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1666324

registered interest
date	20/10/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Medicine: Higher Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help encourage students from lower-income families to (a) consider a career in medicine and (b) apply for medical school.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	203660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to my hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 26/10/2023 10:59:42 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1666325

registered interest
date	20/10/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Parking: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department issues guidance to private car parks on the signage of parking charges.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	203661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The department is responsible for off street parking and is currently implementing the Parking (Code of Practice) Act 2019, which includes the development of an independent Code of Practice for private parking companies.</p> answering member constituency Redcar answering member printed Jacob Young question first answered 25/10/2023 16:05:08 answering member 4825 label Biography information for Jacob Young
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1666328

registered interest
date	20/10/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Solar Power: Planning Permission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of giving greater powers to residents who oppose solar farm developments in their area.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	203716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to my hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Kensington answering member printed Felicity Buchan question first answered 26/10/2023 10:20:40 answering member 4821 label Biography information for Felicity Buchan
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1666329

registered interest
date	20/10/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Private Finance Initiative
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will take steps to end the use of PFI contracts in schools.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	203717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to my hon. Friend in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 26/10/2023 11:33:07 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1666330

registered interest
date	20/10/2023
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	Smoking
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 his Department is reduce the prevalence of smoking.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	203718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2023 answer text <p>Smoking rates in England have been consistently falling and are currently at 12.7%, according to 2022 data from the Office for National Statistics.</p><p>On 4 October 2023, the Prime Minister unveiled plans to introduce a new law to stop children who turn 14 years old this year or younger from ever legally being sold cigarettes, in a bid to create the first ‘smokefree generation’. This announcement was accompanied with additional funding, including £70 million extra per year to fund local stop smoking services and £5 million this year and then £15 million per year thereafter to fund national stop smoking marketing campaigns.</p><p>This is in addition to a range of other measures which we announced in April 2023, including a new national swap to stop scheme to provide vapes to one million smokers to help them to quit, and an evidence-based financial incentives scheme to help all pregnant smokers to quit.</p><p>We are confident that the new measures announced by the Prime Minister, in addition to the actions we are already taking, will set us on course to both achieve our bold ambition to be smokefree by 2030 and create the first smokefree generation.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 24/10/2023 16:51:02 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1666331

registered interest
date	20/10/2023
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	Pets
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to help ensure that appropriate guidance is provided to new pet owners.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	203719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>Pet owners’ responsibilities are laid down in several Government codes of practice for animal welfare, which are available here: <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fanimal-welfare-legislation-protecting-pets%23codes-of-practice&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7Cef35e7f9a06a4d1abeef08dbd478c203%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638337387337217684%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=4Sa7c5zDs9qqeAXROaPKdDt%2F2a2CMEGhsNXGWOr%2FPdQ%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Animal welfare legislation: protecting pets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>. The codes summarise important information for owners and helps them to make decisions about how best to care for their animals.</p><p> </p><p>Under the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018, licensed pet sellers are required to provide prospective owners information setting out how the animal’s health and welfare needs should be met.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, my Department maintains a national communications campaign (Petfished) to raise awareness of issues associated with low-welfare and illegal supply of cats and dogs. This includes providing clear signposting on where responsible breeders and rehoming centres can be found and encouraging prospective buyers to research the seller thoroughly before they visit and decide to purchase.</p><p> </p><p>Finally, my Department has also developed dog safety fact sheets in collaboration with the Child Accident Prevention Trust and animal welfare organisations to encourage safe interactions between families and dogs.</p><p> </p><p>I welcome the efforts of veterinarians, animal welfare charities, breeders and other practitioners in sharing these sources of information with pet owners.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 25/10/2023 09:48:29 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1666332

registered interest
date	20/10/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Subversion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that UK elections are not affected by political interference by (a) China and (b) other countries.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	203720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>It is, and always will be, an absolute priority for this government to protect our democratic and electoral processes against foreign interference.</p><p>Last year, the Prime Minister established the Defending Democracy Taskforce to protect the democratic integrity of the UK from threats of foreign influence. Its mission is to reduce the risk to the UK’s democratic processes, institutions and society, and ensure that these are secure and resilient to threats of foreign interference.</p><p>In addition, the National Security Act 2023 creates a new offence of foreign interference. This will make it an offence to illegitimately influence the UK’s democratic processes and elected officials on behalf of a foreign power. The offence will also significantly increase sentences for electoral offences if they are carried out on behalf of a foreign power. Related measures in the Online Safety Bill will require digital platforms to proactively take action against a wide range of state-sponsored disinformation and state-linked online interference, including digitally manipulated content, where this has the aim of interfering with UK elections.</p><p>The Elections Act 2022 strengthened three important components of the political finance framework: fairness, transparency and controls against foreign spending. Since its introduction, the Government has restricted foreign campaign spending at elections and introduced a new requirement on political parties to declare their assets and liabilities over £500 upon registration. Foreign donations (and channelling foreign money) are already illegal. The Act also ensures greater transparency on digital campaigning, through the introduction of digital imprints.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 26/10/2023 11:17:55 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1666333

registered interest
date	20/10/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: East of England and South West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to improve connectivity between the east and west of England.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	203721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>We are changing our approach to transport across the country with the announcement of Network North.</p><p> </p><p>We are investing in schemes such as Northern Powerhouse Rail which will connect some of the North’s biggest towns and cities with faster, more frequent electrified services; East West Rail, a new railway line that will provide east-west connectivity across the Oxford-Cambridge region; improvements to the A50/A500 corridor; and the A66 project between M6 junction 40 at Penrith and A1(M) at Scotch Corner which will widen to dual-carriageway standard the remaining six single-carriageway sections and upgrade major junctions.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 26/10/2023 09:06:39 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1666334

registered interest
date	20/10/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Leamside Line: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will provide funding to reopen the Leamside rail line.
tabling member constituency	Stockton South
tabling member printed	Matt Vickers
uin	203722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The Leamside Line is a Transport North East led project. The Government is giving locally elector mayors the means to spend on the priorities they determine are right for the parts of the country they represent, rather than taking all decisions in Westminster. We have made a promise to provide around £1.8 billion funding to the North East and they can then choose which schemes they allocate the funding to.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 25/10/2023 11:04:16 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4844 label Biography information for Matt Vickers

1666335

registered interest
date	20/10/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Train Operating Companies: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many train operating companies provided a 24-hour service (a) in October 2023 and (b) 12 months ago.
tabling member constituency	The Cotswolds
tabling member printed	Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
uin	203644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>Most operators do not offer 24 hour services. On most routes there is little demand and important infrastructure inspection and maintenance activities take place overnight with most operators leaving a gap in service of three to four hours overnight. Govia Thameslink Railway, Transpennine Trains and Great Western Railway provide overnight services on key routes.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 25/10/2023 11:05:51 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	249 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown