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1045475

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date	21/01/2019
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Serious Fraud Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what his powers are in relation to the Serious Fraud Office.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Kelvin Hopkins
uin	210429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2019 answer text <p>The Attorney General and Solicitor General superintend the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) as set out in the Criminal Justice Act 1987 and are the ministers responsible to Parliament for the work of the SFO. The SFO was created and given its functions and powers by the Criminal Justice Act 1987; it exercises those functions on behalf of the Crown. It is a non-ministerial department headed by the Director. The SFO is therefore independent and makes its own investigative and prosecutorial decisions independently. Part of the role of the Law Officer is to protect that independence.</p><p> </p><p>The SFO also forms one of the ‘Law Officers’ Departments, and as such constitutes a public arm’s length body sponsored by the Attorney General’s Office. The terms of our sponsorship arrangement are set out in the Framework Agreement between the AGO and the SFO which was published on 22 January, replacing the 2009 Protocol document. The Framework Agreement is agreed between the Director of the SFO and the Law Officers.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 25/01/2019 10:18:04 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	2 label Biography information for Kelvin Hopkins

1045551

registered interest
date	21/01/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Charities: Fundraising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will take steps to ensure that online fundraising platforms advertise prominently on their webstes, information on deductions from donations for fees charged.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	210685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2019 answer text <p>Online fundraising platforms raise significant funds for charitable causes. Therefore high standards of transparency are important to allow donors to make informed decisions.</p><p> </p><p>Part 2 of the Charities Act 1992 already requires all professional fundraisers, including online fundraising platforms, to inform potential donors of fees and charges.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, the Fundraising Regulator has updated the Code of Fundraising Practice to include requirements for these platforms, including new transparency requirements about charges.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 25/01/2019 09:52:07 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1045611

registered interest
date	21/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to update its document, Teachers’ standards: Guidance for school leaders, school staff and governing bodies, last updated in June 2013; and for what reason care experienced children are not identified as a cohort of children in Standard 5 of that document.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	210600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department is committed to ensuring that all children, regardless of background, have the opportunity to fulfil their potential. There are currently no plans to update the document, Teachers’ Standards: Guidance for school leaders, school staff and governing bodies. The document does reflect the needs of looked after children by setting out the expectation for teachers to: have a secure understanding of how a range of factors can inhibit pupils’ ability to learn and; have a clear understanding of the needs of all pupils, and be able to use and evaluate distinctive teaching approaches to engage and support them.</p><p>Further information, including the reports of the independent review of the Teachers’ standards, is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/teachers-standards" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/teachers-standards</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 25/01/2019 13:16:14 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1045627

registered interest
date	21/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Dyslexia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people have been diagnosed with dyslexia in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	210612
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p>We publish the number and proportion of pupils with special educational needs, including the type of need in the annual ‘Special educational needs in England’ statistical release, available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-special-educational-needs-sen" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-special-educational-needs-sen</a>.</p><p>In the 2018 release ‘Special educational needs in England: 2018’, available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england-january-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england-january-2018</a>, table 8 covers types of need. Pupils with special educational needs are recorded according to their primary type of need. The current types of need do not include a specific breakdown for dyslexia alone. These cases are expected to be recorded under ‘Specific Learning Difficulty’. No estimates of the number of children with dyslexia within this category have been made.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 25/01/2019 13:47:57 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1045654

registered interest
date	21/01/2019
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	Ivory
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 progress he has made on the consultation to include additional ivory species in the Ivory Act 2018, and whether he has set a date for this consultation to be published.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	210623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2019 answer text <p>We are currently preparing for a call for evidence to be issued in the spring.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 25/01/2019 13:02:16 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock

1043169

registered interest
date	18/01/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Board of Trade
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, who the members of the reconvened Board of Trade are; and what assessment he has made of the most significant achievements of that Board for the Scottish economy have been since June 2017.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	209848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2019 answer text <p>The Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP Secretary of State for International Trade, in his role as President of the Board of Trade, Chairs the Board of Trade meetings. The advisers can be found online: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/board-of-trade" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/board-of-trade</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Board meets four times a year, with meetings rotated around the UK. Doing so guarantees all parts of the Union have a chance to raise the issues most important to them. The Board has met five times since it was convened in October 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The third meeting took place at Stirling Castle on 17 May 2018. The networking reception involved local Scottish businesses and government representatives, and aimed to support and celebrate trade and investment with Scotland. During the reception the Secretary of State for International Trade launched the High Potential Opportunities programme (part of the FDI Strategy) and presented Board of Trade Awards to Aggreko, Alexander Dennis Limited, Bowalds Energy Ltd, Speyside Distillers Company Limited, Enerquip Limited and McGavigan Ltd. The Board of Trade Awards celebrate businesses which show exceptional innovation, deliver prosperity to their local communities, and champion free trade.</p><p> </p><p>The National Trade Academy Programme also ran a Global Trade and Investment Seminar on 17 May 2018 in Stirling, which brought together expert speakers from academia, business and government to discuss the importance of trade and internationalization for business. Over 50 students from three local academic institutions had the opportunity to gain insight into the importance of international trade and investment in national economic</p> answering member constituency Meon Valley answering member printed George Hollingbery question first answered 25/01/2019 09:06:41 answering member 4016 label Biography information for Sir George Hollingbery
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1043009

registered interest
date	17/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Disclosure and Barring Service: Tata Consultancy Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total value is of contracts between his Department and Tata Consultancy Services for work on the Disclosure and Barring Service; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
uin	209739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2019 answer text <p>As published in the DBS’ 2017/18 Annual Report and Accounts the overall value of agreed costs with Tata Consultancy Services is £224m (inc.VAT). This includes the values of the original contract plus any agreed Contract Change Notes and Requests for Change.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 25/01/2019 12:26:40 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

1043010

registered interest
date	17/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Disclosure and Barring Service: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of occasions on which referrals to the Disclosure and Barring Service have been set aside for over (a) one, (b) six, and (c) nine months.
tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
uin	209740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2019 answer text <p>Referrals to the Disclosure and Barring Service are not set aside as their operating procedures do not allow for this. Barring cases are triaged and reviewed upon receipt and allocated in line with workflow processes.</p><p>Under DBS’ published service standards their aim is to close more than 65% of barring cases within three months. Performance data on attainment of this standard in 2017-2018 can be found here <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-annual-report-and-accounts-2017-to-2018." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-annual-report-and-accounts-2017-to-2018.</a></p><p>DBS also publishes quarterly performance data on barring cases and appeals against barring decisions relating to revised internal performance standards here <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dbs-dataset-4-barring-cases-and-appeals.%20" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dbs-dataset-4-barring-cases-and-appeals. </a></p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 25/01/2019 12:35:22 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

1043011

registered interest
date	17/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Disclosure and Barring Service: Swiss Post Solutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total value is of contracts between his Department and Swiss Post Solutions for work outsourced from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
uin	209741
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2019 answer text <p>DBS do not have a contract with Swiss Post Solutions. Swiss Post Solutions is a sub-contractor of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).</p><p><br>Swiss Post Solutions, as a sub-contractor, are managed by TCS. TCS report on service level agreements and key performance indicators relating to work conducted by Swiss Post Solutions and their performance is monitored by the DBS.</p><p>Swiss Post Solutions handle more than 6,000 pieces of correspondence each month relating to DBS barring business, and have been used for barring since 4 September 2017. In this time the DBS have been informed of one occasion on which information was attached to an incorrect case file. This error was identified and remedied internally before any correspondence was sent.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 209742 209743 209744 question first answered 25/01/2019 12:33:08 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

1043012

registered interest
date	17/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Disclosure and Barring Service: Swiss Post Solutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total value is of contracts between his Department and Swiss Post Solutions for work outsourced from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
uin	209742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2019 answer text <p>DBS do not have a contract with Swiss Post Solutions. Swiss Post Solutions is a sub-contractor of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).</p><p><br>Swiss Post Solutions, as a sub-contractor, are managed by TCS. TCS report on service level agreements and key performance indicators relating to work conducted by Swiss Post Solutions and their performance is monitored by the DBS.</p><p>Swiss Post Solutions handle more than 6,000 pieces of correspondence each month relating to DBS barring business, and have been used for barring since 4 September 2017. In this time the DBS have been informed of one occasion on which information was attached to an incorrect case file. This error was identified and remedied internally before any correspondence was sent.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 209741 209743 209744 question first answered 25/01/2019 12:33:08 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott