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869407

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Military Bases: York
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has to retain civilian support jobs in York following the planned closure of Queen Elizabeth Barracks and Imphal Barracks.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	133921
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2018 answer text <p>Future planning for the civilian support jobs based in York are still in progress and the Department will work with the local Authority and the Government Property Agency to explore potential opportunities to keep civilian posts within the local area.</p><p>Civilian personnel will be managed in accordance with normal Departmental Policy and processes and formal Trades Union consultation will occur in advance of any site closure.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb question first answered 28/03/2018 16:30:01 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

867431

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2018
	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: Mental Illness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the criteria for assessments for personal independence payments for people with mental health problems.
	tabling member constituency	Worthing West
	tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
	uin	133406
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2018 answer text <p>The assessment criteria for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) have been developed to take into account the overall impact of a claimant’s physical or mental health condition or impairment on their functional ability, rather than focusing on a particular diagnosis. The inclusion in the assessment of activities around communicating, engaging with others, and planning and following journeys assists with assessing the impact of conditions affecting mental, intellectual, cognitive and developmental functions.</p><p> </p><p>66% of PIP recipients with mental health conditions get the enhanced rate daily living component, compared with 22% who received the highest DLA care component. And 31% of PIP recipients with mental health conditions get the enhanced rate mobility rate, compared with just 10% of DLA recipients.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 28/03/2018 14:22:18 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

861087

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2018
	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	Shipping
	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 progress has been made on developing data exchange arrangements to identify the movement of (a) EU and (b) third country vessels in UK waters, and the movement of UK vessels in (i) EU and (ii) third country waters, after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Workington
	tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
	uin	132236
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2018 answer text <p>There are two primary sources of data which can be used to monitor fishing vessel activity. Firstly, under International Maritime Organisation regulations, vessels over 300 tonnes must have automatic identification system (AIS); this is also an EU requirement for vessels over 15m in length and is used more widely as a safety aid. AIS is open source data available to all vessels wherever they are. Secondly, all EU vessels over 12m in length must have a vessel monitoring system while third country vessels in EU waters are required to have an operational satellite tracking system.</p><p> </p><p>Data sharing arrangements between authorities are a standard condition of fisheries agreements.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 28/03/2018 10:58:45 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

870192

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2018
	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	Nurses: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has conducted an impact assessment of its decision to change NHS funding for postgraduate nursing courses in England.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	uin	134126
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2018 answer text <p>In July 2016 the Government published a revised economic impact assessment alongside the response to its consultation: Reforming healthcare education funding: creating a sustainable future workforce.</p><p> </p><p>A revised version of the original Equality Analysis, published in February 2018 to accompany the reforms to pre-registration postgraduate healthcare funding, can be found with the aforementioned documents at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/changing-how-healthcare-education-is-funded" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/changing-how-healthcare-education-is-funded</a></p><p> </p><p>Following implementation of the policy, the Department will look for suitable opportunities, including through existing stakeholder forums, to monitor developments.</p><p> </p><p>In order to meet the growing need to increase the future supply of registered nurses, additional clinical placement funding was announced by the Department in August and October 2017. This will enable around 5,000 more nursing students to enter training each year from September 2018; an historic 25% increase.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 28/03/2018 10:54:21 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

870230

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2018
	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	Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on how many occasions staff at Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust have not been paid on time in each of the last two years.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	134094
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2018 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally. It is the responsibility of the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust to ensure that all their staff are paid accurately and on time.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 28/03/2018 10:55:42 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

870236

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2018
	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	West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group has introduced financial incentives for GP Practices that do not refer patients to NHS hospitals.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	134100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2018 answer text <p>NHS West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group can confirm that it has not introduced financial incentives for general practitioner practices that do not refer patients to National Health Service hospitals.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 28/03/2018 10:08:14 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

870251

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Palestinians: Reconstruction
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to encourage other Governments to honour the reconstruction pledges made at the 2014 Cairo Conference.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	134115
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2018 answer text <p>The UK has disbursed its £20 million pledge in early recovery assistance made at the 2014 Gaza Reconstruction Conference in Cairo, including support for cash assistance to Palestinian refugees, mine removal and medical treatment. We continue to encourage other donors and the international community to work towards reconstruction in Gaza.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 28/03/2018 16:17:23 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

867540

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2018
	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	Energy: Meters
	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 steps his Department is taking to ensure that savings from the roll-out of smart meters will be passed on to consumers.
	tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
	tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
	uin	133515
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2018 answer text <p>Smart metering will give consumers the tools they need – through access to energy consumption data – to take control of their energy use. Consumers can start saving energy from the moment their smart meter is installed. In a recent survey Smart Energy GB found that 86% of people with a smart meter said they made energy saving changes to their behaviour.</p><p> </p><p>Suppliers have a strong incentive to keep costs down. If suppliers do not deliver the programme cost-efficiently, they risk losing customers to their competitors.</p><p> </p><p>Smart meters will help improve engagement and competition. The Programme will give households the information to allow them to be more active consumers and more easily act upon poor service of expensive tariffs, by being able to switch suppliers quickly and simply.</p><p> </p><p>Ahead of that, the Government is introducing legislation to cap poor value standard variable and default tariffs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 28/03/2018 14:06:52 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry previous answer version 49838 answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

868387

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2018
	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	Energy: Prices
	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 many (a) domestic and (b) small non-domestic energy customers are presently on time of use tariffs.
	tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
	tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
	uin	133607
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2018 answer text <p>As of 31<sup>st</sup> December 2016, in Great Britain, there were 4.4 million domestic time of use (Economy 7 type meters). Of these, BEIS estimate that there were around 3.1 million domestic customers on Economy 7 or 10 tariffs.</p><p> </p><p>While a number of suppliers are offering time of use and other innovative tariffs enabled by smart metering and elective half-hourly settlement, we do not have information on the number of domestic customers on these types of tariffs.</p><p> </p><p>As of 31<sup>st</sup> December 2016, in Great Britain, there were around 500,000 non-domestic profile 4 Economy 7 type meters (used by small non-domestic customers). However some properties with Economy 7 meters will be on single rate tariffs.</p><p> </p><p>Source:</p><p>An estimate for the number of Economy 7 meters in Great Britain can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/regional-and-local-authority-electricity-consumption-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/regional-and-local-authority-electricity-consumption-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 28/03/2018 14:08:34 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry previous answer version 49818 answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

869328

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2018
	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	Healthy Start Scheme
	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 he has made of the effect of the introduction of universal credit on take-up rates for healthy start benefits among families in receipt of universal credit.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	133842
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2018 answer text <p>Healthy Start vouchers are available to Universal Credit claimants with earnings at or below £408 per month, who are at least 10 weeks pregnant or who have at least one child under four years old.</p><p> </p><p>Arrangements are in place to support Healthy Start beneficiaries who are transitioning to Universal Credit, and those who are applying for Universal Credit for the first time.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 28/03/2018 12:46:39 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson