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1131127

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	11/06/2019
	date	11/06/2019
	date tabled	11/06/2019
	ddp created	11/06/2019 13:24:25
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	11/06/2019 13:25:06 11/06/2019 14:38:08
	hansard heading	Supermarkets: Conditions of Employment
	house id	1
	identifier	911256
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	11/06/2019 14:06:22
	question text	What recent assessment his Department has made of the equity of employment contract terms and conditions in the supermarket sector.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 911256
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	911256
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Government is committed to upgrading workers’ rights and protecting the most vulnerable workers. Our legal framework already ensures that employers should always treat their employees fairly, and our Good Work Plan will introduce the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation.</p><p> </p><p>In the retail sector specifically, the industry-led Retail Sector Council has identified employment as a priority workstream and this will be discussed at our next meeting on 20 June.</p> question first answered 11/06/2019 14:06:22 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	creator	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George written parliamentary question 1146576 1146578
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4662

1150238

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	17/10/2019
	date	17/10/2019
	date tabled	17/10/2019
	ddp created	17/10/2019 10:11:07
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	ddp modified	17/10/2019 10:15:08 17/10/2019 17:08:04
	hansard heading	Railway Stations: Disability
	house id	1
	identifier	900033
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	17/10/2019 16:36:08
	question text	What recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on rail stations that are inaccessible to people with disabilities; and if she will make a statement.
	session	2019/20
	session number	2
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2019/20 900033
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	900033
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p><em>We are committed to improving accessibility at rail stations, and have recently extended the Access for All programme with £300m to provide accessibility improvements at even more stations. This is in addition to improvements required whenever infrastructure work is carried out at a station by the industry.</em></p> question first answered 17/10/2019 16:36:08 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	creator	4662
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4662

1148860

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	17/10/2019
	date	14/10/2019
	date tabled	14/10/2019
	ddp created	14/10/2019 22:16:07
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	ddp modified	14/10/2019 22:26:07 17/10/2019 10:16:02
	hansard heading	NHS: Drugs
	house id	1
	identifier	325
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	17/10/2019 09:44:50
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that there will be no shortage of the medicines and consumables needed for dialysis or transplantation following the UK’s departure from the EU.
	session	2019/20
	session number	2
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2019/20 325
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	325
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Department is doing everything appropriate to prepare for leaving the European Union. We want to reassure patients that our plans should ensure the uninterrupted supply of medicines and medical products once we have left the EU.</p><p>The Department, as part of our EU exit preparations, continues to implement a multi-layered approach to mitigate potential disruption to supply, which includes medicines and consumables needed for dialysis or transplantation. This approach consists of stockpiling where possible, securing freight capacity, changing or clarifying regulatory requirements, procuring additional warehousing, working closely with industry to improve trader readiness and putting in place the National Supply Disruption Response to manage potential shortages. Further details can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/medicines-and-medical-products-supply-government-updates-no-deal-brexit-plans" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/medicines-and-medical-products-supply-government-updates-no-deal-brexit-plans</a></p><p> </p> question first answered 17/10/2019 09:44:50 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	creator	4662
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4662

1148858

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	17/10/2019
	date	14/10/2019
	date tabled	14/10/2019
	ddp created	14/10/2019 22:15:55
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	ddp modified	14/10/2019 22:25:59 17/10/2019 10:11:10
	hansard heading	Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements
	house id	1
	identifier	324
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	17/10/2019 09:40:57
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 9 September 2019 to Question 284706, what advice the Government has issued to UK citizens travelling in the EU that require treatments not routinely covered by travel insurance policies after the UK leaves the EU.
	session	2019/20
	session number	2
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2019/20 324
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	324
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The United Kingdom Government has proposed to all Member States that we should maintain existing reciprocal healthcare arrangements until 31 December 2020 if the UK leaves the European Union without a deal. This includes the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) which can support UK residents with long term conditions travelling to the EU who may require needs arising treatment.</p><p>The Government understands the concerns of patients with long term conditions and is working to secure the continuation of reciprocal healthcare arrangements, so UK and EU nationals have access to medical treatment in the same way they do now.</p><p>Guidance for travelling to the EU after EU exit is available on gov.uk, available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-residents-visiting-the-eueea-and-switzerland-healthcare" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-residents-visiting-the-eueea-and-switzerland-healthcare</a></p><p>The UK Government is advising people with pre-existing or long term medical conditions to also check the Money and Pensions Advice Service which has information on their website for people about their options for purchasing travel insurance. Further information is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/articles/travel-insurance-for-over-65s-and-medical-conditions" target="_blank">www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/articles/travel-insurance-for-over-65s-and-medical-conditions</a></p> question first answered 17/10/2019 09:40:57 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	creator	4662
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4662

1148857

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	17/10/2019
	date	14/10/2019
	date tabled	14/10/2019
	ddp created	14/10/2019 22:15:52
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	15/10/2019 14:45:36 17/10/2019 14:06:02
	hansard heading	Department for Work and Pensions: Daily Mail and Metro Newspaper
	house id	1
	identifier	323
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	17/10/2019 13:34:22
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will place in the Library a copy of the memo of 2 May 2019 sent by her Department’s Director General of Universal Credit and Director of Communications to DWP staff setting out the purpose of the Universal Credit Uncovered advertising campaign in the Metro and Mail Online.
	session	2019/20
	session number	2
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2019/20 323
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	323
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>We are the biggest Government Department with a day to day operation on which around 22 million citizens depend. The Department has a responsibility to communicate policy and essential information to claimants and other key audiences.</p><p> </p><p>The Metro partnership was designed to increase understanding of Universal Credit and ensure people have the right factual information they need to make a claim and understand their potential entitlement.</p><p> </p><p>We went to great lengths to ensure the factual accuracy of the campaign through extensive consultation within the Department, including the Government Legal Department. We also consulted with the Advertising Standards Authority Copy Advice Team prior to the launch and continued to do so throughout the campaign lifetime.</p><p> </p><p>The letter of 31 July 2019 placed in the House of Commons Library disclosed the full cost of the Department’s partnership with Associated Newspapers. There were no advertising agencies, consultancy or additional costs associated with the campaign and detailed planning was taken forward by Departmental officials.</p><p> </p><p>We have already shared a copy of the memo of 2 May 2019 from the Director General of Universal Credit and Director of Communications to DWP staff with the Work and Pensions Select Committee but can also commit to placing a copy in the House of Commons Library.</p> question first answered 17/10/2019 13:34:22 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	creator	4662
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4662

1148856

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	17/10/2019
	date	14/10/2019
	date tabled	14/10/2019
	ddp created	14/10/2019 22:15:48
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	14/10/2019 22:25:52 17/10/2019 14:06:05
	hansard heading	Department for Work and Pensions: Daily Mail and Metro Newspaper
	house id	1
	identifier	322
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	17/10/2019 13:34:22
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Government Legal Service approved the Universal Credit Uncovered advertising campaign in the Metro and the Mail Online in May and June 2019.
	session	2019/20
	session number	2
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2019/20 322
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	322
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>We are the biggest Government Department with a day to day operation on which around 22 million citizens depend. The Department has a responsibility to communicate policy and essential information to claimants and other key audiences.</p><p> </p><p>The Metro partnership was designed to increase understanding of Universal Credit and ensure people have the right factual information they need to make a claim and understand their potential entitlement.</p><p> </p><p>We went to great lengths to ensure the factual accuracy of the campaign through extensive consultation within the Department, including the Government Legal Department. We also consulted with the Advertising Standards Authority Copy Advice Team prior to the launch and continued to do so throughout the campaign lifetime.</p><p> </p><p>The letter of 31 July 2019 placed in the House of Commons Library disclosed the full cost of the Department’s partnership with Associated Newspapers. There were no advertising agencies, consultancy or additional costs associated with the campaign and detailed planning was taken forward by Departmental officials.</p><p> </p><p>We have already shared a copy of the memo of 2 May 2019 from the Director General of Universal Credit and Director of Communications to DWP staff with the Work and Pensions Select Committee but can also commit to placing a copy in the House of Commons Library.</p> question first answered 17/10/2019 13:34:22 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	creator	4662
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4662

1148850

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	17/10/2019
	date	14/10/2019
	date tabled	14/10/2019
	ddp created	14/10/2019 22:15:17
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	15/10/2019 14:45:31 17/10/2019 14:06:04
	hansard heading	Department for Work and Pensions: Metro Newspaper
	house id	1
	identifier	316
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	17/10/2019 13:34:22
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the letter of 31 July 2019 from the Minister for Family Support, Housing and Child Maintenance placed in the Library disclosing the cost of the Department’s partnership with Associated Newspapers, if she will provide (a) costs of the advertising consultancy and (b) all other costs incurred in the Universal Credit Uncovered advertising campaign which ran in May and June 2019 in The Metro and online.
	session	2019/20
	session number	2
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2019/20 316
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	316
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>We are the biggest Government Department with a day to day operation on which around 22 million citizens depend. The Department has a responsibility to communicate policy and essential information to claimants and other key audiences.</p><p> </p><p>The Metro partnership was designed to increase understanding of Universal Credit and ensure people have the right factual information they need to make a claim and understand their potential entitlement.</p><p> </p><p>We went to great lengths to ensure the factual accuracy of the campaign through extensive consultation within the Department, including the Government Legal Department. We also consulted with the Advertising Standards Authority Copy Advice Team prior to the launch and continued to do so throughout the campaign lifetime.</p><p> </p><p>The letter of 31 July 2019 placed in the House of Commons Library disclosed the full cost of the Department’s partnership with Associated Newspapers. There were no advertising agencies, consultancy or additional costs associated with the campaign and detailed planning was taken forward by Departmental officials.</p><p> </p><p>We have already shared a copy of the memo of 2 May 2019 from the Director General of Universal Credit and Director of Communications to DWP staff with the Work and Pensions Select Committee but can also commit to placing a copy in the House of Commons Library.</p> question first answered 17/10/2019 13:34:22 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	creator	4662
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4662

1146578

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	01/10/2019
	date	26/09/2019
	date tabled	26/09/2019
	ddp created	26/09/2019 16:47:44
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	26/09/2019 16:57:10 01/10/2019 15:44:05
	hansard heading	Carbon Emissions: British Overseas Territories
	house id	1
	identifier	291443
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	01/10/2019 15:12:15
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if her Department will work with the UK Overseas Territories to reduce their carbon emissions as part of the UK’s (a) contribution towards the Paris Agreement and (b) Net Zero commitment.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 291443
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	291443
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Department is consulting with UK Overseas Territories as to whether they would like to have the UK’s ratification of the Paris Agreement extended to them. For those UK Overseas Territories that so choose, the Department will work with them to ensure they are ready to implement the Paris Agreement and to regularly report to the Department on that implementation.</p><p> </p><p>Under the accounting and transparency rules for the Paris Agreement agreed at COP24 in December 2018, any UK Overseas Territories included in the geographic scope of UK’s ratification of the Paris Agreement in future will also need to be included in the UK’s accounting for and regular reporting on emissions under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.</p><p> </p><p>The UK was the first major economy in the world to legislate for a net zero target. The target is enshrined under the Climate Change Act 2008 which does not apply to UK Overseas Territories.</p> question first answered 01/10/2019 15:12:15 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	creator	4662
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4662

1146576

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	01/10/2019
	date	26/09/2019
	date tabled	26/09/2019
	ddp created	26/09/2019 16:47:38
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	26/09/2019 16:57:05 01/10/2019 15:44:07
	hansard heading	Carbon Emissions: British Overseas Territories
	house id	1
	identifier	291441
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	01/10/2019 15:12:15
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether her Department plans to include carbon emissions from UK Overseas Territories in its carbon accounting processes for the Paris Agreement.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 291441
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	291441
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Department is consulting with UK Overseas Territories as to whether they would like to have the UK’s ratification of the Paris Agreement extended to them. For those UK Overseas Territories that so choose, the Department will work with them to ensure they are ready to implement the Paris Agreement and to regularly report to the Department on that implementation.</p><p> </p><p>Under the accounting and transparency rules for the Paris Agreement agreed at COP24 in December 2018, any UK Overseas Territories included in the geographic scope of UK’s ratification of the Paris Agreement in future will also need to be included in the UK’s accounting for and regular reporting on emissions under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.</p><p> </p><p>The UK was the first major economy in the world to legislate for a net zero target. The target is enshrined under the Climate Change Act 2008 which does not apply to UK Overseas Territories.</p> question first answered 01/10/2019 15:12:15 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	creator	4662
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4662

1145973

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	30/09/2019
	date	25/09/2019
	date tabled	25/09/2019
	ddp created	25/09/2019 18:40:55
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	ddp modified	25/09/2019 19:04:22 01/10/2019 16:48:05
	hansard heading	Universal Credit: Fraud
	house id	1
	identifier	291088
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	01/10/2019 16:16:23
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many administrative penalties her Department has levied on victims of universal credit fraud who attended interviews under caution and who were accompanied by legal representatives.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 291088
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	291088
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Administrative Penalties would not be used in any case where evidence showed that a claimant was an innocent victim of Universal Credit advances fraud.</p><p /><p>Administrative Penalties are financial penalties which can be used as an alternative to prosecution in cases where benefit fraud has been committed.</p> question first answered 01/10/2019 16:16:23 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	creator	4662
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4662