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1331640

registered interest
date	10/06/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Agreements: USA
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What progress she has made towards a free trade agreement with the US.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	900758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2021 answer text <p>I am in close contact with Katherine Tai, the US Trade Representative. I am pleased the US has lifted tariffs on Whisky, and I am working to lift Airbus Boeing dispute. We are continuing to make progress in Free Trade Agreement (FTA) discussions as well as working together on our broader trade agenda.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 10/06/2021 12:35:59 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1331930

registered interest
date	10/06/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	German Property Group: Investment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what support the Government plans to provide UK-based investors in German Property Group (formerly Dolphin Trust) who invested directly in the trust without the advice of a third party advisor.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	14062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2021 answer text <p>The UK regulatory agencies are aware of the bankruptcy of German Property Group (GPG), formerly known as Dolphin Trust, and the effect on UK-based investors.</p><p> </p><p>The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a joint statement with the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) and the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). The statement sets out what UK consumers should do if they invested in GPG via an FCA authorised firm – either a financial adviser firm or a Self Invested Personal Pensions (SIPPs) operator – and they believe they were mis-sold. This includes how to complain to the FOS or submit a claim to the FSCS. The statement can be accessed on the FCA’s website (<a href="https://www.fca.org.uk/news/statements/gpg-companies-preliminary-bankruptcy-proceedings" target="_blank">https://www.fca.org.uk/news/statements/gpg-companies-preliminary-bankruptcy-proceedings</a> ).</p><p> </p><p>It is important to note that some consumers will not have invested in GPG via a regulated financial adviser or SIPP operator. GPG is incorporated in Germany and is not, nor has ever been an FCA authorised firm. Unfortunately, in these cases compensation would not be available through the FOS or the FSCS routes. Investors should contact the German insolvency administrator, BBL Brockdorff &amp; Partner. Investors may also choose to press charges or appear as a witness in the German criminal proceedings being led by the German Prosecution Office.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 15/06/2021 09:14:23 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1332002

registered interest
date	10/06/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Agriculture: Seasonal Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications were received for the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme for the 2021 season.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	14063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on Seasonal Worker visas in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’.</p><p>Data on the number of Seasonal Worker visa applications are published in table Vis_D01 of the <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/962146/entry-clearance-visa-outcomes-datasets-dec-2020.xlsx" target="_blank">entry clearance visas applications and outcomes</a> dataset while numbers of decisions can be found in table Vis_D02. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook.</p><p>The latest data relates to the year ending March 2021.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 15/06/2021 15:17:39 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1330126

registered interest
date	07/06/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional resources the Government has provided to (a) the EU Settlement Scheme Resolution Centre and (b) relevant grant-funded third sector organisations to ensure that there is sufficient capacity to deal with people applying for the EU Settlement Scheme ahead of the 30 June 2021 deadline.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	11673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2021 answer text <p>Resource for the EUSS Resolution Centre is kept under close review and additional resource is made available as required.</p><p>Regarding grant funded organisations we have already awarded £17 million of funding to a network of now 72 organisations, including charities and community organisations across the UK, to ensure important information and assistance gets through to those who are hardest to reach, and no one is left behind. These organisations have helped more than 250,000 vulnerable people to apply to the EUSS already.</p><p>In addition, we recently announced a further £4.5 million for the Grant Funded Network so it can continue to provide a wide range of invaluable support across the UK, including after the 30 June deadline, ensuring those most at-risk continue to get the help they need.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 10/06/2021 15:11:38 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1314852

registered interest
date	14/05/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) men and (b) women (i) built up a qualifying year towards the state pension by paying National Insurance Contributions, (ii) built up a qualifying year towards the state pension through National Insurance credits and (iii) did not build up a qualifying year towards the state pension in (A) 2011-12 and (B) the latest year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	1397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2021 answer text <p>We do not have the specific data. However, the Local Labour Market Statistics of 2019 provides us with a 1% sample data. If that was to be scaled to 100% the probability is that the 100% data would show the following:</p><p> </p><p>The tables below show a breakdown of how qualifying years were built up for the tax years 2011/12 and 2018/19.</p><p> </p><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Male</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Female</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>NI Contributions only</strong></p></td><td><p>13,851,200</p></td><td><p>11,157,100</p></td><td><p><strong>25,008,300</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>NI Credits only</strong></p></td><td><p>2,352,600</p></td><td><p>3,047,500</p></td><td><p><strong>5,400,100</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>NI Contributions and Credits</strong></p></td><td><p>445,700</p></td><td><p>840,200</p></td><td><p><strong>1,285,900</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>16,649,500</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>15,044,800</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>31,694,300</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>No full qualifying year</strong></p></td><td><p>2,546,600</p></td><td><p>2,027,500</p></td><td><p>4,574,100</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Male</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Female</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>NI Contributions only</strong></p></td><td><p>13,863,400</p></td><td><p>12,378,800</p></td><td><p><strong> 26,242,200 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>NI Credits only</strong></p></td><td><p>1,518,900</p></td><td><p>2,918,300</p></td><td><p><strong> 4,437,200 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>NI Contributions and Credits</strong></p></td><td><p>210,300</p></td><td><p>682,700</p></td><td><p><strong> 893,000 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 15,592,600 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 15,979,800 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 31,572,400 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>No full qualifying year</strong></p></td><td><p>2,168,900</p></td><td><p>2,017,100</p></td><td><p>4,186,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The line ‘NI Contributions and Credits’ indicates where a qualifying year includes some periods of contributions and some of credits within the year.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The line ‘No full qualifying year’ refers to those individuals who may have had some contributions or credits recorded, but did not build a qualifying year in the respective years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 02/06/2021 10:12:31 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1314855

registered interest
date	14/05/2021
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	Palliative Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for its policies of the findings of Marie Curie's Better End of Life report, published on 8 April 2021, and what plans he has to improve the resourcing of palliative and end of life care in the community.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	1398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2021 answer text <p>As raised by Marie Curie’s report, the Government recognises the vital role hospices have played in the response to the pandemic and made up to £280 million of additional funding available from March 2020 to March 2021. Within this funding was provision to support 46,500 community contacts per day, which included supporting people at the end of their life within the community. The Government has also either funded directly or committed to reimburse all known personal protective equipment requirements for all end of life and palliative care providers, including hospices, until March 2022.</p><p>Clinical commissioning groups commission palliative and end of life care services in response to the needs of their local population to fulfil their core duty to commission high-quality care. NHS England and NHS Improvement have developed Palliative and End of Life Care Strategic Clinical Networks, working closely with local commissioners to develop and implement sustainable commissioning models for palliative and end of life care, including hospice services.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 24/05/2021 16:56:25 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1314945

registered interest
date	11/05/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what comparative assessment she has made of the effect on trends in the level of poverty among young parents of those in receipt of (a) universal credit and (b) legacy benefits.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	900017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2021 answer text <p>It is not possible to make meaningful comparisons between universal credit and legacy benefit claimants due to differences in the size, and composition of these caseloads.</p><p> </p><p>Anyone on legacy benefits, who feels they would be better off on UC, can make a new claim to UC.</p><p> </p><p>The Government encourages anybody to go on GOV.UK and use one of the independent benefit calculators to check carefully their eligibility, because on applying for Universal Credit, their entitlement to legacy benefits will cease and they will not be able to return to them in the future.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 17/05/2021 16:45:50 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1312112

registered interest
date	26/04/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) men and (b) women (i) built up a qualifying year towards the state pension by paying National Insurance Contributions, (ii) built up a qualifying year towards the state pension through National Insurance credits and (iii) did not build up a qualifying year towards the state pension in (A) 2011-12 and (B) the latest year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	187338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Dissolution.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 29/04/2021 12:30:26 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1312120

registered interest
date	26/04/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disability employment advisers have been employed by her Department in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	187339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>The number of <strong>disability employment advisers employed by the department in March:-</strong></p><p><strong>2018 was 465</strong></p><p><strong>2019 was 441</strong></p><p><strong>2020 was 546</strong></p><p><strong>2021 was 479</strong></p><p>Please note that we only have figures back to March 2018 because around that time we updated our business systems and any figures before this update are no longer available. The demand for DEA’s in March 2020 was 500 and this coming year is 1000 so we will be recruiting extra staff to meet this target by March 2022.</p><p>The government will boost the number of specialist advisers dedicated to helping disabled jobseekers to secure and stay in work, with an additional 315 Disability Employment Advisor (DEA) roles to be in jobcentres across the UK by May 2021.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/04/2021 08:07:58 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1312121

registered interest
date	26/04/2021
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to increase the number of disability employment advisers.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	187340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>The government will boost the number of specialist advisers dedicated to helping disabled jobseekers to secure and stay in work, with an additional 315 Disability Employment Adviser (DEA) roles to be in Jobcentre across the UK by May 2021.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/04/2021 08:20:00 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain