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1234378

registered interest
date	15/09/2020
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	Sewage: Waste Disposal
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the accuracy of reports in the Guardian newspaper in its article entitled Nearly 30,000 tonnes of sewage sludge containing human waste to enter UK, published on 2 September 2020; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	90188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2020 answer text <p>The Sludge Use in Agriculture Regulations provides controls that protect the environment and human health when these organic materials are spread to land.</p><p>The use of sewage sludge in agriculture is regulated by the Environment Agency. The Environment Agency has reviewed the risks and limitations of the regulatory framework and issued a bespoke landspreading mobile plant permit to handle sludge from the Netherlands.</p><p>Provided the use of sewage sludge is carried out in accordance with the relevant regulatory controls and good practice guidance is followed, the recycling of sewage sludge to land remains a safe activity.</p><p>We are working to implement the Environment Agency’s Sludge Strategy to bring sludge and septic tank sludge into the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations, by 2023. This will enable better management of the environmental impacts of landspreading sludge, and modernise the regulatory framework surrounding the treatment, storage and safe use of sludge.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 23/09/2020 14:41:05 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1233522

registered interest
date	10/09/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Buses: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the recommendations made by Climate Assembly UK in their report entitled Path to net zero, published 10 September 2020, for the Government to invest in low carbon buses.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	88357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2020 answer text <p>The Government is already committed to ensuring net zero carbon emissions in the transport system by 2050. That is why we are going further than the recommendations, investing in at least 4,000 Zero-Emission Buses (ZEBs) through the £5 billion of new funding to overhaul bus and cycle links for regions outside London. This is on top of the £50 million to deliver Britain’s first all-electric bus town and £240 million since 2010 to support the move to lower emission buses. It will be important to account for all of this in the long-term National Bus Strategy we are developing.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 15/09/2020 16:16:03 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1232261

registered interest
date	08/09/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Declassified UK
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the letter of 4 September 2020 addressed to him from the International Press Institute, for what reason his Department’s press office has decided to refuse comment to the news outlet Declassified UK.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	86712
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2020 answer text <p>The Department is looking into the specifics raised in the hon. Member's questions and we will write to him shortly.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin grouped question UIN 86713 question first answered 11/09/2020 11:43:00 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1232262

registered interest
date	08/09/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the decision by the Council of Europe to issue a Level 2 media freedom alert after his Department refused comment to the media organisation Declassified UK, what assessment he has made of the compatibility of his Department's communications policy with the Government Communication Service Propriety Guidance to deal with all news media even-handedly.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	86713
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2020 answer text <p>The Department is looking into the specifics raised in the hon. Member's questions and we will write to him shortly.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin grouped question UIN 86712 question first answered 11/09/2020 11:43:00 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1230706

registered interest
date	02/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2020 to Question 71791 on Environment Protection: Coronavirus, what progress has been made in allocating the £1 billion of further support for ultra-low emission vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	84312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2020 answer text <p>At the Budget in March, the government allocated £403 million to extend the Plug-in Car Grant out until 2022-23. £129.5 million was provided to extend the Plug-in Grants for vans, taxis and motorcycles to 2022-23.</p><p> </p><p>The government also earmarked £500 million over the next five years to support the rollout of a rapid-charging network for electric vehicles, ensuring that drivers will never be further than 30 miles from a rapid charging station. To target spending from this fund effectively, the Office for Low Emission Vehicles are currently undertaking a comprehensive review of electric vehicle charging infrastructure</p><p><strong> <br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 08/09/2020 11:07:48 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1230087

registered interest
date	01/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Financial Services Compensation Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if his Department will conduct a review of the effect of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme levy on firms required to pay that levy.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	83884
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2020 answer text <p>The Government does not have a role in setting the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) levy. The FSCS is an independent non-governmental body which carries out its compensation function within rules set by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), who are themselves also independent from government.</p><p> </p><p>The FSCS has said it will be working with industry and regulators to do what it can to address any concerns about updates to this year’s levies.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 09/09/2020 09:29:53 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1228664

registered interest
date	28/08/2020
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	Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to uphold quality and safety standards following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	82157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2020 answer text <p>The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has made preparations to amend medicines and medical devices regulations to make sure we have the strongest regulatory framework for medicines from day 1 after the end of the transition period, This will enable the MHRA to continue to have the appropriate oversight for medicines placed on the market, to maintain patient safety and be able to take action where necessary.</p><p>After the transition period, our aim is to make sure patients in the United Kingdom continue to be able to access the best and most innovative medicines and medical devices. We want patients to be reassured that their safety will be protected through the strongest regulatory framework.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries grouped question UIN 82149 question first answered 10/09/2020 16:36:38 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1228665

registered interest
date	28/08/2020
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	Tomography: Artificial Intelligence
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 has made an assessment of the potential merits of using artificial intelligence to read PET CT scans.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	82158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2020 answer text <p>The National Health Service Artificial Intelligence (AI) Laboratory is undertaking a discovery project to look at medical imaging, which will examine the value and benefit of the use of AI in medical imaging.</p><p>The potential for the application of AI methodologies to PET/CT imaging has been widely investigated in the research community. From the academic and commercial research performed to date, AI methodologies in PET/CT have been shown to provide benefit in, but not limited to: the improvement of image quality and lowering of CT dose delivered to the patient; lesion and disease detection; tumour segmentation; and in the prediction of disease recurrence.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries grouped question UIN 82150 question first answered 10/09/2020 21:43:18 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1228666

registered interest
date	28/08/2020
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	Cancer
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 people have been diagnosed with gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours in (a) England, (b) Northern Ireland, (c) Scotland and (d) Wales in (i) 2014, (ii) 2015, (iii) 2016, (iv) 2017, (v) 2018 and (vi) 2019.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	82159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2020 answer text <p>Data on gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours are not available in the format requested.</p><p>The National Disease Registration Service in Public Health England collects data on cancers diagnosed in England. Not all cancer types and sites are included in all routine publications. The latest complete year of cancer incidence data is for 2018, available to view at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.cancerdata.nhs.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.cancerdata.nhs.uk/</a></p><p>Data for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are the responsibility of the cancer registries in those jurisdictions.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 82151 question first answered 21/09/2020 17:34:14 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1228741

registered interest
date	28/08/2020
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	Renewable Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much electricity would be generated by the £1.26 billion of Renewable Obligation Certificates which biomass for electricity receives if the money was redirected to (a) offshore wind, (b) onshore wind and (c) solar; and will he make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	82148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2020 answer text <p>Generating stations under the Renewables Obligation scheme receive support for up to 20 or 25 years, depending on when they accredited. As they have a statutory right to their existing support, as set out in the scheme’s implementing legislation, it would be inappropriate to redirect that support to other technologies.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 08/09/2020 13:00:42 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day