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1613163

	registered interest
	date	21/04/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Metals: Theft
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many scrap metal operators were prosecuted for (a) not holding a licence and (b) paying cash for scrap metal in the last three years; and how many and what proportion of those prosecutions resulted in a conviction.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	182149
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of defendants prosecuted and convicted for offences under the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 (offence code 19534) within the last three years, in the following tool:</p><ul><li><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1135333/outcomes-by-offence-june-2022-revised-2.xlsx" target="_blank">Outcomes by Offence Data Tool: June 2022</a>.</li></ul><p>A breakdown of the prosecutions and convictions for (a) not holding a licence and (b) paying cash for scrap metal for year ending June 2020 to year ending June 2022, issued at all courts in England and Wales, has been provided in Table 1 on a principal offence basis.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 26/04/2023 09:32:09 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar attachment 1 file name 2023-04-26 PQ 182149 table.xlsx title Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 table
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1580268

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Fleet Solid Support Ships: Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an estimate with Cabinet colleagues of how many jobs will be created in Spain as a result of the UK's Fleet Solid Support ship contract.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	131202
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 21 November 2022 to Question number 88812 to the right hon. Member for Wentworth and Dearne (John Healey).</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 30/01/2023 11:19:47 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk attachment 1 file name 88812 - Fleet Solid Support Ships Employment.docx title Fleet Solid Support Ships: Employment
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1693010

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Driving Tests: Waiting Lists
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average waiting time is for a driving test from DVSA in (a) England, (b) each region and (c) each driving centre.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	16465
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>As of 4 March 2024, there were 514,894 car practical driving tests booked, and 133,555 driving tests available within the 24-week booking window. The average waiting time for a car practical driving test in England is 17.8 weeks.</p><p>The attached spreadsheet shows the average waiting time for a car practical driving test, per region, and at each test centre, as of 4 March 2024.</p><p>The Secretary of State for Transport has decided, going forward, to regularly publish this information to show progress in tackling the testing backlog that has arisen since Covid.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 16466 question first answered 06/03/2024 17:46:34 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman attachment 1 file name 16466.xlsx title DVSA Average waiting time
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1693011

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Driving Tests: Waiting Lists
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the total number of drivers in England waiting for a driving test from DVSA was as of 1 March 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	16466
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>As of 4 March 2024, there were 514,894 car practical driving tests booked, and 133,555 driving tests available within the 24-week booking window. The average waiting time for a car practical driving test in England is 17.8 weeks.</p><p>The attached spreadsheet shows the average waiting time for a car practical driving test, per region, and at each test centre, as of 4 March 2024.</p><p>The Secretary of State for Transport has decided, going forward, to regularly publish this information to show progress in tackling the testing backlog that has arisen since Covid.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 16465 question first answered 06/03/2024 17:46:34 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman attachment 1 file name 16466.xlsx title DVSA Average waiting time
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1694761

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Driving Tests: Waiting Lists
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2024 to Question 16465 on Driving Tests: Waiting Lists, what the average waiting time was for a driving test from DVSA in (a) the UK, (b) England, (c) each region and (d) each driving centre in March 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	17730
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>The attached spreadsheet PQ 17731 shows the average waiting time in March 2023 for a car practical driving test, broken down by:</p><ul><li>Great Britain</li><li>England</li><li>each region/zone</li><li>each driving centre</li></ul><p>The attached spreadsheet PQ 17730 shows the average waiting time in March 2022 for a car practical driving test, broken down by:</p><ul><li>Great Britain</li><li>England</li><li>each region/zone</li><li>each driving centre</li></ul> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman attachment 1 file name PQ 17730.xlsx title 17730 Average waiting times 2 file name PQ 17731.xlsx title 17731 Average waiting times grouped question UIN 17731 question first answered 14/03/2024 12:31:17 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1694762

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Driving Tests: Waiting Lists
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2024 to Question 16465 on Driving Tests: Waiting Lists, what the average waiting time was for a driving test from DVSA in (a) the UK, (b) England, (c) each region and (d) each driving centre in March 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	17731
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>The attached spreadsheet PQ 17731 shows the average waiting time in March 2023 for a car practical driving test, broken down by:</p><ul><li>Great Britain</li><li>England</li><li>each region/zone</li><li>each driving centre</li></ul><p>The attached spreadsheet PQ 17730 shows the average waiting time in March 2022 for a car practical driving test, broken down by:</p><ul><li>Great Britain</li><li>England</li><li>each region/zone</li><li>each driving centre</li></ul> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman attachment 1 file name PQ 17730.xlsx title 17730 Average waiting times 2 file name PQ 17731.xlsx title 17731 Average waiting times grouped question UIN 17730 question first answered 14/03/2024 12:31:17 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1246282

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Sefton
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to award grants from the Coronavirus (COVID-19) fund to (a) St Luke's Halsall primary school in Crosby and (b) schools in Sefton.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	107641
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2020 answer text <p>The first window for submitting claims for exceptional costs related to the COVID-19 closed on 21 July. At that time, St Luke’s, Halsall had submitted a claim which included £1,651 for costs within the published scope of the funding and £6,025 for costs outside of that published scope. A payment for the in-scope costs of £1,651 was due to be made to the local authority at the end of October 2020 to be passed onto the school in line with the usual practice. The assessment process to determine which types of out-of-scope costs will be included is ongoing and we intend to write out to schools by the end of November to confirm the outcome of this part of their claim.</p><p>This applies to all schools who made a claim against this funding. The attached table includes the details of the in-scope and out-of-scope claims made by schools in the Sefton local authority area.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 02/11/2020 17:58:42 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 107641_Table_COVID-19_claims_by_schools_in_Sefton_LA.xlsx title 107641_Table
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1129630

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	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	Poultry Meat: USA
	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 assessment he has made of the potential effect on (a) the poultry meat sector and (b) consumers of the importation of poultry washed with (i) chlorine and (ii) other antimicrobial washes from the US.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	259965
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>We are committed to maintaining our rigorous standards on animal welfare and food safety after Brexit - high standards and high quality are what our domestic and global customers demand, and that is what we will provide.</p><p> </p><p>The existing food safety provisions regarding chlorine and other pathogen reduction treatments for poultry will be transferred into UK law by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 10/06/2019 14:40:41 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1133882

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps she is taking increase the proportion of her Department's procurement with SMEs.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	267740
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is taking a number of positive actions to make it easier for smaller companies to do business with defence, for example launching sub-contract advertising on our online portal and engaging more regularly with smaller businesses to help understand the challenges they face. We are also introducing new measures to ensure prime contractors' pay promptly and working to improve the pipeline information that we publish.</p><p>The MOD Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Action Plan 2019-2022 was published in March 2019 and this sets out the actions we are taking in more detail. It is available at:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mod-small-and-medium-sized-enterprise-action-plan-2019-2022</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 27/06/2019 13:28:48 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1140639

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2019
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Tradeshow Access Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps he has taken to engage with businesses in order to assess their levels of satisfaction with the Tradeshow Access Programme.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	279479
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department for International Trade has commissioned a new Client Survey that measures the quality and impact of DIT’s products and services. As part of this, satisfaction scores will be produced for the Tradeshow Access Programme with the intention to publish the first findings in early 2020.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 24/07/2019 14:26:01 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson