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1168432

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date	19/12/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she next plans to attend a drugs task force meeting in Glasgow.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2020 answer text <p>The Minister for Crime, Policing and the Fire Services recently announced that he was convening a UK drugs summit to be held in Glasgow.</p><p>Due to the General Election this was delayed our officials are now working on holding the summit in the first quarter of this year.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 07/01/2020 15:41:29 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1168433

registered interest
date	19/12/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to make provision for a supervised drug consumption facility in Glasgow.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2020 answer text <p>There are no plans to change the law on drug consumption rooms. Nevertheless, the UK Government continues to support a range of evidence-based approaches to reduce the health-related harms of drug misuse.</p><p>The UK Government will continue to work together with the Scottish Government to tackle the problem of drug misuse and drug-related harm, notwithstanding that funding decisions with regards to treatment and rehabilitation are entirely the decision of the Scottish Government.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 07/01/2020 17:19:45 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1168434

registered interest
date	19/12/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will refund child citizenship fees in light of the decision of the High Court that they are unlawful.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2020 answer text <p>The judgment was handed down on 19 December, and we are carefully considering its implications, and next steps.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 07/01/2020 12:32:55 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1168435

registered interest
date	19/12/2019
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: Misuse
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 effectiveness of drugs policy in reducing the rate of infection from blood borne viruses.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2020 answer text <p>There is good evidence that a combined approach of harm reduction programmes such as needle and syringe programmes (NSP), opioid substitution treatment and abstinence-based treatment is the most effective way to tackle public health harms, including the spread of blood borne viruses (BBVs). Vaccination, testing and treatment of infection are also effective in the control of BBVs.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England monitors drug treatment data and anonymous testing of blood samples from people using drug treatment services or NSP. The data show that these interventions have been effective in reducing BBVs in people who inject drugs (PWID). For example, the proportion of PWID who have ever been infected with hepatitis B in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has declined over the past 10 years, falling from 18% in 2008 to 9% in 2018. In addition, HIV infection is uncommon among PWID in the United Kingdom, and HIV prevalence in this risk group is low compared to many other European countries. Overall, there were 95 new HIV diagnoses in the UK during 2018 which were likely to have been acquired through injecting drug use, down from 170 in 2008.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 07/01/2020 14:53:21 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1168436

registered interest
date	19/12/2019
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	Child Tax Credit and Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the effect of the two child limit for (a) child tax credits and (b) universal credit on low income families.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2020 answer text <p>DWP and HMRC produce a joint report with statistics related to the policy to provide support for a maximum of two children, the latest of which was published in July 2019 and can be found online at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-tax-credit-and-universal-credit-claimants-statistics-related-to-the-policy-to-provide-support-for-a-maximum-of-2-children-april-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-tax-credit-and-universal-credit-claimants-statistics-related-to-the-policy-to-provide-support-for-a-maximum-of-2-children-april-2019</a></p><p> </p><p>Providing support for a maximum of two children, or qualifying young persons in Universal Credit and Child Tax Credit, ensures fairness between claimants and those taxpayers who support themselves solely through work.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that some claimants are not able to make the same choices about the number of children in their family, which is why exceptions have been put in place to protect certain groups. On migration to Universal Credit, families’ existing entitlement will be protected.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 07/01/2020 12:55:27 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss