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746854

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date	29/06/2017
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	Trading Standards: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Chartered Trading Standards Institute Workforce Survey, June 2016, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of changes in budgets for local authority trading standards services on the delivery of trading standards services across the UK.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	1991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>Funding and prioritisation for trading standards are decisions for local authorities – accountable to local communities and the people they serve.</p><p>Government recognises that consumer protection goes beyond local authority boundaries, and therefore provides £15m per year for coordinated Trading Standards activity in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 05/07/2017 16:20:27 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

746855

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date	29/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Motor Neurone Disease
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to double research funding for Motor Neurone Disease.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	2092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department funds research mainly through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The Medical Research Council (MRC), an independent research funding body which receives its grant in aid from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy also funds medical research.</p><p> </p><p>The usual practice of the NIHR and of the MRC is not to ring-fence funds for expenditure on particular topics: research proposals in all areas compete for the funding available. Applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality.</p><p> </p><p>The MRC currently spends approximately £5.3 million per annum on research relating to Motor Neurone Disease (MND). The MRC, as part of the Network of Centres of Excellence in Neurodegeneration, has recently made available up to £1 million to support research in the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p><p>Spend by the NIHR in the Health Research Classification System (HRCS) health category ‘neurological’ has increased from £29.9 million in 2010/11 to £52.6 million in 2015/16 (the latest year for which data is available). There are no HRCS health sub-categories such as for MND or other specific neurological conditions, and information on total annual NIHR spend on research into treating MND is not held.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 06/07/2017 15:45:09 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

746856

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Brain: Tumours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward proposals to increase funding for brain tumour research over the current Parliament; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	2093
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department Task and Finish Working Group on Brain Tumour Research is bringing together clinicians, charities, patients, and officials to discuss how, working together with research funding partners, we can address the need to increase the level and impact of research into brain tumours. The Working Group is chaired by Professor Chris Whitty, the Department's Chief Scientific Adviser. The Working Group met for the third time on 17 May, and plans to report to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health (Lord O’Shaughnessy) by autumn 2017.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 04/07/2017 14:10:18 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

746857

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
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	John Cantlie
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent information his Department has received on the wellbeing of the hostage John Cantlie; and what steps his Department is taking to secure Mr Cantlie's release.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	2094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2017 answer text <p>​It is the Government’s longstanding policy not to comment on our operational response to kidnaps overseas. We continue to provide support to Mr Cantlie’s family.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 07/07/2017 13:35:11 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day