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1171702

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State Education, what recent discussions he has had with the Home Secretary on the potential effect of the Government's proposed immigration legislation on tertiary education.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	900253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2020 answer text <p>The Department remains closely engaged with the Home Office around the future immigration system, its design and its impact on tertiary education.</p><p>Officials are involved in a number of cross-Whitehall meetings on system design, and attend the Education Sector Forum where the sector shares their views directly with the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/01/2020 17:48:06 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1171577

registered interest
date	17/01/2020
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	Hospitals: Ventilation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) his Department and (b) the NHS has issued guidance on the use of Dyson bladeless fans in clinical areas of hospitals.
tabling member constituency	Romsey and Southampton North
tabling member printed	Caroline Nokes
uin	4728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2020 answer text <p>National Health Service staff take every precaution to ensure that the equipment they use are sterile and do not pass on bacteria and viruses. NHS England and NHS Improvement issued an Estates and Facilities Alert in January 2019 in relation to the risk of cross infection relating to all type of portable fans in health and social care facilities. It is for local teams to decide how best to manage this and keep their patients safe.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/01/2020 11:27:26 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes

1171579

registered interest
date	17/01/2020
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	Buildings: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the letter from David Metcalfe and Dr Stephen Ledbetter of the Centre for Window and Cladding Technology to the Chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, dated 10 May 2018, whether it was his Department's policy in 2014 that paragraph 12.7 of Approved Document B of the fire safety regulations did not apply to cladding.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	4749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2020 answer text <p>The Department’s position is that the core (filler) within an Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) is an “insulation material/product”, “insulation product”, and/or “filler material” as referred to in Paragraph 12.7 (“Insulation Materials/Products”) in Section 12 “Construction of external walls” of Approved Document B (Fire safety) Volume 2 Buildings other than dwelling houses.</p><p>This was made clear in the letter issued by the Permanent Secretary on 22 June 2017 available at: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F621449%2F170622_letter_to_LAs_and_HAs.pdf&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCharles-Elie.Romeyer%40communities.gov.uk%7C274bc9ade90f4c2009b108d79e5f77e8%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637152005171566293&amp;sdata=Dq64VaPWig%2F3shYTRcfPTkVAovw%2Bqyh%2FCKuriJRryDU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/621449/170622_letter_to_LAs_and_HAs.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Tatton answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 22/01/2020 17:30:52 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1171580

registered interest
date	17/01/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many mobility payments were awarded following an initial personal independence payment assessment scoring between zero and four points and subsequent (a) mandatory assessment and (b) appeal in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	4705
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2020 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Information for initial disallowance decisions following a PIP assessment, including the number where the award was changed after a Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) or appeal is published as part of <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/851503/pip-statistics-to-october-2019.pdf" target="_blank">Personal Independence Payment: Official Statistics to October 2019</a>, in Table 5c of Data tables: “PIP award rates, clearance/outstanding times and tracking of initial decisions following a PIP assessment through to mandatory reconsiderations or appeals, to October 2019”.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2019</a></p><p> </p><p /><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 22/01/2020 11:00:18 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1171581

registered interest
date	17/01/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Food Poverty: Surveys
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress she has made on the inclusion of food insecurity questions in the Family Resources Survey; and what the timeframe is for publication of the results of that survey.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	4754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2020 answer text <p>Food security questions were included in the Family Resources Survey questionnaire from April 2019 onwards. Data are being collected throughout the current financial year. The extent of information published will be subject to the usual quality assurance processes, which are applied to both survey responses and DWP statistical publications. If the data on food security are sufficiently robust, publication would take place in the first quarter of 2021.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 22/01/2020 13:27:26 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1171582

registered interest
date	17/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Fleet Solid Support Ships: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2020 to Question 47 on Royal Fleet Auxiliary: Procurement, how much from the public purse has been spent on the tendering process for the Fleet Solid Support Ships.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	4716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2020 answer text <p>The funding provided to conduct the Fleet Solid Support Ship Assessment Phase included provision to conduct a competition and associated activities. This work will be invaluable to any future procurement. I am, however, withholding this information as its disclosure would prejudice commercial interests.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 22/01/2020 16:23:26 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1171583

registered interest
date	17/01/2020
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	Gender Dysphoria: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Gender Identity Services patients identified as (a) binary and (b) non-binary in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	4743
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>Information regarding patients’ gender identity is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 29/01/2020 15:52:00 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1171585

registered interest
date	17/01/2020
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	Gender Dysphoria: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what provisions he has put in place in the new NHS Gender Identity Services specification for people who define as non-binary .
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	4745
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>The specification is clear that access to the National Health Service-funded pathway of care is dependent on a clinical diagnosis of gender dysphoria by a specialist health team.</p><p>The specification recognises and respects diversity in gender identity and its expression.</p><p>It recognises that there are other identities than the traditional (binary) identities associated with ‘man’ and ‘woman’, and that gender diverse people with such identities (such as non-binary, trans-feminine, trans-masculine, Genderqueer, non-gender and others), who meet the criteria for access to the NHS pathway of care, must have access to treatment and the interventions described in the specification.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 29/01/2020 15:59:48 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1171586

registered interest
date	17/01/2020
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	Gender Dysphoria: Prescriptions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to clinical commissioning groups was of prescribing products related to gender identity for transgender and non-binary patients in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	4746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>The information regarding cost to clinical commissioning groups for prescribing products related to gender identity, transgender and non-binary use is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 29/01/2020 15:59:10 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1171587

registered interest
date	17/01/2020
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	Gender Dysphoria: Prescriptions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will instruct Clinical Commissioning Groups to fund the cost of prescribing products related to gender identity for transgender and non-binary patients to ensure compliance with the Equalities Act 2010 throughout the health service.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	4747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>The Department is aware of some general practitioners who have declined to accept prescribing responsibility, but we are not aware of any clinical commissioning groups refusing to fund the drugs.</p><p>All National Health Service organisations are expected to comply with Public Sector Equalities Duties and the Equalities Act 2010.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 29/01/2020 15:52:48 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion