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922409

registered interest
date	12/06/2018
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	Tractors: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many children have taken part in the tractor driving for 13-15 year olds course in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	152708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2018 answer text <p>Tractor driving courses for 13 to 15 year olds are delivered by private training providers. Information on the number of children that have participated on these courses is unavailable because Defra does not collect data on these courses.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 14/06/2018 15:01:36 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

922417

registered interest
date	12/06/2018
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	Countryside Stewardship Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) entry level and (b) higher level Stewardship payments remain outstanding for (i) 2016 and (ii) 2017; and whether his Department has set a date for all such outstanding payments to be resolved.
tabling member constituency	The Cotswolds
tabling member printed	Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
uin	152629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2018 answer text <p>A table containing the requested information can be found below. Defra has recently approved additional recovery actions and we now expect Environmental Stewardship advanced and final payments to be substantially completed by mid-August 2018 and mid-October 2018 respectively.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Claim period</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Scheme</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Payments due</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Claims withdrawn or rejected</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Payments complete</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Payments outstanding</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016 end of year</p></td><td><p>ELS</p></td><td><p><strong>22,234</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>137</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>21,976</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>121</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>HLS</p></td><td><p><strong>13,978</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>50</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>12,988</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>940</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 mid-year</p></td><td><p>ELS</p></td><td><p><strong>11,534</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>140</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>11,117</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>277</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>HLS</p></td><td><p><strong>13,190</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>142</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>8,266</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>4,782</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 end of year</p></td><td><p>ELS</p></td><td><p><strong>11,530</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>117</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>9,081</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,332</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>HLS</p></td><td><p><strong>13,146</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,889</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>11,242</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 14/06/2018 13:44:32 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	249 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

921348

registered interest
date	11/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	National Security
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent discussions he has had with the National Security Adviser on the current and future intensity of the threat environment.
tabling member constituency	Hornchurch and Upminster
tabling member printed	Julia Lopez
uin	905756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>As the House is aware, the Ministry of Defence is currently conducting the Modernising Defence Programme.</p><p>I meet the National Security Adviser on a regular basis to discuss key issues including Russia’s increasingly destabilising behaviour, conflict and tension in Syria and the wider Middle East, the spread of violent extremism and organised crime in ungoverned spaces, and the situation on the Korean peninsula.</p><p>The Modernising Defence Programme will take all of this into account as we determine what capabilities and policies we need to meet the threats we face.</p> answering member constituency South Staffordshire answering member printed Gavin Williamson question first answered 11/06/2018 15:48:41 answering member 4108 label Biography information for Sir Gavin Williamson
tabling member	4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez

921349

registered interest
date	11/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	EU Battlegroups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on the Government's decision to withdraw from leading the EU battlegroup in 2019.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	905759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>In March this year, given ongoing negotiations about post-Brexit arrangements between the UK and EU, we decided to withdraw our provisional offer to lead an EU Battlegroup in the second half of 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Our decision gave good time for another Member State to take on the role.</p><p> </p><p>The UK/EU Withdrawal Agreement has confirmed that the UK may not lead an EU Battlegroup during the Implementation Period.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 11/06/2018 15:47:19 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

921350

registered interest
date	11/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	North Korea: South Korea
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment he has made of the military situation on the Korean peninsula.
tabling member constituency	Torbay
tabling member printed	Kevin Foster
uin	905761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>Tensions on the Korean peninsula are lower than for some time.</p><p>We look forward to the summit between President Trump and Kim Jong-Un and hope that it results in an agreement that brings about complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.</p><p>I urge Kim Jong-Un to heed the clear message that it is only through a change of course that he can realise the security and prosperity that North Korea claims to seek.</p> answering member constituency South Staffordshire answering member printed Gavin Williamson question first answered 11/06/2018 15:46:27 answering member 4108 label Biography information for Sir Gavin Williamson
tabling member	4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster

921351

registered interest
date	11/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Navy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the strategic importance of sea power for UK security and prosperity.
tabling member constituency	Basildon and Billericay
tabling member printed	Mr John Baron
uin	905766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>As is befitting an island nation, the UK has one of the most capable, skilled and experienced navies in the world. It is of vital strategic importance to UK security and prosperity.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 11/06/2018 15:45:46 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1390 label Biography information for Mr John Baron

921846

registered interest
date	11/06/2018
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	Personal Health Budgets
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many patients are currently in receipt of an NHS personal health budget; and what was the total cost of that scheme for each of the last three years for which figures are available.
tabling member printed	Lord Turnberg
uin	HL8535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2018 answer text <p>28,040 individuals were in receipt of a personal health budget as of 2017-18 Q4.</p><p>In terms of the total cost of personal health budgets for each of the last three years, these figures are not held centrally, as it is clinical commissioning groups who have the duty to commission and deliver personal health budgets.</p><p>Personal health budgets use existing National Health Service money that would already have been spent on an individual, in a different way that meets the individual’s identified health needs. Evidence suggests that at worst, personal health budgets are cost-neutral, whilst demonstrating an ability to improve outcomes and enhance quality of life.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 14/06/2018 12:45:29 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
tabling member	2537 label Biography information for Lord Turnberg

921864

registered interest
date	11/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Warships: Crew
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many qualified and experienced personnel positions are (a) required and (b) vacant in (i) Type 23 and (ii) Type 45 ship crews.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	152202
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2018 answer text <p>The information requested, as at 11 June 2018, is shown below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Required Positions</p></td><td><p>Vacant Positions</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Type 23</p></td><td><p>1,580</p></td><td><p>120</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Type 45</p></td><td><p>790</p></td><td><p>45</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>All numbers over 100 are rounded to the nearest 10 with numbers ending in five rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to avoid bias. Numbers under 100 are rounded to the nearest five.</p><p> </p><p>None of the existing vacancies is in a post categorised as safety critical and no ship would go to sea without the minimum required complement of suitably qualified and experienced personnel.</p><p> </p><p>The figures are a snapshot taken from the Joint Personnel Administration System and are accurate as of 11 June 2018. It should be noted that the number of vacant positions can fluctuate on a given day and do not reflect any future plans to fill, i.e. if a person was given an Assignment Order to fill a gap at any time in the future, including the day after the report was processed, the post will still show as a gap.</p><p> </p><p>The number of Required Positions (workforce required as of today) for a RN ship fluctuates depending on the operational tasking, readiness state or when in refit.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 14/06/2018 15:08:40 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

921870

registered interest
date	11/06/2018
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	Social Security Benefits
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 time taken was to process benefit applications subject to delay due to backlog in the last period for which figures are available; and what assessment she has made of the effect of those delays on the time taken to process (a) cases in which one year's disability living allowance back payment is outstanding one month after a court decision on those payments and (b) other such urgent cases.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	152096
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not available. However, the statistics that the Department publishes on clearance times, ie for Employment Support Allowance and Personal Independence Payment only, can be found in the links below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employment-and-support-allowance-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employment-and-support-allowance-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessment</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 14/06/2018 15:10:45 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

921871

registered interest
date	11/06/2018
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	Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether additional resources will be allocated to the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman as a result of the increase level of caseload from WASPI complainants.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	152047
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2018 answer text <p>The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) is independent of Government and is accountable to Parliament through the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee for its performance. The DWP plays no part in allocating resources to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s Office.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 14/06/2018 09:20:39 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff