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1137543

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of people affected by the 2019 Loan Charge that have not been contacted by HMRC.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	274514
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>An estimate of the cost of amending the loan charge to remove loans made before 2017 is not available. The loan charge was legislated in the Finance (No.2) Act 2017 and is part of a package which was estimated to yield £3.2 billion over five years.</p><p>HMRC have written directly to scheme users identified through their compliance work, IT records and tax return data. This includes individual scheme users, employers and company directors.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, HMRC have actively encouraged DR scheme users to come forward through their regular contact with taxpayers, and seek to increase awareness through their series of Spotlight publications, social media activity, and webinars.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC are not aware of any individuals affected whom they have not yet contacted.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 274513 question first answered 11/07/2019 08:33:19 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

1138078

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2019
	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	Mental Health Services: Prisons
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the mental health of prisoners.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	275743
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement are currently working across the entire criminal justice pathway to develop and improve services for offenders with mental health difficulties.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with partners to intervene at the earliest opportunity to ensure that offenders receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time.</p><p> </p><p>Liaison and Diversion Services operate in police stations and courts to identify and assess people with vulnerabilities including mental health issues. Where that individual is subsequently sent to prison the receiving prison will have the relevant information of the individual’s mental health needs to inform the reception healthcare staff so that they can implement appropriate interventions as soon as possible after they arrive.</p><p> </p><p>Health services are available across the estate where assessment identifies treatment needs.</p><p> </p><p>The service specification for prison mental health services was reviewed in 2017-18. This review, led by clinicians in conjunction with stakeholders and informed by experts with experience, was published in March 2018, with all new services being commissioned against it from April 2018. The new specification includes the Royal College of Psychiatrists Quality Network for Prison Mental Health Services standards, ensuring equity of quality across the estate.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement are currently consulting on revised Transfer and Remission guidance to ensure that new clinically developed timescales are set which ensure timely and appropriate access to mental health treatment in hospital when necessary, in a clinically safe and well managed way. The consultation ends on 19 July 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan committed to a new service to support people leaving custody to remain engaged with community-based healthcare services. The reconnect service will support continuity of care when people return to the community.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 15/07/2019 13:33:03 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

1138079

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2019
	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	Mental Illness: Prisoners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the proportion of the prison population with mental health problems.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	275744
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>No estimate has been made of the proportion of the prison health population with mental health problems.</p><p> </p><p>Currently a closed system is used to record clinical data in prisons. The Health and Justice Information Service system, being rolled out between 2018-20, will have the ability to share information with community healthcare services; this is integral to the collection of relevant data that is quality assured and robust.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 15/07/2019 13:33:41 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

1146691

	registered interest
	date	26/09/2019
	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	GP Surgeries: Capital Investment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding for capital investment is being made available for GP surgery expansion and refurbishment by (a) constituency, (b) local authority and (c) region.
	tabling member constituency	Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
	tabling member printed	Yvette Cooper
	uin	291232
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>The information requested on capital investment made available for general practitioner surgery expansion and refurbishment is not held centrally in the format required and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 01/10/2019 16:05:18 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	420 label Biography information for Yvette Cooper

1146692

	registered interest
	date	26/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line: Urban Areas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether any distributional analysis has been undertaken by (a) the Government and (b) HS2 Ltd of the passenger benefits that will accrue to towns in each region of the UK from High Speed Two.
	tabling member constituency	Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
	tabling member printed	Yvette Cooper
	uin	291233
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>A distributional analysis of the benefits from HS2 was conducted by HS2 Ltd in 2017 and provided to the Department as part of its ‘Economic Case Advice’. This could be found at Appendix 5 of this advice, and published at the following web address:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/628526/CS866_A_HS2_Phase_2a_Economic_case.pdf#page81" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/628526/CS866_A_HS2_Phase_2a_Economic_case.pdf#page81</a></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 01/10/2019 12:40:28 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	420 label Biography information for Yvette Cooper

1146693

	registered interest
	date	26/09/2019
	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	Food Banks
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the Government plans to publish its report into the factors driving the use of food banks.
	tabling member constituency	Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
	tabling member printed	Yvette Cooper
	uin	291234
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department is currently working on the literature review and a release date is yet to be determined.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p /> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 01/10/2019 13:47:23 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	420 label Biography information for Yvette Cooper

1146694

	registered interest
	date	26/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information the Department holds on the real-terms changes to Special Educational Needs budgets by (a) constituency and (b) local authority since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
	tabling member printed	Yvette Cooper
	uin	291235
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities are required to provide schools with sufficient funds to enable schools to meet the additional cost of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), up to the value of £6,000. This funding comes from the schools block of the Dedicated Schools Grant.</p><p>When the costs of additional support required for a pupil with SEND exceed £6,000, the local authority should also allocate additional top-up funding to cover the excess costs. This top-up funding, and funding for special schools, comes from the local authority’s high needs budget, which is part of the high needs block of the Dedicated Schools Grant.</p><p>The published schools block and high needs block allocations for each local authority since 2013-14 are available at the following links:</p><p>2013-14 figures: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-2013-to-2014</a>.</p><p>2014-15 figures: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-2014-to-2015</a>.</p><p>2015-16 figures: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2015-to-2016</a>.</p><p>2016-17 figures: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2016-to-2017</a>.</p><p>2017-18 figures: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2017-to-2018</a>.</p><p>2018-19 figures: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019</a>.</p><p>2019-20 figures: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2019-to-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2019-to-2020</a>.</p><p>Prior to 2013, the Dedicated Schools Grant was not split into specific blocks for schools or high needs. As it includes funding for other services, such as the early years budget, the department is unable to provide comparable figures prior to 2013-14. The Dedicated Schools Grant is allocated at local authority level and constituency level information is not available.</p><p>In 2020-21, we have allocated an additional £2.6 billion for schools and high needs, including more than £700 million in high needs funding.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 01/10/2019 16:44:50 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	420 label Biography information for Yvette Cooper

1146695

	registered interest
	date	26/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Culture: Urban Areas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what progress the Government has made on its assessment of the merits of establishing a Town of Culture award.
	tabling member constituency	Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
	tabling member printed	Yvette Cooper
	uin	291236
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>Creativity, arts and heritage make our towns and cities unique and our communities better places to live, and we should celebrate the rich local heritage and culture of towns across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>We are committing departmental resources to supporting and celebrating towns through delivering a range of effective and targeted policy interventions. These include the Cultural Development Fund, Heritage Action Zones, and the Discover England Fund, as well as continued support to our arms-length bodies, such as Arts Council England and the National Lottery Heritage Fund, many of which do great work to support culture in towns.</p><p> </p><p>We also believe that culture, as well as other sectors supported by DCMS have an important role to play in the development of local regeneration plans for towns that will be supported through the new multi-billion pound Towns Fund. The fund is at the heart of the Government’s commitment to leveling up our left behind places, to improve connectivity, provide vital social and cultural infrastructure, and boost growth. As we work with MHCLG to roll out the Towns Fund, we will consider the best way to highlight the great cultural offers many of our towns have, including whether and how this could build towards a potential Town of Culture competition.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 01/10/2019 15:53:30 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	420 label Biography information for Yvette Cooper

1147089

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts and Tribunals: Closures
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a list of the courts and tribunals, including the postcode locations, that have closed between 2010-11 and the most recent financial year for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
	tabling member printed	Yvette Cooper
	uin	292101
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>Details of court and tribunal buildings closed between 2010-11 to 2016-17 was published in answer to Parliamentary Question 147811.</p><p> </p><p>The requested information for 2017-18 onwards is provided below</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Court and tribunal buildings closed during 2017-18 financial year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Postcode</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aylesbury Crown Court</p></td><td><p>HP20 1XD</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barnsley Wellington House</p></td><td><p>S70 1WA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bicester Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>OX26 2NZ</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham AIT (Sheldon Court)</p></td><td><p>B4 6DS</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham Magistrates' Youth Court</p></td><td><p>B4 6BJ</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolton Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>BL1 1UA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bow County Court</p></td><td><p>E15 4EG</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bristol Vintry House</p></td><td><p>BS1 2BP</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bury Magistrates' &amp; County Court</p></td><td><p>BL9 0HX</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Caernarfon Civil and Family Court</p></td><td><p>LL55 2Df</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheltenham Rivershill House - Cheltenham Tribunal</p></td><td><p>GL50 3EX</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chichester Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>PO19 1YE</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derby Derwent Court</p></td><td><p>DE1 1SG</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dover Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>CT16 1BS</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Parade - Sheffield Tribunal</p></td><td><p>S1 2ET</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eastbourne Magistrates' &amp; County Court</p></td><td><p>BN21 4UN</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hammersmith Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>W6 8DN</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Holyhead Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>LL65 1HG</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kendal Magistrates' &amp; County Court</p></td><td><p>LA9 4NF</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kettering County Court</p></td><td><p>NN16 0BE</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lambeth County Court</p></td><td><p>SE11 4DZ</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancaster County Court</p></td><td><p>LA1 1JW</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Llangefni Civil and Family Court</p></td><td><p>LL77 7EN</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oldham County Court</p></td><td><p>OL1 1NL</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stafford Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>ST16 3DW</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stoke-on-Trent Tribunal Hearing Centre (Bennett House)</p></td><td><p>ST1 2QB</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sunderland AS Hylton Park</p></td><td><p>SR5 3HD</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Telford County Court</p></td><td><p>TF3 4JP</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Torquay Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>TQ1 4BP</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Watford Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>WD17 1ST</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Woolwich County Court</p></td><td><p>SE18 6JW</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Court and tribunal buildings closed during 2018-2019 financial year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Postcode</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Banbury Magistrates’ and County Court</p></td><td><p>OX16 2AW</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chichester Combined Court</p></td><td><p>PO19 1SX</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chippenham Magistrates' &amp; Civil Court</p></td><td><p>SN15 3BF</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chorley Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>PR7 1RZ</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Maidenhead Magistrates’ Court</p></td><td><p>SL6 8PB</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shrewsbury Crown Court</p></td><td><p>SY2 6LU</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sunderland County Court</p></td><td><p>SR1 1RB</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Court and tribunal buildings closed between 1 April and 30 September 2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Postcode</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Colchester County Court</p></td><td><p>CO3 3EG</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fleetwood Magistrates’ Court (sitting as a Family Hearing Centre)</p></td><td><p>FY7 6HJ</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harlow Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>CM20 1JA</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northallerton Magistrates' Court</p></td><td><p>DL7 8QZ</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southend County Court</p></td><td><p>SS1 2AW</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The closure of any court is not taken lightly – it only happens following full public consultation and when communities have reasonable access to alternative courts.</p><p> </p><p>We are reinvesting every penny raised from selling these underused buildings into modernising the justice system to provide swifter and easier access to justice for all.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/10/2019 14:33:59 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	420 label Biography information for Yvette Cooper

1147090

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Public Libraries: Closures
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will publish a list including the postcode locations of the public libraries that have closed between 2010 and the most recent year for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
	tabling member printed	Yvette Cooper
	uin	292102
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not commission specific information relating to the closure of public libraries. The Libraries Taskforce has collected and validated data relating to static libraries in each of the local authorities in England, which includes details of library closures and their post codes. This information covers the period 1 April 2010 and 1 July 2016 and the full dataset is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/673041/Public_libraries_in_England-_extended_basic_dataset__as_on_1_July_2016_.csv/preview" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/673041/Public_libraries_in_England-_extended_basic_dataset__as_on_1_July_2016_.csv/preview</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 03/10/2019 15:14:33 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	420 label Biography information for Yvette Cooper