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626137

registered interest
date	31/10/2016
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	Retail Trade: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans his Department has for invigorating high street trading in the West Midlands in the next 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	51029
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring that high streets throughout the country remain at the heart of their community and we have taken significant actions to help high streets adapt and thrive through a range of targeted tax breaks, sensible planning changes and measures to ensure fairer parking for motorists.</p><p>At Budget 2016 we announced the biggest ever cut in business rates – worth £6.7 billion across the next five years. The Government is permanently doubling the level of Small Business Rate Relief and increasing the thresholds to benefit a greater number of property occupiers. Eligible properties with a rateable value of £12,000 and below will receive 100% relief. This means that 600,000 small businesses will pay no business rates at all, including local high street shops. Furthermore, the revaluation of Business Rates will ensure business rate bills more closely reflect the property market and that all businesses are getting a fair deal. The revaluation will reduce bills in the West Midlands by 7% before inflation and transitional relief. This will reduce bills by almost £170m per year. The biggest winners are in offices which will see bills falls by 16% and retail which will see bills fall by 11%.</p><p>We have also given over £18 million to town teams since 2010, including Redditch, funding successful initiatives such “Love Your Local Market” and the “Great British High Street Competition”. The finalists for the 2016 Awards include Derby, Hinckley, Market Harborough, Bridgnorth, and Leominster. The winners will be announced in December.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 03/11/2016 11:17:39 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

606688

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	Revenue and Customs: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many letters of complaint to HM Revenue and Customs have been responded to within 28 days in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	49584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2016 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs uses a 15 working day response target for complaints. As at the beginning of October, for the year to date the Department’s 15 day response performance stands at 75%.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 28/10/2016 10:40:01 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

606689

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	Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average waiting time was for telephone calls to HM Revenue and Customs to be answered in each year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	49585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2016 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs publishes regular performance reports, including average speed of answer; details of which are available on GOV.UK.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 28/10/2016 11:15:43 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

573714

registered interest
date	02/09/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP practices in England have access to a mental health worker to support patients.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	44189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>The General Practice Forward View, published in April 2016, announced a commitment to 5,000 doctors in general practice and a minimum of 5,000 other staff working in general practice by 2020-21. This will include investment in an extra 3,000 mental health therapists to work in primary care by 2020 to support localities to expand the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme. This amounts to an average of a full time therapist for every 2-3 typical sized GP practices.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 12/09/2016 16:47:13 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

573715

registered interest
date	02/09/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GPs in England are trained mental health specialists.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	44190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>This information is not collected by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 12/09/2016 16:02:05 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

527992

registered interest
date	20/06/2016
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	Council Housing: Evictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether his Department maintains central records on the number of council tenants who are evicted from their tenancies and the reason for those evictions.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	41018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department collects and publishes statistics on local authority tenant evictions and reasons for eviction. The information is published in the annual Local Authority Housing Statistics tables on rents, lettings and tenancies, which are available at the following link:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-housing-data</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 29/06/2016 14:34:52 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

528017

registered interest
date	20/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Performing Arts: Further Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will take steps to increase funding of post-16 performing arts education and training.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	40961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2016 answer text <p>We believe that post-16 education plays a crucial role in helping young people realise their potential. That’s why we announced as part of the Spending Review that we will protect the national base rate of £4,000 per student for the duration of the parliament. In addition vocational performing arts programmes receive a 20% uplift reflecting the extra costs of delivering these courses.</p><p>The government also remains committed to supporting talented students through the Dance and Drama Awards scheme. Around 1,300 young people and adults each year receive financial help through the scheme to gain high level vocational training in dance, drama and musical theatre.</p><p>In addition, the Department for Education provides means-tested support through the Music and Dance Scheme to ensure that talented children from all backgrounds are able to receive the world-class training they need to succeed in careers in music and dance.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 30/06/2016 10:34:04 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

528093

registered interest
date	20/06/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Supermarkets: Road Traffic Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds statistics on the prosecution of motorists for (a) speeding and (b) other motoring offences in supermarket car parks.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	41044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office does not collect data on prosecutions for motoring offences. Data on prosecutions for motoring offences are held by the Ministry of Justice and are published in their quarterly Criminal Justice Statistics publication. However it is not possible to separately identify motoring offences committed in supermarket car parks. This information can only be obtained at disproportionate cost. The publication can be accessed at the link below:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 28/06/2016 13:19:42 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

528142

registered interest
date	20/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Trains: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that British manufacturers have fair access to the tendering process to promote the use of UK parts in foreign-made railway trains on the UK rail network.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	40966
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2016 answer text <p>We are encouraging SMEs, new entrants and innovators to work with the industry to identify and take advantage of initiatives benefitting the supply chain and improving access to the market to ensure that the UK remains competitive and develops the capacity for orders at home and abroad. It should be noted that over 2,000 railway vehicles are currently on order (being manufactured or to be manufactured) in the UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 29/06/2016 13:41:47 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley

528165

registered interest
date	20/06/2016
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, whether he holds information by parliamentary constituency on the number of people affected by transitional arrangements for women born after 6 April 1951 caused by the change in the state pension age.
tabling member constituency	Redditch
tabling member printed	Karen Lumley
uin	41019
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2016 answer text <p>Women born between 6 April 1950 and 5 April 1953 were affected by State Pension age equalisation under the Pensions Act 1995.</p><p> </p><p>The Pensions Act 2011 accelerated the equalisation of State Pension age, and included transitional arrangements limiting State Pension age delays, affecting women born between 6 April 1953 and 5 December 1953. It also brought forward the increase in State Pension age from 65 to 66 which affected women born between 6 Dec 1953 and 5 April 1960.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the numbers affected by parliamentary constituency is not held by the Department for Work and Pensions. However, a population breakdown of women by age at mid-2014 (women with birthdates in 1951 would have been aged 62 or 63 at this point) by constituency can be found in the Office for National Statistics’ data set of Parliamentary Constituency Mid-year Population Estimates for England and Wales:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/parliamentaryconstituencymidyearpopulationestimates" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/parliamentaryconstituencymidyearpopulationestimates</a></p><p> </p><p>For Scotland:</p><p><a href="http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/population/population-estimates/special-area-population-estimates/spc-population-estimates" target="_blank">http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/population/population-estimates/special-area-population-estimates/spc-population-estimates</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 28/06/2016 10:55:35 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4023 label Biography information for Karen Lumley