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1122630

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
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	China: Animal Welfare
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 held with his Chinese counterpart on the Shanghai World Dog Show 2019 and animal welfare in that country.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	247116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>I have not raised this issue with my Chinese counterpart. However, the Government is committed to raising standards of animal welfare at home and abroad. The sale and consumption of dog meat is legal in many countries, including China, and there are no international norms, laws or agreements governing this. We believe that it is necessary to work with governments around the world to gain agreement on animal welfare standards, and to phase out cruel and inhumane practices. There is no suggestion that the event will break any local or international laws.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 29/04/2019 16:10:16 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1122631

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Bicycles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness legislation to limit the use of the throttle on e-bikes at 15.5mph.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	247117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>No such assessment has yet been made. A cycle with electric assistance available above speeds of 15.5 mph would be classified as a moped and is subject to different regulatory requirements. Enforcement of requirements for vehicle use on the roads is a matter for the police.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 29/04/2019 11:44:27 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1122640

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department plans to publish the Schedule 8 payments made for financial year 2019-19; and if he will publish that data by financial quarter.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	247121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>Schedule 8 payments made by Network Rail to train operating companies are currently reported by Network Rail in their Regulatory Financial Statements. These financial statements are produced in line with regulatory accounting guidelines determined by the Office of Rail Road (ORR), the regulator of Network Rail. This information is available annually but is not published on a quarterly basis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The latest statements (for the financial year 2017-18) were published in July 2018 and are available below.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://cdn.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/NRIL-Regulatory-Financial-Statement-for-the-year-ended-31st-March-2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://cdn.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/NRIL-Regulatory-Financial-Statement-for-the-year-ended-31st-March-2018.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The total value of schedule 8 payments made in Great Britain in 2017-18 was £219 million and can be found in statement 1 (page 1) of the above statements. Figures for individual routes within Network Rail can be found elsewhere within this report.</p><p> </p><p>Equivalent figures for 2018-19 are expected to be published later this year.</p><p> </p><p>Following the beginning of Network Rail control period 6 in 2019-20, the ORR regulatory accounting guidelines are currently under review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones grouped question UIN 247122 247123 question first answered 29/04/2019 14:15:11 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1122641

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the Schedule 8 payments for each financial quarter for financial year 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	247122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>Schedule 8 payments made by Network Rail to train operating companies are currently reported by Network Rail in their Regulatory Financial Statements. These financial statements are produced in line with regulatory accounting guidelines determined by the Office of Rail Road (ORR), the regulator of Network Rail. This information is available annually but is not published on a quarterly basis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The latest statements (for the financial year 2017-18) were published in July 2018 and are available below.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://cdn.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/NRIL-Regulatory-Financial-Statement-for-the-year-ended-31st-March-2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://cdn.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/NRIL-Regulatory-Financial-Statement-for-the-year-ended-31st-March-2018.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The total value of schedule 8 payments made in Great Britain in 2017-18 was £219 million and can be found in statement 1 (page 1) of the above statements. Figures for individual routes within Network Rail can be found elsewhere within this report.</p><p> </p><p>Equivalent figures for 2018-19 are expected to be published later this year.</p><p> </p><p>Following the beginning of Network Rail control period 6 in 2019-20, the ORR regulatory accounting guidelines are currently under review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones grouped question UIN 247121 247123 question first answered 29/04/2019 14:15:11 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1122643

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the Schedule 8 payments made during the first quarter of financial year 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	247123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>Schedule 8 payments made by Network Rail to train operating companies are currently reported by Network Rail in their Regulatory Financial Statements. These financial statements are produced in line with regulatory accounting guidelines determined by the Office of Rail Road (ORR), the regulator of Network Rail. This information is available annually but is not published on a quarterly basis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The latest statements (for the financial year 2017-18) were published in July 2018 and are available below.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://cdn.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/NRIL-Regulatory-Financial-Statement-for-the-year-ended-31st-March-2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://cdn.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/NRIL-Regulatory-Financial-Statement-for-the-year-ended-31st-March-2018.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The total value of schedule 8 payments made in Great Britain in 2017-18 was £219 million and can be found in statement 1 (page 1) of the above statements. Figures for individual routes within Network Rail can be found elsewhere within this report.</p><p> </p><p>Equivalent figures for 2018-19 are expected to be published later this year.</p><p> </p><p>Following the beginning of Network Rail control period 6 in 2019-20, the ORR regulatory accounting guidelines are currently under review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones grouped question UIN 247121 247122 question first answered 29/04/2019 14:15:11 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1105136

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the outcomes of spending on early interventions for nursery and reception children in (a) York and (b) Yorkshire.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	237114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>The Public Health Outcomes Framework is a comprehensive source of data at local authority unitary, county and district level on the extent to which local strategies are successful and effective in improving outcomes for children in the early years. It is available at the following link: <a href="https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/public-health-outcomes-framework" target="_blank">https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/public-health-outcomes-framework</a>.</p><p>The framework includes data on outcomes for children aged 5 from the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP). Further information on the EYFSP is broken down by local authority and available to view at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/early-years-foundation-stage-profile-results-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/early-years-foundation-stage-profile-results-2017-to-2018</a>. We do not publish this data at constituency or combined authority level.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 237124 237140 237147 237163 237168 question first answered 01/04/2019 14:14:44 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1105137

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Disadvantaged
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of spending on early interventions for nursery and reception children on the attainment gap; and what steps his Department is taking to measure that effect.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	237115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>The government is investing in developing the evidence base for ‘what works’ in the early years. The government committed £8.5 million in the 2017 social mobility action plan to conduct robust trials of early interventions to improve children’s ‘home learning environment’, and to evaluate interventions to improve outcomes through improved practice in settings. This work is being undertaken in collaboration with the Educational Endowment Foundation (EEF).</p><p>The EEF, and the Early Intervention Foundation - which is also funded by the department – produce comprehensive and rigorous information on the effectiveness of early interventions in the early years, as part of the What Works Network: <a href="https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/evidence-summaries/early-years-toolkit/" target="_blank">https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/evidence-summaries/early-years-toolkit/</a>, and <a href="https://guidebook.eif.org.uk/" target="_blank">https://guidebook.eif.org.uk/</a>.</p><p>The department monitors attainment and the gap between disadvantaged children (those in receipt of free school meals) and their peers using the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile. 71.5% of children achieved a good level of development in 2018, up from 51.7% in 2013 (the longest period for which we have comparable data). The gap has narrowed by 1.7 percentage points since 2013 (again, the longest period for which we have comparable data).</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 01/04/2019 16:02:47 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1104699

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Waste Disposal
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the target for all franchises to stop discharging effluent onto tracks will be met by the end of the calendar year; and whether any franchises will be allowed exemptions.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	236494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>Network Rail are currently in the process of implementing a change to their operational requirements that will prohibit any rolling stock from discharging effluent to the network from 31 December 2019. To date no operator has been granted any exemption from these requirements. Any requests for exemption will be dealt with on a case by case basis.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 28/03/2019 14:46:02 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1090906

registered interest
date	18/03/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railway Stations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) staffed, (b) part-time staffed and (c) unstaffed railway stations in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	233559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this information.</p><p> </p><p>In respect of staffing levels at stations, the Government believes that railway operators themselves are best placed to determine how they can ensure they are meeting the needs of their passengers. Each operator is required to participate in the Passenger Assist system which allows disabled passengers to book staff assistance when they require it.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 21/03/2019 13:20:45 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1090907

registered interest
date	18/03/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Ticket Offices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what comparative estimate he has made of the number of open railway station ticket offices now and in 2010.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	233560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold data on the number of open railway ticket offices. The current list of regulated ticket offices is publicly available from the Rail Delivery Group (RDG). Past versions of the list may also be available from the RDG.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 21/03/2019 13:26:34 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell