, the number of households with black and white television licences per thousand households in the UK was 0.64 in 2012 and 0.38 in 2015; and in Northern Ireland was 1.57 in 2012, and 0.98 in 2015.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 15/01/2016 11:38:01 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

444224

registered interest
date	12/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Diabetes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to make the Attiva device for the treatment of people with diabetes available on the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	22010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2016 answer text <p>Medical devices are required to be CE marked under the European Union medical devices Directives and may not be placed on the market until this process is complete.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 15/01/2016 14:54:52 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

443579

registered interest
date	11/01/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Children
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many unaccompanied child refugees have been received in the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL4863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2016 answer text <p>Refugee status is conferred following a grant of asylum. An asylum seeker only becomes a refugee once asylum has been granted. Not all asylum seekers are deemed to be refugees and not all refugees claim asylum. Figures on asylum applications for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) are published quarterly by the Home Office in the Immigration Statistics release. The attached table shows total applications of asylum for UASC from 2010 to quarter 3 2015.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="11"><strong>Asylum applications received from Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children<sup>1</sup>, excluding dependants, 2010 to Q3 2015</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Year</strong></td><td><strong>Total applications</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>2010</strong></td><td><strong> 1,515 </strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>2011</strong></td><td><strong> 1,248 </strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>2012</strong></td><td><strong> 1,125 </strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>2013</strong></td><td><strong> 1,265 </strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>2014</strong></td><td><strong> 1,945 </strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>2015 Q1 - Q3</strong></td><td><strong> 1,963 </strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Table Notes</strong></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" rowspan="2">(1) An Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Child (UASC) is a person under 18, or who, in the absence of documentary evidence establishing age, appears to be under that age, is applying for asylum on his or her own right and has no relative or guardian in the United Kingdom.</td></tr></tbody></table><p>A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics July to September 2015, is available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 13/01/2016 12:54:17 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

443624

registered interest
date	11/01/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Overseas Trade: Crown Dependencies
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what conditions the FCO and UK Trade and Investment attach to providing support and assistance to companies based in the Crown Dependencies in pursuit of overseas contracts and investment opportunities.
tabling member printed	Lord Wallace of Saltaire
uin	HL4908
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text <p>Companies from the Crown Dependencies are able to take advantage of the Overseas Market Introduction Service (OMIS) as a non-subsidised, fully- charged service to commission information from UK Trade &amp; Investment (UKTI) to assist them in planning and executing their business plans.</p><br /><p>UKTI services are provided at a cost to the UK tax-payer. The Crown Dependencies operate under the jurisdiction of their own Administrations, with no business-generated return to the UK Exchequer. Consequently, OMIS provision to companies based in the Crown Dependencies is charged for.</p><br /><p>Companies from the Crown Dependencies are not eligible for any subsidised UKTI services, unless they have an active UK trading address and can demonstrate that any support they receive would help them deliver economic benefit to the UK through this trading address.</p><br /> <br /> <br /> answering member printed Lord Maude of Horsham question first answered 14/01/2016 16:44:45 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire

443687

registered interest
date	11/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Genito-urinary Medicine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward proposals to require local authorities to conduct a needs assessment of local sexual health and contraceptive services before issuing tenders.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	21778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s <em>Framework for Sexual Health Promotion in England (2013</em>) sets out our ambitions and objectives to improve sexual health for all people. It takes account of the commissioning arrangements from 2013 including the new role for local authorities (LAs) as commissioners of most sexual health services. Later this month Public Health England (PHE) will undertake a survey of local commissioning arrangements for sexual health. It has also produced sexual health and reproductive health profiles to help LAs and others monitor the sexual and reproductive health of their populations and the performance of local public health related systems.</p><br /><p>It is for LAs to decide on what research and evidence they need to inform their tenders for sexual health and reproductive health services in line with procurement requirements and good practice. In 2014 PHE published <em>Making it Work</em>, a guide to commissioning for sexual health across the whole system, to improve the sexual health of both individuals and the wider public.</p><br /><p>We have made no formal assessment of the effect on sexual health services of reductions in the Public Health Grant to LAs for 2015/16, although PHE continues to monitor relevant outcomes data for every LA in England. Decisions on local public health spending are a matter for LAs. They are mandated by legislation to commission open access sexual health services that meet the needs of their local population. Officials meet regularly with sexual health organisations who would raise any concerns if LAs were not meeting their mandatory requirements for sexual health services.</p><br /><p>The Framework for Sexual Health Improvement includes as a priority reducing unwanted pregnancies and highlights the need to increase access to long acting reversible contraception (LARC) methods and emergency contraception for women of all ages. We have no plans to evaluate the effect on general practitioner surgeries of LA commissioning of LARCs.</p><br /> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 21812 21813 21814 21816 question first answered 14/01/2016 17:01:32 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

443689

registered interest
date	11/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Genito-urinary Medicine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how his Department plans to monitor progress against the targets in its Framework for Sexual Health Improvement in England.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	21812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s <em>Framework for Sexual Health Promotion in England (2013</em>) sets out our ambitions and objectives to improve sexual health for all people. It takes account of the commissioning arrangements from 2013 including the new role for local authorities (LAs) as commissioners of most sexual health services. Later this month Public Health England (PHE) will undertake a survey of local commissioning arrangements for sexual health. It has also produced sexual health and reproductive health profiles to help LAs and others monitor the sexual and reproductive health of their populations and the performance of local public health related systems.</p><br /><p>It is for LAs to decide on what research and evidence they need to inform their tenders for sexual health and reproductive health services in line with procurement requirements and good practice. In 2014 PHE published <em>Making it Work</em>, a guide to commissioning for sexual health across the whole system, to improve the sexual health of both individuals and the wider public.</p><br /><p>We have made no formal assessment of the effect on sexual health services of reductions in the Public Health Grant to LAs for 2015/16, although PHE continues to monitor relevant outcomes data for every LA in England. Decisions on local public health spending are a matter for LAs. They are mandated by legislation to commission open access sexual health services that meet the needs of their local population. Officials meet regularly with sexual health organisations who would raise any concerns if LAs were not meeting their mandatory requirements for sexual health services.</p><br /><p>The Framework for Sexual Health Improvement includes as a priority reducing unwanted pregnancies and highlights the need to increase access to long acting reversible contraception (LARC) methods and emergency contraception for women of all ages. We have no plans to evaluate the effect on general practitioner surgeries of LA commissioning of LARCs.</p><br /> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 21778 21813 21814 21816 question first answered 14/01/2016 17:01:32 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

443690

registered interest
date	11/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Genito-urinary Medicine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment has been undertaken of the effect on sexual and reproductive health services of reductions in the Public Health Grant to local authorities for 2015-16 and the measures in the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015 relating to the public health system.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	21813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s <em>Framework for Sexual Health Promotion in England (2013</em>) sets out our ambitions and objectives to improve sexual health for all people. It takes account of the commissioning arrangements from 2013 including the new role for local authorities (LAs) as commissioners of most sexual health services. Later this month Public Health England (PHE) will undertake a survey of local commissioning arrangements for sexual health. It has also produced sexual health and reproductive health profiles to help LAs and others monitor the sexual and reproductive health of their populations and the performance of local public health related systems.</p><br /><p>It is for LAs to decide on what research and evidence they need to inform their tenders for sexual health and reproductive health services in line with procurement requirements and good practice. In 2014 PHE published <em>Making it Work</em>, a guide to commissioning for sexual health across the whole system, to improve the sexual health of both individuals and the wider public.</p><br /><p>We have made no formal assessment of the effect on sexual health services of reductions in the Public Health Grant to LAs for 2015/16, although PHE continues to monitor relevant outcomes data for every LA in England. Decisions on local public health spending are a matter for LAs. They are mandated by legislation to commission open access sexual health services that meet the needs of their local population. Officials meet regularly with sexual health organisations who would raise any concerns if LAs were not meeting their mandatory requirements for sexual health services.</p><br /><p>The Framework for Sexual Health Improvement includes as a priority reducing unwanted pregnancies and highlights the need to increase access to long acting reversible contraception (LARC) methods and emergency contraception for women of all ages. We have no plans to evaluate the effect on general practitioner surgeries of LA commissioning of LARCs.</p><br /> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 21778 21812 21814 21816 question first answered 14/01/2016 17:01:32 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds