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1486875

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date	06/07/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Mortgages: Interest Charges
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 the UK Mortgage Prisoners Support Group on the (a) depth and (b) severity of the situation people unable to move out of high interest loans are facing.
tabling member constituency	Ynys Môn
tabling member printed	Virginia Crosbie
uin	31947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>Ministers last met with UK Mortgage Prisoners earlier this year and exchange regular correspondence with them.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has worked with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on interventions to help mortgage prisoners switch. Resources have also been put in place so that mortgage prisoners can understand their options better, including their ability to switch, and access guidance through MoneyHelper. These resources can be found online at: <a href="https://www.moneyhelper.org.uk/en/homes/buying-a-home/help-for-mortgage-prisoners" target="_blank">https://www.moneyhelper.org.uk/en/homes/buying-a-home/help-for-mortgage-prisoners</a>.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Richard Fuller question first answered 11/07/2022 13:30:55 answering member 3912 label Biography information for Richard Fuller
tabling member	4859 label Biography information for Virginia Crosbie

1486879

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
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	Chemicals: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Consultation on Extending the UK REACH Submission Deadlines, if he will publish the cost benefit analysis that informed his proposal to place a number of chemical substances in lower tonnage bands in UK REACH.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	31710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>Applying tonnage bands to substances according to the quantities in which they are manufactured or imported has been a fundamental part of the registration process since EU REACH came into force in 2007. Less information is required where substances are being manufactured or imported in lower tonnages. This is because when lower quantities are in circulation, the use and hence the potential exposure are also reduced. This has not changed in UK REACH.</p><p> </p><p>It may be the case that some chemical substances are registered under UK REACH at lower tonnage bands than they are under EU REACH, but registered tonnages under EU REACH are not directly relevant to the Great Britain context given the differing market sizes, and it would not in any event be feasible to assess the differences until full registration information is submitted under UK REACH.</p> answering member constituency St Austell and Newquay answering member printed Steve Double grouped question UIN 30983 30984 question first answered 11/07/2022 16:15:12 answering member 4452 label Biography information for Steve Double
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1486882

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
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	Small Businesses: Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has put protections in place for small businesses subject to disconnected energy supply without notice by British Gas.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	31834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>This is a commercial matter. The Government does not have a legal mandate to intervene in private contracts between suppliers and a business customer.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 11/07/2022 15:39:38 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1486886

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shipping: Conditions of Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he has taken to help strengthen seafarers’ employment rights following the actions of P&O Ferries on 17 March 2022.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	31915
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>The government continues to promote and deliver its seafarer protections nine-point plan, and the wider objectives of Maritime 2050.</p><p>On 6 July, the government introduced the Seafarers’ Wages Bill to the House of Lords and published the Government’s Response to the Consultation on Seafarers’ Remuneration. The Bill seeks to ensure that seafarers working on vessels that regularly use UK ports are paid at least an equivalent rate to the UK National Minimum Wage, irrespective of flag or nationality.</p><p>This is in addition to other commitments in the nine-point plan, including BEIS’ forthcoming consultation on a “fire and rehire” statutory code, reform to longer-term working conditions for seafarers, and working with international partners to collaborate on seafarer protections and welfare.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 11/07/2022 10:57:57 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1486888

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Warships: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent steps he has taken to progress the conversion of a Bay class support ship to deliver a more agile and lethal littoral strike capability.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	31751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>The Royal Navy has reviewed design and costing options for upgrading amphibious shipping in support of the UK's Commando Forces.</p><p>It has been decided that extending in service and upgrading RFA ARGUS and operating her alongside our Landing Ship Docking (Auxiliary)s in their current configuration, represents the optimum solution to support a forward deployed Littoral Response Group. This will provide a sustainable air manoeuvre, surface manoeuvre and command and control capability with the ability to manage availability as platforms undergo maintenance. The extension of RFA ARGUS also sustains Defence's Role 3 afloat medical capability.</p><p>The lessons from this analysis, and from operating these platforms forward in the coming years, will inform the procurement of the Multi-Role Support Ship which will replace the capabilities embodied in these platforms in the future.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 11/07/2022 15:54:31 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1486896

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Grants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of financial incentives provided by the electric car grant before its withdrawal.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	31813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>The Government’s approach to supporting the uptake of electric cars is clearly working – while the Government slowly reduced the grant over time, the sale of electric vehicles soared. The sales of fully electric cars grew from less than 1,000 in 2011 to almost 100,000 in the first 5 months of 2022 alone.</p><p>An independent report commissioned by the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles to assess the impact of the grant scheme, found that the grant has had a material impact on demand for new EVs, but also that the importance of it has reduced as the market has matured and price has become less of a barrier to vehicle uptake.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 11/07/2022 08:36:08 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1486897

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Heaton Chapel Station: Access
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to help ensure step-free access at Heaton Chapel railway station.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	31939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>I recently launched the next round of nominations for the Access for All (AfA) programme and welcome nominations for any station in Great Britain currently without step-free access.</p><p>In the meantime we are providing £1 million of funding to Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) for minor accessibility improvements and customer information systems through which Heaton Chapel station will benefit.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 11/07/2022 08:25:48 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1486898

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Grants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the cessation of the electrical vehicle grant, what additional steps his Department is taking to help encourage the public to purchase electric vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Mr Toby Perkins
uin	31814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>This Government has committed £2.5 billion since 2020 to support the transition to zero emission vehicles, with funding to offset their higher upfront cost, and to accelerate the rollout of chargepoint infrastructure.</p><p>Although Government has recently closed the plug-in car grant to new orders, Plug-in Grants will continue until at least financial year 2023/24 for taxis and motorcycles, and 2024/25 for vans, trucks and wheelchair accessible vehicles.</p><p>Plug-in Grants are just one way in which Government supports electric vehicle uptake. We have put in place favourable benefit in kind tax rates for zero emission vehicles out to 2025: company car tax was 1% in 2021/22 and 2% in 2022/23 through to 2024/25. Further, all zero emission cars are exempt from vehicle excise duty (VED) and zero emissions vans pay a nil rate of tax on the van benefit charge.</p><p>In addition, we announced in the Net Zero Strategy that we will introduce a zero-emission vehicle mandate, setting targets for a percentage of manufacturers' new car and van sales to be zero emission each year from 2024.</p><p>In March we published our ambitious electric vehicle infrastructure strategy, backed by £1.6 billion of funding, setting out our vision and commitments to make electric vehicle charging cheaper and more convenient than refueling at a petrol station, supporting drivers across the whole country to make the transition to a cleaner, greener vehicle.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 11/07/2022 08:31:51 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

1486924

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Legal Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how much their Department and its associated agencies spent on legal disputes in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	31740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales has not spent any money on legal disputes in the years 2020, 2021 and 2022.</p> answering member constituency Monmouth answering member printed David T C Davies question first answered 11/07/2022 14:17:14 answering member 1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1486934

registered interest
date	06/07/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Service Prosecuting Authority: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the annual budget for the Service Prosecution Authority was in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	31716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>Information from the Service Prosecuting Authority (SPA) is provided in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Annual Budget</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Strength</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022-23</p></td><td><p>£4,701,337</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>£4,795,874</p></td><td><p>49</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>£4,717,111</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£4,614,222</p></td><td><p>47</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£4,038,502</p></td><td><p>47</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£4,102,376</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£5,052,187</p></td><td><p>58</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£5,168,635</p></td><td><p>72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£5,260,334</p></td><td><p>73</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£5,464,981</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£5,402,000</p></td><td><p>74</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£5,209,000</p></td><td><p>Not Available</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>Not Available</p></td><td><p>Not Available</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Please note that “Strength” shows the number of individuals (civilian and military) in post as at 1 April of each year and will have changed during the year. This “Strength” figure is different to the Establishment figure (i.e. SPA’s funded staffing).</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty grouped question UIN 31717 question first answered 11/07/2022 15:11:51 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey