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964856

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Air Passenger Duty: Republic of Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on aviation in Northern Ireland of the abolition of Air Passenger Duty in the Republic of Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	169264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The government recognises that Northern Ireland faces unique challenges due to its geography. In order to better understand these challenges, the government ran a call for evidence on ‘VAT, Air Passenger Duty and tourism in Northern Ireland’ which closed in June. It is the government’s intention to report at Budget.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 10/09/2018 14:31:07 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

964857

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Air Passenger Duty: Regional Airports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the imposition of Air Passenger Duty on regional airports in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	169265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>Like all taxes, Air Passenger Duty remains under review and officials regularly engage with stakeholders, including representatives from regional airports. Last year regional airports handled approximately 113 million passengers, around 40% of the UK total, and airports across the regions of the UK continue to grow.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 10/09/2018 14:29:57 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

946974

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
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	Housing: Lifts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that buildings constructed for (a) elderly and (b) vulnerable people have more than one lift and such people are not trapped in their homes if one lift breaks down; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	167238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>Building Regulations guidance in Approved Document M states that a passenger lift is the most suitable form of access for people moving from one story to another. Government is expecting to receive advice from the Building Regulations Advisory Committee on the scope of a review of this guidance in Approved Document M.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 10/09/2018 16:14:39 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

918276

registered interest
date	06/06/2018
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Industry: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps the Government is taking to ensure that Scotland benefits from the modern industrial strategy.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	905620
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2018 answer text <p>The UK Government has been working collaboratively with the Scottish Government to implement the Industrial Strategy.</p><p> </p><p>We have announced sector deals in Life Sciences, Creative Industries, Artificial Intelligence, Automotive and Construction. I am also aware of further proposals for sector deals from the oil and gas, and food and drink sectors which have the potential to make a significant contribution in Scotland.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 905623 question first answered 06/06/2018 14:10:52 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

910200

registered interest
date	23/05/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether a train operator has an obligation under its Disabled People’s Protection Policy to ensure that ramps which are fit for purpose are made available to facilitate the boarding or leaving of a train by wheelchair users whether assistance has been booked in advance or not.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	147425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>The provision of manual boarding ramps for access and egress to a passenger train is mandatory for regulated rail vehicles where the step/gap between the train and the platform is greater than the permitted maximums. As a condition of an operator’s licence, a train company must publish a Disabled People’s Protection Policy (DPPP), which is approved by the Office of Rail and Roads.</p><p> </p><p>The DPPP must demonstrate commitments to provide assistance to disabled passengers who need a ramp, booked in advance and not.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 04/06/2018 14:47:30 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

909104

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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	Ibrutinib
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the absence of a remission timeframe in the recommendation of NICE on the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, for what reason NHS England does not prescribe ibrutinib to patients who have been in remission for more than three years.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	146193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2018 answer text <p>We have been informed by NHS England that, since 25 April 2017, it has routinely commissioned ibrutinib for relapsed / refractory chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia with 17p deletion or TP53 mutation. Prior to this, ibrutinib was funded via the Cancer Drugs Fund.</p><p>NHS England has advised that the basis of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) assessment of the clinical effectiveness of ibrutinib was a clinical trial (PCYC-1112). The trial’s patient inclusion criteria included a caveat that patients should have failed to respond or had a progression free survival of less than three years (from first dose of treatment with a purine analogue-based therapy and anti-CD20 containing chemo-immunotherapy after at least two cycles).</p><p>The treatment criteria set by NHS England are derived directly from the full NICE Guidance document, including the evidence and studies upon which the NICE Committee relied in order to make a positive recommendation as to the drug’s clinical and cost effectiveness.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 30/05/2018 15:55:41 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

902097

registered interest
date	10/05/2018
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	Government Departments: Land
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Government departments and their agencies release land for the provision of new homes.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	905326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2018 answer text <p>All land-owning departments and arms-length bodies are required to take steps to regularly review their estates and delivery plans to identify land suitable for disposal, including for housing use, via the Public Land for Housing programme.</p><p>Release of land contributes to the Government's target of building 300,000 homes annually by the mid 2020s. Not all central government land is suitable for housing, but may be suitable for other operational purposes, such as new health facilities or schools.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 16/05/2018 15:04:33 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

837744

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hezbollah
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of proscribing the political wing of Hezbollah as a result of the comments made by Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem that the organisation does not maintain a military and a political wing.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	126775
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2018 answer text <p>The UK distinguishes between the political and military wings of Hizballah. The UK proscribed Hizballah’s External Security Organisation in March 2001 and in 2008 the proscription was extended to Hizballah’s military apparatus. We do not routinely comment on whether an organisation is or is not under consideration for proscription.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 13/02/2018 15:15:35 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

822991

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
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	Medicine: Israel
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 results have been achieved from medical research conducted by British and Israeli scientists through the Britain-Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	122674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>BIRAX will soon have funded 19 collaborative research projects focused on regenerative medicine and raised almost £10 million of funding, more than 90% of it from research foundations and philanthropic donors. This year a major new initiative, BIRAX Ageing, will launch which will be the main academic research theme for the next 4-5 years.</p><p>Principal Investigators presented BIRAX supported research at 71 conferences and workshops to over 21,000 Principal Investigators, postdoctoral students and students across 22 countries including the US, India, China, France, Japan, Germany, Sweden as well as to audiences in the UK and Israel. To date, 27 scientific articles have been published as a result of BIRAX projects and BIRAX funded research has been cited 635 times.</p><p>Three of the seven BIRAX projects which concluded in 2016, have registered patents and two project teams have been approached by biotech companies expressing an interest in licensing their intellectual property. Three BIRAX projects have secured further funding for research initiated under the BIRAX initiative.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 18/01/2018 16:52:49 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

714849

registered interest
date	23/03/2017
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Israel: Palestinians
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support her Department is providing to projects facilitating peaceful co-existence between Palestinians and Israelis.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	909549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2017 answer text <p>DFID is developing a programme of support for people-to-people projects in Israel and the OPTs. UK support will help Israelis and Palestinians work together to achieve tangible improvements in their lives and build understanding between people on both sides of the conflict. The programme is aiming for launch at the beginning of next financial year.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 29/03/2017 14:30:54 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell