@prefix rdf: . @prefix xsd: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix skos: . @prefix rdfs: . @prefix api: . @prefix parl: . rdfs:label "Biography information for Caroline Nokes" . parl:answerText "

Like all pesticides, Roundup (a range of weedkillers containing glyphosate) is subject to strict regulation to ensure that its use will not harm people or have unacceptable effects on the environment.

The European Commission decided in December 2017 to approve glyphosate for continuing use until December 2022. The decision followed a scientific risk assessment by the European Food Safety Authority, which included a very close scrutiny of the evidence on whether glyphosate causes cancer. UK experts participated in that assessment and supported its conclusions.

All pesticide products, including Roundup, are tightly regulated by the Health and Safety Executive. They are only authorised for use if scientific data demonstrates that they will not harm people or have unacceptable effects on the environment.

We will continue to keep an active watch on the scientific evidence on glyphosate.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Scarborough and Whitby" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Mr Robert Goodwill" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2019-05-20"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2019-05-20T16:17:51.33Z"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill" . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "10" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Digital, Culture, Media and Sport" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Digital, Culture, Media and Sport" ; parl:hansardHeading "Council of Europe" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what funding the Government provides to representatives from the British Youth Council who sit on the Youth Department of the Council of Europe." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Carshalton and Wallington" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Tom Brake" ; parl:uin "255254" ; dcterms:date "2019-05-16"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

The Government took all the legal steps necessary to prepare for the European Parliamentary
elections and put in place all the legislative and funding elements to enable Returning Officers to
make their preparations required for the polls on 23 May. The Government worked with Returning
Officers and the Electoral Commission and other agencies such as the Society of Local Authority
Chief Executives (SOLACE) and the Association of Electoral Administrators (AEA) to support the
smooth running of the polls.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Torbay" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Kevin Foster" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2019-06-07"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2019-06-07T11:31:07.837Z"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Robert Jenrick" . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "13" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs" ; parl:hansardHeading "Inland Waterways: Pollution" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of recent efforts by canoeists to clear rubbish and plastic from inland waters; and what steps the Government is taking to ensure that such activity is encouraged and supported on all inland waterways in England." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Carshalton and Wallington" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Tom Brake" ; parl:uin "259826" ; dcterms:date "2019-06-04"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

We have estimated with the Government’s Actuary’s Department, by using historical actuarial data, that the total cost of retaining benefits for all police survivors would increase the police scheme liabilities by around £144m. It is also estimated that retaining benefits for all police survivors, including reinstatement of pensions already surrendered, would increase the police scheme liabilities to around £198m.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Mr Nick Hurd" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2019-05-22"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2019-05-22T13:06:36.587Z"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd" . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "16" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Foreign and Commonwealth Office" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Foreign and Commonwealth Office" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Foreign and Commonwealth Office" ; parl:hansardHeading "Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Sick Leave" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many and what proportion of officials in his Department took sick leave for reasons relating to stress in the last 12 months; what proportion that leave was of total sick leave taken in his Department; and what the cost was to his Department of officials taking sick leave over that period." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Carshalton and Wallington" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Tom Brake" ; parl:uin "254713" ; dcterms:date "2019-05-15"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

Financial contributions from the European Commission to the UK, as part of Horizon 2020 and broken down by organisation type and calendar year, can be found online at:

https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/dashboard/sense/app/93297a69-09fd-4ef5-889f-b83c4e21d33e/sheet/a879124b-bfc3-493f-93a9-34f0e7fba124/state/analysis.

The EIB publishes details of all projects on their website, which can be filtered by country. The EIB do not provide data on the split between the public and private sector. Details can be accessed via the link below :

http://www.eib.org/projects/loan/list/?region=1&country=GB.

The Government contributes to the EU budget as a whole and not to individual EU programmes, such as Horizon 2020. Therefore, it is not possible to separate UK funding which has been allocated to Horizon 2020. The European Commission does publish details of total annual expenditure on each EU programme which can be found online at: http://ec.europa.eu/budget/figures/interactive/index_en.cfm.

Further information on the UK’s gross and net contributions to the EU Budget can be found in the European Union Finances 2018 statement, available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/european-union-finances-2018.

The UK does not make an annual contribution to the EIB. Throughout the UK’s membership of the EIB, the UK has made payments totaling c.£1.8bn to the capital of the EIB.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Newark" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Robert Jenrick" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2019-06-10"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:groupedQuestionUIN "259823" , "259824" ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2019-06-10T13:35:44.42Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "16" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Foreign and Commonwealth Office" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Foreign and Commonwealth Office" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Foreign and Commonwealth Office" ; parl:hansardHeading "Council of Europe" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, for what reason the Government supported proposals to close the youth department of the Council of Europe." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Carshalton and Wallington" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Tom Brake" ; parl:uin "255253" ; dcterms:date "2019-05-16"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Mark Field" . parl:answerText "

A zero rate of Value Added Tax (VAT) has applied to supplies of books, newspapers and magazines in the UK since the adoption of VAT in 1973.

This served as a continuation of the exemption of those supplies from purchase tax, applied from its inception in 1940.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Hereford and South Herefordshire" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Jesse Norman" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2019-05-24"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2019-05-24T13:01:23.847Z"^^xsd:dateTime . skos:prefLabel "House of Commons" . rdfs:label "Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan" . rdfs:label "Biography information for Mims Davies" . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "1" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Home Office" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Home Office" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Home Office" ; parl:hansardHeading "Police: Pensions" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has estimated the cost to the public purse of paying survivor pensions to all police widows and widowers regardless of remarriage or cohabitation; and if he will make a statement." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Carshalton and Wallington" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Tom Brake" ; parl:uin "255252" ; dcterms:date "2019-05-16"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

The Government has not made any specific assessments of the effectiveness of recent efforts by canoeists to clear rubbish and plastic from inland waters.

We support and endorse action by volunteers and local communities to take action to address the specific litter issues in their areas, and were pleased to support Keep Britain Tidy’s recent Great British Spring Clean. The Prime Minister has also recently recognised the work of Dhruv Boruah of the Thames Project through a Points of Light Award.

The Government’s Litter Strategy recognises that much‑loved features of the local environment such as rivers, canals and beaches can be used as ‘flagship’ locations for clean-up action by communities. Organisations such as the Marine Conservation Society, Thames21 and Surfers Against Sewage are represented on the Community Engagement Working Group which was established under the Litter Strategy to explore the barriers to engaging and involving citizens in tackling litter and improving local places, and to recommend steps to address them.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Suffolk Coastal" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Dr Thérèse Coffey" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2019-06-10"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2019-06-10T11:41:51.997Z"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Kevin Foster" . rdfs:label "Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey" . parl:answerText "

Based on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) human resources management system, 41 FCO UK-based staff took sick leave related to stress in 2018. This does not include staff who were absent but no sick leave reason is recorded against them. This accounts for 0.85 per cent of FCO UK-based staff using our headcount figure as of 31 December 2018 (4,839). Sick leave for reasons related to stress in 2018 accounted for 10.5 per cent of total recorded sick days, and equated to 0.3 Average Working Days Lost per person. The cost to the paybill of all sick leave taken by FCO UK-based staff in 2018 was £3,386,787. Of this, the cost of sick leave taken for stress-related reasons was £355,898.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Rutland and Melton" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Sir Alan Duncan" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2019-05-23"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2019-05-23T15:51:37.16Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "14" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Treasury" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Treasury" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Treasury" ; parl:hansardHeading "Press and Publications: VAT Zero Rating" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons VAT on (a) books, (b) newspapers and (c) magazines is zero-rated." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Carshalton and Wallington" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Tom Brake" ; parl:uin "255251" ; dcterms:date "2019-05-16"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "53" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Cabinet Office" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Cabinet Office" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Cabinet Office" ; parl:hansardHeading "European Parliament: Elections" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of whether the Government's management of the 2019 European elections breached EU law." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Carshalton and Wallington" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Tom Brake" ; parl:uin "258879" ; dcterms:date "2019-06-03"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "13" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs" ; parl:hansardHeading "Weedkillers: Cancer" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of whether the weedkiller RoundUp is a potential cause of cancer." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Carshalton and Wallington" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Tom Brake" ; parl:uin "254714" ; dcterms:date "2019-05-16"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Jesse Norman" . parl:answerText "

The Home Office has no specific policy precluding the release of information relating to an individual’s location within the immigration detention estate. Data protection legislation however may prevent the release of such personal information should there be no legal basis to share it.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Romsey and Southampton North" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Caroline Nokes" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2019-05-20"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2019-05-20T16:11:22.353Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "14" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Treasury" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Treasury" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Treasury" ; parl:hansardHeading "Horizon 2020" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the value was of grants made to (a) Government and (b) UK businesses and organisations from Horizon 2020 in (i) 2015, (ii) 2016, (iii) 2017 and (iv) 2018." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Carshalton and Wallington" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Tom Brake" ; parl:uin "259822" ; dcterms:date "2019-06-04"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

As a ‘major contributor’ to the Council of Europe, the UK pays over €32 million annually, which includes a contribution to the European Youth Foundation.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Eastleigh" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Mims Davies" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2019-05-24"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2019-05-24T15:04:10.513Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "1" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Home Office" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Home Office" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Home Office" ; parl:hansardHeading "Migrants: Detainees" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is his Department’s policy not to release the location of the immigration removal centre where a person has been detained to the direct family of the detainee." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Carshalton and Wallington" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Tom Brake" ; parl:uin "254712" ; dcterms:date "2019-05-15"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Tom Brake" . parl:answerText "

​No decision has been taken to close the youth department of the Council of Europe. The suggestion to decouple the youth budget from the main budget is just one option proposed to manage the budget deficit in the organisation flowing from Russian non-payment and also as part of a wider drive for reforms and efficiency savings. It has yet to be discussed. The UK's priority is to protect the core functions of the organisation, including the court and the convention system.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Cities of London and Westminster" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Mark Field" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2019-05-24"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2019-05-24T13:28:54.157Z"^^xsd:dateTime . a api:Page ; "10"^^xsd:long ; "1"^^xsd:long ; "1695"^^xsd:long ; dcterms:isPartOf ; api:definition ; api:extendedMetadataVersion ; api:items ( ) ; api:page "0"^^xsd:long ; ; . a api:ListEndpoint ; dcterms:hasPart ; api:definition .