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967741

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date	04/09/2018
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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
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 times a monitor from Natural England visits a proposed culling site to assess whether the weather conditions are suitable for the badger cull in an area to proceed.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	170251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>During the prolonged period of hot weather in summer 2018, two Supplementary Badger Control licenses were in operation, in West Somerset and West Gloucestershire.</p><p> </p><p>Natural England (NE) was in contact with the two Supplementary Badger Control companies on a regular basis during the period of prolonged hot weather.</p><p> </p><p>To assess the situation on the ground, NE staff have made three field visits to West Somerset and three field visits to West Gloucestershire. The visits found that best practise was being followed to avoid and mitigate against animals being exposed to extreme weather.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 10/09/2018 12:21:15 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

967770

registered interest
date	04/09/2018
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	Access to Work Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what date he approved the 2018-19 budget for the Access to Work programme.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	170252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The Access to Work programme is demand led so the eventual expenditure incurred in 2018-19 will be driven by the demand experienced during the year.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 11/09/2018 11:51:07 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton previous answer version 74347 answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

967771

registered interest
date	04/09/2018
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	Access to Work Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with a disability have been denied an Access to Work grant at the point of contact.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	170253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The information is not available. An Access to Work application would normally be refused at point of contact if the applicant was not eligible for Access to Work. This might be because they were not in work or about to start work, or that they were not disabled.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 10/09/2018 16:24:13 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

964315

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Registration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans are in place to ensure that people who do not have access to the internet are not adversely affected by the operation of the registration process for change of ownership of vehicles through the DVLA.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	168955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Motorists can notify the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) of a change of vehicle keeper by completing and posting the new keeper section of the vehicle registration certificate.</p><p> </p><p>Those who use the paper route to notify the DVLA of changes to their vehicle record will receive a new vehicle registration certificate on the same timescale as those who notify the DVLA digitally.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 11/09/2018 15:17:50 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

964316

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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	Patients: Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to make an assessment of the effectiveness of the operation of externally managed patient transport to ensure that there is no diminution of service standards; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	168956
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Patient Transport Services (PTS) are commissioned and assessed locally by National Health Service clinical commissioning groups, which are responsible for the delivery of effective PTS.</p><p>The document, ‘Eligibility Criteria for Patient Transport Services (2007)’, published by the Department, sets out the patient eligibility criteria for PTS.</p><p>Data regarding complaints made about local PTS are not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 168957 168958 question first answered 11/09/2018 14:26:31 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

964317

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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	Arriva Transport Solutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many complaints there have been in which categories about the operation by Arriva Transport Solutions of patient transport in the south-west in each year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	168957
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Patient Transport Services (PTS) are commissioned and assessed locally by National Health Service clinical commissioning groups, which are responsible for the delivery of effective PTS.</p><p>The document, ‘Eligibility Criteria for Patient Transport Services (2007)’, published by the Department, sets out the patient eligibility criteria for PTS.</p><p>Data regarding complaints made about local PTS are not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 168956 168958 question first answered 11/09/2018 14:26:31 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

964319

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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	Patients: Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which body is responsible for setting the criteria on who is eligible for the transport of patients to health facilities.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	168958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Patient Transport Services (PTS) are commissioned and assessed locally by National Health Service clinical commissioning groups, which are responsible for the delivery of effective PTS.</p><p>The document, ‘Eligibility Criteria for Patient Transport Services (2007)’, published by the Department, sets out the patient eligibility criteria for PTS.</p><p>Data regarding complaints made about local PTS are not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 168956 168957 question first answered 11/09/2018 14:26:31 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

964320

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Tickets
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether guarantees are in place to ensure that self-service ticket machines provide the cheapest available tickets for the time of day and week on which a journey is to be made.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	168959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The Office of Rail and Road has asked all train companies to introduce a voluntary ‘TVM Price Guarantee’ whereby they commit to refund the additional costs where the passenger could have purchased a cheaper ticket. This year all 17 train companies that use TVMs now have a TVM Price Guarantee in place. Train companies bidding for new franchises are asked to provide information about any price guarantees in place, which is taken into account in the way bids are assessed, and are required to adopt the Rail Delivery Group’s TVM Design Guidelines for new and upgraded ticket machines.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 13/09/2018 16:05:31 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

964322

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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	State Retirement Pensions: Females
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 is for the Independent Case Examiner to (a) allocate and (b) complete a complaint about the changes to the state pension age.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	168960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>At the end of August 2018, the average time taken to: (a) allocate a complaint about changes to stage pension age to an investigation case manager for examination was 49 weeks; (b) to complete an investigation into this group of complaints was 9 weeks, from the point of allocation to an investigation case manager.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 11/09/2018 15:27:44 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

964323

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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	Palestinians: International Assistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that all people arrested on vessels from the Gaza Freedom Flotilla (a) are released and (b) have their impounded possessions returned to them; and if he will investigate why the vessels were prevented from reaching their destination.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	168961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>Consular officials from our Embassy in Tel Aviv visited the British nationals who were detained to check on their welfare. We understand that all participants have now left Israel. Our Deputy Head of Mission in Israel raised the issue of personal belongings with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/09/2018 15:23:30 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew