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769016

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2017
	answering body	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept id	18
	answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
	hansard heading	Big Ben: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, what material has been used in the scaffolding for the renovation work on the Elizabeth Tower; and what the country of origin was of that material.
	tabling member constituency	Aberavon
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
	uin	107189
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>A modular scaffolding system is being used for the refurbishment of the Elizabeth Tower. A UK sub-contractor is erecting the modular system, which is made from high tensile galvanised steel supplied from Germany, through a UK-based company.</p><p>The modular scaffolding system is supported by a steelwork gantry. The steelwork for the gantry has been procured through a UK manufacturer (Sir Robert McAlpine’s sub-contractor). The origin of the majority of the steel is British, but due to the quantity and size of the components required it has been necessary to source some steel from overseas suppliers, including in Brazil and the United Arab Emirates.</p><p>All of the steelwork structures have been assembled in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 18/10/2017 17:05:46 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
	tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

768927

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Sports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase participation in sport by school children.
	tabling member constituency	Aldershot
	tabling member printed	Leo Docherty
	uin	107301
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>Through the primary PE and sport premium, the government has invested over £600m of ring-fenced funding to primary schools to improve PE and sport since 2013. The government has doubled the premium from September 2017 using revenue from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy.</p><p> </p><p>£100m from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy will be used for the Healthy Pupils Capital Fund. The funding is for one year only (2018-19). It is intended to facilitate an improvement in children’s physical and mental health by increasing and improving access to and use of relevant facilities, such as kitchens, dining facilities, changing rooms and sports facilities.</p><p> </p><p>The new PE curriculum is designed to ensure that all pupils develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities, are physically active for sustained periods of time and lead healthy and active lives.</p><p> </p><p>The department also funds targeted grants to support the delivery of the School Games and helps schools to ensure PE and sport is inclusive.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 18/10/2017 07:33:29 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty

768989

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refunds were issued by her Department to visa applicants in each of the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	107160
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The data requested is not published by the Home Office.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 18/10/2017 14:32:49 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

768931

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2017
	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	Birds: Conservation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to page 11 of the RSPB's Reserves 2012 report, what information his Department holds on the population of priority bird species on RSPB reserves since 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Berwick-upon-Tweed
	tabling member printed	Mrs Anne-Marie Trevelyan
	uin	107205
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>Defra does not hold information on the population of priority bird species on RSPB reserves.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 18/10/2017 14:55:51 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan

768987

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Port of Cairnryan
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have been trafficked into the UK through the Port of Cairnryan in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Dumfries and Galloway
	tabling member printed	Mr Alister Jack
	uin	107204
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>Information is not held centrally on the specific location from which potential victims of modern slavery and human trafficking are first identified. For Scotland as a whole, the number of potential victims first identified in Scotland and referred to the National Referral Mechanism (the support service provided to potential victims of modern slavery and human trafficking) for the last three years are:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total number of potential victims of modern slavery and human trafficking first indentified in Scotland and referred to the National Referral Mechanism</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>145</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>111</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 18/10/2017 11:59:31 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4619 label Biography information for Mr Alister Jack

769020

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Overseas Aid: Disasters
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress her Department has made towards its commitment to increase spending on disaster risk reduction; and to which countries that additional funding has been allocated.
	tabling member constituency	Dundee West
	tabling member printed	Chris Law
	uin	107303
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>In response to the 2011 Humanitarian Emergency Response Review, DFID committed to embed disaster resilience within all country programmes, influencing DFID’s overall bilateral spend, rather than having a separate funding line for disaster risk reduction. For example:</p><ul><li>In Ethiopia, DFID contributes towards the Productive Safety Net Programme to address hunger and poverty for the poorest rural Ethiopians. The safety net is designed to increase their ability to deal with weather induced shocks. This approach has helped to reduce food stress for 10 million people.</li><li>The Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) programme aims to benefit 5 million vulnerable people, especially women and children, in 13 developing countries. It will help them become more resilient to climate extremes and disasters, while gathering knowledge on how to avoid humanitarian disasters arising from climate extremes.</li><li>In Kenya, DFID supported the Arid Lands Support Programme (ASP) to support the resilience of some 475,000 people. The programme included: the expansion of a pilot Index Based Livestock Insurance mechanism for poor pastoralists; improved fodder production and storage; and the building of community assets, such as water storage”.</li></ul><p>More recently, the UK’s new Humanitarian policy aims to build on the commitments made at the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit, including the Grand Bargain. This will include continuing to provide core, un-earmarked funding to multilateral agencies but making sure our funding is conditional to progress made in delivering radical system-wide reform as well as continue to improve the international, national and local capacities to manage disasters.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 18/10/2017 16:50:08 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law

768932

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2017
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Pneumonia
	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 tackle preventable child deaths from pneumonia in support of progress towards Sustainable Development Goals.
	tabling member constituency	Dundee West
	tabling member printed	Chris Law
	uin	107206
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The UK is the largest donor to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which delivers the pneumococcal vaccine to developing countries to protect against the main cause of pneumonia. Between 2010 and 2016, 109 million children received the vaccine with Gavi support, saving an estimated 762,000 lives.</p><p>As part of the UK’s commitment to achieving the Global Goals, DfID supports countries to build stronger health systems that can respond to both the existing disease burden and emerging health needs.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 18/10/2017 16:48:46 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law

769036

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Traffic Lights
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on recent trials in Amsterdam of switching off traffic lights to improve traffic flows; and if he will consider introducing similar trials at selective intersections during off peak periods in UK cities.
	tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
	tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
	uin	107130
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Transport holds no information about such trials.</p><p> </p><p>The operation of traffic lights is a matter for local authorities. Part-time operation is already possible, and an authority would need to consider the possible impacts carefully, particularly on road safety and accessibility.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 18/10/2017 10:47:24 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

768977

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Doctors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the UK leaving the EU on the regulation, movement and education of doctors in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	107233
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department is working closely with the General Medical Council, Health Education England, NHS England and others in the health and care system to understand the impact of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union on doctors in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 18/10/2017 11:53:18 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

768973

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Surgery: Waiting Lists
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the minimum waiting time for elective surgery; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	107228
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The NHS Constitution outlines that patients have a right to start consultant-led treatment within a maximum of 18 weeks from referral for non-urgent conditions. If this is not possible, the National Health Service must take all reasonable steps to offer a suitable alternative provider that can treat them sooner, if this is clinically appropriate and it is what the patient wants.</p><p> </p><p>Clinical priority is the main determinant of when patients should be treated followed by the chronological order of when they were added to the list. Clinicians should make decisions about patients’ treatment and patients should not experience undue delay at any stage of their referral, diagnosis or treatment.</p><p> </p><p>It is for NHS commissioners and providers locally to work together to manage demand and plan sufficient capacity to maintain low waiting times.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 107231 question first answered 18/10/2017 11:54:31 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders