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92219

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date	26/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Israel Defence Forces
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what military training the UK armed forces have (a) received from and (b) provided to the Israeli Defence Force in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	209806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>Israel is an important strategic partner of the UK and, as part of that relationship, the Ministry of Defence has an ongoing and wide ranging dialogue with the Israeli Defence Force and Israeli Ministry of Defence, including in the field of training. This engagement is in line with Her Majesty's Government policy of supporting the Middle East peace process by having a balanced relationship with the Israelis and the Palestinians. Engagement activity is spread throughout the Services so this information is not held in the requested format.</p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 27/10/2014 16:43:06 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois previous answer version 22162 answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

92220

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Ukraine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress he has made in bringing to justice those responsible for the destruction of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 on 17 July 2014.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	209807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>UN Security Council Resolution 2166 condemned the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 in the strongest possible terms and called for a full, thorough and independent international investigation. We continue to work closely with the Dutch Public Prosecutor’s Office (OM), which is leading the investigation.</p><p>As my Rt Hon Friend the Prime Minister has made clear, the weight of evidence is pointing in one direction: MH17 was shot down by a missile fired by pro-Russian separatists. We welcome the Dutch Safety Board’s preliminary report of 9 September which further supports this evidence and makes it clear that this was not the result of human or technical error.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 15/10/2014 14:07:21 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

92246

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Fast Food
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to address the problem of obesity arising from the over-concentration of hot-food outlets.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	209784
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>The location and number of fast food takeaways is a matter for each local planning authority to determine under their local plans. The Health and Wellbeing Planning Practice Guidance states that promoting access to healthy food is one of the issues that could be considered when making planning decisions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In March 2014, Public Health England issued a briefing “Obesity and the environment: regulating the growth of fast food outlets” which addresses the opportunities to limit the number of fast food outlets, especially near schools, and gives practical advice to local planners and public health professionals. This briefing has been attached.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 15/10/2014 16:04:38 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name PHE Obesity and environment March2014.pdf title Obesity and the Environment March 2014
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

92248

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Fast Food
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to address the problem of fast food takeaways near schools having a damaging effect on the health of children.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	209805
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>The location and number of fast food takeaways is a matter for each local planning authority to determine under their local plans. The Health and Wellbeing Planning Practice Guidance states that promoting access to healthy food is one of the issues that could be considered when making planning decisions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In March 2014, Public Health England issued a briefing “Obesity and the environment: regulating the growth of fast food outlets” which addresses the opportunities to limit the number of fast food outlets, especially near schools, and gives practical advice to local planners and public health professionals. This briefing has been attached.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 15/10/2014 15:59:14 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name PHE Obesity and environment March2014.pdf title Obesity and the Environment March 2014
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

92264

registered interest
date	26/09/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Israel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which UK police forces have (a) provided and (b) received training from Israeli police or security services in each of the last five years; and what that training consisted of in each such case.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	209808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold information on all official visits by English and Welsh police officers to Israel, including on the provision of training to the Israeli police or security services. <br><br>Section 26 of the Police Act (1996) provides the authority for international police assistance to other countries. Under this authorisation process, there have not been any occasions in the last five years where UK police forces have specifically provided training to, or received training from, the Israeli police or security services.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 15/10/2014 15:31:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

91250

registered interest
date	09/09/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Planning Permission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether he has any plans to strengthen local democratic oversight of planning decisions; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	208798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2014 answer text <p>This Government has abolished the last Administration’s top-down Regional Strategies imposed by unelected regional bodies, and given elected local councils the power to shape where development should and should not go through up to date Local Plans.</p><p> </p><p>Neighbourhood planning allows for further devolution of power down to local residents, with a local referendum to approve the local neighbourhood plan.</p><p> </p><p>Our broader transparency reforms also allow for enhanced scrutiny of planning – for example, the press and public can now film and use social/digital media to report Planning Committees.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst it is for local councils to determine their own individual procedures on planning applications, including which decisions are delegated, we should certainly encourage applications which are particularly contentious to be scrutinised by a full Planning Committee.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 09/10/2014 15:28:06 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis previous answer version 19790 answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

91261

registered interest
date	09/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Digital Technology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress she has made on increasing the use of digital engagement in the development and implementation of policy.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	208680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2014 answer text <p>Digital is the default engagement and communications channel for the Department for Education. In addition to our presence on the GOV.UK website, we use a range of widely available social media platforms to communicate. The Department regularly seeks to develop the use of these channels in new ways, and to reach more people.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has a particularly strong presence on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, with 129,000 Twitter followers – up by 60,000 since April 2013. Recent tweets on policy activity during ‘Back to School Week’ have reached as many as 1.2 million Twitter accounts. We have 25,560 Facebook followers – up by 12,000 since April 2013. In the last full financial year (2013-14), our YouTube videos were watched around 279,000 times.</p><p> </p><p>The Department also regularly publishes content on relevant third-party spaces, such as the TES Connect website, which is widely used by teaching professionals as a place for discussion and information.</p><p> </p><p>In the last financial year (2013-14), there were 5.4 million unique visitors to the Department’s newly launched web pages on GOV.UK. All the Department’s publications are now published on this website, in line with our digital strategy. National curriculum publications have been the most popular collection of documents anywhere on the GOV.UK website, receiving around 2 million views. Additionally, the Department’s e-consultations application allows users to respond to public consultations online. This tool is widely used to elicit views on a broad range of policy areas, informing their development and implementation.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has used its social media channels effectively to make people aware of public consultations – for example leading to around 5000 responses to the consultation on changes to the national curriculum. On a similar basis, we use our social media channels to make people aware of conferences and meetings at which Ministers or departmental officials are speaking and answering questions. We also provide policy colleagues with relevant public comments from our social media channels to help inform their activity.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 12/09/2014 11:49:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

91275

registered interest
date	09/09/2014
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress he has made on improving the quality and transparency of management information across frontline services within his Department's Digital Service's Performance Platform tool.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	208681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2014 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office strongly supports the use of the Performance Platform to improve the quality and transparency of Management Information across government.</p><p> </p><p>Four of our transactions already have detailed dashboards on the platform, including our highest volume digital transaction (legalisation). As we move more of our services online we will ensure those new transactions are built in such a way that they too can go onto the performance platform.</p><p> </p><p>We are also interested in extending the Performance Platform to cover the non-digital element of our major transactions and intend to scope how that might work in practice.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 12/09/2014 12:00:55 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

90968

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what progress the Permanent Secretary of his Department has made on his objective for delivery of information and transactional services to his Department's users by taking the Digital by Default approach.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	208589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2014 answer text <p>The Department is digital by default; publishing all documents online, except where there is a statutory duty to publish printed copies and when material is targeted at audiences known to have limited access to the internet, such as park home tenants.<br><br>Our transactional services are on target to reach 80% digital takeup by 2017.<br><br></p><p>85 percent of planning appeals in the calendar year to June 2014 were completed on line.</p><p> </p><p>100 percent of national infrastructure planning projects in the calendar year to June 2014 were completed on line.</p><p> </p><p>68 percent of planning applications through the planning portal were completed online in the calendar year to March 2014.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 24/09/2014 15:23:50 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins previous answer version 19656 answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

90969

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Fast Food: Planning Permission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department issues on using the planning system to prevent concentrations of fast food outlets in deprived areas in order to reduce obesity.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	208593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p>The planning system is primarily intended to control and mitigate the spatial impact of development. Hot food takeaways (Use Class A5) may cause particular issues to do with late night hours of operation, odours, highways/parking, waste storage, litter and anti-social behaviour. The cumulative impact of multiple premises in urban areas can also compound the problems and harm local amenity.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Councils can use their Local Plans to shape where retail development should go, ensure the right balance of use classes, and prevent cumulative impact. A planning application is required to change from any use to a hot food takeaway.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Licensing Act regime also regulates the late night operation of hot food takeaways, in as far as it relates to the four specific licensing objectives.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notwithstanding, the planning system is ultimately not a means for the state to regulate the type of food that people eat. The issue of obesity is best addressed through public health policy and education policy.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 11/09/2014 16:25:19 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah