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1668310

registered interest
date	08/11/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Ukraine: Casualties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of civilian casualties in Ukraine since February 2022.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2023 answer text <p>We condemn Russia's inhumane assault against Ukraine's civilian population and infrastructure. From February 2022 to 8 October 2023, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights recorded 27,768 civilian casualties in Ukraine: 9,806 killed and 17,962 injured. The actual figures are believed to be considerably higher given the challenges of receiving accurate information from locations under Russian control. The UK is committed to ensuring those responsible for atrocities in Ukraine are held accountable. We are supporting the International Criminal Court's independent investigations and Ukrainian domestic judicial processes, including through the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group, which provides practical assistance to the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 13/11/2023 15:52:51 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1461889

registered interest
date	11/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Bank Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to help ensure that open banking is able to benefit as many consumers as possible.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2022 answer text <p>Open Banking is a great UK success story that has brought significant benefits to the 5.5 million UK consumers and businesses who now use products and services enabled by this technology.</p><p> </p><p>The government recently set out its plan for the future of UK Open Banking in a joint statement with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), including a cross-authority committee for oversight of a new entity to succeed the Open Banking Implementation Entity. Through this Joint Authority Oversight Committee the government and regulators will work closely together to maintain the UK’s leadership in Open Banking. The government is seeking to build on the initial success of UK Open Banking to help unlock and realise further benefits for consumers, businesses, and the wider economy. Open Banking should continue to support innovation and greater competition for consumers and businesses.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 16/05/2022 13:43:19 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

1314135

registered interest
date	12/05/2021
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	West Bank: Demolition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2021 to Question 185340, West Bank: Demolition, whether the UK collects data on the (a) number and (b) cost of the UK-funded humanitarian aid structures demolished or seized by the Israeli authorities in the West Bank.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2021 answer text <p>The UK regularly raises the demolition of Palestinian property with the Government of Israel, including over the repeated confiscation and demolition of donor-funded assistance and structures. We work closely with key partners to monitor any incidents. The Fourth Geneva Convention, which applies to all occupied territories, prohibits demolitions or forced evictions absent military necessity. The UK is clear that in all but the most exceptional of circumstances, demolitions are contrary to International Humanitarian Law. The practice causes unnecessary suffering to Palestinians and is harmful to efforts to promote peace.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 21/05/2021 11:48:09 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1177721

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Knives: South Leicestershire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle knife crime in (a) Hinckley and (b) Bosworth; and what progress has been in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Bosworth
tabling member printed	Dr Luke Evans
uin	678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2020 answer text <p>This Government is determined to turn the tide on knife crime in all areas, wherever it occurs. Across England and Wales, we are recruiting 20,000 more police officers over the next three years and increasing sentences for violent criminals. We have made it easier for the police to use enhanced stop and search powers and we will introduce a new court order to make it easier for the police to stop and search those who have been convicted of knife crime.</p><p>We will also ensure that anyone charged with knife possession will appear before magistrates within days and we are also making £10 million available to the police to equip more officers with tasers. In addition, we have legislated through the Offensive Weapons Act 2019 to give the police more powers and to ensure knives are less likely to make their way on to the streets and we will also be introducing the Serious Violence Bill to place a duty on the police, councils and health authorities to work together to prevent and tackle serious violence.</p><p>Over the last 12 months, we have increased police funding, by £1 billion this year and announced that the amount of funding available to the policing system in 2020 to 2021 will increase by more than £1.1 billion. We have also announced a targeted £25 million to tackle county lines drug gangs, given the links between drugs, county lines and serious violence and we have provided the £100 million Serious Violence Fund to provide support to the 18 police force areas most affected by serious violence.</p><p>This has seen an extra £1.4 million provided to Leicestershire Police for operational, surge activity against serious violence, and £880,000 this year to the Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner, with a similar amount next year, to develop a Violence Reduction Unit to help build capacity across the area to tackle serious violence. In addition, the first grant round of the Youth Endowment Fund has also taken place, with 23 successful projects across England and Wales are sharing £17.1m over 2 years for work to support children and young people most vulnerable from becoming involved in crime and violence.</p><p>This includes £486,000 to Leicestershire County Council for an Advanced Lifeskills project across schools in Leicestershire. In addition, through our Early Intervention Youth Fund, the Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner has received £347,272 to help fund a project in the most deprived areas of Leicester and Leicestershire where serious violence is most prevalent, and under year 3 of the anti-knife crime Community Fund two community based projects in Leicester have received funding support.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 19/02/2020 16:00:59 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4781 label Biography information for Dr Luke Evans

1149262

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
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	Civil Society
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 16 of the Government’s Civil Society Strategy, what steps the Inclusive Economy Unit has taken to follow up the recommendations from the Advisory Group on growing a culture of social impact investment in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2019 answer text <p><strong> </strong>In early 2018, the government published its response to the Advisory Group’s report, supporting the range of the recommendations made and focus areas identified. The Prime Minister then commissioned an industry-led Implementation Taskforce to work alongside government to take forward these recommendations.</p><p> </p><p>Later in 2018, the Civil Society Strategy set out a series of further commitments to unlock and boost social impact investment.</p><p> </p><p>Building on this, DCMS, alongside DfID and City of London Corporation, provided cornerstone funding for the Impact Investing Institute, which will launch in November 2019 and be a focal point for public-private cooperation on accelerating the growth, and improve the effectiveness, of the UK impact investing market.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 23/10/2019 17:58:33 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

731919

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of debt forgiveness on student loan repayments for teachers in (a) 2017-18, (b) 2018-19, (c) 2019-20, (d) 2020-21 and (e) 2021-22.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>The Government is reviewing its approach ‎to the financing of teacher training and its relationship to wider student support. We will announce our conclusions in due course.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 472 679 question first answered 29/06/2017 16:29:23 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

347680

registered interest
date	01/06/2015
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Direct Marketing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will take steps to ensure that elderly people without sufficient means can block calls from call centres on PPI claims, accident claims and claims against banks without cost.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (as amended) (PECR) it is a legal requirement that companies do not make unsolicited marketing calls to numbers registered on the Telephone Preference Service (TPS). Individuals can register their telephone number with the TPS and there is no charge for doing so. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) enforces the PECR and has powers to issue monetary penalties of up to £500,000 against non-compliant firms.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is ICO’s sponsoring Department. MoJ also has a dedicated unit, which regulates companies offering claim services, including for PPI, accidents and financial products.</p><p> </p><p>While call blockers are available on the open market for consumers to purchase, the government is exploring options to provide free devices to people identified as being at higher risk of financial damage and personal distress as a result of nuisance calls.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 04/06/2015 11:21:46 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon