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1020213

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date	05/12/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Gambling: Marketing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to prevent gambling companies from using user data to target marketing to (a) underage and (b) problem gamblers.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	199330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>Strict rules already ensure gambling adverts are not targeted at, or appeal to, children, or exploit the vulnerable, and these apply across all media, including online and on social media.</p><p> </p><p>Gambling operators are required to comply with the advertising codes of practice issued by the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP). These are enforced by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). In addition to rules covering children, the advertising codes have specific provisions to protect vulnerable people, and CAP’s new guidance in February further restricted adverts that create an inappropriate sense of urgency or give an irresponsible perception of risk or control.</p><p> </p><p>Gambling adverts must not feature content that risks appealing to children, for example cartoon animals. Last year the Gambling Commission and ASA acted quickly to make clear that operators using such images were in breach of advertising rules and must remove the material or face enforcement action. In addition to rules on content, the ASA has made clear that operators advertising online must use data on customers’ interests to target marketing campaigns away from children.</p><p> </p><p>The government considered gambling advertising as part of our Review of Gaming Machines and Social Responsibility Measures and set out a package of initiatives to strengthen protections further, including further CAP guidance on protecting children and young people, and tougher Gambling Commission sanctions for breaches of the advertising codes, including fines.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 199337 question first answered 13/12/2018 16:59:04 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1020214

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Public Libraries: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure the safeguarding of children in unstaffed libraries.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	199331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department encourages local authorities to consider a range of approaches to support and enhance the delivery of their library services, such as making appropriate use of available technology. A number of library services are using technology to enable access for library users to library buildings outside staffed hours on a self service basis. The systems often include controlled access technology involving CCTV and communication systems. Good practice guidance, from the Libraries Taskforce, encourages library services to undertake a risk assessment before implementing such a service and also advises that it is important that staffed hours meet the requirements of children and young adults who wish to visit the library unaccompanied. In managing the safeguarding of children, library services that use these systems do not allow children under a specified age to access the library at unstaffed times unless accompanied by an adult.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 13/12/2018 13:03:48 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

1020218

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Lost Property
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the police take receipt of lost property handed in by the general public.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	199403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>Taking receipt of lost property handed in by the general public is a matter for individual police forces.</p><p>Following a national police review of Lost Property Services, the National Police Chief’s Council accepted a decision to cease general lost property reporting with effect from 1st October 2018.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 21/12/2018 17:04:55 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1020220

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cycling and Walking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to update the CWIS walking stages target for the general population to take account of changes in methodology in the NTS.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	199421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>All the aims and objectives set out in the 2017 Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy will be reviewed in due course as part of the Department’s work to develop the next phase of the Strategy. This work will take into account a wide range of factors, including recent changes to the way data on short walks is collected via the National Travel Survey.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 13/12/2018 13:24:23 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1020221

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
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	Brain: Tumours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many brain tumour research applications have been received by the National Institute of Health Research to date.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	199466
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>In May the Government announced £40 million over the next five years for brain tumour research as part of the Dame Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission.</p><p> </p><p>Funding will be invested through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to support a wide range of research from early translation (experimental medicine) through clinical and on to applied research, and we rely on researchers to submit high-quality research proposals in this complex area.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the amount of applications received since the NIHR was established:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Successful</p></td><td><p>Unsuccessful</p></td><td><p>Miscellaneous*</p></td><td><p>Total Applications</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003/04</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005/06</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006/07</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007/08</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19 (year to date)</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>83</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>113</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p>Miscellaneous*- under consideration / withdrawn / other</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 12/12/2018 15:35:22 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1020225

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
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, what assessment he has made of the effect of recent changes in the level of public health funding on trends in the number of incidences of cancer.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	199405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government has made no specific assessment of any correlation between current levels of spending on public health and the incidence of cancer. In the period 2007 to 2016 (the latest year for which there is data) new registrations of cancer rose from 255,200 to 303,100, with the largest increases being in diagnoses of skin cancers (other than melanoma) and prostate cancer. The increases largely reflect the impact on incidence of an ageing population.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2013 local authorities in England have taken the lead in commissioning a wide range of public health interventions, including a number with the potential to help prevent cancer, based on their own assessments of local needs. The Government is making available over £16 billion during the current five-year spending review period for use by local authorities exclusively on public health services, but by their nature such interventions may take some time to take full effect.</p><p> </p><p>As well as prevention, improving the early diagnosis of cancer is a key priority for the Government. From next year people with suspected cancer will receive a diagnosis or have cancer ruled out within 28 days. We have also announced a package of cancer measures that will radically improve the system and ensure that 55,000 more people survive cancer for at least five years every year from 2028.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/12/2018 14:57:43 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1020233

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
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	Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will place in the Library (a) all instances where the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has recommended a change to a vaccination programme that would be likely to result in an increase in disease incidence, (b) whether those recommendations were accepted by Ministers and (c) the subsequent changes in disease incidence following those decisions.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	199422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>The information is not held in the format requested and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/12/2018 14:55:49 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1020236

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government has established a decommissioning fund to ensure funding for the transferable tax history policy.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	199457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p><strong>T</strong>ransferable tax history is forecast to increase tax receipts from oil and gas production by £65m between tax years 2018-19 and 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>It would therefore be unnecessary to set aside additional funding to implement this policy.</p><p> </p><p>Wider decommissioning tax relief is provided to companies undertaking decommissioning activities through deductions against current or future taxable profits and, in some situations, repayments of previously paid tax.</p><p> </p><p>The UK oil and gas industry is expected to pay an additional £13bn of tax over the next 5 years, net of tax repayments for decommissioning tax relief.</p><p> </p><p>The Government publishes OBR verified forecasts of future tax receipts for the 5 year period up to year 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>Government internal projections for TTH beyond 2023/24 show it will continue to be revenue positive for the Exchequer.</p><p> </p><p>Para 5 (d) of Schedule 14 to the Finance Bill (No.3) 2017-19 determines the “uplifted decommissioning cost estimate”. This refers to the maximum possible amount of tax history that the seller can transfer to a purchaser under a transferable tax history election. It does not represent the actual tax relief that the purchaser will receive from making a claim for transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>The amount of transferable tax history that a purchaser can claim will always be limited to the activated amount of transferable tax history. The activated amount is defined as the extent by which decommissioning costs of the transferred field exceed the tracked profits of the transferred field.</p><p> </p><p>If a purchaser is able to make a claim for transferable tax history they cannot receive a larger repayment than the seller would have received for undertaking the same decommissioning work.</p><p> </p><p>The current estimate of the exchequer’s liability for decommissioning costs is therefore unaffected by the introduction of transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>Government tax revenues from North Sea Oil and Gas companies over the last three years are reproduced in the table below. More details can be found in Table 11.11 in the publication “<em>Statistics of Government revenues from UK Oil and Gas production</em>”.</p><p> </p><p>Tax repayments are made to ring-fenced oil and gas companies if the assessment of tax due from an earlier period is revised downwards. This can be the result of many factors, including decommissioning tax relief. Estimates of total tax relief arising from decommissioning expenditure will be published by HMRC in <em>Estimated Costs of Tax Reliefs</em> in early 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total tax revenues (£m)</p></td><td><p>-2</p></td><td><p>-350</p></td><td><p>1,188</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 199458 199459 199460 question first answered 14/12/2018 12:42:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1020237

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the costs of the transferable tax history policy in the ten years after April 2024.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	199458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p><strong>T</strong>ransferable tax history is forecast to increase tax receipts from oil and gas production by £65m between tax years 2018-19 and 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>It would therefore be unnecessary to set aside additional funding to implement this policy.</p><p> </p><p>Wider decommissioning tax relief is provided to companies undertaking decommissioning activities through deductions against current or future taxable profits and, in some situations, repayments of previously paid tax.</p><p> </p><p>The UK oil and gas industry is expected to pay an additional £13bn of tax over the next 5 years, net of tax repayments for decommissioning tax relief.</p><p> </p><p>The Government publishes OBR verified forecasts of future tax receipts for the 5 year period up to year 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>Government internal projections for TTH beyond 2023/24 show it will continue to be revenue positive for the Exchequer.</p><p> </p><p>Para 5 (d) of Schedule 14 to the Finance Bill (No.3) 2017-19 determines the “uplifted decommissioning cost estimate”. This refers to the maximum possible amount of tax history that the seller can transfer to a purchaser under a transferable tax history election. It does not represent the actual tax relief that the purchaser will receive from making a claim for transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>The amount of transferable tax history that a purchaser can claim will always be limited to the activated amount of transferable tax history. The activated amount is defined as the extent by which decommissioning costs of the transferred field exceed the tracked profits of the transferred field.</p><p> </p><p>If a purchaser is able to make a claim for transferable tax history they cannot receive a larger repayment than the seller would have received for undertaking the same decommissioning work.</p><p> </p><p>The current estimate of the exchequer’s liability for decommissioning costs is therefore unaffected by the introduction of transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>Government tax revenues from North Sea Oil and Gas companies over the last three years are reproduced in the table below. More details can be found in Table 11.11 in the publication “<em>Statistics of Government revenues from UK Oil and Gas production</em>”.</p><p> </p><p>Tax repayments are made to ring-fenced oil and gas companies if the assessment of tax due from an earlier period is revised downwards. This can be the result of many factors, including decommissioning tax relief. Estimates of total tax relief arising from decommissioning expenditure will be published by HMRC in <em>Estimated Costs of Tax Reliefs</em> in early 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total tax revenues (£m)</p></td><td><p>-2</p></td><td><p>-350</p></td><td><p>1,188</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 199457 199459 199460 question first answered 14/12/2018 12:42:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1020238

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Part 2, paragraph 5d of Schedule 14 on Clause 36 of the Finance Bill 2018, what assessment he has made of the potential of the decommissioning costs doubling over the life-cycle of transferable tax history.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	199459
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p><strong>T</strong>ransferable tax history is forecast to increase tax receipts from oil and gas production by £65m between tax years 2018-19 and 2023-24.</p><p> </p><p>It would therefore be unnecessary to set aside additional funding to implement this policy.</p><p> </p><p>Wider decommissioning tax relief is provided to companies undertaking decommissioning activities through deductions against current or future taxable profits and, in some situations, repayments of previously paid tax.</p><p> </p><p>The UK oil and gas industry is expected to pay an additional £13bn of tax over the next 5 years, net of tax repayments for decommissioning tax relief.</p><p> </p><p>The Government publishes OBR verified forecasts of future tax receipts for the 5 year period up to year 2023/24.</p><p> </p><p>Government internal projections for TTH beyond 2023/24 show it will continue to be revenue positive for the Exchequer.</p><p> </p><p>Para 5 (d) of Schedule 14 to the Finance Bill (No.3) 2017-19 determines the “uplifted decommissioning cost estimate”. This refers to the maximum possible amount of tax history that the seller can transfer to a purchaser under a transferable tax history election. It does not represent the actual tax relief that the purchaser will receive from making a claim for transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>The amount of transferable tax history that a purchaser can claim will always be limited to the activated amount of transferable tax history. The activated amount is defined as the extent by which decommissioning costs of the transferred field exceed the tracked profits of the transferred field.</p><p> </p><p>If a purchaser is able to make a claim for transferable tax history they cannot receive a larger repayment than the seller would have received for undertaking the same decommissioning work.</p><p> </p><p>The current estimate of the exchequer’s liability for decommissioning costs is therefore unaffected by the introduction of transferable tax history.</p><p> </p><p>Government tax revenues from North Sea Oil and Gas companies over the last three years are reproduced in the table below. More details can be found in Table 11.11 in the publication “<em>Statistics of Government revenues from UK Oil and Gas production</em>”.</p><p> </p><p>Tax repayments are made to ring-fenced oil and gas companies if the assessment of tax due from an earlier period is revised downwards. This can be the result of many factors, including decommissioning tax relief. Estimates of total tax relief arising from decommissioning expenditure will be published by HMRC in <em>Estimated Costs of Tax Reliefs</em> in early 2019.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total tax revenues (£m)</p></td><td><p>-2</p></td><td><p>-350</p></td><td><p>1,188</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740260/Table_11.11__Sept_2018_.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 199457 199458 199460 question first answered 14/12/2018 12:42:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis