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1140181

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Poultry: Antibiotics
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 plans his Department has to reduce the use of antibiotics in chicken farming.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	278963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>The British Poultry Council, representing 90% of UK chicken meat, reported a reduction in use from 49 mg/kg in 2014 to 10 mg/kg in 2017 (latest data). Their current published ambition is to keep use below 25 mg/kg.</p><p> </p><p>The UK national cross-government 5 Year action plan on antibiotic resistance includes our commitment to work with vets and farmers to keep sector targets under review and define new antibiotic use objectives by 2021.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 31/07/2019 14:59:39 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1140185

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Sewage: Waste Disposal
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 estimate he has made of the number of sewage releases by water companies in the last three months.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	278964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>In England, sewage is collected and treated at approximately 5,500 water company sewage treatment works. Discharges from these works occur on a daily basis and are permitted by the Environment Agency. Additionally, during wet weather there may be discharges from storm overflows.</p><p> </p><p>Reports of both the volume of discharges from sewage treatment works and spill numbers from storm overflows in England are submitted to the Environment Agency on an annual basis as per the requirements in the permits. There is no routine requirement to provide reports at three or six monthly intervals.</p><p> </p><p>While no data is available specifically for the last three or six months, based on the latest reported data for 2018 the daily average volume of treated sewage discharge from sewage treatment works was 17.5 billion litres per day. Spill data was also reported for 6,182 storm overflows in England with a total of 146,930 spill events during 2018.</p><p> </p><p>There is currently a programme to install monitoring on the vast majority of overflows in England by 2020. This monitoring will measure how frequently and for how long an overflow operates.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 278965 question first answered 29/07/2019 16:36:17 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1140186

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Sewage: Waste Disposal
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many sewage releases there were by water company in each of the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	278965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>In England, sewage is collected and treated at approximately 5,500 water company sewage treatment works. Discharges from these works occur on a daily basis and are permitted by the Environment Agency. Additionally, during wet weather there may be discharges from storm overflows.</p><p> </p><p>Reports of both the volume of discharges from sewage treatment works and spill numbers from storm overflows in England are submitted to the Environment Agency on an annual basis as per the requirements in the permits. There is no routine requirement to provide reports at three or six monthly intervals.</p><p> </p><p>While no data is available specifically for the last three or six months, based on the latest reported data for 2018 the daily average volume of treated sewage discharge from sewage treatment works was 17.5 billion litres per day. Spill data was also reported for 6,182 storm overflows in England with a total of 146,930 spill events during 2018.</p><p> </p><p>There is currently a programme to install monitoring on the vast majority of overflows in England by 2020. This monitoring will measure how frequently and for how long an overflow operates.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 278964 question first answered 29/07/2019 16:36:17 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1140187

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Sub-letting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to make the sub-letting of residential property a criminal offence.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	278966
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2019 answer text <p>There are no plans to legislate in this area.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 24/07/2019 16:34:28 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1140190

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	NHS: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much was spent by the NHS on settling compensation claims in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	278968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2019 answer text <p>NHS Resolution operates both clinical and non-clinical schemes for dealing with claims made against NHS organisations and independent sector providers of National Health Service care in England. Its latest Annual Report, published on 11 July 2019, shows the payments (damages, claimant and defence costs) relating to claims for the financial year 2018-19 was £2,422 million.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 26/07/2019 12:02:34 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1140191

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Databases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many requests for vehicle owner information have been made by overseas enforcement agencies in each of the last five years by country.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	278969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2019 answer text <p>As part of the Cross Border Exchange Directive, EU Member States can request keeper or owner details of vehicles from other Member States, to follow up certain road traffic offences. CBE was implemented in the UK on 7 May 2017, the table below shows the number of requests for vehicle keeper information up to 27 June 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>(from 7 May) 2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(to 27 June) 2019 </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Austria</p></td><td><p>15,988</p></td><td><p>30,530</p></td><td><p>8,786</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belgium</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bulgaria</p></td><td><p>1,222</p></td><td><p>2,693</p></td><td><p>1,235</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Croatia</p></td><td><p>218</p></td><td><p>367</p></td><td><p>102</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Czech Republic</p></td><td><p>86</p></td><td><p>2,115</p></td><td><p>1,474</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Estonia</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Finland</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>France</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>241,467</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Germany</p></td><td><p>40,124</p></td><td><p>88,362</p></td><td><p>29,388</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hungary</p></td><td><p>6,169</p></td><td><p>9,861</p></td><td><p>3,636</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Italy</p></td><td><p>13,586</p></td><td><p>58,832</p></td><td><p>21,422</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Latvia</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>512</p></td><td><p>15,354</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lithuania</p></td><td><p>1,211</p></td><td><p>3,761</p></td><td><p>5,903</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Luxembourg</p></td><td><p>1,286</p></td><td><p>3,149</p></td><td><p>1,270</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Malta</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>43</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Poland</p></td><td><p>1,697</p></td><td><p>3,816</p></td><td><p>1,310</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Slovakia</p></td><td><p>199</p></td><td><p>408</p></td><td><p>195</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Slovenia</p></td><td><p>86</p></td><td><p>196</p></td><td><p>117</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spain</p></td><td><p>1,199</p></td><td><p>51,851</p></td><td><p>16,863</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Netherlands</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>3,569</p></td><td><p>21,961</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In addition, the Home Office can receive requests for vehicle information from overseas authorities, through either Mutual Legal Assistance requests or European Investigation Orders. Information on the volume of these requests is not stored within the Department for Transport.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 24/07/2019 14:58:05 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1140192

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cars: Alternative Fuels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many alternative fuelled cars have been registered in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	278970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2019 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of alternative fuelled vehicles, that were registered in 2016, 2017 and 2018.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>90,669</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>121,441</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>148,526</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 24/07/2019 15:06:15 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1140193

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Ferries: Minimum Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to require UK registered ferry operators to pay the Minimum Wage to all employees.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	278971
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>I have proposed, subject to Parliamentary time, amending legislation be made in autumn that will extend the Minimum Wage to all seafarers working domestically in the UK and this will include all ferries that are working domestic routes in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The amending legislation will be subject to the affirmative process and it is expected to enter into force in April 2020. This will align with the annual amendment to the minimum wage rates and should simplify the administrative processes for industry.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 31/07/2019 10:31:16 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1140194

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Ferries: Minimum Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what representations he has received from unions on UK registered ferry operators paying staff less than the Minimum Wage.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	278972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>I have received several representations from unions on staff being paid less than the Minimum Wage on ferries operating from the UK on specific routes, including those being operated by UK registered operators. The vessels are operating domestic and international destinations. Where specific vessels have been referenced by the unions these were not registered on the UK ship register.</p><p> </p><p>The current legislation applies to all seafarers working in the UK internal waters and who is a worker as per the definition in the National Minimum Wage Act 1998. It also applies to those working outside the internal waters if they are working on a UK registered vessel and are ordinarily resident in the UK and some of their work is in the UK. Seafarers who are not resident in the UK and are working outside the UK internal waters are not covered by the legislation. The proposed amendments will extend the protections of the National Minimum Wage Act to all seafarers working domestically in the UK territorial waters on all vessels.</p><p> </p><p>If a seafarer is entitled to the Minimum Wage than this should be raised immediately with the HMRC enforcement team. Every complaint made is considered by HMRC for investigation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 31/07/2019 10:43:23 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1140196

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Turkey: Cyprus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Turkish counterpart on reports of exploration and drilling vessels entering the Cyprus exclusive economic zone.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	278973
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>The then Minister of State for Europe and the Americas spoke to Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusolgu on 9 July to reiterate the United Kingdom's opposition to Turkish drilling plans in the waters around Cyprus and encourage de-escalation. We continue to support the Republic of Cyprus's right to exploit the oil and gas in its internationally agreed Exclusive Economic Zone.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 31/07/2019 13:01:32 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord