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450314

registered interest
date	03/02/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Private Finance Initiative
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress his Department has made on the replacement of the value for money assessment quantitative assessment tool for comparing private finance and conventional procurement options; and which PF1 and PF2 projects used (a) the original value for money assessment quantitative assessment tool or (b) any replacement tool.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	25812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government’s approach to appraisal is set out in the Green Book. This provides a common, standard method for comparing all public spending decisions that use central government funding; the approach to appraising potential PPP projects is consistent with this central guidance.</p><p> </p><p>The quantitative assessment tool was in place from August 2004 until its withdrawal in December 2012, all projects which commenced between these dates should have used the tool. For details of specific projects during this period, please see the spreadsheet ‘Current projects as at 31 March 2014’ at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/private-finance-initiative-projects-2014-summary-data</p><p> </p><p>A replacement quantitative assessment tool has not been issued by HM Treasury due to the limitations of standard models; since December 2012 procuring authorities have undertaken appropriate quantitative assessment in accordance with the principles set out in the Green Book.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 08/02/2016 16:35:23 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

450315

registered interest
date	03/02/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Private Finance Initiative
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which of the unitary charges in the list of private finance initiative projects published by his Department on 15 December 2014 were (a) service charges, (b) interest charges and (c) other costs identified over the course of the contracts.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	25813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2016 answer text <p>Whilst the Treasury does collect and publish information on the unitary charges of PFI projects, we do not collect it broken down into its constituent parts, neither do we have the detailed financial models that would allow us to disaggregate the totals.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 08/02/2016 16:33:49 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

450322

registered interest
date	03/02/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Private Finance Initiative
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the equity return information provided as part of all PF2 projects commissioned in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	25744
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2016 answer text <p>The first PF2 projects reached financial close last year. The Treasury will publish the equity return information on PF2 projects periodically.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 08/02/2016 16:36:32 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

449381

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
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	Tunisia: 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, how many UK citizens reported themselves to the British Consulate in Ibiza as victims of crime in each of the last five years; what the nature of those crimes was; whether those crimes involved sexual violence or harassment; and what prosecutions resulted from those reports.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	25247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>Consular staff routinely record all those cases in which we have provided assistance to British nationals oversees. However, our records do not specifically identify whether those requesting assistance were victims of crime.</p><p>Since 2012, the British Consulate in Ibiza recorded the following cases which are those most likely to have involved victims of crime. Where the number of reported cases is less or equal to five, these are annotated as 'Less than 5' to avoid the risk of identifying the individuals concerned.</p><p>It is not mandatory for victims to provide information about any potential prosecutions, so we do not hold information on the number of prosecutions that arose from these cases</p><p><br>Rape &amp; sexual assault <br>2011 8 <br>2012 8 <br>2013 7 <br>2014 7 <br>2015 Less than 5</p><p>Assault - General <br>2011 16 <br>2012 36 <br>2013 14 <br>2014 Less than 5 <br>2015 0</p><p>Domestic Violence <br>2011 0 <br>2012 0 <br>2013 0 <br>2014 Less than 5 <br>2015 5</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 04/02/2016 16:32:54 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

449449

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Private Finance Initiative
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the recorded interest rates of all PFI-financed projects in operation and commissioned by the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	25248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>The great majority of funding for Private Finance Initiative (PFI) schemes (usually 90%) comes in the form of two types of senior debt – a loan from a bank or a bond raised in the capital markets.</p><p> </p><p>The remaining cost of the project (10%) is paid in as equity share capital or equity-like loans (subordinated debt) from specialist investors. This enables projects to be financed where there are risks which the bank lenders are unwilling to bear (akin to a deposit when arranging a mortgage). Given these risks, the costs of raising this equity finance are higher.</p><p> </p><p>The combination of these two types of finance and therefore the overall cost of raising all the finance for the project can then be ascribed an annual percentage rate which is known as the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) or more commonly the Project Internal Rate of Return (Project IRR).</p><p> </p><p>The pre and post-tax nominal and real IRRs for equity and the WACC for all NHS hospital PFI schemes which had reached financial close from 1997 (the first) to 2009 were published as part of the Department’s evidence to the House of Commons Health Select Committee (HSC) Public Expenditure Inquiry 2009. The link is below and the information can be found at Tables 12A and 12B:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmhealth/269/269i.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmhealth/269/269i.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>Another four hospital PFI schemes have reached financial close since 2009. The information related to them is not held in the form requested; to identify and collate it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 04/02/2016 16:58:09 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

449451

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Barts Health NHS Trust: Private Finance Initiative
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what meetings (a) he or (b) others in his Department had with Innisfree Ltd in which public finance initiative funding for Barts Health NHS Trust was discussed in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	25255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>Two officials from the Department met Innisfree on one occasion in the last five years, in 2012, to discuss the Private Finance Initiative scheme for Barts Health NHS Trust.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 04/02/2016 16:59:02 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

436729

registered interest
date	09/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will publish the guidance it has issued to schools and colleges for the implementation of Prevent strategy activities for all age groups.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	19487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The government published statutory guidance on the Prevent duty for specified authorities, including schools, in March 2015. In September 2015 the government published Prevent duty guidance specifically for colleges and universities.</p><p>To complement the statutory guidance, the Department for Education has issued practical advice to schools and childcare providers to help them understand their role under the new Prevent duty. Together with Home Office, the Department also published a briefing note on how social media is used to encourage travel to Syria and Iraq. The Department’s core statutory safeguarding guidance for schools and colleges, <em>Keeping Children Safe in Education</em>, was updated in July to reflect the Prevent duty.</p><p>All of the above documents are publicly available via the Department’s dedicated preventing extremism website on gov.uk. (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/preventing-extremism-in-schools-and-childrens-services/preventing-extremism-in-the-education-and-childrens-services-sectors" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/preventing-extremism-in-schools-and-childrens-services/preventing-extremism-in-the-education-and-childrens-services-sectors</a>).</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 15/12/2015 17:47:11 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson previous answer version 35378 answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

436816

registered interest
date	09/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will publish all guidance it has issued to schools and colleges for the implementation of PREVENT strategy activities for all age groups.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	19496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office published guidance on the Prevent statutory duty for specified authorities, including schools, in March 2015. In September 2015, the Home Office published Prevent duty guidance specifically for colleges and universities. The Department for Education issued advice for schools and childcare providers relating to the Prevent duty, which was published in July 2015. All of this guidance and advice is publicly available at the following website links:</p><p>• Prevent duty guidance: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prevent-duty-guidance</p><p>• Department for Education advice for schools and childcare providers on the Prevent duty: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/439598/prevent-duty-departmental-advice-v6.pdf</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 14/12/2015 17:05:04 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

427001

registered interest
date	09/11/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Gratuities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent estimate he has made of the number of employees who receive payment of service charges, tips, gratuities and cover charges through their employer; and in what industries such employees work.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	15369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2015 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><br /><p>The Government has not made a recent estimate of the number of employees who receive payment of service charges, tips, gratuities and cover charges through their employer.</p><br /><p>The Government launched a call for evidence in this area which closed on 10<sup>th</sup> November. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills will analyse responses and make public the key findings in due course.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 17/11/2015 10:59:46 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

426711

registered interest
date	06/11/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Gratuities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what meetings he has had with (a) the Low Pay Commission, (b) Which? and (c) members of the Trade Union Congress to discuss the payment and administration of service charges, tips, gratuities and cover charges on the income of employees.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	15204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><br /><p>The Government’s Call for Evidence into tips, gratuities, cover and service charges closed on 10 November 2015. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has received formal or informal evidence from the named bodies. Where any clarification is required or the Government wishes to seek further information, we will request further discussions with these bodies, where appropriate.</p><br /><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 16/11/2015 11:34:56 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy