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837749

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date	06/02/2018
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to the Public Accounts Committee session on 20 November 2017, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the accuracy of the evidence from HMRC that it had no evidence to suggest there would be increased trade flows after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	126780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>“The Secretary of State has regular meetings with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the course of carrying out his duties.</p><p>The IMF has predicted that 90% of future growth will come from outside the EU in the next 10-15 years. The UK needs to take advantage of this growth and position itself to ensure maximum prosperity for its people.”</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 126781 question first answered 20/02/2018 17:25:34 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

837750

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	UK Trade with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to the session of the Public Accounts Committee on 20 November 2017, what disscussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the accuracy of the evidence given by HMRC that it was not expecting any shift in risk profile on goods coming into the UK from the EU after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	126781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>“The Secretary of State has regular meetings with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the course of carrying out his duties.</p><p>The IMF has predicted that 90% of future growth will come from outside the EU in the next 10-15 years. The UK needs to take advantage of this growth and position itself to ensure maximum prosperity for its people.”</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 126780 question first answered 20/02/2018 17:25:34 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

837751

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Remedies Authority
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to proceedings in Committee on the Trade Bill of 23 January 2018, what assessment he has made of evidential basis for the statement by James Ashton Bell on the consultation on the creation of a Trade Remedies Authority that the optics were all wrong.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	126782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department has undertaken a comprehensive series of engagement activities as we develop our future trade policy. The White Paper published in October is just one part of an ongoing programme of engagement. Our wider engagement work – including roundtables, bi-laterals and technical meetings – began in July 2016.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 20/02/2018 17:42:12 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

837779

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Young Offenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children and young people under 18 years old who entered the youth justice system had a diagnosis of a (a) personality disorder, (b) speech or language problem or (c) learning difficulty for each year for which data is available since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	126810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>We do not collect this data centrally</p><p> </p><p>We hold the following information, which is of relevance:</p><p>A data matching exercise between DfE and MoJ found that, of children sentenced in 2014, around 45% of children with short custodial sentences, and 46% with a high-end community sentence have Special Education Needs without a statement (compared with 17% of pupils in state-funded secondary schools).</p><p> </p><p>There are high numbers of young people with special educational needs including speech, language and communication needs in youth custody. Data collected to inform the custody placement decision for young people shows that 32% were recorded as having ‘learning disability or difficulty concerns’ between April 2014 and March 2016.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 20/02/2018 17:06:56 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

837780

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Young Offenders: Depressive Illnesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children and young people under 18 years old who entered the youth justice system experienced a case of (a) depression or (b) anxiety for each year for which data is available since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	126811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>We do not collect this data centrally.</p><p> </p><p>We hold the following information, which is of relevance:</p><ul><li>Of new admissions to youth custody between April 2014 and March 2016:</li><ul><li>32% were recorded as having learning difficulties or difficulty concerns; and</li><li>33% were recorded as having mental health concerns.</li></ul></ul><p><em>Source: Key characteristics of admission to youth custody, 2016, YJB</em>.</p><ul><li>Among boys and young men accommodated in under-18 YOIs during 2016/17:</li><ul><li>27% considered themselves to have a mental health or emotional problem;</li></ul></ul><p>Source<em>: Children in custody 2016/17. An analysis of 12-18 year olds perceptions of their experiences of in secure training centres and young offender institutions. 2017, HMIP.</em></p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 20/02/2018 17:07:20 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

837782

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Secure Accommodation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many places existed for children and young people under 18 years old needing to be housed in a secure accommodation unit for each year for which data is available since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	126813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The number of children entering the youth justice system for the first time continues to decline year on year and we now have a concentrated mix of young people in custody – many of whom demonstrate very challenging and complex behaviour.</p><p> </p><p>We are investing an additional £64m to improve youth custody, including boosting the number of frontline staff in public sector Young Offender Institutions by 20% - all of whom will be specially trained to work in the youth estate.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the number of commissioned beds for the youth estate in England and Wales for the years ending March 2010 to March 2017.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="8"><p>Year ending March</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Occupancy rate</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Secure Children's Homes</p></td><td><p>194</p></td><td><p>191</p></td><td><p>183</p></td><td><p>166</p></td><td><p>167</p></td><td><p>138</p></td><td><p>138</p></td><td><p>117</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Secure Training Centres</p></td><td><p>301</p></td><td><p>301</p></td><td><p>301</p></td><td><p>301</p></td><td><p>301</p></td><td><p>243</p></td><td><p>243</p></td><td><p>223</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Young Offender Institutions</p></td><td><p>3,007</p></td><td><p>2,285</p></td><td><p>2,024</p></td><td><p>2,024</p></td><td><p>1,154</p></td><td><p>970</p></td><td><p>970</p></td><td><p>896</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>3,502</p></td><td><p>2,777</p></td><td><p>2,508</p></td><td><p>2,491</p></td><td><p>1,622</p></td><td><p>1,351</p></td><td><p>1,351</p></td><td><p>1,236</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing and can be subject to change over time.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 20/02/2018 17:45:04 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

837792

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much his Department plans to spend on projects relating to the UK leaving the EU in the next five years; and if he will list the projects to which that funding has been assigned.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	126823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>Given the role of the Attorney General’s Department, it does not lead on specific projects related to the UK leaving the EU and therefore has not incurred any additional expenditure. None of the Law Officers’ Departments has received direct funding therefore for work relating to the UK leaving the EU. Members of staff across the Law Officers’ Departments provide advice and analysis on different issues as required, and different Government departments bid for funding from HMT to pay for their resource needs, including the services of the Government Legal Department (GLD).</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 22/02/2018 07:46:55 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland previous answer version 42260 answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

837793

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department plans to spend on projects relating to the UK leaving the EU in the next five years; and if he will list the projects to which that funding has been assigned.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	126824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>HM Treasury has already allocated departments nearly £700 million to prepare for Brexit: £412m for DIT, FCO and DExEU over the parliament at Autumn Statement 2016 and nearly £300m across a number of departments from the Reserve in 17/18.</p><p>At Autumn Budget 2017 HM Treasury made another £3bn of additional funding available over 18/19 and 19/20 – £1.5bn in each year. We are currently working with HM Treasury to determine our allocation for 18/19 with the aim to agree this soon.</p><p>Departmental allocations for 19/20 will be agreed later on in the year and decisions on funding in 20/21 and beyond will be decided at the next Spending Review. This is because requirements in these years will be heavily affected by what is agreed in our negotiations with the EU.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 19/03/2018 16:53:31 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

837835

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
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	Energy: Prices
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 estimate his Department has made of the average spend on energy bills by UK households in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	126866
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>Based on estimated average annual consumption figures of 3,800kWh for standard electricity and 15,000kWh for gas, BEIS has published the following figures. Note that 2017 figures are provisional, with actual figures being published in March.</p><p> </p><p>In real terms, average (standard) electricity and gas bills (in 2010 prices) are:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Electricity</p></td><td><p>Gas</p></td><td><p>Combined</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>£474</p></td><td><p>£564</p></td><td><p>£1,038</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>£503</p></td><td><p>£605</p></td><td><p>£1,108</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>£523</p></td><td><p>£662</p></td><td><p>£1,185</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>£547</p></td><td><p>£690</p></td><td><p>£1,237</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>£551</p></td><td><p>£701</p></td><td><p>£1,252</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>£541</p></td><td><p>£661</p></td><td><p>£1,202</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>£532</p></td><td><p>£591</p></td><td><p>£1,123</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017(p)</p></td><td><p>£552</p></td><td><p>£564</p></td><td><p>£1,116</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>Figures in the table can be found in Table 221 and Table 231 of Quarterly Energy Prices:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/quarterly-energy-prices-december-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/quarterly-energy-prices-december-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 28/02/2018 15:33:44 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry previous answer version 42120 answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

837839

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Carillion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Oral Statement of 15 January 2018, Official Report, column 624, on Carillion, how many calls the Carillion helpline established through Jobcentre Plus, has received from people based in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	126870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>Carillion staff with employment concerns are able to access targeted support from DWP's Rapid Response Service (RRS) via Jobcentre Plus's network of local offices and its national helpline. Given the RRS is a general redundancy service, information on calls specific to Carillion workers is not held centrally.</p><p>The RSS provides advice and support to employers and employees facing the potential threat of redundancy. The Service is co-ordinated nationally by the National Employer and Partnership Team (NEPT) and is managed by Jobcentre Plus. “The Rapid Response Service (RRS) is delivered in partnership with a range of national and local partners, including National Careers Service and local service providers which include local training providers, employers, HMRC, Money Advice Service and the skills bodies. Where no partner support is available, the Rapid Response Service budget (part of the Flexible Support Fund) may be used to fill gaps in provision.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 19/03/2018 16:53:29 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray