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	registered interest
	date	01/07/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Wholesale Trade: Business Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the economic benefits of extending business rates relief to wholesalers.
	tabling member constituency	Falkirk
	tabling member printed	John McNally
	uin	67684
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2020 answer text <p>Business rates are devolved in Scotland, and so are a matter for the Scottish Government.</p><p> </p><p>In England, the Government has provided enhanced support through business rates relief to businesses occupying properties used for retail, hospitality and leisure given the direct and acute impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on those sectors.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has published guidance for local authorities on eligible properties. As set out in the guidance, support is targeted at premises that are wholly or mainly being used as shops, restaurants, cafes, drinking establishments, cinemas and live music venues; for assembly and leisure; or as hotels, guest and boarding premises and self-catering accommodation. It is for local authorities to determine eligibility for reliefs, having regard to guidance issued by the Government.</p><p> </p><p>A range of further measures to support all businesses, including those not eligible for the business rates holiday, such as wholesalers, has also been made available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 68387 question first answered 08/07/2020 15:45:54 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1667535

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2023
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Water Supply: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to establish an independent body to (a) identify and (b) monitor public health threats from defective household (i) boilers, (ii) water tanks and (iii) other products.
	tabling member constituency	Falkirk
	tabling member printed	John McNally
	uin	264
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State does not currently plan to bring forward legislative proposals in this area<em>.</em></p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 15/11/2023 15:08:20 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
	tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1667537

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2023
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Water Supply: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to create a centralised certification body for water tanks.
	tabling member constituency	Falkirk
	tabling member printed	John McNally
	uin	266
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State does not currently plan to bring forward legislative proposals in this area.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 15/11/2023 16:15:17 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
	tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1667534

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2023
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Water Supply: Plastics
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has received recent representations on the disintegrating of plastic within internal baffles of household water tanks.
	tabling member constituency	Falkirk
	tabling member printed	John McNally
	uin	263
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State has not received recent representations on the disintegrating of plastic within internal baffles of household water tanks.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 15/11/2023 15:09:26 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
	tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1546129

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2022
	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	Water Companies: Finance
	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 her Department is taking to increase the (a) transparency and (b) standardisation of incumbent water companies’ bulk supply and discharge tariffs.
	tabling member constituency	Falkirk
	tabling member printed	John McNally
	uin	97619
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that the water industry offers a stable, predictable and transparent charging regime for bulk supply and discharge.</p><p>We updated our charging guidance to Ofwat in 2016 and provided further supplementary guidance to the regulator in 2018. It can be found at <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fwater-industry-charging-guidance-to-ofwat&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C4dd642632c374f54c12e08dad93e0c62%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638061157758836939%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=SJNCG9alASeUyVPWVrYWNLVa%2F2RjoFXh03mm%2B6%2FBYkU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/water-industry-charging-guidance-to-ofwat</a></p><p>Ofwat, the independent economic regulator for the water industry in England and Wales, must have regard to our guidance in their regulation of water companies in England. They set out how they regulate bulk supply and discharge charges in their charging rules. Ofwat's charging rules were updated last year, taking effect in April 2022. These updates simplified the publishing deadlines for charges and introduced a new requirement on English water companies to use standardised terms and worked examples in their charging arrangements for developer services.</p><p>Bulk supply and discharge charging guidance is a devolved matter in Wales and Scotland. Welsh government’s charging guidance to Ofwat can be found at <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgov.wales%2Fwater-charging-guidance&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C4dd642632c374f54c12e08dad93e0c62%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638061157758836939%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=CAwxvxudmf8LEcAfsqIWGl8KXzFe%2Bcx6Z4m8Dimzo7o%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Water charging guidance | GOV.WALES</a> <br> <br> Scottish government’s charging guidance is issued directly by Scottish Water, and can be found at <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scottishwater.co.uk%2F-%2Fmedia%2FScottishWater%2FDocument-Hub%2FBusiness-and-Developers%2FLicensed-Providers%2F210222Part1WholesaleChargesScheme2022-23.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C4dd642632c374f54c12e08dad93e0c62%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638061157758836939%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=uyFlOCcRaPlpLY5PLl93IeRN5mo30pF7twKd75D0FbE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Microsoft Word - Part 1 Wholesale Charges Scheme 2022-23 - Non TC - Jan 4.2% (scottishwater.co.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 09/12/2022 14:28:07 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1546128

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2022
	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	Water Companies: Accountability
	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 hold incumbent water companies accountable for failures to address storm overflows and leakages.
	tabling member constituency	Falkirk
	tabling member printed	John McNally
	uin	97618
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government has made it clear that water companies must urgently tackle sewage overflows. This is set out in the Storm Overflows Reduction Plan, which represents the largest investment programme in water company history. Through increased monitoring and reporting requirements introduced in the Environment Act 2021, and priorities set through Ofwat as part of the Strategic Policy Statement to Ofwat, regulators and government will hold water companies to account. The Environment Agency and Ofwat have recently launched the largest criminal and civil investigations into water company sewage discharges ever, at over 2200 treatment works, following new data coming to light as a result of increased monitoring. Since 2015, the Environment Agency and Ofwat have brought 59 prosecutions against water companies, securing fines of over £144 million.</p><p>Water companies have performance commitments set by Ofwat that they need to meet. These include leakage and wastewater treatment work compliance. They face automatic financial penalties when these are missed. In November, Ofwat announced that almost £135 million would be returned to customers as a result of companies underperforming against their performance commitments.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 07/12/2022 12:33:17 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1463057

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Russia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Russian citizens who are in the process of applying for UK Visas.
	tabling member constituency	Falkirk
	tabling member printed	John McNally
	uin	2526
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2022 answer text <p>Part of the government’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been to issue more than 107,000 visas to Ukrainians seeking to come to the UK under the Ukraine Family Scheme and the Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme. This has inevitably had an impact on visa applications from other nationalities coming through normal visa routes.</p><p>As a result of the current conflict in Ukraine, applications from Russian nationals to enter the United Kingdom are subject to additional checks. Russia is also subject to sanctions which may impact on the ability of individuals to pay for certain services and a visa will not be granted if the purpose of the travel to the UK would be in breach of them.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 08/06/2022 15:18:34 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 2781 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1463065

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Russia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to expedite UK visas for Russian men who have been conscripted into the Russian military against their will and whom are morally opposed to war.
	tabling member constituency	Falkirk
	tabling member printed	John McNally
	uin	2527
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2022 answer text <p>The government has no plans to expedite visas for Russian nationals subject to conscription in the military.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 08/06/2022 07:43:03 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 2780 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1679528

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Married People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made an estimate of the number of women on spousal visas that have been a victim of (a) domestic abuse and (b) modern slavery.
	tabling member constituency	Falkirk
	tabling member printed	John McNally
	uin	8034
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>The number of women on spousal visas that have been a victim of domestic abuse and modern slavery does not form part of any current transparency data or migration statistics and is not published.</p><p><br> The transparency data does, however, include a range of processing data and the latest data can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration(opens%20in%20a%20new%20tab)" target="_blank">Migration transparency data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 15/01/2024 17:10:05 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1685865

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing reduced fee tiers of visa payments for individuals with contributory ties with the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Falkirk
	tabling member printed	John McNally
	uin	12088
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2024 answer text <p>There are currently no plans to introduce fee tiers. It is the Home Office’s policy that fees should generally be charged consistently across customer groups in order to support the overall funding of the migration and borders system.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 07/02/2024 10:06:09 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally