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1611627

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date	18/04/2023
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: Menopause
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to support women with menopausal symptoms to stay in employment.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	181171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2023 answer text <p>On 6 March, DWP appointed Helen Tomlinson as the Government’s Menopause Employment Champion. Her role will be to work with employers and sectors to drive awareness of the issues faced by those experiencing menopause symptoms; encouraging employers to develop policies that create a more supportive environment to help these women stay in work and progress.</p><p> </p><p>The Women’s Health Strategy has menopause as a priority, and the UK wide Menopause task force will take a holistic approach to menopause care from healthcare to workplace support and education, enabling national coverage which will provide benefits at a local level.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 25/04/2023 13:58:31 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1611676

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Crime: Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether the term crime in the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill includes fraud and scams.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Sir Stephen Timms
uin	181220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>Tackling fraud requires a unified and co-ordinated response from government, law enforcement and the private sector to better protect the public and businesses from fraud, reduce the impact of fraud on victims, and increase the disruption and prosecution of fraudsters. This is why we will shortly publish a new strategy to address the threat of fraud.</p><p>The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, which is currently before Parliament will make it easier for businesses to process personal data in order to tackle all types of crime, including fraud and other types of economic crime. When the Bill is commenced, they will be able to rely on a new lawful ground of ‘recognised legitimate interests’ under the UK GDPR to process personal data for these purposes. Unlike the current legislation, this will not require businesses to do a detailed assessment of the potential impact of the processing on the rights of individuals, which may affect the speed at which intelligence information relating to suspected fraud is shared.</p><p>Reforms in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill will also enable businesses, in certain situations, to share information more easily for the purposes of preventing, investigating or detecting economic crime by disapplying civil liability for breaches of confidentiality for firms who share information to combat economic crime.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 24/04/2023 08:49:29 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1611704

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
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	Carers: Parents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government plans to take to support parent carers of disabled children with returning to work.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	181248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2023 answer text <p>Our Work Coaches already offer employment support to people claiming welfare benefits, who are carers of disabled children. Any work related requirements and support should be tailored to a claimant’s individual circumstances and capabilities, including their caring responsibilities.</p><p> </p><p>Support could include access to skills provision, careers advice, job search support and volunteering opportunities, as well as access to the Flexible Support Fund to aid job entry, and help with childcare costs. Work Coaches can tailor the frequency of interviews and can contact claimants via phone or use the on-line journal to accommodate their caring responsibilities.</p><p> </p><p>Full time carers of severely disabled children are not required to undertake any work-related activities, but can seek support on a voluntary basis if they wish.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, Universal Credit claimants who start work may be able to access the UC Work Allowance and Taper, enabling them to keep more of what they earn.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 25/04/2023 15:31:52 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1611734

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
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	Older People: Advocacy
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 he has made of the implications for his policies of the joint statement by over 75 national organisations calling for the appointment of a Commissioner for Older People and Ageing.
tabling member constituency	Meon Valley
tabling member printed	Mrs Flick Drummond
uin	181278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>We have no current plans to make a specific assessment.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 24/04/2023 16:13:47 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4459 label Biography information for Mrs Flick Drummond

1611814

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Afghanistan: Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many (a) principles and (b) dependents with confirmed eligibility for relocation to the UK from the (i) Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy and (ii) Afghan Citizen Resettlement Scheme are currently housed in hotel accommodation in (A) Pakistan and (B) other third countries.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	181358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>As of 17 April there were approximately 218 principals and 968 dependents in UK-funded accommodation in Pakistan and other third countries assessed eligible under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy Scheme, and 74 principals and 230 dependents assessed eligible under the Afghan Citizen Resettlement Scheme. The Home Office and UK Visas and Immigration process cases to confirm eligibility to relocate to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 26/04/2023 11:04:14 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1611820

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Research: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the Integrated Review, published in March 2021, whether it remains the Government's policy to spend 2.4 per cent of GDP on R&D by 2027.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	181364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>In the 2017 Industrial Strategy, the Government committed to increasing UK economy-wide investment in Research and Development (R&amp;D) to 2.4% of GDP by 2027. Last year, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) updated its R&amp;D data methodology to better represent R&amp;D performed in small businesses and higher education institutions throughout the UK. The updated figures suggest that the UK’s total investment in R&amp;D reached 2.6-2.7% of GDP in 2019 and 2.9-3% in 2020, exceeding our “2.4% by 2027” target.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is now taking time to consider a range of options.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 26/04/2023 15:09:55 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1611924

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Alternative Fuel Payments: Weaver Vale
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many people in Weaver Vale constituency have received the Alternative Fuels Energy Support Payment.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	181467
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>Regional data, such as for Weaver Vale, is not yet available. Electricity suppliers, who delivered the automatic enrolment element of the scheme, are providing MPAN-level delivery data to Government, and further details will be published in due course. The Alternative Fund for the Alternative Fuel Payment, the element which requires an application, launched recently on 6 March and early data is still being collected. Transparency data also will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 26/04/2023 15:13:22 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1612138

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Food: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether raw food materials deemed at risk travelling to Northern Ireland from Great Britain will be subject to a requirement for full customs clearance.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL7246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2023 answer text <p>We have delivered a unique set of arrangements to facilitate internal UK trade and to remove unacceptable customs processes.</p><p> </p><p>The Windsor Framework expands the number of businesses able to be classed as UK internal traders, who are eligible to be authorised under the new UK Internal Market Scheme. This will allow them to move goods that are ultimately destined to remain in the UK via the customs green lane, following its full implementation in September 2024. Traders moving goods through the green lane will not face burdensome international customs processes, pay tariffs or be subject to routine customs checks.</p><p> </p><p>Where food goods are for retail sale in Northern Ireland, businesses will also be able to register for the Retail Movement Scheme for agrifood goods which will enable them to benefit from a far simplified single SPS document per lorry and face radically reduced agrifood checks.</p><p> </p><p>If goods are destined for the EU, they must move through the red lane and would be subject to the same entry and food standards checks and customs declarations applicable for food movements to the rest of the EU.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Penn question first answered 03/05/2023 16:56:30 answering member 4726 label Biography information for Baroness Penn
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1611281

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Universal Credit: National Insurance Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Universal Credit claimants have paid voluntary national insurance contributions to cover their time claiming Universal Credit because those credits are not automatically transferred to the electronic National Insurance Recording System in the last year.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	180910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2023 answer text <p>HMRC does not hold information about the number of customers who have paid voluntary national insurance contributions (NICs) due to their National Insurance record not being updated with the credits they were due while claiming Universal Credit. If customers have paid voluntary NICs unnecessarily, they can be refunded once their record has been updated with their periods of Universal Credit. HMRC is aiming to have all customer NI records for years up to April 2023 updated by the end of the 2023-24 tax year.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 25/04/2023 15:37:45 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1611338

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Sheep Meat: Overseas Trade
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many tonnes of sheep meat were (a) imported to the UK and (b) exported from the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	180966
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) is responsible for the collection and publication of data on imports and exports of goods to and from the UK. HMRC releases this information monthly, as a National Statistic called the Overseas Trade in Goods Statistics (OTS), which is available via their dedicated website (<a href="http://www.uktradeinfo.com/" target="_blank">www.uktradeinfo.com</a>).</p><p> </p><p>Classification codes (according to the Harmonised System) are available to assist in accessing published trade statistics data in the UK Global Tariff.  Goods moving to and from the UK are identified by an eight-digit commodity code. These are publicly available from the <a href="https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/find_commodity" target="_blank">UK Trade Tariff</a>.</p><p><br> The meat of sheep is classified under heading 0204. Subcategories of this code include various cuts of sheep and distinguish between frozen, fresh and chilled. Items containing prepared meats are in other chapters for example sausages are listed within heading 16XX.</p><p> </p><p>The amount of sheep meat exported from and imported to the UK for the last five years is available from the above uktradeinfo website.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 24/04/2023 17:00:11 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake