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889262

registered interest
date	23/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Bases: Trespass
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What progress his Department has made on taking legal action against people who set up illegal encampments on its land.
tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
uin	904880
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence always takes appropriate and timely legal action to remove people occupying its land unlawfully. Any eviction must be in accordance with policy and the legal process.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 23/04/2018 16:09:06 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

887864

registered interest
date	20/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Small Claims: Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to allow people to submit evidence by e-mail to the Money Claims Online website.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	136859
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2018 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) launched the new online money claims service on 26 March 2018. This new digital service already allows people to submit email responses and some correspondence. As the service is developed, HMCTS expects to extend the functionality to include the emailing of evidence.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/04/2018 15:08:53 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

887865

registered interest
date	20/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Shipbuilding: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to support SMEs to tender for contracts issued as a result of the National Shipbuilding Strategy.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
uin	136860
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2018 answer text <p>The National Shipbuilding Strategy aims to re-energise the UK's shipbuilding industry by encouraging participation from the wider UK shipbuilding enterprise, ensuring that we receive bids from the widest range of suppliers possible. This will ensure that the UK remains globally competitive, and that the Ministry of Defence procurement process is as competitive as possible.</p><p>We are committed to making it easier to do business with defence, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). As part of this we are working to improve our engagement with smaller businesses; making it easier for them to find opportunities and win defence business.</p><p>Since March 2016 we have implemented a range of measures to support SMEs, including revising our polices, advertising all our contracts above £10,000 online, and requiring our prime contractors to similarly advertise subcontract opportunities. Furthermore, we have introduced a new Supplier Portal page, bringing together the key information for suppliers of all sizes.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb question first answered 25/04/2018 16:16:53 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

887866

registered interest
date	20/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence: Radar
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to (a) support and (b) grow the UK defence radar industry.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
uin	136861
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 13 April 2018 to Question 135615 to the hon. Member for Bridgend (Madeleine Moon).</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb question first answered 25/04/2018 16:18:00 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb attachment 1 file name 20180413_135615_Defence_Radar.docx title WQnA extract on Defence Radar
tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

887867

registered interest
date	20/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Type 45 Destroyers: Radar
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to upgrade the Sampson radars on the Type 45 destroyers to provide those destroyers with ballistic missile detection and tracking capability.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
uin	136862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2018 answer text <p>There has been some initial investment to investigate the potential for anti-ship Ballistic Missile Defence enhancements to the Type 45 destroyers. These investigations include the Sampson Multi-Function Radar. No decisions have yet been made.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb question first answered 25/04/2018 16:17:30 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

887868

registered interest
date	20/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence: Radar
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons the existing Type 102 radar held in storage by BAE Systems is not currently deployed.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
uin	136863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2018 answer text <p>The Type 102 radar system is held in storage as there is, currently, no operational requirement to deploy it.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb question first answered 25/04/2018 16:16:01 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

887869

registered interest
date	20/04/2018
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	Suicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to improve the availability of support that is offered for the friends and families of suicide victims.
tabling member constituency	Bolton North East
tabling member printed	Sir David Crausby
uin	136864
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>Providing better information and support to people bereaved by suicide is a key area for action in the Cross-Government Suicide Prevention Strategy for England. Effective suicide bereavement services should be provided through effective local partnerships between local authorities, National Health Service organisations and voluntary and charitable sector providers. Public Health England published a suite of guidance in 2017, in conjunction with the National Suicide Prevention Alliance and the Support After Suicide Partnership, to local areas for developing and implementing compassionate suicide bereavement services. The guidance is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/support-after-a-suicide-a-guide-to-providing-local-services" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/support-after-a-suicide-a-guide-to-providing-local-services</a></p><p> </p><p>Almost every local area has a multi-agency suicide prevention plan in place to ensure that all local services are working together to deliver tailored approaches to reducing suicides in their communities. Public Health England published updated guidance in 2016 to local areas on developing these multi-agency partnerships and plans and advised that local plans should reflect the key areas for action of the national strategy, including providing effective bereavement support. The guidance is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/suicide-prevention-developing-a-local-action-plan" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/suicide-prevention-developing-a-local-action-plan</a></p><p> </p><p>The Department funds the Help is at Hand suicide bereavement support resource, published by Public Health England, which provides compassionate information and signposting to people who have been bereaved by suicide. Help is at Hand provides helpful advice such as explaining the processes followed by authorities following a suicide, gives testimonies by other people bereaved by suicide and provides a directory of other organisations which can provide support. The guidance is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/you-are-not-alone-help-is-at-hand-for-anyone-bereaved-by-suicide" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/you-are-not-alone-help-is-at-hand-for-anyone-bereaved-by-suicide</a></p><p> </p><p>We published Learning from Deaths guidance to the NHS in 2017, which was in response to the Care Quality Commission’s review of how the NHS investigates and learns from deaths. A key area of this document is how the NHS should engage and communicate compassionately and respectfully with bereaved families when a patient dies. We have made it clear within that guidance that we expect NHS organisations to provide bereavement support services, or signpost bereaved families to services, to ensure they can access effective support. The guidance is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/national-guidance-on-learning-from-deaths/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/national-guidance-on-learning-from-deaths/</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 30/04/2018 09:49:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	437 label Biography information for Sir David Crausby

887870

registered interest
date	20/04/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Bangladesh: Rohingya
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what discussions she has had with the Bangladeshi Government on the protection of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh from the effects of the monsoon season; and (a) with whom she had and (b) what the outcome was of those discussions.
tabling member constituency	Cynon Valley
tabling member printed	Ann Clwyd
uin	136865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2018 answer text <p>The Foreign Secretary and the Secretary of State for International Development wrote to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on 20 March 2018. The UK recognised Bangladesh’s strong national track record in cyclone and monsoon preparedness and response, and asked that this expertise be applied to the Rohingya response and that options are provided for people to move to land that is at a lower risk of flooding. UK Ministers and officials continue to liaise with Government of Bangladesh counterparts on this issue.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 26/04/2018 14:07:06 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	553 label Biography information for Ann Clwyd

887871

registered interest
date	20/04/2018
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	Leasehold: Fees and Charges
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 provide support to owners of new-build leasehold homes who are charged fees other than ground rent by the freeholder.
tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
uin	136866
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to promoting fairness and transparency for leaseholders and freeholders. We want to ensure that consumers only pay for the services that they receive, that costs should be transparent, communicated effectively and that there should be a clear route to challenge or redress if things go wrong.</p><p>As announced on 21 December 2017, the Government will introduce legislation so that, in future, ground rents on newly established leases of houses or flats are set at a peppercorn (zero financial value).</p><p>In addition, on 1 April, the Department published its response to the recent call for evidence on <em>Protecting consumers in the letting and managing agent market</em>. Proposals include establishing a working group to take forward work on regulating letting and managing agents as well as to consider under what circumstances fees such as service charges, administration charges and other charges placed on properties are justified, how they should be presented to consumers and to explore the best means to challenge fees which are unjustified.</p><p /><p><br></p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 25/04/2018 15:53:29 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn

887872

registered interest
date	20/04/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Traffic Offences: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will hold discussions with the Secretary of State for Justice on introducing tighter measures for companies that employ drivers so that such companies are automatically informed when an employee is convicted of a motoring offence and subsequently loses their professional driving licence; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
tabling member printed	Mr Chris Leslie
uin	136867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>There are no plans for the Secretary of State to hold discussions with the Secretary of State for Justice about measures of this kind.</p><p> </p><p>The Driver and Vehicle and Licencing Agency (DVLA) does not hold or ask for details of where drivers work. In the haulage sector, some drivers are self-employed or work through agencies on short-term contracts for a variety of different companies.</p><p> </p><p>All employers have a duty to check their employees’ licences regularly; the DVLA advises that this should be done at least once every three months and they can do so using the DVLA’s free licence check service.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 30/04/2018 11:09:48 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	422 label Biography information for Mr Chris Leslie