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455727

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date	26/02/2016
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	Pheasants: 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, whether her Department plans to introduce measures to (a) improve the welfare of pheasants reared in the UK and (b) reduce the number of such pheasants that are reared in cages.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	28747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>The welfare of pheasants reared for sporting purposes is protected by the Animal Welfare Act 2006. A Code of Practice for the Welfare of Gamebirds Reared for Sporting Purposes, made under the 2006 Act, provides keepers with information on how to meet the welfare needs of their birds, as required under the 2006 Act. The code can be used as evidence in court in support of a prosecution for poor welfare. A review of the code is due to commence later this year. At this stage there are no plans to reduce the number of pheasants that are reared in cages.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 01/03/2016 16:26:42 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

455749

registered interest
date	26/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of Syrian refugees resettled under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Programme is included within the Government's priority group for victims of sexual violence, the elderly, victims of crime of torture and the disabled.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	28749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>All refugees resettled under the Syrian Vulnerable Person’s Resettlement scheme must meet at least one of the agreed vulnerability criteria. Many individuals will meet more than one of the criteria, for example an individual may be a survivor of violence or torture and have ongoing medical needs. They may also have dependants who would meet one or more of the criteria in their own right if they were applying separately.</p><p>While the Home Office records the primary reason for referral of the lead applicant we do not record any secondary reasons or those of dependant family members. Therefore, the data we have would not give a complete picture of the number of resettled people who would be included under each of the vulnerability groups listed.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 01/03/2016 15:55:17 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

455750

registered interest
date	26/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of Syrian refugees resettled under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Programme were previously resident in another country before Syria.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	28768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>We do not monitor whether a resettled person has ever previously been resident in another country apart from Syria and their host country. All refugees resettled under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement (VPR) Scheme are Syrian nationals.</p><p>The UN High Commissioner for Refugees identifies and proposes Syrian refugees for the VPR scheme from among the whole of the registered refugee population in the region, over 4 million people. This includes people in formal refugee camps, informal settlements and host communities in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 01/03/2016 15:00:39 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

455752

registered interest
date	26/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of Syrian refugees in each local authority in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	28767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office holds this information in relation to those Syrian refugees resettled in the UK under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme. However, we do not routinely identify which local authorities are participating in this scheme. Participation is voluntary and it is often the case that local authorities do not wish to have their participation published. It is a matter for each local authority to decide whether they want to publish the fact of their participation and the numbers of refugees they take.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 01/03/2016 15:56:58 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

455754

registered interest
date	26/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessments she has made of the potential effect of planned future budget reductions on the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Authority on its response to future flooding.
tabling member constituency	Bury South
tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
uin	28744
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government commissioned Sir Ken Knight to carry out an independent review of the scope for fire and rescue authorities across England to improve their efficiency. His report, Facing the Future, published in 2013, provided a wide-ranging analysis of costs and benchmarking between fire and rescue authorities on a range of measures of financial performance.</p><p>We have delivered a sustainable finance settlement and there is no question that fire and rescue authorities will continue to have the resources they need. The number of incidents attended by Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Authority is 27 per cent lower than five years ago, and injuries requiring hospital treatment are 59 per cent lower.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 01/03/2016 16:48:17 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis

455765

registered interest
date	26/02/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Highways England and Network Rail: Taxis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much (a) Network Rail and (b) the Highways Agency spent on hire cars in (i) 2014-15 and (ii) 2015-16 to date.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	28719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>Network Rail has spent the following on car hire:</p><p> </p><p>2014-15: £8,020,720</p><p>2015-16: £8,346,337 (year to date)</p><p> </p><p>Highways England (Formerly the Highways Agency) has spent the following on car hire:</p><p> </p><p>2014-15: £631,902</p><p>2015-16: £752,847 (year to date)</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 02/03/2016 10:41:01 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

455767

registered interest
date	26/02/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Ministerial Policy Advisors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people are employed as special advisers by his Department; and how many people were employed as special advisers by his Department on 1 January 2016.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	28720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>The number of special advisers employed by the Department for Transport is published on a regular basis, the most recent information can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/486829/List_of_Special_Advisers_in_post_at_17_December_2015.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/486829/List_of_Special_Advisers_in_post_at_17_December_2015.pdf</a> .</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 02/03/2016 10:45:42 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

455768

registered interest
date	26/02/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Network Rail: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) consultants and (b) permanent staff are employed by Network Rail's Infrastructure Projects division; and how much Network Rail has spent on consultants who work in its Infrastructure Projects division in (i) 2014-15 and (ii) 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	28721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>I have requested this information from Network Rail and can confirm that the number of permanent staff in Infrastructure Projects in 2014-15 was 3641 and in 2015-2016 is 4309. During this period Network Rail insourced the High Output Team from Amey which increased permanent staff figures.</p><p> </p><p>Network Rail Infrastructure Projects’ expenditure on companies that class themselves as providing consultancy in 2014-15 was £178,401k, and in 2015-2016 is £154,430k. The majority of expenditure on consultants occurs via Network Rail’s Principal Contractors and therefore is not included above.</p><p> </p><p>We are not able to provide details of the number of consultants because the contract specification for each piece of work is based on the deliverable and not on the number of consultants working on it.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 02/03/2016 10:50:54 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

455769

registered interest
date	26/02/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Fares
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse in 2016 of (a) raising regulated national rail fares by the retail price index and (b) removing train operators' flexibility to vary regulated fare levels within the basket of fares in 2016.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	28722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>We know that passengers are concerned about the cost of fares. That is why we have capped regulated fares at the level of the Retail Price Index (RPI) for three years running, and will continue to do so for the life of this parliament. We have also removed the flex which allowed train operators’ flexibility to vary regulated fare levels within the basket. The estimated cost to the Department in 2016 is, £30.4 million (in nominal prices) for capping regulated rail fares at RPI+0%, and £6 million (in nominal prices) for removing the flex.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 02/03/2016 10:54:14 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

455776

registered interest
date	26/02/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the employment rate for adults in England with (a) mental health, (b) physical health and (c) no declared health conditions has been in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	28758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 02/03/2016 07:53:43 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name 28758-FI.PDF title UKSA Letter to Member - Employment Rate
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger