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1177987

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
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: Middle East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many times Rt Hon Tony Blair visited (a) Israel, (b) Gaza and (c) the West Bank during his tenure as the Middle East Peace Envoy of the Quartet.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	1238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2020 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office does not hold this information. The issue of visits made by the Rt Hon Tony Blair to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories during his tenure as the Middle East Peace Envoy is one for the Office of the Quartet.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 28/02/2020 14:18:49 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1177988

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
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	Israel: Palestinians
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress towards a two-state solution in Israel was made under Rt Hon Tony Blair’s tenure as the Quartet’s Middle East Peace Envoy.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	1239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The UK is committed to making progress towards a two-state solution and supports any serious proposal to bring about that outcome. In that context we welcome the efforts of the Rt Hon. Tony Blair who served as Quartet Envoy until May 2015. Progress is difficult to achieve, but the realisation of the two-state solution is the best outcome for the parties and the countries of the region, and is in the UK's national interest. We believe that negotiations will only succeed when they are conducted between Israelis and Palestinians, supported by the international community.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 24/02/2020 16:53:42 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1177737

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
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	Somalia and Somaliland: Travel Information
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 decouple Somalia from Somaliland in relation to his foreign travel advice.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2020 answer text <p>Travel advice takes account of local/regional differences and is kept regularly under review. As the UK does not recognise Somaliland as an independent state, it is presented as part of the travel advice for Somalia.</p> answering member constituency Rochford and Southend East answering member printed James Duddridge question first answered 20/02/2020 15:44:19 answering member 1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1177738

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
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	Litter: Tobacco
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 recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the contribution of the tobacco industry in tackling litter from its products.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government has made no specific recent assessment of the UK tobacco industry’s contribution to tackling smoking-related litter. We would like to see the tobacco industry delivering on the commitment given by the Tobacco Manufacturers' Association to tackle the litter created by its products and their users, but this must be achieved without breaching the UK’s international obligations.</p><p>Tobacco packaging is covered by the current Producer Responsibility Regulations, which require companies to recycle a proportion of the packaging waste they place on the market. Our forthcoming Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) scheme for packaging, including relevant tobacco packaging, will require producers to cover the full net costs of managing packaging at its end of life, including litter. This will be introduced in 2023.</p><p>In the Resources and Waste Strategy (RWS), we committed to looking into and consulting on EPR for five new waste-streams by 2025, and consulting on two of these by 2022. We have currently identified our five priority waste-streams as: textiles, fishing gear, certain products in construction and demolition, bulky waste and vehicle tyres. This list is not fixed and does not exclude the potential to review and consult on EPR for other waste streams if these are identified as being of equal or higher priority.</p><p>The EU’s Single-Use Plastics Directive includes measures to implement an EPR scheme for tobacco products with filters, and filters marketed for use in combination with tobacco products, which should cover the costs of awareness raising, data gathering and litter clean-up of these products.</p><p>Now that the UK has left the EU, the Government will use this opportunity to refresh and renew our environmental policy. In the RWS, we committed to meeting or exceeding the ambition of the EU Directive, and we will do this in a way that works best for the UK’s aspirations in this policy area.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 563 question first answered 19/02/2020 15:22:07 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1177739

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
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	Litter: Tobacco
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential (a) merits of the EU proposal to introduce a producer responsibility scheme for the tobacco industry on litter and (b) effect on environmental protection of not introducing that scheme in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government has made no specific recent assessment of the UK tobacco industry’s contribution to tackling smoking-related litter. We would like to see the tobacco industry delivering on the commitment given by the Tobacco Manufacturers' Association to tackle the litter created by its products and their users, but this must be achieved without breaching the UK’s international obligations.</p><p>Tobacco packaging is covered by the current Producer Responsibility Regulations, which require companies to recycle a proportion of the packaging waste they place on the market. Our forthcoming Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) scheme for packaging, including relevant tobacco packaging, will require producers to cover the full net costs of managing packaging at its end of life, including litter. This will be introduced in 2023.</p><p>In the Resources and Waste Strategy (RWS), we committed to looking into and consulting on EPR for five new waste-streams by 2025, and consulting on two of these by 2022. We have currently identified our five priority waste-streams as: textiles, fishing gear, certain products in construction and demolition, bulky waste and vehicle tyres. This list is not fixed and does not exclude the potential to review and consult on EPR for other waste streams if these are identified as being of equal or higher priority.</p><p>The EU’s Single-Use Plastics Directive includes measures to implement an EPR scheme for tobacco products with filters, and filters marketed for use in combination with tobacco products, which should cover the costs of awareness raising, data gathering and litter clean-up of these products.</p><p>Now that the UK has left the EU, the Government will use this opportunity to refresh and renew our environmental policy. In the RWS, we committed to meeting or exceeding the ambition of the EU Directive, and we will do this in a way that works best for the UK’s aspirations in this policy area.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 562 question first answered 19/02/2020 15:22:07 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1177478

registered interest
date	10/02/2020
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	British Overseas Territories: Civil Partnerships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which Overseas Territories have introduced legislation to allow civil partnerships.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	14718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2020 answer text <p>Nine Overseas Territories have legal recognition and protection for same-sex relationships. Same-sex marriage is legal in the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Bermuda, Pitcairn Islands and St Helena, Ascension Island, and Tristan da Cunha. The Premier of the Cayman Islands has publicly undertaken to bring in domestic partnerships by early this year. The laws in the uninhabited territories of the British Indian Ocean Territory, British Antarctic Territory and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands also allow for same-sex marriage.</p><p>In the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, civil partnerships have been allowed for United Kingdom military and civilian personnel.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 13/02/2020 17:10:41 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1177009

registered interest
date	07/02/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans the Government has to review the care system.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	13963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2020 answer text <p>We are committed to undertaking a review at the earliest opportunity.The review aims to better support, protect and improve the outcomes of vulnerable children and young people. This was confirmed in a written statement made on 12 February 2020, which is available at the following link: https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statements/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2Clords&amp;uin=HCWS110.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 17/02/2020 17:51:58 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1177010

registered interest
date	07/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that the police have adequate provisions to counter terrorist content online.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	13964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government has been clear that there can be no safe spaces for terrorists to promote and share their extreme views online.</p><p>The Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU) identifies, assesses and refers online content that is in breach of UK terrorism legislation to technology companies for removal in accordance with their terms of service. To date, in excess of 310,000 individual pieces of terrorist content referred by CTIRU have been removed by companies.</p><p>Police powers need to keep pace with technological developments and the changing way terrorists use the internet. As part of this we amended the law through the Counter Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019 to update the offence of obtaining information “likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism” to include viewing or streaming content online.</p><p>It is important that we ensure counter-terrorism policing has the resources needed to deal with the threat we face. That is why we increased the budget for counter-terrorism policing in 2020-21 by £90m this year compared with last, taking CT police funding to over £900m for the first time</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 25/06/2020 17:03:50 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1177011

registered interest
date	07/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's policy is on family reunion for unaccompanied asylum seeking children.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	13965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government remains resolutely committed to the principle of family reunion.</p><p>The UK will cease to participate in EU instruments at the end of the Transition Period, including the Dublin Regulation. This means that the ability of unaccompanied children to use Dublin to reunite with family will end, unless a replacement agreement is negotiated. The Government has been clear that it is committed to seeking such an agreement with the EU, thereby ensuring these children can continue to reunite with family at the end of the Transition Period. The Home Secretary wrote to the European Commission on 22 October to begin negotiations.</p><p>The UK will continue to be bound by the Dublin Regulation provisions during the Transition Period, allowing us to continue to transfer family reunion cases to the UK throughout 2020, and we will continue to process all family reunion requests that have been submitted but not completed under Dublin before the end of the Transition Period.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 11/03/2020 19:15:03 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1177013

registered interest
date	07/02/2020
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	Microplastics: Marine Environment
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 steps her Department is taking to prevent micro plastics from entering the sea.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	14020
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2020 answer text <p>Microplastics, pieces of plastic smaller than 5mm, can fragment from larger items or be intentionally produced. Our aim is to prevent plastic pollution at its source and develop a circular economy approach to plastic.</p><p> </p><p>In 2018, we launched one of the world’s toughest bans on the sale and manufacture of microbeads in rinse-off personal care products, helping to prevent billions of tiny plastic pieces from entering the ocean every year.</p><p> </p><p>Pre-production plastic pellets are a major source of microplastics. Current estimates put the number of pellets lost during the production of plastic in the UK between 5 billion and 53 billion. We have been engaging with industry to encourage businesses to do more, including signing up to Operation Clean Sweep, to prevent plastic pellet loss.</p><p> </p><p>To address evidence gaps from other sources of microplastics we have commissioned:</p><p> </p><ol><li>A study from the University of Plymouth to investigate the sources and pathways of microplastics from tyres and textiles into the marine environment.</li><li>A Rapid Evidence Assessment by Defra on “Analysis, Prevalence and Impact of Microplastics in Freshwater and Estuarine Environment”.</li></ol><p>These reports will be published this year and the evidence will help us continue to develop policies to tackle the problem.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 17/02/2020 14:17:55 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord