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1060582

	registered interest
	date	13/02/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Electricity Interconnectors: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the timeframe is for the redetermination of the planning application for the Tyrone-Cavan interconnector.
	tabling member constituency	South West Wiltshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Andrew Murrison
	uin	220821
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Act 2018 and associated guidance gives greater certainty to enable NI Departments to continue to take decisions in Northern Ireland in the public interest. The redetermination of the planning application is a devolved matter and falls to the Department for Infrastructure. As such, I would encourage you to contact the Northern Ireland Department for Infrastructure for further information.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 220822 221593 question first answered 20/02/2019 16:18:46 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison

1060583

	registered interest
	date	13/02/2019
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Electricity Interconnectors: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment she has made of the effect on the (a) economy and (b) security of supply as a result of the delay in approval for the Tyrone-Cavan interconnector.
	tabling member constituency	South West Wiltshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Andrew Murrison
	uin	220822
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Act 2018 and associated guidance gives greater certainty to enable NI Departments to continue to take decisions in Northern Ireland in the public interest. The redetermination of the planning application is a devolved matter and falls to the Department for Infrastructure. As such, I would encourage you to contact the Northern Ireland Department for Infrastructure for further information.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 220821 221593 question first answered 20/02/2019 16:18:46 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison

1054869

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2019
	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	Veterans: Homelessness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many former (a) regular (b) reserve Service personnel at each rank have been classified as statutorily homeless in each year since 2000.
	tabling member constituency	South West Wiltshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Andrew Murrison
	uin	216220
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government collects quarterly and annual statistics on how many people approach local authorities as homeless in England. Until April 2018, veterans formed part of a wider vulnerable group category that included: care leavers, ex-offenders and those who have fled home because of violence or the threat of violence (other than domestic violence). As a result, individual statistics on homeless veterans before that date are not published.</p><p>In April 2018 the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government introduced a new case-level data collection called H-CLIC (Homelessness Case Level Information Collection). This gives local authorities and Government more information regarding homelessness and those presenting as homeless, including those individuals who are veterans as a separate category. The Government does not differentiate between regular and reserve personnel, nor does it record rank.</p><p>In England from April to June 2018, of the 58,660 households to who, at the point of initial decision, were owed a homelessness duty by the local authority, 0.7 per cent (430) of main applicants had served in the armed forces.</p><p>The latest local authority level statistics, and quarterly statistics since 2009, can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness</a></p><p>Data from earlier years can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness#discontinued-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness#discontinued-tables</a></p><p>This Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy which sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. The Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 11/02/2019 17:14:39 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison

1054872

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2019
	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	Veterans: Sleeping Rough
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many ex-service personnel (a) in each service, (b) of (i) regular and (ii) reserve status and (c) who (i) have and (ii) have not completed a pensionable engagement have been classified as rough sleepers in each year since 2000.
	tabling member constituency	South West Wiltshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Andrew Murrison
	uin	216223
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not collect statistics on whether or not people sleeping rough have served in the armed forces.</p><p>However, the Combined Homelessness and Information Network (CHAIN) a multi-agency database that represents the UK's most detailed and comprehensive source of information on rough sleeping in London. According to CHAIN, 3 per cent of the rough sleeping population in London have self-declared as having served in the armed forces.</p><p>This Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy which sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. The Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 11/02/2019 17:16:05 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison

1054871

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	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: Veterans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many ex servicemen were recorded as having mental health problems in each Service by ICD code in each year since 2000.
	tabling member constituency	South West Wiltshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Andrew Murrison
	uin	216222
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Mental Health Services Data Set does not capture this information. Therefore, the attached data is from the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) dataset only.</p><p> </p><p>IAPT is run by the National Health Service in England and offers National Institute for Health and Care Excellence-approved therapies for treating people with anxiety and depression. Data about the IAPT programme is available from April 2012 and it is therefore not possible to provide data for years prior to this.</p><p> </p><p>The IAPT dataset records whether a referral is for a patient who has been a member of the British Armed Forces (BAF). It is not possible to identify the type of Armed Forces Service that the patient belonged to, or whether the patient was a regular or reserve veteran.</p><p> </p><p>The number of referrals for ex-BAF personnel that have been received, entered treatment and finished a course of treatment for all years up to 2017-18, grouped by the type of diagnosis problem, submitted as an ICD-10 code, are displayed in the attached tables.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital does not hold any further information about ex-BAF personnel with mental health problems. Some relevant data is also available from the Ministry of Defence website, at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-armed-forces-mental-health-annual-statistics-financial-year-201718" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-armed-forces-mental-health-annual-statistics-financial-year-201718</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 216221 question first answered 12/02/2019 17:02:41 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price attachment 1 file name Additional Info - PQ Linked 06-02-2019 14-38-28.docx title PQ216222,216221 attached data
	tabling member	1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison

1054870

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	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: Veterans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) regular (b) reserve ex servicemen were classified with mental health problems by ICD code in each year since 2000.
	tabling member constituency	South West Wiltshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Andrew Murrison
	uin	216221
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Mental Health Services Data Set does not capture this information. Therefore, the attached data is from the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) dataset only.</p><p> </p><p>IAPT is run by the National Health Service in England and offers National Institute for Health and Care Excellence-approved therapies for treating people with anxiety and depression. Data about the IAPT programme is available from April 2012 and it is therefore not possible to provide data for years prior to this.</p><p> </p><p>The IAPT dataset records whether a referral is for a patient who has been a member of the British Armed Forces (BAF). It is not possible to identify the type of Armed Forces Service that the patient belonged to, or whether the patient was a regular or reserve veteran.</p><p> </p><p>The number of referrals for ex-BAF personnel that have been received, entered treatment and finished a course of treatment for all years up to 2017-18, grouped by the type of diagnosis problem, submitted as an ICD-10 code, are displayed in the attached tables.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital does not hold any further information about ex-BAF personnel with mental health problems. Some relevant data is also available from the Ministry of Defence website, at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-armed-forces-mental-health-annual-statistics-financial-year-201718" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-armed-forces-mental-health-annual-statistics-financial-year-201718</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 216222 question first answered 12/02/2019 17:02:41 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price attachment 1 file name Additional Info - PQ Linked 06-02-2019 14-38-28.docx title PQ216222,216221 attached data
	tabling member	1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison

1054882

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
	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 he has taken to reduce the number of cattle destroyed as a result of false positive Gamma blood tests.
	tabling member constituency	South West Wiltshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Andrew Murrison
	uin	216228
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The interferon-gamma test is a supplementary blood test that has been used alongside the primary tuberculin skin test in Great Britain since 2006 in order to maximise the detection of TB-infected animals in certain herds affected by TB breakdowns.</p><p>No diagnostic test is perfectly accurate and there is a trade-off between the sensitivity and specificity of a test. The interferon-gamma test is more sensitive than the skin test, which means it is less likely to miss TB-infected animals (approximately 1 in 10 infected animals compared with 1 in 4 for the skin test). However, it is less specific than the skin test (on average 3-4 false positives per 100 disease-free animals tested). Even so, it is incorrect to assume that all interferon-gamma positive animals with no visible lesions of TB at slaughter represent false positive results.</p><p>That is why the interferon-gamma test is, with few exceptions, only used in fully confirmed (lesion and/or culture positive) TB breakdown herds. In such herds the predictive value of a positive interferon-gamma test result is maximised and the cost of taking out low numbers of false positive animals is outweighed by the benefit of earlier and more complete detection of all TB-infected animals in the herd. This in turn reduces the risks of repeat (recurrent) TB breakdowns in the same herd and spreading the disease to other herds as a result of the incomplete elimination of all the infected animals.</p><p>In 2018/2019, over £4 million has been allocated to Defra’s bovine TB research and development programme, which includes research on improved and novel diagnostic tests for bovine TB.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 08/02/2019 13:06:11 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison

1054886

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	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	Cattle: Sales
	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 recent estimate he has made of the number of pedigree cows traded (a) on the open market and (b) privately.
	tabling member constituency	South West Wiltshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Andrew Murrison
	uin	216229
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government does not collect information on the number of pedigree cows traded on either the open market or privately.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 08/02/2019 13:01:00 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison

1054878

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Compensation
	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 assessment he has made of the relative importance of (a) open market and (b) private sale values of pedigree cattle in the determination of compensation for bovine TB.
	tabling member constituency	South West Wiltshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Andrew Murrison
	uin	216225
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>A vast amount of sales data (for around 1.4 million cattle) is collected through the year from open market sales and used to determine the monthly TB compensation rates in England. Under Defra’s table valuation based system, compensation paid reflects the average market sale prices in the 51 cattle categories we use. The categories are based on an animal’s age, gender, type (beef or dairy) and pedigree status. Only sales data for pedigree cattle is used to determine compensation rates for owners of pedigree herds.</p><p> </p><p>We do not have access to private sales valuation data.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 08/02/2019 13:14:01 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison

1054876

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Compensation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will provide the market value of pedigree cattle by breed used to determine compensation for bovine TB in each month since the scheme began.
	tabling member constituency	South West Wiltshire
	tabling member printed	Dr Andrew Murrison
	uin	216224
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>We are not able to provide this information for all months since the current scheme began in 2006 as the processing time required would incur disproportionate costs. However, the attached spreadsheet contains details of the pedigree breeds, and average prices paid for cattle, in each month of 2018 which was used to support TB table valuations.</p><p> </p><p>Please note the animals were sold at auction market in the previous month to the Compensation Month shown. The prices shown are subsequently rolled over a six month period for the purpose of TB pedigree table valuations.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 12/02/2019 14:00:03 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice attachment 1 file name TB Compensation Table.xlsx title TB Compensation Table Data
	tabling member	1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison