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723877

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Action On Smoking and Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 28 March 2017 to Question 68965, on Action on Smoking and Health, what controls and checks are in place to ensure that none of the grant funds provided are used to fund lobbying activities.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	71726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 28 March to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=69025" target="_blank">69025</a>.</p><p> </p><p>In financial year 2012/13, the Department grant awarded to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) (under Section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968) was included in a sample of grants that was reviewed in an internal audit of the grant management arrangements of the Department. The audit included visits to the charities that formed part of the sample to test the information they provided to the Department and to garner their views on how the Department engaged with them. ASH was included in the work because its grant fulfilled the sample criteria.</p><p> </p><p>The internal audit was not a review of the organisation and the way that it operated, its focus was on the Department’s grant management. It found that, at the time, there were satisfactory arrangements in place in the Department. The audit report did not raise any adverse comments about ASH or include any recommendations in relation to them. It is not normal practice to place copies of Internal Audit reports in the Library.</p><p> </p><p>Minutes of annual review meetings with ASH are available on request from the Department. These documents are held for six years in line with Cabinet Office guidance.</p><p> </p><p>There is no requirement in the grant award for funding to be held in a separate account; however, the grant must be identified in annual accounts.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood grouped question UIN 71727 71728 question first answered 27/04/2017 08:49:15 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

723878

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Action On Smoking and Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library, copies of all audits and reviews conducted by his Department in respect of the spending of grants to Action on Smoking and Health.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	71727
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 28 March to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=69025" target="_blank">69025</a>.</p><p> </p><p>In financial year 2012/13, the Department grant awarded to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) (under Section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968) was included in a sample of grants that was reviewed in an internal audit of the grant management arrangements of the Department. The audit included visits to the charities that formed part of the sample to test the information they provided to the Department and to garner their views on how the Department engaged with them. ASH was included in the work because its grant fulfilled the sample criteria.</p><p> </p><p>The internal audit was not a review of the organisation and the way that it operated, its focus was on the Department’s grant management. It found that, at the time, there were satisfactory arrangements in place in the Department. The audit report did not raise any adverse comments about ASH or include any recommendations in relation to them. It is not normal practice to place copies of Internal Audit reports in the Library.</p><p> </p><p>Minutes of annual review meetings with ASH are available on request from the Department. These documents are held for six years in line with Cabinet Office guidance.</p><p> </p><p>There is no requirement in the grant award for funding to be held in a separate account; however, the grant must be identified in annual accounts.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood grouped question UIN 71726 71728 question first answered 27/04/2017 08:49:15 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

723879

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Action On Smoking and Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether it is a requirement that grants paid by his Department to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) are held in a separate account by ASH to avoid those funds being spent on non-agreed activities.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	71728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 28 March to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=69025" target="_blank">69025</a>.</p><p> </p><p>In financial year 2012/13, the Department grant awarded to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) (under Section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968) was included in a sample of grants that was reviewed in an internal audit of the grant management arrangements of the Department. The audit included visits to the charities that formed part of the sample to test the information they provided to the Department and to garner their views on how the Department engaged with them. ASH was included in the work because its grant fulfilled the sample criteria.</p><p> </p><p>The internal audit was not a review of the organisation and the way that it operated, its focus was on the Department’s grant management. It found that, at the time, there were satisfactory arrangements in place in the Department. The audit report did not raise any adverse comments about ASH or include any recommendations in relation to them. It is not normal practice to place copies of Internal Audit reports in the Library.</p><p> </p><p>Minutes of annual review meetings with ASH are available on request from the Department. These documents are held for six years in line with Cabinet Office guidance.</p><p> </p><p>There is no requirement in the grant award for funding to be held in a separate account; however, the grant must be identified in annual accounts.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood grouped question UIN 71726 71727 question first answered 27/04/2017 08:49:15 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

722185

registered interest
date	18/04/2017
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	Disabled Facilities Grants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 30 March 2017 to Question 69298, what steps his Department is taking to oblige upper tier authorities to pass in full Disabled Facilities Grants to local housing authorities where the upper tier authority refuses to so.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	71194
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>My Department has included a condition in the 2017-18 Disabled Facilities Grant Determination letter which stipulates that in two-tier areas, upper tier authorities must pass funding for adaptations down to their lower tier authorities promptly, and in full, unless the lower tier authorities have expressly agreed that a portion of the funding can be used for wider social care capital projects.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 24/04/2017 16:30:17 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

722068

registered interest
date	30/03/2017
answering body	Church Commissioners
answering dept id	9
answering dept short name	Church Commissioners
answering dept sort name	Church Commissioners
hansard heading	Debt Rescheduling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, if the Church of England will take steps to support initiatives which provide indebted households with financial breathing space.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	909692
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2017 answer text <p>The Church of England supports the Breathing Space campaign of The Children’s Society and StepChange. The Church has considerable experience of supporting people in financial difficulty and has for the last four years been actively promoting credit unions and financial education within its school and church networks. <br>Additionally, as part of the Just Finance Foundation, LifeSavers is a national, financial education programme for primary schools, equipping children with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to manage money well and prepare them for the opportunities and challenges that money brings in life.</p><p>It offers schools:<br>• Free and comprehensive sets of classroom and collective worship resources,<br>• CPD training in how to develop a whole school approach to financial education<br>• advice on setting up a school savings club<br>• ideas for engaging parents designed to give children a practical experience of handling money and ensure that positive messages about money are reinforced at home.</p><p>More information can be found here: <a href="https://justfinancefoundation.org.uk/act/lifesavers/" target="_blank">https://justfinancefoundation.org.uk/act/lifesavers/</a></p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Dame Caroline Spelman question first answered 20/04/2017 16:01:38 answering member 312 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Spelman
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

714046

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
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	Disabled Facilities Grants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, where there is no separate agreement between an upper tier authority and a lower tier authority to use part of any disabled facilities grant funding for social care capital projects, what proportion of disabled facilities grant funding paid to the upper tier authority should be passed from that authority to the lower tier authority.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	69298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to helping people with disabilities live safely and independently in their homes, and has invested over a billion pounds in the Disabled Facilities Grant since 2010.</p><p>Local housing authorities, which in two-tier areas are the lower tier authorities, are under a statutory duty to provide adaptations to the homes of those people who qualify for a Disabled Facilities Grant. Government wants to ensure that lower tier authorities have the resources they need to meet this duty. Our expectation is that the Disabled Facilities Grant funding is passed in full to lower tier authorities, unless there is local agreement between the upper and lower tiers to contribute a portion of the funding to other social care capital projects. Funding allocations for local housing authorities are set out in the grant determination letter sent to both upper and lower tier authorities when the Disabled Facilities Grant money is paid each year.</p><p>The Disabled Facilities Grant is part of the Better Care Fund, and the Better Care Fund Policy Framework for 2016 to 2017 makes this expectation clear: ‘As set out in Better Care Fund technical guidance, for 2016-17 authorities in two-tier areas will have to allocate Disabled Facilities Grant funding to their respective housing authorities from the pooled budget to enable them to continue to meet their statutory duty to provide adaptations to the homes of disabled people’.</p><p>This guidance can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/better-care-fund-how-it-will-work-in-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/better-care-fund-how-it-will-work-in-2016-to-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 30/03/2017 11:53:29 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

713486

registered interest
date	23/03/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Gaza: Reconstruction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the steps necessary to ensure the economic redevelopment of the Gaza Strip; and what steps can be taken to facilitate such redevelopment without affecting the security of Egypt and Israel.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	68966
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2017 answer text <p>​We have frequent discussions with the Government of Israel about the need to ease restrictions on Gaza. Easing restrictions would alleviate the suffering of ordinary Palestinians, advance construction, and allow the Gazan economy to grow. We are also urging Egypt to show maximum flexibility in opening the Rafah crossing. A durable agreement is necessary to safeguard Egypt and Israel’s security; it must include Hamas and other terrorist groups permanently ending rocket fire.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 28/03/2017 13:47:06 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

713502

registered interest
date	23/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Action on Smoking and Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps have been taken to ensure that no part of the grant provided by his Department to Action on Smoking and Health is spent on lobbying and political activities.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	69025
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2017 answer text <p>The conditions applicable to grants awarded to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) are set out in the grant award letters, including a specific clause that the award has been made under the provisions of Section 64 and may not be used for lobbying.</p><p> </p><p>ASH’s compliance with the conditions of the grant is assessed at the grant monitoring meetings held between the Deputy Director of tobacco control and representatives from ASH as well as in the final full year grant monitoring and governance reports.</p><p> </p><p>Information concerning the staff salaries and job titles in connection with this grant is withheld, as this is considered commercially sensitive and personal information.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood grouped question UIN 68965 question first answered 28/03/2017 08:28:17 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

713506

registered interest
date	23/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Action on Smoking and Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) proportion and (b) amount of grant paid by his Department to Action on Smoking and Health has been spent on staff salaries; and what the job titles were of each such staff.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	68965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2017 answer text <p>The conditions applicable to grants awarded to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) are set out in the grant award letters, including a specific clause that the award has been made under the provisions of Section 64 and may not be used for lobbying.</p><p> </p><p>ASH’s compliance with the conditions of the grant is assessed at the grant monitoring meetings held between the Deputy Director of tobacco control and representatives from ASH as well as in the final full year grant monitoring and governance reports.</p><p> </p><p>Information concerning the staff salaries and job titles in connection with this grant is withheld, as this is considered commercially sensitive and personal information.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood grouped question UIN 69025 question first answered 28/03/2017 08:28:17 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

713578

registered interest
date	23/03/2017
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	Jobcentres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people Jobcentre Plus has assisted in finding employment in (a) Kettering and (b) England since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	68827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not available. However, such information that is available is in the tables and provides a) the claimant count for Jobseeker’s Allowance and Universal Credit (required to seek work) claimants; plus (b) the numbers of unemployed people in Kettering and England</p><p> </p><p>Table (a) The claimant count for Jobseeker’s Allowance and Universal Credit (required to seek work) claimants in England; and those required to attend Kettering Jobcentre</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Position at March for each year since 2010</p></td><td><p>Claimant Count for Jobseeker’s Allowance and Universal Credit claimants required to attend Kettering Jobcentre</p></td><td><p>Claimant Count for Jobseeker’s Allowance and Universal Credit claimants in England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2010</p></td><td><p>2,299</p></td><td><p>1,333,659</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2011</p></td><td><p>2,092</p></td><td><p>1,246,554</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2012</p></td><td><p>2,413</p></td><td><p>1,370,504</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2013</p></td><td><p>2,487</p></td><td><p>1,295,436</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2014</p></td><td><p>1,670</p></td><td><p>966,185</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2015</p></td><td><p>1,135</p></td><td><p>676,490</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2016</p></td><td><p>1,180</p></td><td><p>639,925</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2017 (latest available)</p></td><td><p>1,020</p></td><td><p>646,370</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Table (b) The numbers of unemployed people in Kettering and England</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Position at March for each year since 2010</p></td><td><p>Number of unemployed people in Kettering</p></td><td><p>Number of unemployed people in England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2010</p></td><td><p>3,700</p></td><td><p>2,106,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2011</p></td><td><p>3,100</p></td><td><p>2,072,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2012</p></td><td><p>3,500</p></td><td><p>2,206,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2013</p></td><td><p>3,500</p></td><td><p>2,139,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2014</p></td><td><p>3,100</p></td><td><p>1,824,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2015</p></td><td><p>2,700</p></td><td><p>1,505,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2016</p></td><td><p>2,000</p></td><td><p>1,386,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2017 (latest available)</p></td><td><p>2,000</p></td><td><p>1,339,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 30/03/2017 13:51:35 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds previous answer version 42683 answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone