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1147088

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
	answering dept id	203
	answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
	answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
	hansard heading	Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, pursuant to the oral contribution of 25 September 2019 from the Prime Minister, Official Report column 791, when he plans to publish the details of the cross-party talks on the UK's exit from the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	292185
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Rochford and Southend East answering member printed James Duddridge question first answered 08/10/2019 15:56:10 answering member 1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

1147020

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Fossil Fuels: VAT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential effect on the environment of an increase in VAT on fossil fuels.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	292303
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>HM Treasury has no current plans to increase VAT on fossil fuels. All taxes are kept under review and decisions on tax and their impact are considered as part of the normal fiscal policy making process.</p><p> </p><p>The Government takes its environmental responsibilities very seriously and has commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the Climate Change Act 2008, as well as the Paris Agreement, which was ratified in November 2016.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 03/10/2019 14:48:41 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1147014

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Empty Property: Shops
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of empty shops on high streets in England and Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	292088
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>Our Plan for the High Street announced in Autumn Budget 2018 included a number of measures to address the number of empty shops on high streets. The Open Doors pilot tests a new way to address this challenge by matching landlords of empty commercial properties across England with community groups looking for space; whilst the pilot register for empty commercial properties will improve the transparency of ownership on the high street, making it easier to bring empty shops into use. Our Plan for the High Street also included commitments to cut business rates bills of small retailers by one third.</p><p>In the Spring Statement of March 2019, the government announced new and amended permitted development rights to support high streets making it easier to change the use of high street properties as well as extending temporary change of use to enable more community use of empty properties.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 03/10/2019 10:14:41 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1147037

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Port of Tyne: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reasons the Port of Tyne has not received grants from the Brexit Readiness Fund.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	292232
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>Across 2017/18 and 2018/19, my Department has made available £77 million to help local areas prepare for Brexit. This includes £60 million that has been distributed between all local authorities in England, and an additional £8.15 million allocated to further support councils which either have, or are near to, a major air, land or sea port to ensure they continue to operate efficiently. <br> <br> The additional funding for councils with ports is to boost those councils’ capacity and help them put in place measures that will protect the services that residents, communities and businesses rely upon. The allocations for this funding have been based on a number of factors including the expected impact on the local area, the amount of EU goods received by port areas into the country and the areas’ wider importance to the UK’s trade network. The Port of Tyne is within the boundaries of North Tyneside Council, which has received £314,952 of Brexit capacity funding from MHCLG.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 03/10/2019 13:49:19 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1147042

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Business: Government Assistance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the oral contribution of 25 September 2019 from the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, Official Report Column 739, if he will publish the criteria for which a business will be judged fundamentally viable in order to receive assistance from the Government in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	292234
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government is currently considering how best to support businesses across the country in the event of a no deal exit from the EU.</p><p> </p><p>The first port of call for a business facing cashflow issues should be commercial lending. As the Bank of England have said, UK banks are well-prepared, well-capitalised, and publicly committed to continuing to lend to viable businesses.</p><p> </p><p>We are monitoring businesses and sectors which may be exposed to short-term difficulties as a result of EU Exit and have been clear that should there be no deal, we would support the economy through whatever appropriate action is necessary, in keeping with the principles of managing public money.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 03/10/2019 16:37:12 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1147157

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	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	Dornase Alfa
	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 included the drug Dornase Alfa in the priority stockpiling list in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
	tabling member constituency	Sevenoaks
	tabling member printed	Sir Michael Fallon
	uin	292069
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 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, including dornase alfa, once we have left the EU.</p><p>The Department, as part of our EU exit preparations, is implementing a multi-layered approach to mitigate potential disruption to supply, which 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>All prescription only medicines and pharmacy medicines imported from or via the EU/European Economic Area are within scope of the continuity of supply programme. All suppliers of these medicines, including suppliers of dornase alfa, have been asked to stockpile medicines and make other preparations as set out in our communications to suppliers.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 08/10/2019 13:50:23 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon

1147261

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent research she has commissioned on the safety of (a) milk and (b) meat that enters the human food chain of cattle slaughtered as a result of bovine TB incidence.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	292082
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p><strong></strong>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 08/10/2019 15:57:59 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1146468

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Local Government: Corporation Tax
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to ensure a level playing field in local economies by making local authorities subject to corporation tax on commercial activity.
	tabling member constituency	Stevenage
	tabling member printed	Stephen McPartland
	uin	291404
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text Commercial activity undertaken by local authorities carried on in a separate taxable subsidiary is already subject to Corporation Tax on profits. answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 01/10/2019 16:44:03 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland

1146857

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps his Department has taken to reduce tax (a) avoidance and (b) evasion.
	tabling member constituency	Clacton
	tabling member printed	Giles Watling
	uin	912456
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text This government has taken significant action, including introducing 100 new measures tackling tax avoidance, evasion and other forms of non-compliance, since 2010, securing and protecting £200bn that would have otherwise gone unpaid and helping to bring the UK’s tax gap to a near record low of 5.6%. answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 01/10/2019 15:57:52 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

1146923

	registered interest
	date	30/09/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Local Government Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 9 September (HL17590), whether the 2019–20 local government finance settlement was higher than the 2018–19 settlement.
	tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
	uin	HL17897
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>I can confirm that the 2019-20 local government finance settlement was higher than the 2018-19 settlement. Core Spending Power increased from £45.1 billion in 2018-19 to £46.2 billion in 2019-20, a cash-increase of 2.5% and a real-terms increase in resources available to local authorities.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 08/10/2019 14:41:42 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
	tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw