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1037279

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Energy: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to support people with the cost of household energy bills.
tabling member constituency	Southend West
tabling member printed	Sir David Amess
uin	908450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>Last week this Government delivered on its promise to cap energy prices.</p><p> </p><p>It now protects over 11 million households, ensuring the energy market works for all customers and saving consumers up to around £130 a year.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to invest at least £640m in energy efficiency annually until 2028 and are also delivering on our smart meter programme.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 08/01/2019 15:30:32 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	44 label Biography information for Sir David Amess

1037280

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Billing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to ensure full and timely payments to small businesses.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	908447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>The Small Business Commissioner has recovered £2 million for small businesses in his first year. We have recently taken steps to strengthen the Prompt Payment Code, and we are working through nearly 300 responses to our recent call for evidence on creating a more responsible payment culture.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 08/01/2019 15:29:59 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1037281

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Government Assistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent steps he has taken to support small businesses.
tabling member constituency	Colchester
tabling member printed	Will Quince
uin	908443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>Through our modern Industrial Strategy, we are making the UK one of the best places in the world for businesses to start up and grow.</p><p> </p><p>The Government-owned British Business Bank is supporting nearly 78,000 small businesses with over £5.5 billion of finance; and we’ve extended funding for the Start Up Loans Company until 2021, supporting 10,000 more entrepreneurs.</p><p> </p><p>We’re also providing £56m of funding to boost business productivity, including £11m to create a Small Business Leadership Programme.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 08/01/2019 15:29:43 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4423 label Biography information for Will Quince

1037282

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Fuel Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to tackle fuel poverty.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karen Lee
uin	908446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>This Government made a clear Manifesto commitment to tackle fuel poverty by committing to upgrading all fuel poor homes to EPC Band C by 2030.</p><p> </p><p>We are making progress in particular by tackling the most energy inefficient homes. Since 2010 there are almost 800,000 fewer fuel poor households living in homes rated E, F or G.</p><p> </p><p>The average fuel poverty gap has also dropped 6 per cent in real terms since 2010 and last year I refocused the whole of the £630m ECO annual budget on tackling fuel poverty without the help of her party I might add who voted against the measures.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 08/01/2019 15:29:51 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4664 label Biography information for Karen Lee

1037283

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Money Laundering
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to tackle money laundering.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	908448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>The Financial Action Task Force has just completed a landmark review of the UK’s regime for tackling money laundering, concluding that we have some of the strongest controls in the world.</p><p> </p><p>We are building on our strengths. In the last six months, the Department has published a draft bill to tackle money laundering in the property market; set out reforms to tackle misuse of limited partnerships; and committed to consulting on reforms to Companies House.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 08/01/2019 15:30:20 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1036455

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment her Department has made of the effect of explicit consent restrictions placed on advice agencies on the ability of people to make a claim for universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	908386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>Explicit consent is not required to make a new claim. If claimants cannot make or manage their claim on-line, they can receive face to face support through their local jobcentre or assistance through our Freephone telephone number. Once the claim is made, claimants who require agencies to act on their behalf can provide explicit consent.</p><p>In our response to the Social Security Advisory Committee in November 2018 in respect of the managed migration regulations, we have agreed to explore options for improving the process of explicit consent in collaboration with the committee.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 07/01/2019 18:01:25 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

1035122

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
hansard heading	Political Parties: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what assessment the Electoral Commission has made of the appropriateness of the Commission's use of civil sanctions for the late submission of political parties' quarterly reports.
tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
tabling member printed	Luke Hall
uin	205307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 requires registered political parties to report cash and non-cash donations and borrowing to the Electoral Commission on a quarterly basis. Parliament made it an offence to deliver, without reasonable excuse, donation reports that are inaccurate or miss the statutory deadline. Parliament also gave the Commission investigation and sanction powers for these, and other, offences. The Commission investigates and where appropriate sanctions inaccurate or late donation reports in line with its Enforcement Policy.</p> answering member constituency Houghton and Sunderland South answering member printed Bridget Phillipson question first answered 08/01/2019 09:52:54 answering member 4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson
tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall

1017308

registered interest
date	29/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Administration of Justice: International Cooperation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on international co-operation on policing and justice of the UK leaving the EU .
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	197432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>The government has published its assessment of the Future Security Part-nership (FSP) between the UK and the EU - ‘EU exit: an assessment of the security partnership’. It compares cooperation envisaged under the future UK-EU security partnership, as set out in the Political Declaration, with a no deal scenario.</p><p>This publication can be found on Gov.uk</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/759760/28_November_EU_Exit_-_Assessment_of_the_security_partnership__2_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/759760/28_November_EU_Exit_-_Assessment_of_the_security_partnership__2_.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 07/12/2018 11:33:56 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1030179

registered interest
date	21/12/2018
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment the Government has made of the effectiveness of universal credit in helping people into work.
tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
tabling member printed	Sir Henry Bellingham
uin	908382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>Universal Credit has had a positive impact since its start, as shown through published research and analysis. This research shows us that people are spending more time looking for work, applying for more jobs and even doing jobs they would not have considered doing before. Our Labour Market Impacts Analysis is available online at gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 07/01/2019 18:02:07 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1441 label Biography information for Lord Bellingham

1028701

registered interest
date	20/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the sustainability of local authority children’s services budgets.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	203970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>Funding for children’s services is made available through the Local Government Finance Settlement. The department is in the final year of a multi-year settlement deal worth over £200 billion in the five years to 2020.</p><p>At the Autumn Budget 2018, the government made £410 million available to local authorities, in 2019/20, for adult and children social care. The government also announced £84 million in targeted, evidence-based interventions which will transform services to reduce demand, saving money for local authorities but most importantly, improving the quality of services for our most vulnerable children.</p><p>The government will continue to work closely with the sector to consider long-term children’s services funding as part of the upcoming 2019 Spending Review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 08/01/2019 17:28:50 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas