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1746586

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2024
	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	Kosovo: Inland Waterways
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when his Department last discussed the Banjska attack with the Serbian Government.
	tabling member constituency	Rutland and Stamford
	tabling member printed	Alicia Kearns
	uin	17614
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2024 answer text <p>We continue to engage at senior levels with the Serbian government to urge Serbia to bring to account the perpetrators of the September 2023 Banjska attack and the May 2023 attack on Kosovo Force (KFOR) troops. Most recently, I underlined the importance of accountability for these attacks in my conversation with Serbian Foreign Minister Djuric on 1 December. I also made this point to Foreign Minister Djuric in the margins of the Berlin Process Foreign Ministers' meeting in October.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff South and Penarth answering member printed Stephen Doughty question first answered 06/12/2024 14:50:06 answering member 4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty
	tabling member	4805 label Biography information for Alicia Kearns

1746588

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2024
	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	Kosovo: Inland Waterways
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will increase the number of British military personnel deployed to KFOR following the attack on the Iber Lepenci water canal on 28 November 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Rutland and Stamford
	tabling member printed	Alicia Kearns
	uin	17615
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2024 answer text <p>The size and shape of NATO's Kosovo Force (KFOR) mission is an operational matter for NATO. The UK would consider any request from NATO, through its established process and procedure, for an increase in the number of military personnel deployed to Kosovo. We remain a key part of KFOR - including with our Strategic Reserve, which deployed for three months at less than five days' notice after the attack at Banjska in the north of Kosovo in September 2023.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff South and Penarth answering member printed Stephen Doughty question first answered 06/12/2024 14:30:05 answering member 4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty
	tabling member	4805 label Biography information for Alicia Kearns

1746589

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2024
	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	Kosovo: Inland Waterways
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has discussed the attack on the Iber Lepenci water canal in Kosovo with the Foreign Ministers of (a) the EU, (b) the USA, (c) France, (d) Italy and (e) Germany.
	tabling member constituency	Rutland and Stamford
	tabling member printed	Alicia Kearns
	uin	17616
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2024 answer text <p>I discussed the attack on critical infrastructure in northern Kosovo on 3 December with French Minister for European Affairs. I also discussed the situation with fellow NATO members at the NATO Foreign Ministerial Meeting on 3 December. On the same day, the Prime Minister's Special Envoy, Lord Peach, discussed the attack with EU Special Representative Lajcak. This followed the immediate engagement of our Ambassadors in Pristina and Belgrade with their EU, French, Italian, US and German counterparts, with whom we are working to encourage a full and evidence-based investigation to establish the facts of the attack, and to urge against rhetoric that heightens tensions. I will continue to engage with counterparts.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff South and Penarth answering member printed Stephen Doughty question first answered 06/12/2024 14:46:54 answering member 4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty
	tabling member	4805 label Biography information for Alicia Kearns

1746592

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2024
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Gatwick Airport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2024 to Question 15981 on Gatwick Airport, whether the previous Secretary of State for Transport met with representatives of Gatwick Airport to discuss the proposed expansion.
	tabling member constituency	Tunbridge Wells
	tabling member printed	Mike Martin
	uin	17688
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2024 answer text <p>The previous Secretary of State did not meet with representatives of Gatwick Airport to discuss the proposed expansion.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wythenshawe and Sale East answering member printed Mike Kane question first answered 06/12/2024 08:58:59 answering member 4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane
	tabling member	5219

1746593

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2024
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Driving Tests: Blackpool North and Fleetwood
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to increase the availability of practical driving tests in Blackpool North and Fleetwood constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool North and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Mrs Lorraine Beavers
	uin	17690
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2024 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) main priority is to reduce car practical driving test waiting times, whilst upholding road safety standards.</p><p> </p><p>Measures in place to reduce waiting times for customers at all driving test centres (DTC), include the recruitment of new driving examiners (DE), conducting tests outside regular hours, including at weekends and on public holidays, and buying back annual leave from DEs. DVSA also continues to deploy DEs from areas with lower waiting times into those where waiting times are longer.</p><p> </p><p>Blackpool's current DTC is a temporary base. DVSA has identified a new location for Blackpool DTC and has been working through the planning process. If successful in opening a new DTC at this site, this should allow an increase in capacity in the number of DEs, with an overall capacity of 10 DEs.</p><p> </p><p>As part of recent recruitment at DTCs that serve the Blackpool North and Fleetwood constituency, DVSA has three potential new examiners currently in training.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nottingham South answering member printed Lilian Greenwood question first answered 06/12/2024 08:56:43 answering member 4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood
	tabling member	5232

1746594

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Homelessness: Thames Valley
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent steps she has taken to reduce homelessness in (a) Slough constituency and (b) Thames Valley region.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	17588
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2024 answer text <p>Homelessness levels are far too high. This Government recognises the devastating impact this can have on those affected. We are already taking the first steps to get back on track to ending homelessness. As announced at the Budget, funding for homelessness services is increasing next year by £233 million compared to this year (2024/25) and brings total spend to nearly £1 billion in 2025/26. Allocations for individual local authorities in England will be set out later in December, which will include Slough, West Dorset, the Thames Valley region and wider rural communities.</p><p>The Deputy Prime Minister is leading cross-government work to tackle the underlying causes of homelessness and deliver long-term solutions to end all forms of homelessness, including rural and child homelessness. This includes chairing a dedicated Inter-Ministerial Group, bringing together ministers from across Government to develop a long-term homelessness strategy.</p><p>We have also established an Expert Group to bring together representatives from across the homelessness and rough sleeping sector, local and combined authorities and wider experts. The role of this expert group is to provide knowledge, analysis and challenge to help Government understand what is working well nationally and locally and where improvements are needed.</p><p>The department also has a lived experience forum to ensure the voices of those with lived experience of homelessness are reflected in the homelessness strategy.</p><p>More widely, we are taking action to tackle the root causes of homelessness by delivering the biggest increase in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation and building 1.5 million new homes over the next parliament.</p><p>The Government is also abolishing Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions, preventing private renters being exploited and discriminated against, and empowering people to challenge unreasonable rent increases.</p> answering member constituency Bethnal Green and Stepney answering member printed Rushanara Ali grouped question UIN 17456 17457 17599 17600 17683 17742 question first answered 06/12/2024 13:15:18 answering member 4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1746617

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2024
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Royal Mint: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what changes to procedures she has made following the investigation by law enforcement agencies into fraudulent transactions made on the Royal Mint website since 2022.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	17516
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2024 answer text <p>As outlined in The Royal Mint Trading Fund’s Annual Reports and Accounts for 2022-23, an external fraud incident occurred impacting The Royal Mint. A small number of fraudulent transactions were made on the Royal Mint’s website. The incident did not impact Royal Mint customers details and there was no risk to customer data.</p><p> </p><p>The Royal Mint continually make changes to their anti-fraud procedures, reflecting the dynamic nature of the external fraud landscape.</p><p> </p><p>As shareholder of The Royal Mint, HM Treasury are regularly updated on risk controls and have been supporting the strengthening of these processes and procedures.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hampstead and Highgate answering member printed Tulip Siddiq question first answered 06/12/2024 12:00:55 answering member 4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1746619

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Estate Transformation Programme: Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) total cost and (b) cost for each new prison place was for the Prison Estate Transformation Programme between 2016 and 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth Moor View
	tabling member printed	Fred Thomas
	uin	17677
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2024 answer text <p>The total cost of the prison places delivered by the Prison Estate Transformation Programme (PETP) was c.£37.4m. The cost per place was c.£182k. This includes some places delivered in 2020 where they relate to the phased delivery of a single project.</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 06/12/2024 15:08:34 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
	tabling member	5174

1746620

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Accommodation: Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the forecasted cost to the public purse was of adding 20,000 places to the prison estate (a) in total and (b) per place in October 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth Moor View
	tabling member printed	Fred Thomas
	uin	17678
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2024 answer text <p>The Department’s estimate of the total cost of completing the additional 20,000 places to the prison estate at the point of the SR21 settlement was c.£5.2bn and this in turn equated to an average of c.£257k per place.</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 06/12/2024 15:09:26 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
	tabling member	5174

1746623

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2024
	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	Domestic Waste: 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, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2024 to Question 16313 on Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal, what his planned timetable is for Government to issue payments to local councils to procure the resources needed to carry out this service.
	tabling member constituency	Fylde
	tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Snowden
	uin	17636
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2024 answer text <p>Waste collection authorities received their capital new burdens funding allocations for providing household food waste collections in February this year and will receive transitional resource allocations for the 24/25 financial year in early 2025. We aim to provide 2025/26 payments early in the financial year.</p> answering member constituency Coventry East answering member printed Mary Creagh question first answered 06/12/2024 12:07:38 answering member 1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh
	tabling member	5072