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1006984

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fires: Solar Power
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 July 2018 to Question 163508 on Housing: Solar Power and with reference to the British Research Establishment's report, Fire and Solar PV Systems - Recommendations for the Fire and Rescue Services, published on 15 July 2017, what steps his Department plans to take as a result of those recommendations.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	191271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>None. It is for individual fire and rescue authorities to determine operational practices and policies. As part of this, it is for local fire and rescue authorities to consider firefighter guidance recommendations from this or any other such report.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 19/11/2018 16:40:55 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1006989

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Bedfordshire Police: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what amount of special grant funding Bedfordshire Police have applied for; and for what purpose they have made that application.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	191453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>Bedfordshire Police have made an application for Special Grant funding for £4.6 million, mainly for a specialist operation to tackle gun and gang crime in the region (Operation Boson).</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 19/11/2018 16:45:52 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1006992

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
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	Employment: Electronic Tagging
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to ban the microchipping of employees by employers.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	191454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>If an employer required or encouraged implantation of microchips among its employees, it would raise several legal issues. While I am not aware of any cases being brought to test the legal position, it seems unlikely that such an invasive approach to security or monitoring would be found to be justifiable. So, it is likely to be difficult for an employer to show that such a practice would be consistent with the requirements of data protection legislation, health and safety requirements, and other legal obligations to employees.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 26/11/2018 17:19:14 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1006998

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Boeing and Lockheed Martin
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the objectives are of his Department’s Prosperity Framework agreement with (a) Boeing and (b) Lockheed Martin.
tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
tabling member printed	Wayne David
uin	191313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>The Prosperity Frameworks between the Government and Boeing and Lockheed Martin seek to strengthen the UK's engagement with two of the world's largest aerospace and defence manufactures and to create new opportunities for UK supply companies to win work on their current and future major programmes.</p><p>They also represent a shared ambition with each of these companies to expand their footprints in the UK and increase their UK research and development.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 19/11/2018 17:26:31 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

1006999

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Boeing and Lockheed Martin
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent activities his Department has undertaken with (a) Boeing and (b) Lockheed Martin as part of the Prosperity Framework agreements.
tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
tabling member printed	Wayne David
uin	191314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>Activities under the 2016 agreement with Boeing, include supplier development workshops to assist UK companies in bidding for work with Boeing and major events in the US to connect UK companies with key Boeing civil and defence decision-makers and buyers. In October 2018, the Government, Boeing and ADS (the UK trade association) organised a Defence Supplier Showcase.</p><p>The Prosperity Framework with Lockheed Martin was signed in July 2018. A number of workshops have already been held to identify areas of opportunity and to undertake further detailed planning around future joint work.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 19/11/2018 17:28:20 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

1007000

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has to sign further Prosperity Framework agreements.
tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
tabling member printed	Wayne David
uin	191315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>No further Prosperity Framework agreements are planned at this stage. However, we are open to signing further agreements where these offer the potential to grow a company's UK footprint, create new opportunities for UK suppliers and deliver benefits for wider UK prosperity.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 19/11/2018 17:29:23 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

1007007

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue has accrued to the public purse since 2011 from preventing individuals and companies using accounting derecognition rules in relation to loans and derivatives to avoid paying corporation tax.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	191458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>Legislation was introduced with effect from 6 December 2010 to address avoidance schemes under which profits were said to fall out of account, or tax relief for losses were claimed, as a result of the way in which financial assets were recognised in accounts. Since that date, existing schemes have been unwound and there have been no further known iterations of these schemes. The measure has therefore been successful in protecting revenues, but it is not possible to say how much would otherwise have been lost.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 19/11/2018 15:35:42 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1007008

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
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	Theatres: Merseyside
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 steps his Department is taking to support theatres in Merseyside.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
uin	191311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>In Merseyside, Arts Council England (ACE) has increased their National portfolio funding by 14% for the 2018-22 funding period. This includes investment in a number of theatre organisations, such as Liverpool Everyman, the Unity Theatre, the Royal Court, Collective Encounters and 20 Stories High.</p><p> </p><p>A new addition to ACE’s National portfolio for this period is Culture Liverpool, who have built on the legacy of European Capital of Culture 2008 to play a leading role in large scale outdoor and public art commissions. Culture Liverpool recently delivered the theatre production ‘Giant Spectacular’ which took place across Liverpool and the Wirral for a weekend, attracting over 1 million visitors.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to ACE’s National portfolio investment, they have made 81 awards from the Lottery-funded Grants for the Arts and Project Grants schemes to support theatre projects across Merseyside since April 2015, with investment totalling more than £1 million. ACE will also administer a Treasury award of £5 million for the capital development of the Shakespeare North theatre in Knowsley.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 19/11/2018 15:49:47 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1007009

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Government's suitability criterion for settled status that the applicant must not be subject to a removal decision under the EEA Regulations on the grounds of their non-exercise or misuse of rights under Directive 2004/38/EC, whether his Department plans for non-working carers to be refused settled status on grounds of suitability.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	191400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>The draft Withdrawal Agreement with the European Union published on 14 November 2018 protects the rights of EU citizens resident in the UK by the end of the planned implementation period on 31 December 2020 and their family members. Article 20 sets out the circumstances in which it may be appropriate to restrict the right of entry or residence to such an EU citizen or their family member.</p><p> </p><p>The draft Withdrawal Agreement does not protect those who are not exercising or are misusing free movement rights, and it means that, while free movement rules continue to operate to the end of the planned implementation period, there will remain scope, consistent with the relevant case law, for a person to be removed from the UK on those grounds. It is logical that this is reflected in the Immigration Rules and published caseworker guidance for the EU Settlement Scheme, as it is in the provisions of and published caseworker guidance for the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 which provide for the operation in the UK of the Free Movement Directive (2004/83/EC). The guidance on the Regulations sets out how misuse of free movement rights is assessed and was reviewed following the Gureckis, Cielecki and Perlinski judgments in 2017.</p><p> </p><p>However, the Statement of Intent on the EU Settlement Scheme published on 21 June 2018 made clear that the UK has decided, as a matter of domestic policy, to be more generous than the draft Withdrawal Agreement in certain respects. In particular, those applying under the scheme will not be required to show that they meet all the requirements of current free movement rules, such as any requirement to have held comprehensive sickness insurance or generally to detail the exercise of specific rights under EU law, such as the right to work. This means that an applicant will not be refused status under the scheme because for example they are not economically active, their employment is not full-time or they do not hold comprehensive sickness insurance.</p><p> </p><p>An applicant refused status under the EU Settlement Scheme on eligibility or suitability grounds will be covered by the procedural guarantees provided for in Article 18(3) of the draft Withdrawal Agreement. Subject to Parliamentary approval of the primary legislation required to establish a right of appeal for the scheme, we intend that, consistent with Articles 18(3) and 21 of the draft Withdrawal Agreement, those applying under the scheme from 30 March 2019 will be given a statutory right of appeal if their application is refused.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 191401 191402 191403 191404 191405 question first answered 19/11/2018 18:00:12 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1007010

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue has accrued to the public purse since 2011 through the prevention of tax avoidance resulting from the creation for corporate investors of a credit for UK tax where no tax has been paid.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	191459
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>Legislation was introduced with effect from 27 February 2012 to address a tax avoidance scheme which sought to obtain tax credits for a corporate investor in relation to distributions made by an Authorised Investment Fund where no underlying tax had in fact been suffered. Separately, legislation was introduced with effect from 15 September 2011 to address tax avoidance which sought to obtain a tax advantage in relation to manufactured overseas dividends, involving claims to repay or set-off withholding tax which had not actually been suffered.</p><p> </p><p>Since these measures were introduced, there have been no known further iterations of these avoidance schemes. They have therefore been successful in protecting revenues, but it is not possible to say how much would otherwise have been lost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 19/11/2018 15:49:21 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd