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750759

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Coastal Communities Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he plans to introduce a fifth round of the Coastal Communities Fund.
tabling member constituency	Isle of Wight
tabling member printed	Mr Bob Seely
uin	4426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>We expect to provide details of the fifth round of the Coastal Communities Fund in early 2018. Coastal areas should not wait for the fifth round to be launched before developing and implementing their plans for revitalising their local communities.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 19/07/2017 16:58:46 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4681 label Biography information for Bob Seely

750760

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Isle of Wight
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the level of New Homes Bonus payments made to Isle of Wight Council in each of the last four years were; and what the affordable and other housing delivery figures were on which those payments were made.
tabling member constituency	Isle of Wight
tabling member printed	Mr Bob Seely
uin	4430
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The New Homes Bonus was introduced in 2011/12 to provide an incentive for local authorities to encourage housing growth in their areas. The payment recognises newly built properties and conversions as well as bringing long term empty properties back into use and there is an additional payment for each affordable home delivered. Figures for the Isle of Wight for the last four years are set out in the attached table.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 19/07/2017 16:57:04 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma attachment 1 file name New Homes Bonus figurs for Isle of Wight.docx title New Homes Bonus figures for the Isle of Wight
tabling member	4681 label Biography information for Bob Seely

750761

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Care Workers: Zero Hours Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to eliminate zero hour contracts for social care workers.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	4413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government recognises the concerns about employers who may be breaching the rules or otherwise exploiting their position. The Government wants to make sure that everyone is paid properly and receives the employment rights to which they are entitled.</p><p>The Prime Minister commissioned Matthew Taylor to undertake a review of the rights of employees. In his review Matthew Taylor describes the United Kingdom’s flexible labour market as one of the economy’s biggest strengths and said a blanket ban on zero hours would create more “cliff edges” for employers and workers.</p><p>Social care providers are overwhelmingly independent private or charitable organisations and make their own employment decisions about their staff. Zero hours contracts allow employees to access the labour market who cannot or do not want to commit to standard, regular work.</p><p> </p><p>The Department continues to work closely with Skills for Care to support good recruitment and retention practices by social care organisations.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/07/2017 10:41:00 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

750762

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Merseyside
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent meetings (a) Ministers and (b) officials of her Department have had with the National Crime Agency and Regional Serious Crime Unit on the provision of extra support and funding to Merseyside Police to tackle recent rises in gun crime.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	4414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>Home Office Ministers have regular meetings with law enforcement agencies as part of the process of policy development and delivery. As was the case with previous administrations, it is not the Government's practice to provide details of all such meetings.</p><p> </p><p>Joint working between law enforcement agencies is an operational matter and cannot be commented upon in detail. The National Crime Agency continues to work with all law enforcement partners to tackle the shared threat posed by illegal firearms, and stands ready to support those partners when required. The Regional Organised Crime Units provide specialist capabilities to police forces to efficiently and effectively tackle the threat from serious and organised crime, including that from the criminal use of firearms.</p><p>The Home Secretary has received the letter of 29 June from the Honourable Member for Garston and Halewood and a response will be sent very shortly with a package of support for Merseyside Police to consider. The Security Minister is also arranging to see the Honourable Member very shortly, with other Merseyside MPs, the Chief Constable, and the National Crime Agency, to discuss this issue further.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 4415 4416 question first answered 18/07/2017 12:55:34 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

750763

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Merseyside
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, of 3 July 2017, Official Report, column 886, what additional support has been provided to Merseyside Police to tackle recent increases in gun crime by the (a) National Crime Agency and (b) Regional Serious Crime Unit.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	4416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>Home Office Ministers have regular meetings with law enforcement agencies as part of the process of policy development and delivery. As was the case with previous administrations, it is not the Government's practice to provide details of all such meetings.</p><p> </p><p>Joint working between law enforcement agencies is an operational matter and cannot be commented upon in detail. The National Crime Agency continues to work with all law enforcement partners to tackle the shared threat posed by illegal firearms, and stands ready to support those partners when required. The Regional Organised Crime Units provide specialist capabilities to police forces to efficiently and effectively tackle the threat from serious and organised crime, including that from the criminal use of firearms.</p><p>The Home Secretary has received the letter of 29 June from the Honourable Member for Garston and Halewood and a response will be sent very shortly with a package of support for Merseyside Police to consider. The Security Minister is also arranging to see the Honourable Member very shortly, with other Merseyside MPs, the Chief Constable, and the National Crime Agency, to discuss this issue further.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 4414 4415 question first answered 18/07/2017 12:55:34 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

750764

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Merseyside
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent meetings (a) Ministers and (b) officials of her Department have had with Merseyside Police on the provision of extra support to tackle recent rises in gun crime.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	4415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>Home Office Ministers have regular meetings with law enforcement agencies as part of the process of policy development and delivery. As was the case with previous administrations, it is not the Government's practice to provide details of all such meetings.</p><p> </p><p>Joint working between law enforcement agencies is an operational matter and cannot be commented upon in detail. The National Crime Agency continues to work with all law enforcement partners to tackle the shared threat posed by illegal firearms, and stands ready to support those partners when required. The Regional Organised Crime Units provide specialist capabilities to police forces to efficiently and effectively tackle the threat from serious and organised crime, including that from the criminal use of firearms.</p><p>The Home Secretary has received the letter of 29 June from the Honourable Member for Garston and Halewood and a response will be sent very shortly with a package of support for Merseyside Police to consider. The Security Minister is also arranging to see the Honourable Member very shortly, with other Merseyside MPs, the Chief Constable, and the National Crime Agency, to discuss this issue further.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 4414 4416 question first answered 18/07/2017 12:55:34 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

750765

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Buses: Tyres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many public service vehicles inspected by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency were identified as having tyres that exceed the 10-year age limit in each year since January 2014.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	4421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) conducts statutory annual inspections and roadside enforcement checks. During statutory annual inspections, DVSA identified 2 instances of public service vehicles with tyres that had exceeded the 10-year age limit since January 2014; both instances were in 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst carrying out roadside enforcement checks, DVSA has not identified any public service vehicles with tyres that have exceeded the 10-year age limit since January 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 19/07/2017 13:58:21 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

750766

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Buses: Tyres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2017 to Question 1855, how many inspections into the age of public service vehicle tyres were carried out by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency in each year since January 2014.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	4420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The following figures show the number of public service vehicle (PSV) encounters carried out by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) in each year since January 2014 under each inspection type; tyres are inspected as part of each encounter.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Roadside</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Testing</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>13774</p></td><td><p>89732</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>6417</p></td><td><p>89057</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>9186</p></td><td><p>87488</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 (six months to June)</p></td><td><p>5737</p></td><td><p>45869</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>A memo, first issued in April 2014, to all DVSA testing and roadside examination staff requested notification to the presenter and/or driver proportionate to the condition of the vehicle, which included the age of tyres fitted to the front axle of PSVs.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 19/07/2017 13:53:54 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

750767

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Buses: Tyres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many accidents involving coaches or buses were caused by a defective tyre in each year since October 2012.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	4419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>The information collected by the Department on the number of reported accidents involving vehicles with more than eight seated passengers from October 2012 onwards, where a tyre was considered to be a contributory factor are included in the table. In these cases, the investigating Police Officer indicated that a tyre was “illegal, defective or under inflated”.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Coach and bus (over 16 seated passengers</p></td><td><p>Minibuses (9 to 16 seated passengers)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 18/07/2017 08:44:34 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

750768

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Parking: Pedestrian Areas
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 adequacy of legislation related to parking on pavements in ensuring pedestrian safety.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	4418
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for assessing the needs of all road users in their areas and for implementing appropriate traffic management measures. If a local authority considers that the safety of pedestrians in a particular location is compromised by pavement parking they have the powers necessary to deal with it through a Traffic Regulation Order (TRO).</p><p> </p><p>As part of our discussions with local authorities and other stakeholders, my department is planning to launch a survey in autumn 2017 in order to gather evidence about the TRO procedure, the costs and timescales for processing TROs, and information about options for change.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 4417 question first answered 19/07/2017 16:24:41 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle