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805297

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date	14/12/2017
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	World Trade Organization
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what discussions he has had with his international counterparts on the barring of civil society groups from this year's WTO summit; and if he will make statement.
tabling member constituency	Derby North
tabling member printed	Chris Williamson
uin	118969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>We have been working with international partners to express that the UK Government is committed to a transparent and inclusive approach to trade, and civil society must have the opportunity to engage with and contribute to trade policy. The UK cooperated with the EU on the issuing of a letter on 7<sup>th</sup> December 2017 to the Argentine Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jorge Marcelo Faurie and the Chairwoman of the 11<sup>th</sup> WTO Ministerial Conference, Susana Malcorra. This letter expressed concerns over the actions taken to revoke the accreditation of certain civil society representatives.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 19/12/2017 13:43:15 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	3976 label Biography information for Chris Williamson

806413

registered interest
date	14/12/2017
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	Whether his Department is preparing contingency plans for use across Government in the event of there being no deal on the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	902948
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>We continue to focus on getting a good outcome that works for the UK and for those in the EU. As we move to the next phase of talks, we do so with a renewed sense of optimism about the deal that can be achieved.</p><p>While we do not want or expect a ‘no deal’ outcome, as a responsible Government we will continue to prepare for a range of potential outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 14/12/2017 16:46:58 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

806414

registered interest
date	14/12/2017
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	Financial Services: UK Trade with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent discussions he has had with representatives of the UK financial sector on the effect on that sector of the UK leaving the single market.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
tabling member printed	Christine Jardine
uin	902951
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>As I said in my answer to Topical Questions on 14 December, since the creation of our Department, we have engaged closely with the financial services industry. We have received representations from a wide variety of stakeholders, including UK Finance, TheCityUK, the Association of Foreign Banks and the Investment Association, as well as many firms in Edinburgh, which, as the hon. Lady knows well, is a regional and global leader in, among others, the asset management and insurance industries. We will continue to work closely with them and colleagues at the Treasury to ensure that our financial services industry thrives.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 14/12/2017 16:52:37 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4634 label Biography information for Christine Jardine

805101

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Supreme Court's ruling on 26 July 2017, what his Department's policy in on reintroducing employment tribunal fees at a lower level than the Supreme Court deemed unlawful in July 2017.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	118773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government is considering the judgment very carefully and will set out any proposals for future fees in due course.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 19/12/2017 14:28:32 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

805102

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Rare Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to ensure that researchers in the UK can continue to access pan-EU patient cohorts for rare disease and other special populations after the UK has withdrawn from the EU; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	118774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government's policy paper, Collaboration on Science and Innovation: A Future Partnership Paper, emphasises the importance of continued collaboration with European partners to ensure that the United Kingdom remains one of the best places in the world for science and innovation. European Reference Networks for rare diseases were cited in the paper as an example of a partnership that the UK believes should continue.</p><p> </p><p>A key principle for the Government is that patients should not be put at a disadvantage as a result of European Union-exit.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 20/12/2017 11:50:56 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

805104

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Gambling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if her Department will commission annual research on the level of gambling-related harm in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	118776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The Responsible Gambling Strategy Board (RGSB) was set up by the Gambling Commission to advise on priorities for research relating to responsible gambling. GambleAware, an independent charity, leads on commissioning and funding research into gambling-related harm and supporting education and treatment programmes, taking into account the priorities set out by the RGSB.</p><p> </p><p>RGSB’s latest research programme includes as a priority work to measure gambling-related harm more effectively. This has been commissioned by GambleAware and is expected to be published in 2018. It is intended to lead to a set of metrics which can be used to measure and monitor the impact of gambling-related harm on a wider scale. Other research published by GambleAware is available on their website at https://about.gambleaware.org/research/research-publications/ .</p><p> </p><p>The Department of Health, working with Public Health England, is also considering what scope there is for commissioning further research to better understand the impacts of gambling-related harm on health, and we will work with them.</p><p> </p><p>The Gambling Commission tracks the prevalence of problem gambling through its quarterly survey as well as the NHS Health Surveys, which capture information on problem gambling and co-morbidities such as alcohol consumption, smoking and drug use, as well as physical and mental health conditions. The Gambling Commission surveys can be found at:</p><p>http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/news-action-and-statistics/Statistics-and-research/Levels-of-participation-and-problem-gambling/Gambling-participation-and-problem-gambling.aspx</p><p>The 2015 NHS Health Survey can be found at:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/health-survey-for-england-health-survey-for-england-2015</p><p> </p><p>We continue to take problem gambling and gambling-related harm seriously and will consider carefully any research that adds to our understanding of this issue.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 19/12/2017 13:53:48 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

805105

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Manufacturing Industries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many people in Garston and Halewood constituency are employed in the automotive industry?
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	118777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The Garston and Halewood constituency has an important role in automotive manufacturing. Data from the ONS Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES) show that around 6,000 were employed in the automotive manufacturing sector in Garston and Halewood in 2016.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 19/12/2017 15:01:51 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

805106

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that the post-16 educational sector has the capacity to train young people to find employment in a post-automation jobs market.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	118778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>It is essential that we have training providers that are able to deliver the high quality training that employers and learners need. Following a series of locally led Area Reviews, significant recommendations have been made that will deliver a more efficient post-16 system.</p><p> </p><p>Our focus is on further improving the quality of the education provided through a risk-based Ofsted inspection programme, a robust intervention framework where failing colleges are referred to the Further Education (FE) Commissioner, who will also have an extended role by working to support improvement. We have introduced a new Strategic College Improvement Fund, worth £15 million over two years, to enable weaker colleges to access support from their stronger peers and a National Leaders Programme for FE, to help drive improvement across the sector. These initiatives should help us to achieve our ambition of a further education sector comprised of high status institutions, which can confer the same advantages as academic institutions.</p><p> </p><p>Having the best-quality teachers and leaders is also key to delivering high-quality provision across FE. We have invested £40 million in the FE workforce since 2013. This has provided bursaries to support over 1,200 graduates to train to teach maths or English in the FE sector. It has also funded training for thousands of teachers in FE institutions to help them improve their teaching of English and maths.</p><p> </p><p>To complement further education colleges and other training providers, and to support wider reforms to technical education, government is establishing five new post-16 specialist providers. The department is investing £80 million alongside contributions from business to establish National Colleges which will target sectoral skills gaps, where existing providers are not able to equip people with technical skills the sector’s employers need. We are also providing £170 million capital funding to create prestigious Institutes of Technology (IoTs) to deliver the higher-level technical skills employers demand, with a Call for Proposals to establish IoTs being launched on the 15 December. IoTs will be a prestigious and high quality employer-led institutions delivering hig</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 20/12/2017 17:44:26 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

805108

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport: Leigh
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 7 December to Question 116379, for what reasons his Department will not specify whether Leigh was discussed as part of the range of issues discussed between his Department, Transport for Greater Manchester and Transport for the North.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	118780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>As stated previously, the Secretary of State has regular meetings with both Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and Transport for the North (TfN) where a range of issues are discussed.</p><p> </p><p>We do not comment on the issues that are discussed at individual meetings, regardless of the subject.</p><p> </p><p>This is to enable full and frank discussions between the Government and our partners at TfN and TfGM.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 19/12/2017 12:20:46 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

805109

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Tobacco: Smuggling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will introduce legislative proposals to introduce licensing for tobacco manufacturing machinery in accordance with the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Illicit Trade Protocol.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	118781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>Legislation for the licensing of tobacco manufacturing machinery in accordance with the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Illicit Trade Protocol was included in the Finance (No 2) Act 2017. Draft implementing regulations were published for consultation on 7 November 2017 and will be laid before Parliament in the new year.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 20/12/2017 16:57:02 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day