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1639573

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date	23/05/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership on levels of trade for UK businesses in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	186346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2023 answer text <p>Joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) could boost the UK economy by £1.8 billion each year and increase UK exports to CPTPP by £1.7 billion in the long run according to our published scoping assessment.</p><p>When the UK’s accession enters into force, UK businesses will be able to trade with all CPTPP members on preferential terms and the Government will support British businesses in seizing the opportunities created by our membership of CPTPP.</p><p>Accession could enhance the already strong trade links between Northern Ireland and CPTPP members, which for Northern Ireland goods exports alone was worth over £900 million in 2022.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 01/06/2023 16:09:30 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1639575

registered interest
date	23/05/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Hospitality Industry: Economic Growth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of trends in the level of growth of the hospitality sector in the period since the end of covid-19 restrictions.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	186348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2023 answer text <p>We are working closely with the Hospitality Sector Council, a collaboration between government and the hospitality sector, to deliver the 2021 Hospitality Strategy, with the aim of building the sector’s long-term resilience. A Delivery Report showing progress made was published in March.</p><p>The Council’s business-led working groups are considering ways to improve business resilience following the pandemic, including innovation and sustainable practices, energy efficiency, jobs and skills, local partnerships and improving access to finance.</p><p>ONS inflation-adjusted data shows that the aggregate output of the hospitality sector in March 2023 was 0.4% above March 2022 levels, when most COVID-19 related restrictions were lifted. Output in the 12-months to March 2023 was 7.1% above 2019 levels.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 06/06/2023 11:53:54 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1639577

registered interest
date	23/05/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Artificial Intelligence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of artificial intelligence on the education of children in primary schools.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	186350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2023 answer text <p>Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform society. The effective use of technology can help to improve outcomes and we are exploring how AI can support teaching, as well as addressing its risks.</p><p>The Department has published a policy paper which sets out our position on the use of generative AI in the education sector. The paper outlines the potential effects of generative AI on the education sector including the opportunities for reducing teacher workload, risks to assessment and steps the education sector should take to protect pupil data, as well as resources, staff and pupils.</p><p>The Department is also convening experts to work with the education sector to share and identify best practice and opportunities to improve education and reduce workload.</p><p>The Department will keep our programme of measures under review to ensure we identify the best ways to address the risks and opportunities AI presents, including continuing to establish a strong evidence base for technology in education.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/06/2023 15:51:05 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1639212

registered interest
date	22/05/2023
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	Maternal Mortality: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to end the Black maternal mortality gap.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	186135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>While births in England are among the safest globally, we must do more to ensure maternity care is consistent regardless of ethnicity. To address this, Local Maternity and Neonatal Systems have begun to publish Equity and Equality Action Plans to tackle disparities in outcomes and experiences of maternity care at a local level.</p><p>NHS England have developed fourteen Maternal Medicine Networks across England, to ensure that all women with chronic and acute medical problems around pregnancy have access to specialist management and care from physicians and obstetrics, tackling the biggest contributors to maternal mortality. Knowing that black women are more likely to suffer with a pre-existing condition, they should be a key group for whom the networks provide benefit.</p><p>Further to this, the Maternity Disparities Taskforce, who last held a meeting in April, brings together experts from across the health system, government departments and the voluntary sector to explore and consider evidence-based interventions to tackle maternal disparities.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 05/06/2023 10:38:19 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

1639215

registered interest
date	22/05/2023
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	Immunosuppression: Vaccination
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 is taking steps to include people who are immunocompromised in clinical trials for vaccines.
tabling member constituency	West Suffolk
tabling member printed	Matt Hancock
uin	186073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2023 answer text <p>The Department funds research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and the NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including vaccines and immunosuppression. Applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made based on the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality.</p><p>The NIHR has recently commissioned the new STRAVINSKY study with £2.8 million of funding which will involve 3000 immunocompromised participants over two years looking at which immunosuppressed people remain at greatest risk of severe COVID-19 infection after vaccinations. The UK Research and Innovation, Vaccines Taskforce and NIHR have also together funded OCTAVE and OCTAVE-DUO which examine the immune response to COVID-19 vaccines and durability of this protection in patients who are immunosuppressed.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 186364 question first answered 06/06/2023 15:05:43 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock

1639216

registered interest
date	22/05/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when she plans to reply to the email of 21 February 2023 from the right hon. Member for Leeds Central to the Department for Work and Pensions on behalf of a constituent, which was transferred to her Department on 24 February 2023, referenced MC 2023/14593.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	186013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2023 answer text <p>The correspondence in question was transferred to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. Andrew Bowie, the Minister for Nuclear and Networks, responded to the letter on 24th May 2023.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 07/06/2023 13:17:18 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1639219

registered interest
date	22/05/2023
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: Research
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 has taken steps to establish a UK-wide vaccinology research network.
tabling member constituency	West Suffolk
tabling member printed	Matt Hancock
uin	186076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2023 answer text <p>Following the successful national COVID-19 vaccine research delivery programme, United Kingdom research infrastructure is developing a streamlined Vaccine Innovation Pathway for clinical trials. As a first step, two UK Forums have been established to connect expert investigators and key research delivery partners with commercial companies to grow capacity and capability in mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases and cancer.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 07/06/2023 16:48:29 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock

1639220

registered interest
date	22/05/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Companies: Misrepresentation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of mechanisms to enable companies to remove (a) potentially defamatory reviews and (b) threatening comments from online review sites.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	186014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>The government introduced in Parliament the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Bill on 25 April which includes a delegated power to amend a list of automatically unfair practices set out in the Bill.</p><p> </p><p>Government plans to address fake and misleading reviews by adding these practices to that list of banned practices, following consultation this year. This will give greater clarity to business and consumers and, where fake reviews or misleading reviews are posted, allow enforcers to take effective action quickly.</p><p> </p><p>The threatening communications offence in the Online Safety Bill, will capture communications which convey a serious threat of harm to a likely audience.</p><p> </p><p>This includes communications such as a threat to life, rape, or serious injury; or causing serious financial harm.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 05/06/2023 15:56:36 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1639273

registered interest
date	22/05/2023
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	Air Pollution: Staffordshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department has spent on reducing air pollution in Staffordshire in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	186165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2023 answer text <p>Under the 2017 UK Plan for Tackling Roadside Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) Concentrations, Stoke-on-Trent City Council and Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council are required to take action to address NO2 pollution and develop plans to bring levels to within legal limits. The councils have received funding as follows to develop and implement their local plan to address NO2 exceedances: 2018 - £900,000; 2019 - £1,303,128; 2020 - £240,000; 2021 - £1,808,836</p><p><br> Defra also provides funding to English councils through the Air Quality Grant to help them develop and implement locally targeted measures. In 2021 Staffordshire County Council received over £ 296,000 from the air quality grant to support air quality improvement locally.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 01/06/2023 16:56:43 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1639275

registered interest
date	22/05/2023
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	Air Pollution: Warwickshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department has spent on reducing air pollution in Warwickshire in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	186167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2023 answer text <p>Under the 2017 UK Plan for Tackling Roadside Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) Concentrations, Coventry City Council are required to take action to address NO2 pollution and develop plans to bring levels to within legal limits. The council have received funding as follows to develop and implement their local plan to address NO2 exceedances: 2018 - £2,621,000; 2019 - £5 million; 2020 - £20 million; 2021 - £947,000.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 01/06/2023 16:48:04 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones