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1471178

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date	16/06/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Concessions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what biometric checks are undertaken to ensure people applying for Veterans Railcards are veterans.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	19580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>The Rail Delivery Group (RDG) is responsible for the application and verification process of the Veterans Railcards. When applying for a Veterans Railcard, applicants must provide RDG with evidence of their eligibility.</p><p> </p><p>A list of accepted documents is available on the Veterans Railcard website: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.veterans-railcard.co.uk%2Fare-you-eligible%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7CBukky.Akinbola%40dft.gov.uk%7Ccea6934b56ab42fe606c08da50757e18%7C28b782fb41e148eabfc3ad7558ce7136%7C0%7C0%7C637910762798444444%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=FXpCJfDhGcsnXwxq8XFm3KrxrvfG8Nxrv5cuscfODRI%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.veterans-railcard.co.uk/are-you-eligible/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 21/06/2022 14:24:25 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470624

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Waste: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many employees of the Serious Fraud Office were deployed to combat money laundering created through waste crime as of 15 June 2022.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18818
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) does not structure its employees around particular categories of financial crime and therefore does not hold data on the number of employees deployed to combat money laundering created through waste crime.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 21/06/2022 17:52:48 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470625

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
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	Electronic Equipment: Waste Disposal
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he is taking steps to ensure the safe export of e-waste.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>There are a number of legal mechanisms in place to control the export of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), and to ensure that when WEEE is exported it is managed safely. These include:</p><p> </p><ul><li>A ban on exporting WEEE from the UK for disposal;</li><li>A ban on exporting hazardous WEEE from the UK to countries which are not members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development;</li><li>A requirement for those involved in the export of waste, including WEEE, to take all necessary steps to ensure the waste is managed in an environmentally sound manner throughout its shipment and during its recycling or recovery;</li><li>A requirement for businesses to obtain approval from the Environment Agency (EA) to export whole items of WEEE or WEEE derived materials.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The Basel Convention on the transboundary movement of hazardous waste, to which the UK is a Party, agreed changes on 15th June which will further tighten international controls on the export of WEEE. The UK Government supports these changes which, from 2025, will require exporters to obtain prior consent from the Competent Authority in both the country of dispatch and destination to export all types of WEEE for recycling.</p><p> </p><p>The EA regulates the export of waste in England, including WEEE. EA officers carry out pro-active and intelligence led inspections to stop waste shipments that breach regulations before they leave ports. In 2020-21, 869 containers were stopped, of which 176 were returned to a waste site as they were unsuitable for export; 27 of those containers were found to contain WEEE.</p><p> </p><p>Any UK operator found to be illegally exporting waste can face a two-year jail term and an unlimited fine.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 20/06/2022 16:06:34 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470627

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
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	Waste Management
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has plans to create a fit and proper person test for people operating waste management companies.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2022 answer text <p>The requirement to demonstrate competence for waste site permits is well established.</p><p>In 2019 the Government strengthened the regulators' assessment and enforcement of operator competence to raise the standard of competence across all permitted waste sites. This included expanding the list of convictions to be taken into account when assessing permit applications to include, for example, offences related to organised crime and violent or threatening behaviour as well offences relating to fraud and tax evasion.</p><p>The Government also recently consulted on reform of the waste carrier, broker, dealer regime and expect to publish the response in due course.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 22/06/2022 16:35:53 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470628

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Future Combat Air System
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made on the timetable for a final decision being made on the inclusion of international partners in the Future Combat Air System programme.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2022 answer text <p>Our approach to the Future Combat Air System programme is international by design, helping us to strengthen global relationships, share expertise and cost and to develop a next generation capability that will meet future threats. Work to identify the optimal partnering arrangement is progressing at pace, so that we can build on this before the end of the Concept and Assessment Phase in 2024.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 22/06/2022 14:20:05 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470698

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
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	Environment Agency: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason the number of prosecutions undertaken by the Environment Agency has declined every year since 2007.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>Taking cases forward to prosecution is only one part of the Environment Agency's (EA) overall enforcement activity. Other interventions such as Notices requiring action and civil sanctions are quicker and can be effective in securing good outcomes for the environment in different ways.</p><p>The Regulatory Enforcement &amp; Sanctions (RES) Act 2008 made civil sanctions available to the EA to use from 2011. The number of enforcement undertakings accepted by the EA under the RES Act has nearly doubled from 2016 to 2020. This has included, for example, the compensation of £975,000 made by Wessex Water following sewage pollution at Swanage Harbour in November 2018.</p><p>The EA focuses prosecutions on the most serious and harmful pollution cases, allowing it to focus resources where the impact is greatest. We still take the most serious cases to court. The size of fines for environmental offences are at the highest they have ever been, and custodial sentences are now being imposed regularly for environmental offences.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 28/06/2022 16:41:55 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470707

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
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	Non-surgical Cosmetic Procedures: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on the Government's proposal to introduce a licensing scheme for non-surgical cosmetic procedures.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>In April 2022, we introduced legislation through the Health and Care Act 2022 to provide powers for the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to introduce a licensing scheme for non-surgical cosmetic procedures in England. The scope and details of any future licensing scheme will be set out in secondary legislation and subject to stakeholder engagement and public consultation. Officials are currently assessing the implementation of these plans.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 20/06/2022 12:57:33 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470745

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	F-35 Aircraft: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Department will sign a contract for the second tranche of 27 F-35 aircraft.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>I refer the right hon. Member to the answer given on 19 May 2022 to Question 1104 to the right hon. Member for Wentworth and Dearne (Mr Healey).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 20/06/2022 12:56:32 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin attachment 1 file name 1104 - Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft Procurement.docx title Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft Procurement
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1470830

registered interest
date	15/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces Compensation Scheme: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what percentage of appeals for judgments made under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme have been successful since 2010.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	18825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>The number of appeals made under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) cleared by claim type, outcome and financial year are listed in Table 4 of the AFCS Statistics available on gov.uk at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/armed-forces-compensation-scheme-statistics-financial-year-202021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/armed-forces-compensation-scheme-statistics-financial-year-202021</a></p><p> </p><p>The following table is extracted from Table 4 and lists the total number of injury appeals cleared and their outcome from April 2010 to March 2021.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Claim Type</p></td><td><p>Outcome</p></td><td><p><strong>Apr 10 - Mar 21</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Injury Appeals</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number of People</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>6,875</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number of Injury Appeals</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>All<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>7,425</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>New</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>855</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Increased</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,235</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Maintained</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>3,475</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Reduced</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>50</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Favourable Reconsideration</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,715</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Disallowed - Late appeal</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>25</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Overturned by Upper Tier Tribunal</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>0</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Out of jurisdiction</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>55</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The total number of appeals that resulted in a new award, increased award or a favourable reconsideration is 3,805 equating to 51.25% of all injury appeals. During the same period 89,260 injury claims were cleared.<sup>2 </sup> Whilst some of the decisions made on those claims may yet be appealed in future years, the number of favourable appeals compared with the total number of injury claims equates to 4.26%.</p><p> </p><p>Source: Compensation and Pensions System (CAPS)</p><ol><li>Please see the Background Quality Report at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/armed-forces-compensation-scheme-statistics-financial-year-202021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/armed-forces-compensation-scheme-statistics-financial-year-202021</a> for more information on appeal outcomes.</li><li>Extracted from Table 2 of the official statistics at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/armed-forces-compensation-scheme-statistics-financial-year-202021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/armed-forces-compensation-scheme-statistics-financial-year-202021</a></li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 20/06/2022 16:41:04 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones