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1050497

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Exports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if the Government will make an assessment of the potential merits of an international graduate and alumni strategy to support international students’ employment opportunities in their home country to boost UK soft power, research, trade and engagement with alumni by universities, business and government.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	214020
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>The government fully recognises the important economic and cultural contribution that EU and international students make to the UK’s higher education sector. We want that contribution to continue and we are confident – given the world class quality of our higher education sector – that it will.</p><p> </p><p>The UK remains a highly attractive destination for non-EU students, with their numbers remaining at record highs – over 170,000 non-EU entrants to UK higher education institutions for the seventh year running. The UK is a world-leading destination for study, with four universities in the world’s top 10 and 16 in the top 100 – second only to the USA. We actively promote study in the UK through the GREAT Campaign and to over 100 countries through the British Council.</p><p> </p><p>The government announced on 21 January that the Department for Education and the Department for International Trade will produce an international education strategy in early 2019. The strategy will set out the government’s ambition for international education, and plans to support the sector in driving growth in education exports. This will include making sure we optimise our position in the market for international students.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 04/02/2019 16:26:17 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1050060

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
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	Incinerators
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the results of the study entitled Characterisation of elemental in PM2.5 in a medium sized Swedish city dominated by a modern waste incinerator plant published in X-Ray Spectrometry in 2006 which showed that between 17 per cent and 32 per cent of PM2.5 emissions landed within 1km of the site.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	213204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2019 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 01/02/2019 13:37:51 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1050147

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
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	Agricultural Products: Import Duties
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 assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of lowering import tariffs on agricultural products on the domestic food and drink industry in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	213404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>In the event the UK leaves the EU without a deal, there would be a number of tools available to help mitigate adverse impacts for the food and drink industry, as well as for consumers and producers. These tools could include lowering applied tariffs on certain goods, alongside tariff rate suspensions and opening up autonomous tariff rate quotas.</p><p> </p><p>Different combinations of these tools would have different impacts on the food and drink industry, as would different degrees of tariff reduction. In addition, the competitiveness of the domestic industry is heavily affected by a number of other factors, including commodity prices, exchange rates and oil prices. These drivers will continue to apply when we leave the EU, regardless of tariff rates.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 05/02/2019 17:30:36 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1050433

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
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: Civil Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions each local authority has been subject to legal action for the provision of inaccurate advice on universal credit to claimants in each of the last two years.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	213888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will respond to any questions relating to Universal Credit policy if asked to do so by local authorities. However, DWP would have no wider role to play in, and would collect no data in relation to, legal challenges brought against individual local authorities as a result of their advice about Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 04/02/2019 18:07:48 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1050443

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Rehabilitation Centres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on residential detoxification facilities provided to individuals required to attend such facilities as a condition of their sentence in each year since 2010 for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	214066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>There is no specific requirement for an offender to attend residential detoxification as a condition of their sentence. However, residential treatment may be provided within a Drug Rehabilitation Requirement (DRR) or Alcohol Treatment Requirement (ATR) through locally commissioned residential addiction recovery services. In England, these services are funded by local authorities, as part of their public health responsibilities. In Wales, health, including substance misuse services, is devolved to the Welsh Government. The table below shows the overall number of DRRs and ATRs commenced under community orders and suspended sentence orders in England and Wales since 2010. <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of DRRs commenced </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of ATRs commenced</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p>16,071</p></td><td><p>8,538</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p>13,617</p></td><td><p>8,423</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>13,294</p></td><td><p>8,681</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013 </strong></p></td><td><p>13,664</p></td><td><p>8,494</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014 </strong></p></td><td><p>12,951</p></td><td><p>8,045</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p>11,780</p></td><td><p>6,948</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016 </strong></p></td><td><p>9,698</p></td><td><p>6,064</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p>8,719</p></td><td><p>5,419</p></td></tr></tbody></table>We are working with the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and Public Health England to develop a protocol to support greater use of community sentences with treatment requirements (CSTRs) in courts, including drug rehabilitation and alcohol treatment requirements.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 214065 question first answered 04/02/2019 13:47:04 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1050446

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Electronic Tagging: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which companies his Department has contracted to deliver electronic tagging services; and what the (a) value and (b) duration is of each of those contracts.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	214068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>Electronic monitoring is a vital tool in protecting the public by robustly monitoring offenders in the community and defendants on bail. Electronic Monitoring provides a proportionate and value-for-money alternative to prison in support of the subjects’ journey through rehabilitation.</p><p> </p><p>The Electronic Monitoring service is delivered through contracts with the following suppliers:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Supplier </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Service </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Contract Duration </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Contract Value</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Forecast spend over the life of the contract </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capita Business Services</p></td><td><p>Electronic Monitoring - Field Services (Bridge Services Contract)</p></td><td><p>6 years from 01/02/2015</p></td><td><p>£309,600,000</p></td><td><p>£219,000,000 (Average: £36.5m per annum)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>G4S Monitoring Technologies</p></td><td><p>G4S Electronic Monitoring Hardware (BAU)</p></td><td><p>04/11/2016-03/11/2019</p></td><td><p>£15,000,000</p></td><td><p>£12,900,000 (Average: £4.3m per annum)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Telefonica UK Ltd</p></td><td><p>Electronic Monitoring - Network</p></td><td><p>6 years 10 months from 01/08/2014</p></td><td><p>£3,200,000</p></td><td><p>£3,000,000 (Average: £440k per annum)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 21/02/2019 16:51:39 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 99527 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1050505

registered interest
date	29/01/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Iraq Committee of Inquiry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether representatives from (a) Guinea, (b) Chile, (c) Cameroon, (d) Angola, (e) Bulgaria and (f) Pakistan were called to give evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	214089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The Iraq Inquiry was independent of government, and the selection of its witnesses was a matter for the Inquiry. The Inquiry did not seek evidence from representatives of the countries listed.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 06/02/2019 10:23:55 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1050191

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost is to the public purse on outsourcing recruitment services in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	213308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The requested figures, by complete Financial Year (FY), are provided in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>FY2013-14</p></td><td><p>FY2014-15</p></td><td><p>FY2015-16</p></td><td><p>FY2016-17</p></td><td><p>FY2017-18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£80,218,050</p></td><td><p>£108,736,300</p></td><td><p>£79,618,300</p></td><td><p>£70,272,400</p></td><td><p>£72,990,150</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Notes</strong>:</p><p>All figures are for actual expenditure and are rounded. Figures for the Naval Service component of this expenditure are available only from FY2015-16.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 05/02/2019 17:47:01 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

1047060

registered interest
date	25/01/2019
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	Chechnya: LGBT+ People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much funding his Department has allocated to organisations supporting LGBT+ people facing persecution in Chechnya in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	211779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>The UK Government provides long-term support for LGBT+ rights in Russia. Officials from the British Embassy in Moscow have registered concerns about the situation for LGBT+ people in Chechnya at a senior level with the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.</p><p>We currently provide funding to a number of NGOs working to counter violent extremism and promote human rights and the rule of law in the North Caucasus. Since 2015 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office have made available significant funding to support LGBT+ rights in Russia.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 28/01/2019 16:56:35 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

1047061

registered interest
date	25/01/2019
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	Chechnya: LGBT+ People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations his Department has made to the Russian officials on the persecution of LGBT+ people in Chechnya.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	211780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>As the Foreign Secretary and I made clear earlier this month, we are deeply concerned about recent reports of a renewed wave of persecution of LGBT+ people in Chechnya. Persecution for being LGBT+, in any country in the world, is abhorrent.</p><p>Following these renewed reports of persecution, the UK Government has worked closely with international partners to communicate to Russia that persecution of LGBT+ people in Chechnya is completely unacceptable. This includes joint statements from the EU Spokesperson, from the EU to the OSCE (the latter of which Russia is a member of) and the Equal Rights Coalition. We have focused on calling out Russia’s lack of a credible investigation, and impunity for the perpetrators of this persecution. We are now working to sustain this strong and united international response.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 28/01/2019 16:59:00 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty