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942538

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Lumacaftor/ivacaftor
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care what plans he has to ensure his Department continues to engage and meet with NHS England and Vertex to discuss access to Orkambi.
tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
tabling member printed	Luke Hall
uin	164468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2018 answer text <p>NHS England has been in intensive discussions with Vertex to encourage it to price Orkambi at a level that would allow NHS England to fund its use without adversely impacting other patients. I and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Lord O’Shaughnessy) have been keeping an extremely close eye on these discussions and wrote to Vertex in April, urging it to commit to pricing that is responsible and proportionate. I also re-iterated this message in the adjournment debate on 17 July, Official report, columns 383-4.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/07/2018 10:09:26 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall

942540

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Lumacaftor/ivacaftor
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether a date has been set for the next meeting between NHS England and Vertex to discuss access to the drug Orkambi.
tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
tabling member printed	Luke Hall
uin	164470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2018 answer text <p>We are informed by NHS England that at the last meeting on 4 July, it was agreed that both parties would take time to reflect before a further meeting was arranged. NHS England has subsequently made a substantially increased proposal to Vertex and has offered to meet to discuss and clarify any aspects as required by the company.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/07/2018 09:48:08 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall

942541

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Lumacaftor/ivacaftor
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's policy is on Vertex (a) waiving its confidentiality clause on the negotiations around NHS access to the drug Orkambi and (b) disclosing details of its offer to NHS England.
tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
tabling member printed	Luke Hall
uin	164471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2018 answer text <p>It is not in the Department’s gift to impose any requirement upon Vertex to waive its confidentiality clause or to disclose details of any offer in the negotiations around National Health Service access to the drug Orkambi. However, Ministers at the department have publicly urged Vertex to consider the offer made by NHS England and to waive confidentiality so that we can all see, in the interests of transparency, the kind of prices it is seeking to charge the NHS.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/07/2018 09:43:39 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall

903758

registered interest
date	14/05/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Bureaucracy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he has taken to reduce teacher workload.
tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
tabling member printed	Luke Hall
uin	905269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>The Workload Challenge identified three key areas driving excess workload: dialogic marking policies; excessive data collection; and lesson planning approaches.</p><p>We have taken steps to address each of these, as well as making a commitment for stability in assessment, qualifications and curriculum reform. This gives our education reforms - that are rasing standards in our schools - time to bed in.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/05/2018 17:00:17 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall

871712

registered interest
date	26/03/2018
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps she is taking to ensure that universal credit supports people in progressing at work and increasing their earnings.
tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
tabling member printed	Luke Hall
uin	904567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>Universal Credit provides us with the opportunity to support people to progress in work and we are currently developing the evidence base on how best to do this.</p><p> </p><p>Building on our existing suite of trials, which includes a large scale Randomised Control Trial on in-work progression, we have committed an additional £8m to testing different approaches to supporting people to progress.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 26/03/2018 16:15:15 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall

867295

registered interest
date	20/03/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to improve the provision of mental health services for children and young people.
tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
tabling member printed	Luke Hall
uin	904476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>We are making an additional £1.4 billion available until 2019/20 in order to transform services and ensure access to specialist mental health services for 70,000 additional children and young people each year by 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>Our recent Green Paper published jointly with the Department for Education, will revolutionise services in schools, bolster links between schools and commits us to pilot a four week waiting time for National Health Service specialist services.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 20/03/2018 14:43:54 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall

862108

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax: Thornbury and Yate
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in the Thornbury and Yate constituency his Department estimates will benefit from the rise in tax free personal allowance during the 2018-2019 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
tabling member printed	Luke Hall
uin	132527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>Since the start of the 2015 Parliament, increases to the personal allowance (up to £11,850 in 2018-19) are expected to cut income tax for 2.8 million individuals in the South West, which includes Gloucestershire and the Parliamentary Constituency of Thornbury and Yate.</p><p> </p><p>These estimates are based on the 2014-15 Survey of Personal Incomes, projected using economic assumptions consistent with the Office for Budget Responsibility’s November 2017 Economic and Fiscal Outlook.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury does not publish this information at constituency level or unitary authority level.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 132528 132529 question first answered 19/03/2018 14:07:28 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall

862109

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax: South Gloucestershire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in South Gloucestershire his Department estimates will benefit from the rise in tax free personal allowance during the 2018-2019 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
tabling member printed	Luke Hall
uin	132528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>Since the start of the 2015 Parliament, increases to the personal allowance (up to £11,850 in 2018-19) are expected to cut income tax for 2.8 million individuals in the South West, which includes Gloucestershire and the Parliamentary Constituency of Thornbury and Yate.</p><p> </p><p>These estimates are based on the 2014-15 Survey of Personal Incomes, projected using economic assumptions consistent with the Office for Budget Responsibility’s November 2017 Economic and Fiscal Outlook.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury does not publish this information at constituency level or unitary authority level.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 132527 132529 question first answered 19/03/2018 14:07:28 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall

862110

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax: South West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in the South West his Department estimates will benefit from the rise in tax free personal allowance during the 2018-2019 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
tabling member printed	Luke Hall
uin	132529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>Since the start of the 2015 Parliament, increases to the personal allowance (up to £11,850 in 2018-19) are expected to cut income tax for 2.8 million individuals in the South West, which includes Gloucestershire and the Parliamentary Constituency of Thornbury and Yate.</p><p> </p><p>These estimates are based on the 2014-15 Survey of Personal Incomes, projected using economic assumptions consistent with the Office for Budget Responsibility’s November 2017 Economic and Fiscal Outlook.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury does not publish this information at constituency level or unitary authority level.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 132527 132528 question first answered 19/03/2018 14:07:28 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall

861174

registered interest
date	13/03/2018
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	Living Wage: Thornbury and Yate
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many people are estimated to benefit from the planned rise in the national living wage to £7.83 in Thornbury and Yate constituency.
tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
tabling member printed	Luke Hall
uin	132323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>This Government is committed to building an economy that works for everyone. Through the National Minimum Wage and the National Living Wage we continue to ensure the lowest paid in our society are fairly rewarded for their contribution to the economy.</p><p> </p><p>The National Minimum Wage (Amendment) 2018 Impact Assessment includes an assessment of the number of people the Government expects to benefit from the planned increase in the National Living Wage to £7.83: <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2018/24/pdfs/ukia_20180024_en.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2018/24/pdfs/ukia_20180024_en.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths grouped question UIN 132324 132325 question first answered 16/03/2018 14:02:53 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall