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824431

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many additional staff have been employed by HM Revenue and Customs to tackle tax avoidance since the release of the Paradise Papers.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	123232
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>HMRC will investigate any allegations of wrongdoing brought to its attention. In the Autumn Budget 2017, the government confirmed 18 further measures and additional investment in HMRC to tackle avoidance, evasion, and non-compliance.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has generated over £160 billion of additional yield since 2010 from tackling avoidance, evasion and non-compliance. There are currently 26,000 people working in the Customer Compliance Group tackling all forms of non-compliance – ranging from individuals operating in the hidden economy, through to detailed investigation of offshore structures and scrutinising the tax affairs of the largest multi-national companies.</p><p> </p><p>The Joint Financial Analysis Centre (JFAC) established in the wake of the Panama Papers brings together data and intelligence from across Government and has developed into a national capability underpinning the Government’s ambitions to fight complex tax and economic crime, at home and overseas.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 123231 question first answered 23/01/2018 15:37:08 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

824430

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Revenue and Customs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much additional funding has been allocated to HM Revenue and Customs to tackle tax avoidance since the release of the Paradise Papers.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	123231
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>HMRC will investigate any allegations of wrongdoing brought to its attention. In the Autumn Budget 2017, the government confirmed 18 further measures and additional investment in HMRC to tackle avoidance, evasion, and non-compliance.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has generated over £160 billion of additional yield since 2010 from tackling avoidance, evasion and non-compliance. There are currently 26,000 people working in the Customer Compliance Group tackling all forms of non-compliance – ranging from individuals operating in the hidden economy, through to detailed investigation of offshore structures and scrutinising the tax affairs of the largest multi-national companies.</p><p> </p><p>The Joint Financial Analysis Centre (JFAC) established in the wake of the Panama Papers brings together data and intelligence from across Government and has developed into a national capability underpinning the Government’s ambitions to fight complex tax and economic crime, at home and overseas.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 123232 question first answered 23/01/2018 15:37:08 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

822866

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Day Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what provisions are in place to enable access to 30 hours of free childcare for parents working unusual and anti-social hours.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	122549
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The government is committed to ensuring that hardworking parents can access the flexible high-quality childcare they need, whilst protecting the wellbeing of children and ensuring a degree of stability for providers. Parents can stretch the offer to cover 52 weeks of the year and can take sessions over the weekend to cover a variety of working patterns.</p><p> </p><p>Our statutory guidance states that local authorities should ensure that parents and providers are aware that, subject to the standards set out in the guidance, there is no requirement that free places must be taken on or delivered on particular days of the week or at particular times of the day. They should also support parents to identify providers who can offer places on the days and at the times needed by the parent.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/01/2018 17:49:59 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

822868

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Dyslexia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to assist young people diagnosed with dyslexia to improve their writing skills for their A-level exams.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	122551
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The reforms to the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) system introduced in 2014 benefit all children and young people who have SEND, including those with dyslexia. Building on 2013-16 funding, the Department for Education is funding the British Dyslexia Association (BDA) and partners in 2017-18, with £500,000 to facilitate better support for children with dyslexia. BDA resources include information on speech recognition software which converts speech to text.</p><p>The development of writing skills is already a fundamental part of the school curriculum. To support improvements in areas where standards are currently lower than average, we will be setting up a new Centre of Excellence for Literacy Teaching and a national network of 35 English Hubs.</p><p>Exam boards have a duty under the Equality Act 2010 to make reasonable adjustments for disabled students who because of their disability would otherwise be at a substantial disadvantage when demonstrating their skills, knowledge and understanding in an assessment. Such reasonable adjustments may include having extra time, a scribe, reader, overlays, different fonts or size of fonts or the use of word processor. Reasonable adjustments are made for many thousands of students each year. The exam boards use an online system to streamline the process for seeking a reasonable adjustment.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/01/2018 17:45:43 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

822874

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Day Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has plans to extend 30 hours of free childcare to the parents of two-year-old children; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	122557
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>We are in the first full year of rolling out 30 hours for working parents of three- and four-year olds. Our immediate focus is on effective delivery for the spring and summer terms, and on evaluating the policy during its first year. We are not currently planning to make any significant changes to the policy.</p><p>The government currently offers disadvantaged two-year-olds 15 hours a week of free early learning to help ensure they get the best start in life. This is in response to evidence which tells us that children from disadvantaged backgrounds, can be up to 19 months behind their better off peers in their learning by the time they start school<a href="https://educationgovuk.sharepoint.com/sites/cd/c/WorkplaceDocuments/Written%20PQ%20Team/Written%20PQ%20-%202017-18%20drafts/PQ%20122557%20policy%20original%20220118.docx#_ftn1" target="_blank">[1]</a>. High-quality early learning from the age of two can help to narrow that gap, helping those children to achieve better GCSE results and ultimately earn higher wages<a href="https://educationgovuk.sharepoint.com/sites/cd/c/WorkplaceDocuments/Written%20PQ%20Team/Written%20PQ%20-%202017-18%20drafts/PQ%20122557%20policy%20original%20220118.docx#_ftn2" target="_blank">[2]</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://educationgovuk.sharepoint.com/sites/cd/c/WorkplaceDocuments/Written%20PQ%20Team/Written%20PQ%20-%202017-18%20drafts/PQ%20122557%20policy%20original%20220118.docx#_ftnref1" target="_blank">[1]</a> Toth, K et al (2015) Subject to background. Sutton Trust <a href="http://www.suttontrust.com/researcharchive/subject-to-background/" target="_blank">http://www.suttontrust.com/researcharchive/subject-to-background/</a></p><p><a href="https://educationgovuk.sharepoint.com/sites/cd/c/WorkplaceDocuments/Written%20PQ%20Team/Written%20PQ%20-%202017-18%20drafts/PQ%20122557%20policy%20original%20220118.docx#_ftnref2" target="_blank">[2]</a> Sylva, K., Melhuish, E., Sammons, P., Siraj, I., &amp; Taggart, B. (2014). <em>EPPE Students’ educational and developmental outcomes at age 16</em>. London. Retrieved from <a href="http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/20873/1/RR354_-_Students__educational_and_developmental_outcomes_at_age_16.pdf" target="_blank">http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/20873/1/RR354_-_Students__educational_and_developmental_outcomes_at_age_16.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/01/2018 18:00:12 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

825593

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2018
	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	Plastics: Pollution
	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 steps his Department is taking to reduce the level of plastic pollution in rivers and canals.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	123722
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Environment Agency (EA) regulates the management of waste plastics, including waste treatment, exports and recovery. The producer responsibility regime requires producers of plastic packaging to ensure it is recovered.</p><p> </p><p>The EA is currently working with the water industry through the price review process to investigate the sources and types of microplastics entering the environment via sewage and sewage sludge. This will feed into future planning and the potential for plastic capture technology at water company assets.</p><p> </p><p>The EA is investigating additional regulation of plastics from production to disposal, and enhanced monitoring and analysis to provide better evidence on how plastics enter and affect the land and water environment.</p><p> </p><p>The EA recently announced £750,000 for a new, dedicated team to tackle plastics pollution in the South West of England. The team aims to reduce plastic pollution across land, rivers and the coastline. It will promote better environmental practices across industry, including a reduction in plastic waste from manufacturing and community campaigns to clean up pollution locally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 23/01/2018 14:03:02 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

822864

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	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	Rape: Children
	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 issued guidance in the procedure for using rape kits on children under 16 and the gender of the medical professional using that rape kit.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	122547
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department has not issued guidance in the procedure for using rape kits on children under 16 and the gender of the medical professional using that rape kit. The Government supported the recommendation made by the independent review by Baroness Stern into how rape complaints are handled by public authorities that there should be the choice of a male or female forensic physician to undertake the examination. Medical professionals should be sufficiently trained and clinically supervised to comply with guidance from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 122548 question first answered 23/01/2018 14:20:31 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

825589

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2018
	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	Children: Social Media
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what research his Department has conducted on the effect of social media on anxiety among under-16s.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	123720
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department has not conducted research on the effect of social media on anxiety among under 16s.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 23/01/2018 14:27:42 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

822865

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	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	Rape: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what specialised training medical professionals have for using rape kits and medical assessments of victims of sexual assault aged 16 and under.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	122548
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department has not issued guidance in the procedure for using rape kits on children under 16 and the gender of the medical professional using that rape kit. The Government supported the recommendation made by the independent review by Baroness Stern into how rape complaints are handled by public authorities that there should be the choice of a male or female forensic physician to undertake the examination. Medical professionals should be sufficiently trained and clinically supervised to comply with guidance from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 122547 question first answered 23/01/2018 14:20:31 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

825600

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Ombudsman: Complaints
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many complaints the Legal Ombudsman has received about its service in the year 2016-2017.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	123728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Legal Ombudsman received 87,193 contacts (calls, letters and e-mails), and accepted 7,223 legal services jurisdiction cases and 2,290 claims management jurisdiction cases for investigation in 2016-2017. In the same period it received 118 complaints about its service. This represents about 1% of its caseload.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/01/2018 17:39:24 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel