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872536

registered interest
date	27/03/2018
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	USA: Politics and Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	Whether his Department plans to publish a position paper on political and diplomatic co-operation with the US after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	904602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>The ties between the UK and US are of vital importance to the prosperity and national security of both countries. Since the referendum result, the UK has maintained an ongoing and productive dialogue with the US, including on how we will strengthen cooperation after the UK leaves the EU. There are no plans to publish a position paper on this.</p> answering member constituency Uxbridge and South Ruislip answering member printed Boris Johnson question first answered 27/03/2018 15:31:17 answering member 1423 label Biography information for Boris Johnson
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

867513

registered interest
date	20/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Referral Units: Exercise
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to increase availability opportunities for physical activities for children and young people in Pupil Referral Units.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	133488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2018 answer text <p>On 16 March, the Government announced its vision for reforming alternative provision (AP) in ‘Creating opportunity for all: Our vision for alternative provision’ (available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/creating-opportunity-for-all-our-vision-for-alternative-provision" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/creating-opportunity-for-all-our-vision-for-alternative-provision</a>). This sets out how the Government will reform AP to raise standards and improve outcomes for all children in AP, including Pupil Referral Units.</p><p> </p><p>Physical Education (PE) is compulsory at all four Key Stages in the National Curriculum. While this does not apply directly to AP, the Department’s statutory guidance advises that AP should enable pupils to ‘achieve good educational attainment on par with their mainstream peers’ and to study ‘appropriate accreditation and qualifications’.</p><p> </p><p>Through the primary PE and sport premium, the Government has provided over £600 million to primary schools, including primary pupil referral units, to be spent on the improvement of PE and sport. From September 2017 the Government doubled funding for the premium to £320 million a year. In 2018-19 the Department is providing schools with £100 million Healthy Pupils Capital Fund to support them to improve access to facilities for physical activity, healthy eating, mental health and wellbeing and medical conditions. Local authorities and large multi academy trusts can determine how to allocate this funding to best meet the needs of all pupils, including those pupils educated in pupil referral units they are directly responsible for.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 28/03/2018 16:32:57 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

861049

registered interest
date	13/03/2018
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	State Retirement Pensions: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints relating to the equalisation of the state pension age investigation case managers at the office of the Independent Case Examiner are investigating; and what the average waiting time for such a complaint lodged with the Independent Case Examiner to be allocated to an investigation case manager was in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	132198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>Investigation case managers at the Independent Case Examiner’s Office are currently investigating 35 complaints relating to the equalisation of the state pension age. In the period March 2017 to February 2018 the average waiting time for complaints relating to the equalisation of the state pension age to be allocated to an investigation case manager was 39 weeks.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 16/03/2018 11:29:59 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

861050

registered interest
date	13/03/2018
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	State Retirement Pensions: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many independent case managers at the office of the Independent Case Examiner are working on cases relating to complaints on the equalisation of the state pension age.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	132199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>The Independent Case Examiner’s Office has 3 investigation case managers working on cases relating to complaints on the equalisation of the state pension age.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 16/03/2018 11:32:03 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

860547

registered interest
date	12/03/2018
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	State Retirement Pensions: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken has been for the office of the Independent Case Examiner to respond to a complaint relating to the equalisation of the state pension age in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	131904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2018 answer text <p>In the period March 2017 to February 2018 it took an average of 45 weeks for the Independent Case Examiner’s Office to conclude investigations into complaints about the equalisation of state pension age, from the point at which the complaint was accepted for examination.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 15/03/2018 11:24:48 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

837635

registered interest
date	05/02/2018
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	Personal Independence Payment: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2018 to Question 125898, on Personal Independence Payment: Mental Health, whether additional funding will be made available as part of her Department's Annual Managed Expenditure to pay for personal independence payment back-payments.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	126754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department’s Annually Managed Expenditure budget is set through the annual Main and Supplementary Estimates process. It is demand led and set at a sufficient level to cover DWP’s expected welfare spend, including PIP benefit payments to individual claimants and any back payments due.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 08/02/2018 14:46:00 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

834278

registered interest
date	31/01/2018
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	Personal Independence Payment: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, from which budget any back payments due to personal independence payment claimants will be funded.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	125898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>PIP benefit payments to individual claimants, including any back payments, come from DWP’s Annual Managed Expenditure.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 05/02/2018 16:53:12 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

818895

registered interest
date	09/01/2018
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	USA: State Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on President Trump’s proposed state visit to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	903141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s position on the visit remains clear. An invitation for the President to visit the UK has been extended and accepted. Ministers and officials in both countries regularly engage with one another on the full range of issues. The precise timing and programme of a visit are yet to be finalised.</p> answering member constituency Uxbridge and South Ruislip answering member printed Boris Johnson question first answered 09/01/2018 14:07:14 answering member 1423 label Biography information for Boris Johnson
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

801013

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to bring forward proposals to factor unearned income into child maintenance payment plans.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	117572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Scheme already allows for a paying parent’s unearned income to be taken into account within a child maintenance calculation.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/12/2017 17:06:21 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

801014

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for the UK Government to ratify the Istanbul Convention.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	117573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government signed the Istanbul Convention to signal the UK’s strong commitment to tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG). As the recently published progress report sets out, in most respects the UK already complies with, or goes further than the Convention requires. We have significantly strengthened the legislative framework; introduced new protective tools; and issued a range of guidance and support for frontline professionals.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We have always been clear on our commitment to ratifying the Convention. The Domestic Abuse Bill will be another step towards meeting that commitment by extending extraterritorial jurisdiction over offences required by the Convention which, for England and Wales, is the final legislative step necessary for ratification. We are committed to consulting widely as we develop the proposals for the draft Domestic Abuse Bill. We are keen to hear from experts, including charities, service providers and legal experts, to understand their views and ensure that the voices of domestic abuse victims and survivors are heard. This will take place shortly.</p><p> </p><p>As the criminal law and the majority of the areas covered by the Convention are devolved to Scotland and Northern Ireland, the Devolved Administrations are considering what legislative or other changes are necessary for compliance with the Convention in their territories. The Government liaises regularly with the Devolved Administrations on VAWG issues and we will continue working closely with the Scottish Government and Northern Ireland Executive to ensure we are taking a coordinated approach on this agenda.</p><p> </p><p>We are also in ongoing discussions with the voluntary and community sector on these issues, and in line with the requirement of section 2 of the <em>Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence </em><em>(Ratification of Convention) Act 2017</em>, we will set out a timetable for ratification in due course.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 117575 117577 question first answered 12/12/2017 17:34:28 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands