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1668911

registered interest
date	09/11/2023
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	Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing an opt-out option for members of pension schemes with safeguarded benefits who are required to take advice under section 48 of the Pension Schemes Act 2015.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	1198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>The overarching objective of the advice requirement is to ensure that members understand the financial implications of transferring to a scheme with flexible benefits. The process enables a clear view of the choices available to the individual and the longer term risks attached to accessing flexible benefits.</p><p> </p><p>The government has to consider the needs of all pension savers regardless of their individual circumstances and it believes that enabling members to make informed investment decisions will yield greater long term financial stability for the individual. It is not therefore policy to introduce an opt out option to this part of the transfer process.</p><p> </p><p>In forming this view, DWP has engaged with pensions industry bodies, the regulators and consumer groups to review The Pension Schemes Act 2015 (Transitional Provisions and Appropriate Independent Advice) Regulations 2017. The review considered how the advice requirement is working in practice and if there are any unintended consequences. A report of the review was published in June 2023 and is available on gov.uk.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst the report concluded that the existing measures remain appropriate and effective, the department will continue to work closely with HMT and FCA to consider changes to the regulations that will improve the transfer process whilst ensuring that members continue to receive an appropriate level of protection and support.</p><p /><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 15/11/2023 16:03:59 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1667686

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Bahrain: Prisons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of prison reform in Bahrain in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>We welcome the positive steps taken by the Government of Bahrain leading to progress in a number of human rights areas, including reforms to the prison system. This includes the development of Alternative Sentencing legislation (which has benefitted over 5,680 individuals to date), the introduction of an open prison system, the implementation of a new child justice system, and the establishment of specialist human rights oversight bodies. The UK remains committed to supporting reforms in Bahrain and to encouraging the government to meet its human rights commitments.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 15/11/2023 17:37:56 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1667687

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Bahrain: Press Freedom
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 7 July 2023 to Question 191641 on Bahrain: Gulf Strategy Fund, what assessment his Department has made of the capacity of the (a) Bahraini civil societies and (b) Bahrain Journalist Association to (i) operate independently of and (ii) voice opposition to the Bahraini authorities.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>The FCDO remains committed to supporting reform in Bahrain and working with civil society organisations and journalists, including through projects delivered via the Gulf Strategy Fund. We recognise there are challenges to freedom of expression in Bahrain and await the new media law, in which we have encouraged the Government of Bahrain to include improved protections for journalists and to enhance wider media freedoms.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 15/11/2023 17:39:40 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1667688

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Broadband: Rural Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the Answer of 26 October 2023 to Question 204064 on Broadband: Rural Areas, whether her Department plans to provide support to people who are ineligible for the Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme because they are in plan to have superfast broadband installed but do not have a timescale for this process.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>Eligibility for the Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme is dependent on premises meeting the relevant criteria, such as not being included in any suppliers’ commercial rollout plans for a gigabit-capable connection, nor in any other government-funded contract - planned or in place - to improve the network.</p><p> </p><p>Eligibility for the voucher scheme is also dependent on the premises’ rurality status and only being able to access speeds less than 100Mbps. Therefore, commercial plans to provide superfast speeds (&gt;=30Mbps) would not result in ineligibility for the scheme, assuming the premises met the wider requirements.</p><p> </p><p>Although premises that are included in suppliers’ plans to receive a <em>gigabit-capable</em> connection are ineligible for vouchers, we still keep commercial plans under review. If these plans change, we will explore whether the premises can be connected through Project Gigabit.</p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Sir John Whittingdale question first answered 15/11/2023 09:52:39 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1666598

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
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	Defibrillators: Disadvantaged
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking to steps to help increase public access to defibrillators in areas of deprivation with a high incidence of cardiac arrest.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	203876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government’s £1 million Community Automated External Defibrillators (AED) fund will provide an estimated 1,000 new defibrillators across England, with the potential for this to double as successful applicants will be asked to match the funding they receive partially or fully.</p><p>As of 22 September 2022, community organisations can now apply for a grant to fund an AED for their local area. Applications for funding will be submitted to Smarter Society and the London Hearts Charity, who will assess each application, ensuring that each AED is installed in areas where there is a clear need for the device such as high footfall areas or rural locations with extended ambulance response times. Priority will be given to applications that are considered a cardiac health hotspot with high levels of deprivation and low numbers of AEDs.</p><p>All AEDs granted by the fund must be registered on The Circuit, which is the British Heart Foundation’s national defibrillator database.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 203877 203878 question first answered 25/10/2023 14:04:18 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1666599

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
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	Defibrillators
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 taking to help ensure equal access to defibrillators across the country.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	203877
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government’s £1 million Community Automated External Defibrillators (AED) fund will provide an estimated 1,000 new defibrillators across England, with the potential for this to double as successful applicants will be asked to match the funding they receive partially or fully.</p><p>As of 22 September 2022, community organisations can now apply for a grant to fund an AED for their local area. Applications for funding will be submitted to Smarter Society and the London Hearts Charity, who will assess each application, ensuring that each AED is installed in areas where there is a clear need for the device such as high footfall areas or rural locations with extended ambulance response times. Priority will be given to applications that are considered a cardiac health hotspot with high levels of deprivation and low numbers of AEDs.</p><p>All AEDs granted by the fund must be registered on The Circuit, which is the British Heart Foundation’s national defibrillator database.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 203876 203878 question first answered 25/10/2023 14:04:18 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1666601

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
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	Defibrillators
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that public access defibrillators are registered on The Circuit.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	203878
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government’s £1 million Community Automated External Defibrillators (AED) fund will provide an estimated 1,000 new defibrillators across England, with the potential for this to double as successful applicants will be asked to match the funding they receive partially or fully.</p><p>As of 22 September 2022, community organisations can now apply for a grant to fund an AED for their local area. Applications for funding will be submitted to Smarter Society and the London Hearts Charity, who will assess each application, ensuring that each AED is installed in areas where there is a clear need for the device such as high footfall areas or rural locations with extended ambulance response times. Priority will be given to applications that are considered a cardiac health hotspot with high levels of deprivation and low numbers of AEDs.</p><p>All AEDs granted by the fund must be registered on The Circuit, which is the British Heart Foundation’s national defibrillator database.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 203876 203877 question first answered 25/10/2023 14:04:18 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1666063

registered interest
date	19/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Wholesale Trade: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of thefts of (a) tobacco and alcohol and (b) other stock within the wholesale sector; and if she will meet with the Federation of Wholesale Distributors to discuss steps to reduce these levels.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	203538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes data on the most commonly stolen items in theft incidents for all sectors, combined, as part of the Commercial Victimisation Survey (CVS). The data was most recently published in May 2023 and is available at:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Fcrime-against-businesses-findings-from-the-2022-commercial-victimisation-survey&amp;data=05%7C01%7CKhadijah.Ishaq%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cc480badf403a41e2a9e408dbd15de7a6%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638333973466370302%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=THL%2FoyAfuHnEt2aaHtFEwq%2BDmB9NXgROfoRTGBY2zRg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Crime against businesses: findings from the 2022 Commercial Victimisation Survey - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>The sample size of the CVS is not large enough to yield reliable estimates and to assess trends in specific items that are stolen of the Wholesale sector specifically.</p><p>The Home Office works closely with retailers and trade organisations, and police partners via the National Retail Crime Steering Group (NRCSG) to ensure that the response to crimes affecting the retail sector is as robust as it can be. The Federation of Wholesale Distributors is represented on the NRCSG.</p><p>On a national level, the Home Office works closely with the police-led National Business Crime Centre (NBCC) to understand the crimes affecting businesses and help ensure businesses and police are working effectively together. The NBCC has published guidance on how to prevent wholesale and warehouse thefts on its website: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnbcc.police.uk%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7CKhadijah.Ishaq%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C2b4a1044bd504c3183c708dbd15774a2%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638333945759937587%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=aSk5W%2FaAneCWSprHCzQk7%2BGHwu96%2FEw7RmKIMF0pdI8%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">NBCC National Business Crime Centre</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 25/10/2023 11:19:07 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1664884

registered interest
date	16/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the recommendations in the report by the ONE campaign entitled Getting a grip: How the Home Office should improve refugee and asylum seeker welfare and protect UK aid.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	202578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office is tackling the asylum legacy caseload so that people can receive a decision and exit the system, either by returning to their home country, or granting them asylum so they can begin to make a contribution to the UK. We have already increased the number of decision makers to over 2,500 as of January 2023. We will continue to increase the number of caseworkers to help clear the asylum backlog by the end of 2023.</p><p>We are also improving the productivity, volumes, and speed of decision making so that people spend less time in asylum accommodation. We are streamlining and modernising the end-to-end process, with improved guidance, more focused and fewer interviews, enhancing use of digital technology, and we are introducing a more efficient approach to how claims are handled by decision makers. The aim is to clear initial asylum decisions relating to claims made before 28 June 2022, when the Nationality and Borders Act measures came into force, by the end of 2023.</p><p>The Home Office is committed to making every effort to reduce hotel use and limit the burden on the taxpayer. This is why we are delivering a range of alternative accommodation sites, maximising hotel space, operationalising the Illegal Migration Act and continuing our hard work to clear the asylum backlog by the end of the year.</p><p>In line with our response to the ICAI review, FCDO published the updated UK In-Donor Refugee Costs methodology report alongside our latest Statistics on International Development.</p><p>The full methodology report can be found here. Section 3 sets our the fit for purpose assessment and current data limitations.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/10/2023 15:38:58 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1664885

registered interest
date	16/10/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Development Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the use of foreign aid within the UK.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	202579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2023 answer text <p>In May 2023, the Minister for Development and Africa and Chief Secretary to the Treasury met with Ministerial counterparts, including the Minister for Immigration from the Home Office, as part of the Official Development Assistance (ODA) Board to discuss ODA pressures and have a deep dive into in-donor refugee costs.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 24/10/2023 16:15:26 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day