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885141

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Business: Government Assistance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to support businesses and strengthen the market economy.
	tabling member constituency	Witney
	tabling member printed	Robert Courts
	uin	904792
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2018 answer text <p>This government aims to create an environment to help businesses to succeed. We are keeping taxes low, and ensuring firms can access the skills and support they need.</p><p> </p><p>We have cut corporation tax to 19%, the lowest rate in the G20, and are developing a National Retraining Scheme so we are ready to seize opportunities in the new economy.</p><p> </p><p>It is through measures like these, and the power of a vibrant and competitive market economy, that we will further drive growth and prosperity, encourage innovation and help raise living standards across the UK</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 17/04/2018 15:01:39 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts

858523

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Pensions: Tax Allowances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was paid out in Lifetime Allowance charges in each year between 2010-2011 to 2017-2018; and what estimate he has made of the amount to be paid in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-2020 and (c) 2010-21.
	tabling member constituency	Witney
	tabling member printed	Robert Courts
	uin	131778
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>Individuals whose pension savings exceed the Lifetime Allowance (LTA) are generally liable for tax when payments are made from their pension scheme.</p><p>Tax paid on LTA charges for 2010/11 to 2017/18 (year to date)</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Tax Year</p></td><td><p>Total tax paid (rounded to the nearest £10m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>£10 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£20 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£20 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£40 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£40 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>£80 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>£110 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>£120 million[1]</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Numbers provided for tax collected may be subject to significant change over time as in some cases pension providers can claim back tax paid. For example, this can occur where an individual has protections above the current Lifetime Allowance, or where not all of the payment would have been subject to the Lifetime Allowance.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC does not have estimates for future payments of LTA charges for 2018-19, 2019-20 or 2020-21. Any tax received from LTA charges forms a part of the overall Income Tax forecast.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Please note the 2017/18 tax year runs until April 2018, and so further tax charges could come through for this year which are not reflected in the above tables. The number provided represents a <em>year-to-date </em>figure.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 19/03/2018 14:11:18 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts

830410

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2018
	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	Antidepressants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many incidents the NHS has recorded of Citalopram leading to the deterioration of a patient's health in 2016-17.
	tabling member constituency	Witney
	tabling member printed	Robert Courts
	uin	124976
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>Reports of suspected adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are collected by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and Commission for Human Medicines (CHM) through the spontaneous reporting scheme, the Yellow Card Scheme. The MHRA continuously monitors the safety of all medicines on the market in the United Kingdom and seeks independent expert advice from the CHM on important new safety issues.</p><p> </p><p>The Yellow Card Scheme collects information relating to suspected adverse drug reactions, which include both serious and non-serious effects which a doctor or patient suspects may have been due to a medicine. The MHRA has received a total of 593 suspected spontaneous ADR reports in association with citalopram between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2017. This number includes reports received directly from healthcare professionals, patients and indirectly through pharmaceutical companies which have a legal obligation to report suspected ADRs. The number of reports received directly from the National Health Service cannot be determined.</p><p> </p><p>The MHRA does not hold information on deterioration of health. Each ADR report contains information on an ADR at a specific point in time, rather than a deterioration of health over a period of time, and should therefore not be interpreted as a report of a deterioration of a patient's health.</p><p> </p><p>The inclusion of a particular ADR in a report does not necessarily mean it has been caused by the drug, only that the reporter had a suspicion it may have, or it had a close temporal relationship to the administration of the suspect drug. The fact that symptoms occur after a treatment does not necessarily mean that they have been caused by the drug itself, as underlying illnesses and other conditions may be responsible.</p><p> </p><p>Citalopram is an antidepressant belonging to the class of medicines known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Citalopram is an effective medicine for the treatment of depression. Information about possible side-effects associated with treatment are provided in the product information which is available to all prescribers and patients. Data is evaluated as it emerges and where necessary regulatory action is taken and communicated to healthcare professionals and the information for patients is updated.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 124977 question first answered 01/02/2018 16:12:40 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts

830411

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2018
	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	Antidepressants: Side Effects
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment has been made of the side-effects of Citalopram on patients.
	tabling member constituency	Witney
	tabling member printed	Robert Courts
	uin	124977
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>Reports of suspected adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are collected by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and Commission for Human Medicines (CHM) through the spontaneous reporting scheme, the Yellow Card Scheme. The MHRA continuously monitors the safety of all medicines on the market in the United Kingdom and seeks independent expert advice from the CHM on important new safety issues.</p><p> </p><p>The Yellow Card Scheme collects information relating to suspected adverse drug reactions, which include both serious and non-serious effects which a doctor or patient suspects may have been due to a medicine. The MHRA has received a total of 593 suspected spontaneous ADR reports in association with citalopram between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2017. This number includes reports received directly from healthcare professionals, patients and indirectly through pharmaceutical companies which have a legal obligation to report suspected ADRs. The number of reports received directly from the National Health Service cannot be determined.</p><p> </p><p>The MHRA does not hold information on deterioration of health. Each ADR report contains information on an ADR at a specific point in time, rather than a deterioration of health over a period of time, and should therefore not be interpreted as a report of a deterioration of a patient's health.</p><p> </p><p>The inclusion of a particular ADR in a report does not necessarily mean it has been caused by the drug, only that the reporter had a suspicion it may have, or it had a close temporal relationship to the administration of the suspect drug. The fact that symptoms occur after a treatment does not necessarily mean that they have been caused by the drug itself, as underlying illnesses and other conditions may be responsible.</p><p> </p><p>Citalopram is an antidepressant belonging to the class of medicines known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Citalopram is an effective medicine for the treatment of depression. Information about possible side-effects associated with treatment are provided in the product information which is available to all prescribers and patients. Data is evaluated as it emerges and where necessary regulatory action is taken and communicated to healthcare professionals and the information for patients is updated.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 124976 question first answered 01/02/2018 16:12:40 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts

822976

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2018
	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	Turkey: Religious Freedom
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the level of religious freedom in Turkey; and what steps the Government is taking to promote and protect the right to freedom of religion or belief in that country.
	tabling member constituency	Witney
	tabling member printed	Robert Courts
	uin	122659
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The UK has some concerns over freedom of religious belief in Turkey and the issue continues to be a priority area for our bilateral projects in Turkey. We have raised our concerns with Turkish interlocutors up to and including at Prime Ministerial level. We will continue to encourage Turkey to work towards the full protection of fundamental rights, especially in the areas of minority rights, freedom of religion and freedom of expression.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 23/01/2018 17:20:49 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts

818016

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Direct Selling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps she is taking to tackle doorstep crime.
	tabling member constituency	Witney
	tabling member printed	Robert Courts
	uin	903120
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government set up the Joint Fraud Taskforce through which police, banks and trading standards work together to help protect vulnerable people from the fraudulent approaches made by doorstep criminals. The Banking Protocol, which helps bank staff recognise signs of fraud, such as unusually high cash withdrawals, has stopped over £9 million pounds from getting into criminal hands and led to over 100 arrests.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 08/01/2018 16:50:10 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts

806189

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2017
	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	Marine Environment: Conservation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on the UK's role in global ocean conservation.
	tabling member constituency	Witney
	tabling member printed	Robert Courts
	uin	119390
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The oceans are vital to support life on earth, and are critical to the United Kingdom. The UK and its Overseas Territories are custodians to the fifth-largest marine estate in the world. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) therefore has an important role in promoting security at sea and improving the conservation and sustainable use of our oceans, and we are looking at how the UK can take this yet further. We already take a leading role on maritime protection and are on track to deliver marine protected areas across nearly 4 million square kilometres of the planet's oceans and seas through our Blue Belt programme by 2020.</p><p>The FCO works closely with the Department for Environment Food &amp; Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and others including agencies such as the UK Hydrographic Office, the Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency to promote global marine conservation. The FCO and DEFRA in particular have also been closely involved in the negotiations of the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) to develop an international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction.</p><p>I am committed to combatting the menace of marine plastic pollution. This Government introduced a charge on plastic carrier bags, cutting their use in the UK by 80 per cent, and avoiding the disposal of 9 billion carrier bags, many of which might otherwise have ended up in the oceans. And from 1 January 2018, we will ban the production of plastic microbeads, the strongest legal measure of its kind anywhere in the world.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 21/12/2017 17:27:32 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts

765783

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2017
	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	Housing: Construction
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much of the Home Building Fund has been allocated; and what proportion of that amount has been allocated to small and medium-sized house builders.
	tabling member constituency	Witney
	tabling member printed	Robert Courts
	uin	106267
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The £3 billion Home Building Fund provides long and short term loan finance to build the homes this country needs.</p><p>Of the £3 billion Home Building Fund, £1.38 billion (46 per cent) has been allocated to successful applicants. Of the £1 billion funding specifically allocated to support small and medium sized builders, custom builders and innovators, £540 million has been allocated. The amount of that fund specifically allocated to small and medium sized builders is £292 million.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 16/10/2017 16:35:06 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts

686982

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Communication
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has put in place to ensure the continuation of secure personal correspondence between armed forces personnel deployed in remote locations and their families after the e-bluey system ends on 31 March 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Witney
	tabling member printed	Robert Courts
	uin	63576
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2017 answer text <p>Personnel deployed on operations enjoy access to a variety of methods for contacting their friends and family, including via internet access or mail services. Therefore the cessation of the e-bluey service will not impact on the provision of secure personal correspondence for deployed personnel.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 21/02/2017 14:30:51 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts

682974

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	EU Defence Policy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for ensuring close co-operation with EU countries on defence policy after the UK has left the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Witney
	tabling member printed	Robert Courts
	uin	62767
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2017 answer text <p>The nature of our future relationship with the EU on foreign, security, and Defence issues remains under consideration. We are, however, clear that we will continue to have a leading role in European and wider global security, and wish to continue to cooperate with European partners to tackle shared challenges.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 07/02/2017 17:05:51 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts