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857665

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
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	River Lea: Pollution Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Environment Agency in preventing oil spills in the River Lea; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	904264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the replies previously given on 6 March 2018, PQs 129872, 129873, 129874 and 129875. Whilst it is not possible to prevent all oil spills into the river, in this incident, the Environment Agency have traced the waste oil to a potential polluter, details of which cannot currently be released due to the ongoing investigation. In previous incidents where oil pollution was not traced to a particular source, the Environment Agency carried out pollution prevention visits at industrial premises which drain to the Pymmes Brook.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 14/03/2018 16:07:32 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

855934

registered interest
date	06/03/2018
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Local Government Finance: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	If he will discuss with the Scottish Government steps to prevent accounting errors which are detrimental to local government budgets; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ochil and South Perthshire
tabling member printed	Luke Graham
uin	131100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>Local Government is a devolved matter in Scotland and all issues relating to local government budgets and accounting are the responsibility of the Scottish Government.</p><p> </p><p>The Scottish Government and Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government both attend the CIPFA/LASAAC Accounting Code Board, where accounting rules and best practice for local authorities across the UK are discussed.</p><p> </p><p>Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government officials also have ad hoc contact with Scottish Government officials to share best practice and discuss matters of mutual interest for Local Government Finance in England and Scotland.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 14/03/2018 13:00:28 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4622 label Biography information for Luke Graham

855938

registered interest
date	06/03/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Drugs: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the article in the British Medical Journal, Estimated costs of production and potential prices for the WHO Essential Medicines List, published on 29 January 2018, if he will make an assessment of potential changes to the costs of medicines in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	131104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made. The costs of branded medicines are controlled by the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme and the statutory scheme for branded medicines. For unbranded generic medicines, the Department encourages competition between suppliers to keep prices down. In primary care, community pharmacies are incentivised to source products at the lowest possible cost and in secondary care competitive tenders ensure value-for-money to the National Health Service. Recent research published in the Milbank Quarterly demonstrated that the United Kingdom pays considerably less for unbranded generic medicines than other countries with a comparable income level.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 14/03/2018 11:36:13 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

855939

registered interest
date	06/03/2018
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	Public Libraries: Theft
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 he will estimate the number of books that are stolen each year from local authority-run libraries and illegally sold.
tabling member constituency	Hyndburn
tabling member printed	Graham P Jones
uin	131105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not collect information about the number of books from local authority run libraries that are stolen and sold each year. Local library authorities are responsible for providing public library services including managing book stock available for library lending.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 14/03/2018 15:50:38 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	3999 label Biography information for Graham P Jones

855940

registered interest
date	06/03/2018
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	Press: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what representations he has received on the revised Editors Code published by the Independent Press Standards Organisation.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	131106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government regularly meets and engages with its stakeholders to discuss a range of issues.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 14/03/2018 13:06:43 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

855942

registered interest
date	06/03/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support GP placements for medical students.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	131108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>There are more people training to be general practitioners than ever before with a record 3,157 graduates entering general practice training in 2017-18.</p><p> </p><p>In October 2016 my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced a historic expansion of undergraduate medical education in England, by funding up to 1,500 additional medical school places in each year from 2019. The criteria for the award of these additional training places includes as a focus the need to include priority specialties such as general practice.</p><p> </p><p>Medical schools are responsible for setting education curricula at undergraduate level. Clinical placements are arranged locally to align with the requirements of medical schools and of local healthcare providers.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 14/03/2018 11:43:05 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

855953

registered interest
date	06/03/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Hospitals: Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's guidance to hospitals on parking principles, what the definition is of an economical journey to an NHS hospital in England.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	131119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>The published car parking principles confirm that National Health Service organisations should work with their patients and staff, local authorities and public transport providers to make sure that users can get to the site (and park if necessary) as safely, conveniently and economically as possible. 'HTM 07-03 NHS car-parking management: environment and sustainability' provides guidance to help NHS organisations comply with the car parking principles and identify best practice in car park management and sustainable transport.</p><p> </p><p>An economical journey does not have a specific definition in the guidance, but should take into account reasonable charges to users and the costs of providing the car parking incurred by the trust.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 14/03/2018 11:58:03 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

855954

registered interest
date	06/03/2018
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	Toys R Us: Insolvency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to support employees of ToysRUs as a result of its entering administration.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	131120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2018 answer text <p>I refer my right hon. Friend to the answer I gave him on 6th March 2018 to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-03-01/130654/" target="_blank">130654</a>.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 13/03/2018 16:25:15 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

855963

registered interest
date	06/03/2018
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	Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Government's Digital Charter, published on 25 January 2018, if he will outline his Department's definition of harmful content; and how that definition differs from the Government's definition of (a) hate speech and (b) hate crime.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	131129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>The Internet Safety Strategy, which forms part of the Digital Charter, will address a wide range of harms, relating both to behaviours and content, which can be experienced online by users. In her speech on 6 February 2018, the Prime Minister confirmed that we would be bringing forward the Government response to the consultation to the measures proposed in the green paper in the spring.</p><p> </p><p>Hate crime is defined in law as any criminal offence which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice based on a person's actual or perceived committed by reason of the victim's race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity. In legislation there are some specific hate crime offences, and provision for enhanced sentences. While some hate speech is illegal under various pieces of legislation, hate speech does not necessarily constitute hate crime, e.g. if it targets other groups. These offences can take place online and offline.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 14/03/2018 13:01:20 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

855968

registered interest
date	06/03/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Aviation: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to lower the level of taxation for pilot training; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ochil and South Perthshire
tabling member printed	Luke Graham
uin	131134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government is aware that airlines often require their pilots to make a contribution to their own training costs.</p><p> </p><p>At Autumn Budget 2017, the government announced it would consult on extending the scope of tax relief available for self-funded work-related training by employees and the self-employed. This consultation was published on 13 March 2018.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the government is supporting the development of training schemes through the apprenticeship levy. The levy, which was launched on 6 April 2017, will fund a step change in apprenticeship numbers and quality. The levy helps to reverse the trend of underinvestment in training by employers and put control of funding for apprenticeships in employers’ hands. Employers have already developed new apprenticeship standards in aviation, which include Airside Ground Specialist and Aviation Operations Manager. The Commercial Airline Pilot standard is currently in development.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 14/03/2018 14:51:21 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4622 label Biography information for Luke Graham