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1016248

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date	28/11/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Air Traffic
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on maintaining safe and efficient air traffic management beyond 29th March 2019, in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	196720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>I have regular discussions on a wide range of issues relating to aviation, including on air traffic management with my EU counterparts.</p><p> </p><p>The Political Declaration sets out the terms of our future relationship with the EU and includes a commitment that the UK and the EU will establish a Comprehensive Air Transport Agreement that will cover air traffic management.</p><p> </p><p>There would be no disruption to the UK’s provision of air navigation services in the unlikely event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.</p> answering member constituency Epsom and Ewell answering member printed Chris Grayling question first answered 03/12/2018 14:45:18 answering member 1413 label Biography information for Chris Grayling
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1016267

registered interest
date	28/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 46 of Autumn Budget 2017, how much and what proportion of the charging investment infrastructure fund has been invested in charging infrastructure.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	196790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Charging Infrastructure Investment Fund will consist of £200m government investment to be matched by the private sector. The fund will be managed and invested in on a commercial basis by a private sector fund manager who will make independent, commercial decisions on how to invest, within parameters set by government. The Request for Proposals to select a fund manager recently closed, and government are in the final stages of selecting a preferred bidder(s). The selected fund manager(s) will raise the match funding from the private sector and the fund will start investing in early 2019.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 196791 question first answered 03/12/2018 12:55:53 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

1016268

registered interest
date	28/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer,with reference to page 46 of Autumn Budget 2017, how much and what proportion of the £200 million of private investment for the charging investment infrastructure fund has been raised.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough
tabling member printed	Andy McDonald
uin	196791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Charging Infrastructure Investment Fund will consist of £200m government investment to be matched by the private sector. The fund will be managed and invested in on a commercial basis by a private sector fund manager who will make independent, commercial decisions on how to invest, within parameters set by government. The Request for Proposals to select a fund manager recently closed, and government are in the final stages of selecting a preferred bidder(s). The selected fund manager(s) will raise the match funding from the private sector and the fund will start investing in early 2019.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 196790 question first answered 03/12/2018 12:55:53 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4269 label Biography information for Andy McDonald

1016280

registered interest
date	28/11/2018
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	Waste: Crime
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 enforcement undertakings for waste crime the Environment Agency has undertaken in each of the last three years; how many resulted in successful prosecution; and what fines were imposed in each case if the sums were greater than £10,000.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	196686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>Enforcement Undertakings (EUs) are a civil sanction and constitute a voluntary offer made by offenders, containing actions to address the cause and effect of their offending. Where an EU is accepted it becomes a legally binding agreement. The Environment Agency is increasingly using EUs for suitable cases to restore or enhance the environment, improve practices of the offending business and ensure future compliance with environmental requirements.</p><p> </p><p>Over the past 3 calendar years for waste-related offences the Environment Agency has accepted:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>2016 30 EUs accepted, contributing £858,195.69 towards environmental projects;</p></li><li><p>2017 32 EUs accepted, contributing £1,027,423.53 towards environmental projects; and</p></li><li><p>2018 (to date) 27 EUs accepted, contributing £597,022.43 to environmental projects.</p></li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p>EUs are one type of enforcement measure the Environment Agency considers and it will only do so for cases where prosecution is not appropriate using its published Enforcement and Sanctions Policy to guide its approach. However prosecutions will still be taken, particularly in the most serious cases.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Agency have undertaken the following waste prosecutions in the last 3 years:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>2016 152 waste prosecutions, of which 129 were successful</p></li><li><p>2017 129 waste prosecutions, of which 115 were successful</p></li><li><p>2018 (to date) 79 waste prosecutions, of which 73 were successful</p></li></ul><p> </p><p>I attach details of each case for each time period where the fines imposed exceeded £10,000.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 03/12/2018 14:59:10 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey attachment 1 file name Copy of Waste Prosecutions - Fines over 10k - 2016-2018 (to mid Nov).xls title Details of fines over £10,000
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1016283

registered interest
date	28/11/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling: Road Traffic Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to respond to the consultation on new cycling offences: causing death or serious injury when cycling, which closed on 5 November 2018.
tabling member constituency	Bradford South
tabling member printed	Judith Cummins
uin	196795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The responses to the consultation are currently being analysed and the Government expects to publish its response in the first quarter of 2019.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 03/12/2018 14:59:34 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4391 label Biography information for Judith Cummins

1016296

registered interest
date	28/11/2018
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	Food: Waste
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to reduce the amount of food wastage from supermarkets.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	196689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), supported by Defra, launched the Courtauld Commitment 2025 in March 2016. This is an ambitious voluntary agreement that brings together organisations across the food system – from producer to consumer – to make food and drink production and consumption more sustainable, including all major retailers. The commitment contains ambitious industry targets to be reached by 2025. One of these is a 20% per capita reduction in food and drink waste arising in the UK.</p><p>WRAP also launched the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap in September 2018 which so far has been adopted by 89 companies, including major supermarkets. These companies have signed up to a range of ambitious food waste reporting and target milestones.</p><p> </p><p>To increase redistribution the Secretary of State announced at the Conservative Party Conference that the Government will set up a new scheme to reduce food waste. The scheme will be supported by £15 million of additional funding which has been allocated to tackle food waste. The scheme will be developed over the coming months in collaboration with businesses and charities. The scheme will launch in 2019/20.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 03/12/2018 11:58:07 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1016311

registered interest
date	28/11/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people in receipt of legacy benefit payments had a deduction in the latest month for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	196807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 03/12/2018 14:45:03 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1016337

registered interest
date	28/11/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of using geotechnical baseline reports to assess the possible (a) settlement damage to and (b) strengthening required for buildings along the High Speed Two London tunnel route.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	196819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>A geotechnical baseline report (GBR) is a contractual document that defines what the Contractor has to allow for in his price. The actual geotechnical parameters from HS2 project ground investigations have been and are being used for the assessment of “all” buildings impacted by the works including potential ground movements associated with excavations and to assess, in the rare event, any necessary remedial measures. For further information for Phases 1 &amp; 2a see HS2 Information Papers C3 &amp; C14 – Ground Settlement, respectively.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 03/12/2018 14:38:49 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1016338

registered interest
date	28/11/2018
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	Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Leader of the House, with reference to the Government's loneliness strategy, published in October 2018, what steps the Early Years Ministerial Group on Family Support is taking to (a) improve family support and (b) ensure local services work together in a more cost efficient and integrated way.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	196820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Early Years Family Support Ministerial Group is considering how the Government can improve the coordination and cost-effectiveness of early years (conception to age 2) family support and identify gaps in available provision. The group is currently gathering evidence and engaging with external experts and academics on what more can be done in both areas to which the Honorable Member refers to, and will be making recommendations on this to relevant Secretaries of State in due course.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 03/12/2018 11:50:34 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1016339

registered interest
date	28/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Buckingham Palace: Honours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November to Question 192869 on Buckingham Palace: Honours, which organisations are contracted to (a) create and (b) sell the items; and when each of the tendering processes took place for those contracts.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	196743
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The contracted organisations are British Ceremonial Arts and the Press Association. HM Treasury does not hold the details of when the last tendering process took place.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 03/12/2018 13:04:11 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry