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1701365

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2024
	answering body	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept id	18
	answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
	hansard heading	House of Commons: Telephone Systems
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, what assessment the Commission has made of the level of performance of the Polycom phone system.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	21872
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2024 answer text <p>The performance of the current telephony system is not good enough and is falling short of reasonable expectation. The Parliamentary Digital Service is working hard with our suppliers and technology partners to bring the level of service up to an acceptable standard. A new solution has been procured and will be implemented later this year. I apologise to the right hon. Member and all colleagues for the inconvenience they are experiencing.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 26/04/2024 15:18:15 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1700017

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Defence: Nuclear Engineering
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the number of graduate nuclear (a) engineers and (b) scientists required for the military nuclear programme.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	20860
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>As announced in the Defence Nuclear Enterprise (DNE) Command Paper: Delivering the UK’s Nuclear Deterrent as a National Endeavor, the Department is investing to increase its intake of nuclear sector graduates by an additional 2,000 personnel over the next four years.</p><p>Of these 2,000, over 1,600 are for the DNE, with up to 70% of these graduates expected to join in engineering posts with the remainder in a range of supporting professions such as science (including physics, material science, nuclear science), commercial and finance.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 22/04/2024 15:23:33 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1697795

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2024
	answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept id	90
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	hansard heading	Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, what assessment the Committee has made of the effectiveness of the handling of MPs expenses claims by IPSA.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	19774
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>The Speaker’s Committee meets IPSA throughout the year to assess its performance, running costs and effectiveness in handling MPs’ expenses. The Committee last met IPSA on 5 March 2024 and a transcript of that session is available on the Committee’s website: <a href="https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/14403/pdf/" target="_blank">https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/14403/pdf/</a></p><p>In 2023, 65.3 per cent of MPs and their staff rated IPSA’s service as either good or very good, which was up on this measure in 2019 when 25.1 per cent rated the service in that way. The time taken for IPSA to reimburse MPs’ claims has reduced from an average of 8 days in 2020-21 to 2.6 days in 2023-24. Compliance with IPSA’s scheme is currently at 99.9%.</p><p>Through its scrutiny of IPSA, the Committee is looking at the steps being taken by IPSA to help improve its effectiveness in enabling MPs and their staff to claim for expenses and business costs. IPSA’s ongoing work includes:</p><ul><li>the development of an IPSA online portal to enhance the customer experience by improving the functionality of the system in areas such as claim and form submission;</li><li>the greater provision of centralised services, reducing the financial and administrative burden on MPs and their staff through the centralised provision of goods and services such as constituency office leases, utilities, and equipment;</li><li>the piloting of an online marketplace, allowing MPs and their staff to purchase goods such as office equipment centrally; and</li><li>exploration of alternative models of reimbursement, enabling MPs and their staff to pay for business costs without the need to claim retrospectively.</li></ul><p>The Committee plans to consider IPSA’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2023-24 later in the summer at which point it will assess IPSA’s latest results against its performance indicators.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 26/03/2024 10:33:05 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1696203

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2024
	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	Members: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to respond to the letter of 18 October 2023 from the hon. Member for Warley relating to Mr Bashir Ali and his father Aden Ali Dine.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	18646
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>On 19 March 2024, DWP provided an interim response to the MP’s office. A full response will be provided in due course.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 21/03/2024 14:46:45 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1692759

	registered interest
	date	29/02/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what lessons his Department has learned for the future provision of service accommodation from the Single Living Accommodation Modernisation project.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	16280
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2024 answer text <p>Lessons learnt from the Single Living Accommodation Modernisation project include that it provided value for money through standardisation of design, and economies of scale through a managed pipeline of projects.</p><p> </p><p>The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) is continuing to realise these benefits through our Single Living Accommodation Programmatic Approach.</p><p>Standard designs have been developed in consultation with the front-line commands and industry partners.</p><p> </p><p>Design layouts have been amended to provide better functional spaces in bedrooms and common areas.</p><p> </p><p>The design of building fabric and services has been improved to achieve through life Net Zero Carbon requirements.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 13/03/2024 12:12:51 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1685149

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Warships: Decommissioning
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the planned out of service dates are for HMS (a) Bulwark and (b) Albion; and whether it is his Department's policy to ensure both vessels remain operational up to that date.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	11475
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2024 answer text <p>It remains the case that no final decisions have been made regarding the future of HMS ALBION and HMS BULWARK. On current plans, both platforms will retire from service by the end of 2034 as originally scheduled.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge grouped question UIN 11537 question first answered 05/02/2024 16:54:16 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1684838

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2024
	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	Fishing Catches: Import Controls
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) documentary checks on, (b) physical checks on, (c) foreign supplier verification checks on and (d) rejections of consignments imported with a catch certificate validated by China were undertaken under the Sea Fishing (Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing) Order 2009 in 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	11245
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2024 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally by the Government.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 09/02/2024 18:42:20 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1684847

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2024
	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	Marine Protected Areas
	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 progress the Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing Action Alliance has made; and what representations the UK has made at the Alliance since the Our Ocean conference in Panama in March 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	11246
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2024 answer text <p>The UK Government is a founder member of the IUU Action Alliance, and as its current chair and secretariat the UK works closely with its partners globally to ensure the Alliance’s long-term success. The Alliance now contains 11 members with 9 supporters, with an ambitious work programme agreed by its members.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 29/01/2024 12:12:06 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1684849

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2024
	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	Dentistry: Higher Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information her Department holds on the number of students studying dentistry in universities in England and Wales in the 2023-24 academic year.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	11247
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2024 answer text <p>The Office for Students (OfS) collects and publishes data on the intakes to dentistry degrees in England and Wales. Initial figures from the OfS suggest that, in the 2023/24 academic year, 805 students began dentistry degrees in England, and 70 students began dentistry degrees in Wales. The Department does not hold further information on the overall number of students studying dentistry at universities in England and Wales in the 2023/24 academic year.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 01/02/2024 16:46:01 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1682050

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Nuclear Physics: Higher Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2024 to Question 7744 on Engineering and Nuclear Physics: Higher Education, what estimate she has made of the number and proportion of the (a) undergraduate and (b) postgraduate students who were enrolled in Nuclear and Particle Physics in the 2021-22 academic year that were international students.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	9389
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), now part of JISC, collects and publishes data on student enrolments across all UK higher education providers. This includes data on full person equivalents (FPE) enrolled in different subject areas, categorised using the higher education coding of subjects (HECoS) system. Counts of enrolments in each HECoS group are published in Table 52 of HESA’s Student Data, available at: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-52" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-52</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Enrolments in ‘Nuclear and Particle Physics’ are recorded under HECoS code 101077, and can be filtered to give counts by level of study and domicile.</p><p> </p><p>For more information on HECoS see: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/documentation/hecos" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/documentation/hecos</a>.</p><p><strong><br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 23/01/2024 13:02:23 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1679391

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Engineering and Nuclear Physics: Higher Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on (a) which universities offer courses in nuclear (i) physics and (ii) engineering and (b) how many (A) undergraduate and (B) graduate students are on such courses.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	7744
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), now part of Jisc, collects and publishes data on student enrolments and qualifications obtained at UK higher education providers. This includes data on full person equivalents (FPE) enrolled in different subject areas, categorised using the Higher Education Coding of Subjects (HECoS) system. Further information on the HECoS system is available at: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/documentation/hecos" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/documentation/hecos</a>.</p><p> </p><p>This data has been used to approximate which providers offered courses including elements of the HECoS subjects ‘Nuclear Engineering’ (HECoS code 100172) and ‘Nuclear and Particle Physics’ (HECoS code 101077) in the 2021/22 academic year, and how many FPEs were enrolled in each of these subjects. This information has been provided as an attachment.</p><p> </p><p>For an up-to-date view of available undergraduate courses, including nuclear studies, please visit: <a href="https://discoveruni.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://discoveruni.gov.uk/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 15/01/2024 10:28:35 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon attachment 1 file name 7744 Number of full person equivalent enrolments in HECoS subjects 2021 to 2022.xlsx title 7744_Table
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1679392

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2024
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Funerals: Financial Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking with the Financial Conduct Authority to help ensure funeral fund providers have sufficient resources to meet their obligations.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	7745
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>In January 2021 the government legislated to bring all pre-paid funeral plan providers and intermediaries within the Financial Conduct Authority’s regulatory remit.</p><p> </p><p>The FCA has extensive experience of both conduct and prudential regulation. As part of its regulation of the sector, the FCA have introduced requirements that ensure that funeral plan providers have sufficient funds to fulfil the funeral plan contracts they have entered into.</p><p> </p><p>This includes rules that require funeral plan providers to:</p><p> </p><ul><li>place sufficient funds to provide any agreed upon funeral in a trust or insurance arrangements;</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>have systems and controls in place to ensure the adequacy of those trust and insurance arrangements and to ensure that pricing does not lead to insufficient sums being available to provide the agreed upon funeral; and</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>consider the risk of inflation and volatility of trust assets when assessing the sums needed to provide for the funeral.</li></ul> answering member constituency Hitchin and Harpenden answering member printed Bim Afolami question first answered 11/01/2024 17:05:56 answering member 4639 label Biography information for Bim Afolami
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1679393

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2024
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Driving
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department has taken to implement the Plan for Drivers published on 2 October 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	7746
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>Work is underway for each of the 30 measures in “The Plan for Drivers”, with many expected to be completed by summer 2024.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 15/01/2024 11:38:09 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1679394

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Law Reporting: Artificial Intelligence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of using AI to produce trial transcripts.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	7747
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>The government is constantly assessing how to improve the efficiency within the criminal justice system, including mechanisms to accelerate trial transcripts.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise the potential merits to using automated technology for trial transcriptions, including a potential reduction in the time it takes to produce a transcription and comparative value for money.</p><p> </p><p>Transcriptions must achieve very high levels of accuracy (99.5%) to ensure the justice system can operate fairly and effectively. However, even software with learning capability cannot yet reliably meet the accuracy requirements for the service without human intervention.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 15/01/2024 16:46:02 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1679402

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2024
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Ethiopia and Somaliland: Ports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the agreement between Somaliland and Ethiopia to provide port access.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	7748
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>The FCDO noted the 1 January 2024 announcement of a Memorandum of Understanding between Ethiopia and Somaliland, which suggests that Ethiopia will recognise Somaliland's independence in return for the lease of territory along its coastline. The UK is clear that we respect Somalia's sovereignty and territorial integrity. Our position on Somaliland remains unchanged: alongside our international partners we do not recognise Somaliland as an independent state. We believe the settlement of Somaliland's status is for Somalia and Somaliland to resolve, through a consultative process. We are engaging all countries involved to call for calm and encourage dialogue.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 11/01/2024 10:14:25 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1679403

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2024
	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	Sandeels: North Sea
	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 steps he is taking to help protect stocks of sand eels in English North Sea waters.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	7749
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2024 answer text <p>Defra is presently preparing its response to the public consultation on the future management of sandeels in English waters of the North Sea. I am grateful to everyone who responded. A summary of responses is here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-spatial-management-measures-for-industrial-sandeel-fishing/outcome/summary-of-responses" target="_blank">Summary of responses - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>. I will announce my decision shortly.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 19/01/2024 16:24:30 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1673523

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2023
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Jagtar Singh Johal
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, pursuant to the Answer of 23 November 2023 to Question 1785 on Jagtar Singh Johal, whether the Minister of State for South Asia and the Indian External Affairs Minister discussed when the Indian authorities plan to decide whether to charge or release Jagtar Singh Johal.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	4033
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2023 answer text <p>Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon, Minister of State responsible for Human Rights, has raised Jagtar Singh Johal's case with the Government of India on numerous occasions. He did so most recently on 13 November with the Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. Lord Ahmad raised our concerns about Mr Johal's case, including the length of his detention and the need for a resolution. The UK Government will continue to raise our concerns about Mr Johal's case with the Government of India.</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan question first answered 05/12/2023 11:15:42 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1671791

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2023
	answering body	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept id	18
	answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
	hansard heading	House of Commons: Telephone Systems
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, what assessment the Commission has made of the adequacy of the telephony system on the parliamentary estate.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	2756
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>The telephone system on the parliamentary estate is the subject of a transformative programme called the Voice Programme, and a new telephony system is due to be implemented in 2024. Modernisation of the telephony system to full Voice Over Internet Protocol is also required in preparation for the decommissioning of the analogue service provided through the Public Switched Network.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 27/11/2023 18:37:29 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1665700

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Abortion: Demonstrations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to bring into force the provisions of the Public Order Act 2023 introducing safe access zones around abortion clinics.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	203201
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The timescales for commencing the new Section 9 offence of interference with access to, or provision of, abortion services will be confirmed in due course.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 25/10/2023 14:21:52 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1664946

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2023
	answering body	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept id	90
	answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
	hansard heading	Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, how many staff are employed by IPSA; and how many and what proportion of those staff were working in the office at least (a) two and (b) three days a week in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	202640
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2023 answer text <p>As of today, IPSA has 101 employees. IPSA is unable to provide data on how many staff were working in the office at least (a) two and (b) three days a week in the last twelve months, as this information is not recorded.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 19/10/2023 09:33:55 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1664947

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ukraine: Armed Conflict
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the military lessons to be learned from the conflict in Ukraine.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	202641
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2023 answer text <p>The Russia Ukraine Insights Hub identified insights at the strategic and operational level for Defence drawn from the UK's response to the war in Ukraine. These insights have informed subsequent Defence decision making. In addition to strategic insights, the single Services continue to identify lessons pertinent to their domains.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 24/10/2023 16:18:41 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1662874

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: West Midlands
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers are housed in (a) Sandwell and (b) each of the other local authorities in the West Midlands as of 13 October 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	200728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2023 answer text <p>Published statistics of where asylum seekers are accommodated can be viewed under the Local Authority Dataset Asy-D11 at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets" target="_blank">Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 19/10/2023 13:18:01 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1663327

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Magistrates' Courts: West Midlands
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many outstanding cases there are at (a) Dudley, (b) Walsall and (c) Wolverhampton Magistrates Court.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	201181
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>As of the end of June 2023 the number of outstanding cases at Dudley, Walsall and Wolverhampton Magistrates’ Courts are as follows:</p><p>a) Dudley Magistrates' Court: 1,017</p><p>b) Walsall Magistrates' Court: 779</p><p>c) Wolverhampton Magistrates' Court: 935</p><p>This is a further breakdown of published data that can be found in the criminal court statistics quarterly publication: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2023" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2023</a>.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 23/10/2023 16:19:15 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1662070

	registered interest
	date	19/09/2023
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Hardeep Singh Nijjar
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with his Canadian counterparts on the potential implications for (a) the UK and (b) its Sikh residents of the statement by the Canadian Government on the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	200188
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2023 answer text <p>The Prime Minster spoke to Prime Minister Trudeau on 6 October about the serious allegations raised in the Canadian Parliament and the Foreign Secretary is in regular contact with his Canadian counterpart. All countries should respect sovereignty and the rule of law. It is important Canada's investigation runs its course, with the perpetrators brought to justice. We have raised this matter with the Government of India and we encourage them to cooperate fully with the investigation.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 17/10/2023 06:44:15 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1658416

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Defence: Buildings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department made of the potential prevalence of RAAC in buildings (a) owned and (b) occupied by (i) military and (ii) other departmental staff.
	tabling member constituency	Warley
	tabling member printed	John Spellar
	uin	197656
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2023 answer text <p>For now, the focus is on bringing together the information we hold about the Government estate into one place. This work is being coordinated by the Office for Government Property.</p><p>Surveys are currently being conducted to identify buildings which may have been constructed with RAAC on Ministry of Defence (MOD) land.</p><p> </p><p>We take safety extremely seriously and, based on our current information, RAAC has not traditionally been used by the MOD in the construction of domestic structure, and it is therefore highly unlikely that any Service Family Accommodation is affected. The majority of Single Living Accommodation was not constructed during the review period.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 03/10/2023 11:19:22 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
	tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar