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578599

registered interest
date	08/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Ministerial Policy Advisers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 22 July 2016 to Question 43066, on Cabinet Office: Ministerial policy advisers, whether his Department has now calculated the information requested in that Question on severance pay.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	45702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2016 answer text <p>This information will be published in due course, as part of the full and detailed list of special advisers, salary bands and total pay bill costs.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 13/09/2016 09:16:03 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

578610

registered interest
date	08/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Ministerial Policy Advisers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the pay grade is of each special adviser in his Department.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	45720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2016 answer text <p>A list of special advisers and pay bands will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 45746 question first answered 13/09/2016 09:04:27 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

578613

registered interest
date	08/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster: Ministerial Policy Advisers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many special advisers work for the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	45746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2016 answer text <p>A list of special advisers and pay bands will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 45720 question first answered 13/09/2016 09:04:27 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

578614

registered interest
date	08/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Ballot Papers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2016 to Question 42682, whether he is taking steps to reduce the number of spoilt ballots in elections.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
uin	45747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government has made improvements to ballot papers, forms and instructions used by voters at elections and referendums in order to make voting as accessible as possible. This involved public user-testing of the revised voting forms. The Government will consider reports from the Electoral Commission and other organisations on the polls held during 2016 and decide whether any further action is required.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 13/09/2016 07:59:10 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

578637

registered interest
date	08/09/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Gambling: Advertising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department plans to initiate a further review of gambling advertising to follow up the review by the Industry Group for Responsible Gambling of 2014.
tabling member constituency	Maidstone and The Weald
tabling member printed	Mrs Helen Grant
uin	45623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that people, particularly the young and vulnerable, are protected from the risk of gambling-related harm. We are keeping the issue of advertising under review to ensure that sufficient protections are in place, and will not hesitate to take further action if necessary.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 13/09/2016 09:40:44 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4018 label Biography information for Mrs Helen Grant

578640

registered interest
date	08/09/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Lake District National Park
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support the Lake District National Park Partnership in its bid for status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	45619
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2016 answer text <p>Government continues to support the excellent work of the Lake District National Park Partnership and other stakeholders, which has led to the Lake District becoming the UK's nomination for World Heritage Status in 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Officials will be present to support the partnership during the World Heritage Committee mission to the Lake District, due to take place in October 2016.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 13/09/2016 09:43:06 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

578671

registered interest
date	08/09/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Blood: Contamination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his Department's paper, Infected Blood: Government Response to Consultation on Reform of Financial and Other Support, published in July 2016, whether he plans for people receiving discretionary support from the reformed scheme to continue to receive (a) prescription prepayment certificates, (b) advice on support with benefit applications and appeals, (c) one-off £1,200 lump sum payments for dependants and (d) means-tested top-ups to their income to lift them above the poverty line; and whether he plans for the partners of bereaved people to continue to receive annual payments topping their income up to £19,000 per year.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	45758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2016 answer text <p>In 2017/18, a new, single, discretionary scheme will replace the current three discretionary support schemes (The Caxton Foundation, The Eileen Trust and The McFarlane Trust), and it is intended to be equitable, transparent, flexible and responsive to individual needs, that may change over time.</p><p> </p><p>Details on the components that will make up a new discretionary scheme are still being worked through and will be publicised in due course. In the meantime, the current discretionary arrangements remain throughout the current financial year.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 13/09/2016 09:42:32 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

578674

registered interest
date	08/09/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Blood: Contamination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his Department's paper, Infected Blood: Government Response to Consultation on Reform of Financial and Other Support, published in July 2016, whether it is planned that the new single trust set to be established in 2017-18 will receive all funds held in reserves by the Caxton Foundation, the Eileen Trust and Macfarlane Trust; and how much is held in reserves by each of those charities.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	45753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2016 answer text <p>There will be a new scheme administrator combining the functions of the existing schemes into a single scheme going forward. The new scheme administrator will become operational in the financial year 2017/18 and the current bodies will operate until then. We are working on transition plans and would hope that the charities would use any reserves to support beneficiaries. Details of reserves are published in the Annual Accounts.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 13/09/2016 09:40:20 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

578683

registered interest
date	08/09/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Blood: Contamination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of how much the administration of (a) the discretionary support scheme and (b) the stage 1 hepatitis C special appeals mechanism will cost for people infected with contaminated blood in each year from 2015 to 2020 Spending Review period; and how many full-time equivalent staff will be employed for the administration of that scheme.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	45772
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2016 answer text <p>No such estimates have been made.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 13/09/2016 09:47:14 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

578684

registered interest
date	08/09/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Blood: Contamination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will set a date for the introduction of (a) the 2016-17 and (b) 2017-18 additional support packages for people who were infected with contaminated blood.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	45773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2016 answer text <p>The Department continues to work closely with the current scheme administrators to fulfil this Government’s commitment to make all such payments before the end of March 2017. We have committed to payment, back dated to April 2016 of:</p><p>a) the new annual payments of £3,500 for those infected with hepatitis C stage 1 (rising to £4,500 in 2018/19); and</p><p>b) the continuation of annual payments for those infected with severe hepatitis C (stage 2) or HIV of £15,500 from this year (an increase from the current £14,749), and rising to £18,500 in 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, payment of a one-off lump sum payment of £10,000 to all those who were the partner or spouse of a primary beneficiary when they died and where infection with HIV and/or hepatitis C contributed to the death of their partner/spouse will apply to those already bereaved (and newly bereaved from April 2016 and beyond).</p><p> </p><p>As well as these payments, the schemes continue to provide their existing support payments to registrants of the schemes, and will do so until the new, single scheme administrator is operational during 2017/18.</p><p> </p><p>Taken together, the Government’s action in this area is the most comprehensive ever to those infected with contaminated blood.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 13/09/2016 09:43:47 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson