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906288

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date	17/05/2018
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	Nature Conservation: Crime
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 he has had on placing wildlife crime on sovereign base areas in Cyprus on the agenda for the Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference in October 2018.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	145292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2018 answer text <p>Defra officials have been working with a range of stakeholders in planning for the illegal wildlife trade conference in October, and we are keen to include as wide a range of species and geographies in the conference as possible. We have not yet reached a decision on the final agenda.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 25/05/2018 11:07:13 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

906291

registered interest
date	17/05/2018
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	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Glasgow North West dated 25 April 2018 on myalgic encephalomyelitis.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
uin	145353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Lord O’Shaughnessy) responded to the hon. Member on 21 May.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 22/05/2018 14:14:05 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

906294

registered interest
date	17/05/2018
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	Israel: Arms Trade
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what role his Department plans to play in reviewing UK arms exports to Israel as a result of the events in Gaza of 14 May 2018.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Ann Clwyd
uin	145278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>​We assess all applications very carefully against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria and human rights and international humanitarian law considerations are important parts of that assessment. We have no information to suggest that UK supplied equipment has been used in contravention of the Criteria. We continue to keep the situation under constant review.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 22/05/2018 14:54:26 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	553 label Biography information for Ann Clwyd

906297

registered interest
date	17/05/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Local Government: Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the news release entitled Thousands of voters turned away from polling stations in mandatory ID trials, published by the Electoral Reform Society on 4 May 2018, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of the estimate by the Electoral Reform Society that 3,981 people were turned away from polling stations across the five pilot areas; and if he will make an estimate of what that figure would be in the event that the scheme was rolled out nationally.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	145358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2018 answer text <p>Requiring some form of identification to vote was successfully tested at the local elections on 3 May by five local authorities: Bromley, Gosport, Swindon, Watford and Woking. The overwhelming majority of people cast their vote without a problem and the success of the pilots proves that this is a reasonable and proportionate measure to take, and there was no notable adverse effect on turnout.</p><p>The estimate by the political lobby group the Electoral Reform Society is exaggerated and inaccurate. Data from Returning Officers across all five participating local authorities shows that there were 340 electors asked to return to the polling station with the correct identification who did not subsequently return. This represents 0.16% of the votes cast.</p><p>This reflects that such identification was a brand new requirement, and a few electors may not have read the publicity that they were sent about the pilots.</p><p><ins class="ministerial">However, the experience of Northern Ireland, where paper ID has been required since 1985 and photo ID since 2003, illustrates that there should be no issue with voters not knowing - once the requirement has become established.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Electoral Commission is responsible for carrying out an independent, statutory evaluation of the pilot schemes and will publish its findings in the summer of 2018; this will be an opportunity to review how the publicity arrangements operated and could be improved. This is one of the benefits of piloting the policy.</ins></p><p> </p><p>Requiring some form of identification to vote was successfully tested at the local elections on 3 May by five local authorities: Bromley, Gosport, Swindon, Watford and Woking. The overwhelming majority of people cast their vote without a problem and the success of the pilots proves that this is a reasonable and proportionate measure to take, and there was no notable adverse effect on turnout.</p><p>The estimate by the political lobby group the Electoral Reform Society is exaggerated and inaccurate. Data from Returning Officers across all five participating local authorities shows that there were 340 electors asked to return to the polling station with the correct identification who did not subsequently return. This represents 0.14% of the votes cast.</p><p>This reflects that such identification was a brand new requirement, and a few electors may not have read the publicity that they were sent about the pilots.</p><p> </p><p>However, the experience of Northern Ireland, where paper ID has been required since 1985 and photo ID since 2003, illustrates that there should be no issue with voters not knowing - once the requirement has become established.</p><p>The Electoral Commission is responsible for carrying out an independent, statutory evaluation of the pilot schemes and will publish its findings in the summer of 2018; this will be an opportunity to review how the publicity arrangements operated and could be improved. This is one of the benefits of piloting the policy.</p><p> </p><p>There was an error in the data previously presented. Whilst the individual totals of votes cast in each local authority were correct, the overall total was incorrectly summed. The previously quoted total of votes cast of 206,741 should have been 234,506. As a result, the percentage of people who did not return as a proportion of number of votes cast was overstated, incorrectly given as 0.16%. The correct figure is 0.14%. The attached table contains the correct data.</p><p> </p><p>As part of its planned evaluation, the Electoral Commission will continue to collect and analyse a wide range of data and information about the pilots, including public opinion surveys, data from polling stations, turnout and postal voting data, and polling station staff surveys. We will continue to work with the Electoral Commission and other partners to ensure that the emerging data gives an accurate picture of how ID pilots were delivered.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith previous answer version 59632 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith 60423 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith question first answered 25/05/2018 15:13:05 question first ministerially corrected 01/06/2018 09:26:25 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name Pre evaluation voter ID polling station data (1) (1).xlsx title Pre evaluation vote
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

906298

registered interest
date	17/05/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which company is contracted to resolve technical issues with the tax free childcare online application system; what targets are set in that contract; and how much money that is paid to that company under that contract.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	145359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The vast majority of parents can use the childcare service (through which they apply for Tax-Free Childcare and 30 hours free childcare) without any problems. HMRC has been working with their delivery partner National Savings &amp; Investments (NS&amp;I) and NS&amp;I’s supplier Atos to make improvements to the service. As a result over 99% of parents are now receiving their eligibility decision within 5 working days.</p><p>It is not the Government’s usual practice to comment on contractual matters between departments and their contactors since they may be commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 22/05/2018 13:02:04 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

906301

registered interest
date	17/05/2018
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	Learning Disability: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to allocation additional funding to the Learning Disability Mortality Review Programme to ensure the completion of the outstanding reviews into avoidable deaths of people with learning disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	145295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>NHS England has allocated an additional £1.4 million for clinical commissioning group/sustainability and transformation partnership areas to support the delivery of the Learning Disability Mortality Review Programme in 2018/19 in its agreed fourth year of operation. This will facilitate the better establishment and running of the local mortality review programmes and reduce the backlog of mortality reviews. The learning from the reviews is being used to inform work on programmes such as increasing general practitioner annual health checks, care pathways for key mortality issues such as sepsis, epilepsy and constipation, for example, alongside other learning disability health practice improvement work.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/05/2018 12:34:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

906302

registered interest
date	17/05/2018
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	Learning Disability: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria NHS England will use to monitor the quality of the remaining reviews into the early deaths of people with learning disabilities notified to the Learning Disability Mortality Review Programme.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	145296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Department has been informed by NHS England that NHS England follows the University of Bristol Learning Disability Mortality Review Programme guidance methodology on quality assuring reviews. The University of Bristol provides a quality assurance role as part of the programme alongside local steering groups.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/05/2018 12:32:59 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

906303

registered interest
date	17/05/2018
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	Learning Disability: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England plans to publish regular progress reports on the remaining reviews into the early deaths of people with learning disabilities notified to the Learning Disability Mortality Review Programme.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	145297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>NHS England has informed us that it plans to publish further reports by the University of Bristol relating to the Learning Disability Mortality Review Programme, through its contract arrangement with the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/05/2018 12:32:07 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

906323

registered interest
date	17/05/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Buildings: Fire Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's press release, Government announces it will fully fund unsafe cladding removal in social housing, published on 16 May 2018, what assessment he has made of the effect on residents in mixed-use developments who are (a) leaseholders or (b) are in shared ownership.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Jim Fitzpatrick
uin	145263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government will fully fund the removal and replacement of dangerous Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding on buildings owned by councils and housing associations, with costs estimated at £400 million. Some of these buildings will contain leaseholders and shared ownership properties. In the social sector, all of those local authorities and housing associations with whom we are in discussion with have indicated that they are choosing not to pass on the costs of the remediation of cladding systems to individual flat owners within their buildings. The Secretary of State made it clear that he considers this is the right approach.</p><p>In the private sector, building owners are responsible for making buildings safe. We have been clear we think they or the developers of the buildings should pay and not pass costs on to leaseholders, either funding the work themselves or looking at alternative routes such as insurance claims, warranties or action to ensure those responsible for erecting unsafe cladding pay. Leaseholders can challenge the costs in courts if they are unreasonable.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 22/05/2018 15:37:40 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	197 label Biography information for Jim Fitzpatrick

906326

registered interest
date	17/05/2018
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	Israel: Palestinians
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 had with Cabinet colleagues on the recent violence at the Palestinian border.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	145397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>The Cabinet discussed the Gaza events, on the basis of a briefing by the Foreign Secretary on 15 May.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 22/05/2018 16:11:49 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker