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date	05/02/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Agreements: Israel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to the agreement in principle with the Government of Israel to roll over the EU-Israel Free Trade Agreement, what specific territory that agreement applies to.
tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
uin	216949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK and Israel have a strong and important trading relationship. However, we do not recognise the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs), including the settlements, as part of Israel. The OPTs are not covered by the current EU-Israel Association Agreement, nor by the Continuity Agreement agreed in principle between the UK and Israel.</p><p> </p><p>We are also working to finalise the transition of the current EU Interim Association Agreement with the Palestinian Authority.</p><p> </p><p>We have committed to informing Parliament as soon as agreements are signed with partner countries. The agreement will be laid in Parliament and we will be publishing a full report on trade agreements, once they are signed.</p> answering member constituency Meon Valley answering member printed George Hollingbery question first answered 08/02/2019 17:08:56 answering member 4016 label Biography information for Sir George Hollingbery
tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael

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date	03/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Heart Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent steps his Department has taken to reduce waiting times for treatment for chronic heart disease.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	216949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>Patients in England have a right to start consultant-led treatment within a maximum of 18 weeks from referral for non-urgent conditions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Whilst these waiting times are low and stable, some patients have not been starting their treatment as quickly as we would like. As a result, £250 million of additional funding has been provided to fund additional elective care treatments in 2014-15. This has not been directed towards any specific disease group but has been used by the National Health Service to prioritise and treat those patients waiting the longest.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 10/12/2014 16:59:29 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson