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1244909

registered interest
date	21/10/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Borders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Cabinet Office Policy Paper entitled The Border Operating Model updated on 8 October 2020, what testing has been undertaken of the Check an HGV is Ready to Cross the Border web service.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	106230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2020 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the <a href="https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/2908/documents/28078/default/" target="_blank">letter</a> from the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to the Chair of the Future Relationship with the European Union select committee dated 7 October 2020 and published on the committee website.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 23/10/2020 14:11:50 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1245193

registered interest
date	21/10/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people are waiting for a (a) theory and (b) practical driving test; how many of those tests are available; and what steps he has discussed with the DVSA to increase the availability of those tests.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	106524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2020 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is restoring its testing services with new COVID safe procedures in place to keep people safe and help stop the spread of coronavirus. As the DVSA has been unable to provide its normal level of service for the past seven months, demand for theory and practical driving tests are higher than usual.</p><p> </p><p>As of 20 October 2020:<br></p><ul><li>346,966 candidates in the UK have a car theory test booked and are waiting to sit the test.</li><li>370,984 candidates in the UK have a practical car test booked and are waiting to sit the test.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The DVSA is working with its theory test supplier to extend opening hours and add additional days where local lockdown restrictions allow. There are over 709,000 theory tests available for candidates to book until the end of January 2021, and an additional 151,290 test slots up to the end of February 2021. In remote areas of Scotland, where possible, the DVSA has replaced the Mobile Testing Vehicle (MTV) with alternative venues to provide theory tests, and increased availability of appointments by extending opening/closing times with landlord agreement. In Wales, the DVSA has made an additional 82 theory test slots available (week commencing 19 October) to compensate for the lack of testing in the next fortnight due to the Welsh fire-breaker. It is reducing the levels of potential reschedules by allowing candidates to move tests forward.</p><p> </p><p>The DVSA has also made over 375,000 practical car slots available to the end of January 2021, and an additional 85,000 test slots up to the end of February 2021. From 19 October, driving examiners increased the number of tests they conduct from five to six per day, which should help to reduce waiting times.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 28/10/2020 13:32:12 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1245194

registered interest
date	21/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Disciplinary Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers in England and Wales were (a) cautioned, (b) reprimanded and (c) dismissed for viewing political or religious extremist material online in 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	106525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes information annually on the outcome of misconduct proceedings and criminal investigations involving officers, including the number of officers that have been dismissed following proceedings. However, information on a) the number of police officers issued with a police caution and b) the circumstances that led to a case being brought is not collected centrally by the Home Office</p><p>The data on the outcomes following misconduct proceedings, which covers cases in the year ending March 2019, is available here: <a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Fpolice-workforce-england-and-wales-30-september-2019&amp;data=02%7C01%7CIan.Balbi%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C7c49a6ea3fc84e42b09408d812974d62%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637279788326284378&amp;sdata=%2Bszgj2iARrfzOkeUZM30tmgw9prkPPQGUCP0rQRIWqc%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-30-september-2019</a>.</p><p>The College of Policing publish data annually relating to those who have been dismissed from policing and placed on the Police Barred List. There are no categories specifically on extremist material or being members of proscribed organisations but, between April 2018 and March 2019, 17 officers were dismissed under the category of ‘notifiable association’. This data is available here:<br> <a href="https://www.college.police.uk/News/College-news/Documents/Barred_List_2019.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.college.police.uk/News/College-news/Documents/Barred_List_2019.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 106526 question first answered 28/10/2020 17:29:45 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

1245195

registered interest
date	21/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Disciplinary Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers in England and Wales were (a) cautioned, (b) reprimanded and (c) dismissed for being members of proscribed religious or political organisations in 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	106526
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes information annually on the outcome of misconduct proceedings and criminal investigations involving officers, including the number of officers that have been dismissed following proceedings. However, information on a) the number of police officers issued with a police caution and b) the circumstances that led to a case being brought is not collected centrally by the Home Office</p><p>The data on the outcomes following misconduct proceedings, which covers cases in the year ending March 2019, is available here: <a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Fpolice-workforce-england-and-wales-30-september-2019&amp;data=02%7C01%7CIan.Balbi%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C7c49a6ea3fc84e42b09408d812974d62%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637279788326284378&amp;sdata=%2Bszgj2iARrfzOkeUZM30tmgw9prkPPQGUCP0rQRIWqc%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-30-september-2019</a>.</p><p>The College of Policing publish data annually relating to those who have been dismissed from policing and placed on the Police Barred List. There are no categories specifically on extremist material or being members of proscribed organisations but, between April 2018 and March 2019, 17 officers were dismissed under the category of ‘notifiable association’. This data is available here:<br> <a href="https://www.college.police.uk/News/College-news/Documents/Barred_List_2019.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.college.police.uk/News/College-news/Documents/Barred_List_2019.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 106525 question first answered 28/10/2020 17:29:45 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

1245335

registered interest
date	21/10/2020
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	Disability: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps the Government is taking to help protect disabled people from the effects of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	907864
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2020 answer text <p>We are ensuring that disabled people continue to have access to disability benefits and other financial support; the food, medicines and essential goods that they need; as well as accessible communications and updated guidance.</p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions are helping disabled people stay in work and enter work through a range of programmes, including Access to Work and Disability Confident, the Work and Health Programme, and the Intensive Personalised Employment Support Programme.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 21/10/2020 16:19:29 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1245336

registered interest
date	21/10/2020
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	Ethnic Groups: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps she is taking to help tackle race inequality in the workplace.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	907863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2020 answer text <p>In July, the Government launched the independent Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, which is looking at outcomes across the country, with a focus on employment, enterprise, education, health and the criminal justice system.</p><p>Led by the evidence, the Commission will consider the causes of persistent disparities and barriers different groups face, and make recommendations for further action.</p><p>Their work will be crucial in informing and improving the national conversation on race. The Commission will aim to provide its report to the Prime Minister at the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 21/10/2020 16:18:35 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1245337

registered interest
date	21/10/2020
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	Health Services: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on ensuring public health communications on covid-19 reach communities throughout the UK.
tabling member constituency	North Devon
tabling member printed	Selaine Saxby
uin	907859
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2020 answer text <p>The Government has made a substantial effort to ensure that public health communications on COVID-19 reach everyone in the UK. This includes messaging in well over 600 publications and using trusted community voices to share vital communications through community channels.</p><p>Important health guidance is also available in alternative formats, including Easy Read, British Sign Language and Audio. This can be accessed via the Public Health England Campaign Resource Centre for health bodies, local authorities and voluntary sector organisations to access, tailor, share and use.</p><p>In July, I also wrote to Ministerial colleagues urging them to make every effort to communicate public health messages to all local residents, through a diverse range of media and other channels.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 21/10/2020 16:17:54 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4863 label Biography information for Selaine Saxby

1245362

registered interest
date	21/10/2020
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	Kidney Cancer
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 people have been diagnosed with kidney cancer in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	106999
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2020 answer text <p>The number of people in England diagnosed with kidney cancer in the years 2014 - 2018, which represents the most recent five years available, are shown in the following table. Data for 2019 and 2020 are not yet available.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of people diagnosed</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>9,505</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>9,362</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>9,575</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>9,483</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>9,438</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>For this response kidney cancer is defined by ICD-10 code C64.</li><li>Source: Cancer registration statistics: England 2018 final release, <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/cancer-registration-statistics-england-2018-final-release" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/cancer-registration-statistics-england-2018-final-release</a></li></ol><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 05/11/2020 13:02:50 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1245363

registered interest
date	21/10/2020
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Deer: Conservation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to manage the risk posed by sika deer to red deer.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	107000
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2020 answer text <p>Deer management is a devolved matter and this answer therefore relates to England only.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that sika deer present a threat to native red deer, largely because of the potential for hybridisation. Sika deer occur in localised areas within the North and the South of England with smaller isolated wild populations elsewhere. Studies have shown there has been minimal large-scale hybridisation among populations in the South of England but there is greater evidence of this occurring in the North.</p><p> </p><p>Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act it is an offence to release Sika deer or its hybrid or allow it to escape into the wild. The responsibility for deer management lies with individual landowners. Where deer are causing damage or pose a health and safety risk, landowners are recommended to participate in local management groups, or to set one up where a group does not already exist. These groups bring together those with interests in a local area, for example residents, land managers, and conservation groups. Where necessary, action can involve a managed cull to reduce population densities. On the Public Forest Estate deer are managed by Forestry England for example to prevent their range from increasing.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 29/10/2020 15:58:04 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1245364

registered interest
date	21/10/2020
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	NHS: Negligence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of medication errors in the NHS in the last year; and what steps his Department is taking to prevent those errors.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	107001
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2020 answer text <p>There were 223,106 medication incidents reported to the National Reporting and Learning System as occurring between 1 October 2018 to 30 September 2019 in England.</p><p>The Medication Safety Improvement Programme which is considering all aspects of medication use and developing new metrics to improve safety; and the Medication Safety Officer Network and Medical Safety Officer Forum, which facilitate communications to enable learning from medication errors, are aimed at improving medication safety. In addition, outcomes for people who suffer adverse drug reactions are tracked by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority’s yellow card scheme, which collects and monitors information on safety concerns involving medicines, to feed into ongoing safety evaluation of medicines.</p><p>Outcomes for people who are involved in medication patient safety incidents can be reported to the National Reporting and Learning System. These reports are used to support improvements in patient safety by enabling the National Health Service to understand and learn from such incidents.</p><p>The Medicines Safety Improvement Board continues to work to deliver the recommendations of the Short Life Working Group (SLWG), which advised on how to improve safety in the use of medicines. A review of the progress against the recommendations of the SLWG is being conducted on behalf of the National Director of Patient Safety and is expected to report to the Medicines Safety Improvement Board in December.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries grouped question UIN 107002 107003 question first answered 03/11/2020 15:44:54 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon