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48749

registered interest
date	28/04/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with banks about the closure of branches; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	196915
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2014 answer text <p><strong>Treasury Ministers and officials meet with, and receive representations from, a wide range of organisations and individuals in the public and private sector as part of the usual policymaking process. It is not Government practice to provide details of all such representations.</strong></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 01/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

48812

registered interest
date	28/04/2014
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
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 his policy is on the exporting of live horses and ponies for slaughter.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	196910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>There is no ban in place on the export of live horses for slaughter. However, there is a system of inspections and checks in place to make sure that horses are healthy and fit for transport. The Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) undertakes risk based inspections of equines destined for export. Local authorities also undertake inspection work and are responsible for investigating breaches of the welfare legislation with a view to prosecution.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 01/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

47939

registered interest
date	09/04/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support he plans to give schools which have no kitchen facilities and are unable to build such facilities because of financial constraints, and which cannot have meals delivered from other local schools, to enable them to provide free school meals for infant children; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	196056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>The Government is providing £150 million capital funding in 2014-15 to support the introduction of universal infant free school meals, in addition to over £1 billion additional revenue funding over the two years 2014 to 2016. Local authorities are also free to use some of the capital they receive for general maintenance and improvement purposes to upgrade kitchen and dining facilities in schools, if that is a priority locally.</p><p> </p><p>The pilots of universal free school meal provision which ran in Newham and Durham between 2009 and 2011 showed, however, that building new facilities is not the only way to increase school meal uptake.</p><p> </p><p>To help schools to find solutions which meet their local circumstances, on 6 March we launched a national support service which consists of a telephone and online advice service for schools, local authorities and caterers, and a direct-support service for schools which need additional support. The service is being provided by school food experts, the Children's Food Trust and the Lead Association for Catering in Education, in conjunction with a number of delivery partners. More information is available at: <a href="http://www.childrensfoodtrust.org.uk/Root/schools/schoolfoodplan" target="_blank">http://www.childrensfoodtrust.org.uk/Root/schools/schoolfoodplan</a></p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

47304

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether police reports to coroners' inquests are available to the connected parties; what the cost is of supplying such reports; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	195543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Rules 12 to 15 of the Coroners (Inquests) Rules 2013 (<a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1616/contents/made" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1616/contents/made</a>) provide for a coroner, on request, to disclose relevant documents to ‘interested persons' in the coroner's investigation, subject to specified restrictions. This may include reports that police provide to the coroner.</p><p> </p><p>Rule 16 of the Rules provides that a coroner may not charge a fee for any document disclosed before or during an inquest. Regulation 12 of the Coroners Allowances, Fees and Expenses Regulations 2013 (<a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1615/contents/made" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1615/contents/made</a>) sets out the fees that coroners may charge for disclosure after an inquest.</p><p> </p><p>We do not have operational responsibility for coroners so do not hold data on the costs to coroners of supplying documents and there would be disproportionate costs for both MoJ and coroners in obtaining it. This is because we would need to approach each coroner to ask them to investigate and advise MoJ of the costs to them of disclosing police reports to interested persons.</p><p> </p><p>The Rules minimise disclosure costs for coroners by providing for electronic disclosure where appropriate, and for a coroner to disclose a bundle of relevant documents together, where this is more efficient. Paragraphs 117 to 126 of the Chief Coroner's Guide to the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (<a href="http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/coroners/guidance/chief-coroners-guide-to-act-sept2013.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/coroners/guidance/chief-coroners-guide-to-act-sept2013.pdf</a>) explain this in more detail.</p><p> </p><p>The coroner provisions in the 2009 Act were implemented in July 2013 and we have undertaken to review their impact after 18 months.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

45201

registered interest
date	26/03/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2014, Official Report, column 358W, on land drainage, for what reasons responsibility for maintaining balancing tanks and sustainable urban development systems is to be given to county or unitary authorities rather than to local planning authorities; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	193910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>County and unitary authorities are the lead local flood authorities for their areas.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 01/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

45209

registered interest
date	26/03/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2014, Official Report, column 558W, on land drainage, what funding will be made available to SuDS Approving Bodies to enable them to maintain balancing tanks and sustainable urban drainage systems; who will be responsible for providing that funding; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	193909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department will be consulting shortly on funding arrangements for the maintenance of sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) that will be subject to the provisions of Schedule 3 of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 01/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

43703

registered interest
date	18/03/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will allow a transitional period for schools to prepare to provide free school meals for under-sevens in cases where those schools need to set up their own kitchens; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	192736
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text <p>The Government announced in September 2013 that state-funded schools will be required to offer free school meals to infant pupils from September 2014, giving schools a full year to put arrangements in place. We know from the universal free school meal pilots, in which schools were required to provide meals to all infant pupils and all key stage 2 pupils, that it is possible for schools to prepare to implement this policy with much less notice.</p><p>In order to help schools to implement universal infant free school meals in September 2014 we have put in place a national support service, run by school food experts. The assistance available through that service includes a telephone helpline, the sharing of good practice, and intensive face-to-face support. We are also providing additional funding of £22.5 million to help small schools with the transition to providing meals for all their infant pupils.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

43704

registered interest
date	18/03/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what extra funding his Department plans to provide to smaller schools to help them to provide free school meals for under-sevens; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	192735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text <p>On 6 March the Department for Education announced that we will allocate additional funding totalling £22.5 million in the 2014-15 financial year to help small schools (those with a total roll of up to 150 pupils according to the January 2014 Schools Census) with the transitional costs of implementing the universal infant free school meals policy.</p><p>Schools eligible for this funding will receive a minimum of £3,000 to be spent as they choose in support of their implementation of the policy, including for the purpose of improving kitchen or dining equipment.</p><p>Further information is available in the departmental advice document on universal infant free school meals, which can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-infant-free-school-meals" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-infant-free-school-meals</a></p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

43705

registered interest
date	18/03/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the number of schools in (a) England and (b) Gloucestershire which carry out collective acts of Christian worship each day; what proportion those schools form of the total number of schools which are required to do so; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	192737
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text <p>All publicly funded maintained schools in England remain legally required to provide a daily act of worship for all registered pupils up to age 18 and the Government has no plans to change this. It does not, however,collect data on school provision in this area.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson