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437110

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
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	Parking: Private Property
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will establish a standards setting body with a code of practice and an appeals service for all accredited trade associations for the management of parking on private land.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	19603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2015 answer text <p>We are currently analysing responses to the discussion paper ‘Parking reform: tackling unfair practices’ issued earlier this year. The suggestion to establish a standards setting body with a code of practice and an appeals service for all accredited trade associations for the management of parking on private land was made in some responses, and we are actively considering this point as part of our wider work on parking. We will publish our response to the discussion paper in the New Year.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 19654 question first answered 18/12/2015 14:32:16 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

437120

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
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	Parking: Unfair Practices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he will respond to the submissions to his Department's consultation, Parking reform: tackling unfair practices, of March 2015.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	19654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2015 answer text <p>We are currently analysing responses to the discussion paper ‘Parking reform: tackling unfair practices’ issued earlier this year. The suggestion to establish a standards setting body with a code of practice and an appeals service for all accredited trade associations for the management of parking on private land was made in some responses, and we are actively considering this point as part of our wider work on parking. We will publish our response to the discussion paper in the New Year.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones grouped question UIN 19603 question first answered 18/12/2015 14:32:16 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

437121

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
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	Parking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether his Department's policy remit on off-street parking includes parking for healthcare facilities, railway stations and local authority housing estates.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	19655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2015 answer text <p>Responsibility for off-street parking transferred to DCLG in March of 2015, including Schedule 4 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 and those aspects of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and the Traffic Management Act 2004 which relate to off-street parking.</p><p>The Department of Health have responsibly for setting the policy contect by which hopsital car parks operate and the Department of Transport retain an interest in railway parking. My Department has reponsibility for Local Authority housing estates.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 18/12/2015 14:32:56 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

437136

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Bullying
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will introduce additional support for children experiencing bullying.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	19591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>All schools are required, by law, to have a behaviour policy with measures to prevent and tackle all forms of bullying and they are held closely to account by Ofsted for their effectiveness.</p><p>We have provided advice to schools on how to support children that are bullied. This makes clear that this might include pastoral support, counselling or peer mediation, engaging parents and in some cases offering separate on-site educational provision to provide respite for the bullied individual so they are able to continue to attend school. In extreme cases, where a child has developed complex needs as a result of bullying, which cannot be met in mainstream education, then alternative provision may need to be arranged. Our advice to schools can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/preventing-and-tackling-bullying" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/preventing-and-tackling-bullying</a></p><p>To help schools tackle bullying we are providing £1.3 million of funding over 12 months from April 2015 to various anti-bullying charities including the Diana Award, Kidscape and the National Children’s Bureau. These organisations train teachers and pupils in schools to prevent bullying and deal with its impact when it occurs so that bullied children do not suffer continuing distress. This is in addition to the £4 million provided in 2013/15.</p><p>The Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE) published by my Department in November 2015 compared bullying among two cohorts of 14 year olds (year 10) from 2004 and 2014. This shows that, while there is clearly much more to do, thanks to the efforts of teachers and charities 30,000 fewer people in year 10 said they had been bullied in the last twelve months - a drop from 41 per cent in 2004 to 36 per cent in 2014.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 16/12/2015 18:05:42 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

437235

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Traffic Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to give local authorities the power to enforce moving traffic contraventions under the provisions of the Traffic Management Act 2004.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	19602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2015 answer text <p>There are no plans to do so at present.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 18/12/2015 11:31:49 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

436730

registered interest
date	09/12/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Assessments: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to ensure equitable application of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 across all UK exam boards.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	19291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government currently has no plans to alter the scope of the Freedom of Information Act in relation to exam boards. However the scope of the Act is kept under review.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/12/2015 12:11:05 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

436731

registered interest
date	09/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Truancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many parents have taken their children off the school roll after being threatened with prosecution for their child truanting in (a) academies and (b) local authority schools in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	19292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not hold information on the number of parents that have taken their children off the school roll after being threatened with prosecution for their child truanting.</p><br /><p>The department holds information on penalty notices for unauthorised absence at local authority level. The most recently published information is available in the “Parental responsibility measures: academies year 2012 to 2013”[1] report.</p><br /><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/parental-responsibility-measures-academic-year-2012-to-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/parental-responsibility-measures-academic-year-2012-to-2013</a></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 16/12/2015 17:11:43 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

436746

registered interest
date	09/12/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Zoonoses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the risk to the UK of (a) rabies, (b) the Echinococcus multilocularis tapeworm and (c) other zoonotic diseases.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	19290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>The quantitative rabies risk assessment carried out prior to harmonisation with the EU pet travel rules in 2012 took into account, amongst other things, a number of variables including a doubling in the number of cats and dogs entering the country. Pets entering on a UK pet passport (i.e. returning from an overseas visit) were not included in this analysis as they must be fully protected against rabies before leaving the UK. We are continuing to monitor the factors considered in the risk assessment and are content that the risk remains very low. The risk assessment was published in 2011 and is available here:</p><p><a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.395.143&amp;rep=rep1&amp;type=pdf" target="_blank">http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.395.143&amp;rep=rep1&amp;type=pdf</a></p><p><br></p><p>In 2010 we carried out an assessment of risk from the tapeworm <em>Echinococcus Multilocularis</em> in readiness for harmonisation and which confirmed continuing risk through the movement of pet dogs. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/animal-diseases-international-monitoring" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/animal-diseases-international-monitoring</a> As a result, the UK continues to maintain its controls against <em>Echinococcus multilocularis</em>. Since 1 January 2012 import controls relating to this tapeworm have been implemented under EU Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1152/2011. This Regulation lays down the tapeworm import conditions which pet dogs must comply with when being moved into the UK from other countries. The European Food Safety Authority is currently assessing how the new regulation has been implemented in the free countries (Ireland, Malta, Finland and the UK) and this includes a new assessment of any change in risk. Experts from the UK as well as other Member States have been part of this working group and the opinion will be published in 2016 prior to the review of the legislation required in December 2016. We are continuing to monitor the factors considered in the risk assessment as we do for any notifiable disease and will take the EFSA opinion into account when it is finalised.</p><br /><p>Officials from the Department work closely with colleagues from public health and food safety to assess the risk posed to people by zoonotic diseases. While a number of mechanisms exist for this purpose depending on the specific disease, the main cross – Government group that identifies and assesses emerging infection risks to human health (non-food borne disease) is the HAIRS (Human Animal Infections and Risk Surveillance) group which meets on a monthly basis and includes veterinary experts from the APHA:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/human-animal-infections-and-risk-surveillance-group-hairs.%0d" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/human-animal-infections-and-risk-surveillance-group-hairs.</a></p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 15/12/2015 13:41:44 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

436748

registered interest
date	09/12/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Pet Travel Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to require enforcers of the Pet Travel Scheme to carry out visual checks on dogs entering the UK.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	19293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The UK carries out more checks on pets at the border than most other EU Member States. It is a condition of their approval that the transport companies check 100% of pets declared by their owners for compliance with the EU Pet Travel Scheme. The only way that we are practically able to have a system of checking every declared pet dog entering Great Britain, on an approved route, is by working in partnership with the transport companies.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 15/12/2015 09:50:59 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

436751

registered interest
date	09/12/2015
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Dogs: Smuggling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the efficacy of existing legislation to stop the illegal importation of puppies into the UK.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	19386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>Pet animals, including puppies entering the UK, must comply with the requirements of the Pet Travel Regulation (Regulation (EU) No 576/2013). This is enforced, in Great Britain, by the Non-Commercial Movement of Pet Animals Order 2011. Animals, including puppies, entering the UK for sale or rehoming are subject to the provisions of the Council Directive 92/65/EEC (Balai Directive). This is implemented, in Great Britain, by the Trade in Animal and Related Products Regulations 2011.</p><br /><p>Both regulations provide for the Secretary of State to carry out a periodic review. Work on the review of the Trade in Animal and Related Products Regulations 2011 is already underway. The review of the Non Commercial Movement of Pet Animals Order 2011 will commence early next year.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 15/12/2015 09:36:40 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner