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606684

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date	20/10/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Air Passenger Duty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether any proportion of Air Passenger Duty revenue is used to fund the UK's commitment to Unitaid.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	49580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>The government does not hypothecate revenue collected from Air Passenger Duty.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 25/10/2016 09:25:59 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

606686

registered interest
date	20/10/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Taxation: Developing Countries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff of his Department are involved in the renegotiations of the UK's tax treaties with developing countries.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	49582
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs’ Tax Treaty Team, which at October 2016 has 10.3 full time equivalent members of staff, is responsible for negotiating the UK’s tax treaties. The make-up of the negotiating programme will vary from year to year which means it is not possible to put an exact figure on the number of staff involved with negotiations with developing countries.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 25/10/2016 14:06:00 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

606687

registered interest
date	20/10/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Air Passenger Duty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his policy is on moves to reduce Air Passenger Duty by 50 per cent in the near future.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	49579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>Like all taxes Air Passenger Duty is kept under review with any changes being announced at fiscal events.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 25/10/2016 09:13:01 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

606690

registered interest
date	20/10/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Concentrix: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many outstanding applications for mandatory reconsideration of a tax credit decision by Concentrix there are in Wales; how many people in Wales have had a tax credit claim stopped by Concentrix; and how many such claims were subsequently reinstated by HM Revenue and Customs.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	49593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs is currently focused on resolving the outstanding cases but will be preparing regional analysis, which will be available in due course.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 25/10/2016 14:14:26 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden

606691

registered interest
date	20/10/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Obesity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much has been spent from the public purse on purchasing (a) wearable fitness tracking technology and (b) diet pills for soldiers deemed to be overweight in the last financial year.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	49578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>Wearable fitness tracking technology equipment is purchased by individual military units. Records of the cost of these purchases are not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p><p>In accordance with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines, the Ministry of Defence prescribes the medication Orlistat for the management of obesity. The drug is prescribed to both UK military personnel and their dependants. In financial year 2015-16 the total purchase cost of Orlistat was £6,300.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 25/10/2016 14:40:58 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

606694

registered interest
date	20/10/2016
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	Angling: Licensing
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 much income has been received from anglers through the rod licence in each of the last five financial years; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
tabling member printed	Mr Charles Walker
uin	49562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>The income received from anglers through the rod licence for each of the last five years is provided in the table below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Income (in million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>£21,083</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£21,147</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£21,590</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£21,840</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£23,742</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 25/10/2016 10:46:07 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

606705

registered interest
date	20/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Strokes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answers of 11 and 18 October 2016 to Questions 46460 and 47904, whether the Government plans to put measures in place to replace the National Stroke Strategy after December 2017.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	49604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>The National Stroke Strategy remains valid and implementation of it continues. There are, therefore, no current plans to renew it. Action is being taken to ensure the progress made on stroke continues. This includes:</p><p> </p><p>- ongoing work in virtually all parts of the country to organise acute stroke care to ensure that all stroke patients, regardless of where they live or what time of the day or week they have their stroke, have access to high quality specialist care;</p><p> </p><p>- publication of the Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Outcomes Strategy in 2013, which includes many stroke specific strategic ambitions;</p><p> </p><p>- a CVD expert forum, hosted by NHS England, to coordinate delivery of the work which was initiated in the CVD Outcomes Strategy; and</p><p> </p><p>- NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Stroke works with the Strategic Clinical Networks, clinical commissioning groups, voluntary agencies and individual providers to support better commissioning and provision of stroke care.</p><p> </p><p>More generally, the NHS Five Year Forward View recognises that quality of care, including stroke care, can be variable and that patients’ needs are changing and new treatment options are emerging. The Five Year Forward View sets out high level objectives to address these issues.</p><p> </p><p>There are no current plans for a formal evaluation of the National Stroke Strategy. However there is a continuous evaluation of the quality of stroke care via the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP). This measures most of the key indicators defined as important in the strategy and findings are freely available on the SSNAP website at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.strokeaudit.org/" target="_blank">https://www.strokeaudit.org/</a></p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat grouped question UIN 49605 question first answered 25/10/2016 08:10:41 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

606706

registered interest
date	20/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Strokes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department plans to evaluate formally the National Stroke Strategy before the end of 2017.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	49605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>The National Stroke Strategy remains valid and implementation of it continues. There are, therefore, no current plans to renew it. Action is being taken to ensure the progress made on stroke continues. This includes:</p><p> </p><p>- ongoing work in virtually all parts of the country to organise acute stroke care to ensure that all stroke patients, regardless of where they live or what time of the day or week they have their stroke, have access to high quality specialist care;</p><p> </p><p>- publication of the Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Outcomes Strategy in 2013, which includes many stroke specific strategic ambitions;</p><p> </p><p>- a CVD expert forum, hosted by NHS England, to coordinate delivery of the work which was initiated in the CVD Outcomes Strategy; and</p><p> </p><p>- NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Stroke works with the Strategic Clinical Networks, clinical commissioning groups, voluntary agencies and individual providers to support better commissioning and provision of stroke care.</p><p> </p><p>More generally, the NHS Five Year Forward View recognises that quality of care, including stroke care, can be variable and that patients’ needs are changing and new treatment options are emerging. The Five Year Forward View sets out high level objectives to address these issues.</p><p> </p><p>There are no current plans for a formal evaluation of the National Stroke Strategy. However there is a continuous evaluation of the quality of stroke care via the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP). This measures most of the key indicators defined as important in the strategy and findings are freely available on the SSNAP website at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.strokeaudit.org/" target="_blank">https://www.strokeaudit.org/</a></p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat grouped question UIN 49604 question first answered 25/10/2016 08:10:41 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

606714

registered interest
date	20/10/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed Two: Public Relations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the annual budget for communication and engagement has been for HS2 Ltd in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Mrs Cheryl Gillan
uin	49563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>As is necessary for a project of the nature and scale of HS2, communication and engagement activities are undertaken by teams throughout the HS2 Ltd organisation, supported by a central corporate affairs team. This wide range of engagement includes, for example, local information events for impacted residents to meet with engineers to discuss the proposals; awareness campaigns along the line of route to inform residents about the property compensation schemes and how they can access these; and mobile sound labs for communities near the route of Phase One to come and hear the likely noise levels from the operational railway.</p><p> </p><p>As a result, it is not possible to provide annual budget figures as the amount of time spent on communication and engagement activity is not centrally tracked.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 25/10/2016 13:45:31 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan

606715

registered interest
date	20/10/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of (a) the effectiveness of the Need to Sell scheme for residents who are reapplying, (b) the level of flexibility offered by that scheme for those who are reapplying under different criteria, (c) how that scheme streamlines its procedures for those constituents who have terminal illnesses, financial burdens arising from High Speed 2 or any other pressing requirement to sell.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Mrs Cheryl Gillan
uin	49564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>The Need to Sell scheme is operating as it was intended, and operating fairly. We have already updated guidance to reflect learning from the scheme since its inception in January 2015. This demonstrates that we keep the scheme under review and act if necessary to improve the way it operates.</p><p> </p><p>Those reapplying for the Need to Sell scheme within six months of their initial application are only judged on the criteria on which they previously failed to meet. Furthermore the assessment panel provides detailed feedback directly to applicants on the criteria they failed to meet. This means that when reapplying applicants can provide targeted evidence that may increase the chance of a re-application being accepted.</p><p> </p><p>HS2 Ltd endeavours to make decisions on all applications as quickly as possible. As all applicants are applying with a compelling reason to sell it would not be fair to introduce a fast-track system for some applicants. We aim to deal with all applications within three months, however currently the average time to deal with an application is seven weeks.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 25/10/2016 13:50:06 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan