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637387

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2016
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Africa: Overseas Trade
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support her Department is giving to countries in Africa to improve their capacity to trade.
	tabling member constituency	Bedford
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	907179
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2016 answer text <p>My Department’s core mission is and will always be to combat poverty. Post-Brexit, Britain can be a global leader in helping developing countries build their access to international markets and in ensuring that it is the poorest that benefit from these trading relationships. In taking this leadership role, we will be doing something that we can rightly be proud of, whilst also creating the UK’s trading partners of tomorrow.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 16/11/2016 17:05:36 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

1277062

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	NATO
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the UK will remain committed to NATO’s conventional deterrence tasks, including Enhanced Forward Presence; what role the UK will play in those deterrence tasks; and what the planned timescale is for that commitment.
	tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	138428
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2021 answer text <p>NATO is the cornerstone of UK defence policy, and we are proud of our enduring commitment to its valuable deterrence role. As the leading European Ally, the UK makes significant contributions to operations, including as framework nation for the enhanced Forward Presence deployment in Estonia as well as in operations and defence activity from the High North to the Baltic region, the Balkans, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. We regularly contribute to NATO's enhanced Air Policing mission, to the NATO Readiness Force and to Standing NATO Maritime Groups. Working on a rolling timeline of five years, we are firmly commitmed to Estonia's regional security, through eFP and NATO, and I have made it clear that we will continue our presence for as long as it is required.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 21/01/2021 08:35:43 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

654427

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Capita: Dental Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answers of 8 November 2016 to Questions 51400, 51421 and 51422, how his Department is measuring the performance of Capita in providing a more efficient administration of the National Dental Performers List.
	tabling member constituency	Bedford
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	56525
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2016 answer text <p>Capita have provided NHS England with plans to recover the most important services, including the Medical, Dental and Optometry Performers Lists. NHS England is meeting with Capita on a weekly basis to oversee the delivery of these plans and to ensure the right improvements are in place to address the backlogs and delays.</p><p> </p><p>My hon. Friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Nicola Blackwood), will continue to work directly with Capita and NHS England to ensure that services are restored to an acceptable and sustainable standard.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 15/12/2016 10:07:36 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

712463

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Surveys
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to the public purse was of carrying out the GP Patient Survey in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Bedford
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	68506
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2017 answer text <p>The GP Patient Survey is conducted by an independent contractor on behalf of NHS England. The current contract (2016-19) is being delivered by Ipsos MORI, as was the previous contract (2013-16). It is not appropriate to provide the precise costs paid to the survey provider, as this is commercially sensitive information. Over the contract period 2013-16, the budget of the GP Patient Survey was approximately £4 million per year. For the current contract, which began in July 2016, the budget is approximately £3.5 million per year.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 27/03/2017 09:59:57 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

1673209

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Supported Housing: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a fund for local authorities to (a) set up and (b) expand existing supported lodgings schemes.
	tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	3761
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>As set out in the ‘Stable Homes, Built on Love’ implementation strategy, it is the department’s intention to increase provision and take-up of ‘supported lodgings’ models, where care leavers live in a family environment with support to develop independent living skills.</p><p>The current guidance, ‘Making a difference: Supported lodgings as a housing option for young people’, is available to all local authorities and aimed at advising on the planning and commissioning of supported lodgings. The guidance is available at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a79706aed915d04220686ea/makingadifference.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a79706aed915d04220686ea/makingadifference.pdf</a>. The department will continue to encourage and support local authorities with the take-up of this provision and set out its plans for implementation of further support in due course.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 04/12/2023 17:42:32 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

1301961

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2021
	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	Freehold: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when his Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to give freeholders on private and mixed tenure estates equivalent rights to leaseholders to (a) challenge the reasonableness of estate rent charges and (b) have the right to apply to the First-tier Tribunal to appoint a new manager for the provision of services covered by estate rent charges; and what assessment he has made of the financial effect on freeholders of not having those same rights as leaseholders.
	tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	167178
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to promoting fairness and transparency for homeowners and ensuring that consumers are protected from abuse and poor service. Where people pay estate rentcharges it is not appropriate that these homeowners have limited rights to challenge these costs.</p><p>That is why the Government intends to legislate to give freeholders on private and mixed tenure estates equivalent rights to leaseholders to challenge the reasonableness of estate rentcharges as well as a right to apply to the First-tier Tribunal to appoint a new manager to manage the provision of services covered by estate rentcharges.</p><p>We will translate these measures into law as soon as parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes question first answered 17/03/2021 15:12:42 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

1467240

	registered interest
	date	27/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept id	211
	answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	hansard heading	Refugees: Ukraine
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing (a) free and (b) subsidised bus travel to Ukrainian refugees who have settled in rural areas.
	tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	11639
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>Bus travel schemes are administered by the local councils and bus companies.</p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes question first answered 13/06/2022 16:39:13 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

1357863

	registered interest
	date	23/09/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Marriage Certificates: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the implementation of the issuing of electronic marriage certificates under the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc.) Act 2019.
	tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	53857
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2021 answer text <p>While the implementation of the Act provides for marriages to be registered in a central electronic register, marriage certificates continue to be issued in paper format only.</p><p>These new provisions have successfully enabled the modernisation of marriage registration in England and Wales, which includes the recording of the details of both parents in the entry, rather than just the father.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 22/10/2021 11:40:00 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

1458028

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Kenya
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the English language requirement for applications for student visas from Kenya; and whether she has plans to review that requirement for those applicants.
	tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	153871
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2022 answer text <p>Kenya is not included on the Majority English Speaking Country (MESC) for immigration purposes, so applicants from Kenya must meet the English language requirement in another way.</p><p>Student applicants are currently required to show a B1 or B2 competency level on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, depending on their course of study. There are several ways they can prove this:</p><ul><li>having shown they meet the requirement in a previous immigration application; or</li><li>passing a Secure English Language Test at an approved test centre; or</li><li>holding a degree-level qualification which was taught in English; or</li><li>having their chosen university or other Higher Educational Institution self-certify their level of English ability; or</li><li>having a GCSE, A-level, Scottish National Qualification at level 4 or 5 or, Scottish Higher or Advanced Higher, in English following education at a UK school begun when they were under-18.</li></ul><p>Our assessment is these options provide an appropriate means for applicants for student visas from Kenya to meet the English language requirement.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 26/04/2022 14:10:54 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller

1348073

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Counter-terrorism: Religious Buildings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the impact on places of worship of the requirements of the Protect Duty; and what assessment she has made of the potential merits of mitigation measures for people in voluntary positions in places of worship and other organisations potentially required to comply with the Protect Duty.
	tabling member constituency	North East Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Richard Fuller
	uin	35592
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2021 answer text <p>The responses to the Protect Duty consultation, which closed on 2nd July, provides a basis for Government to consider the scope and requirements of the Protect Duty, alongside assessing the impacts on those parties potentially within scope. These considerations will also consider the potential for unintended consequences and indirect implications of introducing the Duty.</p><p>The Government is mindful places of worship differ significantly in the nature of their function and operation from other locations potentially within the scope of the Protect Duty proposals. This is balanced against the threat posed by terrorism, and a need to ensure there are effective security measures at public places, regardless of their nature.</p><p>The Government will be carefully considering the issues raised within the consultation and our engagement events, including those discussed with representatives of different faith communities, before considering next steps.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 27/07/2021 16:14:17 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller