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931315

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Food: Waste
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 the Government’s policy is on the provision of fiscal incentives for the redistribution of surplus food for human consumption.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	157657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>Retailers and manufacturers can already get tax relief on food they donate. Companies can get tax relief on trading stock that is produced but not sold. This includes food donated to charities - the cost of producing stock which is donated is deducted from their profits before tax is calculated.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The issue of food waste will continue to be a priority for the UK. The Government recently announced the creation of a new £500,000 Food Waste Reduction Fund to support projects that help increase redistribution in communities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 28/06/2018 16:57:14 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

930957

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for his Department to respond to it's consultation on the draft Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill; and what the timetable is for further steps to be taken in relation to that Bill.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
tabling member printed	Christine Jardine
uin	157237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>On 8 March we launched a 12 week public consultation on proposals for a landmark domestic abuse Bill and a supporting package of practical action to transform the response to domestic abuse. The consultation closed on 31 May. Over 3,200 responses to the consultation were received. The responses to the consultation are being considered and a draft Bill will be published later this session.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 28/06/2018 14:36:57 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4634 label Biography information for Christine Jardine

930962

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Nurseries: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the Government's childcare policies on the number of nurseries closing down.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	157226
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>The most recent Ofsted statistics, published on 27 June, show that the number of providers of childcare on non-domestic premises (group providers) has remained stable over time, having decreased by just 2% since 31 August 2012. There was also a small increase in the number of childcare places that they offer. These statistics can be viewed on Ofsted’s website at this link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofsted/about/statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofsted/about/statistics</a>.</p><p>We regularly monitor the effect of our early years and childcare policies on the childcare market. The take-up of our childcare entitlements is positive, with 94% of three and four year-olds benefiting from funded early education and 72% of eligible two year-olds taking up the 15 hours entitlement. Furthermore, since the roll-out of 30 hours’ free childcare, more than 340,000 children have benefited from a 30 hours place. This saves around £5,000 per year for parents who use the full 30 hours.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 28/06/2018 16:26:30 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

930965

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Corporation Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of the change to corporation tax on the public purse.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	157172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>Since 2010, the headline corporation tax rate has been cut from 28 to 19 percent. Cutting corporation tax allows companies to invest in expanding their business, boost wages, create jobs and lower prices for consumers.</p><p> </p><p>Despite the cuts, onshore corporation tax receipts have increased by around 50%, from £36.2bn in 2010-11 to £53.6bn in 2016-17.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 28/06/2018 15:38:03 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

930966

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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	UK Trade with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made an assessment of the potential effect on (a) Blackburn and (b) other regional areas of the UK of a no deal scenario when the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	157173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to getting the best possible deal for the United Kingdom - a deal that works for all parts of the UK, including the North West. We do not want or expect a no deal outcome. However, a responsible government should prepare for all potential outcomes, including the unlikely scenario in which no mutually satisfactory agreement can be reached.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is undertaking a wide range of continuing analysis and preparatory work, across a range of scenarios, looking at the implications of UK withdrawal from the EU.</p><p> </p><p>Ministers have a specific responsibility, which Parliament has endorsed, not to release information that would reveal our negotiating position and so the Government will not provide an ongoing commentary on internal analytical work.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has confirmed that when we bring forward the vote on the final deal, we will ensure that Parliament is presented with the appropriate analysis to make an informed decision<em>.</em></p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 28/06/2018 11:28:34 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

930971

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Broadcasting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to create incentives for broadcasters to stay in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
tabling member printed	Christine Jardine
uin	157238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>The United Kingdom is an important broadcasting hub due to its favourable regulatory and economic environment, access to top talent, and cultural factors, such as language. Leaving the EU will not change this.</p><p> </p><p>As set out by the Prime Minister’s Mansion House Speech, we are seeking to strike a bespoke deal with the EU which would allow for continued cross-border broadcasting post EU Exit. This would enable international broadcasting businesses to maintain their UK base.</p><p> </p><p>However, a responsible government should prepare for all potential outcomes, and so we continue to work to ensure a smooth exit from the EU in all eventualities.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 28/06/2018 15:17:47 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4634 label Biography information for Christine Jardine

930975

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
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	Carbon Dioxide: Shortages
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 assurances his Department has received from gas supply companies that (a) the CO2 shortage will be tackled as a priority and (b) steps are being taken to ensure that food supplies in the UK are not disrupted.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	157133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>We are aware that an international carbon dioxide shortage has affected a number of industries across Europe, including the UK. We have been assured CO2 producers are working as fast as they can to get plants up and running again, with CO2 production set to start very shortly.</p><p> </p><p>BEIS Ministers have had discussions with producers and suppliers. BEIS and Defra officials are in contact with relevant companies and trade associations, including those within the food and drink sector and the main carbon dioxide suppliers, to identify any obstacles to the re-establishment of normal supplies.</p><p> </p><p>Defra is in regular contact with the food and drink industry by convening their long-established Food Chain Emergency Liaison Group and other interested stakeholders. All of these stakeholders have made an important contribution to our understanding of the impacts on the food and drink sector.</p><p> </p><p>Capacity to produce carbon dioxide reduces annually at this time as the ammonia plants that produce it as a by-product close for annual maintenance while the demand for their primary product – ammonia used for fertiliser – is lower. However, this year supplies have been reduced due to problems in restarting some plants on schedule and a number of outages at other plants both in the UK and internationally.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 28/06/2018 15:38:15 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

930986

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	BBC: Equal Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 12 April to Question 134192 on Equal Pay: BBC, whether she has met with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to discuss the treatment of women at the BBC.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	157149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>This is an important issue that we need to get right, both for licence-payers and for the women who work at the BBC. The Minister for Digital and the Creative industries and I are due to meet the BBC Director who is leading on women’s progression on behalf of the organisation in July to discuss this issue.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 28/06/2018 14:55:31 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

930987

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of his Department's reform of apprenticeship on progress on meeting the Government's target of three million new apprenticeships by the end of the 2017 Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	157020
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>Our apprenticeship reforms will give employers and apprentices the skills they need to grow and progress in the long term.</p><p> </p><p>Our reforms are making apprenticeships higher quality, at all levels, with a minimum duration of one year and 20 per cent off-the job training, and with a proper end point assessment. The 20 per cent off the job training rule, the shift to higher quality standards with a longer average duration, and the drop off in use of frameworks, have already contributed to a 20 per cent rise in expected apprenticeship training hours over the past year. Nearly 37 per cent of starts are now on the new, employer-designed apprenticeship standards, compared to just 3 per cent in the same period last year. More information on the progress of our reforms can be found at the link below: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/707896/Progress_report_on_the_Apprenticeships_Reform_Programme_May_2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/707896/Progress_report_on_the_Apprenticeships_Reform_Programme_May_2018.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 28/06/2018 15:44:53 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

930988

registered interest
date	25/06/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much and what proportion of the apprenticeship levy has been invested in apprenticeships in each region of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	157021
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2018 answer text <p>Information on the apprenticeship levy collected by HM Treasury and invested in each region of the UK is not available in the format requested.</p><p>The majority of levy-paying employers operate across multiple geographical areas which means we cannot reasonably attribute the levy collected and spent in individual locations within the UK.</p><p>In England, these employers are free to spend their apprenticeship funding wherever they wish, in locations that best meet the skills needs of the business.</p><p>Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive their fair share of the levy so the devolved administrations will receive £460 million (in 2019/20). As skills is a devolved matter it will be for the devolved administrations to decide how funds raised from the levy should be used in their administrations.</p><p>We publish regular statistics on apprenticeships here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/apprenticeship-and-levy-statistics-june-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/apprenticeship-and-levy-statistics-june-2018</a>.</p><p>These reflect the way that the levy is collected and spent.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 28/06/2018 15:34:50 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew