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1017179

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date	29/11/2018
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	Colombia: Prosperity Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the UK Prosperity Fund for Columbia, published on 10 August 2018 on gov.uk, what programmes his Department provides financial support to in Columbia in addition to the funding outlined in that document.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	197362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office jointly manages a number of cross Government programmes in Colombia.</p><p>The Cross Government Prosperity Fund supports a multi-year programme (2017-2022) in Colombia with a total allocation of £25.5m. Commencing implementation in April 2018, it will help to rebuild Colombia and improve the lives of more than 3 million people affected by conflict and create export opportunities to the UK.</p><p>The Cross Government Conflict Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) has allocated almost £40m to two programmes in Colombia since 2015. The two programmes are i) Colombia Security and Access to Peace; and ii) Peru/Colombia Serious Organised Crime.</p><p>The International Climate Fund (ICF) managed by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has allocated over £130m to multi-year (2013 to 2021) programmes in Colombia. In Colombia the ICF supports six programmes which aim to reduce deforestation, increase carbon capture, increase the use of green technology and create secondary benefits for UK companies. Colombia also benefits from a share of £177m in regional ICF programmes which also includes Brazil, Mexico &amp; Peru.</p><p>The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) provides £7.8m to two programmes in Colombia managed by the UK Space Agency which use satellite based technologies such as Earth Observation to monitor deforestation and climate change. Colombia also benefits from regional programmes supported by up to £18m from the GCRF.</p><p>The Newton Fund managed by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has provided £11.2m (2014-2018) of a planned £30m by 2021 for joint scientific research in Colombia, with 100% matched resource from the Colombian Government. This collaboration is known as the Newton-Caldas Fund (named after prominent scientists in both countries) and has supported biodiversity research involving experts from Kew Gardens and has discovered more than 30 new species and 5 that were thought to be extinct.</p><p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office Human Rights Fund has spent over £2.5m on projects in Colombia since 2011. Colombia is one of 30 countries designated by the FCO as a Human Rights Priority Country. The programmes managed by the British Embassy in Bogota priorities work to support human rights defenders, the Preventing Sexual Violence In Conflict Initiative and tackling Modern Slavery.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 04/12/2018 15:17:29 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

1017187

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
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	Bisphosphonates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress NICE has made in updating its guidance on the use of adjuvant bisphosphonates.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	197353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) updated its guidance on ‘Early and locally advanced breast cancer: diagnosis and management’ in July 2018. The use of adjuvant bisphosphonates was one of the key areas that was covered in the update. NICE’s updated recommendations can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng101/chapter/Recommendations#bisphosphonate-therapy" target="_blank">https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng101/chapter/Recommendations#bisphosphonate-therapy</a></p><p> </p><p>The guideline recommends bisphosphonates as adjuvant therapy for postmenopausal women with node positive invasive breast cancer and for postmenopausal women with node negative breast cancer.</p><p> </p><p>NICE also updated its guidance on the use of bisphosphonates for treating osteoporosis in February 2018. The updated guidance can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ta464" target="_blank">https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ta464</a></p><p> </p><p>NICE recommends oral bisphosphonates for treating osteoporosis in adults if the person is eligible for risk assessment and the 10 year probability of osteoporotic fragility fracture is at least 1%.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 05/12/2018 16:24:58 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine previous answer version 90056 answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1017188

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Iraq: NATO
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to support the NATO training mission in Iraq.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	197354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The UK welcomed the launch of the NATO Training Mission Iraq at the Brussels Summit in 2018. We are commited to supporting the training mission through the deployment of the UK civilian and military personnel including a senior civilian adviser and other personnel as part of the NATO Communications and Information Systems Support Group, on rotation with other allies.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 04/12/2018 16:03:36 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1017189

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Inheritance Tax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to respond to the Office of Tax Simplification's November 2018 report on inheritance tax.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	197355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) has split their review of inheritance tax into two reports. The report that was published in November covered administrative issues. The second report will be published in spring, and will cover wider technical and policy issues.</p><p> </p><p>Once the second report is published, the government will respond to the recommendations the OTS has made.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 04/12/2018 17:25:39 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1016120

registered interest
date	28/11/2018
answering body	Church Commissioners
answering dept id	9
answering dept short name	Church Commissioners
answering dept sort name	Church Commissioners
hansard heading	Community Development
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, what recent steps the Church of England has taken at parish level to support the needs of local communities.
tabling member constituency	Gillingham and Rainham
tabling member printed	Rehman Chishti
uin	907925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>This year the Church of England surveyed its 16,000 parish churches about their involvement in social action and local community projects. Of the 13,000 churches that responded the survey revealed that 80% were involved in providing services for the benefit of their local communities, either standalone or in partnership with others. These 33,000 projects included debt counselling, lunch clubs, language classes, food banks, children’s clubs, community cafes, holiday and breakfast clubs and night shelters.</p><p>There are many good examples of work in the Rochester Diocese, 11 of the 12 Church of England churches within the Gillingham deanery (which covers the Gillingham and Rainham constituency) are involved in providing on average at least 4 different projects to support the wider local community.</p><p>The areas in which the churches in Gillingham deanery are engaging is as follows:</p><ul><li>10 churches provide or support a Foodbank</li><li>8 churches operate a parent/carer and toddler group</li><li>7 churches operate a night shelter or other homeless provision</li><li>6 churches provide pastoral provision for wider community through operating street pastors groups, counselling/support, tackling loneliness projects</li><li>5 churches operate Youth projects (for the wider community)</li><li>4 churches provide a Lunch club or drop in service.</li></ul> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Dame Caroline Spelman question first answered 29/11/2018 16:16:39 answering member 312 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Spelman
tabling member	3987 label Biography information for Rehman Chishti

1016125

registered interest
date	28/11/2018
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment the Government has made of the effect on low-income families of the roll-out of universal credit throughout Scotland.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	907841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>Evidence shows that Universal Credit is working. It empowers people to move into work, work more hours and earn more, and I am pleased that the budget announced a £4.5bn cash boost for it, including measures that will allow millions of low-income families, many of them in Scotland, to keep more of what they earn.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 28/11/2018 16:42:11 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1016126

registered interest
date	28/11/2018
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Brexit: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment the Government has made of the potential effect of the proposed EU withdrawal agreement on the Scottish economy.
tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
tabling member printed	Hugh Gaffney
uin	907842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government has now published <em>EU Exit: Long-term economic analysis</em>. This analysis shows the deal is the best deal available for jobs and our economy that allows us to honour the referendum and realise the opportunities of Brexit.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 28/11/2018 15:32:46 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4614 label Biography information for Hugh Gaffney

1016127

registered interest
date	28/11/2018
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Income Tax: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment the Government has made of the effect on the Scottish economy of the devolution of powers to set the rates and bands of income tax payable by Scottish taxpayers.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	907845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>The UK Government has delivered on its promise to devolve increased control over Income Tax to Scotland.</p><p>As a result, changes to the higher rate threshold announced since April 2017 do not apply to the main income of Scottish higher or additional rate taxpayers.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 28/11/2018 15:33:19 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

1016128

registered interest
date	28/11/2018
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Spirits: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the effect on the Scottish economy of maintaining the current level of excise duty on spirits.
tabling member constituency	Fylde
tabling member printed	Mark Menzies
uin	907847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>I have regular discussions with the Chancellor who recently announced that Spirits Duty will be frozen for the second year in a row.</p><p>This represents a huge boost for the Scotch Whisky industry which directly contributes over £3.2 billion to the Scottish economy.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 28/11/2018 15:33:55 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	3998 label Biography information for Mark Menzies

1016218

registered interest
date	28/11/2018
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	Dementia: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the level of spending on research into the causes and treatment of dementia; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	196678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department funds research on health and social care through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The usual practice of NIHR is not to ring-fence funds for expenditure on particular topics such as dementia. Research proposals in all areas compete for the funding available. The NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health including dementia. These applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality. In all disease areas, the amount of NIHR funding depends on the volume and quality of scientific activity.</p><p>NIHR funding for dementia research was £43.0 million in 2017/18, having grown from £27 million in 2013/14. Overall public funding for dementia research continues to run well ahead of the Government’s 2020 Dementia Challenge commitment to maintain funding at £60 million a year. The other main public funders of dementia research are the Medical Research Council, which in 2017/18 spent £36.3 million, and the Economic and Social Research Council, which spent £3.2 million, to bring total Government spending on dementia research to £82.5 million.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/12/2018 17:33:05 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker