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457629

registered interest
date	03/03/2016
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Legal Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on legal costs related to the under-occupancy penalty.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	29705
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government has incurred approximately £387,155 to date on legal costs associated with judicial review challenges to the under-occupancy penalty.</p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that this figure includes VAT where this is payable (e.g. on Counsel’s fees) and disbursements but does not include costs attributable to the time spent by Government advisory lawyers, as time spent by such advisory lawyers is not recorded in a manner that allows it to be attributed to individual cases. This figure does not include all of Counsel’s fees incurred in relation to the Supreme Court hearing of MA &amp; Others/A and Rutherford v the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (29 February to 2 March) which have not yet been billed.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 10/03/2016 17:24:13 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

455227

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	UK Membership of EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effect on the economy of the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	28535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>As the Chancellor has said, a UK exit from the EU would be a long, costly and messy divorce. The finance Ministers and central bank governors of the G20 concluded at the weekend that a British exit would cause an economic shock not just to the UK but to Europe and the world. What people are asking for in this referendum campaign is a serious, sober and principled assessment from the Government setting out the facts. The Treasury will publish a comprehensive analysis of our membership of a reformed EU and the alternatives, including the long-term economic costs and benefits of EU membership and the risks associated with an exit before 23 June.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 04/03/2016 14:27:29 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

455298

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Work Experience
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the work experience provision for 14 to 19 year-olds in education.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	28474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2016 answer text <p>It is essential that we ensure young people leave school or college prepared for life in modern Britain. This will be achieved through a range of reforms, including improving the quality of existing qualifications and giving employers greater influence over the content of courses.</p><p>We ensure schools and colleges have the freedom and autonomy to decide how best to put in place work experience provision for 14-19 year olds. In August 2013 the government reformed the post-16 curriculum and funding system to incentivise education and training providers to offer high quality work experience to young people as part of 16-19 study programmes.</p><p>Work experience elements of study programmes and traineeships are now inspected and reported on as an integral part of the inspection of provision for 16-19 year olds (and up to age 24 for traineeships) against the Common Inspection Framework for Further Education and Skills 2015.</p><p>Our focus is on ensuring sufficient support is in place, and we have recently announced new funding for our careers strategy which will include continued funding for The Careers and Enterprise Company to help young people access the best advice and inspiration, for example by building on the national network of enterprise advisers to broker strong local links between schools, colleges and employers.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 03/03/2016 15:09:35 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

453664

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Self-employed: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on levels of self-employment in the construction industry of his proposed changes to tax relief for travel and subsistence.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	27586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>The changes to tax relief for travel and subsistence only affect those who work through an employment intermediary. The Government’s assessment of the effects of the measure can be found in the Tax Information and Impact Note:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/income-tax-employment-intermediaries-and-relief-for-travel-and-subsistence/income-tax-employment-intermediaries-and-relief-for-travel-and-subsistence" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/income-tax-employment-intermediaries-and-relief-for-travel-and-subsistence/income-tax-employment-intermediaries-and-relief-for-travel-and-subsistence</a></p><p> </p><p>Further assessment can be found in the summary of responses to the consultation document published on this change: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/483389/Employment_Intermediaries_and_Tax_Relief_for_Travel_and_Subsistence_-_Summary_of_Responses__M7057_.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/483389/Employment_Intermediaries_and_Tax_Relief_for_Travel_and_Subsistence_-_Summary_of_Responses__M7057_.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 01/03/2016 15:35:18 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

453769

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to reduce GP appointment waiting times.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	27618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2016 answer text <p>With NHS England, we are making changes to provide more flexibility for practices to meet the needs of patients. We have invested £175 million via the GP Access Fund to commission 57 schemes across the country. In total 18 million patients in 2,500 practices have benefited from improved access to general practice.</p><p> </p><p>The GP Access Fund is promoting greater innovation in how practices offer access. This could be, for example, through networks of practices offering shared clinics at evenings and weekends.</p><p> </p><p>The first independent report on the national evaluation of wave one schemes looked at how schemes have provided more general practitioner appointments and expanded the type of patient appointments to improve patient and staff satisfaction. A second national evaluation report will be published soon with updated results.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 26/02/2016 10:08:09 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

453787

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidelines her Department produces on the inclusion of non-conviction information or soft information on DBS forms.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	27587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>Statutory guidance is issued under section 113B(4A) of the Police Act 1997 in order to assist chief officers of police in making decisions to provide relevant non-conviction information and other intelligence from local police records for inclusion in enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service certificates. The Home Office introduced the first edition of this guidance on 10 September 2012 and the most recent revision came into force on 10 August 2015.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 29/02/2016 16:57:03 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

452370

registered interest
date	11/02/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Fringe Benefits: Tax Allowances
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 the average annual change in tax relief for a person employed via an employment intermediary as a result of the Government's proposed changes to income tax relief for travel and subsistence.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	27059
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2016 answer text <p>I refer the honourable gentleman to the Tax Information and Impact Note published at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/income-tax-employment-intermediaries-and-relief-for-travel-and-subsistence/income-tax-employment-intermediaries-and-relief-for-travel-and-subsistence" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/income-tax-employment-intermediaries-and-relief-for-travel-and-subsistence/income-tax-employment-intermediaries-and-relief-for-travel-and-subsistence</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 26/02/2016 12:15:22 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

450772

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pharmacy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has made an assessment of (a) the number of potential closures of and (b) the reduction in community pharmacies as a result of proposed reductions in funding to such pharmacies.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	25931
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2016 answer text <p>Community pharmacy is a vital part of the National Health Service and can play an even greater role. In the Spending Review the Government re-affirmed the need for the NHS to deliver £22 billion in efficiency savings by 2020/21 as set out in the NHS’s own plan, the Five Year Forward View. Community pharmacy is a core part of NHS primary care and has an important contribution to make as the NHS rises to these challenges. The Government believes efficiencies can be made without compromising the quality of services or public access to them. Our aim is to ensure that those community pharmacies upon which people depend continue to thrive and so we are consulting on the introduction of a Pharmacy Access Scheme, which will provide more NHS funds to certain pharmacies compared to others, considering factors such as location and the health needs of the local population.</p><p> </p><p>We are not able to assess which pharmacies may close because we do not know the financial viability of individual businesses or the extent to which they derive income from services commissioned locally by the NHS or local authorities or have non-NHS related income.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 12/02/2016 10:23:51 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

449745

registered interest
date	02/02/2016
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	Construction: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many apprenticeship starts there were in each construction occupational area in 2015.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	25360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>Apprenticeships are categorised according to the Sector Subject Area of the apprenticeship, not the industry sector of the employer.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not produce forecasts for apprenticeship starts by Sector Subject Area. Apprenticeships are paid jobs and their availability is dependent on employers offering opportunities and hiring apprentices.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 25361 question first answered 10/02/2016 16:29:50 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

449746

registered interest
date	02/02/2016
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	Construction: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many apprenticeship starts his Department forecasts there will be in the construction sector for 2016.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	25361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>Apprenticeships are categorised according to the Sector Subject Area of the apprenticeship, not the industry sector of the employer.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not produce forecasts for apprenticeship starts by Sector Subject Area. Apprenticeships are paid jobs and their availability is dependent on employers offering opportunities and hiring apprentices.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 25360 question first answered 10/02/2016 16:29:50 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram