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794286

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date	23/11/2017
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	South Sudan: Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, If she will increase development assistance for preventing and responding to gender-based violence in South Sudan; and what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of current programmes.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	115259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>UK funding in South Sudan is currently fully committed to 2020; this includes a four year programme (2016-2020) with International Medical Corps that includes a significant element for gender based violence (GBV) prevention and protection in South Sudan, and support to the Ceasefire and Transitional Security Arrangements Monitoring Mechanism (CTSAMM) in order to improve reporting on gender based violence. All programmes are subject to regular assessments of performance. We have exceeded our annual target this year and have reached just under 300,000 women, girls, men, and boys with GBV interventions.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 30/11/2017 14:21:48 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

794287

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Sudan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, will she list how many Darfur asylum seekers have been (a) granted and (b) refused leave to remain for each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	115260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>Published data relating to the outcomes of asylum claims from each country (including Sudan) can be found in tab as_01 at volume 1 of the quarterly Immigration Statistics release:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2017-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2017-data-tables</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 28/11/2017 17:43:46 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

794289

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
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	Climate Change Convention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans to continue to participate in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change when the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	115262
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>The UK is a world leader in climate change and has always been a party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) individually as well as through the EU and we are bound by all the obligations of the Paris Agreement under international law.</p><p> </p><p>The UK’s commitment to action to tackle climate change and to the UNFCCC process is not in doubt; we remain firmly committed to the Paris Agreement and to our emissions reduction and climate finance efforts under it. We have demonstrated our commitment domestically – we were the first country to introduce legally binding emissions reduction targets through the Climate Change Act, and we have recently published our highly praised Clean Growth Strategy, which is ambitious and robust in setting out how we will decarbonise the UK economy through the 2020s. The UK is also committed to phasing out unabated coal power generation by 2025, and at the recent twenty-third Conference of the Parties (COP23) the UK, joint with Canada, announced the Powering Past Coal Alliance which gained the support of more than 20 partners. Internationally, through our International Climate Finance we have committed to provide at least £5.8bn between 2016 and 2020 to developing countries, to help them mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change.</p><p> </p><p>Whatever the nature of the future UK-EU relationship, the UK will remain committed to international efforts to tackle climate change, and working closely with the EU will remain very important.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 28/11/2017 16:38:05 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

794015

registered interest
date	22/11/2017
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	Electricity Generation: Waste
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much electricity was generated by incineration in (a) 2015 and (b) 2016; and how much CO2 or CO2e, CO2 equivalent, was emitted by incinerators in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	115103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>Table 6.4 in the Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics (DUKES)<em><strong> [i] </strong></em>shows electricity generation from renewable sources. Figures for generation from waste in 2015 and 2016 are shown below:</p><p><strong>Generation (GWh)</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong><em>2015</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2016</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Biodegradable energy from waste <em>(1)</em></p></td><td><p>2,585</p></td><td><p>2,741</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Non-biodegradable wastes <em>(2)</em></p></td><td><p>2,586</p></td><td><p>2,742</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total waste</p></td><td><p>5,171</p></td><td><p>5,482</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>(1) Biodegradable part only.</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>(2) Non-biodegradable part of municipal solid waste plus waste tyres, hospital waste and general industrial waste.</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The latest greenhouse gas emissions inventory, published in February 2017, estimates that emissions from incineration plants were 3.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) in 2015. Figures for 2016 will be published in February 2018.</p><p> </p><p><em> <strong><em>[i] </em></strong> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/renewable-sources-of-energy-chapter-6-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/renewable-sources-of-energy-chapter-6-digest-of-united-kingdom-energy-statistics-dukes</a></em></p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 28/11/2017 16:39:28 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

794022

registered interest
date	22/11/2017
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	Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to implement the tariff guarantee proposal of the December 2016 consultation response on the renewable heat incentive.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	115110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to introducing the remainder of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) Reforms announced in December 2016 as soon as possible. This includes introducing tariff guarantee proposals.</p><p>The Department aims to lay the remaining RHI reforms before Parliament shortly, followed by a six to eight week period for parliamentary debates.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/11/2017 16:25:56 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

794026

registered interest
date	22/11/2017
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	Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to protect investments made by biomethane-to-grid develop who met the criteria to be eligible for a tariff guarantee based on the December 2016 consultation response in the renewable heat incentive.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	115114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government remains fully committed to these reforms.</p><p>Biomethane applicants will be eligible for tariff guarantees when they are introduced to the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme. In addition, for biomethane applicants, the RHI reforms announced in December 2016, introduced tariff uplifts, feed stock restrictions and removal of digestate drying.</p><p>Applicants entering the scheme between 14 December 2016 and the date on which the regulations come into force, will be able access the higher tariff from the date of coming into force, provided that they also accept the feedstock restrictions and restriction on digestate drying from this same date. Applicants can apply now and access the higher tariffs set out in the government response as soon as the regulations come into force.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/11/2017 16:24:23 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

794027

registered interest
date	22/11/2017
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	Incinerators
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 proportion of municipal solid waste used in incineration plants is (a) biodegradable and (b) recyclable.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	115115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>Fifty-five percent of municipal solid waste used in incineration plants in England in 2016 is estimated to be biodegradable.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to estimate the proportion of municipal solid waste used in incineration plants that is recyclable because large tonnages of incinerated waste are reported as “mixed” waste categories, for which we do not currently have estimates of recyclable content. Additionally, there are no established definitions for waste that would be deemed to be “recyclable” based on the European Waste Catalogue waste code classifications that underpin waste reporting.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 30/11/2017 11:57:46 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

794031

registered interest
date	22/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of new medical procedures for firearm and shotgun licence applications, which were introduced in 2016.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	115119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2017 answer text <p>As part of the arrangements introduced in 2016, the police write to the GP of those applying for a firearms licence to seek relevant information regarding the applicant’s medical and mental health before the licence is issued. These arrangements helped to improve information sharing between GPs and the police.</p><p> </p><p>We are continuing to work with the police, the relevant medical bodies and others to assess whether further measures are required to ensure that we have, as far as possible, robust and consistent arrangements across all areas of the country. We have no plans to reconvene the Medical Evidence Working Group to assist with this work at the present time.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 115121 question first answered 29/11/2017 17:09:52 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

794033

registered interest
date	22/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will request the Medical Evidence Working Group to review the role of the medical profession in firearms licensing; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	115121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2017 answer text <p>As part of the arrangements introduced in 2016, the police write to the GP of those applying for a firearms licence to seek relevant information regarding the applicant’s medical and mental health before the licence is issued. These arrangements helped to improve information sharing between GPs and the police.</p><p> </p><p>We are continuing to work with the police, the relevant medical bodies and others to assess whether further measures are required to ensure that we have, as far as possible, robust and consistent arrangements across all areas of the country. We have no plans to reconvene the Medical Evidence Working Group to assist with this work at the present time.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 115119 question first answered 29/11/2017 17:09:52 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

794035

registered interest
date	22/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Rehabilitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to implement the recommendations of the HM Inspectorate of Probation and HM Inspectorate of Prisons report Through the Gate resettlement services for prisoners serving 12 months or more, published in October 2016.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	115123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>We acknowledge that current delivery of Through the Gate services is falling short of our expectations. We are continuing work with providers to improve delivery throughout England and Wales and the findings and recommendations from HMI Probation’s thematic reports are informing this work.</p><p> </p><p>The performance of Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs), including their delivery of Through the Gate, is assessed through a range of service levels and through a robust contract management and assurance process. Our contract management teams continue to carry out regular assurance of Through the Gate delivery, and host regular local review meetings with CRCs, the National Probation Service (NPS) and prisons, identifying and working through resolutions of any issues.</p><p> </p><p>We have made changes to how CRCs are paid for future years so they can focus on activities that best rehabilitate offenders and keep society safe.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 28/11/2017 17:37:33 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew