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1017308

registered interest
date	29/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Administration of Justice: International Cooperation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on international co-operation on policing and justice of the UK leaving the EU .
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	197432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>The government has published its assessment of the Future Security Part-nership (FSP) between the UK and the EU - ‘EU exit: an assessment of the security partnership’. It compares cooperation envisaged under the future UK-EU security partnership, as set out in the Political Declaration, with a no deal scenario.</p><p>This publication can be found on Gov.uk</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/759760/28_November_EU_Exit_-_Assessment_of_the_security_partnership__2_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/759760/28_November_EU_Exit_-_Assessment_of_the_security_partnership__2_.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 07/12/2018 11:33:56 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1022423

registered interest
date	10/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Married People: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to increase the marriage allowance.
tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
uin	908132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>Every time the personal allowance increases, the marriage allowance automatically becomes more generous.</p><p>The increase to personal allowance announced at Budget 2018 means that in 2019-20, an individual will be able to transfer £1,250 to a partner, compared to £1,060 in 2015-16.</p><p>This means that in 2019-20, eligible couples can receive a tax reduction of up to £250, or £1,150 if they make a backdated claim to 2015-16.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 11/12/2018 17:31:22 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1022931

registered interest
date	10/12/2018
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: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of mandatory reconsiderations for personal independence payments have (a) overturned and (b) upheld the original assessment decision in each year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Warrington South
tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
uin	200690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>Table 7B of the publication “Personal Independence Payment: April 2013 to October 2018” provides statistics on Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) clearances by type and month of clearance, a copy of which can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-october-2018</a></p><p> </p><p>Not all MRs will relate to the outcome of the PIP assessment, but other aspects of the PIP process.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 13/12/2018 12:53:32 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

1023002

registered interest
date	10/12/2018
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Exports: Lambeth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many (a) small, (b) medium and (c) large businesses in Lambeth have licences to export outside the EU.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
uin	200711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>The information is not held in the format requested and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Meon Valley answering member printed George Hollingbery question first answered 13/12/2018 11:42:30 answering member 4016 label Biography information for Sir George Hollingbery
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1023006

registered interest
date	10/12/2018
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	Writers
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 assessment he has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on the reciprocal relationships the UK has with the EU that enable UK authors to claim public lending right payments when their books are borrowed in other EU countries.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	200593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>A number of EU Member States operate their own public lending rights schemes which enable payments to be made to eligible rights holders for the lending of their work. However, these are not directly reciprocal to the UK’s Public Lending Right (PLR) Scheme, and decisions on whether UK-resident authors qualify for these will be for each Member State to make.</p><p> </p><p>The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS), which represents UK authors in registering and claiming payments from lending rights schemes in Europe and elsewhere, has indicated that it supports the UK's PLR scheme remaining open to residents of EEA states. ALCS believes that this will help it to encourage relevant organisations responsible for lending rights schemes in EEA states to allow UK-resident authors to benefit from such schemes after the UK leaves the EU.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 13/12/2018 13:02:15 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1023031

registered interest
date	10/12/2018
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	Social Services: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment the Government has made of the effect on the provision of adult social care services of projected increases in the elderly population.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	200725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department commissions the Personal Social Services Research Unit to produce projections of the demand for long-term care for older people and younger adults in England to 2040 and beyond and associated future expenditure. The projections are based on specific assumptions about trends in such variables as future mortality rates and disability rates, and are updated regularly as new data become available – for example official population projections published by the Office for National Statistics. In doing so, the model explicitly takes account of projected increases in the elderly population.</p><p> </p><p>More detail is available in Wittenberg R, Hu B and Hancock R (2018) Projections of demand and expenditure on adult social care 2015 to 2040, Personal Social Services Research Unit discussion paper 2944/2, first published in June 2018 and revised in November 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The report is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.pssru.ac.uk/publications/pub-5421/" target="_blank">https://www.pssru.ac.uk/publications/pub-5421/</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 13/12/2018 11:57:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1020777

registered interest
date	07/12/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of UK Official development Assistance on low income countries in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	200091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>For each of the last five years the impact of DFID’s work has been set out in the Departmental Annual Reports and Accounts. The <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/750989/DFID-Annual-Report-Accounts-2017-18-amended-Oct18.pdf" target="_blank">DFID Annual Report and Accounts 2017-2018</a> also shows the results achieved during the period April 2015 to March 2018. In that period, UK Official Development Assistance reached 26.8 million people with humanitarian assistance and supported 40.3 million people to access clean water and/or better sanitation. Between January 2015 and December 2017, it supported the immunisation of approximately 37.4 million children, saving an estimated 610,000 lives. We are committed to improving the effectiveness and transparency of UK aid to ensure we are attaining maximum impact from our aid budget. The Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) has the remit to provide independent scrutiny of the impact and value for money of all UK Government aid spending and reports its finding to Parliament’s International Development Committee.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 12/12/2018 17:20:56 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1020808

registered interest
date	07/12/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	UK Membership of EU: Referendums
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the oral contribution of the Prime Minister of 4 December 2018, Official Report, column 879, what information his Department has received from the Electoral Commission on whether the EU referendum 2016 was a fair poll.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	200130
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>In September 2016, the Electoral Commission Report on the 23 June 2016 referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union found the referendum had been delivered without any major issues and the result announced in a clear, timely manner.</p><p> </p><p>Since then, the Electoral Commission has published the conclusions of its investigation into the campaign spending of referendum campaigners. That electoral rules have been breached is rightly a cause for concern. However, that does not mean that the rules themselves were flawed.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will continue to work closely with the Electoral Commission, along with many other stakeholders in the electoral system, to protect the integrity, security and effectiveness of referendums and elections.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 12/12/2018 16:50:49 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1020815

registered interest
date	07/12/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Yemen: Humanitarian Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of the reports by the UN World Food Programme that there has been a decrease in accuracy of operations at Hodeidah port in recent weeks.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
tabling member printed	Stephen Twigg
uin	200069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>Red Sea Ports are currently operational and continue to import most of the food and fuel on which Yemenis rely. For most of this year imports have been robust and in some cases exceeded pre-war levels. We are however concerned about recent reports of a reduction of imports into Yemen.</p><p><em> </em></p><p>To maintain confidence of commercial importers, the UK recently worked with the US, Saudis and Emiratis to agree measures with the Central Bank of Yemen to issue letters of credit to provide foreign currency so that importers can purchase food on international markets. This has also resulted in an appreciation of the Yemeni Riyal, increasing the purchasing power of ordinary Yemenis.</p><p> </p><p>It is imperative the Red Sea ports of Hodeidah and Saleef remain operational. Yemen relies on imports to meet 90% of its basic needs like food and fuel – before the conflict, the Red Sea ports of Hodeidah and Saleef accounted for approximately 80% of total imports into Yemen. The UK recently pressed successfully for the suspension of unnecessary processes introduced by the Government of Yemen in bringing food goods into the country and we continue to call on all parties to allow safe, rapid and unhindered access for food and fuel throughout Yemen.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 12/12/2018 17:18:00 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	167 label Biography information for Stephen Twigg

1020831

registered interest
date	07/12/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Govia Thameslink Railway: Franchises
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has completed its hard review of the Govia Thameslink Railway franchise; and if he will make statement.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	200067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department has concluded that the disruption on this network was caused by a series of mistakes and complex issues across the rail industry. This is in line with Professor Stephen Glaister’s interim report.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is holding GTR to account for their role in the unacceptable performance following the introduction of the May timetable. To this end, GTR will make no profit from its franchise in this financial year. Looking ahead, we have also capped the amount of profit that the operator is able to make for the remainder of its franchise, which is due to expire in September 2021.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, GTR will be contributing £15m towards tangible improvements for passengers. This is in addition to the £15m the operator has already contributed towards compensation for passengers since the May timetable disruption.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 12/12/2018 13:21:16 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan