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864271

registered interest
date	15/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Terrorism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Digital Charter, published by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 25 January 2018, what her Department's definition of terrorist material is; and whether the Government’s plans to strengthen the offences under section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 will include changing that definition.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	132756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>The statutory definition of terrorism is provided at section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2000, and the Government has no plans to amend this. There is no single statutory definition of ‘terrorist material’ however there are a range of applicable offences. It is unlawful under section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2006 to publish a statement directly or indirectly encouraging another person to commit, prepare or instigate an act of terrorism.</p><p>Section 2 of the Terrorism Act 2006 covers dissemination of publications which are likely to be understood as such an encouragement, or to be useful to a person preparing or committing an act of terrorism. Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 makes it unlawful to collect or possess information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism. The Government intends to clarify that this applies to the repeated streaming or viewing such material online, and to increase the maximum penalty from 10 to 15 years, but does not plan to change the type of material covered by the offence.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 22/03/2018 12:18:06 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

864455

registered interest
date	15/03/2018
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	Young People: Voluntary Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the independent review of full-time social action, published in January 2018, whether the Government plans to allocate money raised from dormant accounts to fund youth full-time social action programmes.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	132938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>Government recently announced that £90m of dormant assets will support disadvantaged and disengaged young people access employment.</p><p> </p><p>The Big Lottery Fund (BLF) is named in the dormant assets legislation as the distributor of this money and Government is working closely with them to develop plans and their funding programme. There will be an open engagement process with young people, youth organisations, businesses and others later in spring to inform this work.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 20/03/2018 17:42:22 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

864457

registered interest
date	15/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Shoplifting: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the amount of court time that has been made available as a result of his Department's policy to allow people accused of shoplifting items under the value of £200 to plead guilty by post.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	132940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>There is some saving of court time where an accused indicates a guilty plea by post compared with an equivalent case where the accused appears in person and pleads guilty. To date no estimate has been made of the amount of court time that has been made available, either generally or in respect of low-value shoplifting cases. Data to answer the question is not available and it would present a disproportionate expense to HMCTS to provide it.</p><p> </p><p>In all cases the defendant may choose to enter their plea in open court at a hearing if they prefer.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 20/03/2018 17:38:15 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

864464

registered interest
date	15/03/2018
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	Obesity: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is developing a new child obesity plan; and what assessment he has made of the potential merits of developing a new child obesity plan that includes steps to reduce child tooth decay.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	132947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>Improving the oral health of children is a priority for this Government. Key measures in our world-leading childhood obesity plan include the soft drinks industry levy and sugar reduction and wider reformulation programme which are reducing the amount of sugar children consume.</p><p> </p><p>Current advertising restrictions in the United Kingdom on high fat, salt or sugar (HFSS) products are among the toughest in the world. Strict new rules came into effect in July 2017 banning the advertising of HFSS food or drink products in children’s media. These restrictions apply across all non-broadcast media including in print, cinema, online and in social media.</p><p> </p><p>In August 2017 we announced £5 million investment in a policy research unit on childhood obesity to provide a robust evidence, evaluation and research capability including looking at the impact of marketing (including advertising) on childhood obesity. We will use this, alongside other reports and data published on progress in delivering our plan, to determine whether sufficient progress has been made and whether alternative levers need to be considered.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 132948 question first answered 20/03/2018 16:39:52 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

864465

registered interest
date	15/03/2018
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	Dental Health: Children
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 potential effect on children's oral health of a ban on advertising high-sugar products on television before 9pm.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	132948
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>Improving the oral health of children is a priority for this Government. Key measures in our world-leading childhood obesity plan include the soft drinks industry levy and sugar reduction and wider reformulation programme which are reducing the amount of sugar children consume.</p><p> </p><p>Current advertising restrictions in the United Kingdom on high fat, salt or sugar (HFSS) products are among the toughest in the world. Strict new rules came into effect in July 2017 banning the advertising of HFSS food or drink products in children’s media. These restrictions apply across all non-broadcast media including in print, cinema, online and in social media.</p><p> </p><p>In August 2017 we announced £5 million investment in a policy research unit on childhood obesity to provide a robust evidence, evaluation and research capability including looking at the impact of marketing (including advertising) on childhood obesity. We will use this, alongside other reports and data published on progress in delivering our plan, to determine whether sufficient progress has been made and whether alternative levers need to be considered.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 132947 question first answered 20/03/2018 16:39:52 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

864466

registered interest
date	15/03/2018
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	Sugar: Sales Promotions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is assessing the potential merits of limiting the availability of high sugar products as part of supermarket price promotions and at the point-of-sale.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	132949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave the hon. Member for West Bromwich East on 8 February 2018 to Questions <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=126152+" target="_blank">126152</a> and <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=126153" target="_blank">126153</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England’s first progress report on sugar reduction will be published in the spring.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/03/2018 14:13:58 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

864473

registered interest
date	15/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Autism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Autism and education in England 2017, published by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Autism, if he will introduce a national autism and education strategy.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	132956
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2018 answer text <p>The department is considering it’s response to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Autism’s report 'Autism and education in England 2017', as well as Dame Christine Lenehan’s review of residential special schools, ‘Good Intentions, Good Enough?’. The department will also consider the outcome of the Bercow ten-years-on review of the provision of speech, language and communication needs.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/03/2018 16:29:33 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

862266

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Retail Crime Steering Group
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made on helping develop a five-year strategy for the National Retail Crime Steering Group.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	132685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>I am the co-chair of the National Retail Crime Steering Group with the British Retail Consortium. It is an important group that brings together representatives from government departments, the police and the retail sector to focus on the crime issues that affect retailers. The Steering Group has a work plan that has been developed in consultation with its members. This helps to ensure that the work is focused on the retail sector’s crime priorities, such as tackling violence and abuse against retail staff.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 21/03/2018 14:39:47 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

862271

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Business: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost of the different categories of crime to UK businesses.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	132690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises that crime against businesses causes damage and disruption to those businesses as well as having a negative impact on their customers and the wider community. However, we do not routinely collect data on the costs of different types of crimes to different types of businesses. We do have assessments of the costs of crime to the retail sector provided by our partners on the National Retail Crime Steering Group. For example, the British Retail Consortium has estimated that the direct financial cost of crime to the UK retail industry was £700 million in 2016-17. It estimated that the cost of customer theft was £503 million and the cost of fraud against the sector was £155 million.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/04/2018 09:40:30 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

860671

registered interest
date	12/03/2018
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	Food Supply
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 contingency plans his Department (a) has agreed on and (b) are working on to ensure that the UK's food supply is not affected when the UK exits the EU.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	132028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2018 answer text <p>Food is one of the UK’s 13 critical infrastructure sectors and Defra produces an annual Sector Security and Resilience Plan working closely with industry sectors. The UK has a high degree of food security with access to a diverse range of sources of supply, including domestic production. This will continue to be the case after we leave the EU. Food supply is highly resilient with diversity and flexibility throughout the supply chain, and industry can respond quickly to ensure ongoing supply.</p><p> </p><p>Defra has been working closely with other Government departments, including the Border Planning Group (BPG), which provides oversight and assurance of departmental plans for managing the border-related impacts of leaving the EU both for Day 1 and beyond. Planning work aims to ensure three key objectives for the border are delivered for Day 1 and beyond: maintaining security; facilitating the flow of goods and people; revenue protection.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 15/03/2018 10:44:19 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe