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946928

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2018 to Question 133797 on Asylum: Housing, what criteria (a) his Department and (b) accommodation providers use to assess the particular circumstances and vulnerability of those in dispersed asylum accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	167270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>All asylum Accommodation Providers are contractually required to take account of any particular circumstances and vulnerability of those that they accommodate, including those who have health care issues. In addition Providers must comply with national and local housing regulations including those regarding room sharing. There are strict criteria set out in the contract around when room sharing can take place and who can share a room. Providers must also comply with local regulations including advice from social services and primary and secondary care bodies on whether room sharing is inappropriate for individual cases.</p><p>In accordance with our published policy, the Home Office will carefully consider all requests on a case by case basis from asylum seekers who may have particular vulnerabilities, care needs or health problems that necessitate a need for a specific location or specialist accommodation requirements. Further details regarding this policy can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-accommodation-requests-policy" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-accommodation-requests-policy</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 04/09/2018 15:46:09 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

946929

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2018 to Question 133797 on Asylum: Housing, what information his Department holds on the number of incidences of forced room sharing of asylum seekers in dispersed accommodation in each (a) local authority and (b) region.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	167271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>The use of individual properties across provider’s portfolios changes daily subject to demand. Information on the current number of bedrooms shared between unrelated individuals in local authorities could only be provided at disproportionate cost by examination of individual provider property records.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 167273 question first answered 04/09/2018 16:12:09 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

946930

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2018 to Question 133797 on Asylum: Housing, which regions have not secured compliant bids under the tendering process for the new asylum accommodation contracts.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	167272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office did not receive compliant bids for the Asylum Accommodation and Support Contracts (AASC) for the following two regions:</p><ul><li>North East, Yorkshire &amp; Humber (NEYH), and</li><li>Northern Ireland (NI).</li></ul><p>We are now in the process of re-competing these two regions under a linked but separate procurement and this is currently out to market. We remain confident of having fully operational contracts before the expiry of the current COMPASS contracts, with sufficient time to properly transition the services.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 04/09/2018 15:39:56 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

946931

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2018 to Question 133797 on Asylum: Housing, how many asylum seekers have been placed into forced bedroom sharing in dispersed asylum accommodation in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	167273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>The use of individual properties across provider’s portfolios changes daily subject to demand. Information on the current number of bedrooms shared between unrelated individuals in local authorities could only be provided at disproportionate cost by examination of individual provider property records.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 167271 question first answered 04/09/2018 16:12:09 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

947039

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	East Coast Main Line
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the £780 million investment in the East Coast Main Line announced on 23 July 2018, whether that funding has been ring-fenced for investment in that line; to what specific projects that funding is planned to be allocated; and what the timetable is for each of those projects so funded.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	167274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>The investment of up to £780m in the East Coast Main Line will deliver power supply upgrades between Doncaster and Edinburgh, a new rail junction near Peterborough, a new platform at Stevenage Station and improvements to the track layout at King’s Cross Station. These upgrades will all be completed in the early 2020s.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 04/09/2018 15:43:52 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

944751

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
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: Nurses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 19 July 2018 to Question 164427 on learning disability: nurses, in what format his Department collects data.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	166168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department collects vacancy data from its arm’s length bodies; NHS Improvement, NHS Digital and Health Education England (HEE).</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement has published management information vacancy data since April 2017 which is based on vacancies reported by trusts. This information covers the National Health Service trusts as a whole as well as a more granular breakdown for nursing and medics, but this does not go to the level of organisations, every staff group, or in particular learning disability nurses.</p><p> </p><p>The latest NHS Improvement vacancy figures are available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.improvement.nhs.uk/resources/quarterly-performance-nhs-provider-sector-quarter-4-201718/" target="_blank">www.improvement.nhs.uk/resources/quarterly-performance-nhs-provider-sector-quarter-4-201718/</a></p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital publishes NHS vacancy statistics, created from administrative data related to job advertisements published on NHS Jobs, the main recruitment website for the NHS.</p><p> </p><p>The provisional experimental NHS Vacancy Statistics publication provides a proxy for vacancy information and, therefore, should be treated with caution. As one vacancy advert can be used to fill multiple vacancies it is not possible to accurately state the number of vacancies within a specified period – the only accurate statement is that the number of advertised vacancy full-time equivalents shows the minimum number of vacancies advertised. The figures contained in the publication are intended to provide an insight to recruitment in the NHS. It is not possible to identify unfilled advertised vacancies.</p><p> </p><p>The latest NHS Vacancy Statistics publication is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-vacancies-survey/nhs-vacancy-statistics-england-february-2015-september-2017-provisional-experimental-statistics" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-vacancies-survey/nhs-vacancy-statistics-england-february-2015-september-2017-provisional-experimental-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>HEE provides estimates of “shortage” as part of their Workforce Strategy for England. HEE advise that they work with a definition of 'shortage' as the difference between the number of funded posts and the number of contracted staff in post. HEE’s latest estimates of staff shortages and the plan for tackling these issues is set out in their Facing the Facts, Shaping the Future, A draft health and care workforce strategy for England to 2027 published in December 2017. This can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://hee.nhs.uk/our-work/workforce-strategy" target="_blank">https://hee.nhs.uk/our-work/workforce-strategy</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 24/07/2018 10:52:05 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

944752

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Personal Savings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to promote personal savings and investments in (a) the North East and (b) England.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	166169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting savers across the UK at all stages of life and has introduced a range of measures in recent years to help people build their savings in the way that is right for them.</p><p> </p><p>This year we are introducing a new Help to Save scheme to support working families on low incomes to build up a rainy-day fund, by offering a 50% bonus on up to £50 of monthly savings. We have also increased the ISA allowance by a record amount to £20,000 and introduced a Personal Savings Allowance of up to £1,000 for basic rate taxpayers and £500 for higher rate taxpayers. Thanks to these measures over 95% of people pay no tax on their savings income.</p><p> </p><p>ISA statistics detailing the percentage of the adult population who hold an ISA and their average market value, broken down for different regions and countries in the UK, can be found online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/individual-savings-account-statistics</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 24/07/2018 13:51:10 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

944753

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Brexit: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has identified costs in addition to the estimation of a settlement of £35-39 billion that the UK will need to pay as a result of leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	166170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The settlement agreed with the EU represents a comprehensive settlement covering all of the mutual commitments between the EU and the UK. The Chancellor was clear in his letter to the TSC that £35-39 billion is a reasonable central estimate, as agreed in the joint report and produced using publicly available European Commission data. The NAO report concluded this was a reasonable estimate. The OBR estimated, at the Spring Statement, that the settlement would be around £37bn.</p><p>With respect to additional spending to deal with exit preparations HM Treasury has allocated over £2 billion of additional funding to departments and the Devolved Administrations so far. This breaks down as:</p><p>-£412m of additional funding over the spending review period for DExEU, DIT and the FCO at Autumn Statement 2016.</p><p>-£286m of additional funding for 17/18 (a full breakdown of which can be found in Supplementary Estimates 17/18).</p><p>-Over £1.5bn of additional funding for 18/19. A full breakdown of which can be found in the Chief Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS540, laid on the 13th March (https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/).</p><p>The Chancellor also set aside at Autumn Statement 2017 an additional £1.5 billion for costs in 2019-20. This money will be allocated later this year. The Chancellor was also clear in his letter that the value of the settlement is, by its very nature, dependent on future events and that it was not possible to put a definitive number on it.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 24/07/2018 13:12:27 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

944754

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Parking: Pedestrian Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) timescale and (b) scope is of the research his Department is conducting on Traffic Regulation Orders in relation to pavement parking.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	166171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Transport is gathering evidence on the issue of pavement parking to consider the effectiveness of current regulatory frameworks and assess the case for various alternatives. This work is under way and we expect to draw conclusions towards the end of this year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 24/07/2018 14:24:40 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

944829

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorways
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has undertaken an impact assessment of the risks associated with the roll-out smart motorways.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	166172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>In each case Highways England complete a full assessment of safety issues during the project design phase, and then monitor and evaluate performance after delivery, to ensure that smart motorways maintain the high levels of safety seen on existing traditional motorways.</p><p> </p><p>Highways England have also completed operational safety assessments across their current live smart motorways. These show that smart motorways are meeting their safety objectives and are maintaining the high levels of safety achieved prior to their introduction.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 24/07/2018 14:19:37 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell