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847035

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2018
	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	State Retirement Pensions: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department’s response to Freedom of Information request 378/2016, for what reasons transitional arrangements No. 22 and 23 of Table A have not been costed.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington South
	tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
	uin	129209
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>Table A shows all of the options considered by the Government during the passage of the Pensions Act 2011. At the time the options were prioritised for costing, and those which were less specific in scope were not costed.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 01/03/2018 15:44:32 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

832943

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2018
	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	EU Grants and Loans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Government plans to match the funding provided by the European Social Fund after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington South
	tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
	uin	125259
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s 2017 election manifesto committed to create a new UK Shared Prosperity Fund to reduce inequalities between communities across the UK. The design of this new fund is currently being considered, including its funding arrangements, and further details will be set out in due course.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 01/02/2018 11:32:27 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

823559

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	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	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 23 October 2017 to Question 108399, whether there are any factors legally preventing her from granting up-rated state pensions to all overseas UK pensioners regardless of whether the UK has a reciprocal agreement with their country of residence.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington South
	tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
	uin	123025
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Regulations restrict for overseas residents the annual increases in certain benefits, including state pensions. This continues the long-standing policy of not up-rating the state pension in payment to people who are overseas residents, except where there is a legal requirement to up-rate for example the European Union Co-ordination Regulations and Reciprocal Agreements that allow for up-rating.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 23/01/2018 17:04:37 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

832940

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2018
	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	State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2018 to Question 123025, if she will revoke regulation 3 of the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Regulations 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington South
	tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
	uin	125256
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2018 answer text <p>The policy on up-rating UK state pensions overseas is a long-standing policy of successive Governments. UK State Pensions are payable worldwide without regard to nationality to those people who meet the eligibility criteria and are up-rated for recipients resident abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so. The Government has no plans to change this policy.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 02/02/2018 16:59:41 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

832941

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Department for Transport: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department’s policy is on awarding contracts to companies which have recently issued profit warnings.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington South
	tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
	uin	125257
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department’s remit within the transport sector is primarily delivered through its Arm’s Length Bodies: Network Rail, Highways England and High Speed Two Ltd. Assessments of a company’s ability to deliver its obligations is performed during each procurement exercise by those bodies.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 06/02/2018 13:57:44 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

823558

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	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	Leasehold: Ground Rent
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the ministerial statement HCWS384 of 21 December 2017, what steps he plans to take to prevent onerous ground rents in already existing leasehold properties.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington South
	tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
	uin	123024
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government response to the consultation on ‘ <em>Tackling unfair practices in the leasehold market</em>’ set out a range of measures to cut out unfair and abusive practices within the leasehold system. This included introducing legislation to prohibit the development of new build leasehold houses, other than in exceptional circumstances, and restricting ground rents in newly established leases of houses and flats to a peppercorn (zero financial value).</p><p>For existing leaseholders, the Government wants to see developer compensation schemes going further and faster, with support extended to all those with onerous ground rents, including second hand buyers and for customers to be proactively contacted. We will be keeping a close eye on progress and will consider measures that could be pursued to take action if necessary.</p><p>We want to make it easier for existing leaseholders to exercise their right to buy their freehold, or extend their lease, for this to be faster, fairer and cheaper, and to be available as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 23/01/2018 13:21:10 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

823561

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	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	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, pursuant to the answer of 27 December 2017 to Question 120298, what information his Department holds on the number of people that have died while sleeping rough in each of the last seven years.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington South
	tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
	uin	123027
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>This department does not collect data on deaths of people sleeping rough. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why Government has committed to halving rough sleeping by 2022 and eliminating it altogether by 2027. We have announced a new Rough Sleeping and Homelessness Reduction Taskforce, chaired by the Secretary of State, which will drive forward the implementation of a cross-Government strategy to tackle this issue.</p><p>We have allocated over £1 billion through to 2020 to prevent and reduce all forms of homelessness including piloting a Housing First approach for some of the most entrenched rough sleepers.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 23/01/2018 13:36:29 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

823564

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	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: Children and Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Education Policy Institute’s report Access and Waiting Times in Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services, what steps he plans to take to reduce the variation in waiting times for mental health treatment across the country.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington South
	tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
	uin	123029
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>The recent Green Paper, ‘Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision’, includes a proposal to trial a four week waiting time for access to specialist National Health Service children and young people’s mental health services. New Mental Health Support Teams, a further announcement in the green paper, will also enable children and young people to access earlier help for emerging problems. Both approaches will be tested using trailblazer areas, operational from 2019, to understand what works.</p><p> </p><p>Two waiting time standards applicable to children and young people’s mental health are already in place; the early intervention in psychosis standard is currently exceeding its target and the children’s eating disorder standard is on track to meet its target by 2020/21.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 22/01/2018 11:32:44 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

825678

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2018
	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: Children and Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the Education Policy Institute report, Access and waiting times in children and young people’s mental health services, published in September 2017, on the proportion of children referred to specialist mental health services who are being denied access to those services; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington South
	tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
	uin	123746
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>We acknowledge the need for focus on early intervention in children and young people’s mental health services, as set out in the Education Policy Institute report. The additional £1.4 billion that the Government has made available to transform children and young people’s mental health services will ensure that an additional 70,000 children and young people per year will receive treatment from National Health Service specialist services by 2020. The recently published green paper on children and young people’s mental health also includes a proposal to trial a four week waiting time for access to specialist NHS children and young people’s mental health services.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 29/01/2018 12:13:38 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid

832944

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2018
	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	Rural Areas: EU Grants and Loans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government plans to match the funding provided by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington South
	tabling member printed	Faisal Rashid
	uin	125260
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>In line with its manifesto promise, the Government will continue to commit the same cash total in funds for farm support until the end of this parliament. Future funding decisions will reflect the Government’s aim of securing a better future for UK agriculture, for rural communities and for the environment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 05/02/2018 12:37:24 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	4670 label Biography information for Faisal Rashid