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418406

registered interest
date	11/09/2015
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Broadband
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the extent of superfast broadband coverage in (a) England and (b) Northumberland; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Berwick-upon-Tweed
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne-Marie Trevelyan
uin	10001
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>Current superfast broadband coverage is over 83% of UK premises and the Government remains committed to providing 95% coverage to homes and businesses by December 2017. Coverage of superfast broadband in England is 84% according to Ofcom’s Communications Market Report published in August 2015. The report can be found at: <a href="http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/cmr/cmr15/CMR_UK_2015.pdf" target="_blank">http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/cmr/cmr15/CMR_UK_2015.pdf</a></p><p><br>The Government has invested £9.69 million in the Northumberland project which aims to provide superfast broadband coverage to over 46,000 homes and businesses in the county. By the end of the Northumberland project, anticipated by December 2016, over 91% of premises are expected to have access to superfast broadband. As of 30 June 2015, 40,193 premises had access to superfast broadband as a result of the project.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 16/09/2015 14:11:17 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan

418407

registered interest
date	11/09/2015
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Broadband
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to introduce a universal service obligation for superfast broadband coverage; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Berwick-upon-Tweed
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne-Marie Trevelyan
uin	10002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>The Government is considering whether to implement a broadband Universal Service Obligation (USO) as one of a range of options for reaching the final 5% of the UK population who do not have access to broadband in order to ensure that no one gets left behind. No decisions have been taken at this stage.</p><p> </p><p>Any broadband USO would have to comply with the European Universal Service Directive. The Directive does not specify a speed other than to indicate that it should be set at a level that is available to and used by the majority.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey grouped question UIN 10003 question first answered 16/09/2015 14:13:17 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan

416793

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Coastal Revival Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when his Department plans to announce the list of successful bids to the Coastal Revival Fund.
tabling member constituency	Berwick-upon-Tweed
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne-Marie Trevelyan
uin	9075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>The Coastal Revival Fund closes for applications on 14 September 2015. We will then sift and assess applications and will let successful areas know in the Autumn.</p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 09/09/2015 15:57:20 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois
tabling member	4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan

416794

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
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	Slaughterhouses: CCTV
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her Department plans to respond to the Farm Animal Welfare Committee's opinion on CCTV in slaughterhouses, published in February 2015; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Berwick-upon-Tweed
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne-Marie Trevelyan
uin	8968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply given on 24 June 2015, PQs UIN 2944 and 2945.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 09/09/2015 10:59:18 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan

388885

registered interest
date	09/07/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Commission for Local Administration in England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when his Department plans to publish the results of its consultation on extending the remit of the Local Government Ombudsman to include larger parish and town councils.
tabling member constituency	Berwick-upon-Tweed
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne-Marie Trevelyan
uin	6460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>The consultation on extending the remit of the Local Government Ombudsman to larger parish and town councils closed on 30 June and we are now carefully considering the 108 responses we received from parish and town councils, district councils, local government representative bodies and members of the public.</p><p> </p><p>We are doing this in the context of our intention, as announced in the Queen’s speech, to publish in this Parliamentary session a draft Bill creating a single Public Service Ombudsman.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 14/07/2015 14:28:03 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan

387608

registered interest
date	03/07/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Out of Area Treatment: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's policy is on cross-border patient referrals to Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Berwick-upon-Tweed
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne-Marie Trevelyan
uin	5587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>A patient may be referred to an NHS service which is geographically located in Scotland.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are responsible for commissioning the majority of NHS services. It is for CCGs to commission services to meet the needs of their local population.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>CCGs are free to commission services in Scotland as long as such services comply with the NHS Constitution, which sets out rights for patients, public and staff. It outlines NHS commitments to patients and staff, and the responsibilities that the public, patients and staff owe to one another to ensure that the NHS operates fairly and effectively.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England has published the document <em>‘Who Pays? Determining responsibility for payments to providers’</em> which provides guidance for CCGs on commissioning services from hospitals in Scotland and outside their own area.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A copy has been attached.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 08/07/2015 13:25:57 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name Who Pays.pdf title NHS England 'Who Pays?' August 2013
tabling member	4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan

387032

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
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	Tree Planting
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 support her Department is providing to tree planting programmes to at least maintain the current level of carbon capture capacity from trees.
tabling member constituency	Berwick-upon-Tweed
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne-Marie Trevelyan
uin	5106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>As promised in our manifesto, we have committed to planting 11 million trees during this Parliament, which we plan to do primarily through the Rural Development Programme’s Countryside Stewardship scheme. This scheme aims to invest £18 million in new woodland planting each year. A number of other initiatives are also in place, including the Woodland Carbon Code, to attract other funding to ensure that planting rates are maintained at the average level over the previous Programme of 2,600 hectares per year. This will, according to the most recent greenhouse gas inventory projections, increase the amount of carbon removed by England’s woodlands from 5.0 million tonnes carbon dioxide in 2014 to 5.9 million tonnes in 2020.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We also remain strongly supportive of sector-led initiatives, such as Grown in Britain and the Roots to Prosperity strategy, in their work to develop and strengthen the woodland economy and thereby attract further private investment to help increase woodland creation capacity.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 06/07/2015 16:56:34 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan

386616

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Carbon Capture and Storage: Trees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment her Department has made of the importance of trees and tree planting to achieving carbon capture.
tabling member constituency	Berwick-upon-Tweed
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne-Marie Trevelyan
uin	4922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>Forests play an important part in mitigating climate change (as well as in adapting to its impacts). Domestically, forestland is a net sink in the UK, removing 17 Mtonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2013) and the amount of carbon stored in UK trees increased from 1990-2013. Forestry inventory projections indicate an increasing trend in net removals by UK forests and then a decline towards mid-century as forests mature (in mature forests carbon uptake is reduced) and more trees are harvested. Nonetheless, forests will remain a net sink in the UK, at least beyond the middle of the century.</p><p>Forestry policy is devolved, and all four countries have established policies for woodland creation, co-financed through the EU Rural Development Program. The revised UK Forestry Standard, published in November 2011 provides that ‘forest management should contribute to climate change mitigation over the long term through the net capture and storage of carbon in the forest ecosystem and in wood products’. The Committee on Climate Change has estimated that by 2030 an additional 1 megaton of carbon dioxide a year could be abated through afforestation activities.</p><p>Internationally, deforestation causes 10 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Reaching the goals of the New York Declaration on Forests – ending forest loss by 2030 and restoring 350 million hectares – is estimated to reduce between 4.5 and 8.8 billion tonnes of CO2 per year in 2030. Over 1 billion poor people depend on forests for their livelihoods, they provide essential ecosystem services and support up to 80 per cent of terrestrial biodiversity. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has taken a number of steps to mitigate forests emissions and enhance sequestration. In the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (2013-2020), all countries with emissions reductions commitments (including the European Union) are required to account for all forest related emissions and removals, and are therefore incentivised to sustainably manage their forests.</p><p>For developing countries, the UNFCCC has established ‘REDD+’ as a mechanism to reduce emissions from deforestation and promote the conservation of forest carbon stocks, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks by rewarding countries who protect their forests with a payment based on verified emissions reductions. The UK’s £3.87 billion <em>International Climate Fund </em>supports developing countries address deforestation, including programmes which support REDD+, governance and market reforms, curbing illegal and unsustainable use of forest resources, and investments in sustainable forestry, agriculture and land management.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/07/2015 13:09:13 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 11499 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan

381966

registered interest
date	17/06/2015
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	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of employers offer apprenticeships to 16 to 19 year olds in (a) the UK, (b) the North East and (c) Berwick-upon-Tweed constituency.
tabling member constituency	Berwick-upon-Tweed
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne-Marie Trevelyan
uin	2878
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>Information on the proportion of employers offering apprenticeships is not centrally collected. However, data from the 2014 UKCES Employer Perspectives Survey[1] show that 16 per cent of all employers in the UK offered apprenticeships. The majority of these (15% of all employers) were formal Apprenticeships.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Among those employers offering formal Apprenticeships in the UK, 74 per cent offered them to 16 to 18 year olds and 75 per cent offered them to 19 to 24 year olds. Data is not available for the 16 to 19 age group or at regional or constituency levels.</p><p> </p><br /><p>[1]<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/373769/14.11.11._EPS_2014_-_Main_Report_full_V2.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/373769/14.11.11._EPS_2014_-_Main_Report_full_V2.pdf</a> (p.90)</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 22/06/2015 13:51:07 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan

348724

registered interest
date	05/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	RAF Boulmer: Rescue Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many times RAF Boulmer has been called on to assist the North East Air Ambulance Service on emergency and search and rescue missions in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Berwick-upon-Tweed
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne-Marie Trevelyan
uin	1322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2015 answer text <p>The number of times RAF Boulmer was called upon to assist the North East Air Ambulance is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p><p>The total number of annual Search and Rescue (SAR) callouts from RAF Boulmer for the last ten years is shown in the table below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>RAF Boulmer – SAR Callouts</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>144</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>206</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>170</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>211</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>214</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>193</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>181</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>141</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>157</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>160</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,777</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 10/06/2015 15:58:51 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan