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751370

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Fast Food: Advertising
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of junk food advertising on levels of obesity among children and young people.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4681
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>There has been no assessment made of the effect of fast food advertising on levels of obesity among children and young people.</p><p> </p><p>In October 2015, Public Health England published its review ‘Sugar reduction: The evidence for action: A mixed method review of behaviour changes resulting from marketing strategies targeted at high sugar food and non-alcoholic drinks’. This review found that all forms of advertising are effective in influencing the preference and purchase of high sugar foods and non-alcoholic drinks and increasing their consumption. New forms of advertising including, advergames, discounting, use of character branding, product size and supermarket product placement, can influence high sugar product selection or consumption. It would be difficult to assess the impact of one strategy in isolation as individuals are exposed to a whole variety of marketing strategies across various different mediums.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/07/2017 13:37:28 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

750055

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	High Rise Flats: Fire Extinguishers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many meetings his Department has had with representatives of house building companies on the introduction of fire sprinklers in each year for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	3911
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>Officials and Ministers regularly meet with representatives of house building companies to discuss a wide range of issues. We are not aware of any meetings specifically to discuss the introduction of fire sprinklers.</p><p>The Department did write to all social housing providers in 2013 following the recommendations in a Coroner’s report into firefighter deaths which occurred at Shirley Towers in Southampton in April 2010. That letter encouraged providers to consider the retrofitting of sprinklers in older residential tower blocks. The Department then reinforced the content of that letter in its response to the Coroner’s report into the Lakanal House Fire – a copy of which can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/205567/Annex_B_-_SoS_DCLG_Rule_43_response.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/205567/Annex_B_-_SoS_DCLG_Rule_43_response.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 19/07/2017 14:26:44 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

750804

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Multiple Occupation: Licensing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the number and proportion of houses of multiple occupation which were (a) registered and (b) not registered in each local authority area is in each year for which data is available in ranked order for each year.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4144
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government collects data annually on the estimated number of mandatory licensable houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) and the number of HMOs licensed in each local authority area since 2011. The data for each year from 2011/12 – 2015/16 can be found published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-housing-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-housing-data</a></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 19/07/2017 14:16:20 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

750805

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Multiple Occupation: Licensing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 July 2017 to Question 840, on multiple occupation: licensing, which local authorities have accessed new information from tenancy deposit protections schemes in order to identify mandatory licensable houses of multiple occupation since that data has been made available.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4183
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>Measures within the Housing and Planning Act 2016 allow local housing authorities in England to access information held by the Tenancy Deposit Protection (TDP) schemes. Local Housing Authorities must only use the data:</p><p>1. For a purpose connected with the exercise of their functions under Parts 1-4 of the Housing Act 2004 in relation to any premises (in general improving housing conditions, licencing of Houses in Multiple Occupation, selective licencing of other accommodation and management orders); and</p><p>2. For the purpose of investigating whether an offence has been committed under any of those Parts in relation to any premises.</p><p>Local Housing Authorities are not required to access the information provided by the TDP schemes. It is up to individual authorities to decide whether to access and use the information or not, depending on local circumstances and other data sources available to them.</p><p>A list of local Housing Authorities in England who are known to have applied to the schemes for access to the information in the first quarter of 2017 is shown below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Allerdale</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aylesbury Vale</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barnet</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bath and North East Somerset</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bedford</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blackburn &amp; Darwen</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blackpool</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolton</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Boston</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brent</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bristol City of</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Broadland</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Broxbourne</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Broxtowe</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Camden</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Carlisle</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central Bedfordshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chelmsford</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cherwell</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Colchester</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cornwall</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Croydon</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dacorum</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dover</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ealing</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Devon</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Hertfordshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eastbourne</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Epping Forest</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Exeter</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Forest Heath</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gedling</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greenwich</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hackney</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Haringey</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hastings</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hastings</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hull City</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Islington</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kings Lynn &amp; West Norfolk</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kingston upon Hull City of</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lewes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liverpool</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London Borough of Ealing</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London Borough of Tower Hamlets</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Luton</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manchester</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mansfield</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newcastle upon Tyne</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Lincolnshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Somerset</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Warwickshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norwich</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham City</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oxford City</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Northamptonshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southend-on-Sea</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spelthorne</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Albans City</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stevenage</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stockport</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suffolk</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suffolk Coastal</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thanet</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tower Hamlets</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warwick</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Watford</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Waveney</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Welwyn Garden City</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Welwyn Hatfield</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Suffolk - Forest Heath</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Suffolk - St Edmundsbury</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Westminster</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wigan</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Woking</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wolverhampton</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wycombe</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wyre Forest District Council</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 19/07/2017 16:53:42 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

750806

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Minimum Wage: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many companies in Wales are known to have paid employees less than the minimum wage in each year for which figures are available; and if he will list those companies and their location.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4274
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is determined that everyone who is entitled to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW) receives it. Anyone who feels they have been underpaid NMW or NLW should contact the Acas helpline on 0300 123 1100. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) review all complaints that are referred to them.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC does not record statistics on complaints or investigations by reference to countries of the United Kingdom, Government regions, constituencies or counties. Since 1999, when NMW enforcement began, HMRC has identified over 25,500 employers with total NMW arrears of almost £79 million. Last year (2016/17) HMRC identified over 1,100 employers with total NMW arrears of over £10.9 million.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC cannot comment on the affairs of individual taxpayers, as it has a duty to maintain taxpayer confidentiality. However, the Department for Business for Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) run a naming scheme for employers who are found to have underpaid NMW. You can find more information at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/enforcing-national-minimum-wage-law" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/enforcing-national-minimum-wage-law</a></p><p> </p><p>I refer the honourable member to the answer provided on 18<sup>th</sup> July 2016, at UIN 42723, for information on prosecution results.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 4482 question first answered 19/07/2017 15:03:56 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

751208

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Minimum Wage: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of employers in Wales who were successfully prosecuted for paying less than the minimum wage in each year for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4482
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is determined that everyone who is entitled to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW) receives it. Anyone who feels they have been underpaid NMW or NLW should contact the Acas helpline on 0300 123 1100. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) review all complaints that are referred to them.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC does not record statistics on complaints or investigations by reference to countries of the United Kingdom, Government regions, constituencies or counties. Since 1999, when NMW enforcement began, HMRC has identified over 25,500 employers with total NMW arrears of almost £79 million. Last year (2016/17) HMRC identified over 1,100 employers with total NMW arrears of over £10.9 million.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC cannot comment on the affairs of individual taxpayers, as it has a duty to maintain taxpayer confidentiality. However, the Department for Business for Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) run a naming scheme for employers who are found to have underpaid NMW. You can find more information at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/enforcing-national-minimum-wage-law" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/enforcing-national-minimum-wage-law</a></p><p> </p><p>I refer the honourable member to the answer provided on 18<sup>th</sup> July 2016, at UIN 42723, for information on prosecution results.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 4274 question first answered 19/07/2017 15:03:56 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

750801

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	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	Rivers: Pollution
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many recordable pollution incidents there were for English waterways in each year for which information is available; and what proportion of those offences resulted in (a) successful prosecution and (b) an enforcement undertaking.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4156
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The table below provides details of the numbers of water pollution incidents as well as the numbers of successful prosecutions and accepted Enforcement Undertakings for water pollution offences.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Category 1 &amp; 2 Serious water pollution incidents</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total water pollution incidents - impact levels 1-3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Successful prosecutions in relation to water pollution </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Enforcement Undertakings Accepted</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>444</p></td><td><p>8282</p></td><td><p>145</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>378</p></td><td><p>7770</p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>430</p></td><td><p>8285</p></td><td><p>111</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>336</p></td><td><p>8583</p></td><td><p>113</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>360</p></td><td><p>8504</p></td><td><p>98</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>293</p></td><td><p>8265</p></td><td><p>82</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>376</p></td><td><p>8485</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>361</p></td><td><p>7274</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>326</p></td><td><p>6363</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>314</p></td><td><p>6414</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Prosecutions or enforcement undertakings are normally considered for the more serious Category 1 and 2 incidents. Prosecutions are undertaken where there is a public interest in doing so and where there is a reasonable likelihood of obtaining conviction. Enforcement Undertakings have been available as an enforcement option since 2011.</p><p> </p><p>The prosecution of water pollution offences or decision on enforcement undertakings does not necessarily occur in the same year in which the incidents took place. There are cases for offences which took place in earlier years which are currently still in progress.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 19/07/2017 13:33:12 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

751377

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Blood: Contamination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on involving those affected by the contaminated blood scandal in the recently announced inquiry.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4490
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>It is important that those affected are involved and the Government will now consult with victims and their families in order to ensure that their views are fully considered in deciding the most appropriate style and scope of an inquiry.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/07/2017 13:26:27 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

751785

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Self-harm: Children and Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the number of patients aged between 11 and 18-years old who have been treated for non-fatal self-harm incidents in each year for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4953
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/07/2017 13:29:47 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane