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388522

registered interest
date	08/07/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Fire Services: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he plans to publish the revised commutation factors for the firefighters pension scheme.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	6176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government accepts in full the Pension Ombudsman’s recent determination regarding commutation factors used to calculate lump sum payments for certain firefighters and police officers. It also recognises that there are other individuals who are affected by the principles set out in this determination, and is working with pension administrators to identify these and ensure that appropriate payments are made as quickly as possible. The Government Actuary’s Department is preparing detailed guidance for administrators to aid them in calculating the amounts owed. They intend to issue this guidance, as well as tables of revised commutation factors, to administrators in the near future. At this point, they will also be made available online.</p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 14/07/2015 14:55:16 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

388650

registered interest
date	08/07/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to commission an independent review of support rates paid to asylum applicants under section 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 before making changes to that level of support.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	6175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>Asylum seekers who are destitute are provided with accommodation and a cash allowance to cover their essential living needs. The level of the allowance is kept under regular review. If they are recognised as refugees they are able to claim mainstream benefits in the normal way.</p><p>The Government currently has no plans to establish an independent review of these arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 15/07/2015 15:27:56 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

350065

registered interest
date	11/06/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Fish: Conservation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with her counterparts in other EU member states on the effect of proposed changes to the minimum landing size of bass on salmon and sea trout stocks.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	2110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2015 answer text <p>There have been extensive discussions with other EU Member States and the European Commission on the proposed changes to the minimum landing size of bass during the current process of agreeing bass management measures. To date these discussions have not included consideration of possible effects of these measures on salmon and sea trout stocks, although our general expectation is that any decrease in bass fishing effort will also help protect salmonids.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 18/06/2015 13:34:12 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

349182

registered interest
date	09/06/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Fish
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if the Government will conduct an assessment on the effect on salmon and sea trout stocks of an increase in the bass stock.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	1709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to conduct an assessment on the effect on salmon and trout stocks of such an increase, but previous studies show that salmon have a number of predators including pike, cod, sea trout and bass.</p><p /> <p>Current assessment of the EU bass stocks indicate a rapidly declining biomass due to an extended period of poor reproduction and increasing fishing mortality. There is no obvious correlation between bass predation and salmon stocks since both have been declining.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 16/06/2015 15:34:43 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

227493

registered interest
date	16/03/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Park Homes: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, in how many local authority areas park home site owners have breached their site licences more than three times in the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	227576
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Communities and Local Government does not hold details of the number of local authority areas where site owners have breached their site licences, or details of the number of local authorities taking proceedings against site owners, or the number of local authorities who have revoked the licences of park home site owners who have breached their site licences.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is determined to improve life for park home residents and we have already given residents important new rights to improve their lives and protect them from rogue site owners.<br><br><br>We know that a source of real anxiety for residents is the poor state of some sites and the lack of routine maintenance and repairs. That is why this Government has given local authorities, for the first time, powers to issue compliance notices requiring a site owner to carry out any necessary work to the site to comply with their licence obligations. If the site owner fails to comply, the local authority will be able to prosecute them and if convicted they will face an unlimited fine. The local authority may then enter the site and do the necessary works. In an emergency, a local authority may also enter a site and do the works if it considers there is an imminent risk to the health and safety of residents. The authority will in any of these cases be able to recover all its enforcement costs directly from the site owner. We have published guidance for local authorities on how to use their new powers to best effect.</p><p> </p><p>We have also given local authorities powers to refuse to grant a new application or transfer of a site licence. We have issued guidance which sets out the matters an authority can take into account when considering an application including the funding and management arrangements in place for managing the site and complying with the licence.</p> answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams grouped question UIN 227577 227578 question first answered 18/03/2015 15:25:38 answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

227494

registered interest
date	16/03/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Park Homes: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities are taking proceedings against park home site owners who have breached their site licences more than three times in the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	227577
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Communities and Local Government does not hold details of the number of local authority areas where site owners have breached their site licences, or details of the number of local authorities taking proceedings against site owners, or the number of local authorities who have revoked the licences of park home site owners who have breached their site licences.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is determined to improve life for park home residents and we have already given residents important new rights to improve their lives and protect them from rogue site owners.<br><br><br>We know that a source of real anxiety for residents is the poor state of some sites and the lack of routine maintenance and repairs. That is why this Government has given local authorities, for the first time, powers to issue compliance notices requiring a site owner to carry out any necessary work to the site to comply with their licence obligations. If the site owner fails to comply, the local authority will be able to prosecute them and if convicted they will face an unlimited fine. The local authority may then enter the site and do the necessary works. In an emergency, a local authority may also enter a site and do the works if it considers there is an imminent risk to the health and safety of residents. The authority will in any of these cases be able to recover all its enforcement costs directly from the site owner. We have published guidance for local authorities on how to use their new powers to best effect.</p><p> </p><p>We have also given local authorities powers to refuse to grant a new application or transfer of a site licence. We have issued guidance which sets out the matters an authority can take into account when considering an application including the funding and management arrangements in place for managing the site and complying with the licence.</p> answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams grouped question UIN 227576 227578 question first answered 18/03/2015 15:25:38 answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

227495

registered interest
date	16/03/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Park Homes: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities have revoked the licences of park home site owners who have breached their site licences more than three times in the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	227578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Communities and Local Government does not hold details of the number of local authority areas where site owners have breached their site licences, or details of the number of local authorities taking proceedings against site owners, or the number of local authorities who have revoked the licences of park home site owners who have breached their site licences.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is determined to improve life for park home residents and we have already given residents important new rights to improve their lives and protect them from rogue site owners.<br><br><br>We know that a source of real anxiety for residents is the poor state of some sites and the lack of routine maintenance and repairs. That is why this Government has given local authorities, for the first time, powers to issue compliance notices requiring a site owner to carry out any necessary work to the site to comply with their licence obligations. If the site owner fails to comply, the local authority will be able to prosecute them and if convicted they will face an unlimited fine. The local authority may then enter the site and do the necessary works. In an emergency, a local authority may also enter a site and do the works if it considers there is an imminent risk to the health and safety of residents. The authority will in any of these cases be able to recover all its enforcement costs directly from the site owner. We have published guidance for local authorities on how to use their new powers to best effect.</p><p> </p><p>We have also given local authorities powers to refuse to grant a new application or transfer of a site licence. We have issued guidance which sets out the matters an authority can take into account when considering an application including the funding and management arrangements in place for managing the site and complying with the licence.</p> answering member constituency Bristol West answering member printed Stephen Williams grouped question UIN 227576 227577 question first answered 18/03/2015 15:25:38 answering member 1492 label Biography information for Stephen Williams
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

227498

registered interest
date	16/03/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Planning Permission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the average cost to the public purse of a request for him to call in a planning application in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	227592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>Very few planning applications are called in each year - an average of only 8 cases in each of the last five years. In all these cases the parties who take part in the planning inquiry are expected to meet their own costs in preparing and presenting evidence. The cost to the public purse is therefore limited. It varies considerably between cases, depending on factors including the complexity of each project and the length of the planning inquiry, and whether there is any litigation following the issue of a decision.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 19/03/2015 13:01:20 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

227549

registered interest
date	16/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Antibiotics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the General Medical Council (a) has undertaken and (b) plans to undertake any reviews of online prescribing of oral antibiotics.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	227585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The General Medical Council (GMC) is an independent body and responsible for matters concerning the discharge of its statutory duties.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The GMC has advised that on 31 January 2013, it published <em>Good practice in prescribing and managing medicines and devices, </em>which came into effect on 25 February 2013. In relation to online prescribing, this guidance is clear on the need for an adequate assessment of the patient’s health, meaningful dialogue and consent, and for the doctor to be satisfied the medicines are appropriate for the patient’s needs. The GMC has a duty to look into concerns raised about individual doctors who are not following this guidance.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The GMC has confirmed that it does not currently have plans to further review its guidance on prescribing and managing medicines and devices.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 23/03/2015 17:43:35 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

227599

registered interest
date	16/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what provisions are in place to support the non-abusing parent of a child who has a parent convicted of child sexual abuse; and what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of those provisions.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	227596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government takes very seriously the need to protect children at risk of harm from their parents. The Government is also aware of the concerns regarding the exercise of parental responsibility by a parent who has been convicted of sexual abuse of a child.</p><p> </p><p>Under the Children Act 1989, parents and guardians, as well as others who are entitled, can apply to a family court for a section 8 order in cases where a question arises in relation to the welfare of a child. These orders include prohibited steps orders and specific issue orders to restrict the exercise of parental responsibility. The court can also make child arrangements orders with provisions to protect a child, perhaps by providing for ‘no contact’ with a parent where this is considered to be in the best interests of the child.</p><p> </p><p>The Government believes that these provisions provide good protection for children where a parent has been convicted of child abuse, including abuse of the child concerned, but we always keep the law and the practice in this area under review and are very conscious of the need to have the maximum possible protection of children and young people at all times.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes grouped question UIN 227593 227594 227595 question first answered 23/03/2015 16:46:43 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston