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1247693

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date	02/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Trident Submarines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the effect on the delivery of integrated operations in support of the UK’s continuous at-sea deterrent of the move from a single source supplier at HM Naval Base Clyde to multiple contractors.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	908055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2020 answer text <p>As the Future Maritime Support Programme is currently under commercial tender and negotiation, the number of future providers is yet to be finalised. My Department always looks to secure improvements in performance where possible, maximising efficiencies and incentivising delivery to time and cost.</p><p>The transition of support services at HM Naval Base Clyde from the existing Maritime Support Delivery Framework will be carefully managed in order to avoid any adverse effect on operations.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 02/11/2020 17:05:43 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1247694

registered interest
date	02/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Aircraft Carriers: Deployment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What preparations his Department has made ahead of the planned deployment of the Carrier Strike Group in 2021.
tabling member constituency	Montgomeryshire
tabling member printed	Craig Williams
uin	908054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2020 answer text <p>The Carrier Strike Group (CSG) will deploy for the first time in 2021, providing tangible reassurance and security to our friends and credible deterrence to those who seek to undermine global security. During this autumn the CSG will be tested through a series of increasingly demanding exercises with allies so that by the end of this year we can declare with full confidence that the CSG has met Initial Operating Capability and is ready for operations.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 02/11/2020 17:04:46 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4438 label Biography information for Craig Williams

1247695

registered interest
date	02/11/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	National Security: Disinformation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the potential threat of international disinformation to the security of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	908046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2020 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence takes the threat posed by malicious disinformation campaigns by state and non-state actors very seriously. Working with allies and partners across Government, collectively we monitor such activities closely, assess the risks and take action to counter them if appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 02/11/2020 17:03:01 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1247711

registered interest
date	02/11/2020
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	Operating Theatres: Fire Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to classify surgical fires in operating theatres as never events.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	110129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2020 answer text <p>There are no plans to classify surgical fires in operating theatres as Never Events.</p><p>Never Events are defined as serious incidents that are wholly preventable because guidance or safety recommendations that provide strong systemic protective barriers are available at a national level and should have been implemented by all healthcare providers.</p><p>Strong systemic protective barriers are defined as barriers that must be successful, reliable and comprehensive safeguards or remedies – such as a connector that stops a medicine being given by the wrong route or a window restrictor which prevents a window being opened wide enough for a patient to get through.</p><p>There is currently no national guidance or safety recommendations that provides such safeguards to prevent surgical fires in operating theatres. These types of incidents cannot therefore be defined as a Never Event.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 17/11/2020 15:33:59 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1247712

registered interest
date	02/11/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Greater Manchester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason the Regional Schools Commissioner did not engage in the Q1 Serious Case Review conducted by the Manchester Safeguarding Partnership; and whether that decision was based on the policy of his Department.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	110207
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2020 answer text <p>Regional School Commissioners do not have a direct role in handling safeguarding cases and are not expected to act themselves.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 10/11/2020 17:04:52 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

1247713

registered interest
date	02/11/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on extending the uplift to universal credit beyond April 2021.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	110117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2020 answer text <p>The temporary £20 per week increase to Universal Credit and Working Tax Credits was introduced specifically to provide support to those who have seen their income fall as a result of the pandemic. This is just one part of a wide-ranging package of support the Government has provided to protect people's jobs and incomes. We are continuing to respond to the economic situation as it evolves and are keeping all measures under review. <br> <br> Making the £20 per week increase permanent would require a substantial ongoing increase in borrowing or tax rises, with 2020-21 spending on working-age benefits set to be the highest since records began as a share of national income.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 05/11/2020 13:46:09 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

1247714

registered interest
date	02/11/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Automatic Number Plate Recognition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much additional funding will be allocated in the next Spending Review to the National Automatic Number Plate Recognition Service (NAS); how much overspend has occurred in the programme to date; how many missed deadlines have occurred in the programme to date; what plans she has to ensure public confidence in the delivery of the NAS; and what recent assessment she has made of the effect of that performance on the operation of the police services.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	110203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2020 answer text <p>The National Automatic Number Plate Recognition Service (NAS) is a national system replacing the current National ANPR Data Centre (NADC), used by Police Forces to interrogate ANPR data.</p><p>The department has submitted a bid to HMT as part of the spending review process and we are in active discussions about the amount of money that we should be investing in the National ANPR Service (NAS), both centrally and out to individual forces. We have shared with the Treasury the full cost of NAS and its potential replacement for the forthcoming year and for subsequent years, including what will flow centrally and what will flow through individual forces. We expect a decision on the funding settlement from HMT this month.</p><p>Programme costs are separated into 3 categories; first the cost of building and rolling out the NAS infrastructure, software and any related changes to the force systems; second costs for the programme team and; third the cost to maintain NAS system and its legacy system, National ANPR data centre (NADC). The costs for delivering the new NAS system is by far the most significant and, subject to commercial negotiation, the annual cost of NAS service following the commercial negotiations is likely to amount to c. £15 million per year and takes into account the costs of keeping legacy systems in place until the Minimal viable product (MVP) is delivered in Spring 2021 and programme costs. The negotiation has achieved future years reduction on service costs which benefit policing long term.</p><p>The current programme overspend is approximately £6.9m for this financial year and considers the costs of delivering the MVP and any programme costs. The additional in year costs are to focus on delivering the critical MVP, but an overall reduction in service costs has been achieved over the lifetime of the new contract presently being negotiated.</p><p>The programme set itself an original target of transitioning all users from the current NADC system and legacy local systems by Autumn 2020. We are now targeting a MVP in Spring 2021 with the legacy NADC system being retired in Spring 2022 once all forces have been transitioned across to NAS. Since the award of the G-Cloud contact in 2018 to the current delivery partner there have been 3 key releases to date. The current release is forecast to be 7 months later than originally planned.</p><p>Both during and since the programme reset in May 2016, where a review of the critical objectives of the programme that were set April 2015, it has undergone extensive assurance both internally within the department and externally through Cabinet Office, GDS and HMT.</p><p>The programme continues to build confidence in the delivery of the NAS through regular engagement with our Programme User Group and it’s subgroups, as well as, weekly update meetings with the NPCC ANPR Portfolio Change Lead. Programme teams also manage regular contact with forces and LEAS to provide updates in addition to weekly briefing notes to provide updates and progress. The SRO is in discussion with the ANPR Portfolio Lead about establishing a group of senior police representatives to manage the NAS roadmap into the future.</p><p>The Department remains committed to completing the delivery of NAS, realising the benefits of NAS and delivering police effectiveness and operational efficiency savings. These include cashable reduction in running costs through the decommissioning of legacy systems and a wide range of broader benefits such as reducing the time to identify a vehicles of interest, public time savings, improved searches and better intelligence sharing.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 02/12/2020 16:07:39 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1247715

registered interest
date	02/11/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Biometrics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of her Department's biometric programme; what (a) overspend and (b) underspend that programme generated in the latest period for which figures are available; what plans she has to help ensure public confidence in the development of biometrics; and what assessment she has made of the effect of the performance of the biometric programme on the operation of police services.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	110204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2020 answer text <p>The biometric systems within the scope of the HOB Programme, IDENT1 (storing the Police fingerprint collection) and the National DNA database, are used on a daily basis by Police Forces and are fundamental to their operations.</p><p>HOB is delivering new capabilities that the Police are using to support their operations, and these have been well received. This includes Strategic Mobile capability, the ability for Police Forces to share DNA and fingerprint data with EU Member States under the Prüm Decisions, and HOB will very soon be delivering a replacement DNA Database which will be an important development for Policing and the Criminal Justice community.</p><p>In July the Home Office Biometrics (HOB) Programme completed its annual refresh of the Programme Business Case, which was approved by the Home Office Portfolio Investment Committee and subsequently submitted to the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury. With regards to the HOB budget, an underspend of £1m was declared for financial year 2019/20.</p><p>HOB continues to involve Policing in all areas of the programme and provides regular updates on progress through a variety of forums and with the oversight and regulatory bodies for biometrics (for example the Biometrics Commissioner and Forensics Science Regulator). The programme also provides advice to the Permanent Secretary and Ministers with regular updates on the programme.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 18/11/2020 15:53:24 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1247716

registered interest
date	02/11/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Law Enforcement Data Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much additional funding will be allocated in the next Spending Review to the National Law Enforcement Data Programme (NLEDP); what the overspend is on the programme to date; how many deadlines the programme has missed to date; what plans she has to ensure confidence in the delivery of the NLEDP; and what assessment she has made of the effect of that programme on the effectiveness of policing.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	110205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2020 answer text <p>The National Law Enforcement Data Programme (NLEDP) is replacing the Police National Computer (PNC) and Police National Database (PND) with the Law Enforcement Data Service (LEDS).</p><p>The department has submitted a bid to HMT as part of the Spending Review which is ongoing.</p><p>The programme overspend is currently £45M. This excludes costs associated with risk and optimism bias.</p><p>The programme had expected to transition all users of PNC to LEDS by December 2021 and decommission PNC by June 2022. The programme is now targeting the transition of PNC users to LEDS by June 2023 and the decommission of PNC by December 2023.</p><p>The programme had expected to transition all users of PND to LEDS by June 2023 and decommission PND by December 2023. The programme is now targeting the transition of PND users to LEDS by September 2024 and the decommission of PND by March 2025.</p><p>The programme is exploring options for how the replacement of PNC and PND could potentially be delivered sooner.</p><p>The confidence in the delivery of LEDS is increasing with the implementation of a LEDS pilot service to 7 Police Forces allowing them to access Driving Licence Images at the roadside by Police issued mobile devices. The programme is planning for a wider roll-out of this capability from April 2021 onwards.</p><p>NLEDP has well documented benefits into how LEDS can support policing through efficiency and effectiveness savings. For example, since the LEDS pilot service went live it saves up to 66% of police time when performing a roadside identity check. The programme has also invested significant effort into reviewing the use of data, not just technology. The programme has completed a Data Protection Impact Assessment, consulted upon a new Parliamentary Code for LEDS data and established an independent group of privacy bodies to critique our work on data.</p><p>The programme has undergone extensive assurance, both internally within the department and externally throughout Cabinet Office and HMT. The programme has also recently appointed an External Review Team, with full support from senior Police Chiefs, which will review the full scope, remit and approach of the programme. Outcomes from this review will be agreed and taken forward with full co-operation of Home Office, Police Chiefs and Police IT Leads. This review will conclude in April 2021 with full involvement of Cabinet Office and Treasury.</p><p>The Department remains committed to completing the delivery of NLEDP, realising the benefits of LEDS and delivering police effectiveness and efficiency savings. These include cashable reduction in running costs and a wide range of broader benefits such as reducing the time to identify a person of interest, public time savings, improved searches and reduced training overheads.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 18/11/2020 15:57:28 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1247717

registered interest
date	02/11/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether covid-19 grants allocated to businesses will be classed as income for the 2020-21 financial year irrespective of when those moneys were received.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Richard Holden
uin	110264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2020 answer text <p>Grant income received by a business is taxable. COVID-19 grants allocated to businesses should be considered by businesses in line with standard accounting principles, and treated as income in the appropriate accounting period. Only businesses which make an overall profit once grant income is included will be subject to tax.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 05/11/2020 16:13:41 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden