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1064062

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what proportion of staff employed by her Department are apprentices.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	223260
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>I can confirm there is currently one apprentice employed in the Department which accounts for 2% of the London staff. Although slightly under the public sector target of 2.3%, this is due to two apprentices completing their apprenticeships during 2018. A further three apprentices have recently been recruited, which will bring the proportion of apprentices in the department to 6%.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 25/02/2019 11:10:43 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

1124376

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Secondment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many civil servants in her Department have been seconded to (a) the Department for Exiting the European Union and (b) the Department for International Trade in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	249908
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2019 answer text <p>There have been no civil servants seconded from the Northern Ireland Office to either the Department for Exiting the European Union or the Department for International Trade, in each of the last three years.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 08/05/2019 11:57:49 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1131756

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Statistics
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, on how many occasions her Department has received representations from the UK Statistics Authority on her Department's presentation and use of statistics in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	263728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>Details on the UK Statistics Authority’s interventions are published in the correspondence, publications, and issues log sections of their website since 2010.</p><p> </p><p>The Authority’s Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) also carry out regular assessments and systemic reviews, details of which can also be found on the Authority’s website.</p><p> </p><p>In September 2018, the Authority published the first annual summary of its interventions for the financial year 2017/18. The report for 2018/19 will be published in the autumn.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 19/06/2019 11:59:12 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1035356

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what estimate she has made of the additional staff required by her Department in the event that the UK leaves the EU (a) with and (b) without a deal.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
	tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
	uin	205324
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>EU exit affects a number of work areas across the Department and will therefore encompass a proportion of workload for many staff, the amount of which will vary over time. The Department has restructured its approach to the way it handles EU exit work, moving from an initial central EU exit co-ordinating team of 7 to the current position where EU exit work is distributed widely across the whole department. Many of the same staff spend a proportion of their time preparing for leaving the EU (a) with and (b) without a deal. Those proportions vary continuously over time. As such it is difficult to quantify the number of staff working on preparing for the UK to leave the EU under any one possible scenario.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 14/01/2019 10:28:05 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1037109

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Foreign Investment in UK: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions she has had with the Tourist Board in Northern Ireland on promoting the benefits of Northern Ireland to foreign investors.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	205878
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland Office works closely with Tourism NI and the rest of Northern Ireland government departments to ensure that the work to highlight Northern Ireland as a great place to invest provides them with the support that they want. I am a former Tourism Minister myself, and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland regularly promotes inward investment to Northern Ireland, such as on her visit to the United States in September of last year.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 14/01/2019 10:29:38 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

1108689

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Northern Ireland Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps she will take to help people in financial hardship due to the Renewal Heat Incentive Scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	239215
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department for the Economy (DfE) has committed to set up a unit within the department, under independent chairmanship. This will be responsible for examining the case of every individual who has received funds from the RHI initiative and believes that they have experienced hardship.</p><p> </p><p>The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee (NIAC) will also be conducting a review of the revised tariffs. That inquiry will, among other things, examine how the revised tariffs will affect the businesses they apply to. We will look carefully at the recommendations that the Committee makes.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 09/04/2019 09:48:11 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

1108691

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many additional staff work in the Northern Ireland Office since 23 June 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	239217
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2019 answer text <p>The number of additional staff in the Northern Ireland Office since 23 June 2016 is 52.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 09/04/2019 09:49:07 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

1108692

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Welfare State: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what discussions her Department has had with officials in the Department for Work and Pensions on the extension of mitigation payments on welfare reform in Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	239218
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>Following the Fresh Start Agreement, funding was made available by the Executive to mitigate the impact of welfare reform in Northern Ireland. This funding ends in March 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Communities in Northern Ireland is responsible for the delivery of the various mitigation schemes relating to welfare reform in Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>A decision to extend mitigations beyond March 2020 would be a matter for the Northern Ireland Civil Service and not the Department for Work and Pensions.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 03/04/2019 14:11:53 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

1061185

	registered interest
	date	14/02/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Personal Records
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many records her Department holds that have reached the time limit for their transfer to the National Archives but have not been transferred.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
	tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
	uin	221713
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2019 answer text <p>The Public Records Act defines a record as a document. The Northern Ireland Office does not have a record of how many documents have reached their time limit for transfer to the National Archives. It would incur disproportionate costs to answer this question.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 22/02/2019 11:51:04 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1060582

	registered interest
	date	13/02/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Electricity Interconnectors: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the timeframe is for the redetermination of the planning application for the Tyrone-Cavan interconnector.
	tabling member constituency	South West Wiltshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Andrew Murrison
	uin	220821
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Act 2018 and associated guidance gives greater certainty to enable NI Departments to continue to take decisions in Northern Ireland in the public interest. The redetermination of the planning application is a devolved matter and falls to the Department for Infrastructure. As such, I would encourage you to contact the Northern Ireland Department for Infrastructure for further information.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 220822 221593 question first answered 20/02/2019 16:18:46 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison