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1017233

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
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	Patients: Travel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the finding of CLIC Sargent in their report entitled Are We Nearly There Yet?, published in September 2018, that only six per cent of parents have received help from the Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme, what steps his Department is taking to ensure all families on low incomes have access to financial support to manage healthcare-related travel costs.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	197311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>The Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme is set up to assist those on low income or in receipt of certain qualifying benefits to obtain assistance with travel to hospitals.</p><p> </p><p>Information on how to obtain assistance with travel costs is widely available from National Health Service organisations including general practitioner surgeries, hospitals, clinical commissioning groups and the NHS website. Outside of the NHS, information may also be obtained from Healthwatch, Citizen Advice, cancer and other charities.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 07/12/2018 13:01:21 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1015017

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
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	Circuses: Animal Welfare
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Government plans to bring forth legislation to ban the use of wild animals in circuses.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	195458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to the answer I gave to the honourable member for Oxford West and Abingdon on 16 October 2018 to Question 176633.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-10-08/176633/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-10-08/176633/</a></p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 03/12/2018 14:09:12 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1011454

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Border Delivery Group
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if his Department will lift the non-disclosure agreements that apply to the Border Delivery Group to enable that Group to update businesses on its contingency plans for after 29 March 2019 in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	193996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>The Border Delivery Group is actively seeking agreement for communication with stakeholders about border issues to be carried out without non-disclosure agreements as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 29/11/2018 17:22:14 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1011606

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
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	Burma: Rohingya
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 November to Question 186916, how much time he plans to give the Burmese Commission of Inquiry into Rakhine State to deliberate and report before he makes a judgement on whether it is independent and credible.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	194002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>The Foreign Secretary has set out to State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi his expectations that the Commission of Inquiry must be independent, credible and result in a judicial process. As the Commission of Inquiry proceeds through its mandated period of operation of one year, we will be assessing whether it is meeting these expectations in consultation with international partners. At the same time the UK will be working to maximise international support and Burmese engagement with the collect and preserve mechanism established by the UK-supported UN Human Rights Council Resolution of 27 September, and other accountability mechanisms.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 29/11/2018 14:30:09 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1011610

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
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	Lumacaftor/ivacaftor
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 his Department is taking to ensure that cystic fibrosis sufferers have access to Orkambi.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	194005
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and NHS England are in dialogue with Vertex Pharmaceuticals around access to their portfolio of cystic fibrosis medicines. It is critical that Vertex now re-engages fully with the NICE appraisal process and gives serious consideration to the portfolio deal offer that NHS England made at the end of July. This deal would provide immediate access for patients to all Vertex licensed medicines and future pipeline products once licensed and in advance of the individual NICE appraisals concluding.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/11/2018 16:56:46 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1011611

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
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	Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will introduce a new 5-year survival target of 28 per cent by 2029 for (a) lung, (b) liver, (c) brain, (d) oesophageal, (e) pancreatic and (f) stomach cancer.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	194006
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>The Prime Minister announced ambitions for the National Health Service Long Term Plan that will see 55,000 more people surviving cancer for five years in England each year from 2028 and three quarters of all cancers detected at an early stage by 2028. To achieve these ambitions, we will need to make signification progress on survival across all cancers, including lung, liver, brain, oesophageal, pancreatic and stomach cancers.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/11/2018 17:24:18 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1011612

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
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	Bovine Tuberculosis Strategy Review
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 Godfray Review into the Government's Bovine TB Policy, published on 13 November 2018, what steps his Department plans to take to implement the findings of that Review.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	194007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>As set out in my written statement of 13 November 2018 (HCWS1077), the Government will consider the Review recommendations carefully and a formal response will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 28/11/2018 14:46:56 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1002647

registered interest
date	06/11/2018
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	EU Nationals: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, whether children resident in the EU will be able to travel to the UK on identity cards in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	188690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>We are considering a number of options in the unlikely event that we reach March 2019 without a deal. The Home Office will set out further information in due course.</p><p>As the Immigration Minister has said, we do not intend to require visas from EU citizens in a no deal scenario and we welcome the commitment from the EU Commission that subject to reciprocity they will do the same for UK nationals entering the EU.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 19/11/2018 10:04:50 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

994512

registered interest
date	25/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many citizens of non-UK EU countries work in (a) his Department, (b) its agencies and (c) its non-departmental public bodies.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	183821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>All Government Departments are bound by legal requirements concerning the right to work in the UK and, in addition, the Civil Service Nationality Rules.</p><p>Evidence of nationality is checked at the point of recruitment into the Civil Service as part of wider pre-employment checks, but there is no requirement on departments to retain this information beyond the point at which it has served its purpose.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/11/2018 17:39:42 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

987998

registered interest
date	15/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether gagging clauses have been used in contracts drawn up between his Department and any charities, voluntary sector organisations, social enterprises or companies with the intention of stopping any criticism of Ministers of his Department.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	179072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2019 answer text <p>There are no gagging clauses within Home Office contracts or Grant agreements specifically to stop criticism of Home Office Ministers.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 24/04/2019 12:38:19 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake