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1698615

registered interest
date	25/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Proceeds of Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of using recovered monies from the proceeds of crime to provide adaptive sports equipment for police officers.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	20426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2024 answer text <p>Funds recovered under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) are distributed under the Home Office’s Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme (ARIS). The objective of ARIS is to provide agencies with incentives to use POCA powers to recover more criminal assets, with the overall aim of cutting crime and delivering justice.</p><p>Under the scheme, a proportion of the assets recovered using powers under POCA are redistributed to the agencies involved in the recovery, based on their relative contributions. The current allocation sees ARIS receipts split 50:50 between central government and operational partners.</p><p>In the spirit of the Scheme, the Government encourages agencies to use ARIS funds to increase asset recovery and, where appropriate, fund local crime fighting priorities for the benefit of the community. However, the use of ARIS allocations/payments is a matter for each agency and is left to their discretion. Further information on ARIS and how funds are spent can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/asset-recovery-statistical-bulletin-financial-years-ending-2018-to-2023/asset-recovery-statistical-bulletin-financial-years-ending-march-2018-to-march-2023#asset-recovery-incentivisation-scheme-aris" target="_blank">Asset Recovery Statistical Bulletin: Financial years ending March 2018 to March 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 18/04/2024 10:58:57 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1697969

registered interest
date	21/03/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Darlington Station: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact on the economy of investment in Darlington railway station.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	19999
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>The decision to provide £105m of Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline (RNEP) funding to deliver the Darlington Station Enhancements scheme was taken not only due to the direct journey time and reliability improvements it will provide to rail users, but also the result of the wider economic benefits it will generate for Darlington and the region, resulting from increased productivity.</p><p>These benefits will be further enhanced through complementary investment from Tees Valley Combined Authority, who are utilising a number of funding streams – including the Active Travel England Fund – to improve the public realm surrounding the station.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 26/03/2024 13:45:09 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1697976

registered interest
date	21/03/2024
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	Domestic Abuse: Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that providers of NHS services are protecting the whereabouts of domestic abuse victims from perpetrators.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	19963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2024 answer text <p>There are security and legislative protections in place to protect patient data, and ensure data is used across the health and social care system in a safe, secure, and legal way. This includes data protection rules which prevent National Health Service employees from disclosing addresses of victims of domestic abuse.</p><p>Each organisation’s terms and conditions of employment include strict guidelines on how staff handle and protect patients’ information. Staff must also be regularly trained in information governance responsibilities. Professional bodies such as the General Medical Council also set out standards which their members must meet.</p><p>General practices have two options if they are worried that having access to their record might cause harm to a patient or another individual. They can either redact specific items on the record, or disable patient access entirely.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 28/03/2024 13:34:19 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1697977

registered interest
date	21/03/2024
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	Bereavement Counselling: Departmental Coordination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress the cross-government bereavement working group has made on ensuring support is available to bereaved people.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	19964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2024 answer text <p>The cross-Government bereavement group was established in preparation for publication of the UK Commission on Bereavement’s (UKCB), Bereavement is Everyone’s Business report, from October 2022. The group includes representatives from over 10 Government departments.</p><p>The cross-Government bereavement group enables Government departments to share the best practice about bereavement support in the sectors for which they are responsible. The UKCB Steering Group has presented to the cross-Government working group on several occasions, and last attended a meeting of the group in September 2023.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 28/03/2024 13:27:18 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1697980

registered interest
date	21/03/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	North Road (Darlington) Station
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to help preserve the historic character of North Road Station during works to increase the stepping distance between the platform and the train.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	19965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>The station is still under consideration for Northern’s ongoing platform improvement programme, but all issues and aspects of the station are being assessed which will include the historic character.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 26/03/2024 13:39:43 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1697981

registered interest
date	21/03/2024
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	Electronic Cigarettes and Tobacco: Sales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if a Minister from her Department will visit Darlington to hold discussions with (a) the Police and (b) Trading Standards on the joint steps they are taking to help tackle the sale of illegal vapes and illicit tobacco.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	19966
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2024 answer text <p>Ministers in the department are always happy to consider meetings and visits to understand the impact of their policy areas, and we recommend reaching out to Ministers’ offices directly.</p><p>A strong approach to enforcement is vital if the smokefree generation policy is to have real impact. My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care recently visited a cargo warehouse at Heathrow Airport with Hillingdon Trading Standards to see first-hand the work they are doing to seize illicit vapes at the border, and prevent these products from being sold in the United Kingdom.</p><p>Underage and illicit sales of tobacco products, and more recently vaping products, is undermining the work the Government is doing to regulate the industry and protect public health. It also deprives the UK of vital money that could be used to fund essential public services, instead, putting it in the hands of criminals.</p><p>This is why alongside the measures in the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, we are supporting enforcement agencies with up to £30 million a year, to scale up their existing activities. This increased investment will help to stamp out criminal activity by boosting enforcement capacity, and help local trading standards tackle underage sales at a local level. Of this funding, over £100 million over five years will support HM Revenue and Custom’s and Border Force’s new illicit tobacco strategy. As is the case with existing age of sale legislation, breaches of the new law will primarily be dealt with by local authority trading standards, rather than by local police forces.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 02/04/2024 17:00:16 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1695898

registered interest
date	13/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Motorcycles: Departmental Coordination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will establish a cross-departmental task force to tackle illegal motorcycling.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	18612
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office has no current plans to establish a cross-departmental task force to tackle illegal motorcycling. Enforcement of road traffic law and how available resources are deployed is the responsibility of individual Chief Officers and Police and Crime Commissioners, taking into account the specific local problems and demands with which they are faced.</p><p>The Government has established a joint Home Office, Department for Transport and National Police Chiefs’ Council Roads Policing Review to understand what can be done better to tackle road crime and improve road safety.</p><p>In addition, last year the Government launched the Anti-social Behaviour Action Plan (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/anti-social-behaviour-action-plan" target="_blank">Anti-Social Behaviour Action Plan - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a> ensuring the police, local authorities and other relevant agencies have the powers they need to tackle the blight of anti-social behaviour, including motorcycle nuisance, facing communities across England and Wales.</p><p>The plan is backed by £160m of funding and includes supporting an increased police and other uniformed presence to target anti-social behaviour hotspots. Initially we worked with 10 police force areas, including Durham Constabulary, but from April we are providing funding of £66m to every police force in England and Wales to support a hotspot enforcement approach for both anti-social behaviour and serious violence. Hotspot patrols could be used in areas where anti-social behaviour involving motorcycles is an issue.</p><p>The Government will continue to support the police to ensure they have the tools needed to enforce road traffic legislation, including in relation to offences involving motorcycles.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 20/03/2024 16:30:52 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1695899

registered interest
date	13/03/2024
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	Department of Health and Social Care: Darlington
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much her Department spent in Darlington constituency in each financial year between 2019-20 and 2022-23.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	18613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>Information on spending in the Darlington constituency is not available in the format requested. However, the following table shows the spend of the organisations that are the closest approximation to the Darlington constituency, each year from 2019/20 to 2022/23:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>2022/23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Darlington Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)</p></td><td><p>£177,000,000</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Tees Valley CCG</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>£1,293,000,000</p></td><td><p>£1,502,000,000</p></td><td><p>£341,000,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB)</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>£5,171,000,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br> The number and commissioning responsibilities of the CCGs, now ICBs, have changed during the period requested, and expenditure levels set out in the table are not directly comparable year-on-year. On 1 July 2022, the NHS North East and North Cumbria ICB replaced and took on responsibility for eight CCGs, including Tees Valley, which is reflected in the higher level of spend in 2022/23.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 27/03/2024 10:15:01 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1695900

registered interest
date	13/03/2024
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Darlington
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the economic impact of (a) investment made and (b) financial support provided by her Department in Darlington constituency in the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	18614
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>UK Research and Innovation spend in Darlington in financial year 2020-21 (the latest available data) was £0.55 million. The interactive innovation clusters map, available at <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.innovationclusters.dsit.gov.uk%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cparliamentary-questions%40dsit.gov.uk%7Ceccb47a44c97495c919108dc49866f1f%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C638466088949848334%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=21fLQ0LNRtF9KHyN5ewZaQTvZBCPd0uEb4QYrG90qsY%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.innovationclusters.dsit.gov.uk/</a>, provides further information about clusters in Darlington.</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 21/03/2024 13:00:30 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1694077

registered interest
date	06/03/2024
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	Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of investment in establishing a vaccine library.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	17375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>Development of a vaccine library, including the adequacy of investment, will be a collaborative, global effort. The Government provides funding to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) through the Department of Health and Social Care and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. The CEPI plays a key role in funding and coordinating the global research and development effort to develop a vaccine library.</p><p>The UK Health Security Agency’s (UKHSA) Vaccine Development and Evaluation Centre (VDEC) makes a significant contribution to the development of a vaccine library through work in developing and evaluating new vaccines and vaccine technologies, some of which is funded by the CEPI.</p><p>The UKHSA is also reviewing the recommendations from the International Pandemic Preparedness Secretariat (IPPS) report, in the context of the United Kingdom, and working across Government to strengthen our 100 Days Mission endeavours even further.</p><p>More broadly, an established clinical countermeasures programme, including vaccines, is a core component of our pandemic preparedness and response capability. The programme is informed by scientific and clinical assessment of the evidence base, and is kept under review, building on lessons learned from previous outbreaks including COVID-19.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 14/03/2024 17:30:10 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson