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1104815

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date	25/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Disclosure and Barring Service: Tata Consultancy Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the decision for Tata to replace Capita as IT providers for the Decision Barring Service, whether his Department has met with the Information Commissioner's Office to ensure that data is kept securely by Tata.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	236522
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The contract awarded has provisions and obligations to protect personal data handling and includes a specific schedule relating to security requirements. The Disclosure and Barring Service meets with the Information Commissioner's Officer quarterly to encourage a close working relationship and to share best practice.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 02/04/2019 15:45:27 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1105241

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
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	Cerliponase Alfa
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to make Cerliponase alfa, marketed as Brineura, available on the NHS for the treatment of ceroid lipofuscinosis type 2.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	237175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is currently developing highly specialised technology (HST) guidance on Brineura (cerliponase alfa) for treating neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type 2. Further information can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-hst10008" target="_blank">https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-hst10008</a></p><p> </p><p>Through its HST programme, NICE makes recommendations on whether very high cost drugs for very small numbers of patients represent an effective use of the National Health Service resources. NHS England is required to fund medicines recommended in NICE’s HST guidance, normally within three months of the publication of final guidance.</p><p> </p><p>In the absence of positive guidance from NICE, it is for commissioners to make decisions on whether to fund this treatment based on an assessment of the available evidence.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/04/2019 15:46:55 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1104820

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Energy: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the article entitled From power stations to solar panels, the future is local, by the Minister of State for Energy and Clean Growth on 8 January 2019, what steps he is taking to assist communities in Yorkshire transition to smarter energy systems.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	236527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government is facilitating the transition to a smarter energy system in Great Britain. Smart meters are a critical building block for an accessible smart energy system and there are now 12.8m smart and advanced meters operating across homes and businesses in Great Britain. The Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan outlined 29 actions that Government, Ofgem and industry will take to enable the transition to a smarter and more flexible system. These actions include removing barriers to smart technologies such as electricity storage, enabling smart homes and businesses so that consumers have greater control over their energy use, and improving the access of new technologies and business models to energy markets. Government has committed to invest up to £70m in funding for smart energy innovation. In October 2018, Government and Ofgem published an update to the Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan which set out that over half of these actions had been implemented.</p><p> </p><p>LEP energy strategies, funded by BEIS, have started to develop an understanding of local opportunity for local and community ownership and involvement in future energy systems. BEIS have also funded a Local Energy hub for the North East, Yorkshire and Humber which will bring capacity to help develop some local projects at scale.</p><p> </p><p>Over £5.9bn has been spent through the Feed-in tariff scheme to date, supporting the growth of small-scale low-carbon electricity generation. This has helped support over 830,000 installations, of which, according to Ofgem statistics, 9.85% (over 82,000 installations) are in Yorkshire and the Humber. The Government has recently concluded a consultation on a Smart Export Guarantee, to ensure that small-scale low-carbon generators do not export their electricity to the grid for free.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 02/04/2019 12:21:31 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1104817

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of a £30,000 annual salary threshold for intermediate and high-skilled migrant workers on small towns that rely upon skilled migrant workers in the Yorkshire and the Humber; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	236524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to developing a future borders and immigration system that will cater for all sectors and regions of the UK.</p><p>The Migration Advisory Committee recommended retaining existing salary thresholds. However, we have been clear that we want to engage with businesses and employers before determining the level at which salary thresholds should be set. Currently, graduate entry jobs are already subject to a lower salary threshold and we will continue with that approach – and we are considering whether some occupations, such as those recognised on the Shortage Occupation List, should be subject to a lower salary threshold.</p><p><br>We have launched engagement over 2019 with a wide range of stakeholders across the UK, and we will be listening to their views on the key proposals in the White Paper before taking final policy decisions on the future system, which will be implemented after 2021.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 02/04/2019 16:02:45 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel