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1016236

registered interest
date	28/11/2018
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	Lotteries: Licensing
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 estimate his Department has made of the average licensing costs for organisations with more than one society lottery licence.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	196778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>Gambling Commission licensing fees include application fees and annual fees, and vary depending on the type of licence required and the amount of proceeds per annum. One-off application fees range from £163 to £325 per licence, and annual fees from £348 to £1,458. My Department has not looked at average licensing costs of society lotteries holding multiple licences.<strong><br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 06/12/2018 16:18:02 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

1016237

registered interest
date	28/11/2018
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	Lotteries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Gambling Commission’s Review of society lotteries advice, published in June 2018, (a) what assessment he has made of the conclusion that there was no statistically significant effect of society lotteries affecting National Lottery sales on his proposal to allow an increase in the amount that a large society lottery can raise per year and (b) if he will bring in legislation to reform society lottery sector to support fundraising for charitable causes.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	196779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>The Gambling Commission published its advice to government alongside the government’s consultation on society lotteries reform. The advice reported that to date, society lotteries have not had a statistically significant effect on National Lottery sales. The consultation presented the Government’s preferred options and sought views on legislative options to reform the society lottery sector. The consultation closed on 7 September and we received over 1,600 responses. I am now carefully considering all of the views and evidence. I hope to formally respond in the first half of next year.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 13/12/2018 17:57:01 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

1013105

registered interest
date	23/11/2018
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	Lotteries: Charities
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 estimate his Department has made of the number of charities that have more than one society lottery licence.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	195096
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>Licensing of society lotteries is the responsibility of the Gambling Commission. Their most recent figures from March 2017 show there are 319 lotteries that hold two licences. One licence is required to sell by remote channels (such as online or over the telephone) and a separate licence is required to sell by non-remote channels (in person).</p><p> </p><p>There are three charities that hold multiple licences. These are Macmillan, Royal British Legion and Age UK.</p><p> </p><p>Some societies also come together under a common umbrella brand, managed by licensed External Lottery Managers. The societies that make up an umbrella brand are legally separate to each other and will each hold the relevant licence.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 03/12/2018 15:37:50 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

1013106

registered interest
date	23/11/2018
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	Lotteries
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 meet its objective of helping society lotteries to thrive.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	195097
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>Society lotteries are an important fundraising tool, raising hundreds of millions of pounds every year for many good causes.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to ensuring both society lotteries and the National Lottery are able to thrive. The Department launched a consultation in June 2018 considering proposals to amend society lottery sales and prize limits. This aims to allow society lotteries to grow while protecting the National Lottery. The consultation closed on 7 September and my officials are now carefully considering responses. We hope to respond to the consultation in the first half of next year.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 03/12/2018 15:38:50 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

1013136

registered interest
date	23/11/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many claimants who were overcompensated through the Civil Service Injury Benefit Scheme have had to repay monies upon reaching retirement age in each year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	195114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>Annual allowances payable under the Civil Service Injury Benefit Scheme are reviewed each year and reduced where appropriate to take account of retirement pensions that become payable wholly or partly out of public funds. The information about claimants who have been overcompensated can only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 195115 question first answered 03/12/2018 16:45:01 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

1013137

registered interest
date	23/11/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the total amount is that claimants who were overcompensated in injury benefit from the Civil Service Injury Benefit Scheme have had to repay in each year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	195115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>Annual allowances payable under the Civil Service Injury Benefit Scheme are reviewed each year and reduced where appropriate to take account of retirement pensions that become payable wholly or partly out of public funds. The information about claimants who have been overcompensated can only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 195114 question first answered 03/12/2018 16:45:01 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

999248

registered interest
date	31/10/2018
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	Palliative Care: 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 he is taking to ensure that guidance given to NHS and social care commissioners on how to commission children’s palliative care reflects National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance and quality standards.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	186396
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2018 answer text <p>‘End of Life Care for Infants, Children and Young People: Planning and Management’, published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in December 2016, sets out best practice for local services to deliver end of life and palliative care for infants, children and young with life-limiting conditions. The guidance was developed with the help of children at the end of their lives, as well as their brothers and sisters, in order to reflect what they felt was important from their care.</p><p> </p><p>Local commissioners, who are responsible for delivering the majority children’s palliative and end of life care, should take NICE guidance into account when planning services for local populations. To support implementation of the guidance NHS England commissioned Together for Short Lives, who are the leading children’s end of life care charity to examine services across the country to identify best practice in implementation of the guidance, as well as barriers, through interviews with local NHS services. Together for Short Lives has now provided a suite of solutions to enable local areas to meet the needs of children at the end of life. More information about this work can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.togetherforshortlives.org.uk/changing-lives/supporting-care-professionals/introduction-childrens-palliative-care/nice-guidelines/" target="_blank">www.togetherforshortlives.org.uk/changing-lives/supporting-care-professionals/introduction-childrens-palliative-care/nice-guidelines/</a></p><p> </p><p>In September 2017 NICE published a Quality Standard (QS), based on its clinical guideline on end of life and palliative care in for infants, children and young with life-limiting conditions. QSs are important in setting out to patients, the public, commissioners and providers what a high-quality service should look like in a particular area of care. Whilst providers and commissioners must have regard to NICE QSs in planning and delivering services, they do not provide a comprehensive service specification and are not mandatory. Both the clinical guideline and QS can be found at the following links:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng61" target="_blank">www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng61</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs160" target="_blank"> www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs160</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 07/11/2018 13:00:51 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

994662

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what recent discussions he has had with the Director of Public Prosecutions on improving prosecutions in cases involving rape and other sexual offences.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	183991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2018 answer text <p>The Attorney and I welcome Max Hill QC to his new position as Director of Public Prosecutions. As the sponsoring minister, the Attorney will continue to meet the DPP regularly to discuss performance.</p><p> </p><p>The CPS has undertaken extensive work over the last decade to ensure that specialist prosecutors are fully equipped to deal with the particular complexities of rape and serious sexual offences and the Code for Crown Prosecutors is properly applied. This includes understanding victim vulnerabilities and the impact of rape, as well as consent, myths and stereotypes, and the challenges of cases involving vulnerable witnesses and young people.</p><p> </p><p>To address the increasing complexity of cases featuring large volumes of digital material the CPS have introduced new guidance to help police and prosecutors with reasonable lines of enquiry and communications evidence. The National Disclosure Improvement Plan sets out further measures to make sustainable changes to the way in which disclosure duties are exercised.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 02/11/2018 10:58:23 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

994189

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much additional revenue has accrued to the public purse in taxation on (a) beer, (b) wine and (c) spirits since the introduction of the Alcohol Wholesaler Registration Scheme in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	183445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>The Alcohol Wholesalers Registration Scheme was introduced as one of a number of HMRC initiatives to tackle alcohol excise duty fraud. HMRC assesses all applications to ascertain whether the business and key persons within it are fit and proper for approval.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Approved businesses are monitored to ensure compliance with the scheme and to minimise the risk of illicit alcohol entering the wholesale market. To date HMRC has approved approximately 8000 businesses and over 800 applications have been refused.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC publishes alcohol receipts on a monthly basis on the UK Trade Info website. Multiple factors influence revenue receipts. Therefore, HMRC is unable to directly attribute any increases to introduction of the Alcohol Wholesalers Registration Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 01/11/2018 14:34:55 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

985697

registered interest
date	11/10/2018
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	Counterfeit Manufacturing: Electronic Commerce
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 steps he is taking to prevent the sale of counterfeit goods on online platforms.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	178332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government takes the issue of product safety, consumer protection and IP infringement, including the sale of counterfeit goods seriously, and is working with industry and law enforcement agencies on several initiatives to tackle this issue. This includes meetings with representatives from online platforms online retailers, as well as campaigns to raise public awareness and build respect for intellectual property.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 23/10/2018 16:59:41 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris