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349446

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2015
	answering body	Scotland Office
	answering dept id	2
	answering dept short name	Scotland
	answering dept sort name	Scotland
	hansard heading	Voting Rights: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what assessment he has made of the effect on democratic participation of the extension of the franchise in the Scottish independence referendum to 16 and 17 year olds.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
	tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
	uin	900160
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2015 answer text <p>It was inspirational to see the level of engagement in Scotland during the independence debate. Following the vote to remain within the United Kingdom, and in line with Smith recommendations, we devolved the power for the Scottish Parliament to legislate to reduce the minimum voting age to 16 at Scottish Parliament and local government elections.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 10/06/2015 14:47:56 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
	tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

383850

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Ministers' Private Offices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many full-time equivalent staff at each civil service grade are employed in the private office of each Minister in her Department.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
	tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
	uin	3131
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2015 answer text <p>The number of staff employed at each grade in each Minister’s private office is as follows. All staff are full-time.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Ministerial Private Office</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Grade</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of staff</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Secretary of State, the Rt hon. Nicky Morgan MP</strong></p></td><td><p>EA AO</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EO</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>HEO</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>SEO</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Grade 7</p></td><td><p>2 (including a member of staff employed by the Government Equalities Office)</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Grade 6</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>SCS Band 1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Minister of State for Schools, Nick Gibb MP</strong></p></td><td><p>EO</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>HEO</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Minister of State for Children and Families, Edward Timpson MP</strong></p></td><td><p>EO</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>HEO</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2"><p>EO</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Childcare and Education, Sam Gyimah MP</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>HEO</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools, Lord Nash</strong></p></td><td><p>EO</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>HEO</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 25/06/2015 13:04:50 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

388383

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Malawi: Overseas Aid
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what forecast her Department has made of its spending in Malawi in the next five years.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
	tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
	uin	900815
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>This year, the UK is delivering a £72m bilateral programme through DFID in Malawi, with significant additional support reaching Malawi through civil society, research, Global Funds and multilateral agencies. Plans for 2016/17 and beyond are subject to the spending review in Autumn 2015.</p> answering member constituency Welwyn Hatfield answering member printed Grant Shapps question first answered 08/07/2015 15:04:15 answering member 1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps
	tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

390876

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2015
	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	Social Security Benefits: Radiotherapy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy not to require those undergoing radiotherapy to undertake fit-for-work assessments.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
	tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
	uin	7589
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>People claiming Employment and Support Allowance whose capacity to work is identified as being significantly limited by cancer treatment, including radiotherapy, are already placed in the Support Group without the need for the whole of the claimant questionnaire to be completed, and without the need for a face-to-face assessment.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 21/07/2015 10:17:59 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

424407

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2015
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Defence: Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, whether any of her Department's spending will be counted towards the target of spending 2 per cent of gross national income on defence.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
	tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
	uin	901843
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2015 answer text <p>In 2014/15, the Ministry of Defence provided fantastic support to DFID to support humanitarian activities, contributing £32million, and was therefore reimbursed from the ODA budget. This spending will count towards the target to spend 2 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on defence.</p> answering member constituency Putney answering member printed Justine Greening question first answered 28/10/2015 14:26:21 answering member 1555 label Biography information for Justine Greening
	tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

428555

	registered interest
	date	10/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Drugs: Licensing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to improve the availability of off-patent drugs for novel uses through non-legislative measures.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
	tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
	uin	902130
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2015 answer text <p>Clinicians can already prescribe off-patent drugs off-label on clinical grounds if they judge this is the right thing to do to meet the individual clinical needs of their patients.</p><br /><p>The Government is keen to accelerate the adoption of innovative medicines and increase the innovative use of existing medicines where the evidence reports clinical benefits and cost effectiveness to patients. To that end, we are seeking a number of initiatives to provide innovation but whilst supporting the aims of the Private Member’s Bill on this subject, we do not believe the proposed mechanism is either practicable and desirable.</p><br /><p>We are working with NHS England, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, the General Medical Council and the Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency to ensure that there is better information available to support clinicians who wish to prescribe off-patent drugs for off-label indications, and to ensure that new evidence is picked up more quickly and reliably and translated into clinical practice and can be fed through into licensing applications.</p><br /><p>A huge amount of work is also going on in the Accelerated Access Review which will support the “pull” of innovation through to clinical practice.</p><br /><p>As part of the debate on the Access to Medical Treatments Bill, we are working with officials in the Department, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, and the Health and Social Care Information Centre to see how the power in the Bill, if it were to pass, could address the lack of provision of information on new uses for existing medicines via the power to create a database of innovations in order to support evidence-based prescribing.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 902127 question first answered 17/11/2015 17:20:22 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

431827

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2015
	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	Jobseeker's Allowance: Habitual Residence Test
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to amend the three month rule for the habitual residence test to allow access to income based jobseeker's allowance for UK nationals returning to the UK after a period away who have retained financial commitments at home.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
	tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
	uin	17352
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2015 answer text <p>It has always been the case that any UK national who returns to this country after an extended period must demonstrate they are habitually resident to be eligible for income-related benefits. Since 1 January 2014, most jobseekers must also have been living in the UK for three months before any consideration can be given to whether they are habitually resident to be eligible to receive income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance.</p><br /><p>Regulations were amended from 9 November 2014 to exempt from the three month residence requirement members of the Armed Forces and Crown servants who were serving abroad and others who had paid certain types of UK national insurance contributions during their absence abroad. We have no plans to introduce further exemptions from the three month requirement.</p><br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 27/11/2015 11:09:41 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

431696

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Prescription Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has conducted on the disincentives to prescribing off-patent repurposed drugs.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
	tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
	uin	17150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department has conducted no such research. Current arrangements already allow off-patent drugs to be prescribed for new purposes where this is the most appropriate clinical treatment course for a patient. Prescribing decisions are a matter for the clinical judgement of the prescriber concerned.</p><br /> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 01/12/2015 16:49:32 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

431700

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Off-patent Drugs Bill
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the contribution of 6 November 2015 by the Minister for Community and Social Care, Official Report, column 1307, what the evidential basis is for his statement that the provisions of the Off-patent Drugs Bill would be potentially harmful.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
	tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
	uin	17208
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>The current legal framework allows a clinician to prescribe drugs outside their licensed indication where that will best meet the clinical needs of their patient. This clinical freedom is crucial in delivering appropriate healthcare to groups of patients for whom medicines have not historically been licensed, e.g. children. It is also helpful in enabling prescribers to quickly pick up and apply new evidence that will help patients with particular clinical needs. The Off-Patent Drugs Bill would introduce a legal duty to apply for a licence for off-patent drugs where evidence of effectiveness for a new indication becomes available. This will create an expectation that only licensed uses of drugs are acceptable and therefore that off-label use is not appropriate. This would cause unnecessary delays in patients getting the medicines they need by slowing the rapid uptake of new evidence in clinical practice. This is why we believe the proposed legislation could potentially be harmful.</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 01/12/2015 16:45:34 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan

431585

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make representations to Concentrix on introducing a liaison unit for hon. Members to raise constituents' tax credit cases.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North West
	tabling member printed	Carol Monaghan
	uin	17151
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>Concentrix are not introducing a liaison unit for hon. Members as HM Revenue and Customs has three areas allocated to deal with representations from hon. Members relating to their constituents’ concerns: a dedicated MP hotline for tax credits, an MP complaints team that deals with tax credit complaints, and a Ministerial correspondence team.</p><br /> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 01/12/2015 16:31:25 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	4443 label Biography information for Carol Monaghan