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982492

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date	08/10/2018
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	Horse Racing: Animal Welfare
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will ask the British Horseracing Authority to publish the number of (a) reviews it has undertaken into equine mortality rates at racecourses since January 2013 and (b) the number of those reviews that are publicly available.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	175918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2018 answer text <p>The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) provides annual statistics of the number of horse fatalities at racecourses, which are published on their website. These show that since 2013, the percentage of runners being killed at a racetrack has dropped steadily from 0.22% to 0.18% in 2017.</p><p> </p><p>In April, the BHA announced a review into the six racehorse fatalities at this year’s Cheltenham Festival. One of the objectives of the review is to demonstrate openness and transparency by publishing the review, which seeks to improve continuously. The review is scheduled to report in the autumn.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 12/10/2018 14:02:47 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

982653

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Home Shopping: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the merits of requiring online retailers to pay the same level of tax as high-street retailers.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	175920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>Major business taxes apply in the same way to online and high-street retailers.</p><p> </p><p>The government recognises business rates can be a high fixed cost for some retailers with a large high-street presence, and has acted to introduce reforms and reductions to rates worth £10 billion by 2023.</p><p> </p><p>The government recognises that the digital economy poses a challenge to the tax system and has been considering how best to address this through international and domestic reforms.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 11/10/2018 15:54:39 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

982707

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will take (a) steps to recruit additional (i) judges and (ii) panel members and (b) other such steps to reduce the waiting time for personal independence payment appeal hearings at the Birmingham social security and child support tribunal.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	175921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>In order to respond to a general increase in appeal receipts, HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has been working with the Tribunal’s judiciary both to appoint additional judges and panel members, and to take forward initiatives with the potential to increase the capacity and performance of the Tribunal. The Tribunal panel hearing Personal Independence Payment (PIP) appeals is constituted of a judge, a medical member, and a disability qualified tribunal member. HMCTS has recently recruited 250 judges across the First-tier Tribunal; up to 125 disability-qualified members; and 226 medical members.</p><p>Of these, to date, five judges; 19 medical members; and seven disability-qualified members, have been assigned to sit in the Birmingham Social Security and Child Support Tribunal.</p><p>We are also reviewing - with the Tribunal’s judiciary - current listing practices to increase the number of cases listed on a Tribunal session.</p><p>Waiting times are calculated from receipt of the appeal to its final disposal. An appeal is not necessarily disposed of at its first hearing. The final disposal decision on the appeal may be reached after an earlier hearing had been adjourned (which may be directed by the judge for a variety of reasons, such as to seek further evidence), or after an earlier hearing date had been postponed (again, for a variety of reasons, often at the request of the appellant). An appeal may also have been decided at an earlier date by the First-tier Tribunal, only for the case to have gone on to the Upper Tribunal, to be returned once again to the First-tier, for its final disposal.</p><p>We are very sensitive to the needs of people waiting for Tribunal hearings with a wide range of physical and mental challenges. Tribunal staff, and judicial office holders, are trained accordingly, with HMCTS providing reasonable adjustments to give customers with disabilities equal access to information and services. Information on the HMCTS equality and diversity policy and handling of requests for reasonable adjustments is published on Gov.uk.</p><p>If an expedited hearing is sought, or if the Tribunal identifies a case which may benefit from an expedited hearing, a judge (or caseworker acting under delegated powers and then within 14 days subject to an automatic right to be placed before a judge) will make a case management decision on the issue taking into account all the circumstances known about the case. Such decisions may be revised on application and are subject to appeal if an error of law is made.</p><p>Latest figures indicate that since PIP was introduced, more than 3.1 million decisions have been made, and of these under 9% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 175930 question first answered 11/10/2018 16:32:55 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

982729

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations he has received from (a) schools and (b) teachers on the effect on the financial sustainability of schools of the first one per cent of the teacher's pay award being funded from existing school budgets.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	175922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>Schools, as part of their routine financial planning, will have already set budgets for their current funding year, which began in April for maintained schools and September for academies. 1% is the minimum schools should have anticipated for increases in teachers’ pay, in line with the previous public sector pay policy. Funding therefore needs to cover the difference between this minimum and the award itself, which the Department has provided for in full.</p><p> </p><p>The Department will be supporting schools in England to implement the award with an investment of £508 million through a new teachers’ pay grant of £187 million in 2018-19 and £321 million in 2019-20. The grant will provide additional support to all maintained schools and academies, over and above the funding that they receive through the National Funding Formula.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 175923 175924 175925 question first answered 16/10/2018 09:40:31 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

982730

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on (a) schools’ budgets and (b) the quality of education schools are able to provide of the decision that the first one per cent of the teacher's pay award will be funded from existing school budgets.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	175923
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>Schools, as part of their routine financial planning, will have already set budgets for their current funding year, which began in April for maintained schools and September for academies. 1% is the minimum schools should have anticipated for increases in teachers’ pay, in line with the previous public sector pay policy. Funding therefore needs to cover the difference between this minimum and the award itself, which the Department has provided for in full.</p><p> </p><p>The Department will be supporting schools in England to implement the award with an investment of £508 million through a new teachers’ pay grant of £187 million in 2018-19 and £321 million in 2019-20. The grant will provide additional support to all maintained schools and academies, over and above the funding that they receive through the National Funding Formula.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 175922 175924 175925 question first answered 16/10/2018 09:40:31 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

982732

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the ability of schools to fund the first one per cent of the teachers’ pay award from existing budgets.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	175924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>Schools, as part of their routine financial planning, will have already set budgets for their current funding year, which began in April for maintained schools and September for academies. 1% is the minimum schools should have anticipated for increases in teachers’ pay, in line with the previous public sector pay policy. Funding therefore needs to cover the difference between this minimum and the award itself, which the Department has provided for in full.</p><p> </p><p>The Department will be supporting schools in England to implement the award with an investment of £508 million through a new teachers’ pay grant of £187 million in 2018-19 and £321 million in 2019-20. The grant will provide additional support to all maintained schools and academies, over and above the funding that they receive through the National Funding Formula.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 175922 175923 175925 question first answered 16/10/2018 09:40:31 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

982734

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason the first one per cent of the teachers' pay award is funded from existing school budgets.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	175925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>Schools, as part of their routine financial planning, will have already set budgets for their current funding year, which began in April for maintained schools and September for academies. 1% is the minimum schools should have anticipated for increases in teachers’ pay, in line with the previous public sector pay policy. Funding therefore needs to cover the difference between this minimum and the award itself, which the Department has provided for in full.</p><p> </p><p>The Department will be supporting schools in England to implement the award with an investment of £508 million through a new teachers’ pay grant of £187 million in 2018-19 and £321 million in 2019-20. The grant will provide additional support to all maintained schools and academies, over and above the funding that they receive through the National Funding Formula.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 175922 175923 175924 question first answered 16/10/2018 09:40:31 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

982788

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Bicycles: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment (a) the Office of Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) and (b) his Department has made of the potential merits of extending the scope of OLEV grants to include support for converting from a conventional car or van to an electronic bike or e-cargo bike.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	175926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>At the International Zero Emission Vehicle Summit in September, the Government announced that it would provide up to £2 million of support for e-cargo bikes. This followed a call for evidence on how the Government could best harness the opportunities for greener delivery in our towns and cities.</p><p> </p><p>The funding will contribute 20% of the purchase price of new e-cargo bikes up to the first £5,000 of any purchase price. This gives a maximum grant of £1,000 per bike, regardless of the purchase price of the bike. Funding will be conditional on individual businesses following a code of cycle safety good practice and will be split between larger fleets and smaller operators to ensure benefits are available to and spread between all sizes of business. Replacing traditional last mile delivery vehicles with electric delivery bikes can help towards cutting traffic, reducing congestion and cleaning up our air.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 16/10/2018 09:53:28 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

982853

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Electricity: Storage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September to Question 168987 on Electricity: Storage, when Ofgem plans to respond to the consultation on Clarifying the regulatory framework for electricity storage: Licensing which closed in November 2017.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	175927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2018 answer text <p>In the Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan, published by the Government and Ofgem in July 2017, Ofgem committed to modify the generation licence to include electricity storage facilities. Ofgem has consulted on this and will respond shortly. In the meantime, storage operators can continue to apply to Ofgem for the existing generation licence.</p><p>We published a progress update to the Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan on the 16<sup>th</sup> October 2018.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 17/10/2018 14:05:37 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

982854

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September to Question 168979 on Electricity: Storage, for what reason the Government has no plans to move offshore wind into Pot 1.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	175928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The basis on which technologies are included in the Contracts for Difference pots is set out in our 2014 State Aid approval.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 16/10/2018 16:23:27 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff