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1681886

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date	15/01/2024
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Railways: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether he has had recent discussions with (a) the Secretary of State for Transport and (b) Network Rail on the potential impact of Control Period 7 funding on (i) rail services and (ii) the condition of rail infrastructure in Wales.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	9472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2024 answer text <p>My officials and I have regular discussions with counterparts in the Department for Transport and Network Rail on a wide range of transport matters in Wales.</p><p>Between 2024 and 2029, the UK Government will be providing a record £44.1 billion settlement for Network Rail in Control Period 7 across England and Wales. This £44.1 billion settlement is roughly a 4% increase in real terms when compared to the previous control period.</p><p>The UK Government is committed to improving rail infrastructure in Wales and has allocated £1 billion to electrify the North Wales Mainline, delivered the £76 million electrification of the Severn Tunnel, contributed £144 million to the upgrade of the Core Valley Lines and provided £77.7 million for improvements to Cardiff Central Station.</p> answering member constituency Monmouth answering member printed David T C Davies question first answered 18/01/2024 11:27:09 answering member 1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1681887

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	North Wales Coast Line: Electrification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether he has had recent discussions with (a) the Secretary of State for Transport, (b) Network Rail and (c) the Welsh government on the electrification of the North Wales Main Line.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	9473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2024 answer text <p>My officials and I have regular discussions with counterparts in the Department for Transport, Network Rail and the Welsh Government on a wide range of transport matters across Wales.</p><p>The UK Government is committed to providing £1 billion to fund the electrification of the North Wales Main Line. This investment will have a transformative impact for the many residents, commuters and tourists who use the North Wales Main Line, driving economic growth across the region.</p><p>The Department for Transport is working closely with Network Rail and industry partners to develop and deliver on the Government priorities outlined in the Prime Minister’s Network North announcement, including electrification of the North Wales Main Line. The Government is currently considering next steps, including delivery timelines, and will share further information when this work is complete. All schemes will be subject to the development and approval of business cases and will undergo all formal governance, in line with relevant fiscal and legal duties.</p><p>The UK Government is already providing significant investment to improve rail infrastructure and travel in Wales, including £144 million for the Core Valley Lines, delivering the £76 million electrification of the Severn Tunnel and £77.7 million for improvements to Cardiff Central Station.</p> answering member constituency Monmouth answering member printed David T C Davies question first answered 18/01/2024 11:29:05 answering member 1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1681888

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	North Wales Coast Line: Electrification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the total cost of the electrification of the North Wales mainline.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	9474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2024 answer text <p>As part of the Prime Minister’s Network North announcement, the Government committed an unprecedented £1 billion investment to fund the electrification of the North Wales Main Line. We continue to work through the next steps for developing and delivering the scheme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 18/01/2024 14:36:00 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1682025

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Tata Steel: Port Talbot
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, when the Tata Steel/ Port Talbot Transition Board will next meet.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	9476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2024 answer text <p>The Tata Steel/Port Talbot Transition Board plan to next meet on 1 February 2024.</p><p>I chair the Transition Board which was set up to support people, businesses and communities affected by Tata Steel’s decarbonisation transition. The Transition Board will have access to up to £100 million to invest in skills and regeneration programmes for the local area.</p> answering member constituency Monmouth answering member printed David T C Davies question first answered 18/01/2024 11:20:33 answering member 1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1681583

registered interest
date	11/01/2024
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	Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate has been made of the average length of time between submission of a PIP mandatory reconsideration and the decision.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	9198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2024 answer text <p>The monthly average clearance time of a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) can be found in the latest PIP quarterly release: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-statistics-to-october-2023" target="_blank">Personal Independence Payment statistics to October 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>In particular, the figures on MR average clearance times can be found in Table 4A in the Customer Journey <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6580582295bf65000d71922a/tables-pip-statistics-to-october-2023-eng-wales.xlsx" target="_blank">Excel</a>.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 18/01/2024 13:21:10 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1681672

registered interest
date	11/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Newport East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of asylum applications from applicants in Newport East constituency that were submitted before June 2022 are awaiting a final decision.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	9199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on applications awaiting a decision is published in table Asy_10a of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#asylum-and-resettlement" target="_blank">‘Asylum applications, decisions and resettlement detailed datasets’</a>. Please note that this information is not broken down by local authority, nor the date by which the application was submitted.</p><p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum seekers in receipt of support by local authority in table Asy_D11 of the ‘Asylum and resettlement local authority data’ detailed datasets. Information on asylum seekers who are not claiming support is not available by local authority. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of each workbook. Additionally, the data shows a snapshot as at the last day of each quarter, rather than the number of asylum applications awaiting a decision over the entire quarter. The latest data relates to as at 30 September 2023. Data as at 31 December 2023 will be published on 29 February 2024.</p><p>Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 16/01/2024 14:03:06 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1681673

registered interest
date	11/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Biometric Residence Permits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress his Department has made in resolving the technical issues affecting the issuing of Biometric Residence Permit cards.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	9200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>Incidences of technical issues preventing BRP card production are extremely low, and no systemic issues have been identified.</p><p>Where individual card requests do fail, operational case working teams and IT Support endeavour to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.</p><p>For any case that cannot be resolved immediately, the Employer Checking and Landlord Checking Services are available to provide support to customers to verify their immigration status and permission to work and rent properties in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 16/01/2024 14:45:38 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1681675

registered interest
date	11/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Biometric Residence Permits: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of applicants have been waiting more than 28 days for a biometric residence permit.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	9201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>BRPs are produced at the secure delivery facility within 48 hours of the production request being made and are collected by our secure delivery partner the same day. Our secure delivery partner aims to attempt to deliver the BRPs within 48 hours of receipt of the BRPs. This equates to a minimum of 5 working days from the date of the production request being made to delivery of the BRP. We have added an additional 2 working days to the timeline advised to applicants to allow us to resolve any production issues.</p><p>During 2023, 99.6% of BRPs were produced within 24 hours of the production request and 100% within 48 hours. In 2023, our Secure Delivery Partner attempted to deliver over 99% of BRPs within 48 hours.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 16/01/2024 15:43:59 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1673703

registered interest
date	28/11/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Conventional Weapons: Military Exercises
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 25 October 2023 to Question 203030 on Military Exercises: Conventional Weapons, how many 81mm mortars were fired on training exercises in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	4107
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>Due to the time required to collate the information, I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of my letter in the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 04/12/2023 14:46:40 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

1673705

registered interest
date	28/11/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Firearms: Lost Property
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish a list of the types of small arms and light weapons that went missing from his Department's establishments and facilities in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	4108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>We take the security of our small arms and light weapons extremely seriously and have a range of measures in place to ensure the integrity of these arrangements. Whilst we do not publish data in full, we do publish some information on weapon losses on the Ministry of Defence (MOD) website under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act. MOD officials will collate that information and I will write to the hon. Member when it is available, and a copy of this letter will be placed in the Library of The House.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 04/12/2023 15:34:38 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden