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1178311

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date	13/02/2020
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	Israeli Settlements: UN Resolutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that the Israeli Government (a) implements and (b) adheres to UN Security Council Resolution 2334.
tabling member constituency	Ealing North
tabling member printed	James Murray
uin	2006
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2020 answer text <p>We have long supported balanced UN resolutions, including UN Security Council Resolution 2334 that addressed incitement and settlements. We do not hesitate to raise instances of incitement. We have a regular dialogue with the Israeli Government and the Palestinian Authority in which we reiterate the need for both sides to prepare their populations for peaceful coexistence, including by promoting a more positive portrayal of each other. As I made clear in my statement on 24 February, the UK's position on Israeli settlements is clear: they are illegal under international law and damaging to renewed efforts to launch peace negotiations. I last raised settlements with the Israeli Ambassador to the UK on 26 February. We urge Israel to halt its settlement expansion immediately.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 03/03/2020 14:10:55 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4797 label Biography information for James Murray

1178312

registered interest
date	13/02/2020
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	Huawei: 5G
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much Huawei equipment analysis has been installed by UK 5G carriers since March 2019.
tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
uin	1865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>Huawei’s presence in the UK is subject to detailed, formal oversight through the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre and its oversight board. The recent conclusions of the Telecoms Supply Chain Review set out clear limits on the role of Huawei, as a High Risk Vendor, in the UK telecoms market. The Government examined the full range of threats and risks when making its decision on the use of high risk vendors in the UK telecoms networks.</p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 24/02/2020 16:24:46 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

1178313

registered interest
date	13/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Air Force: Unmanned Air Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of Reaper drones currently operated by the RAF contain UK content.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	1881
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2020 answer text <p>The Reaper unmanned air vehicle was procured as an Urgent Operational Requirement in 2007 and none have UK components installed. UK communications equipment has, however, been installed in the Reaper ground control station.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 25/02/2020 12:13:17 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1178314

registered interest
date	13/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Reoffenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to help reduce rates of prisoner re-offending.
tabling member constituency	Loughborough
tabling member printed	Jane Hunt
uin	2007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2020 answer text <p>This Government is committed to reducing reoffending by ensuring that all offenders have the tools they need to turn their backs on crime. The current proven reoffending rate is 28.7%.</p><p> </p><p>We know that offenders typically have needs in a range of areas, such as education, employment, accommodation and family relationships. Many of these needs drive offending and the prison and probation system provides an opportunity to address them.</p><p> </p><p>We have recently overhauled the prison education system, giving governors more control over the education budget for their establishments, and have implemented two new prison education frameworks. Additionally, the new Prison Education Service will build on this by improving the range of training available to prisoners which is directly linked to real jobs on release. We are also engaging with employers to take on ex-prisoners via the New Futures Network (NFN) and in May 2019 we introduced reforms to increase the opportunities available to prisoners to gain experience in real workplaces through Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL).</p><p> </p><p>We are investing up to £6.4m in an accommodation pilot scheme to support individuals released from three prisons: Bristol, Leeds and Pentonville. Services have now commenced in all three areas, with the first individuals now being supported into accommodation following release.</p><p> </p><p>We are also making positive progress in implementing the recommendations as set out by Lord Farmer’s review on the importance of family engagement to reduce reoffending and we have delivered 13 out of the 19 recommendations to date.</p><p> </p><p>Although much is being done to reduce reoffending, this remains a complex issue that requires a combined effort across government and local partners in order to support ex-offenders when they are released.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/02/2020 12:10:42 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt

1178315

registered interest
date	13/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Driving under Influence: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with (a) the police and (b) other stakeholders on introducing further measures to tackle drug driving.
tabling member constituency	Loughborough
tabling member printed	Jane Hunt
uin	2008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government has established a project team, consisting of Department for Transport, Home Office and the National Police Chiefs Council to take stock of how the police and other agencies currently carry out road traffic enforcement and understanding what can be done better to tackle road crime including tackling drug driving.</p><p>We are gathering evidence on the current position for roads policing enforcement and will look to pilot initiatives this year and will consider next steps when the review concludes.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 25/02/2020 17:19:28 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt

1178316

registered interest
date	13/02/2020
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Prosecutions: Leicestershire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps her Department is taking to (a) review and (b) reduce the backlog of cases in Leicestershire awaiting assessment by the CPS for more than 28 days.
tabling member constituency	Loughborough
tabling member printed	Jane Hunt
uin	2009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to swifter justice.</p><p> </p><p>In Leicestershire during 2019, the average number of calendar days between first submission of a case to the last decision made to charge was under 26 days. This includes cases where the police were required to submit further evidence prior to a decision to charge.</p><p> </p><p>The senior management of CPS East Midlands meet weekly to consider cases awaiting charge, prioritising the most sensitive and serious cases and ensuring Prosecutors have sufficient capacity to provide charging advice to police on a daily basis. At weekends, CPS Direct support CPS East Midlands by providing charging advice. Furthermore, Crown Advocates can be diverted from other work to complete charging cases as required.</p><p>The national CPS recruitment campaign will increase prosecutorial capacity significantly. .</p><p> </p><p>Work with the police to improve police file quality is ongoing, with the aim of reducing the number of submissions rejected at basic administrative triage and requiring action plans.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 24/02/2020 15:02:21 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt

1178317

registered interest
date	13/02/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: East Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the average number of passengers on public service bus routes in (a) the East Midlands, (b) Leicester and (c) Leicester East constituency.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Claudia Webbe
uin	2010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2020 answer text <p>The Department does not hold data on the average number of passengers per route at regional or parliamentary constituency level.</p><p> </p><p>The average bus occupancy on local bus services was 12.5 in England in 2018/19, an increase from 12.2 in 2017/18 and 11.7 in 2009/10.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 26/02/2020 10:52:13 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4848 label Biography information for Claudia Webbe

1178318

registered interest
date	13/02/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Public Transport: Leicester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to improve public transport in Leicester.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Claudia Webbe
uin	2011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2020 answer text <p>Leicester is one of 12 city regions with the opportunity to bid for a share of £1.22 billion from the Transforming Cities Fund. The Fund is designed to improve public and sustainable transport links.</p><p>The bus market outside London is deregulated and decisions regarding service provision is primarily a commercial matter for bus operators. Decisions on subsidised bus services are a matter for individual English local authorities, in the light of their other spending priorities.</p><p> </p><p>The Bus Services Act 2017 introduced new powers for local authorities and operators to work together to grow bus passenger numbers.</p><p> </p><p>The £220 million Better Deal for Bus Users package provides new funding to transform bus services and includes a National Bus Strategy, which together will detail measures to improve bus services. This includes an extra £30 million for local authorities in 2020/21. If Leicester City Council complete statements of intent demonstrating how they will meet the funding requirements, it will be provided with the additional allocation of £83,550. This is on top of the £100,287 received in 2018/19 from the annual Bus Service Operators Grant.</p><p> </p><p>There is £5billion of new funding to overhaul bus and cycle links outside London. This investment will boost bus services by including: higher frequency services, new priority schemes will make routes more efficient, more affordable simpler fares and at least 4,000 new Zero Emission Buses.</p><p> </p><p>For rail, the new operator of East Midlands Railway, Abellio, is bringing a package of more than £600 million investment in improvements to rail services across their area. This will include an investment of £20 million on stations, including a larger scheme at Leicester, and replacement of the entire train fleet with more than 340 carriages.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 26/02/2020 15:45:19 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4848 label Biography information for Claudia Webbe

1178319

registered interest
date	13/02/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care: East Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were taken into care in (a) the East Midlands, (b) Leicester and (c) Leicester East constituency in each of the last 5 years.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Claudia Webbe
uin	2012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The latest figures on the number of children taken into care in England, the East Midlands region and Leicester local authority area since 2014/15 are shown in the attached table. The department does not collect this data by parliamentary constituency area.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 24/02/2020 11:01:20 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford attachment 1 file name 2012_Children_Taken_Into_Care.xls title 2012_Table
tabling member	4848 label Biography information for Claudia Webbe

1178320

registered interest
date	13/02/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: East Midlands
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 promote degree apprenticeships as a route to an undergraduate degree in (a) Leicester and (b) the East Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Claudia Webbe
uin	2013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2020 answer text <p>Degree and degree-level apprenticeships offer people of all ages and from all backgrounds the chance to earn while they learn and access a range of professions.</p><p> </p><p>We are continuing to promote these apprenticeships as a genuine, high-quality alternative to traditional academic study, and want to make sure we reach those who might not otherwise have considered higher education as an option.</p><p> </p><p>Our Five Cities project continues to promote the uptake of all apprenticeships by Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic individuals in Leicester, whilst our Opportunities Through Apprenticeships project is working to identify skills gaps and encourage new higher-level provision within Nottingham.</p><p>To support employers in raising awareness of opportunities in their businesses across the whole of England, we have worked with the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) to develop an online higher and degree apprenticeship vacancy listing. The most recent update was published in February’s National Apprenticeship Week for starts in 2020. It includes over a thousand vacancies from employers in a range of sectors, from aeronautical engineering to town planning.</p><p>Representatives from the National Apprenticeship Service also attended 30 UCAS exhibitions in 2019, engaging with around 10,000 young people, their parents and careers advisers. This work will continue during 2020 alongside our wider communications and marketing activity to raise the profile of apprenticeships, including the second phase of our ‘Fire It Up’ campaign. A number of the apprentices who feature in advertising throughout the second phase are undertaking degree or degree-level apprenticeships.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 28/02/2020 14:30:34 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4848 label Biography information for Claudia Webbe