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1563200

registered interest
date	20/12/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Inflation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the level of inflation in (a) the UK and (b) other comparable countries; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Lichfield
tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
uin	902894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics release statistics on UK inflation. These show that the annual rate of CPI inflation was 10.7% in November, down from 11.1% in October.</p><p>The Office for Budget Responsibility has confirmed global factors are the primary cause of current inflation. Inflation is high here – but higher in Germany (11.3%), the Netherlands (11.2%), and Italy (12.5%).</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 20/12/2022 13:43:41 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1563201

registered interest
date	20/12/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	VAT: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that traders in Northern Ireland do not pay double VAT on goods purchased in the UK.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
uin	902896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>For the majority of businesses trading with and in Northern Ireland, VAT continues to be accounted for in much the same way as when trading with the rest of the UK.</p><p>The government is confident that its implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol for VAT mitigates the risk of double taxation in Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>Northern Ireland is, and will remain, part of the UK’s VAT system.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/12/2022 15:28:20 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

1563202

registered interest
date	20/12/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the impact of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement on the economy.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	902897
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>The Trade and Cooperation Agreement is the world’s biggest zero-tariff, zero-quota trade deal. This provides a strong base for UK businesses to trade with the EU.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is continuing to support businesses trading with the EU, as well as helping them seize new opportunities with fast-growing economies around the world through our Free Trade Agreement negotiations.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/12/2022 15:32:41 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

1563203

registered interest
date	20/12/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Public Sector: Industrial Disputes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to help resolve public sector pay disputes.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	902898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>We value the vital work that public sector workers do. We want pay deals that are fair for public sector workers and affordable for the taxpayer.</p><p> </p><p>That’s why Government has accepted the pay recommendations of the independent Pay Review Bodies for the NHS, teachers, and other front line workforces for 2022/23. These are the highest uplifts in nearly twenty years, reflecting the vital contributions public sector workers make to our country and the cost-of-living pressures facing households. Many awards were targeted towards the low paid, for example the lowest paid NHS workers received 9.3%.</p><p> </p><p>Departments are closely monitoring the strike risk across their workforces and are carefully considering ways to mitigate the potential impact of industrial action.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 20/12/2022 13:35:54 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1563204

registered interest
date	20/12/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Financial Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps his Department has taken to help support the financial services sector.
tabling member constituency	Wyre Forest
tabling member printed	Mark Garnier
uin	902899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>The Edinburgh Reforms, launched by the Chancellor on 9 December, take forward the government’s ambition for an open, sustainable, and technologically advanced financial services sector that is globally competitive and acts in the interests of communities and citizens across all four nations of the UK. These reforms build on the work the government is already taking forward through the Financial Services and Markets Bill and the reforms to Solvency II announced at the Autumn Statement.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 20/12/2022 13:34:17 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier

1563357

registered interest
date	20/12/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Cadbury: Supply Chains
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will have discussions with Cadbury’s on modern slavery and child exploitation risks within supply chains.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	114631
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2023 answer text <p>The UK has consistently supported the UN Guiding Principles (UNGPs) on business and human rights, which are widely regarded as the authoritative international framework to steer practical action by Governments and businesses worldwide on this important agenda. Implementation of the UNGPs supports access to justice and remedy for victims of business-related human rights abuses, wherever these occur, and encourages businesses to voluntarily adopt due diligence approaches to respecting human rights.</p><p>The Government is clear that it expects all UK businesses to respect human rights throughout their operations, in line with the UNGPs.</p><p>The UK was the first country in the world to require businesses to report on the steps they have taken to tackle modern slavery. Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 requires businesses with a turnover of £36 million or more to report annually on the steps they have taken to prevent modern slavery in their operations and supply chains.</p><p>The landmark 'Transparency in Supply Chains' provisions in the Modern Slavery Act have driven a change in business culture, spotlighting modern slavery risks on boardroom agendas and within the international human rights community. We recognise, however, there is more to do to keep businesses focused on this important issue.</p><p>The prevalence of modern slavery and complexity of global supply chains means that it is highly unlikely that any sector or company is immune from the risks of modern slavery. Section 54 therefore does not require organisations to certify that their supply chains are 'slavery free' or require the Government to verify the content of modern slavery statements. The Government expects companies to report transparently about how they are mitigating modern slavery risks and to use their modern slavery statements to demonstrate year on year progress. This enables consumers, shareholders and civil society to scrutinise the efforts being made.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 09/01/2023 09:24:41 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1563358

registered interest
date	20/12/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	British Overseas Territories: Undocumented Migrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what information his Department holds on illegal migration to the British Overseas Territories.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	114535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2023 answer text <p>Responsibility for migration in the British Overseas Territories lies with the elected Overseas Territory Government's. As such, information on illegal migration will be held by Overseas Territory Governments. The Territories face varying levels of migration issues, and the UK Government is providing support where needed.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 11/01/2023 11:45:30 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1563359

registered interest
date	20/12/2022
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Sikhs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether the Government has sought legal advice on whether (a) public bodies and (b) decision makers fail in their equality duty if they are unable to establish the number of people who they employ or to whom they provide a service that have a Sikh ethnicity.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	114758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2023 answer text <p>The specific duties of the public sector equality duty apply to most public bodies in England, such as local authorities and schools; most public authorities operating across Great Britain, such as Government departments (except on devolved functions); and a small number of public bodies operating across one of the borders inside Great Britain. These duties also apply to decision-makers who are not public authorities but exercise public functions. Public bodies subject to the specific duties must publish information to show their compliance with the public sector equality duty. The information must include:</p><ul><li>information relating to people who are affected by the public body’s policies and practices, such as service users, and who share protected characteristics;</li><li>and for public bodies with 150 or more employees, information relating to those of the public body’s employees who share protected characteristics.</li></ul><p>The specific duties are intended to enable better performance of the public sector equality duty, but there is no requirement to hold or publish information to any particular level of detail. Similarly, there is no prescribed format. It is up to each public body to decide for itself what information it publishes. This will vary greatly depending on the size of the body, the range of functions it performs, and the extent to which those functions could affect equality.</p><p>However, public bodies and decision-makers who think that their decisions may affect discrimination, harassment, or victimisation of Sikhs, affect equality of opportunity between Sikhs and people of different ethnicity, or affect Sikhs’ relations with people of different ethnicity, should ensure that their compliance with the duty includes considerations of Sikh ethnicity.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 12/01/2023 17:48:05 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1563360

registered interest
date	20/12/2022
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Sikhs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the Government's website entitled Ethnicity Facts and Figures, how many and what proportion of the datasets which appear on that site contain data which can be disaggregated in such a way as to provide specific information on the number of Sikhs in each category, in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	114759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2023 answer text <p>According to the Office for National Statistics’ latest Equalities Data Audit (Nov 2022), 22 of the data sources used on Ethnicity facts and figures collect religion data as well as ethnicity. This is 29% of all the data sources used on Ethnicity facts and figures. There are 73 datasets (pages) in Ethnicity facts and figures that use data from these sources; this is 39% of all datasets. Sample sizes for each source vary so it may not always be possible to provide reliable estimates when disaggregating data by both ethnic group and religion.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 11/01/2023 17:03:42 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1563361

registered interest
date	20/12/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Iran: Demonstrations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to ensure the Iranian Government respects the right to peaceful assembly and releases unfairly detained protesters.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	114632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2023 answer text <p>The UK is committed to holding Iran to account on a wide range of human rights issues, including the appalling treatment of children and women throughout Iran's brutal crackdown of protests. The UK supported the 24 November Human Rights Council resolution establishing a UN investigation into the regime's appalling human rights violations. We worked closely with partners to successfully remove Iran from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. The FCDO has called on Iranian authorities in multiple international fora to abide by its obligations under international law to release unfairly detained protesters.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 13/01/2023 12:09:07 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq