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1027333

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Terrorism: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what has cost to the public purse was of Operation Kenova to date.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	202708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK Government continues to cooperate fully with the Operation Kenova investigation. Funding for the investigation is a matter for the PSNI and the devolved Department for Justice.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 20/02/2019 16:44:36 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	318 label Biography information for Lord Spellar

1027336

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
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	State Retirement Pensions: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse has been of work done so far by the Independent Case Examiner on individual cases brought on the grounds of unjust treatment of women approaching pension age which have now been closed in response to the current Judicial Review of her Department's handling of the changes to women's pension age.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Sandy Martin
uin	202846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>Individual government departments have long established complaints procedures. That approach has not changed under Labour governments 1997-2010 or successive governments. The DWP has a two tier complaints process which considers formal complaints about our service<strong>. </strong>Once a complainant has exhausted the DWP complaint process they are signposted to the Independent Case Examiner’s Office if they are dissatisfied with the final response to their complaint. The Independent Case Examiner is independent.</p><p> </p><p>The Independent Case Examiner’s Office cost per case, which is currently £2,374, covers the whole process from receipt to investigation conclusion. The information requested relating to the total cost of work done is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 19/12/2018 16:38:55 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4678 label Biography information for Sandy Martin

1027341

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of projected local government finance settlement spending for each of the next five years as (a) total expenditure and (b) a percentage of gross domestic product.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	202772
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>Local government Core Spending Power is £45.1 billion in 2018-19, equivalent to 2.1% of forecast nominal Gross Domestic Product, as outlined in the OBR October 2018 Economic and Fiscal Outlook. The provisional Local Government Finance Settlement published on Thursday 13<sup>th</sup> December set out that Core Spending Power is forecast to increase to £46.4 billion in 2019-20, equivalent to 2.1% of forecast nominal Gross Domestic Product. Longer term funding decisions will be made at the Spending Review next year.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 21/12/2018 11:30:19 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1027355

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure child wellbeing (a) inside and (b) outside of school.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	202849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department wants to help schools support the wellbeing of their pupils. That is why in October 2018, my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister announced that schools would be provided with a framework to support them to assess the wellbeing of their pupils. The Prime Minister also made a commitment that the Government will publish an annual ‘State of the Nation’ report every year on World Mental Health Day, highlighting the trends and issues in young people’s wellbeing. Work is underway to deliver these commitments.</p><p>In addition, the Department is working with the Department of Health and Social Care to ensure that all schools have access to mental health support, and has also doubled the Primary Physical Education and Sport Premium to £320 million per year since September 2017. The Department is delivering a programme of work to explore how best to support disadvantaged children and their families to access free enrichment activities and healthy food during the school holidays. Up to £26 million is being invested in a breakfast club programme, which will open or improve breakfast clubs in over 1,700 schools and will be targeted at the most disadvantaged areas of the country.</p><p>Bullying can have serious and lasting consequences on wellbeing. The Government has sent a clear message to schools that bullying, including cyberbullying, for whatever reason is unacceptable. All schools are legally required to have a behaviour policy with measures to prevent all forms of bullying. The Department is providing over £2.8 million of funding between September 2016 and March 2020, to four anti-bullying organisations to support schools to tackle bullying.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 20/12/2018 16:57:12 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1027362

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applicants were granted permission to work in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	202855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are not allowed to work in the UK unless their claim has been outstanding for at least 12 months through no fault of their own. <br>The data requested on the number of asylum seekers granted permission to work in 2018 is only held on paper case files or within the notes sections of the Home Office's databases. Therefore, the number of asylum seekers granted permission to work is not held in a reportable format</p><p>Those who are granted permission to work are restricted to jobs on the Shortage Occupation List, which can be found in the Immigration Rules Appendix K: shortage occupation list (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-k-shortage-occupation-list" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-k-shortage-occupation-list)</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 21/12/2018 13:01:26 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1027377

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
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	Spain: Political Prisoners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Spanish counterpart on prisoners who were members of the Catalan Parliament that on hunger strike.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Stephen Gethins
uin	202868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/12/2018 answer text <p>The British Government has been clear that the situation in Catalonia is a matter for Spain. The British Government has not had discussions with Spain regarding the separatist prisoners on hunger strike.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 24/12/2018 13:57:56 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4434 label Biography information for Stephen Gethins

1027380

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Patrol Craft: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has plans to base River-class Offshore Patrol Vessels in Scottish ports. .
tabling member constituency	West Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Martin Docherty-Hughes
uin	202871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/12/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence has recently announced Batch 1 Offshore Patrol Vessels will be retained to support Batch 2, so the Royal Navy can continue to play an important role in protecting the whole of the UK’s waters. There are currently no plans for the vessels to be stationed in Scottish ports.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 24/12/2018 11:46:40 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4374 label Biography information for Martin Docherty-Hughes