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1186383

registered interest
date	19/03/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Roads: South East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on the economic benefits of improving the Reading to Gatwick road corridor.
tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
uin	901728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2020 answer text <p>At Budget, the Chancellor confirmed a record £27.4 billion to improve England’s strategic roads from 2020 to 2025. This funding will help maintain and improve the Reading-Gatwick road corridor, which includes converting part of the M4 to a smart motorway. Highways England will complete work to upgrade the 18 km stretch of the M23 near Gatwick Airport to a smart motorway this year. They are also looking at ways to optimise capacity on the existing M25.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 24/03/2020 17:15:32 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1186391

registered interest
date	19/03/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of police officers.
tabling member constituency	Derbyshire Dales
tabling member printed	Miss Sarah Dines
uin	901698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2020 answer text This Government recognises the challenges of policing in the modern age, which is why we are increasing the number of police officers across all forces.<p>The police funding settlement for 2020/21 sets out the biggest increase in funding for the policing system since 2010.</p><p>This Government is also delivering on the people’s priorities by recruiting 20,000 additional police officers over the next three years and we are giving police forces £700 million for the recruitment of 6,000 additional officers by the end of March 2021</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 23/03/2020 17:39:18 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines

1186392

registered interest
date	19/03/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Transport: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what fiscal steps he is taking to improve local transport infrastructure.
tabling member constituency	Derbyshire Dales
tabling member printed	Miss Sarah Dines
uin	901712
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to improving the transport links that people rely on every day.</p><p> </p><p>The Budget announced a new England-wide Potholes Fund that will provide £500 million a year, resulting in a 50% increase to local road maintenance budgets in 2020‑21. Alongside this, the Budget also announced the development of 15 local road upgrades across the country.</p><p> </p><p>It also confirmed over £1 billion worth of allocations to shovel-ready local transport upgrades across nine city regions through the Transforming Cities Fund, and the intention is to agree long-term transport settlements with eight elected Mayors starting in 2022-23 worth £4.2bn.</p><p> </p><p>These commitments build on the Prime Minister’s announcement of £5 billion for buses and cycling.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 24/03/2020 17:00:24 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines

1186402

registered interest
date	19/03/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care: Reviews
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will undertake a review of looked after children which includes the views of children in the care system.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	32141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2020 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement of 12 February, made by my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education. The Written Ministerial Statement is available at the following link: <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2020-02-12/HCWS110/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2020-02-12/HCWS110/</a>.</p><p>We will ensure the review reflects the experiences of those who have needed a social worker and been in care, putting children, young people and their families at its centre. We are continuing to develop the scope of the review and are committed to undertaking it at the earliest opportunity. We are considering the next steps on the review in light of the ongoing urgent response to COVID-19.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 30/03/2020 15:48:42 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1186403

registered interest
date	19/03/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support is provided for looked after children after their 18th birthday.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	32142
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2020 answer text <p>Young people who have been ‘looked after’ are entitled to continuing support from their local authority (LA) when they leave care. The LA must appoint a Personal Advisor to help care leavers plan for their futures, access the support they need from mainstream services and provide practical and emotional support. Personal Advisor support is now available for all care leavers to age 25 (support previously ended at age 21 for most care leavers).</p><p>LAs also have a duty to consult on and publish their ‘local offers’ for care leavers. This sets out care leavers’ legal entitlements, as well as any further discretionary support that the LA provides. They also have a duty to provide a £2,000 bursary to care leavers who attend university. LAs are required to provide financial support to help care leavers engage in education; employment and training; and a leaving care grant (£2,000) to help the young person furnish their first home.</p><p>Since 2014, LAs have been under a duty to provide financial support to enable young people in foster care to remain living with their former foster family to age 21 in a Staying Put arrangement. The department has announced funding of over £33 million in 2020-21 to support implementation, an increase of approximately £10 million (40%) on 2019-20. A National Care Leaving Advisor was appointed in 2018 to support LAs to improve their leaving care services.</p><p>In October 2019, we announced the establishment of a cross-government ministerial board to drive better outcomes for care leavers and we have an on-going programme of work with other departments to identify changes to their policies that will impact positively on care leavers’ lives.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 31/03/2020 15:57:49 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1186404

registered interest
date	19/03/2020
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	Affordable Housing: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many affordable homes have been constructed in London in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	32143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2020 answer text <p>Comprehensive estimates of all affordable housing delivered are published in the Department’s Affordable Housing Supply Statistical Release at the following link: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Faffordable-housing-supply-in-england-2018-to-2019&amp;data=02%7C01%7CNeil.Higgins%40communities.gov.uk%7C245f187e342c44a11f5008d7cce7922d%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637203167266074305&amp;sdata=BqsrRY5CumibLXSajJKNuCbC3QLcrih%2Bn6CTkqgcu%2FE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/affordable-housing-supply-in-england-2018-to-2019.</a></p><p>A breakdown of the affordable housing delivered in London, identifying new build, in each of the last three years, is available in live table 1011C.</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Flive-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply&amp;data=02%7C01%7CNeil.Higgins%40communities.gov.uk%7C245f187e342c44a11f5008d7cce7922d%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637203167266084269&amp;sdata=etK83uy35jo8GxSZJdrQssSwEEeMhlmcl8y3c6dDsb8%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply.</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 27/03/2020 13:56:28 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1186405

registered interest
date	19/03/2020
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	Broadband: Standards
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 steps he is taking to ensure the adequate supply of cabinet space for routing superfast broadband to individual properties.
tabling member constituency	Bosworth
tabling member printed	Dr Luke Evans
uin	32144
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2020 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member for Bosworth to my answer to his question, reference number 28001, on Monday 23 March.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 25/03/2020 16:59:03 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4781 label Biography information for Dr Luke Evans

1186406

registered interest
date	19/03/2020
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	Electricity and Heating: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent steps he has taken to decarbonise the (a) electricity and (b) heating sectors.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	32300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2020 answer text <p>In 2019, the Government set a legally binding-target to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions from across the UK economy by 2050. The Government has introduced many initiatives to decarbonise and increase the supply of renewable energy production in the UK and have already made great strides forward. Over 50% of our power now comes from low carbon sources and coal is all but being eliminated from the mix.</p><p> </p><p>Earlier this month, the Government announced that onshore wind, solar and other established technologies, will be eligible for the next Contracts for Difference (CfD) allocation round in 2021. In March 2019, the Government published the Offshore Wind Sector Deal, which will build on the United Kingdom’s global leadership in offshore wind by working with the Sector to increase productivity and develop new offshore wind technologies. The Sector Deal also commits to increasing diversity in the sector, with the ambition of increasing the percentage of women and people from BAME backgrounds employed in offshore wind.</p><p> </p><p>The Government also announced an investment of £800 million to deploy the first carbon capture storage (CCS) cluster by the mid-2020s. We are supporting wider industrial decarbonisation by investing £500 million to support energy-intensive industries adopt low-carbon technologies, for which CCS will play a key part.</p><p> </p><p>We also have an ambitious programme of work already underway to support heat decarbonisation. In the Budget we announced our intention to extend the Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) for 12 months, ahead of the launch of a new Clean Heat Grant scheme. We also announced a third allocation of Tariff Guarantees for the Non-Domestic RHI to continue support for large-scale plants which require investment certainty to proceed. This will help ensure continuous support before launch of the new Green Gas support scheme</p><p> </p><p>We are investing up to £320m, through grants and loans, to accelerate the growth of the UK heat networks market through the Heat Networks Investment Project and have launched the £16.5 million Electrification of Heat Demonstration Project, to demonstrate the feasibility of a large-scale transition to electrification of heat in Great Britain. We have announced spending of up to £121 million on hydrogen innovation and working with stakeholders to develop a comprehensive programme of work to demonstrate the technical and practical feasibility of using hydrogen in place of natural gas for heating.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 27/03/2020 13:49:06 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1186407

registered interest
date	19/03/2020
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	Creative Europe
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 he has for domestic alternatives to the Creative Europe Programme after the transition period.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire South
tabling member printed	Mhairi Black
uin	32145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2020 answer text <p>The government has made the decision not to seek participation in Creative Europe in the next Multiannual Financial Framework. Domestic alternatives will be a consideration for the upcoming Comprehensive Spending Review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 26/03/2020 12:40:40 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4421 label Biography information for Mhairi Black

1186408

registered interest
date	19/03/2020
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	Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he will be taking to reduce alcohol related (a) cancer diagnoses and (b) deaths.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	32146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling health harms from alcohol and supporting the most vulnerable at risk from alcohol misuse. We are introducing measures including the NHS Long Term Plan to reduce hospital admissions, along with ambitions and commitments to improve cancer outcomes and services in England. We will encourage people to moderate their drinking as outlined in the Prevention Green Paper through low and no alcohol products. The UK CMOs’ Low Risk Drinking guidelines highlight that the risk of developing a range of health problems, including cancer, increases the more you drink on a regular basis. The new drinking guidelines are included in a range of public health messaging-the ‘One You’ service on <a href="http://www.nhs.uk" target="_blank">www.nhs.uk</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 27/04/2020 13:22:18 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon