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1127469

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date	20/05/2019
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	Horses: Animal Welfare
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure horse owners comply with his Department's tethering guidelines.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	256224
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>Following representations from some equine bodies, I will be meeting a number of groups, including the British Horse Council who coordinate the views of the sector, to discuss the issue of tethering. Information on how to tether a horse is contained within the statutory <em>Code of Practice for the Welfare of Horses, Ponies, Donkeys and Their Hybrids</em>, which sets out guidance to keepers on how to provide for the welfare needs of their equidae, as required by the Animal Welfare Act 2006. The RSPCA, World Horse Welfare and local authority inspectors carry copies of the Code of Practice with them when called out to investigate complaints about the welfare of horses. They inform owners, by referring to the relevant part of the code, how to care for their animals including in relation to tethering.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 23/05/2019 11:12:16 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1127655

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	North Wales Police: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 May 2019 to Question 254750, how much and what proportion of core grant funding for territorial police forces was allocated to North Wales Police in each of the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	256246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>The 2019/20 police funding settlement provides the biggest increase in police funding since 2010, with more money for local police forces, counter terrorism and tackling serious and organised crime.</p><p>Total funding is increasing by over £1 billion in 2019/20, including council tax, extra funding for pensions costs, and the serious violence fund.</p><p>Each Police and Crime Commissioner receives the same percentage change in core grant funding each year.</p><p>Core grant funding figures are published each year in the annual police funding settlement: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-finance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-finance</a></p><p>Figures for the years 2015/16 to 2018/19 are also published in a statistics publication on police funding here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-funding-for-england-and-wales-2015-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-funding-for-england-and-wales-2015-to-2019</a><br>The North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner’s (PCC) total funding is £155.8 million in 2019/20, an increase of £9.4 million compared to 2018/19.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 23/05/2019 15:17:29 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1127660

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	EnAble Fund for Elected Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the EnAble Fund for Elected Office; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	256247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2019 answer text <p>The EnAble Fund for Elected Office is a £250,000 interim fund and is available until March 2020 or until the £250,000 budget is exhausted. The Fund supported around 40 candidates at this month’s local elections.</p><p>We have commissioned an independent evaluation, which will be published after the Fund has ended next year.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 21/06/2019 13:23:39 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1127662

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many three year sanctions were issued by her Department to social security benefit recipients in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	256249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2019 answer text <p>Information on the number of three years’ sanctions is recorded on our systems and we centrally collate some Management Information. However, the total number cannot be calculated as it is collected across different benefits on different systems and is not centrally collated in a way that allows analysis to be undertaken easily. An extensive interrogation of our systems would be required in order to provide the information requested, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Nevertheless, from the Department’s quarterly sanctions publication, in table 1.7 of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/benefit-sanctions-statistics-to-january-2019" target="_blank">supporting data tables</a>, 2,904 individuals have received three (or more) high level JSA sanction failures, from October 2012 to January 2019. It is not possible to readily unpick how many of these were 3 year sanctions (if two high level sanctions received by an individual were more than a year apart then that would mean they would not have been escalated up to a 3 year sanction duration after their 3rd high level failure). The published data on individuals that received a third high level JSA sanction cannot be split by year. This is because the data is not structured in a way to readily analyse this.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 03/06/2019 12:46:47 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1126918

registered interest
date	15/05/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	North Wales Police: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much central Government funding for territorial police forces was allocated to North Wales Police (a) in total and (b) as a percentage of overall funding in each of the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	254750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 answer text <p>Police funding is increasing by over £1 billion in 2019/20, compared to 2018/19, including council tax, extra grant funding for pensions costs, and the serious violence fund. Total police funding is increasing by around £2 billion between 2015/16 and 2019/20.</p><p><br>The North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner’s (PCC) total funding is £155.8 million in 2019/20, an increase of £9.4 million compared to 2018/19. The North Wales PCC has set out plans to use this additional funding to recruit 34 extra officers and 6 more staff.</p><p><br>Please see the table below for Government funding figures:</p><table><tbody><tr><td>Government grant Funding*</td><td>2015/16</td><td>2016/17</td><td>2017/18</td><td>2018/19</td><td>2019/20</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>£m</td><td>£m</td><td>£m</td><td>£m</td><td>£m</td></tr><tr><td>North Wales PCC</td><td>73.2</td><td>72.7</td><td>71.7</td><td>71.7</td><td>74.8</td></tr><tr><td>Total Engalnd and Wales</td><td>7,822.5</td><td>7,783.6</td><td>7,684.6</td><td>7,685.4</td><td>7,988.8</td></tr><tr><td>North Wales shares of Funding</td><td>0.9%</td><td>0.9%</td><td>0.9%</td><td>0.9%</td><td>0.9%</td></tr></tbody></table><p>*Government grant funding consists of core grant funding, council tax grants, National and International City grants, and pensions grant. It does not include PFI or counter terrorism grant.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 20/05/2019 10:33:29 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1126653

registered interest
date	14/05/2019
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Poverty: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimates he has made the number of children in absolute child poverty in each year since 2005.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	254154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 answer text <p>Estimates of the number of children living in low income are published in the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) series. The latest publication is available <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201718" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Estimates of the number of children in absolute low income households before housing costs in each year since 2005 are available below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of children living in absolute low income households before housing costs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004/05</p></td><td><p>3.0m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005/06</p></td><td><p>3.1m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006/07</p></td><td><p>3.0m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007/08</p></td><td><p>2.9m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>2.8m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>2.5m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2.3m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2.6m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2.5m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2.4m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2.3m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2.3m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2.2m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2.5m</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 20/05/2019 16:38:42 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1126655

registered interest
date	14/05/2019
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	Opioids: Prescriptions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 May 2019 to Question 250763 on Opiates: Prescriptions, if he will make it his policy to include direct hyperlinks to reports or materials referenced in written answers to hon. Members.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	254155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 answer text <p>Further to the answer to Question 250763, the Care Quality Commission’s controlled drugs annual reports are available at the following links:</p><p> </p><p>‘The safer management of controlled drugs: Annual update 2017’ (published July 2018).</p><p><a href="https://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/20180718_controlleddrugs2017_report.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/20180718_controlleddrugs2017_report.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>‘The safer management of controlled drugs: Annual update 2016’ (published July 2017).</p><p><a href="https://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/20170718_controlleddrugs2016_report.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/20170718_controlleddrugs2016_report.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>‘The safer management of controlled drugs: Annual report 2015’ (published July 2016).</p><p><a href="https://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/20160714_controlleddrugs2015_report.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/20160714_controlleddrugs2015_report.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>‘The safer management of controlled drugs: Annual report 2014’ (published July 2015).</p><p><a href="https://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/20150716_safer_management_controlled_drugs_annual_report_2014.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/20150716_safer_management_controlled_drugs_annual_report_2014.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>‘The safer management of controlled drugs: Annual report 2013’ (published August 2014).</p><p><a href="https://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/20140811%20CQC%20Controlled%20drugs%20annual%20report%202013%20final.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/20140811%20CQC%20Controlled%20drugs%20annual%20report%202013%20final.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/05/2019 13:38:52 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1126659

registered interest
date	14/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many companies in each region and nation of the UK secured contracts from her Department in each of the last five years; and what the value of each contract was.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	254156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) regularly publishes expenditure data via the Trade, Industry and Contracts bulletin on gov.uk. The data includes information about MOD regional expenditure dating back to 2013 and the latest bulletin can be found at the following link:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mod-regional-expenditure-with-uk-industry-and-supported-employment-201718</p><p>The MOD does not collate more detailed information about individual companies, nor of the value of individual contracts in each region.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 20/05/2019 16:41:35 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1126661

registered interest
date	14/05/2019
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Poverty: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, on what dates (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department have met with counterparts in the Department for Work and Pensions to discuss poverty rates for disabled people in Wales in each of the last two years; and what the outcomes were of those meetings.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	254157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 answer text <p>Wales Office Ministers and I meet regularly with colleagues from the Department for Work and Pensions on an array of issues including those facing disabled people in Wales.</p><p>The percentage of working age adults in Wales who live in a household where there was someone with a disability that were in relative poverty has fallen 3 percentage points when compared with two years earlier.</p><p>We are committed to supporting disabled people across the UK, and under this Government around 1 million disabled households will gain on average around £100 more per month on Universal Credit than on legacy benefits.</p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns question first answered 20/05/2019 16:42:24 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1126666

registered interest
date	14/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Owner Occupation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 13 May 2019 to Question 251918, what assessment he has made of the decline in home ownership rates among NS-SEC classification routine occupations.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	254158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2019 answer text <p>The annual English Housing Survey collects home ownership data (including, since 2015-16, NS-SEC data) and the most recent report showed that the rate of home ownership for 35-44 years olds has increased for the first time in over a decade. The changes in home ownership rate between 2015-16 and 2016-17 for each NS-SEC classification, including the decline for routine occupations, is not statistically significant. We will continue to monitor this closely as further data is collected.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 20/05/2019 14:39:56 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane