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169837

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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	Nuclear Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has commissioned research to determine what the UK's obligations in international law are in the event of economic or environmental damage being caused to other countries by radioactive fallout or blast arising from a British nuclear weapon being (a) accidentally detonated or (b) deliberately targeted and the effects spread to a third or more of the country.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	218279
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text We have not commissioned any research. The issues are long-standing, and the Government has not seen the need to commission fresh research. answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 18/12/2014 14:04:57 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

166699

registered interest
date	28/11/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Afghanistan: Interpreters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what financial and logistical support has been provided to Afghan nationals who have provided contract translation services to UK military and medical auxiliary personnel since 2001 but are no longer in the employ of the armed forces of British authorities in Afghanistan; and what assistance is provided to assist such translators in applying for political asylum in the UK in circumstances where they face death threats in Afghanistan.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	216383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>We recognise the dangerous work undertaken by our patrol interpreters in the course of their employment and, for those who were still serving when drawdown of the operation was announced, this is reflected in the terms of the ex-gratia redundancy scheme. The scheme is additional to the contractual redundancy entitlement and provides a generous in-country package of training and financial support for up to five years; or, a financial payment equivalent to 18 months' salary; or, for those who fulfil additional eligibility criteria by working on the frontline in Helmand (largely interpreters), the opportunity to apply for relocation to the UK.</p><p>This meets the Afghan Government's concern that we should support the country's development and avoid precipitating a 'brain-drain'. But it also recognises the debt we owe to these people.</p><p>We take the safety of current and former local staff very seriously, and they are encouraged to raise with us any concerns about their safety arising from their employment. Such concerns are thoroughly investigated by a professional team on the ground in Afghanistan, and are addressed under our Intimidation Policy.</p><p>The majority of cases of intimidation are addressed through in-country measures, for example, by providing security advice or in some cases relocation within Afghanistan. In the most extreme cases, the policy provides for relocation of the member of staff and their immediate family to the UK. This is through a bespoke immigration mechanism, separate from UK asylum arrangements.</p><p>The monitoring of staff who have left our employment indicates that they currently face a low risk to their safety as a result of their employment with the UK, and that this further recedes over time.</p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 08/12/2014 17:09:01 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois previous answer version 31989 answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

166240

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Royal Bank of Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has received any information from UK Financial Investments Ltd in respect of the (a) operation by RBS of its Global Restructuring Group (GRC) as a profit centre for the bank and (b) implications of the operations of the GRC for small business customers of RBS.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	216223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>We have not received information from UK Financial Investments (UKFI) relating to the operation of RBS’s Global Restructuring Group (GRG) as a profit centre for the bank.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Similarly, we have not received information from UKFI relating to the implications of the operations of GRG for small business customers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As you are aware, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is currently investigating the operations of GRG in relation to its treatment of business customers in financial difficulty. If the FCA identifies issues which come within its remit, it will consider further regulatory measures.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 17/12/2014 17:45:07 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

168564

registered interest
date	08/12/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Defence and Security Organisation: Secondment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, in which posts staff of UK Trade and Investment Defence and Security Organisation are on secondment from industry; from which company each such person was seconded; and what the start and end date of each such secondment is.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	217666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Post</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Company</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Start Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>End date</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>International Cyber Director</p></td><td><p>BAES Applied Intelligence</p></td><td><p>2 September 2013</p></td><td><p>31 March 2015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Typhoon Campaign Coordinator</p></td><td><p>BAE Systems</p></td><td><p>27 January 2014</p></td><td><p>31 December 2015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Joint Export Management Team Member</p></td><td><p>MBDA UK Limited</p></td><td><p>10 February 2014</p></td><td><p>26 February 2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Protocol Officer</p></td><td><p>BAE Systems</p></td><td><p>8 September 2014</p></td><td><p>6 March 2015</p><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/12/2014 14:19:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

169434

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Nuclear Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what evaluation his Department has made of the requirements for radioactive remediation and toxic materials clean up at the (a) uranium mines abroad from which the UK obtained the uranium used in military nuclear programmes and (b) sites where British nuclear warheads were tested in (i) Australia, (ii) Christmas Island and (iii) Nevada.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	218172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence has made no such evaluation of uranium mines or sites in Nevada.</p><p>In 1993, following a report of the Australian Royal Commission on the conduct of nuclear tests in Australia, the UK Government made an <em>ex gratia</em> payment of £20 million to the Australian Government. This payment was part of a full and final settlement of the UK Government's liability for any claims resulting from the British test programme.</p><p>The Ministry of Defence has made evaluations of residual contamination on Christmas Island: the last in 1998 concluded that any required remediation had been undertaken.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 18/12/2014 16:25:50 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon previous answer version 35447 answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

164413

registered interest
date	24/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers received financial support in each local authority in England and Wales in (a) 2010 and (b) 2014.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	215713
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>Support may be provided under section 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 to asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute until their asylum claim is determined. Section 95 support can be provided as both accommodation and <br>subsistence, or accommodation or subsistence only.<br><br>The following tables show the number of asylum seekers in receipt of Section 95 support in each local authority in England and Wales as at the end of December 2010 and end of September 2014.</p><p> </p><p>The numbers of asylum seekers in receipt of section 95 support, broken down by Local Authority, are published on a quarterly basis by the Home Office in Table as_16_q of the Immigration Statistics release .The latest publication <br>is available on the Gov.UK website: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 10/12/2014 15:01:34 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire attachment 1 file name PQ 215713 Table v4.xlsx title Asylum seekers in support of section 95 previous answer version 30461 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

169767

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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	Housing: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the conclusions of the Local Government Ombudsman's report entitled No Place Like Home, on the numbers of disabled people on housing waiting lists.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	218280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>No Place Like Home is about the use of bed and breakfast accommodation for homeless families.</p><p> </p><p>The law is clear that bed and breakfast accommodation should be used to house homeless families only in an emergency, and then for no longer than six weeks.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is determined to tackle the unlawful and avoidable practice of placing families in bed and breakfast for more than 6 weeks. That’s why we made £2 million available in 2013-14 to support local authorities to develop innovative and sustainable solutions to the problems which drive the use of bed and breakfast accommodation. Those seven councils who received funding reduced their numbers by 96% by December 2013 and their numbers remain low.</p><p> </p><p>Homelessness figures for July to September 2014 show a 38% decrease in the numbers of families with children in bed and breakfast for longer than six weeks, when compared to the same quarter in 2013 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness</a>). This shows that Government’s action on this issue is working.</p><p> </p><p>We are also helping other authorities by drawing on the lessons learned from the funding by investing £80,000 to identify good practice that will be shared with other local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>We would not expect the report to have an impact on the numbers of disabled people on housing waiting lists. The statutory reasonable preference categories ensure that people who need to move on medical or welfare grounds, including grounds relating to a disability, are given appropriate priority on social housing waiting lists.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 18/12/2014 15:00:09 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

168225

registered interest
date	05/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Nuclear Weapons: Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what reports his Department's Nuclear Accident and Response Organisation has produced on accidents involving the (a) road transport, (b) air transport and (c) sea shipment of nuclear weapons within, into and from the UK in the last 30 years; and if he will publish those reports on his Department's website.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	217319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>Definitions of the term accident have evolved over time but the term is not currently used by the MOD for nuclear weapons transportation. The nearest current equivalent is 'a Safety Alert', which is defined (in the Joint Services Publication 471) as &quot;An abnormal event which poses a potential threat to, or causes serious concern for reactor plant, nuclear weapon, or special nuclear material safety.&quot;</p><p>Based on the definitions used since 1984, there has been one accident involving a nuclear weapon during a movement by road. This involved a WE177 weapon and occurred in 1987.</p><p>The reports on this accident are already in the public domain having been released following a Freedom of Information request in 2007. These can be found on the version of the MOD website archived for preservation by The National Archives via the following links:</p><p>http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121026065214/http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/FreedomOfInformation/DisclosureLog/SearchDisclosureLog/VariousIncidentsInvolvingNuclearWeaponsJanuary1987InWiltshire.htm</p><p>http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20070905140554/http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/AboutDefence/CorporatePublications/BoardsOfInquiry/BoardOfInquiryIntoTheWestDeanIncident.htm</p><p>There have been no air transport or sea shipment accidents.</p><p>In 1987 responsibility for the transportation of nuclear weapons resided with the RAF which produced the reports, rather than the DE&amp;S Strategic Weapons Project Team's Nuclear Accident Response Organisation (now called the Nuclear Emergency Organisation).</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 15/12/2014 17:28:19 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

167977

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Sovereign Wealth Funds: North of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his statement of 3 December 2014, Official Report, column 314, on the Autumn Statement, what the criteria are for delineation of the boundaries of the north of England for the sovereign wealth fund.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	217255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p>As set out at paragraph 2.210 of the Autumn Statement, “proposals [for the long-term investment fund from shale gas] will be brought forward in the next Parliament.”</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 11/12/2014 17:35:59 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

168077

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
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	Nuclear Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the outcomes of the international conference on the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons held in Vienna on 8 and 9 December 2014; if he will publish on his Department's website all print and oral submissions made by the UK to the conference; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	217218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>A very wide range of views was expressed by participants at the Conference, as reflected in the factual summary of the conference issued under the Chair’s authority. Some argued that the way to achieve the goal of a world without nuclear weapons was to ban weapons now, or to fix a timetable for their elimination. This approach fails to take account of the stability and security which nuclear weapons can help to secure. None of us would gain from a loss of that stability. The United Kingdom believes that the UN Disarmament Machinery and the Non-Proliferation Treaty provide the right forum for working towards a world without nuclear weapons. The UK Ambassador restated our concern at the humanitarian consequences which could result from the use of nuclear weapons. That is why the UK works extremely hard to prevent the use of nuclear weapons, to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and to keep our own nuclear weapons safe and secure. We are also committed to working towards a world without nuclear weapons. We shall, however, retain a credible, continuous and submarine-based deterrent for as long as the global security situation makes it necessary. The UK intervention at the conference has already been published on the gov.uk website. I have also arranged for a copy to be placed in the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 10/12/2014 16:18:52 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn