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1149212

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tobacco: Smuggling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with tobacco manufacturers on preventing the smuggling of their product into the UK.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>In 2006, Parliament introduced stringent rules requiring all UK tobacco manufacturers to control their supply chains. These rules required them to take steps to avoid supplying cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco to persons who are likely to smuggle them into the UK or resupply them to other persons who are likely to do the same.</p><p> </p><p>Tobacco manufacturers can face penalties of up to £5m for failing to comply with the rules.</p><p> </p><p>HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) robustly challenge tobacco manufacturers’ supply chain policies and procedures to ensure their continued compliance with the rules. This has involved ongoing contact and regular meetings between HMRC’s Large Business Team and manufacturers since the legislation was introduced.</p><p> </p><p>One aspect of this ongoing contact is the requirement that manufacturers inspect seizures of over 100,000 cigarettes or 50kg of hand rolling tobacco and provide a summary of how those goods, if confirmed genuine, got in to the hands of smugglers. Large Business review and challenge these summaries to ensure manufacturers have taken appropriate action, in line with their own published supply chain policies.</p><p> </p><p>Due to taxpayer confidentiality it is not possible to provide comment on the progress of HMRC’s discussions with individual businesses about their supply chain controls.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke grouped question UIN 229 233 266 541 question first answered 22/10/2019 11:08:27 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1149213

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tobacco
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with tobacco manufacturers on the control of their supply chain.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	541
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>In 2006, Parliament introduced stringent rules requiring all UK tobacco manufacturers to control their supply chains. These rules required them to take steps to avoid supplying cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco to persons who are likely to smuggle them into the UK or resupply them to other persons who are likely to do the same.</p><p> </p><p>Tobacco manufacturers can face penalties of up to £5m for failing to comply with the rules.</p><p> </p><p>HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) robustly challenge tobacco manufacturers’ supply chain policies and procedures to ensure their continued compliance with the rules. This has involved ongoing contact and regular meetings between HMRC’s Large Business Team and manufacturers since the legislation was introduced.</p><p> </p><p>One aspect of this ongoing contact is the requirement that manufacturers inspect seizures of over 100,000 cigarettes or 50kg of hand rolling tobacco and provide a summary of how those goods, if confirmed genuine, got in to the hands of smugglers. Large Business review and challenge these summaries to ensure manufacturers have taken appropriate action, in line with their own published supply chain policies.</p><p> </p><p>Due to taxpayer confidentiality it is not possible to provide comment on the progress of HMRC’s discussions with individual businesses about their supply chain controls.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke grouped question UIN 229 233 266 540 question first answered 22/10/2019 11:08:27 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1148920

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tobacco: Smuggling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what powers he has to sanction tobacco manufacturers for failing to control their supply chain and prevent contraband tobacco entering the UK.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>In 2006, Parliament introduced stringent rules requiring all UK tobacco manufacturers to control their supply chains. These rules required them to take steps to avoid supplying cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco to persons who are likely to smuggle them into the UK or resupply them to other persons who are likely to do the same.</p><p> </p><p>Tobacco manufacturers can face penalties of up to £5m for failing to comply with the rules.</p><p> </p><p>HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) robustly challenge tobacco manufacturers’ supply chain policies and procedures to ensure their continued compliance with the rules. This has involved ongoing contact and regular meetings between HMRC’s Large Business Team and manufacturers since the legislation was introduced.</p><p> </p><p>One aspect of this ongoing contact is the requirement that manufacturers inspect seizures of over 100,000 cigarettes or 50kg of hand rolling tobacco and provide a summary of how those goods, if confirmed genuine, got in to the hands of smugglers. Large Business review and challenge these summaries to ensure manufacturers have taken appropriate action, in line with their own published supply chain policies.</p><p> </p><p>Due to taxpayer confidentiality it is not possible to provide comment on the progress of HMRC’s discussions with individual businesses about their supply chain controls.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke grouped question UIN 233 266 540 541 question first answered 22/10/2019 11:08:27 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1148926

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tobacco: Smuggling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of tobacco manufacturers’ ability to control their supply chain to prevent contraband tobacco coming into the UK.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>In 2006, Parliament introduced stringent rules requiring all UK tobacco manufacturers to control their supply chains. These rules required them to take steps to avoid supplying cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco to persons who are likely to smuggle them into the UK or resupply them to other persons who are likely to do the same.</p><p> </p><p>Tobacco manufacturers can face penalties of up to £5m for failing to comply with the rules.</p><p> </p><p>HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) robustly challenge tobacco manufacturers’ supply chain policies and procedures to ensure their continued compliance with the rules. This has involved ongoing contact and regular meetings between HMRC’s Large Business Team and manufacturers since the legislation was introduced.</p><p> </p><p>One aspect of this ongoing contact is the requirement that manufacturers inspect seizures of over 100,000 cigarettes or 50kg of hand rolling tobacco and provide a summary of how those goods, if confirmed genuine, got in to the hands of smugglers. Large Business review and challenge these summaries to ensure manufacturers have taken appropriate action, in line with their own published supply chain policies.</p><p> </p><p>Due to taxpayer confidentiality it is not possible to provide comment on the progress of HMRC’s discussions with individual businesses about their supply chain controls.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke grouped question UIN 229 266 540 541 question first answered 22/10/2019 11:08:27 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1149088

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tobacco
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with tobacco manufacturers on the adequacy of controls in their supply chains.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>In 2006, Parliament introduced stringent rules requiring all UK tobacco manufacturers to control their supply chains. These rules required them to take steps to avoid supplying cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco to persons who are likely to smuggle them into the UK or resupply them to other persons who are likely to do the same.</p><p> </p><p>Tobacco manufacturers can face penalties of up to £5m for failing to comply with the rules.</p><p> </p><p>HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) robustly challenge tobacco manufacturers’ supply chain policies and procedures to ensure their continued compliance with the rules. This has involved ongoing contact and regular meetings between HMRC’s Large Business Team and manufacturers since the legislation was introduced.</p><p> </p><p>One aspect of this ongoing contact is the requirement that manufacturers inspect seizures of over 100,000 cigarettes or 50kg of hand rolling tobacco and provide a summary of how those goods, if confirmed genuine, got in to the hands of smugglers. Large Business review and challenge these summaries to ensure manufacturers have taken appropriate action, in line with their own published supply chain policies.</p><p> </p><p>Due to taxpayer confidentiality it is not possible to provide comment on the progress of HMRC’s discussions with individual businesses about their supply chain controls.</p> answering member constituency Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland answering member printed Mr Simon Clarke grouped question UIN 229 233 540 541 question first answered 22/10/2019 11:08:27 answering member 4655 label Biography information for Sir Simon Clarke
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1123878

registered interest
date	30/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Economic Crime Centre
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made on the work plan of the National Economic Crime Centre, announced in September 2018.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	249262
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) is part of a new, wider, &quot;whole system&quot; approach which will deliver a significant improvement in the UK's response to serious and organised crime. For the first time, the NECC brings together law enforcement and justice agencies, government departments, regulatory bodies and the private sector with a shared objective of driving down serious organised economic crime, protecting the public and safe-guarding the prosperity and reputation of the UK as a financial centre.</p><p>The NECC was formally launched on 5 November 2018. It includes officers from the NCA, HM Revenue and Customs, City of London Police, Serious Fraud Office, Financial Conduct Authority, Crown Prosecution Service and the Home Office. As the NECC evolves throughout 2019 and beyond it will build wider partnerships across the public sector, with regulators and the private sector, particularly with those businesses at risk from economic crime.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 09/05/2019 14:41:26 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1123879

registered interest
date	30/04/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Economic Crime Centre: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding his Department has allocated to the National Economic Crime Centre in financial year (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21 and (c) 2021-22.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	249263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) is part of a new, wider, &quot;whole system&quot; approach which will deliver a significant improvement in the UK's response to serious and organised crime. For the first time, the NECC brings together law enforcement and justice agencies, government departments, regulatory bodies and the private sector with a shared objective of driving down serious organised economic crime, protecting the public and safe-guarding the prosperity and reputation of the UK as a financial centre.</p><p>The NECC was formally launched on 5 November 2018. The government recognises that the NECC forms an integral part of an enhanced system-wide response to tackling economic crime. For financial year 2019/20, the government has committed an additional £48 million investment to tackle illicit finance. This investment will fund the development of new capabilities including the NECC. Funding for financial years 2020-21 and 2021-22 will be subject to the outcome of the spending review.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 09/05/2019 14:42:16 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1123880

registered interest
date	30/04/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Economic Crime Strategic Board
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress he has made on the implementation of the business plan for the Economic Crime Strategic Board, announced in January 2019.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	249264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The Economic Crime Strategic Board, co-chaired by the Chancellor and the Home Secretary, met for the first time on 14 January 2019. The Board, which includes senior representatives from the public and private sectors, was established to deliver a joint public-private response to tackle economic crime. The Board will set priorities, direct resources and scrutinise performance against the economic crime threat.</p><p> </p><p>In its inaugural meeting, the Board commissioned the development of a shared public-private Economic Crime Plan and the development of a joint public-private economic crime threat update. The Economic Crime Plan will set out the public and private sectors’ collective ambition to combat economic crime and set out a series of concrete actions that both sectors will collectively undertake to enhance the UK’s economic crime response.</p><p> </p><p>Since January, ongoing official-level work has taken place between the public and private sectors to deliver these products for the Board’s next meeting in July.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 09/05/2019 14:23:23 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1104478

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans: Honours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to ensure that veterans are honoured for their service; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	910008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>Our veterans are honoured and recognised in a number of ways. The publication of the Strategy for our Veterans, the Veterans ID card, the Veterans Badge, Armed Forces Day and events throughout the year, including the D Day 75 commemorations in June, recognise the huge debt we owe to those who have served in HM Armed Forces.</p><p> </p><p>The Armed Forces Covenant is a cross-Government pledge to support the Armed Forces community, including veterans, across all sectors of society.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 25/03/2019 16:48:46 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1061017

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Care Homes: Ambulance Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many emergency ambulance calls to nursing homes in (a) Dover and (b) Deal there have been in the latest period for which information is available; what the average time taken was for ambulances to respond to those calls; and how many ambulances were involved in responding to those calls.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	221659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>Information is not available in the format requested. National and individual ambulance NHS trust level performance is available and is published monthly by NHS England. This can be found online at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ambulance-quality-indicators/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ambulance-quality-indicators/</a></p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 21/02/2019 15:34:32 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke