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973171

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date	13/09/2018
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	Tourism Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on with whom responsibility will lie for Tourism Ireland after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	174720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>Under the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, the promotion of tourism in Northern Ireland and Ireland was set out in the North-South Ministerial Council as one of the priorities for co-operation. The UK Government has consistently placed upholding the Agreement at the heart of its approach, and recognises the basis it has provided for the deep economic and social cooperation on the island of Ireland. This includes North-South cooperation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The UK Government is confident we will reach an agreement with the EU that avoids a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland. We do not anticipate any change to the agreement on how the island of Ireland is promoted.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 15/10/2018 11:49:52 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

973173

registered interest
date	13/09/2018
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	Gaming Machines: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the lowering of stakes on fixed-odds betting terminals in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	174722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>Gambling in Northern Ireland is a devolved matter and the regulatory change to sub-category B2 machines will cover Great Britain only.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 15/10/2018 11:53:52 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

973181

registered interest
date	13/09/2018
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	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
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 recent steps he has taken to ensure that leaseholders in privately-owned blocks do not have to fund the replacement of cladding and remedial fire safety measures following the Grenfell Tower tragedy; and if he will he make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Riverside
tabling member printed	Dame Louise Ellman
uin	174629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>Ministers have been very clear that in the private sector it is the responsibility of the building owner, or responsible person, to fund the measures necessary to ensure the safety of residents and must do all they can to protect leaseholders from additional costs. We are encouraged by those in the sector, such as Barratt Developments, Mace, Legal &amp; General and Taylor Wimpey, who are doing the right thing and taking responsibility, and we expect others to follow their lead.</p><p>The Secretary of State has recently written to all private sector building owners who are currently committed to passing costs to leaseholders, and to those who are yet to make clear their plans to remediate their buildings, or their intention to pass on costs.</p><p>These letters set the expectation that there is a moral imperative for private sector landlords to do the right thing and remove unsafe cladding quickly and not leave leaseholders to cover the cost. We have made clear that we have ruled out no options if industry, individual building owners, or developers do not come forward with their own solutions.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 09/10/2018 14:59:04 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	484 label Biography information for Dame Louise Ellman

973194

registered interest
date	13/09/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Arrests
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of trends in the number of arrests made by the police in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	174752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>In the last 5 years, arrests have fallen 27% from 1,225,123 (2011/2012) to 779,660 (2016/17). This continues the downward trend since a peak in the year ending March 2008, when there were 1,475,266 arrests.</p><p>There are a number of possible factors which may have contributed to the fall in the number of arrests. Inspections carried out by HMICFRS in 2016, as part of their police effectiveness assessments, did not identify one single cause (PEEL report on police effectiveness). One possible reason linked to the fall in the number of arrests is the increased use of voluntary attendance, where an individual attends voluntarily at a police station or at any other place where a constable is present without having been arrested for the purpose of assisting with an investigation. It is thought that the use of this practice has increased due to a more stringent application of the necessity test (which was introduced in 2012), where, for an arrest to be lawful, there must be reasonable grounds for believing that the arrest is necessary (PACE Code G).</p><p>There is also evidence of greater use of other outcomes, such as community resolutions, as part of efforts to reduce the number of young people entering custody. Other factors that may have had an impact on the fall in the number of arrests are discussed in the HMICFRS PEEL report 2016. See <a href="http://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/wp-content/uploads/peel-police-effectiveness-2016.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/wp-content/uploads/peel-police-effectiveness-2016.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 09/10/2018 15:44:52 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

973196

registered interest
date	13/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many criminal incidents which included the use of a bladed weapon were reported to the police in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	174754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply and I would be depositing a copy in the Library of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 09/10/2018 11:03:11 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ174754.pdf title UKSA response
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

973209

registered interest
date	13/09/2018
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	General Practitioners: Merseyside
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of additional GPs that will be needed in (a) Merseyside and (b) Wirral by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
uin	174630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>The number of general practitioners (GPs) (headcount), excluding retainers, registrars and locums, for the North West, Merseyside and the Wirral is available in the attached table. Figures are not available for Wallasey. Due to changes in the data source, comparisons before and after 2015 should be treated with caution.</p><p> </p><p>The General Practice Forward View, published in April 2016, committed to strengthening the general practice workforce and increasing the number of doctors in general practice by 5,000 full time equivalents.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England Cheshire and Merseyside advises it has a number of schemes in place to increase the GP workforce. This includes international recruitment and GP retention programmes. There are currently seven GPs in the Wirral on the GP Retention Scheme which supports GPs to remain in practice who are only able to do a maximum of four clinical session per week and includes protected time for continuing professional development and educational support. NHS England Cheshire and Merseyside has also recently secured £323,000 additional funding for further retention schemes in the local area. In addition, the Wirral is being supported to develop a GP sessional register to encourage GPs who prefer locum working in the area to become part of the wider primary care team, with the intention that they will apply for permanent positions.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 174631 question first answered 09/10/2018 17:04:56 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine attachment 1 file name PQ174631 data table.docx title PQ174630,631 attached document
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

973237

registered interest
date	13/09/2018
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Overseas Trade: Israel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps he is taking to strengthen the collaboration between UK and Israeli companies in the medical sector.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	174724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>The UK and Israel have a strong and important trading relationship, and we are committed to strengthening it. The commercial team in our Embassy in Tel Aviv actively promote UK-Israel trade in the medical sector and are sponsoring a delegation of 6 Israeli importers of medical devices to meet with UK companies at the upcoming Medica Trade Exhibition this year.</p><p><br>There is also extensive bilateral collaborative medical research between the UK and Israel. The UK-Israel Tech Hub, based at the Embassy, helps to create tech and innovation partnerships across several sectors, including healthcare.</p><p><br>Next month, the Embassy is organising a visit by a delegation of senior NHS officials to Tel Aviv to meet with Israeli healthcare companies who are looking to invest in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 15/10/2018 16:12:09 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

973238

registered interest
date	13/09/2018
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	Fisheries: Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on which dates in 2018 (a) Ministers and (b) officials met with Irish counterparts to discuss the Voisinage Agreement.
tabling member constituency	South West Wiltshire
tabling member printed	Dr Andrew Murrison
uin	174646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>The UK Government remains committed to the principles behind the Voisinage Agreement and to continued cooperation between Northern Ireland and Ireland. I wrote to Minister Creed, the Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, on 6 June to reiterate our concerns about the suspension of the Voisinage Agreement by Ireland. The Secretary of State further raised the issue with Minister Creed when they met on 13 June. Defra officials have also raised the matter with Irish counterparts on separate occasions.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 15/10/2018 16:29:55 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison

973242

registered interest
date	13/09/2018
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	NHS Property Board
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NHS Property Board will be making a submission to the development of the long-term plan for the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	174757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>The NHS Property Board has been established to provide leadership and strategic direction to the National Health Service on estates matters. As part of this, it will seek to ensure that estates issues are appropriately addressed in the long-term plan being developed by the NHS. The NHS Property Board and its constituent members are ensuring that local estates plans, supported by the strategic estates planning team, are grounded in local clinical strategies and adaptable to changes in demand. The Board is chaired by the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health (Lord O’Shaughnessy). He has chaired six of the seven Board meetings that have taken place in 2018 but was unable to attend the July meeting due to parliamentary business. No other Ministers have attended any meetings. The Board also includes senior representatives from the Department of Health and Social Care and other key Government Departments, NHS England, NHS Improvement, NHS Property Services and Community Health Partnerships. Meetings of the NHS Property Board are held in closed session due to the confidential nature of items discussed.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 174755 174756 question first answered 09/10/2018 13:53:09 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

973245

registered interest
date	13/09/2018
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	Community Health Partnerships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Community Health Partnerships will be making a submission to the development of the long-term plan for the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	174759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government has asked National Health Service leaders to produce a new ten-year plan for the NHS, underpinned by a five-year funding settlement which will see the NHS budget grow by over £20.5 billion a year in real terms by 2023-24. As it develops the long-term plan, the NHS has been engaging with system leaders, patients and the public for their views including through a consultation which closed 30 September.</p><p> </p><p>Community Health Partnerships has not made a formal submission but instead works closely with its NHS partners to ensure the funding, design and utilisation of its healthcare facilities features appropriately in all future development plans.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 15/10/2018 11:21:19 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth