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752111

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his Department's policy to make no further cuts to disability benefits in the current Parliament.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>We have no plans to make any further cuts to disability benefits beyond those already legislated for.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 19/07/2017 10:24:59 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

751849

registered interest
date	13/07/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many companies are registered as disability confident.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	4842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>As of the 7th July 2017, 4,589 employers had signed up to Disability Confident.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 19/07/2017 10:13:16 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

751883

registered interest
date	13/07/2017
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, pursuant to the Answer of 4 July 2017 to Question 2771, if he will publish a list of the groups and organisations his Department is engaging with in order to represent the diverse communities of the UK throughout its negotiation process.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	4939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>DExEU Ministers and officials have held roundtables, visits, and bilateral meetings with organisations including youth groups, faith groups, and charity bodies. Details of Ministerial meetings will be published in the Department's Quarterly Transparency Returns, which will be made publicly available on GOV.UK.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 19/07/2017 10:26:50 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

751441

registered interest
date	12/07/2017
answering body	Leader of the House
answering dept id	34
answering dept short name	Leader of the House
answering dept sort name	Leader of the House
hansard heading	Sinn Féin: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Leader of the House, pursuant to the Answer of 11 July 2017 to Question 2658, on Sinn Fein: finance, if she will publish how much of representative money will be paid to hon. Members elected for Sinn Fein in the 2017-19 parliamentary session; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Lady Hermon
uin	4712
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>Following the results of the 2017 General Election, the full year Representative Money allocation for Sinn Fein is:</p><p> </p><p>Main Budget: £161,501.00</p><p>Travel Budget: £3,578.03</p><p> </p><p>The pro-rated figures for the post-election period (i.e. 9 June 2017 to 31 March 2018) are £130,970.55 and £2,901.64 respectively.</p><p> </p><p>Figures for future years will be based on the annual percentage increase of the consumer price index as at the previous December.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 19/07/2017 10:26:24 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1437 label Biography information for Lady Hermon

751469

registered interest
date	12/07/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Pensions: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the number of young people who are saving for a pension.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire South
tabling member printed	Mhairi Black
uin	4533
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>Automatic enrolment into workplace pensions was introduced to enable more people to save for their retirement. So far over 8 million people have been automatically enrolled into a workplace pension, reversing the decline in private pension saving, including amongst younger workers, seen in the decade before the reforms were introduced in 2012.</p><p><br>In March this year, the Office for National Statistics published an estimate that around 160,000 employees aged 16-21 and 2.7 million employees aged 22-29 were contributing to a workplace pension in 2016</p><p> </p><p>We are looking at how we can build on this success over the longer term. Our current review of automatic enrolment is looking at the existing coverage of the policy and the needs of those not currently benefiting; strengthening the evidence base concerning future contributions; and how we can encourage greater personal ownership of work place pension saving, including by young people. The Review will report at the end of 2017.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 4534 question first answered 19/07/2017 10:11:31 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4421 label Biography information for Mhairi Black

751470

registered interest
date	12/07/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Pensions: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to encourage young people to save for a pension; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire South
tabling member printed	Mhairi Black
uin	4534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>Automatic enrolment into workplace pensions was introduced to enable more people to save for their retirement. So far over 8 million people have been automatically enrolled into a workplace pension, reversing the decline in private pension saving, including amongst younger workers, seen in the decade before the reforms were introduced in 2012.</p><p><br>In March this year, the Office for National Statistics published an estimate that around 160,000 employees aged 16-21 and 2.7 million employees aged 22-29 were contributing to a workplace pension in 2016</p><p> </p><p>We are looking at how we can build on this success over the longer term. Our current review of automatic enrolment is looking at the existing coverage of the policy and the needs of those not currently benefiting; strengthening the evidence base concerning future contributions; and how we can encourage greater personal ownership of work place pension saving, including by young people. The Review will report at the end of 2017.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 4533 question first answered 19/07/2017 10:11:31 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4421 label Biography information for Mhairi Black

750631

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Transplant Surgery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2017 to Question 1450, what the total cost of the UK Taking Organ Transplantation to 2020 Strategy has been to date.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	4424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The United Kingdom-wide ‘Taking Organ Transplantation to 2020 Strategy (2013)’ aims to optimise every part of the organ donation system in order to maximise the opportunities to save and transform lives, and builds on the significant progress that NHS Blood and Transplant and the National Health Service have made since the Organ Donation Task Force’s recommendations in 2008. As such, we are unable to provide the information in the form requested. The available information is shown in the table below and sets out the total amount of funding provided to NHS Blood and Transplant by the Department and the devolved administrations since the launch of the Strategy.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>United Kingdom</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£ millions</p></td><td><p>£ millions</p></td><td><p>£ millions</p></td><td><p>£ millions</p></td><td><p>£ millions</p></td><td><p>£ millions</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>62.93</p></td><td><p>64.20</p></td><td><p>65.51</p></td><td><p>73.90</p></td><td><p>73.90</p></td><td><p>73.90</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/07/2017 10:34:33 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

750686

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Patients: Fines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were issued with fines by the NHS Business Authority because those patients (a) were not entitled to free prescriptions and (b) did not renew their exemption certificate; and how many such patients had a long-term medical condition.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	4268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>Between September 2014 and April 2017 (latest figures), a total of 1,785,895 penalty charge notices (PCNs) were issued to patients declaring they were entitled to free National Health Service prescriptions but their exemption could not be validated.</p><p> </p><p>A patient is issued a penalty charge notices when the NHS Business Services Authority exemption checker does not find a valid exemption entitling that patient to free prescriptions. This includes patients that did hold a valid exemption but failed to renew.</p><p> </p><p>During the same period, a total of 90,525 PCNs were issued for unconfirmed medical exemption certificates. A new process was introduced in spring 2015 whereby someone can submit a valid application for a medical or maternity exemption certificate within 60 days from date of the penalty charge notice, the outstanding penalty charge is cancelled but the prescription charge is still recovered.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/07/2017 10:36:37 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

750900

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Government plans to publish a response to the report Old Problems, New Solutions: Improving Acute Psychiatric Care for Adults in England, published by the Commission on Acute Psychiatric Care in February 2016.
tabling member constituency	Gillingham and Rainham
tabling member printed	Rehman Chishti
uin	4135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>NHS England is leading the development of a formal joint National Health Service arm’s length body response to the report ‘Old Problems, New Solutions’, planned for publication in autumn 2017. NHS England has been working very closely with partners and members of the Commission on Adult Acute Psychiatric Care throughout the development process.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/07/2017 10:31:30 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3987 label Biography information for Rehman Chishti

749710

registered interest
date	07/07/2017
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	Beef: USA
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 it is his policy to ban the importation of American beef containing artificial growth hormones after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Livingston
tabling member printed	Hannah Bardell
uin	3647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>Any new trade deals must be right for UK consumers, businesses and farmers, and ensure food safety, environmental protection, and animal welfare standards.</p><p> </p><p>The UK has transposed EU Council Directive 96/22/EC (as amended) into national law ‘<em>Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits)(England and Scotland) Regulations 2015</em>', with similar legislation for Wales and Northern Ireland, which prohibits the use of artificial growth hormones in both domestic production and imported products. This protection will continue after we exit the EU.</p><p> </p><p>The European Union (Withdrawal) Bill, published last week, will ensure that the UK exits the EU with certainty, continuity and control. The purpose of the Bill is to convert EU law into UK law as it applies in the UK at the moment of exit. This will apply to the laws and rules we have now, and will update references to EU Council Directive 96/22/EC in our national laws.</p><p> </p><p>Our high environmental and food standards will not be diminished or diluted as a result of leaving the EU or establishing free trade deals with other countries.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 19/07/2017 10:32:20 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4486 label Biography information for Hannah Bardell