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1138710

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK Visas and Immigration: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff are employed in the processing asylum applications in the UK Visa and Immigration team.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
	tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
	uin	276581
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2019 answer text <p>The number of staff who are employed by UK Visas and Immigration in the processing of asylum applications, is not held in a way that can be easily aggregated. To obtain this information would require detailed reporting against multiple cost centres and could only be obtained at disproportionate costs.</p><p>Decisions on asylum claims are made by decision makers in Asylum Operations. There are recruitment strategies in place to maintain staffing at the required levels to allow us to manage asylum intake and reduce the overall time to make initial asylum decisions.</p><p>All asylum claim lodged in the UK are carefully considered on their individual merits against a background of relevant case law and up to date country information.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 17/07/2019 15:40:58 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1139344

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Bank Services: Payments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential effect on (a) consumers and (b) businesses of the September 2019 deadline for the introduction of multi-factor authentication on electronic payments.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
	tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
	uin	277802
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The implementation of Strong Customer Authentication, which mandates two-factor authentication for some online payments, will introduce more secure payments for individuals and businesses.</p><p> </p><p>This was introduced by the second Payment Services Directive. HM Treasury published an impact assessment on the implementation of this EU directive in 2017.</p><p> </p><p>In an Opinion published on 21 June, the European Banking Authority (EBA) acknowledged the complexity of payments markets and the practical challenges arising from the changes that are required by Strong Customer Authentication across the EU, which may lead to some actors in the payments chain not being ready by 14 September 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The FCA is therefore working closely with industry to develop a migration plan to implement Strong Customer Authentication in a timely and effective manner.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 22/07/2019 13:56:33 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1139345

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2019
	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	Consumer Goods: Electrical Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will ask the Office for Product Safety and Standards to (a) undertake an urgent review of and (b) support Electrical Safety First campaign to improve the regulation of electrical goods sales.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
	tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
	uin	277803
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>Manufacturers and importers have a legal obligation to place only safe electrical products on the market and distributors have obligations to ensure the electrical products they sell are safe.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) is working in partnership with several strategic stakeholders, including Electrical Safety First, undertaking a number of projects on the safety of electrical goods. This includes work aimed at preventing counterfeit and non-compliant goods entering the UK market.</p><p> </p><p>I have written to major online platforms to ask them to do more to ensure that unsafe products are identified and removed from their sites.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 22/07/2019 16:57:52 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1139351

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2019
	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	Consumer Goods: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure that recalled products are not subsequently available to purchase online.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
	tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
	uin	277804
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>It is important that where products are subject to recall they are not offered for sale, either online or offline.</p><p> </p><p>I have recently written to major online retailers to urge them to take necessary measures to ensure that electrical products subject to recall are not made available through their platforms. I have asked these businesses to share with OPSS the actions they are taking to achieve this.</p><p> </p><p>This follows a previous letter from OPSS informing these platforms of the recall of certain models of Whirlpool tumble dryer.</p><p> </p><p>If a business is found to be selling such products, OPSS will take appropriate action to secure public safety.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 22/07/2019 16:58:38 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1142987

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Protection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the recommendations made by Missing Families in its report entitled All of us were broken, published 29 July 2019; and what steps he is taking to improve protections and support for children at risk of exploitation and their families.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
	tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
	uin	284506
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>The department welcomes Missing People’s work on this matter and, together with the Home Office, will give due consideration to the report’s recommendations.</p><p> </p><p>To improve protections and support for children at risk of exploitation and their families, we have strengthened local safeguarding arrangements through the Children and Social Work Act (2017). We have placed a duty on safeguarding partners – the police, health and the local authority – to work together to make plans to keep children safe and be accountable for how well agencies work together to protect children from abuse and neglect in their local area.</p><p> </p><p>These new arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of all children must be implemented by safeguarding partners by the end of September 2019. It will be for local determination regarding what the arrangements cover, but they must set out how all children, including those at risk of child criminal exploitation, will be kept safe. In order to ensure transparency regarding the activities undertaken, the safeguarding partners must publish a report, at least once in every 12-month period, setting out what they have done as a result of the arrangements and how effective these arrangements have been in practice.</p><p> </p><p>In 2018 we revised the ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’ and ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ statutory safeguarding guidance documents to reflect new and emerging risks of harm to children including county lines, criminal exploitation and other harms from outside the home.</p><p>The department is also funding a £2 million Tackling Child Exploitation support programme to provide evidence-based expertise, advice and practical support to safeguarding partners in local areas to develop an effective multi-agency response to extra-familial harms such as child sexual exploitation, child criminal exploitation and gang and drug involvement that exploit vulnerable children.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch question first answered 05/09/2019 16:13:45 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1143785

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Hope Valley Line
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress his Department has made on the capacity improvement scheme planned for the Hope Valley line.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
	tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
	uin	285040
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>Network Rail have completed the single option design for the railway infrastructure scheme proposed in the Hope Valley and are working on plans to progress the work to the next stage ‘Decision to Deliver’. Network Rail are developing a procurement plan to deliver the scheme, and are undertaking pre-construction planning to enable this scheme to be delivered as quickly as possible. They will be working with the train operators to assess the best way to deliver the scheme with the least disruption to passengers.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 05/09/2019 10:08:19 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
	tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1146497

	registered interest
	date	26/09/2019
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Kashmir: Prisoners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has made representations to his Indian counterpart on reports that 13,000 boys have been detained in Kashmir since its autonomous status was revoked on 5 August 2019; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
	tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
	uin	291426
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>We are following the serious situation in Kashmir closely. The continued use of detentions is worrying. We have raised our concerns with the Indian Government: the Prime Minister has discussed the situation with Prime Minister Modi and the Foreign Secretary has also discussed it with his counterpart Dr Jaishankar.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 01/10/2019 15:47:08 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1146499

	registered interest
	date	26/09/2019
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Kashmir: Armed Conflict
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he has taken to work towards the de-escalation of tensions over the situation in Kashmir; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
	tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
	uin	291427
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>We are following the situation in Kashmir closely and are in regular contact with both the Indian and Pakistani Governments. The Prime Minister has spoken to Prime Minister Modi and Prime Minister Imran Khan about the situation and the Foreign Secretary has also raised his concerns with his Indian counterpart Dr Jaishankar.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 01/10/2019 15:52:43 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1146501

	registered interest
	date	26/09/2019
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Yemen: Armed Conflict
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he had with his international counterparts on the situation in Yemen at the UN General Assembly.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
	tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
	uin	291429
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>The UK has played a leading role in diplomatic efforts, including bringing together key international actors to try to find a peaceful solution. On 26 September, the UK co-hosted a political event at the UN General Assembly to coordinate the international community’s support for the UN-led peace process and endorse the UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths’ plan to begin wider political discussion.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 01/10/2019 15:59:31 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1147569

	registered interest
	date	01/10/2019
	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	Post Office: Annual Reports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when the Post Office annual report 2018-19 will be published.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
	tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
	uin	292972
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The Post Office Annual Report and Accounts 2018-19 will be published in due course, after they are laid before Parliament, and in line with the requirement set out in the relevant Postal Services Act (2000).</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 07/10/2019 14:55:45 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss