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785139

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cancer: Death
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many deaths resulted from (a) breast, (b) cervical and (c) prostate cancer in (i) 2015-16 and (ii) 2016-17.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	111847
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 15/11/2017 16:14:26 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ111847 (1).pdf title UKSA response
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

101055

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Non-domestic Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many small firms and shops have benefited from reductions in business rates in (a) England and (b) Crawley constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	212013
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2014 answer text <p>We have introduced a £1 billion business rate support package for 2014-15 including:</p><p>– a 2% cap in the Retail Price Index increase in the small business rates multiplier;</p><p>– a retail discount of £1,000 for around 300,000 shops, pubs and restaurants with rateable values below £50,000;</p><p>– a 12 month extension of small business rate relief doubling, benefitting over half a million businesses;</p><p>– a 50 per cent discount for new occupants of long-term vacant shops, and;</p><p>– allowing ratepayers to pay bills over 12 instalments.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not collect data on a constituency basis, but the Crawley constituency lies entirely within the Crawley Borough Council boundary. Table 1 (attached) shows, where available, the estimated number of properties that will benefit from each of the reliefs introduced or extended in 2014-15 within Crawley Borough Council, as well as the amount of relief awarded. Table 2 (attached) provides the same data, but for England as a whole.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 05/11/2014 17:34:35 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins attachment 1 file name 212013 Smith - Table 1 and 2.docx title Table 1 and 2 - Business Rates
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

167705

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Non-domestic Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of how many small firms and shops will benefit from reductions in business rates in (a) England and (b) Crawley in 2015-16.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	217113
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>The Chancellor announced at the 2014 Autumn Statement an extra £650 million of support for 2015-16 bills, bringing the total support of 2013 and 2014 Autumn Statement polices to £1.4 billion. This help includes:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>doubling small business rate relief for a further year. In England, this means an estimated 385,000 properties will pay no rates at all, while a further 190,000 properties will benefit from tapered relief.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>a 2% cap on the increase of the small business rates multiplier. This is a continuation of the 2% cap introduced in 2014-15 as part of Autumn Statement 2013 measures;</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>increasing the temporary £1,000 discount for shops, pubs and restaurants with rateable values below £50,000 to £1,500 for 2015-16, benefitting an estimated 300,000 properties in England;</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>extending the existing transitional relief scheme for two years for properties with a rateable value up to and including £50,000.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These policies are in addition to previous Autumn Statement measures that continue into 2015-16, including:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>a 50 per cent discount for 18 months to new occupants of vacant shops;</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>allowing businesses to keep their small business rate relief for a year where they take on an additional property; and</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>business rates relief for empty new builds.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Central Government also now funds 50% of any local discount granted.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Local authority level data is not yet available for the number of properties that will benefit from Autumn Statement 2014 measures in 2015-16. However, the attached table shows the number of hereditaments in 2014-15 that have benefitted from business rates measures extended in this year’s autumn statement.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 10/12/2014 15:55:36 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins attachment 1 file name 217113 Smith - Table.docx title Table 1
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

523007

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2016
	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, what recent discussions he has had with his NATO counterparts on the target to spend two per cent of GDP on defence.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	39329
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Minister for Defence Procurement (Mr Dunne) on 18 April 2016 to Question 904488 to the hon. Member for Mid Derbyshire (Ms Latham)</p> answering member constituency Canterbury answering member printed Mr Julian Brazier question first answered 09/06/2016 15:16:34 answering member 77 label Biography information for Sir Julian Brazier attachment 1 file name 20160418_Hansard_extract_on_NATO_Countries[1].docx title Hansard extract on NATO Countries Defence Spending
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

915006

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2018
	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 he plans to attend the 2018 NATO summit; and what recent assessment he has made of the level of commitment of other NATO member states to two per cent of GDP as a minimum investment in defence.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	148738
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my noble Friend, the Minister of State for Defence in the House of Lords (Earl Howe), to the noble Lord, Lord Jopling DL, in the House of Lords to Question HL7899. Burden sharing will be an important issue at the forthcoming NATO Summit, which I am due to attend.</p> answering member constituency South Staffordshire answering member printed Gavin Williamson question first answered 11/06/2018 15:13:04 answering member 4108 label Biography information for Sir Gavin Williamson attachment 1 file name Hansard Extract 15 May 2018 HL7899.docx title HL7899 - WQnA extract on Defence Finance
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1002070

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2018
	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	Unemployment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate the Government has made of the number of workless households in (a) Crawley constituency and (b) England.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	188170
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2018 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics use the Labour Force Survey to provide estimates for workless households in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>However, the percentage and number of workless households in Crawley are unavailable due to small sample sizes.</p><p> </p><p>For April-June 2018, there were 331,000 workless households in the South East region, which was 11.8% of households in the region.</p><p> </p><p>For April-June 2018, there were 2,391,000 workless households in England, which was 13.7% of all English households.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/11/2018 14:37:05 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1002558

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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	Cancer: Medical Treatments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the ability of the NHS long-term plan to (a) tackle the evolving challenges of cancer and (b) ensure that people are able to access personalised and tailored support after they have finished cancer treatment itself.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	188796
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan provides an excellent opportunity to look at how cancer and other services can be further improved over the next decade. The plan is currently in development and will be published later in the year.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 14/11/2018 11:29:49 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1007016

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Managers: Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions his Department has had with the business community on the Institute for Apprenticeships' proposed changes in funding bands for management apprenticeships.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	191383
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>As the Institute for Apprenticeships (IfA) are an independent body, it is for them, rather than for the department, to lead on the process for reviewing funding bands for existing standards and on consultation with the business community.</p><p>The IfA has worked with employer trailblazer groups throughout the review process. The IfA has also discussed the management standards directly with business stakeholders who have made representations.</p><p>The remaining outcomes of the review of funding bands will be published on GOV.UK by the end of the calendar year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 191384 191385 question first answered 22/11/2018 15:47:57 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1007018

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions his Department has had with the Institute for Apprenticeships on the concerns made by the business community on the consultation process into the review of the apprenticeship funding bands.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	191384
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>As the Institute for Apprenticeships (IfA) are an independent body, it is for them, rather than for the department, to lead on the process for reviewing funding bands for existing standards and on consultation with the business community.</p><p>The IfA has worked with employer trailblazer groups throughout the review process. The IfA has also discussed the management standards directly with business stakeholders who have made representations.</p><p>The remaining outcomes of the review of funding bands will be published on GOV.UK by the end of the calendar year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 191383 191385 question first answered 22/11/2018 15:47:57 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1007021

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the timescale is for the decision on the remaining apprenticeship funding band changes proposed by the Institute for Apprenticeships.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	191385
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>As the Institute for Apprenticeships (IfA) are an independent body, it is for them, rather than for the department, to lead on the process for reviewing funding bands for existing standards and on consultation with the business community.</p><p>The IfA has worked with employer trailblazer groups throughout the review process. The IfA has also discussed the management standards directly with business stakeholders who have made representations.</p><p>The remaining outcomes of the review of funding bands will be published on GOV.UK by the end of the calendar year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 191383 191384 question first answered 22/11/2018 15:47:57 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith