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1644694

registered interest
date	14/06/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Darlington Economic Campus: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the average annual cost of the Darlington Economic Campus at Feethams House.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	189655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>HMT is a tenant along with several other departments and the costs of the DEC is managed by the GPA.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 19/06/2023 12:44:47 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1644718

registered interest
date	14/06/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Domestic Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to support domestic abuse victims when the person who abused them has been released from prison.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	189669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>The Probation Service Victim Contact Scheme provides valuable support to victims of offenders who receive a sentence of imprisonment of 12 months or more, or a hospital order, for a violent or sexual offence. The Scheme enables victims to be informed of key stages of an offender’s sentence, such as if they are transferred to open prison conditions, as well as when the offender is to be released.</p><p> </p><p>The Probation Service is currently rolling out an additional scheme, the Victim Notification Scheme, for victims of Stalking and Harassment offences, including Breach of Restraining Order and Breach of Non-molestation order, where any custodial sentence is imposed. This is currently running in four Probation Regions, with further Regions scheduled for rollout this year. The scheme aims to put victims in touch with support services local to them and ensure they are made aware of when the offender is being released from custody.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 19/06/2023 10:02:22 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1644844

registered interest
date	14/06/2023
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	Nature Conservation: Crime
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 steps she is taking to (a) estimate the economic cost of wildlife crime, (b) record wildlife crime and (c) measure trends in wildlife crime; and whether she has taken steps to address the recommendations in the UN Office on Drugs and Crime report entitled Wildlife and Forest Crime Analytic Toolkit Report: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, published on 6 August 2021.
tabling member constituency	Ynys Môn
tabling member printed	Virginia Crosbie
uin	189734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>The UK Government does not hold a figure for the economic cost of wildlife crime in this country but in the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 2016 report: <em>The rise of environmental crime: A growing threat to natural resources peace, development and security</em>, estimates are made that, globally, poaching and illegal wildlife trade is worth up to £17 billion a year; and natural resources worth as much as USD $91 billion to $258 billion annually are being stolen by criminals, depriving countries of future revenues and development opportunities. This includes illegal logging and fishing.</p><p> </p><p>In terms of recording wildlife crime and measuring trends in wildlife crime, at a UK level the Office for National Statistics publishes police-recorded crime statistics, including statistics on wildlife crimes, where available. However, most wildlife crimes are not categorised as notifiable so there is no obligation for UK police forces to report on them. This makes it more challenging to measure trends in wildlife crime and gauge its true extent. Any decision to make offences notifiable sits with the National Crime Registrar at the Home Office. The National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU), funded partly by Defra and the Home Office, gathers intelligence from a number of organisations in addition to police forces and Border Force. This intelligence informs a Strategic Assessment of wildlife crime in the UK, which is produced every two years and contributes to the setting of the UK’s wildlife crime priorities.</p><p> </p><p>With regard to the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report (published on 21 December 2021), the Government welcomed this piece of work and the fact it recognised the UK's global leadership in fighting wildlife and forestry crime. We invited the UN to undertake this analysis and we are proud to be the first G7 country to request this assessment. We have carefully considered all the recommendations of the report and they are informing our work to help us build on the positive progress we have already made in tackling wildlife crime. This will include strategic engagement with our partners that have responsibilities where individual recommendations are concerned such as the devolved administrations, the Crown Prosecution Service, and the NWCU. Progress has already been made in response to the report. For example, in 2022 Defra more than doubled its funding of the NWCU from a total of £495,000 over the three previous years to £1.2 million for the three-year period of 2022-25. Additionally, Border Force has increased numbers in its team specialising in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Defra is not under any obligation to formally respond to the UNODC's assessment and has no plans to do so, but we will identify where we can act, including with stakeholders, to strengthen the UK's approach to tackling wildlife and forestry crime.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 19/06/2023 09:51:35 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4859 label Biography information for Virginia Crosbie

1644039

registered interest
date	13/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Grants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Internet Watch Foundation Grant.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	189262
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is a technology-led child protection organisation, working alongside industry and law enforcement to find and remove child sexual abuse imagery online. It is a non-profit registered charity, with fee-paying Members comprising more than 175 companies, including some of the giants of the internet world.</p><p>The Home Office is collaborating with the IWF to support this important work. In particular, work is ongoing between the IWF and the Child Abuse Image Database (CAID) to support law enforcement and help the tech sector to find and remove copies of known child sexual abuse images online.</p><p>The IWF’s Annual Report for 2022 sets out full details of the IWF’s vital work tackling online child sexual abuse and exploitation, including the IWF CAID Taskforce. It states that, in 2022, the IWF discovered more Category A child sexual abuse material online than ever before and the number of webpages containing Category A material found by the IWF has more than doubled since 2020.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 19/06/2023 11:31:49 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1644093

registered interest
date	13/06/2023
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	Waste Disposal: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many new waste handler licence applications were refused in Birmingham in the last twelve months.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	189310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>The Environment Agency National Permitting Service refused no new waste or installations permit applications in Birmingham from the period of June 2022 to June 2023.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 19/06/2023 11:18:26 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1644158

registered interest
date	13/06/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Park Homes: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, for what reason the request by National Trading Standards for funding to enable it to resource an investigation into Park Home residents’ pitch fee agreements has been refused; and what steps his Department is taking to ensure that consumer legislation to protect park home residents is enforced.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	189151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Business and Trade has not received a request for additional funding from National Trading Standards (NTS) for such an investigation.</p><p> </p><p>NTS operates independently and receives funding from the Department to respond to breaches of consumer law significant at a national or regional level. NTS base enforcement decisions on an intelligence-led assessment which determines their priorities.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is seeking to strengthen consumer rights and their enforcement through the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill, including through enabling enforcement agencies to impose tougher fines on noncompliant businesses.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 19/06/2023 11:45:13 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1644167

registered interest
date	13/06/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Development Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of increasing the level of the overseas aid budget to 0.7 per cent of GDP.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	189169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2023 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 13 June 2023 to Question 188649. [https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-06-08/188649].</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 15/06/2023 12:08:08 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1644172

registered interest
date	13/06/2023
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that vulnerable customers are not negatively impacted by the public switched telephone network switch off.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	189333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>The Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) is a privately-owned telecommunications network. Communications providers are in the process of upgrading the old PSTN to new Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology. Consumers can expect to be upgraded by 2025. The migration is industry-led and does not result from any government decision or form part of any government programme.</p><p>Ofcom is responsible for ensuring telecoms providers adhere to their regulatory obligations throughout the migration process, such as ensuring uninterrupted access to the emergency services and protecting vulnerable consumers. Ofcom has published <a href="https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/123118/guidance-emergency-access-power-cut.pdf" target="_blank">guidance </a>which states that providers must take steps to identify and protect at-risk consumers who are dependent on their landline. Providers have a range of solutions to ensure vulnerable consumers receive additional support. These options include, among others, free battery back-up units to engineer supported installations or hybrid landline phones.</p><p>We are working together with Ofcom to ensure customers receive appropriate levels of communication and vulnerable consumers are protected. Ofcom requires that providers must engage in effective communications. In January 2023, we published a <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-transition-from-analogue-to-digital-landlines" target="_blank">webpage</a> on GOV.UK to provide information to consumers about the PSTN migration.</p><p>As this is an industry-led migration, Communications Providers will contact their customers with information ahead of their line being upgraded. The exact migration process will depend on the provider and the type of equipment the customer has at their premises.</p><p>The Department meets regularly with Communications Providers to discuss the progress they have made in migrating their customers, and to ensure they have adequate plans in place to inform their customers and protect vulnerable consumers. This includes, but is not limited to, quarterly progress meetings with individual providers, quarterly meetings with Communications Providers and all government departments, and quarterly meetings with Ofcom. The Minister for Media, Data and Digital Infrastructure also convened a roundtable with the largest providers in January 2023 to discuss their communications plans.</p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Sir John Whittingdale grouped question UIN 189332 189334 189335 189336 question first answered 19/06/2023 08:47:58 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1644178

registered interest
date	13/06/2023
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Television: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April 2023 to Question 176799 on Television: Children, whether she plans to publish her Department's assessment of the contestable funding model.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	189339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>The Government is conducting an assessment of the contestable funding model to consider its impact and the long-term sustainability of this kind of funding, next steps will be set out in due course. As required by the scheme, the BFI commissioned and published an independent evaluation of the Young Audiences Content Fund in December 2022. That evaluation is available <a href="https://www.bfi.org.uk/get-funding-support/create-films-tv-or-new-formats-storytelling/young-audiences-content-fund" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>Ofcom set out in their “Plan of Work” for 2023/24, published on 14 December 2022, that they would take an in-depth look at how the market is serving the interests of children. It will be for Ofcom, as the independent regulator, to determine when to publish its findings.</p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Sir John Whittingdale grouped question UIN 189340 question first answered 19/06/2023 09:23:42 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1644278

registered interest
date	13/06/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Active Travel: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes to the level of funding for active travel on the level of vehicle emissions in the next five years.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	189471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>The Transport Decarbonisation Plan, published in 2021, set out the range of greenhouse gas emissions savings projected to be delivered by 2050 as a result of active travel policies. As the Plan sets out, the Department will continue to adapt its plans and take further action if needed to decarbonise transport, including publishing progress and reviewing the pathway at least every five years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 19/06/2023 10:05:26 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell