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1027211

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date	17/12/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Childbirth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) live births and (b) stillbirths in each part of the United Kingdom in each year since 2000.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	202722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 19/12/2018 17:12:34 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ202722 - Response.pdf title UKSA Response
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1024823

registered interest
date	13/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Infrastructure: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps he has taken to assess the value for money of the spending of funds he has allocated for infrastructure in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	202149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>Assessing value for money of infrastructure projects is a devolved matter. Assessments should be made in line with published HM Treasury guidance.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 19/12/2018 18:18:46 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1024824

registered interest
date	13/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Married People: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to (a) promote the marriage allowance to people who are entitled to it and (b) encourage such people to take up that allowance.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	202150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>Marriage Allowance was introduced in April 2015, to recognise the importance of marriage in the tax system, and support those on low incomes by helping them keep more of the money they earn. HMRC ran a number of advertising campaigns to raise awareness of the savings Marriage Allowance can bring to eligible couples. The first campaign ran from October 2015 to March 2016, and the second ran from November 2016 to March 2017. A variety of channels were used including press, radio adverts, and digital advertising.</p><p>HMRC continues to promote the availability of Marriage Allowance through ongoing and targeted communications.</p><p> </p><p>Information on how to claim Marriage Allowance is available on the GOV.UK website and it can be claimed through the personal tax account, on GOV.UK, or by telephone to HMRC. Any couples who have yet to claim will not lose out as they have until 5 April 2020 to backdate it.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 19/12/2018 12:22:05 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1023918

registered interest
date	12/12/2018
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	Hungary: Antisemitism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Hungarian counterpart on threats to Jewish people by far right groups in that country.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	201630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>The Foreign Secretary has not discussed with his Hungarian counterpart threats to Jewish people by far right groups in the country. We welcome the Hungarian Government’s stated commitment to address and eliminate anti-Semitism and all forms of racism. The UK remains committed to strengthening international co-operation across Europe to tackle anti-Semitism. Our Embassy in Budapest maintains regular dialogue with Jewish organisations in Hungary.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 19/12/2018 13:35:37 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1023927

registered interest
date	12/12/2018
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	Endometriosis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women have a diagnosis of endometriosis.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	201631
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>The information is not held in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>The Hospital Episode Statistics database records a count of 21,777 finished consultant episodes with a primary diagnosis of endometriosis in the financial year 2017-18.</p><p> </p><p>This figure does not necessarily represent the number of different patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the same stay in hospital or in different stays in the same year.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/12/2018 14:07:26 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1023940

registered interest
date	12/12/2018
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	Obesity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce levels of morbid obesity among adults.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	201642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>Many of the key measures in both chapters of our childhood obesity plan will have an impact on tackling obesity across all age groups. These include the soft drinks industry levy, sugar reduction and wider calorie reformulation programme, restricting promotions and calorie labelling in restaurants which will improve our eating habits and reduce the amount of sugar we consume.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/12/2018 12:00:24 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1023953

registered interest
date	12/12/2018
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	Autism: Psychiatric Hospitals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that autistic people are not placed inappropriately in psychiatric wards and units.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	201646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>NHS England’s full programme of work in line with the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health is predicated on services being commissioned to provide patients with timely access to evidence-based care as early as possible and as close to home as possible where appropriate. This includes home treatment teams and wider community mental health services.</p><p> </p><p>More than £400 million is being invested in crisis resolution and home treatment teams to ensure that people across the country are able to access a 24 hour, seven days a week community based crisis response and intensive home treatment as a safe and effective alternative to hospital admission. By 2021, all areas should have crisis resolution and home treatment teams.</p><p> </p><p>A further £249 million is being invested in liaison mental health services in every acute hospital, ensuring that at least 50% of acute hospitals have dedicated on-site 24 hours/seven days provision.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in ‘Building the Right Support’, the national plan to develop more community services for people with learning disabilities and/or autism who display behaviour that challenges, including those with a mental health condition, and to close some inpatient facilities, any funding released by the transfer of patients from inpatient to community-based or other models of care will be reinvested in those better alternatives to hospital. In 2018/19, NHS England’s specialised commissioning function has transferred £53 million of funds, previously allocated to secure in-patient care, to Transforming Care Partnerships so that they can support new individual support packages for the patients discharged, or invest in new community services.</p><p> </p><p>The priority attached to improving care for autistic people with behaviour that challenges is reflected in the inclusion of both autism and mental health as clinical priorities in the forthcoming NHS long-term plan, which will set the ambitions to improve health services in England over the next decade.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/12/2018 12:11:23 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1023959

registered interest
date	12/12/2018
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	Kazakhstan: Foreign Relations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to create (a) economic and (b) cultural links with Kazakhstan.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	201650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>Economic cooperation and cultural links are an important part of the UK-Kazakh relationship which celebrated its 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary last year. 2018 saw a full calendar of activities, including the launch of our high-profile Legal Services are Great Campaign in Astana and Almaty and the Fifth Meeting of the UK-Kazakhstan Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technical and Cultural Cooperation attended by George Hollingbery MP, Minister of State for Trade Policy. Department for International Trade Minister of State Graham Stuart attended the official launch of the Astana International Financial Centre, a regional financial hub developed with support from TheCityUK, which has an associated court with separate legal jurisdiction, based on English common law, and staffed by British judges. Other joint UK-Kazakh ventures include: ‘Creative Central Asia’, an annual leadership conference between senior representatives from the UK’s and Kazakhstan’s creative sector; ‘Bring the Happy’, an interactive arts experience using cabaret-style music and theatre; and a partnership involving Cambridge University and Kazakhstan’s National Bureau of Translation which has collaborated on the translation and publication of a new anthology of modern Kazakh literature.​</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 19/12/2018 13:24:13 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1023960

registered interest
date	12/12/2018
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Overseas Trade: Brazil
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps he is taking to increase the level of bilateral trade with Brazil.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	201651
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>The UK remains committed to our deep relationships with our global partners, including Brazil. In March 2018, my Rt Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for International Trade co-chaired the tenth UK-Brazil Joint Economic and Trade Committee with the Brazilian Minister for Industry, Foreign Trade and Services. The ministers reiterated their commitment to facilitating increased trade, creating opportunities and enhancing bilateral economic relations. In August 2018, the 3<sup>rd</sup> UK-Brazil Economic and Financial Dialogue achieved advances across several areas including procurement, tax, infrastructure and finance. More detail can be found in the Joint Statements from the Economic Finance Dialogue (<a href="https://bit.ly/2BsVW43" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2BsVW43</a>) and Joint Economic Trade Committee (https://bit.ly/2STWp6n).</p><p> </p><p>DIT continues to promote the closest trading links with Brazil. We support businesses to export to Brazil across a range of key sectors including financial services, energy, education, mining, life sciences, infrastructure and advanced engineering amongst others.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 19/12/2018 10:14:42 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1023970

registered interest
date	12/12/2018
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	Diabetes: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the symptoms of diabetes in children are identified at the earliest opportunity.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	201655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>General practitioners and other healthcare professionals are trained in identifying the relevant symptoms of diabetes in children.</p><p> </p><p>Information regarding symptoms and getting diagnosed with type 1 diabetes is available on the National Health Service website which can be accessed via the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/type-1-diabetes/symptoms-and-getting-diagnosed/" target="_blank">https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/type-1-diabetes/symptoms-and-getting-diagnosed/</a></p><p> </p><p>Similar information regarding the symptoms and diagnosis of type 2 diabetes is also available on the NHS website at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/type-2-diabetes/" target="_blank">https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/type-2-diabetes/</a></p><p> </p><p>NHS England is partnered with Diabetes UK who have been running their 4 T’s campaign to raise awareness of the four most common symptoms of type 1 diabetes (Toilet/Thirsty/Tired/Thinner). Further information is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.diabetes.org.uk/get_involved/campaigning/4-ts-campaign" target="_blank">https://www.diabetes.org.uk/get_involved/campaigning/4-ts-campaign</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/12/2018 11:59:31 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon