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1023069

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Suicide
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether a suicide note is classified as a legal document.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	200564
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>The Attorney General’s Office is not responsible for determining the legal status of any document. The legal status of a document would depend on a number of factors including the context it was being presented in.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 17/12/2018 10:55:55 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1050104

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Personal Income: Leicester
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average annual earnings were of the bottom five deciles in Leicester in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017 and (d) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	213221
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 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 Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 31/01/2019 16:21:46 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ 213221.pdf title UKSA Response
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1107798

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2019
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Art Works
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will publish a list of the art, cultural and folk artefacts that overseas Governments have requested be returned to their country of origin and which are currently held in (a) public institutions and (b) private collections in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	238596
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>We do not hold the information requested. Decisions about items in collections are a matter for institutions themselves - and in the case of national museums, statutory duty lies with the board of trustees who operate independently from government at arm’s length. In addition, the government has no locus over private collections.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 08/04/2019 11:02:38 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1056012

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Overseas Students: China and India
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support for funding is available to international students from (a) India and (b) China to study at UK universities.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	217461
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>Overseas students and staff make an important contribution to our universities and it is testament to our system that so many international students choose to come and study here.</p><p> </p><p>The government welcomes international students and we actively promote study in the UK through the GREAT Campaign and to over 100 countries through the British Council. The government also announced on 21 January that the Department for Education and the Department for International Trade will produce an international education strategy in early 2019. The strategy will set out the government’s ambition for international education, in which international students play a key role.</p><p> </p><p>Chevening is the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s flagship international scholarship programme offering fully funded post-graduate study to exceptional future leaders from around the world. This year we have 1790 scholars from across 140 countries, including 75 from China and 57 from India. There are also various scholarships offered by a number of UK institutions.</p><p> </p><p>The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC) in the UK awards scholarships and fellowships to Commonwealth citizens for postgraduate study and professional development. In 2018/19, the CSC is supporting some 798 students to study in the UK, of which 83 are from India.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 14/02/2019 16:24:27 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1056013

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Overseas Students: China and India
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of students studying at overseas campuses of UK universities in (a) India and (b) China in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	217462
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>In the academic year 2017/18 the number of students studying in India and China, for awards or courses of UK universities overseas, without coming to the UK, was 17,135 students and 75,995 respectively.</p><p>Further information can be found at: ​<a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/where-from" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/where-from</a>.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 14/02/2019 16:17:41 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1056657

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Overseas Students: China and India
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many international students in higher education from (a) India and (b) China went on to (i) post-graduate education, (ii) employment and (iii) left the UK at the end of their studies in (A) 2015, (B) 2016, (C) 2017 and (D) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	218178
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>The department has published employment/further study outcomes for international students based on Longitudinal Educational Outcomes data in the publication, ‘Graduate outcomes (LEO): 2015 to 2016’, at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/graduate-outcomes-2015-to-2016" target="_blank"> https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/graduate-outcomes-2015-to-2016</a>.</p><p>The employment outcomes categories are grouped as follows:</p><ul><li><strong>Unmatched/Activity not captured -</strong> we have no tax/benefits/further study records for these graduates in the tax year in question.</li></ul><ul><li><strong>No sustained destination - </strong>we have a tax and/or benefits record but it does not fulfil the definition of ‘sustained employment’.</li></ul><ul><li><strong>Sustained employment only </strong>- graduates are considered to be in sustained employment if they were employed for at least one day for 5 out of the 6 months between October and March of the tax year in question or if they had a self-employment record in that tax year. To be in the sustained employment only category, graduates must not have a record of further study in the tax year in question.</li></ul><ul><li><strong>Sustained employment, further study or both</strong> - includes all graduates with a record of sustained employment and/or further study. A graduate is defined as being in further study if they have a valid higher education study record at any UK Higher Education Institution on the Higher Education Statistics Agency database in the relevant tax year. The further study does not have to be at postgraduate level to be counted.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 14/02/2019 12:52:42 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1027555

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
	answering dept id	203
	answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
	answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
	hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, when the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice over the rights of EU citizens will end.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	203244
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>At the end of the implementation period, the jurisdiction of the CJEU will end. The Withdrawal Agreement ensures that the UK’s membership of the EU, and the CJEU’s jurisdiction in the UK, is wound down in a sensible and orderly way. In keeping with this, and in the interests of ensuring citizens’ rights are interpreted consistently, the UK has agreed that a very narrow group of issues will be able to be referred to the CJEU for an interpretation, having due regard to whether relevant case law already exists.</p><p>For questions that relate to the settled status of EU citizens, UK courts will be able to refer questions of interpretation to the CJEU eight years from exit day, because settled status applications will be made from exit day. They will be able to refer questions that relate to other aspects of the citizens’ rights part of the agreement for eight years from the end of the implementation period, as those other aspects will only apply from the end of the implementation period.</p><p>In practical terms, this is a very limited role: our courts currently only refer two or three of this kind of case to the CJEU every year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 08/01/2019 11:22:52 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1056649

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
	answering dept id	203
	answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
	answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
	hansard heading	British Nationals Abroad: EU Countries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, if his Department will estimate the number of UK citizens residing in EU countries who will return to the UK after 29 March in (a) 2019 and (b) 2020, in the event of the UK leaving the EU (i) with a Withdrawal Agreement and (ii) without a deal.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	218177
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2019 answer text <p>The Withdrawal Agreement includes protections for the rights of citizens including UK nationals currently living in the EU, which will allow them to continue living their lives broadly as they do now in the countries where they currently live.</p><p>The Government has been clear that we do not want or expect a no deal scenario. However, we will continue to do the responsible thing and prepare for all eventualities. This includes the potential impact of a no deal scenario on UK nationals currently resident in the EU.</p><p>The Office for National Statistics calculates there are approximately 780,000 UK nationals who currently live in the EU, excluding Ireland. Some of them could decide to return to the UK depending on a range of factors including action by EU member states and personal circumstances.</p><p>On 19 December, the European Commission reconfirmed their commitment to putting citizens’ rights first and called on Member States to take a generous approach to the rights of UK nationals in the EU. The majority of Member States, including France, Spain and the Netherlands, have set out their no deal plans and provided reassurances that the rights of UK nationals will be protected. The Government hopes that other Member States will set out the detail of their plans to protect the rights of UK nationals, in line with our assurances to EU citizens living in the UK, so there should be no need for them to leave.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 15/02/2019 15:10:28 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1023060

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2018
	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: Peace Negotiations
	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 plans to attend the Yemen peace talks in Stockholm.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	200548
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>The Foreign Secretary attended the Yemen peace talks on 13 December, to lend his support to the efforts of UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths and press for progress on an inclusive political settlement and an end to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. He met the Swedish Foreign Minister, the UN Special Envoy, and had constructive discussions with the heads of the Government of Yemen and Houthi delegations.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 18/12/2018 17:16:16 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1027552

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2018
	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: Ceasefires
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what diplomatic steps he is taking to ensure compliance with the ceasefire agreed for Yemen at the Stockholm peace talks.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	203241
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/12/2018 answer text <p>We welcome the outcome of talks in Stockholm hosted by the UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths and the determination to make progress which all parties demonstrated during those talks. We are in close touch with the UN about their plans for the ceasefire monitoring mechanism, and are ready to assist where necessary. The UK-proposed UN Security Council Resolution 2451, endorsing the outcomes of the Stockholm talks, including the ongoing ceasefire in Hodeidah, and authorising the UN to monitor implementation, was unanimously adopted on 21 December 2018.</p><p>​</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 28/12/2018 14:10:37 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz