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517811

registered interest
date	05/05/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Local Enterprise Partnerships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the decision-making process followed by local enterprise partnerships is transparent.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	36665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>We’ve set out clear standards on transparent decision making, which Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) must comply with through their local assurance frameworks. These are verified by their accountable section 151 officers. We commissioned the Government Internal Audit Agency to review the quality of these frameworks, and keep the system under review through annual performance conversations with each LEP.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 10/05/2016 11:16:18 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

517833

registered interest
date	05/05/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Tree Planting: Urban Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support tree planting in towns.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	36666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government recognises the social and environmental benefits of urban trees. We will champion the Vision for a Resilient Urban Forest, developed by the Urban Forestry and Woodlands Advisory Committee Network. This Vision sets the direction and challenges local decision makers and communities to consider how they can better value, manage and expand the urban forest in their areas.</p><p> </p><p>Millions of schoolchildren across England, mostly in urban areas, will have the chance to plant trees in their communities as part of a Government-backed scheme to give free trees to schools in partnership with the Woodland Trust.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 11/05/2016 09:45:33 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

517834

registered interest
date	05/05/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Tree Planting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress the Government has made on its target to plant 11 million trees by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	36667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The Forestry Commission publishes progress against the 11 million trees target quarterly. The latest report shows that over 640,000 trees have been planted towards meeting the 11 million target in 2015. This reflects the fact that we are at the opening stage of a new grant scheme. We are confident that more trees will be planted in the next phases of the scheme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 11/05/2016 15:12:29 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

517868

registered interest
date	05/05/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Animal Welfare: Sentencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to review the length of maximum sentence for animal cruelty offences.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	36658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>We keep maximum penalties under review. This includes sentencing trends, and whether the courts may be finding their sentencing powers inadequate.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the average sentence length for animal cruelty can be found in the Outcomes by offence table at the attached link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014</a></p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 11/05/2016 10:50:08 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

517247

registered interest
date	03/05/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to increase participation in cycling by women.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	36251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to its manifesto target to double the number of journeys made by bicycle. In order to achieve this, all potential cyclists’ needs must be considered.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recently reaffirmed its commitment to cycling and walking, with SR2015 announcing funding support of over £300m. In addition, Highways England has committed to provide a safer, integrated and more accessible strategic road network for cyclists and other vulnerable road users.</p><p> </p><p>The draft Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy, which is currently being consulted on and is due to be published in summer 2016, fully explains the Government’s ambitions for increasing cycling activity and sets out the funding resources available.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 09/05/2016 12:48:28 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

516730

registered interest
date	28/04/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what programmes are in place to increase the numbers of children cycling to school.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	35995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government would like to see an increase in the number of children cycling to school. We believe that cycle safety training can give children the skills and confidence they need to cycle on local roads.</p><p> </p><p>Bikeability is the Government's long-standing programme of cycle training for school children, with over 1.7 million children trained since 2010. It is available to every local body in England (London has separate funding arrangements for Bikeability). Funding of £12 million a year has been confirmed for the next four years. This will provide a range of cycling activities to schools including on-road cycle training and Bikeability Plus, a new suite of training modules focussed on increasing levels of cycling school and cycle safety.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 09/05/2016 10:53:45 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

516195

registered interest
date	27/04/2016
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	Broadband: South West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to paragraph 1.330 of Budget 2016, how much of the £14.5 million in grants for extending the coverage of ultrafast broadband in the South West will be spent on tackling broadband blackspots in Cheltenham.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	35939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2016 answer text <p>Gloucestershire and Herefordshire County Councils (Fastershire broadband partnership) has been allocated £2 million from the South West ultrafast broadband fund. Fastershire are responsible for setting local coverage priorities and spending funds in line with procurement rules, and are undertaking new procurements with uncommitted funding from the Phase 2 Superfast Broadband Programme to address as many as the remaining non-served areas within the two counties as possible.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 05/05/2016 09:16:51 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

516339

registered interest
date	27/04/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Stalking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that people imprisoned for stalking offences receive psychiatric or psychological support to break the cycle of offending.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	35888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>Stalking is a form of abuse which can escalate to other very serious forms of offending. It is important that we treat stalking with the seriousness that it deserves.</p><p>NOMS have staff trained to assess the risks presented by this group of offenders, and to identify the best options for intervention and support. Those imprisoned specifically for stalking offences can have a range of different intervention or treatment needs, which can often be addressed by existing offending behaviour interventions. Staff managing the shorter sentenced harassment cases can also access community based support and intervention. Prison Service professionals can provide advice on risk management to offender managers and Multi Agency Public Protection panels on request.</p><p>Health services are available to prisoners with clinical needs from primary care services, secondary mental health in-reach services or through transfer to psychiatric hospitals under the Mental Health legislation.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 09/05/2016 16:10:13 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

515691

registered interest
date	26/04/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Insurance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what support the Government is providing to GPs to help them with the cost of insuring work carried out outside normal hours.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	35502
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>The Department and NHS England are working on proposals for discussion with the profession, medical defence organisations, the commercial insurance industry and the NHS Litigation Authority.</p><p>This will consider:</p><p>― how personal costs of indemnity and clinical insurance can be contained - provided certain clinical governance standards are met, with the objective of reducing the overall costs to the individual;</p><p>― the funding routes for indemnity in different models of care; and</p><p>― with a specific focus on new models of care such as Primary and Acute Community Services and Multi-Speciality Community Providers and the scope for corporate indemnity, freeing up individuals working in those new models from the burden of personal indemnity costs.</p><p>NHS England created the Winter Indemnity Scheme which ran from December 2015 until March 2016, making £2 million available to cover the cost of additional indemnity premiums for doctors to undertake additional out of hours sessions. This was in response to increased demand for appointments during the winter period.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 04/05/2016 10:45:40 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

515701

registered interest
date	26/04/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	A417: Gloucestershire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road traffic accidents have been recorded over the last five years on the area of the A417 in Gloucestershire for which an upgrade is planned in 2020.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	35496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2016 answer text <p>Highways England is starting full-scale options work on the A417 Missing Link ‘Air Balloon’ roundabout scheme this financial year (2016/17), with the intention that the scheme will be ready to start construction as early as possible in the next Road Investment Strategy period which starts on 1 April 2020.</p><p> </p><p>A total of 65 personal injury road accidents were reported to the police between 2010 and 2014 in the vicinity of the A417 scheme.</p><p> </p><p>The number of reported personal injury road accidents per year by severity are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Fatal</p></td><td><p>Serious</p></td><td><p>Slight</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5yr total</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>65</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Figures for 2015 will be published on 30<sup>th</sup> June 2016.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 05/05/2016 12:33:02 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk