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869260

registered interest
date	22/03/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Wildlife: Smuggling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to tackle the illegal wildlife trade.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	904591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>The UK is taking a leading role in ending the illegal wildlife trade globally. The Government is funding practical action to reduce demand, strengthen enforcement and develop sustainable livelihoods in the communities affected by the illegal wildlife trade. We will host an ambitious high-level international conference in October to push for further progress.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 27/03/2018 15:43:59 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

869270

registered interest
date	22/03/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Wildlife: Smuggling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to tackle the illegal wildlife trade.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Giles Watling
uin	904598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>The UK is taking a leading role in ending the illegal wildlife trade globally. The Government is funding practical action to reduce demand, strengthen enforcement and develop sustainable livelihoods in the communities affected by the illegal wildlife trade. We will host an ambitious high-level international conference in October to push for further progress.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 27/03/2018 15:44:29 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

869317

registered interest
date	22/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Refuges: Domestic Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding from the public purse has been allocated by Government Departments to domestic violence refuges in each of the last seven years.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	133831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>Since 2014 the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government have invested £33.5 million in services to support victims of domestic abuse, including refuges, through three funding streams available to local authorities:</p><ul><li><p>The £10 million fund to local authorities (2014-2016) helped 148 local authorities strengthen refuge provision for victims and offer support to women from outside their own area.</p></li><li><p>The £3.5 million Domestic Abuse Fund (2015-2016) supported 46 local authorities and their partners to deliver 710 new bed spaces for 3,798 victims of domestic abuse.</p></li><li><p>The £20 million fund for domestic abuse services (2016-2018) funded 80 projects covering 258 local authorities in England creating more than 2,200 bed spaces and giving support to over 19,000 victims. We offered these 80 projects an additional £1.1 million in top up funding, and 77 projects received the additional funding on 22 March.</p></li></ul><p>The remaining £20 million of the £40 million the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government secured at the 2015 Spending Review for domestic abuse services, including refuges, will be made available as early as possible from April. This will include launching a new fund, which will be open to all local areas across England to bid for a share.</p><p>In addition to this, on Monday 26 March Government announced the successful applicants to the latest round of Tampon Tax Funding. Of £15 million total, just over £ 3.6 million has been allocated to projects addressing domestic abuse.</p><p>In the previous round of funding, announced on 31 March 2017, around £7.5 million was allocated to projects addressing violence against women and girls.</p><p>Government has provided £100 million in dedicated funding to tackle violence against women and girls. This includes providing a secure future to rape support centres, national helplines, and the £ 17 million VAWG Service Transformation Fund</p><p>On 8 March the Government announced how £12 million of this funding will be used including:</p><ul><li><p>£2 million to support domestic abuse work with female offenders and vulnerable women with complex needs;</p></li><li><p>£8 million fund to support children who witness domestic abuse; and</p></li><li><p>£2 million to extend a healthcare pathfinder pilot across further hospital trusts to help direct domestic abuse victims to the full range of services they need.</p></li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 27/03/2018 16:01:57 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Baroness Harman

869319

registered interest
date	22/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Government Finance: Redbridge
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding is Department allocated to London Borough of Redbridge in each year since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	133833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>Spending Power is a measure of resources available to a local authority to fund its services. It includes Settlement Funding Assessment (business rates baseline funding level plus Revenue Support Grant), Council Tax and other central government grants.</p><p>Prior to 2013-14, Formula Grant was non-ring fenced money for local government services. It was funded by central government grant and redistributed business rates. Post 2013-14, Settlement Funding Assessment became the way central government provided local authorities with non-ring fenced funding for local government services.</p><p>Details of Redbridge Spending Power and the contribution from formula grant or the Settlement Funding Assessment can be found on line at:</p><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090506010530tf_/http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/0809/grant.htm" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090506010530tf_/http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/0809/grant.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090506010526/http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/0910/grant.htm" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090506010526/http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/0910/grant.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140505110048/http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/1011/grant.htm" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140505110048/http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/1011/grant.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140505110052/http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/1112/grant.htm" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140505110052/http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/1112/grant.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140505110056/http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/1213/grant.htm" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140505110056/http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/1213/grant.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140505104701/http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/1314/settle.htm" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140505104701/http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/1314/settle.htm</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/final-local-government-finance-settlement-england-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/final-local-government-finance-settlement-england-2014-to-2015</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/change-in-spending-power-final-local-government-finance-settlement-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/change-in-spending-power-final-local-government-finance-settlement-2015-to-2016</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/final-local-government-finance-settlement-england-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/final-local-government-finance-settlement-england-2016-to-2017</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/final-local-government-finance-settlement-england-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/final-local-government-finance-settlement-england-2017-to-2018</a></p><p>Since 2010 there have been changes to the finance and function of local government, therefore spending power, Formula Grant and Settlement Funding Assessment are not directly comparable over this period.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 27/03/2018 16:25:52 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

869320

registered interest
date	22/03/2018
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	Clinical Commissioning Groups: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding was allocated from the public purse to each clinical commissioning group area in London per head of population in each year since 2015; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	133834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>NHS England’s published per capita allocation figures for each London clinical commissioning group (CCG) in the period 2015-16 to 2017-18 are set out in the table below. It should be noted that the published figures do not include any in-year adjustments.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>London CCGs</p></td><td><p>Per capita allocation 2015/16 (£)</p></td><td><p>Per capita allocation 2016/17 (£)</p></td><td><p>Per capita allocation 2017/18 (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Barking and Dagenham CCG</p></td><td><p>1,182</p></td><td><p>1,202</p></td><td><p>1,215</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Barnet CCG</p></td><td><p>1,072</p></td><td><p>1,123</p></td><td><p>1,135</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Bexley CCG</p></td><td><p>1,164</p></td><td><p>1,239</p></td><td><p>1,260</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Brent CCG</p></td><td><p>1,073</p></td><td><p>1,089</p></td><td><p>1,102</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Bromley CCG</p></td><td><p>1,158</p></td><td><p>1,226</p></td><td><p>1,239</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Camden CCG</p></td><td><p>1,275</p></td><td><p>1,344</p></td><td><p>1,329</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS City and Hackney CCG</p></td><td><p>1,222</p></td><td><p>1,224</p></td><td><p>1,237</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Croydon CCG</p></td><td><p>1,091</p></td><td><p>1,154</p></td><td><p>1,171</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Ealing CCG</p></td><td><p>1,065</p></td><td><p>1,104</p></td><td><p>1,116</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Enfield CCG</p></td><td><p>1,110</p></td><td><p>1,173</p></td><td><p>1,189</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Hounslow CCG</p></td><td><p>1,009</p></td><td><p>1,063</p></td><td><p>1,075</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Greenwich CCG</p></td><td><p>1,208</p></td><td><p>1,243</p></td><td><p>1,257</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Hammersmith and Fulham CCG</p></td><td><p>1,236</p></td><td><p>1,231</p></td><td><p>1,235</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Haringey CCG</p></td><td><p>1,091</p></td><td><p>1,125</p></td><td><p>1,137</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Harrow CCG</p></td><td><p>999</p></td><td><p>1,070</p></td><td><p>1,088</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Havering CCG</p></td><td><p>1,198</p></td><td><p>1,269</p></td><td><p>1,293</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Hillingdon CCG</p></td><td><p>1,045</p></td><td><p>1,110</p></td><td><p>1,122</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Islington CCG</p></td><td><p>1,330</p></td><td><p>1,371</p></td><td><p>1,385</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Kingston CCG</p></td><td><p>1,007</p></td><td><p>1,055</p></td><td><p>1,067</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Lambeth CCG</p></td><td><p>1,149</p></td><td><p>1,162</p></td><td><p>1,175</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Lewisham CCG</p></td><td><p>1,239</p></td><td><p>1,277</p></td><td><p>1,291</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Newham CCG</p></td><td><p>1,080</p></td><td><p>1,108</p></td><td><p>1,120</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Redbridge CCG</p></td><td><p>1,050</p></td><td><p>1,096</p></td><td><p>1,108</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Richmond CCG</p></td><td><p>1,018</p></td><td><p>1,063</p></td><td><p>1,075</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Southwark CCG</p></td><td><p>1,191</p></td><td><p>1,243</p></td><td><p>1,257</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Merton CCG</p></td><td><p>997</p></td><td><p>1,062</p></td><td><p>1,074</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Sutton CCG</p></td><td><p>1,154</p></td><td><p>1,211</p></td><td><p>1,224</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Tower Hamlets CCG</p></td><td><p>1,148</p></td><td><p>1,172</p></td><td><p>1,185</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Waltham Forest CCG</p></td><td><p>1,062</p></td><td><p>1,123</p></td><td><p>1,136</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Wandsworth CCG</p></td><td><p>1,030</p></td><td><p>1,057</p></td><td><p>1,069</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS West London (K&amp;C &amp; QPP) CCG</p></td><td><p>1,441</p></td><td><p>1,440</p></td><td><p>1,437</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Central London (Westminster) CCG</p></td><td><p>1,280</p></td><td><p>1,251</p></td><td><p>1,238</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 27/03/2018 12:10:03 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

869321

registered interest
date	22/03/2018
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	Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many staff working for the Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust have been (a) non-UK EU citizens and (b) citizens of countries outside the EU in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	133835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and the following table shows the number of non-United Kingdom European Union and non EU Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) staff employed in Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust between September 2015 and December 2017.</p><p> </p><p>HCHS staff in Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, as at the last day in each specified month, headcount</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>HCHS staff in Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>September <br> 2015</p></td><td><p>September <br> 2016</p></td><td><p>September <br> 2017</p></td><td><p>December <br> 2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>European Union excluding UK</p></td><td><p>440</p></td><td><p>547</p></td><td><p>541</p></td><td><p>533</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>European Economic Area</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rest of World</p></td><td><p>1,159</p></td><td><p>1,141</p></td><td><p>1,175</p></td><td><p>1,196</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>211</p></td><td><p>193</p></td><td><p>166</p></td><td><p>163</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital NHS HCHS workforce statistics.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 27/03/2018 12:15:29 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

869322

registered interest
date	22/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Private Rented Housing: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which local authorities in London have (a) applied for his consent to introduce selective licensing schemes for private rented properties, (b) such applications pending and (c) had such applications rejected since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	133836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department has received applications from the London Boroughs of Brent, Newham, and Redbridge. The current application from the London Borough of Redbridge is pending. Redbridge had an application rejected in December 2015</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 27/03/2018 16:02:50 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

869325

registered interest
date	22/03/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	HSBC: Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will place all reports she received on the practice of HSBC Bank plc in deducting state deduction claw-back from its pensioners in the Library.
tabling member constituency	Ross, Skye and Lochaber
tabling member printed	Ian Blackford
uin	133839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions has not received any reports about the practices of HSBC Bank plc on integrated pension schemes (or deducting state deduction clawback). The Department has received a number of written representations regarding integrated pension schemes from individuals and from Members of Parliament writing on their behalf.</p><p> </p><p>There is a detailed explanation on integrated pension schemes in the 15 February 2018 briefing from the House of Commons Library titled ‘Pension integration (or ‘clawback’)’, which was published on the UK Parliament website and is available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN01121" target="_blank">http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN01121</a></p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Chair of the Trustees Board of HSBC Bank Pension Trust (UK) Limited has written to the Work and Pension’s Select Committee with more details on its practices. This letter was published on the UK Parliament website on 24 January 2018 and is available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/work-and-pensions/Correspondence/Letter-from-Russell-Picot-Chair-HSBC-Pension-Trust-UK-to-Chair-regarding-Midland-section-12-January-2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/work-and-pensions/Correspondence/Letter-from-Russell-Picot-Chair-HSBC-Pension-Trust-UK-to-Chair-regarding-Midland-section-12-January-2018.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 27/03/2018 10:29:58 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4390 label Biography information for Ian Blackford

869330

registered interest
date	22/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Government Finance: Sports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much public funding was allocated to local authorities to support the retention of community (a) sports halls, (b) playing fields and (c) swimming pools in (i) 2009-10 and (ii) 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	133844
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>Over the course of this spending period the Government has made available over £200 billion of funding for local government, for councils to spend on locally determined priorities, including sports facilities.</p><p>Sport England works with a wide range of local authorities, providing expert advice and funding to sustain and increase the number of people playing sport regularly.</p><p>It invests in local authority facilities projects through its range of funding programmes to make sure that facilities are modern, accessible and in the right places to have the most impact.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 27/03/2018 16:00:51 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

869332

registered interest
date	22/03/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Access to Work Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department estimates will be saved to the public purse as a result of the £57,000 cap on individual awards under Access to Work.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	133846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>Based on the published Equality Analysis in 2015, the original estimate was that the cap would free £3m pa to re-invest in the scheme. We intend to publish an updated Equality Analysis as a formal addendum to the 2015 document.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 27/03/2018 16:13:36 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead