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969434

registered interest
date	07/09/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will carry out a review of whether there is sufficient and quality accommodation available to service personnel on the defence estates.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Kirstene Hair
uin	171738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2018 answer text <p>The quality and quantity of all service accommodation is under continual review by the Department. The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is committed to providing high quality accommodation within an appropriate locality to where Service personnel live, work and train.</p><p>For Service Family Accommodation, the MOD meets the Government Decent Homes Standard, set by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government for 95% of its properties, with the overall condition of the accommodation considered as good.</p><p>The MOD has delivered more than 50,000 new or upgraded Single Living Accommodation bed-spaces, across the estate over the last 15 years and is committed to invest significant additional funding in Defence infrastructure over the next 10-15 years.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 18/09/2018 14:48:08 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood previous answer version 76214 answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4675 label Biography information for Kirstene Hair

947266

registered interest
date	24/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Dangerous Dogs: Convictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convictions there have been for attacks by violent dogs on Royal Mail and other delivery staff since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Kirstene Hair
uin	168076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 07/09/2018 13:49:42 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4675 label Biography information for Kirstene Hair

946786

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Fuels: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the introduction on an independent fuel price monitoring body.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Kirstene Hair
uin	167410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government believes that it is essential that consumers get a fair deal and that a competitive market is the best way to keep prices low.</p><p> </p><p>The Office of Fair Trading last looked at fuel prices in 2013, and I expect its successor, the Competition and Markets Authority, to keep them under review.</p><p> </p><p>The Department continues to monitor fuel prices and publishes weekly reports at <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/oil-and-petroleum-products-weekly-statistics" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/oil-and-petroleum-products-weekly-statistics</a>. BEIS analysis is that changes in the price of crude oil are the main driver of changes in the national average retail prices of petrol and diesel and both rises and falls in crude oil price reach the pumps within 7 weeks. The Government does not believe that a monitoring body is necessary.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 04/09/2018 12:58:00 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4675 label Biography information for Kirstene Hair

945571

registered interest
date	20/07/2018
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	Obesity: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made on the effect of junk food advertising on childhood obesity.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Kirstene Hair
uin	166510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>Evidence shows that children’s exposure to high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) product advertising can affect what children want to eat and what they choose to eat. This can happen both in the short term, increasing the amount of food children eat immediately after being exposed to a HFSS advert and in the longer term by shaping children’s food preferences from a young age.</p><p> </p><p>In the second chapter of our childhood obesity plan, launched in June 2018, we have committed to consult on introducing further advertising restrictions, including a 9pm watershed on TV advertising of HFSS products and similar protection for children viewing adverts online, with the aim of limiting children’s exposure to HFSS advertising, and incentivising sugar and calorie reduction. Further details about the consultation will be available later this year.</p><p> </p><p>Officials in the Department have regular discussions with their counterparts in the devolved administrations on improving the health and wellbeing of children and young people, including on tackling obesity. Discussions include domestic strategies and the delivery of United Kingdom-wide measures in our childhood obesity plan, such as advertising restrictions.</p><p> </p><p>‘Childhood obesity: a plan for action, chapter 2’ is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childhood-obesity-a-plan-for-action-chapter-2" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/childhood-obesity-a-plan-for-action-chapter-2</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 166511 question first answered 25/07/2018 15:44:49 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4675 label Biography information for Kirstene Hair

945574

registered interest
date	20/07/2018
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	Obesity: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the devolved administrations on his Department's research into the link between junk food advertising and childhood obesity.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Kirstene Hair
uin	166511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>Evidence shows that children’s exposure to high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) product advertising can affect what children want to eat and what they choose to eat. This can happen both in the short term, increasing the amount of food children eat immediately after being exposed to a HFSS advert and in the longer term by shaping children’s food preferences from a young age.</p><p> </p><p>In the second chapter of our childhood obesity plan, launched in June 2018, we have committed to consult on introducing further advertising restrictions, including a 9pm watershed on TV advertising of HFSS products and similar protection for children viewing adverts online, with the aim of limiting children’s exposure to HFSS advertising, and incentivising sugar and calorie reduction. Further details about the consultation will be available later this year.</p><p> </p><p>Officials in the Department have regular discussions with their counterparts in the devolved administrations on improving the health and wellbeing of children and young people, including on tackling obesity. Discussions include domestic strategies and the delivery of United Kingdom-wide measures in our childhood obesity plan, such as advertising restrictions.</p><p> </p><p>‘Childhood obesity: a plan for action, chapter 2’ is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childhood-obesity-a-plan-for-action-chapter-2" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/childhood-obesity-a-plan-for-action-chapter-2</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 166510 question first answered 25/07/2018 15:44:49 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4675 label Biography information for Kirstene Hair

945575

registered interest
date	20/07/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Food: Advertising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with the devolved administrations on the potential merits of extending junk food advertising restrictions.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Kirstene Hair
uin	166512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>In the second chapter of our childhood obesity plan, launched in June 2018, we have committed to consult on introducing further advertising restrictions, including a 9pm watershed on TV advertising of HFSS products and similar protection for children viewing adverts online, with the aim of limiting children’s exposure to HFSS advertising, and incentivising sugar and calorie reduction. Further details about the consultation will be available later this year. Officials in government have regular discussions with their counterparts in the Devolved Administrations on improving the health and wellbeing of children and young people, including on tackling obesity. Discussions include domestic strategies and the delivery of UK-wide measures in our childhood obesity plan, such as advertising restrictions.</p><p>&quot;Childhood obesity: a plan for action, chapter 2” is available at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childhood-obesity-a-plan-for-action-chapter-2" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/childhood-obesity-a-plan-for-action-chapter-2</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 166509 question first answered 25/07/2018 15:22:44 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4675 label Biography information for Kirstene Hair

945592

registered interest
date	20/07/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Mobile Phones: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the timescale is for issuing new licences to mobile networks.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Kirstene Hair
uin	166513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>Securing optimal use of spectrum is one of Ofcom’s duties. Ofcom plans to award new licences for airwaves in the 700 MHz and 3.6-3.8 GHz bands of the radio spectrum by auction in the second half of 2019. These airwaves are suitable for the provision of mobile services. Ofcom has consulted on proposals to attach coverage obligations to some of the licences to be awarded and will consult on its proposals for the award later this year.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 25/07/2018 15:29:03 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4675 label Biography information for Kirstene Hair

945593

registered interest
date	20/07/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Mobile Phones
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans his Department has to help eliminate not spots.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Kirstene Hair
uin	166514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring that the UK has good quality, consistent connectivity where people live, work and travel. My Department is also working across Government, and with others, to ensure delivery of our manifesto commitment to secure 95% geographic coverage of the UK by 2022.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside this work, Ofcom’s recent consultation outlined potential new licence obligations targeting rural coverage as part of the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction. This would further help deliver better mobile coverage and enable more people to benefit from the digital economy.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 25/07/2018 15:30:31 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4675 label Biography information for Kirstene Hair

944831

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
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	Alternative Fuels
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 recent assessment he has made of the potential future use of alternative fuels to reduce emissions.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Kirstene Hair
uin	166280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Transport has published outputs of the transport energy model on www.gov.uk alongside the Road to Zero Strategy (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reducing-emissions-from-road-transport-road-to-zero-strategy" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reducing-emissions-from-road-transport-road-to-zero-strategy</a>).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The transport energy model assesses the energy consumption, air quality pollutant emissions and greenhouse gas emissions of a range of road transport fuels and technologies.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 24/07/2018 11:43:15 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4675 label Biography information for Kirstene Hair

944833

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	Motor Vehicles: Fuels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of offering incentives for the adoption of fuel converters that lower the total amount of emissions produced by a vehicle.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Kirstene Hair
uin	166281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department has not investigated the merits of offering incentives for fuel converters. Companies who have developed retrofit technologies are encouraged to utilise the Government’s Clean Vehicle Retrofit Accreditation Scheme (CVRAS). This scheme has been designed specifically to allow them to have their performance assessed and verified independently.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 25/07/2018 14:40:44 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4675 label Biography information for Kirstene Hair