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1008448

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date	16/11/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adoption
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of the practice of contested adoption on the well-being of the child.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	192088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. Individual decisions on adoption are ultimately taken by an independent judge based on the evidence presented.</p><p>Adverse childhood experiences such as neglect or abuse often cause lifelong problems. In most cases, local authorities will provide support so that children can remain with their birth families. However, for those children who cannot live with their birth parents, it is vital we find them permanent new homes as quickly as possible, whether that be by adoption, special guardianship or long-term fostering. Adoption can be transformative for many children and can provide them with the stability and care they need to recover from the trauma they may have experienced in early life.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 26/11/2018 12:12:21 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1008449

registered interest
date	16/11/2018
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	NHS Property Services: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the total value of the properties managed by NHS Property Services.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	192093
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>The total value of the properties owned and managed by NHS Property Services was £3.933 billion at 31 March 2018. This figure is from the 2017/18 annual report and accounts.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 26/11/2018 16:05:49 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1008450

registered interest
date	16/11/2018
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	NHS Property Services: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the procedure for dealing with complaints to NHS Property Services was last changed.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	192094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>The complaints handling process is under constant review. The most significant recent change was in July 2017 with the introduction of a new national customer support centre to provide a clear route into the organisation for customers to raise requests, incidents and complaints.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 26/11/2018 16:04:52 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1008455

registered interest
date	16/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Credits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 23 October 2018 to Question 179286, whether the Government plans to make back payments of child benefit to those parents who have mistakenly omitted to claim that benefit and as a result lost out on national insurance state pension credits.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	192115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government has always urged families to claim Child Benefit to help protect their future right to the State Pension.</p><p> </p><p>The legislation sets out that claims for Child Benefit (and the accompanying National Insurance credit) can only be backdated for three months.</p><p> </p><p>Successive governments have considered that three months is a fair and reasonable time in which to allow those wishing to claim Child Benefit to do so.</p><p> </p><p>Even though there may be no question that some parents would have been entitled to Child Benefit had they claimed earlier, such certainty is not obvious in every case. The longer the delay, the harder it is to establish entitlement, given the need to verify evidence and ensure consistent treatment.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 23/11/2018 10:06:39 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1008457

registered interest
date	16/11/2018
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	Statins
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 ensure the supply of statins after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	192116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>Until we can be certain of the outcome of Brexit negotiations our duty as a responsible government is to prepare for all eventualities, including ‘no deal’. On 23 August 2018, therefore, the Department wrote to all pharmaceutical companies that supply the United Kingdom with prescription only or pharmacy medicines from, or via, the European Union/European Economic Area, asking them to ensure they have a minimum of six weeks’ additional supply in the UK, over and above their business as usual operational buffer stocks, by 29 March 2019 in the event of a no-deal scenario.</p><p> </p><p>Since then, we have received very good engagement from industry who share our aims of ensuring continuity of medicines supply for patients is maintained and able to cope with any potential delays at the border that may arise in the short term in the event of a no-deal Brexit.</p><p> </p><p>We understand that statins are vitally important to many people in this country. However, the Department recognises that through its medicines supply contingency programme it is requesting sensitive commercial information from pharmaceutical companies. To reassure participating companies, we have committed to treating all information received confidentially, securely and to using it only for the purposes of the Department’s programme. That means not introducing information about a company, specific medicine or their supply routes into the public domain.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 22/11/2018 15:21:08 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1008463

registered interest
date	16/11/2018
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	Energy: Housing
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 much funding from the EU is proposed to be allocated to (a) improve the energy efficiency of the housing stock and (b) to reduce fuel poverty in England in the next (i) five years and (ii) ten years; and whether that funding from the EU will still be available in the event that the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	192087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>Under the EU’s 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework there are several funding streams that bodies within England may bid for to help them address fuel poverty and the energy efficiency of the housing stock, such as the European Regional Development Fund and Horizon 2020. However, this funding is not automatically allocated and must be successfully applied for by interested entities, and is not specifically ringfenced for energy efficiency or fuel poverty. The precise amount of EU funding allocated to address these issues therefore varies year-on-year. Given this variability, it is not possible to confirm what EU funding could be allocated in future years.</p><p> </p><p>In December 2017 the UK Government secured the agreement of the EU to continue providing funding until the current programmes end in 2020, and also undertook to underwrite current EU commitments. As such, any existing contracts will be honoured by either the UK Government or the EU until 2020. Following our departure from the EU we will create the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), a domestic investment programme aimed at tackling inter-community inequality. We will be consulting on the UKSPF's design later this year, with the final decisions on its detail and operation being made following the 2019 Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 22/11/2018 16:27:16 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1008474

registered interest
date	16/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Minimum Wage: Fines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 9 November 2018 to Question 187012, how many civil sanctions have been applied to employers for failing to pay the national minimum wage (a) in total and (b) in relation to internship roles in each year since 1 January 2017.
tabling member constituency	Elmet and Rothwell
tabling member printed	Alec Shelbrooke
uin	192106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>The government is determined to ensure that everyone who is entitled to the National Minimum and Living Wage (NMW) receives it. Anyone who feels they have not been paid the NMW should contact the Acas helpline on 0300 123 1100 or via the online complaints form at gov.uk. HMRC reviews all complaints that are referred to them.</p><p> </p><p>All businesses, irrespective of size or business sector are responsible for paying the correct minimum wage to their staff. HMRC won’t hesitate to take action to ensure that workers receive what they are legally entitled to.</p><p> </p><p>Most NMW cases are subject to civil (non-criminal) sanctions, the consequences of which include fines of up to 200% of the determined underpayment, and public naming.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016/17, HMRC issued around £4 million in penalties to 821 employers for underpaying NMW to workers, and in 2017/18 issued over £14 million in penalties to 810 employers.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to identify all NMW breaches involving the employment of interns, as HMRC does not routinely record the employment characteristics of individual workers who are owed and paid arrears. In most cases, interns would be repaid alongside all other workers and the data recorded as a single entry against the company.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 26/11/2018 14:46:36 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	3997 label Biography information for Sir Alec Shelbrooke

1008478

registered interest
date	16/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) roles and (b) responsibilities are of his Department's Cost Assurance and Analysis Service.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	192107
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>The Cost Assurance and Analysis Service (CAAS) provides a range of independent cost management services across the Ministry of Defence (MOD) linking in through the acquisition system. CAAS also provides financial assurance to the MOD Director General Finance.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 22/11/2018 14:57:59 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1008482

registered interest
date	16/11/2018
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	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Lewisham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act on the rate of detentions under the Mental Health Act 1983 in the NHS Lewisham Clinical Commissioning Group area.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Janet Daby
uin	192127
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>The Independent Review of the Mental Health Act will report before the end of the year. The Government will consider its findings and respond in due course. The Review will make recommendations to Government for how it should improve the Act, including considering what changes might be needed to reduce the number of detentions under the Act, but the Review itself was not commissioned to have a direct influence on legislation or practice.</p><p> </p><p>We have therefore made no assessment on the effect of the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act on the rate of detentions under the Mental Health Act 1983.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 191976 191977 question first answered 23/11/2018 11:17:28 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby

1008489

registered interest
date	16/11/2018
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	Horse Racing: Animal Welfare
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 estimate he has made of the number of racehorses (a) injured and (b) killed in the UK in each year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	192099
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) publishes annual statistics of the number of horse fatalities at racecourses. These are shown in the table below and can also be found on their website. We do not have any estimates of the numbers of racehorses injured.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1994</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Runners</p></td><td><p>71,475</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>94,776</p></td><td><p>90,518</p></td><td><p>91,146</p></td><td><p>86,456</p></td><td><p>88,377</p></td><td><p>89975</p></td><td><p>91360</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fatalities</p></td><td><p>202</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>181</p></td><td><p>211</p></td><td><p>196</p></td><td><p>189</p></td><td><p>156</p></td><td><p>171</p></td><td><p>167</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rate</p></td><td><p>0.28%</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0.19%</p></td><td><p>0.23%</p></td><td><p>0.22%</p></td><td><p>0.22%</p></td><td><p>0.18%</p></td><td><p>0.19</p></td><td><p>0.18</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 22/11/2018 16:13:07 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead