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747720

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013: Fines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many financial penalties have been imposed to date on respondent employers for aggravated breach of employment law under section 16 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013; how many such penalties (a) have been paid and (b) remain unpaid; and what the total value is of penalties (i) imposed, (ii) paid and (iii) not yet paid.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	2414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p>18 financial penalties have been imposed to date on respondent employers for aggravated breaches of employment law under section 16 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013. Of these, 12 penalties have been paid and 6 remain unpaid either because the company has been dissolved or efforts by the debt collection agency for recovery of the amounts have been exhausted.</p><p>The total value of penalties imposed is just over £54,400. The total paid is just over £17,700, which was fully paid within 21 days so the 50% discount applied. The value of the 6 unpaid penalties is £19,000.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 06/07/2017 16:19:03 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

747721

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service: Fines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Answer of 11 January 2017 to Question 58968, how many (a) warning letters and (b) financial penalty notices have been issued to respondent employers to date under section 150 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 for failure to pay an employment tribunal award; how many of those financial penalties (i) have been paid and (ii) remain unpaid; and how much in previously unpaid awards has been recovered by his Department following (A) the issuing of a warning letter only and (B) the issuing of both a warning letter and a financial penalty notice.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	2415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p>Since April 2016, when the penalty regime for failure to pay employment tribunal awards started, 349 warning letters and 152 penalty notices have been issued.</p><p>Four financial penalties have been paid and 148 remain unpaid. Of these, 101 are being pursued through a debt collection agency, 20 were withdrawn because the employment tribunal award was paid, 10 are not enforceable due to liquidation and/or insolvency and 17 are within the payment period.</p><p>Over £500,000 in previously unpaid awards has been recovered following the issuing of only a warning letter. Over £91,000 has been recovered as a result of issuing both a warning letter and a penalty notice.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 06/07/2017 16:17:17 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

747070

registered interest
date	30/06/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Disadvantaged
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Office for Fair Access report, Outcomes of access agreement monitoring for 2015-16, published on 29 April 2017, what assessment her Department has made of the growing gap in non-continuation rates between the most disadvantaged and the most disadvantaged students after the first year at university.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	2316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p>Non-continuation rates for UK students at English Higher Education Institutions are lower than in 2009/10, including for the most disadvantaged students. Analysis by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has found that students’ age, subject studied and entry qualifications account for a substantial portion of the gap between the most and least disadvantaged students. The analysis is available here: <a href="http://www.hefce.ac.uk/analysis/ncr/nhe/" target="_blank">http://www.hefce.ac.uk/analysis/ncr/nhe/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We want to continue to see reduced non-continuation rates for all students. The Higher Education and Research Act 2017 requires institutions to publish admissions and retention data by gender, ethnicity and socio-economic background, and this greater transparency will help the Higher Education sector make further progress to build on what has already been achieved. We are working closely with HEFCE and the Director of Fair Access to target resources effectively and to ensure that universities take more responsibility for widening access and retention for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, prioritising activities that demonstrate the greatest value for money.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 06/07/2017 09:20:28 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

746210

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
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	Gaza: Hospitals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if the Government will support the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs emergency fuel fund for hospitals in the Gaza Strip; and what discussions he has had with his Palestinian and Israeli counterparts on efforts to end the electricity crisis in that region.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	1636
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2017 answer text <p>​The UK continues to believe that the best solution is a political agreement between all parties on sustainable solution to increase the electricity supply to Gaza. The UK is urging immediate discussions to alleviate the situation. Our Ambassador in Tel Aviv and our Consul-General in Jerusalem have raised our concerns with the Israeli authorities and the Palestinian Authority respectively. I raised the situation in Gaza with the Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister and the Israeli Ambassador to London on 22 and 23 June respectively.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 07/07/2017 13:32:19 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

746211

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Access to Elected Office for Disabled People Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the Answers of 10 June 2015, 22 December 2015 and 2 September 2016 to Questions 700, 19860 and 44313, when she plans to (a) publish the evaluation report on the pilot Access to Elected Office Fund and (b) make a decision on whether that Fund should continue.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	1672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>The Access to Elected Office Fund was run by the Coalition Government between 2012 and the election of 2015. The Fund closed after that election and an evaluation was subsequently carried out. The evaluation and any decision made in the light of it will be published in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 05/07/2017 16:18:22 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

733012

registered interest
date	27/06/2017
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will place in the Library copies of his Department's correspondence with the Red Tape Challenge project since that project's inception.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	1353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office-led Red Tape Challenge programme ran from 2011 to 2015. This preceded the creation of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), which was formed following the merger of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC).</p><p>There were 29 themes under the Red Tape Challenge, with at least 8 reviews looking at some aspect of what is now a BEIS policy area.</p><p>The reviews were undertaken in close cooperation with the appropriate Government Departments. Both BIS and DECC, where relevant, published responses to the reviews. Full details of the themes, Departments responses, and actions taken in each theme can be found on the Gov.uk website.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 04/07/2017 16:26:30 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

733047

registered interest
date	27/06/2017
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	Xylella
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 assessment he has made of the risk to wildlife in the UK from the plant disease Xylella fastidiosa; if he will make it his policy to invoke the precautionary principle to introduce a moratorium on the import of all live plants other than those grown through propagation in sterile conditions; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	1404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2017 answer text <p>Keeping our plants and trees healthy is important for our economy, the environment and our health, and our robust approach to protecting against plant health threats involves close collaboration with international partners. This will continue to be the case after we leave the European Union.</p><p> </p><p>Restrictions on the movement of high-risk host plants from the affected areas in the EU are already in place and full inspections take place on host plants from outside the EU. We are now pressing at an EU level for the protections against <em>Xylella fastidiosa </em>to be further strengthened and will continue to keep this issue under review nationally.</p><p> </p><p>Due to the rules of the Single Market, it is currently simpler for the UK to impose restrictions on the import of plants from outside the EU than it is on plants from within the EU where there is a threat to the UK. Within the EU, restrictions are decided at EU level, but outside the EU they can be decided at national level.</p><p> </p><p>Leaving the EU therefore provides an opportunity to examine how we can introduce stricter biosecurity measures on imports from remaining Member States, providing better protection against these serious threats.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 1415 question first answered 07/07/2017 15:51:59 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

733065

registered interest
date	27/06/2017
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	Plants: Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 8 March 2016 to Question HL6483, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on controlling the spread of (a) Xylella fastidiosa and (b) other plant diseases present in Europe; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	1415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2017 answer text <p>Keeping our plants and trees healthy is important for our economy, the environment and our health, and our robust approach to protecting against plant health threats involves close collaboration with international partners. This will continue to be the case after we leave the European Union.</p><p> </p><p>Restrictions on the movement of high-risk host plants from the affected areas in the EU are already in place and full inspections take place on host plants from outside the EU. We are now pressing at an EU level for the protections against <em>Xylella fastidiosa </em>to be further strengthened and will continue to keep this issue under review nationally.</p><p> </p><p>Due to the rules of the Single Market, it is currently simpler for the UK to impose restrictions on the import of plants from outside the EU than it is on plants from within the EU where there is a threat to the UK. Within the EU, restrictions are decided at EU level, but outside the EU they can be decided at national level.</p><p> </p><p>Leaving the EU therefore provides an opportunity to examine how we can introduce stricter biosecurity measures on imports from remaining Member States, providing better protection against these serious threats.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 1404 question first answered 07/07/2017 15:51:59 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

733067

registered interest
date	27/06/2017
answering body	Prime Minister
answering dept id	23
answering dept short name	Prime Minister
answering dept sort name	Prime Minister
hansard heading	Radicalism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 26 June 2017 to Question 219, if she will place in the Library a copy of the report of the review into foreign funding of extremism and radicalisation in the UK that was commissioned by her predecessor.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	1467
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>The review into the funding of Islamist extremism has improved the Government’s understanding of the nature, scale and sources of funding for Islamist extremism in the UK. Ministers are considering advice on what is able to be published and will report to Parliament with an update in due course.</p> answering member constituency Maidenhead answering member printed Mrs Theresa May question first answered 03/07/2017 15:37:26 answering member 8 label Biography information for Mrs Theresa May
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

732576

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Southern: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reasons some appendices were missing from the published version of the report by Chris Gibb, Changes to improve the performance of the Southern network and train services and restore passenger confidence, published in December 2016; and whose decision it was not to (a) publish Appendix 9 on recommendations regarding the Govia Thameslink Railway franchise agreement and (b) make an explicit reference to or indicate the redaction of that appendix.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	1206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>Chris Gibb’s independent report was published on 22 June. The Department for Transport have published the full report. Two sections were redacted to protect commercial confidentiality, these are Appendix 9 and a paragraph in the main body of the report at section 4.1.3. Aside from these redactions only names, telephone numbers and photographs were redacted.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 04/07/2017 13:59:32 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas