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1545996

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
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	Palliative Care: Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure that households with children who need palliative care and who use pre-payment meters can access a secure and affordable supply of energy.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	97570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government’s Energy Price Guarantee will bring a typical household bill down to the equivalent of around £2500 per year from 1 October 2022 to end of March 2023 (with equivalent support in NI). From April 2023, the Energy Price Guarantee will be adjusted to cap typical household bills at £3,000 until the end of March 2024. Additionally, the Energy Bills Support Scheme will provide electricity customers in Great Britain with £400 off their bills from October 2022.</p><p> </p><p>Ofgem Standard Licence Conditions require suppliers to ensure that prepayment meters are only installed where it is ‘safe and reasonably practicable’ - including consideration of whether a consumer’s vulnerability makes a prepayment meter a poor choice, for example where medical equipment is required.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 20/12/2022 15:02:31 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1544386

registered interest
date	22/11/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Elections: Proof of Identity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the number of voters aged (a) 18 to 30 and (b) over 65 who hold a form of ID which will be accepted at a polling station.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	93562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2022 answer text <p>Cabinet Office research shows that 99% of those aged 18-29 held an accepted form of photographic identification, and 98% of those aged over 70 hold an accepted form of photographic identification.</p><p>Everyone who is eligible to vote will have the opportunity to do so. Any eligible voter who does not have one of the required forms of photographic identification, or whose appearance has significantly changed in comparison to their existing identification documents, can apply for a free Voter Authority Certificate that matches their current appearance.</p><p>Polling station staff will be given appropriate training and there will be a requirement for privacy screens to allow electors who wish to have their form of identification viewed in private able to do so.</p><p>The Electoral Commission will provide a comprehensive, targeted communications campaign and guidance, raising awareness throughout the electorate of the new voter identification requirements.</p><p>Northern Ireland has successfully operated photographic identification in polling stations since 2003, when introduced by the last Labour Government.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 93560 question first answered 05/12/2022 10:12:50 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1544007

registered interest
date	21/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Agriculture: Seasonal Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that workers who travel to the UK on the agricultural Seasonal Worker visa are offered work for the duration of their visa; and what estimate she has made of the number of those workers who left the UK after (a) three, (b) four and (c) five months in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) the first half of 2022.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	92242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2022 answer text <p>The Seasonal Worker is an ‘operator led’ immigration route, with four scheme operators selected to manage the placement of workers on UK farms and to ensure their welfare in the UK.</p><p>The Seasonal Worker scheme operators are responsible for managing all aspects of the recruitment and placement of workers on UK farms, and ensure workers have sufficient work as part of their sponsorship duties. The Home Office closely monitors the scheme operators to ensure they are complying with their sponsor duties. Non-compliance with the guidance could result in the revocation of their sponsor license.</p><p>The Home Office monitors the number of workers who enter the UK through this route and the number of workers that return to ensure that the route is operating effectively. We do not however routinely publish information about lengths of stay.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 92243 question first answered 29/11/2022 17:42:57 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1544017

registered interest
date	21/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Agriculture: Seasonal Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she is taking steps to put checks are in place to ensure that workers who entered the UK on the agricultural Seasonal Worker visa are placed in work before further workers are brought to the UK; and what steps her Department is taking to (a) monitor the numbers of and (b) offer support to workers on the visa who are unable to find work.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	92243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2022 answer text <p>The Seasonal Worker is an ‘operator led’ immigration route, with four scheme operators selected to manage the placement of workers on UK farms and to ensure their welfare in the UK.</p><p>The Seasonal Worker scheme operators are responsible for managing all aspects of the recruitment and placement of workers on UK farms, and ensure workers have sufficient work as part of their sponsorship duties. The Home Office closely monitors the scheme operators to ensure they are complying with their sponsor duties. Non-compliance with the guidance could result in the revocation of their sponsor license.</p><p>The Home Office monitors the number of workers who enter the UK through this route and the number of workers that return to ensure that the route is operating effectively. We do not however routinely publish information about lengths of stay.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 92242 question first answered 29/11/2022 17:42:57 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1541608

registered interest
date	11/11/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, further to his Answer of 7 February 2022 to Question 77576 on UN Committee On the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, when the Government plans to submit the next periodic report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	84897
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2022 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer to Question UIN <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fquestions-statements.parliament.uk%2Fwritten-questions%2Fdetail%2F2022-11-02%2F77576&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Cc13cd8d9427b4261af3a08dac7e49905%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638042081865899193%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=YsXRcueVH6einPKaE8VxPPUefC7MZSn9hFs8K39j1zA%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">77576</a>, answered on the 7 November 2022.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 16/11/2022 15:41:51 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1540063

registered interest
date	07/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Hotels
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 her oral statement of 31 October 2022, Official Report, column 641, on what dates she officially sanctioned each hotels' use for housing people processed at Manston asylum processing centre.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	80737
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2022 answer text <p>Asylum accommodation is sourced and provided to those who are eligible and is not limited to those individuals who are processed at Manston following arrival by small boat. We continue to work at pace to secure suitable alternative accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>Since 6<sup>th</sup> September over 100 new hotels providing over 9,000 additional bed spaces have been brought into use.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 80738 question first answered 24/11/2022 15:15:56 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1540064

registered interest
date	07/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Hotels
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 her oral statement of 31 October 2022, Official Report, column 642, on which dates use of each of the hotels was sanctioned; whether and to what extent they were sanctioned for use to house people transferred from Manston asylum processing centre; and how many persons have now been transferred from Manston to those hotels.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	80738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2022 answer text <p>Asylum accommodation is sourced and provided to those who are eligible and is not limited to those individuals who are processed at Manston following arrival by small boat. We continue to work at pace to secure suitable alternative accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>Since 6<sup>th</sup> September over 100 new hotels providing over 9,000 additional bed spaces have been brought into use.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 80737 question first answered 24/11/2022 15:15:56 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1540065

registered interest
date	07/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Manston Asylum Processing Centre
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were detained for processing at Manston asylum processing centre on each Monday since Monday 6 June 2022 to date; and how many arrivals and departures there were in each of those weeks.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	80739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2022 answer text <p>Home Office does not hold the requested data in a reportable format and there are currently no plans to publish this historic data.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 14/11/2022 17:51:12 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1522462

registered interest
date	14/10/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Personal Records
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information the (a) Gangmasters Labour Abuse Authority, (b) Employment Agencies Inspectorate and (c) other labour inspectorates are required to share information with Immigration Enforcement relating to the personal data or immigration status of workers.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	63237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>There is no legal requirement for labour abuse authorities, agencies, or inspectorates, to share information with Immigration Enforcement in relation to the personal data or immigration status of workers. Referrals may be made to Immigration Enforcement via the ‘Report Immigration Crime’ tool on gov.uk, or in the format of an intelligence report. These referrals may include personal data which could relate to immigration offenders.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 24/10/2022 10:09:18 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1519597

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Agriculture: Seasonal Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to expand the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme and include within it Labour Market Enforcement's resourcing and work plans.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C McDonald
uin	59812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2022 answer text <p>The Seasonal Worker route was extended into this year, with 38,000 visas available, to support our farmers growing fruit and vegetables as they adapt to changes in the UK labour market. The Government is keeping the position under close review and I hope to say more on this matter in due course.</p><p>The Government spends £33 million a year on state enforcement of employment rights. This covers national minimum wage, employment agencies, gangmasters licensing and modern slavery related to worker exploitation.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 14/10/2022 10:12:58 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald