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1506714

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date	20/09/2022
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	UK Trade with EU: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many callers to the Export Support Services Contact Centre took part in customer satisfaction surveys in each month between April 2022 and September 2022; and how many and what proportion of those callers said that they were satisfied with (a) the professionalism of the call handler and (b) the overall service they received.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	51517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>During Quarter 2 (April to June) 2022, 42% of users responded to the Helpline’s Customer Satisfaction survey. Of these, 88% said they were satisfied with the professionalism of the call handler, and 75% said they were satisfied with the overall service. During Quarter 3 (July to 20 September) 2022, 43% of users responded to the survey. Of these, 92% said they were satisfied with the professionalism of the call handler, and 80% said they were satisfied with the overall service.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr Marcus Fysh question first answered 28/09/2022 15:01:09 answering member 4446 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Fysh
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1506715

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Travel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2022 to Question 47409 on Ministry of Defence: Travel, for what reason payments to Barclaycard were recorded as negative values when accounting for his Department’s total spending on travel and accommodation using electronic purchasing cards.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	51518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>The payments to Barclaycard are shown as negative values for accounting purposes. Payments are made under the centralised travel solution to the individual travel service providers throughout a billing period and appear on the account as positive values. At the end of the billing period, a single invoice is generated by Barclaycard to cover all card payments. When the invoice is paid, it shows on the Department's accounts as a negative value, equating to a credit.</p> answering member constituency Elmet and Rothwell answering member printed Alec Shelbrooke question first answered 28/09/2022 15:29:36 answering member 3997 label Biography information for Sir Alec Shelbrooke
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1506716

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Travel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2022 to Question 47409 on Ministry of Defence: Travel, how much his Department spent on travel and accommodation (a) using an electronic purchasing card and (b) by making payments to the electronic purchasing card provider excluding refunds in December 2021.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	51519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>Net expenditure, excluding refunds, on travel and accommodation using an electronic purchasing card in the calendar months of December 2021 and February 2022 were £9,394,322 and £12,298,748 respectively.</p><p> </p><p>The above figures represent the net expenditure made through the centralised Ministry of Defence (MOD) travel solution which were paid to individual suppliers by and subsequently reimbursed to the card provider, Barclaycard. As the MOD transparency reports on expenditure of over £500 on a Government Procurement Card cover a calendar month, whereas the card billing period runs from the fourth of the month to the third of the subsequent month, individual card payments cannot be fully reconciled with the invoice payments to Barclaycard using data for individual months.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Elmet and Rothwell answering member printed Alec Shelbrooke grouped question UIN 51521 question first answered 28/09/2022 15:25:57 answering member 3997 label Biography information for Sir Alec Shelbrooke
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1506717

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Travel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2022 to Question 47409 on Ministry of Defence: Travel, whether the calculation of net spending by his Department on travel and accommodation in October 2021 using an electronic purchasing card or making payments to the electronic purchasing card provider, and minus any refunds, is (a) £3,205,631.57, (b) £8,452,486.98, or (c) £13,699,342.39.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	51520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>Net expenditure on travel and accommodation using an electronic purchasing card in the calendar month of October 2021 was £11,946,803. The figure of £3,205,631.57 includes credits, including the invoice payment to the card provider, Barclaycard, of £5,246,855.41.</p><p>As the Ministry of Defence transparency reports on expenditure of over £500 on a Government Procurement Card cover a calendar month, whereas the card billing period runs from the fourth of the month to the third of the subsequent month, individual card payments cannot be fully reconciled with the invoice payments to Barclaycard using data for individual months.</p> answering member constituency Elmet and Rothwell answering member printed Alec Shelbrooke question first answered 28/09/2022 15:28:08 answering member 3997 label Biography information for Sir Alec Shelbrooke
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1506718

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Building Safety Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of inflation on the viability of funding agreements made through the Building Safety Fund.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	51905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>Applicants can only submit a full costs application to the Building Safety Fund once they have gone out to tender and have a preferred contractor to carry out the remediation works. At that point they must provide the required cost breakdown and their application will be assessed by the Department. If costs are assessed as acceptable an award of funding and grant funding agreement is issued. Applicants will also enter into a works contract with the main contractor, based on the costs agreed at tender from the contractor. We expect the works to start on site as soon as practically possible once contracts are signed.</p><p>Applicants to the Building Safety Fund are then required to manage the total eligible costs of remediation project within the grant awarded. We appreciate that circumstances can change and costs may increase because of unforeseen overruns or variations to contract scope. Where this happens applicants can submit an application for variations which will be considered by the Department. However, where construction contracts vary in the placement of liability in relation to variations and cost variation applications to the Building Safety Fund will only be permitted if the liability for the variation is the applicant's and not the contractor's. Guidance on variations under the Building Safety Fund can be found in the Building Safety Fund Application Guidance on gov.uk [at <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fremediation-of-non-acm-buildings&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7C00f86e1c3bc245abe10f08daa092d85a%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637998849792734815%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=2jilBJuHMAbRQ4uGFF6jDUCKcc63VNunnmUnK9Bhy%2Fc%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/guidance/remediation-of-non-acm-buildings</a> and <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fbuilding-safety-fund-guidance-for-new-applications-2022&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7C00f86e1c3bc245abe10f08daa092d85a%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C637998849792734815%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=8aLeD5c41taxv7tX3NvFfdeUs828CvU4hl7KZ04317w%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-fund-guidance-for-new-applications-2022</a> ].</p><p>The Department appoints cost consultants for the Building Safety Fund. They undertake additional monitoring of tenders and variation requests including to identify where costs are rising as a result of inflation. The Department is actively seeking to better monitor the overall impact of inflation, including on the Building Safety Fund.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully grouped question UIN 51903 51904 question first answered 28/09/2022 16:53:06 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1506719

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Travel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2022 to Question 47409 on Ministry of Defence: Travel, how much his Department spent on travel and accommodation (a) using an electronic purchasing card and (b) by making payments to the electronic purchasing card provider excluding refunds in February 2022.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	51521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>Net expenditure, excluding refunds, on travel and accommodation using an electronic purchasing card in the calendar months of December 2021 and February 2022 were £9,394,322 and £12,298,748 respectively.</p><p> </p><p>The above figures represent the net expenditure made through the centralised Ministry of Defence (MOD) travel solution which were paid to individual suppliers by and subsequently reimbursed to the card provider, Barclaycard. As the MOD transparency reports on expenditure of over £500 on a Government Procurement Card cover a calendar month, whereas the card billing period runs from the fourth of the month to the third of the subsequent month, individual card payments cannot be fully reconciled with the invoice payments to Barclaycard using data for individual months.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Elmet and Rothwell answering member printed Alec Shelbrooke grouped question UIN 51519 question first answered 28/09/2022 15:25:57 answering member 3997 label Biography information for Sir Alec Shelbrooke
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1506720

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much and what proportion of the funding pledged by the UK for the Global Fund Sixth Replenishment has been disbursed as on 20 September 2022.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	51906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2022 answer text <p>The UK was the 2nd largest donor to the Global Fund's 6th replenishment with a pledge of up to £1.46 billion. £1.176 billion of our core contribution to the Global Fund has been disbursed as on 20 September 2022, including an additional £60 million payment to the Global Fund's COVID-19 Response Mechanism. This is approximately 80% of the UK's core contribution pledge to the Global Fund.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 29/09/2022 12:05:42 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1506721

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	UN Central Emergency Response Fund: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much funding his Department contributed to the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund in (a) 2020-21 and (b) 2021-22; and how much his Department plans to contribute in 2022-23.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	51907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>The UK is a longstanding partner to the CERF and is its largest overall donor, contributing more than $1.7 billion to the fund since its inception in 2006. Funding contributed for financial years 2020-21 was £63.5 million, 2021-22 was £52 million and 22-23 was £52 million.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 28/09/2022 10:48:27 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1506722

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 August 2022 to Question 39956 on Asylum: Applications, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the New Plan for Immigration on processing costs for asylum applications; and if she will make an estimate of how those costs will change in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	51908
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>We do not hold nor calculate the costs for this on a calendar year basis, nor do we have an estimate of costs for 2022/23, as the calculation of costs are collated from across the Home Office, once a year only, after the annual accounts have been published. This is still ongoing for 2021/22, and they will be available in the autumn. The Home Office routinely publish information on the total cost and breakdown of asylum costs and productivity and can be found at Asy_04: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-and-protection-data-q1-2022" target="_blank">Immigration and protection data: Q1 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 28/09/2022 10:47:28 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1506723

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Social Rented Housing: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of lowering the threshold at which the Regulator for Social Housing can make statutory appointments to the boards of non-compliant registered providers.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	51909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>The Regulator uses statutory appointments to strengthen the boards of non-compliant providers, where the board lacks the skills and capacity to provide effective governance. This allows the Regulator to appoint people with relevant expertise and experience, depending on the weaknesses of the existing board that need to be addressed.  Ultimately, this supports the provider to return to compliance, to the benefit of its tenants.</p><p>It is crucial that the Regulator is able to use this power effectively when needed. We are making a minor amendment to the Bill which will allow the Regulator to use the power where there are no board members but an officer remains, addressing a potential gap that exists currently.  We are also clarifying that the Regulator can appoint officers where a provider is in breach of a regulatory standard. Co-regulation only works if providers have effective boards. These changes are vital in ensuring that the Regulator can act decisively and effectively to address the weaknesses on a board.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 28/09/2022 15:20:33 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill