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1059010

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many road haulage apprenticeships at each level were started in each of the last three years for which data is available; how many of those apprenticeships were completed; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hemel Hempstead
tabling member printed	Sir Mike Penning
uin	219348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2019 answer text <p>The attached table shows the number of apprenticeship starts and achievements by each academic year for road haulage-related apprenticeships. These figures are published in the apprenticeships data library, which can be accessed at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 15/02/2019 09:49:17 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton attachment 1 file name 219438_apprenticeships_table_attachment.xls title 219438_apprenticeships_table_attachment
tabling member	1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning

1057081

registered interest
date	08/02/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Taxis: Guide Dogs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the Government plans to respond to the recommendations on tackling discrimination against guide dog owners using taxis in the September 2018 report of the Task and Finish Group on Taxi and PHV Licensing.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	218777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government responded to the report of the Chair of the Task and Finish Group on Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle Licensing on 12<sup>th</sup> February. The response can be found at: <br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/government-response-and-consultation-on-taxi-and-private-hire-vehicle-licensing" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/government-response-and-consultation-on-taxi-and-private-hire-vehicle-licensing</a></p><p> </p><p>As the response sets out, disability awareness training can provide taxi and PHV drivers with the skills and knowledge to assist disabled passengers appropriately, and the Government supports licensing authorities which require all drivers to complete it. When legislative time is available, the Government will reflect this requirement in National Minimum Standards.</p><p> </p><p>In the meantime, the Government committed in its 2018 Inclusive Transport Strategy to undertake research to understand why some drivers continue to refuse passengers with assistance dogs, and what measures are available to challenge such unacceptable behaviour.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 13/02/2019 17:08:26 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1057089

registered interest
date	08/02/2019
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	Environment Protection: EU Grants and Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2019 to Question 213461 on Environment Protection: EU Grants and Loans, whether his Department has plans to extend the ICF survey of EU LIFE funded projects to (a) the UK Overseas Territories and (b) EU BEST funded projects.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	218845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>Defra is considering future environment funding for the Overseas Territories and decisions will be taken as part of the next Spending Review. We have received a range of representations on this issue. There are no plans to extend the remit of the specific ICF survey to which the hon. Member refers.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 218847 question first answered 14/02/2019 16:52:00 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1056671

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
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	Green Belt
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of green belt land is under consideration for development in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	218187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>Decisions on future development on Green Belt land are made by local planning authorities as part of the local planning process. The requested information is not gathered or held centrally. Any data used as basis for an answer would be unreliable, because at any stage of the Local Plan process a local authority may revise its consideration of how much land, and where, to propose for allocation for future development.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does publish statistics on changes in the amount of Green Belt land in England. These are available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/green-belt-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/green-belt-statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 14/02/2019 15:00:04 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1056675

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
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	Occupational Health: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment the Government has made of levels of compliance with health surveillance regulations by the construction industry.
tabling member constituency	Cleethorpes
tabling member printed	Martin Vickers
uin	218249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has not specifically assessed the construction industry’s overall level of compliance with health surveillance regulations. HSE focuses its occupational health strategies and interventions at the most significant causes of ill-health to make sure duty holders are adequately managing and controlling health risks at source. Health surveillance is one part of a health risk management system, and HSE’s assessment of duty holders’ health surveillance arrangements will reflect the risks involved, for example, HSE evaluates an applicant’s arrangements for statutory medical examinations as part of asbestos license applications. HSE also works with the wider construction industry to improve the industry’s occupational health performance across Great Britain.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 13/02/2019 15:50:39 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	3957 label Biography information for Martin Vickers

1056678

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
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	Industrial Diseases: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people die from occupational diseases by sector each year.
tabling member constituency	Cleethorpes
tabling member printed	Martin Vickers
uin	218251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>There are currently an estimated 13,000 deaths each year linked to past exposures at work, primarily to chemicals and dusts. Approximately 5,000 of these deaths are due to asbestos-related cancers, a further 4,000 due to other occupational cancers and the remainder due to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and other respiratory disease.</p><p> </p><p>As these figures are estimated from different sources of epidemiological information it is not possible to break the overall total down by industry sector. However, earlier research commissioned by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) into the burden of occupational cancer estimated that of the 8,000 cancer deaths in 2005, approximately 3,700 were attributed to exposures in the construction industry; 2,200 to exposures in the manufacturing, mining, quarrying, electricity, gas, and water industries; 2,000 to exposures in the service industry, and less than 100 to exposures in agriculture, hunting, fishing and forestry.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 13/02/2019 16:07:10 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	3957 label Biography information for Martin Vickers

1056702

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK-France Migration Committee
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2019 to Question 215158, what the forward schedule for future meetings of the UK-France Migration Committee; and in which locations will those meetings take place.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	218263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK-France Migration Committee meets on a bi-monthly basis and is hosted alternately by the UK and French Governments. Going forward, the Committee will continue to meet on this basis. Exact dates are finalised closer to the meetings, to ensure that the relevant senior officials and experts are able to attend.</p><p>In order to implement the terms of the Sandhurst Treaty, the UK made a commitment of €50 million. This funding package has been allocated to a variety of projects, including improvements to security infrastructure at the northern French ports, cooperation in facilitating returns, improving access to French domestic asylum procedures and ensuring that vulnerable migrants are provided with the support and care that they require. Precise details of these projects cannot be provided for reasons of security.</p><p>To date, €42.5 million of this package has been committed, and we are on track to allocate the remainder before the end of the 18/19 financial year. Both countries will continue to cooperate closely to prevent illegal migration and to maintain the security of our shared border as well as the operation of the juxtaposed controls.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 218262 218264 218265 218266 218267 218268 question first answered 12/02/2019 12:20:03 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1056703

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: France
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to Answer of 6 February 2018 to Question 215158 on UK-France Migration Committee, how much of the Euro 50 million committed under the terms of the Sandhurst Treaty has been paid; and on what date those payment were made.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	218264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK-France Migration Committee meets on a bi-monthly basis and is hosted alternately by the UK and French Governments. Going forward, the Committee will continue to meet on this basis. Exact dates are finalised closer to the meetings, to ensure that the relevant senior officials and experts are able to attend.</p><p>In order to implement the terms of the Sandhurst Treaty, the UK made a commitment of €50 million. This funding package has been allocated to a variety of projects, including improvements to security infrastructure at the northern French ports, cooperation in facilitating returns, improving access to French domestic asylum procedures and ensuring that vulnerable migrants are provided with the support and care that they require. Precise details of these projects cannot be provided for reasons of security.</p><p>To date, €42.5 million of this package has been committed, and we are on track to allocate the remainder before the end of the 18/19 financial year. Both countries will continue to cooperate closely to prevent illegal migration and to maintain the security of our shared border as well as the operation of the juxtaposed controls.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 218262 218263 218265 218266 218267 218268 question first answered 12/02/2019 12:20:04 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1056708

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2019 to Question 215158 on UK-France Migration Committee, what proportion of the £3.6 million allocated to the funding of the development of the Dublin process to support transfers of eligible children to the UK has been made in payments.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	218269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>As part of the overall £45.5 million package included in the Sandhurst Treaty to underpin the joint co-operation between the UK and France, we have allocated £3.6 million specifically to fund the development of the Dublin process to support transfers of eligible children to the UK (including training for those working with unaccompanied children, family tracing and targeted information campaigns). This full package of £3.6 million was paid to the French Government at the end of 2018. We continue to work with France to transfer eligible children under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 and the Dublin regulation and transfers are ongoing.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 218270 question first answered 12/02/2019 12:27:05 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1056741

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
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	Electronic Cigarettes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on implementing the recommendations accepted by the Government in its response to the Science and Technology Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2017-19 on E-cigarettes, HC505.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	218245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government published its response to the Science and Technology Committee on the 10 December 2018. Good progress is being made on implementing the report’s recommendations: for example, Public Health England will publish its latest annual evidence review on e-cigarettes by the end of March 2019 and NHS England is developing guidance on e-cigarettes for mental health trusts. The Department will continue to monitor progress as part of its monitoring of the delivery of the Tobacco Control Plan for England.</p><p> </p><p>The Government believes in proportionate regulation of e-cigarettes, recognising that they are not risk-free. Through the European Union Tobacco Products Directive 2014/40/EU (TPD), transposed into United Kingdom law by the UK Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016 (TRPR), we have introduced measures to regulate e-cigarettes to reduce the risk of harm to children, protect against any risk of renormalisation of tobacco use, provide assurance on relative safety for users, and give businesses legal certainty. This has enabled the UK to implement appropriate standards for products whilst allowing smokers to move to e-cigarettes should they wish.</p><p> </p><p>While the UK Government is a member of the EU it will continue to comply with the requirements of the EU’s TPD. The Government has made a commitment to review the TRPR by May 2021 to consider its regulatory impact. In addition, as announced in the Tobacco Control Plan the Government will review where the UK’s exit from the EU offers us opportunities to re-appraise current regulation to ensure this continues to protect the nation’s health.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 218246 question first answered 15/02/2019 11:10:04 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie