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767929

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date	10/10/2017
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	Pregnancy: Discrimination
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what if any proposals they have to provide new and expectant mothers with further protections from redundancy; and whether they have any plans to address the use of confidentiality agreements in out of court settlements which prevent women from speaking publicly about their treatment.
tabling member printed	Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL1848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government’s response to Women and Equalities Select Committee Inquiry into pregnancy and maternity discrimination earlier this year said that we “will consider further and bring forward proposals to ensure that the protections in place for those who are pregnant or returning from maternity leave are sufficient”. We are reviewing whether we need stronger protection against redundancy for pregnant women and women returning from maternity leave and will consult on options in due course.</p><p>The Government has no plans to address the use of confidentiality agreements. Employees and employers need the freedom to reach a mutually acceptable negotiated settlement, so the Government does not want to impose further constraints on the provisions of settlement agreements.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 17/10/2017 15:30:25 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

767938

registered interest
date	10/10/2017
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	Business: Billing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 29 June (HL53), stating that the Payment Practices Reporting online service will be available for users to begin reporting their payment practices from October, whether that online service has yet been launched and advertised; and out of the estimated 15,200 businesses in scope to comply with the payment practices and performance reporting requirements, how many have so far been issued an invitation to use the service.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL1857
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>The Payment Practices Reporting online service has been launched on the GOV.UK website, and is now available to all businesses in scope of the requirements without the need for an invitation. The Department is now working to raise awareness of the existence of the service, including by contacting business representative bodies. Before the service was launched, 350 invitations were issued. The Department does not hold information on how many of these invitations were issued to businesses in scope of the requirement.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 17/10/2017 15:29:44 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

768151

registered interest
date	10/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Skilled Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of priority applications for Tier 2 visas were not processed before the 60 day limit in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Broxtowe
tabling member printed	Anna Soubry
uin	107045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>Statistics relating to the processing of entry clearance visas (out of country) and in-country casework, against service standards are published as part of the Home Office’s Migration Transparency data.</p><p>The latest editions of which are available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-operations-transparency-data-august-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-operations-transparency-data-august-2017</a> and <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/in-country-migration-data-august-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/in-country-migration-data-august-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 17/10/2017 15:32:33 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry

767326

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Food
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the total amount of food waste generated by BEIS offices for each of the last five years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
uin	HL1744
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>The total amount of food waste generated by BEIS offices for each of the last five years is shown in the attached table. Entries shaded in grey are estimates.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 17/10/2017 15:30:58 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name HL1744-table.docx title BEIS food waste statistics
tabling member	3792 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

767451

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Brexit
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 estimate her Department has made of the proportion of the Civil Service workforce in her Department dedicated to planning for (a) the UK leaving the EU and (b) projects relating to the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	106570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>Staff within the DCMS EU Team lead on providing advice to Ministers on EU Exit and related issues. Members of staff across the Department also provide advice and analyses on EU Exit issues as required. Given the interactions between EU exit work and the Department's other priorities, it would not be possible to give an accurate figure.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 17/10/2017 15:28:50 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

767453

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
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	Broadband
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many premises in each parliamentary constituency in the UK have taken up a superfast broadband connection.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	106515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>We do not hold information on superfast broadband take-up percentage by constituency.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 17/10/2017 15:32:34 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

767509

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Gaza
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to end the blockade of the Gaza strip by Israel.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	106731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>There is an urgent need to address the troubling situation in Gaza. I visited Gaza on 21 August and saw the extent of this firsthand. Ultimately, Hamas' decision to embrace violence and reject the Quartet Principles lies at the heart of the Gazan tragedy. We need a durable agreement that addresses the underlying causes of the conflict and transforms the situation in Gaza.</p><p>We welcome the steps that Israel has taken to ease some restrictions. However, we want to see Israel go much further and we are continuing to call on Israel to do so. We continue to stress to the Israeli authorities the damage that their restrictions are doing to the living standards of ordinary Palestinians in Gaza and that supporting legal trade for Gazans is firmly in Israel's long-term interests.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 17/10/2017 15:31:02 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

767510

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Iran: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he had with his Iranian counterparts at the recent UN General Assembly in New York (a) in general and (b) on detained British-Iranian dual nationals.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	106695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>The Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary and I raised a number of bilateral issues, including all our dual-national consular cases, with our Iranian counterparts in the margins of the United Nations General Assembly in September. Iran’s position on dual nationality makes progress on our consular cases difficult; nonetheless we continue to raise these cases with the Iranian authorities at the highest levels and at every available opportunity. We assess that the approach we currently take is the one that is the most likely to be in the best interests of each of our dual-national prisoners in Iran.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 17/10/2017 15:29:01 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

767672

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Midland Main Line: Electrification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to review the decision to cancel the electrification of the entire Midland Main Line.
tabling member constituency	Bedford
tabling member printed	Mohammad Yasin
uin	106744
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>The upgrade to the Midland Main Line, which includes electrification to Kettering and Corby, will enable increased passenger capacity and reduced journey times, as well as introducing a brand new fleet of bi-mode intercity trains from 2022. This will deliver improved journeys sooner and is part of delivering the biggest upgrade of the Midland Main Line since it opened in 1870. We will only electrify lines where it delivers a genuine benefit to passengers.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 17/10/2017 15:32:41 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4598 label Biography information for Mohammad Yasin

767680

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	East Midlands Trains: Passengers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made on the number of passengers using East Midlands train service (a) peak-time north-bound, (b) off-peak north-bound, (c) peak-time south-bound and (d) off-peak south-bound from Bedford in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Bedford
tabling member printed	Mohammad Yasin
uin	106746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2017 answer text <p>There are no published statistics on the annual number of passengers travelling on East Midlands train services from Bedford over the past 10 years.</p><p> </p><p>Passenger rail usage statistics for train operators are available on the Office of Rail and Road data portal at the following link: <a href="http://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/browsereports/12" target="_blank">http://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/browsereports/12</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Estimates of Station Usage gives annual totals for all passengers entering and exiting each station on Great Britain’s rail network, and is available on the Office of Rail and Road data portal at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://orr.gov.uk/statistics/published-stats/station-usage-estimates" target="_blank">http://orr.gov.uk/statistics/published-stats/station-usage-estimates</a></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 17/10/2017 15:27:04 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4598 label Biography information for Mohammad Yasin