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792124

registered interest
date	20/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Islamic State: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps she is taking to identify, and prosecute people who return to the UK from fighting for Daesh in Syria.
tabling member constituency	Hazel Grove
tabling member printed	Mr William Wragg
uin	901920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government has been consistently clear; everyone who returns from taking part in the conflict in Syria or Iraq will be investigated by the police to determine if they have committed criminal offences. Where there is a case to answer those individuals will be prosecuted.</p><p>We are working with our international partners, bilaterally and via the UN, to improve the sharing of information to ensure those responsible for crimes can be brought to justice.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 21/11/2017 15:22:08 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4429 label Biography information for Mr William Wragg

792125

registered interest
date	20/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Cybercrime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the effect of recent cyber-attacks on critical national infrastructure.
tabling member constituency	Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
tabling member printed	Gerald Jones
uin	901924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2017 answer text <p>The security of certain UK organisations, including the CNI, is of utmost importance. The Government is working with industry to provide advice and expertise on the management of their risk. Through the National Cyber Security Programme, we have invested through Lead Departments, the Intelligence Agencies and regulators to better understand cyber risk, share threat information, improve the security of the CNI and exercise together to be prepared for incidents. This will continue.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 21/11/2017 15:25:45 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4501 label Biography information for Gerald Jones

792126

registered interest
date	20/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps she is taking to ensure that businesses have access to temporary non-UK EU workers after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Sittingbourne and Sheppey
tabling member printed	Gordon Henderson
uin	901925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government is considering options for our future immigration system very carefully. Our decisions will be based on evidence and engagement with stakeholders. After we leave the EU, we will want to control immigration from the EU whilst continuing to attract the brightest and best to work or study in Britain. We will ensure that businesses and communities have the opportunity to contribute their views before any final decisions are made.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 21/11/2017 15:27:50 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4050 label Biography information for Gordon Henderson

792127

registered interest
date	20/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	Whether her Department plans to review the effectiveness of the Prevent strategy.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	901926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2017 answer text <p>The Prevent Programme is fundamentally about safeguarding and supporting vulnerable individuals to stop them from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. In June, the Prime Minister outlined the Government’s commitment to review the UK’s counter-terrorism strategy (CONTEST), drawing on lessons learned from the recent attacks earlier this year. As the threat we face from terrorism becomes more complex, our strategy needs to evolve with it. The Prevent Strategy is being assessed as part of this review.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 21/11/2017 15:28:40 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

792128

registered interest
date	20/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What progress the Government has made on placing vulnerable Syrian refugee families in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Banbury
tabling member printed	Victoria Prentis
uin	901928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2017 answer text <p>It is important that we focus our support on the most vulnerable refugees in the region fleeing the atrocities in Syria, whatever their nationality. Latest statistics published on 24 August confirm that a total of 8,535 people have been resettled under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme since it began, 4,369 of which arrived in 2016. We will continue to work closely with local authorities and devolved administrations to ensure we meet our commitment.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 21/11/2017 15:30:39 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis

790184

registered interest
date	17/11/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 1 February 2016 to Question HL5729, if his Department will discuss with representatives of local highway authorities the Government's recommendation that those authorities consider scanning any deceased cats or dogs found on the highway for which they are responsible as a matter of standard practice.
tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
tabling member printed	Wayne David
uin	113225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Transport has already highlighted to local highway authorities the importance of scanning deceased dogs and cats found on the highway as part of standard practice. This advice was included in a letter sent in March 2015 to highway authorities in England, outside London. It is the responsibility of each highway authority to determine whether to do so or not based on their own policies and procedures. However, the Department for Transport will look for opportunities to highlight the issue to local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 20/11/2017 16:29:08 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

791035

registered interest
date	17/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what financial assistance her Department provides to local authorities to support (a) unaccompanied asylum seeking children and (b) looked after children (LAC) in the care of the authority.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	113643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office provides funding to all local authorities who look after unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC). The national rate is £41,610 per annum for under 16s and £33,215 per annum for 16 and 17 year olds. We also provide funding for former unaccompanied asylum seeking who turn 18 need leaving care support. This equates to £200 a week. These rates were increased significantly in July 2016 by 20%, 28% and 33% respectively.</p><p> </p><p>The current rates are based on a detailed analysis of financial information send to the Home Office by local authorities about their costs of caring for unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children.</p><p> </p><p>In August 2017 a review of funding for UASC was launched and all local authorities who currently look after unaccompanied children have been invited to submit evidence.</p><p> </p><p>Funding for children’s services, including looked after children services, is non-ring-fenced and part of the wider local government finance settlement to give local authorities the flexibility to focus on locally determined priorities. It is for local authorities to determine how to spend their non-ring fenced income on the services they provide, including services for looked after children. They do so taking account local need, priorities, and of course their statutory responsibilities.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 21/11/2017 17:16:32 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

791177

registered interest
date	17/11/2017
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	Green Belt
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to protect green belt land.
tabling member constituency	Sevenoaks
tabling member printed	Sir Michael Fallon
uin	114504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2017 answer text <p>The National Planning Policy Framework sets out strong protections for the Green Belt and states that inappropriate development there should be refused planning permission unless in very special circumstances. The Framework also makes clear that a local authority may alter the shape of its Green Belt only in exceptional circumstances, using the Local Plan process. The Framework does not define these ‘exceptional circumstances’. However, in the Housing White Paper, <em>Fixing our broken housing market</em>, we proposed that a local authority should be able to alter a Green Belt boundary only when it demonstrates that it has examined all other reasonable options for meeting its identified development needs, including:</p><ul><li>effective use of suitable brownfield and estate regeneration;</li><li>the potential offered by under-used land (including surplus public sector land);</li><li>optimising the density of development; and</li><li>exploring whether other authorities can help to meet some of the identified development requirement.</li></ul><p>We have been analysing the consultation responses on this proposed clarification, and will announce our conclusions as soon as possible in 2018.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 22/11/2017 16:40:16 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon

791178

registered interest
date	17/11/2017
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the universal support framework will be published; and whether face-to-face debt advice will be included in that framework.
tabling member constituency	Wirral West
tabling member printed	Margaret Greenwood
uin	114505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>We published the Local Support Services Framework on 11 February 2013. The evidence from the Universal Support trials around joint working to support the needs of our disadvantaged customers informed the DWP Improving Lives policy paper (April 2017).</p><p> </p><p>Funding has been made available to Local Authorities to put in place Universal Support delivered locally to help claimants who struggle with the transition to Universal Credit-in particular using online self-service and managing their UC award/managing their money. Universal Support does not cover debt advice however we expect DWP and our partners to identify claimant need and signpost them to available support.</p><p> </p><p>We are clear that partnership working is fundamental to the successful implementation of Universal Credit. That is why we have announced that we are exploring with Citizen’s Advice and Citizen’s Advice Scotland the scope for greater collaborative working to help claimants locally as they move to Universal Credit, within the Universal Support framework.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 27/11/2017 15:44:49 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4400 label Biography information for Margaret Greenwood

791179

registered interest
date	17/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Fossil Fuels: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list the fossil fuel extraction technologies that are eligible for 100 per cent first-year capital allowances.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	114506
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2017 answer text <p>There is no specific first-year capital allowance for fossil fuel extraction technologies. However, there are various first-year allowances available for investment in fuel-efficient technologies, including for low-carbon and zero-emissions vehicles.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 24/11/2017 10:02:36 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas