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793896

registered interest
date	22/12/2017
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	Religious Hatred: Islam
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of the conclusions of the Tell MAMA Annual Report for 2016 on Anti-Muslim Hatred on the gender of victims and the majority identity of perpetrators of such hatred.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	114985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>We take hate crime in all its forms very seriously: the United Kingdom has some of the strongest hate crime legislation in the world. The statistical breakdowns provided by Tell MAMA give an invaluable insight into the extent and nature of the deplorable abuse which Muslim citizens are subjected to on account of their belief or appearance. It is notable that most reported offline incidents of anti-Muslim hatred involve male perpetrators and that the majority of victims of offline incidents are women, most of whom are visibly Muslim. The Government has committed funding of £100 million to counter violence against women and girls with prosecutions and convictions for such offences rising 63 per cent since 2007-08.</p><p>This Government has done more than any other to tackle anti-Muslim hatred. We set up the first ever cross-government working group on anti-Muslim hatred. We have funded Tell MAMA, the first service to record incidents, support victims and raise community awareness of how to report anti-Muslim hate incidents. We are also disaggregating religious hate crime data held by the police to reveal the true scale and nature of the problem. Funding has been made available for the security of mosques and other faith establishments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 07/12/2017 17:34:27 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

808804

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Bank Services: Small Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to expand the role of the Financial Services Ombudsman to allow all small and medium sized businesses to make complaints on banking services.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	119913
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The remit of the Financial Ombudsman Services (FOS) is a matter for the Financial Conduct Authority, which is operationally independent of Government. The FCA indicated in the April 2017 Feedback Statement on their Mission consultation that they intend to consult on widening the remit of the FOS.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 21/12/2017 10:52:20 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

808892

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Banks: Capital Investment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will conduct an inquiry into the effect on the viability of small to medium sized business of banks’ efforts to improve their own capital ratios.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	120001
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government established an independent Financial Policy Committee (FPC) to identify, monitor and take action to remove or reduce systemic risks with a view to protecting and enhancing the resilience of the UK financial system. In March 2017 the FPC judged the appropriate Tier 1 capital requirement for the UK banking system, in aggregate and net of any countercyclical capital buffer, to be 13.5% of risk-weighted assets, as currently measured. The FPC’s judgement of the appropriate level of capital for the banking system was calibrated such that banks could absorb the cumulative losses in historical stress episodes and continue to provide essential services to the real economy.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is supporting lending to SMEs in a variety of ways, including: establishing the British Business Bank to make finance markets work better for small businesses; supporting challenger banks; introducing a bespoke regime for peer-to-peer lending; and structural interventions such as the bank referral scheme and the SME credit data sharing scheme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 21/12/2017 11:05:51 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

808923

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Self-employed: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will establish a new tax allowance covering digital training costs incurred by self-employed businesses.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	120032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>Expenditure on training to maintain or update existing skills, including digital skills, is already tax deductible for self-employed individuals when it is wholly and exclusively for the purposes of the business.</p><p> </p><p>As announced at Autumn Budget 2017, the government will consult in 2018 on extending the scope of tax relief currently available to employees and the self-employed for work-related training costs. This consultation will cover the tax treatment of new skills.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 120033 question first answered 20/12/2017 17:20:26 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

808924

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Self-employed: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward proposals to allow tax-deductions for training courses for the self-employed that develop (a) digital training and (b) other new skills.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	120033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>Expenditure on training to maintain or update existing skills, including digital skills, is already tax deductible for self-employed individuals when it is wholly and exclusively for the purposes of the business.</p><p> </p><p>As announced at Autumn Budget 2017, the government will consult in 2018 on extending the scope of tax relief currently available to employees and the self-employed for work-related training costs. This consultation will cover the tax treatment of new skills.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 120032 question first answered 20/12/2017 17:20:26 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

805109

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Tobacco: Smuggling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will introduce legislative proposals to introduce licensing for tobacco manufacturing machinery in accordance with the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Illicit Trade Protocol.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	118781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>Legislation for the licensing of tobacco manufacturing machinery in accordance with the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Illicit Trade Protocol was included in the Finance (No 2) Act 2017. Draft implementing regulations were published for consultation on 7 November 2017 and will be laid before Parliament in the new year.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 20/12/2017 16:57:02 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

805110

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Nabeel Rajab
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has made representations to his Bahraini counterpart on the Bahraini court’s rejection of Nabeel Rajab’s appeal against a two-year prison sentence for speaking to journalists; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	118782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>​We have raised this case with the Bahraini Government at senior levels. The UK continues to encourage the Bahraini Government to deliver on its international and domestic human rights commitments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 19/12/2017 13:09:31 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

804440

registered interest
date	11/12/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: India
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward proposals to offer visitors from India an equivalent visitor visa arrangement to that already provided to Chinese visitors under the two-year multiple entry scheme to encourage trade and tourism between India and the UK.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	118635
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>Since January 2016 the UK has offered a two-year validity visit visa to Chinese nationals for the same price as a six-month visa. This is a pilot scheme which we are running to assess the benefits and impacts of such an approach more broadly. There are currently no plans to extend this pilot to any other countries.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office does, however, recognise that visitors from India are an important source of revenue for our tourism market and is committed to offering the most efficient and customer focused visa service in India.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 13/12/2017 17:30:31 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

802112

registered interest
date	06/12/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Nabeel Rajab
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations his Department has made to the Government of Bahrain on Nabeel Rajab’s unsuccessful appeal against a two-year prison sentence for speaking to journalists.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	117799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text ​We continue to closely monitor the case of Nabeel Rajab and have raised it with the Bahraini Government at the highest levels. The British Government continues to emphasise to the Government of Bahrain the need to respect the rights of all citizens, including freedom of expression. answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 14/12/2017 15:00:36 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

802116

registered interest
date	06/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Syria: Armed Conflict
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the implications for UK policy on publishing radar tracking data of the US Government's decision to declassify and publish such data on a Syrian aircraft used in a chemical weapon attack against civilians in April 2017.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	117803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>Policy on use and publication of data that the US may hold is a matter for them.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 14/12/2017 17:16:56 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day