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418424

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Sellafield
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what her policy is on protecting high hazard areas of work at the Sellafield nuclear facility.
	tabling member constituency	Workington
	tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
	uin	10006
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p>Sellafield is the most hazardous site in Europe and contains the legacy ponds and silos – some of the most challenging decommissioning facilities. These have been deemed ‘intolerable’ by the Office of Nuclear Regulation, meaning that there can be no constraint on progress to remediate the hazards.</p><p>As part of its request for future funding as part of the Spending Review announced by HMT on 21 July, DECC’s return contains details of NDA’s estimates of expenditure in line with its existing plans.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 21/09/2015 12:26:53 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 21873 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

418425

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Nuclear Installations: Decommissioning
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will make an assessment of the effect on (a) skills, (b) the supply chain, (c) small and medium-sized enterprises and (d) local economies of potential reductions to funding of nuclear decommissioning.
	tabling member constituency	Workington
	tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
	uin	10007
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>The impact of any proposed Spending Review settlement for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority on the wider economy, including skills, supply chain, SMEs and local economies, will be considered as part of the Spending Review. It will not be possible to conduct detailed analysis of impacts of any funding settlement on these matters, however, until the level of overall funding available is agreed and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and its contractors have had the opportunity to revise plans accordingly.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 16/09/2015 13:10:35 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

418910

	registered interest
	date	15/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Sellafield: Radioactive Materials
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what plans there are to relocate further nuclear material from Dounreay to Sellafield.
	tabling member constituency	Workington
	tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
	uin	10343
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The Government plans to manage the remaining nuclear material from Dounreay was set out in the NDA Credible Options paper published in February 2013. There has been no change to this policy:</p><p><a href="http://www.nda.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Exotic-Fuels-and-Nuclear-Materials-Dounreay-Prefered-Options-February-2013.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.nda.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Exotic-Fuels-and-Nuclear-Materials-Dounreay-Prefered-Options-February-2013.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 12/10/2015 13:51:21 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

418911

	registered interest
	date	15/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Sellafield: Radioactive Materials
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of nuclear material currently stored at Sellafield came from installations in Scotland.
	tabling member constituency	Workington
	tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
	uin	10344
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>Magnox fuel (including material from the Dounreay Fast Breeder Reactor) and Advanced Gas Reactor fuel comes to Sellafield from Scotland for interim storage and, where appropriate, reprocessing. By mass, the current proportion of spent fuel stored at Sellafield coming from installations in Scotland is about 3% for Magnox fuel and 30% for Oxide fuel. In addition, there are small quantities of material that have arisen from historic nuclear research activities undertaken between Dounreay and Sellafield.</p><p>Where fuels have been reprocessed, yielding radioactive bi-products and wastes, it is not practicable to attempt to quantify those materials originating from installations in Scotland as a proportion the total inventory of materials held at Sellafield.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 12/10/2015 13:52:17 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

418909

	registered interest
	date	15/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Sellafield: Radioactive Materials
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate she has made of the quantity of nuclear material in Scotland that will be transported to Sellafield during this Parliament.
	tabling member constituency	Workington
	tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
	uin	10345
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is contained within the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA) “Exotic Fuels and Nuclear Materials Dounreay Preferred Options (Gate B)” paper, which was published in February 2013. This can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://www.nda.gov.uk/publication/exotic-fuels-and-nuclear-materials-dounreay-prefered-options-february-2013/" target="_blank">http://www.nda.gov.uk/publication/exotic-fuels-and-nuclear-materials-dounreay-prefered-options-february-2013/</a>.</p><p>Material from the Dounreay Fast Breeder Reactor is being transferred to Sellafield for management alongside spent Magnox fuel, and those transfers are around 25% complete. The reference strategy for this is reprocessing. Further details can be found in the NDA’s “Exotic Fuels: Dounreay Fast Reactor (DFR) Breeder Credible and Preferred Options” paper, which was published in July 2011. This can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://www.nda.gov.uk/publication/exotic-fuels-dounreay-fast-reactor-dfr-breeder-credible-and-preferred-options-july-2011/" target="_blank">http://www.nda.gov.uk/publication/exotic-fuels-dounreay-fast-reactor-dfr-breeder-credible-and-preferred-options-july-2011/</a> .</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 12/10/2015 13:53:48 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

418852

	registered interest
	date	15/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Trade Union Bill
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, for what reason nuclear decommissioning has been explicitly included within the provisions of clause 3 of the Trade Union Bill.
	tabling member constituency	Workington
	tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
	uin	10346
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>Decommissioning the UK’s nuclear legacy safely and cost-effectively is an important national priority.</p><p>Clause 3 of the Trade Union Bill introduces a threshold of 40 per cent for support to take part in industrial action in nuclear decommissioning and other important public sectors: fire, health, education, border force, and transport. This is because of the disruption a strike in these sectors would cause and the potential impact on public safety, national security and the economy.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 12/10/2015 12:25:47 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

419137

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether refugees offered a home in Britain will be vetted before entry.
	tabling member constituency	Workington
	tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
	uin	10533
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The operation of the UK’s resettlement schemes, including the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Scheme, involves the UNHCR submitting potential cases for our consideration. The cases are then screened and considered by the Home Office for suitability for entry to the UK: we retain the right to reject individuals on security, war crimes or other grounds.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 12/10/2015 13:56:57 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

419091

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Sellafield: Security
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the Sellafield site security costs were in each of the last five years; and what those costs are projected to be in each of the next five years.
	tabling member constituency	Workington
	tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
	uin	10534
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>Security at Sellafield is a high priority for the Government. However, the Government does not comment on security at nuclear sites. Expenditure on security is subject to the same processes and rules as other public expenditure.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 12/10/2015 13:49:42 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

420206

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
	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 implement the coercive and controlling behaviour offence, as defined by the Serious Crime Act 2015; and what training the (a) police, (b) judiciary and (c) other statutory agencies will have on coercive control and the new offence.
	tabling member constituency	Workington
	tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
	uin	10887
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2015 answer text <p>We are aiming to introduce the offence of coercive and controlling behaviour as soon as practicable. We have been clear that before the offence can be introduced it is essential that frontline agencies receive proper training and guidance on how to use the new offence.</p><p>We have been working with the College of Policing and Crown Prosecution Service to develop statutory guidance.</p><p>New guidance on investigating domestic abuse was published by the College of Policing last month including coercive and controlling behaviour and new training for the police incorporating coercive control has been developed and piloted. In addition, every Police force in England and Wales has now published an action plan on domestic abuse and the College of Policing is reviewing risk assessment tools used by officers.</p><p>Upon commencement of the offence, a circular will be issued, including to the Lord Chief Justice, to ensure criminal justice partners are fully aware.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 15/10/2015 16:22:02 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 23282 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528
	tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

420033

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Government plans to ratify the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence.
	tabling member constituency	Workington
	tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
	uin	10888
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>The previous Government signed the Istanbul Convention in June 2012. This Government remains committed to its ratification.</p><p>The UK already complies with the vast majority of the articles through its comprehensive work to protect women and girls. However, primary legislation will be required to comply with the extra-territorial jurisdiction provisions in Article 44 of the Convention before ratification.</p><p>The Government is liaising with the devolved administrations about ratification, including any further legislative steps necessary. The Government takes its international commitments very seriously and will only commit to such ratification when we are absolutely satisfied that we comply with all articles.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 14/10/2015 16:28:21 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock