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1679326

registered interest
date	05/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	MOD Boscombe Down: Domestic Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether (a) he, (b) Ministers in his Department and (c) officials in his Department have visited Boscombe Down in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	7872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">There have been no visits to Boscombe Down in the last 12 months.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">There have been no ministerial visits to Boscombe Down in the last 12 months. Home Office officials have visited during this period.</ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 15/01/2024 15:40:14 question first ministerially corrected 29/01/2024 12:35:44 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp previous answer version 10967 answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1659063

registered interest
date	07/09/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 122 of his Department’s annual report and accounts for 2022-23, how many of the special payments reported for financial year 2022-23 were made to (a) service personnel and (b) other individuals affected by defence activities.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	198317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The majority of the 4,609 special payments disclosed relate to common law compensation claims (3,865). An analysis of this data is provided below;</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">· 2,307 payments to Service personnel</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">· 1,558 payments to Others</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">It should be noted that this analysis reflects the volume of payments made and that individuals may receive more than one compensation payment depending on the settlement reached.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The remaining volume will include payments made in settlement of contractual disputes where it has been judged that this represents the best value for money course of action for the Department. Two of these payments are separately disclosed in the ARAc table as they exceed the &gt;£300,000 threshold for more detailed reporting (specifically MSI Instruments (£959,000) and Land Remediation Payment (£321,000)).</del><ins class="ministerial">The majority of the 4,609 special payments totalling £114.53 million disclosed relate to common law compensation claims (£111.20 million). An analysis of this data is provided below;</ins></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">· 2,307 payments equating to £78 million to service personnel</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">· 1,558 payments equating to £33 million to others</ins></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">It should be noted that this analysis reflects the volume of payments made and that individuals may receive more than one compensation payment depending on the settlement reached.</ins></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">The remaining value will include payments made in settlement of contractual disputes where it has been judged that this represents the best value for money course of action for the Department. Two of these payments are separately disclosed in the table as they exceed the &gt;£300,000 threshold for more detailed reporting (specifically MSI Instruments (£959,000) and Land Remediation Payment (£321,000).</ins></p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 15/09/2023 10:42:02 question first ministerially corrected 15/09/2023 13:45:07 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison previous answer version 94749 answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1653412

registered interest
date	17/07/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Aviation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to sub-target two of the Greening Government Commitments reporting requirements for 2021 to 2025 last updated on 15 December 2022, whether his Department follows the encouragement in that guidance to (a) monitor and (b) report on the number of domestic flights for which her Department is responsible each year; and how many domestic flights were taken by Ministers in his Department in (i) 2021 and (ii) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	194399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>In support of the Greening Government Commitments (GGC), Defence's domestic business flights are recorded and associated annual carbon emissions reported in the Department's Annual Report and Accounts.</p><p>For 2021, our records show there was a total of <del class="ministerial">48</del> <ins class="ministerial">36 </ins>domestic flights recorded as being used by Ministers e.g. Commercial flights, RAF planes and RAF helicopters. For 2022, our records show there were a total of<del class="ministerial"> 91</del> <ins class="ministerial">41</ins> domestic flights.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 20/07/2023 13:24:04 question first ministerially corrected 24/07/2023 08:49:26 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge previous answer version 89096 answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1625279

registered interest
date	02/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Deloitte
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the contract awarded by her Department to Deloitte LLP on 1 February (C20345), if she will publish copies of (a) Appendix B - the Service Specification and (b) Annex 4 - the initial Statement of Work agreed for that contract.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	183370
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2023 answer text <p>The additional agreement information for the contract awarded to Deloitte LLP awarded on 1 February 2023 is withheld for commercial and operational security reasons.</p><p>A redacted agreement is available on Contract Finder at<ins class="ministerial"> <a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/d57f0407-0fe0-47da-a454-9c5dd4bb6ea7" target="_blank">Apply for Things - Contracts Finder</a></ins><del class="ministerial"> <a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/c31339c6-393c-41fa-aa98-82d12910f063?origin=SearchResults&amp;p=4" target="_blank">Proc 834 Small Boat Arrivals - Contracts Finder</a></del>.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 15/05/2023 15:50:22 question first ministerially corrected 22/05/2023 11:11:29 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick previous answer version 74483 answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1601411

registered interest
date	06/03/2023
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	Consultants: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse was of spending on external consultants by (a) the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, (b) the UK Health Security Agency, (c) NHS England, and (d) NHS Digital in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022; and whether any of that spending related to the preparation of funding bids to (A) his Department and (B) HM Treasury.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	158842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p><strong>Suggested reply</strong></p><p>The following table shows the expenditure on consultancy on external consultants in the financial years 2019/20 to 2021/22. Expenditure values for 2022/23 are not yet available. The Department does not hold the detail behind the expenditure.</p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Organisation</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Expenditure on consultancy (£ million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>2021/22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">Not available</del> <ins class="ministerial">0.3</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">Not available</del> <ins class="ministerial">0.8</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">Not available</del> <ins class="ministerial">6.4</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)</p></td><td><p>Not applicable</p></td><td><p>Not applicable</p></td><td><p>10.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS England - Group</p></td><td><p>45.8</p></td><td><p>51.6</p></td><td><p>75.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Digital</p></td><td><p>1.4</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td><td><p>0.3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note:</p><ol><li>The definition for consultancy is in line with HM Treasury Guidance</li><li>The Office for National Statistics re-categorised MHRA as falling within the Departmental Group from April 2022. In years 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22 this body was not incorporated into the Department’s accounting boundary and, therefore, the Department does not hold requested data.</li><li>UKHSA was formed in April 2021 and became fully operational in October 2021.</li></ol><p>Source:</p><p>UK Health Security Agency Annual Report and Accounts 2021/22.</p><p>NHS Commissioning Board Annual Report and Accounts 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22. Expenditure for the NHSE Group including Commissioning Support Units and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs).</p><p>NHS Digital Annual Report and Accounts 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 30/03/2023 14:37:21 question first ministerially corrected 04/04/2023 11:16:39 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 66497 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1550310

registered interest
date	09/12/2022
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department spent in 2021 on purchasing goods and services with a value of less than £500 on a government procurement card.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	107067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The total spent by the Department for Work and Pensions on items with a value of less than £500 on a Government Procurement card in 2021 was £36,488,921.81.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">Source: GPC Transactions Folder - Discoverer</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The total spent by the Department for Work and Pensions on items with a value of less than £500 on a Government Procurement Card (GPC) in 2021 was £8,507,730.65 (69,786 transactions).</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>Source:</strong> GPC data. This gives details of all transactions posted during the 2021 calendar year and includes expenditure as well as refunds. The figure quoted is net of refunds.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> <strong>Points to note:</strong> </ins></p><ul><li><ins class="ministerial">The Government Procurement Card (GPC) is a purchasing solution specifically for low risk/ low value purchases, enabling Government to buy from particular suppliers that include both small and medium sized enterprises.</ins></li><li><ins class="ministerial">The card transaction limit for Approval to Buy (A2B) transactions is £500. Approximately 96% of all transactions are A2B.</ins></li><li><ins class="ministerial">The card transaction limit for a ‘physical’ card is £600, with exceptions allowed on approval of a supporting business case.</ins></li><li><ins class="ministerial">Most GPC transactions are for Flexible Support Fund (FSF) expenditure, supporting claimants back into the workplace by covering costs associated with seeking employment, e.g. interview travel expenses.</ins></li></ul> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/12/2022 17:11:53 question first ministerially corrected 09/01/2023 17:27:06 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies previous answer version 43278 answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1464657

registered interest
date	20/05/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Private Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 May 2022 to Question 123, for what reason a breakdown of spending on school places at the named institutions has not been provided as it was by her Department in the previous Answers of (a) 6 July 2021 to Question 23129 and (b) 3 December 2018 to Question 196152.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	5628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2022 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">We are not at liberty to release a more detailed breakdown of financial data for external institutions.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The FCDO allocated £1,447,779.00 for children of FCDO staff on legacy FCO terms and conditions at these schools in FY 2021/2022. Given the numbers of children attending these schools, disclosing the breakdown of school places could potentially lead to the identification of individual children, and therefore the FCDO consider that this is not appropriate for safeguarding reasons.</ins></p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 26/05/2022 16:59:22 question first ministerially corrected 08/06/2022 15:47:17 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford previous answer version 3431 answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1462085

registered interest
date	11/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Resettlement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has produced internal evaluations of the (a) ACRS and ARAP schemes and (b) Homes for Ukraine scheme.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	668
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2022 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Home Office will set out its approach to evaluating the Government’s refugee resettlement schemes in due course outlining the scope of the evaluation and the frequency of data collection.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The evaluation approach is expected to draw on the mixed-methods approach used to evaluate the previous Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme and Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement Scheme. It is expected this will include analysis of data such as numbers of arrivals over time and cohort characteristics, as well as the collection of data on refugees against a range of indicators of integration, such as education, employment, language skills, housing and health, with the aim of better understanding barriers to integration and identifying how best to support resettled refugees’ longer-term integration into life in the UK.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">It is intended that the products of this evaluation will be made publicly available once the evaluation has concluded.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">This Government introduced two new schemes: the Ukraine Family Scheme announced on 4 March, and the ‘Homes for Ukraine’ Scheme announced by the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing &amp; Communities on 14 March</del></p><p><br /><del class="ministerial"> The Ukrainian Schemes have been designed in light of very different circumstances to those which led to the Government’s Syrian and Afghan resettlement schemes.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is responsible for the Homes for Ukraine scheme.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">All our schemes are continuously monitored to inform delivery and ensure any adjustments to the policy are made in a timely manner.</ins></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 18/05/2022 15:05:35 question first ministerially corrected 23/05/2022 14:49:04 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 1040 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1462086

registered interest
date	11/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: British National (Overseas)
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has produced internal evaluations of the Hong Kong BN(O) scheme beyond the 2021 Survey of Hong Kong British National (Overseas) visa holders.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2022 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Home Office will set out its approach to evaluating the Government’s refugee resettlement schemes in due course outlining the scope of the evaluation and the frequency of data collection.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The evaluation approach is expected to draw on the mixed-methods approach used to evaluate the previous Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme and Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement Scheme. It is expected this will include analysis of data such as numbers of arrivals over time and cohort characteristics, as well as the collection of data on refugees against a range of indicators of integration, such as education, employment, language skills, housing and health, with the aim of better understanding barriers to integration and identifying how best to support resettled refugees’ longer-term integration into life in the UK.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">It is intended that the products of this evaluation will be made publicly available once the evaluation has concluded.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">This Government introduced two new schemes: the Ukraine Family Scheme announced on 4 March, and the ‘Homes for Ukraine’ Scheme announced by the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing &amp; Communities on 14 March</del></p><p><br /><del class="ministerial"> The Ukrainian Schemes have been designed in light of very different circumstances to those which led to the Government’s Syrian and Afghan resettlement schemes.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is responsible for the Homes for Ukraine scheme.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">On 31 January 2022, the Home Office published data on the characteristics of British National (Overseas) visa holders, which is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/survey-of-hong-kong-british-national-overseas-visa-holders-2021" target="_blank">Survey of Hong Kong British National (Overseas) visa holders 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Home Office has not produced any further evaluation of the Hong Kong BN(O) route. We are committed to undertaking appropriate evaluation of government programmes to inform decisions on whether they should be continued, expanded, modified or stopped. Plans for evaluation of the scheme will remain under review.</ins></p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 18/05/2022 15:05:35 question first ministerially corrected 23/05/2022 14:46:07 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 1041 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1454977

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his objective to make tax digital for income tax self assessment, what latest estimate he has made of the numbers of UK businesses and landlords with annual business income above £100,000 who are (a) already fully converted to managing their records and payments digitally, (b) equipped to manage their records and payments digitally but not yet converted in full, and (c) not yet equipped to manage their records and payments digitally.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	148093
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2022 answer text <p>HMRC research shows that 97 per cent of small businesses and landlords within the scope of Making Tax Digital (MTD) have access to a compatible device on which to operate it. For MTD for Income Tax, HMRC research shows that 52 per cent of businesses in scope incorporate spreadsheets and 22 per cent incorporate software into their recordkeeping practices. In September 2021, the Government announced businesses would have an extra year to prepare for MTD for Income Tax. Free software will be available for the smallest businesses with straightforward affairs.</p><p> </p><p>Over a third of VAT registered businesses with taxable turnover below £85,000 <del class="ministerial">have</del> <ins class="ministerial">had </ins>already voluntarily chosen to join MTD for VAT, demonstrating that a modern and digital approach to managing tax can work for businesses of every size. HMRC <del class="ministerial">research</del> <ins class="ministerial">survey data from 2020 </ins>shows that around <del class="ministerial">80</del> <ins class="ministerial">61 </ins>per cent of VAT-registered businesses below the VAT threshold already employ<ins class="ministerial"> compliant software in readiness for MTD</ins> <del class="ministerial">a digital record-keeping system</del>. Online submissions for VAT returns have been mandatory for all VAT-registered businesses since 2010.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 04/04/2022 15:09:26 question first ministerially corrected 22/04/2022 10:55:26 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer previous answer version 62455 answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry