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932272

registered interest
date	28/06/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for The Home Department, whether his Department has plans to introduce minimum unit pricing on alcohol in England.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	158754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2018 answer text <p>Minimum Unit Pricing in England remains under review. The Government is developing a new cross-government alcohol strategy which will set out targeted action to prevent and reduce harmful drinking, support vulnerable people affected by others’ alcohol misuse and improve the pathway into treatment for people with alcohol dependency.</p><p>The new strategy will not include a commitment to introduce MUP at this time but Public Health England will be commissioned to carry out a scientific review into the impact of minimum unit pricing following its introduction in Scotland.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 03/07/2018 15:18:20 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

932276

registered interest
date	28/06/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Digital Technology: South Yorkshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to support the growth of digital economies in South Yorkshire.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	158755
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2018 answer text <p>Since launching our Digital Strategy last year, the Government has taken a number of steps to support digital economies across the UK, including in South Yorkshire.</p><p> </p><p>In November last year, Government invested £21 million to expand Tech City UK into a nationwide network – Tech Nation – to accelerate the growth of the digital tech sector across the country. Tech Nation will support 40,000 entrepreneurs and up to 4,000 start-ups as they scale their businesses across the country - including in South Yorkshire.</p><p> </p><p>Supported by over £3m of investment from DCMS, the Castle House project in Sheffield will act as a hub for supporting the digital economy across South Yorkshire, with this new facility providing work space and business support for local companies with a focus on digital technology and its application.</p><p> </p><p>Our £67m National Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme, which provides a voucher towards the cost of installing a Gigabit (1,000 Megabits per second) capable connection, has also delivered benefits to South Yorkshire. Across Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster twenty businesses have already been granted these vouchers and five of them have already gone right through to completion of a live connection.</p><p> </p><p>In July we will open up bidding for our Wave3 of the Local Full Fibre Networks Challenge Fund. Local bodies will be invited to open dialogue with us to propose projects that will stimulate the build of fibre within their region, with up to £95m of funding will be available in this round.</p><p> </p><p>Government has also announced £2.5 billion of extra funding by the British Business Bank, to unlock over £10 billion of finance and support new UK businesses in their ambitions to grow across the UK, including South Yorkshire.<strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 03/07/2018 08:57:28 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

932277

registered interest
date	28/06/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Cycling: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if his Department will make an estimate of the financial contribution of the 2018 Tour de Yorkshire to the UK economy.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	158756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2018 answer text <p>Sport makes a significant economic contribution to the UK. According to my department’s Sport Satellite Account, in 2016 the value of the sports economy was just over £37 billion (gross value added). According to independent research carried out by Leeds Beckett University, the 2017 Tour de Yorkshire boosted the county's economy by almost £64 million.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 03/07/2018 09:40:39 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

932278

registered interest
date	28/06/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Tourism: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department estimates the Welcome to Yorkshire brand has generated for the UK economy in (a) 2013, (b) 2014, (c) 2015, (d) 2016, (e) 2017 and (f) 2018 to date.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	158757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on the economic impact of individual destination management organisations.</p><p> </p><p>Please find below details of visitor numbers and spend from both the inbound and domestic markets to Yorkshire and Humberside for 2013-2017 in the table below. Please note inbound data is only up to quarter 3 2017.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Inbound</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Domestic</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Volume (m)</p></td><td><p>Spend (£bn)</p></td><td><p>Volume (m)</p></td><td><p>Spend (£bn)</p></td><td><p>Volume (m)</p></td><td><p>Spend (£bn)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>165.21</p></td><td><p>£7.28</p></td><td><p>1.213</p></td><td><p>£0.58</p></td><td><p>164</p></td><td><p>£6.70</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>162.77</p></td><td><p>£7.07</p></td><td><p>1.367</p></td><td><p>£0.57</p></td><td><p>161.4</p></td><td><p>£6.50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>150.59</p></td><td><p>£6.72</p></td><td><p>1.29</p></td><td><p>£0.52</p></td><td><p>149.3</p></td><td><p>£6.20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>159.66</p></td><td><p>£6.52</p></td><td><p>1.362</p></td><td><p>£0.52</p></td><td><p>158.3</p></td><td><p>£6.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>160.75</p></td><td><p>£7.13</p></td><td><p>1.054</p></td><td><p>£0.43</p></td><td><p>159.7</p></td><td><p>£6.70</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 03/07/2018 12:49:02 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

931849

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
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 ensure that local authorities receive sufficient funding for the provision of Tier 1 and Tier 2 CAMHS.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	158258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>Expenditure on children and young people’s mental health and children and young people’s eating disorders is tracked in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Dashboard. However this information is not broken down to show information on expenditure for Tier 1 and Tier 2 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). The dashboard is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/" target="_blank">www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/</a></p><p> </p><p>NHS England does not make specific allocations for programme areas like CAMHS. Budgets and contracts for services are decided and commissioned locally by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) which assess local needs. Furthermore, NHS England does not determine allocations or contracts for local authorities. Again, these are decided and commissioned locally by CCGs in response to local need.</p><p> </p><p>Under the Mental Health Investment Standard (MHIS), all CCGs are required to increase mental health expenditure in line with their overall allocation. The MHIS is being introduced into planning guidance from 2018/19 so all CCGs will have to meet it.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 02/07/2018 14:08:29 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

931850

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has allocated to (a) Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group and (b) Barnsley Council for the provision of (i) Tier 1, (ii) TIer 2 and (iii) Tier 3 CAMHS in that region in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	158259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>Expenditure on children and young people’s mental health and children and young people’s eating disorders is tracked in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Dashboard, which is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/mental-health-five-year-forward-view-dashboard/</a></p><p> </p><p>However this information is not broken down to show information on expenditure for Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.</p><p> </p><p>For 2016/17 in Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) the actual spend on children and young people’s mental health, excluding learning disabilities and eating disorders, was £4.178 million and for eating disorders was £143,000. For 2017/18 in Barnsley CCG the planned spend on children and young people’s mental health, excluding learning disabilities and eating disorders, is £4.3 million and for eating disorders it is £143,000. Information for 2015/16 is not available.</p><p> </p><p>Funding for Barnsley council to deliver services is through the local government finance settlement; this is generally un-ring fenced resource to deliver a range of services including social care.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 02/07/2018 14:11:08 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

931851

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Air Pollution: South Yorkshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of the £3.5 billion assigned by the Government to the Air Quality Plan 2017 has been allocated to (a) Barnsley and (b) South Yorkshire.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	158260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government is firmly committed to improving the UK’s air quality and ensure we leave our environment in a better state than we inherited it. This is supported by a £3.5billion plan to improve air quality.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have required 61 local authorities to develop local plans to deliver compliance with nitrogen dioxide limits as soon as possible. It is right that local authorities take the lead in developing local air quality plans as they know their local area best. The Government is supporting the local authorities with technical support in developing their plans and has committed £475m through the Implementation Fund and Clean Air Fund to provide them with funding for air quality improvements.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In South Yorkshire Sheffield City Council and Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council have been required to develop a local plan and to date have been awarded £2,502,100 from the Implementation Fund to date to help carry out the work needed to develop air quality plans and to implement a number of early measures including: a project to install rapid charging points at key locations across Sheffield; a project to purchase electric taxis and lease them out to taxi drivers to raise awareness of the ULEV experience; a project to adapt traffic signals on Abbeydale Road to reduce the occasions when traffic stops, with a reduction in sitting traffic lowering emissions; and funding for air quality communications. Further funding will be made available when they present their final plans.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Additionally, since 2017 South Yorkshire has received nearly £10m to improve air quality with Sheffield City Region awarded £7,500,000 in 2017 to support active travel, Sheffield City Council awarded £1,946,800 through the Clean Bus Technology Fund 2017-19 to enable 117 buses to be retrofitted with pollution-reducing technology, and £125,000 awarded to Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council through the air quality grant to improve local air quality in Barnsley and Doncaster.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Local authorities currently have a range of tools they can use to reduce local air pollution which includes the powers to introduce a Clean Air Zone voluntarily. The Government also provides guidance and technical support to local authorities via a dedicated local air quality management Helpdesk and has provided an air quality toolkit for Directors of Public Health.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Government has launched a consultation on a new Clean Air Strategy seeking views on a wider range of national measures and more powers to local authorities that can tackle non-transport sources of air pollution.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 157751 question first answered 02/07/2018 16:31:21 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

931545

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Tree Planting
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 Answers of 14 February 2018 and 31 May 2018 to Questions 125838 and 146694 on Tree Planting and Forests, what his Department's policy is on the planting of 11 million trees during the course of this Parliament as referenced in the Conservative Party manifesto 2017.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	157748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to achieving its manifesto commitment to plant 11 million trees over the course of this Parliament.</p><p> </p><p>A number of schemes support this, including the Woodland Creation Grant under Countryside Stewardship, the Woodland Carbon Fund, the Woodland Creation Planning Grant, planting in the National Forest, and kick-starting the new Northern Forest.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has recently appointed a national Tree Champion who will help drive forward the commitment to plant 11 million trees.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 02/07/2018 13:15:50 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

931546

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Tree Planting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many trees his Department has planted in (a) Barnsley, (b) South Yorkshire and (c) England in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	157749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The estimated numbers of trees planted with Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs support in the 12 months from April 2017 to March 2018 were:</p><p> </p><p>a) In the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley – 900 trees</p><p>b) In South Yorkshire – 4,890 trees</p><p>c) In England – 1,763,649trees.</p><p> </p><p>These figures are based on the data used to produce the recent report “Government supported new planting of trees in England; report for 2017-18” available at <a href="https://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/Government-supported-new-planting-trees-England-2017-18.pdf/$FILE/Government-supported-new-planting-trees-England-2017-18.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/Government-supported-new-planting-trees-England-2017-18.pdf/$FILE/Government-supported-new-planting-trees-England-2017-18.pdf</a>, as well as the 2017-18 Annual Report of the Trees for Schools programme.</p><p> </p><p>These figures include new planting of trees and exclude trees planted for restocking or replacement purposes. For the period in question the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs was a source of support for all the recorded trees planted.</p><p> </p><p>Government grants for tree planting are awarded based on applications. In areas where fewer applications have been submitted, fewer trees have been planted.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 02/07/2018 15:41:37 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

931549

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
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	Tree Planting: Schools
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 proportion of schools in (a) Barnsley and (b) South Yorkshire have received a portion of the money invested in the Trees for Schools Programme.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	157750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>Over the lifetime of the Trees for Schools programme, tree packs have been provided to 16 schools in South Yorkshire, four of them in Barnsley. This equates to 2,640 trees in South Yorkshire, 900 of them in Barnsley.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 02/07/2018 12:42:44 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis