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1064308

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Terrorism: Birmingham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has plans he to meet the families of the 21 innocent victims of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings to discuss their campaign for justice; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Lagan Valley
tabling member printed	Sir Jeffrey M. Donaldson
uin	223790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Birmingham pub bombings were a dreadful and cowardly attack on innocent people. I will of course meet with my honourable friend and Justie4the21 to discuss their campaign. It would be inappropriate to make a statement on the Birmingham pub bombings given inquest hearings are due to start shortly.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 25/02/2019 16:53:21 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	650 label Biography information for Sir Jeffrey M Donaldson

1064328

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
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	Social Services: Older People
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 local authorities have sufficient resources to meet demand for older people’s care; and what steps he is taking to reduce levels of variation in available care across regions of England.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	223802
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government has given councils access to up to £3.6 billion more dedicated funding for adult social care in 2018-19 and up to £3.9 billion for 2019-20. As a result of these measures, funding available for adult social care is increasing by 9% in real terms from 2015-16 to 2019-20.</p><p> </p><p>The 2018 Autumn Budget also announced a further £410 million to improve social care for older people, people with disabilities and children is also available in 2019-20.</p><p> </p><p>Under the Care Act 2014, local authorities are required to shape their whole local markets to ensure that they are sustainable, diverse and offer high quality care and support for people in their local area. Councils have statutory duties to look after the vulnerable, elderly and disabled people in their area.</p><p> </p><p>At the earliest opportunity we will be publishing a Green Paper setting out our proposals to ensure the social care system is sustainable in the longer term.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 223804 question first answered 25/02/2019 14:56:58 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1064342

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Community Development: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Prime Minister's letter to the Leader of the Opposition of 10 February 2019, what steps he plans to take to provide further financial support to communities that feel left behind.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	223816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to building an economy that works for everyone. We are exploring opportunities to support communities that feel left behind.</p><p>The Government will set out further detail in due course.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 25/02/2019 16:06:40 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1064347

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
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, how many reported incidents of (a) adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse and (b) child on parent violence were reported in (i) the St Helens local authority area, (ii) Merseyside and (iii) the UK in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	223821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office collect data from police forces in England and Wales on the number of offences recorded by the police related to domestic abuse. This collection is based on the government definition of domestic violence and abuse, which is:</p><p>“any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those aged 16 or over who are, or have been, intimate partners or family members regardless of gender or sexual orientation. The abuse can encompass, but is not limited to: psychological, physical, sexual, economic and emotional forms of abuse. Controlling behaviour is a range of acts designed to make a person subordinate and/or dependent by isolating them from sources of support, exploiting their resources and capacities for personal gain, depriving them of the means needed for independence, resistance and escape, and regulating their everyday behaviour. Coercive behaviour is an act or a pattern of acts of assault, threats, humiliation and intimidation or other abuse that is used to harm, punish, or frighten a person”.</p><p>Therefore, offences in which an adolescent is violent or abusive to a parent would be recorded only for those adolescents aged 16 and over.</p><p>It is not possible to separately identify incidents where an adolescent is violent or abusive to a parent within the domestic abuse data held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 223823 question first answered 25/02/2019 17:00:22 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1064349

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
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, whether incidents of (a) adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse and (b) child-on-parent violence are recorded as domestic abuse.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	223823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office collect data from police forces in England and Wales on the number of offences recorded by the police related to domestic abuse. This collection is based on the government definition of domestic violence and abuse, which is:</p><p>“any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those aged 16 or over who are, or have been, intimate partners or family members regardless of gender or sexual orientation. The abuse can encompass, but is not limited to: psychological, physical, sexual, economic and emotional forms of abuse. Controlling behaviour is a range of acts designed to make a person subordinate and/or dependent by isolating them from sources of support, exploiting their resources and capacities for personal gain, depriving them of the means needed for independence, resistance and escape, and regulating their everyday behaviour. Coercive behaviour is an act or a pattern of acts of assault, threats, humiliation and intimidation or other abuse that is used to harm, punish, or frighten a person”.</p><p>Therefore, offences in which an adolescent is violent or abusive to a parent would be recorded only for those adolescents aged 16 and over.</p><p>It is not possible to separately identify incidents where an adolescent is violent or abusive to a parent within the domestic abuse data held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 223821 question first answered 25/02/2019 17:00:22 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1064355

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
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	Social Security Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households have been affected by each reform to working-age benefits and tax credits since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	223829
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 25/02/2019 16:28:50 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1064357

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Commonwealth: Drinking Water
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that there is safe drinking water available in (a) Sri Lanka and (b) all other Commonwealth countries.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
uin	223831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK is committed to supporting countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 6 target of universal access to water and sanitation by 2030. Since 2015, we have supported 40 million people to gain access to clean water and sanitation. This includes beneficiaries in Commonwealth countries in Africa and Asia such as Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Bangladesh and Pakistan.</p><p> </p><p>DFID has also supported Commonwealth countries in the Caribbean. For example, following Hurricane Maria DFID allocated £25 million to Dominica to repair and strengthen the water supply system across the island.</p><p> </p><p>DFID’s bilateral programme in Sri Lanka country closed in 2006 when the country graduated to middle income status, and DFID does not have water and sanitation programmes in Sri Lanka.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 25/02/2019 16:32:23 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1064364

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Antisemitism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department taking to (a) monitor and (b) tackle levels of antisemitism in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	223838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>We work closely with the Community Security Trust and other representative community partners through the Cross-Government Working Group to Tackle Antisemitism. The Working Group is held up as an example of best practice internationally for cooperation between government and minority communities. Through the Working Group we have funded projects to highlight and counter antisemitism directed at women, and to combat the dissemination of antisemitic tropes in society.</p><p>We have also worked with the police to improve the recording of hate crime. This includes a requirement to record the targeted faith or belief in incidents of religiously motivated hate crime. The first set of statistics reflecting this new requirement with disaggregated figures for religiously motivated hate crime were published in October 2018. These statistics can be found at <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/748598/hate-crime-1718-hosb2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/748598/hate-crime-1718-hosb2018.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 25/02/2019 16:06:17 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1064382

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 14 November 2015 to Question 16832 on High Speed 2 Railway Line, which legal advisers and barristers have been used by (a) HS2 Ltd and (b) his Department in relation to High Speed Two since 23 November 2015; and how much each such legal professional (i) has been paid and (ii) is owed.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Dame Cheryl Gillan
uin	223907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The HS2 overall funding envelope is £55.7bn and we report annually via HS2 Ltd’s annual report and accounts on overall spending.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 25/02/2019 16:46:04 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan

1064393

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Legal Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 23 November 2015 to Question 16832, what hourly rate has been agreed by his Department for each of the barristers that have carried out other HS2 work since 2010 as detailed in that answer; and if he will list those barristers against their hourly rate.
tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
tabling member printed	Dame Cheryl Gillan
uin	223918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department has instructed a number of barristers in relation to HS2 work since 2010. They include James Eadie QC, Tim Mould QC, James Strachan QC, Justine Thornton QC, Philip Moser QC, Karen Steyn QC, Jemima Stratford QC, James Maurici QC, Lisa Busch (now QC), Andrew Sharland (now QC), Julian Milford, Richard Wald, John Joliffe, Jacqueline Lean, Richard Turney, Mark Westmoreland-Smith and Clare Parry. Each barrister has been remunerated at government hourly rates agreed with the Attorney General; in the case of junior counsel at the prevailing London panel counsel rates and for nominated Queen’s Counsel at the rates found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/attorney-generals-panel-counsel-appointments-membership-lists-and-off-panel-counsel" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/attorney-generals-panel-counsel-appointments-membership-lists-and-off-panel-counsel</a></p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 25/02/2019 10:58:30 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan