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1045793

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
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	Venezuela: Politics and Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What diplomatic steps he is taking to tackle the constitutional and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela and the effect of that crisis on the political and economic situation in neighbouring countries.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	908708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>We are all concerned about the situation in Venezuela, a crisis of growing regional magnitude. Only yesterday 25 members of the National Guard revolted against Maduro's leadership. In October 2018, speaking at Chatham House, I called for a concerted regional and global response to what has become a man-made regional crisis. The UK is standing alongside American, EU and Lima Group partners to ensure a robust response to the crisis; all options remain open including further targeted sanctions.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 22/01/2019 16:35:10 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1037143

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Sopra Steria: Visas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many service points for processing visa applications are currently operated by Sopra Steria; what the locations are of those service points; and which of those points are (a) free and (b) charge for that service.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	205819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>Sopra Steria have opened 56 fixed service points to date, a 57th location in Grays will open early 2019</p><p>The locations of each service are listed below, 6 Core Service Points are free sites and any other sites are charged depending on the service pack-age a customer chooses <br>Core Centres <br>• Belfast<br>• Birmingham<br>• Cardiff<br>• Croydon<br>• Glasgow <br>• Manchester</p><p>Other</p><p>• Aberdeen<br>• Barbican<br>• Bedford<br>• Bournemouth<br>• Bradley Stoke<br>• Brighton<br>• Burnholme<br>• Burnley<br>• Cambridge<br>• Canning Town<br>• Canterbury<br>• Coventry<br>• Dorchester<br>• East Ham<br>• Eastbourne<br>• Gloucester<br>• Hammersmith (temporary)<br>• Hemel Hempstead<br>• Hull<br>• Ipswich<br>• Kensington<br>• Lancaster<br>• Liverpool<br>• Llandudno<br>• London <br>• Newcastle<br>• Newport<br>• Norwich<br>• Nottingham<br>• Patchway<br>• Peterborough<br>• Preston<br>• Reading<br>• Salisbury<br>• Shoe Lane<br>• Southampton (temporary)</p><p><br>• Stevenage<br>• Stockport<br>• Stratford<br>• Swindon<br>• Swinton<br>• Taunton<br>• Truro<br>• Victoria (temporary)<br>• Wakefield<br>• Warrington<br>• Warwick<br>• Watford<br>• Wimbledon<br>• Wolverhampton</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 10/01/2019 17:08:43 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1037149

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Applications
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 decided the service point locations of its contractor Sopra Steria; and what consideration was given to accessibility for users of those services when deciding those locations.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	205820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>The geography of UKVCAS service points is not fixed but rather designed to evolve with demand through the contract term. <br>Sopra Steria undertook extensive market research to identify it’s initial service locations; their research included the impact on customer travel time, cost and accessibility. <br>Sopra Steria can also cater for customers who wish to have more flexi-ble on-demand, mobile application services, for example at university campuses, employers’ offices or individual customers’ homes. <br>All service centres will comply with the Equality Act 2010 and Health and Safety Act 1974, this will include the provision of wheelchair access, disabled toilets and baby changing areas.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/01/2019 17:13:20 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1037150

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Biometrics: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what comparative assessment his Department has made of the average processing times for biometric enrolment with Sopra Steria and the Post Office.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	205821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>UKVI’s service standards for decisions are the same for applications made through both Sopra Steria and previous application arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/01/2019 17:15:55 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1037154

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visa applications Sopra Steria has processed since the commencement of its contract with his Department.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	205822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>Sopra Steria have handled 18,040 applications to date.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/01/2019 17:17:43 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1035191

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Aircraft and Warships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment his Department has made of the (a) state of readiness and(b) availability of (i) major warships, (ii) attack submarines, (iii) helicopters and (iv) military aircraft.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	205179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence keeps its equipment under constant review to meet current and potential future requirements. The normal operating cycle of military equipment and Units requires them to hold different readiness levels depending on their programmes, maintenance and Departmental planning requirements.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 14/01/2019 17:00:29 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1035194

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Gatwick Airport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which Ministers of his Department visited Gatwick Airport during December 2018; and on what dates.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	205180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>Nusrat Ghani, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport and Baroness Sugg Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport performed a joint visit to Gatwick airport on 7 December 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 14/01/2019 12:16:40 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1019379

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	House of Commons: Food
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to his oral contribution answer of 29 November 2018, Official Report, column 403, what practical problems prevent the implementation of a buy British policy.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	198174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>We acknowledge that there may be an expectation that the House of Commons should be buying British wherever possible, but as a contracting authority as specified in the European Parliament and Council Directive, we are subject to EU Public Sector Procurement directives. It is therefore impossible for us to demand that we wish to buy only British products simply on the merits of origin and must instead ensure that our specifications at tender stage, and ultimately our decision to award a contract, does not discriminate against products or supplies from other EU member states.</p><p>The vast majority of fresh products purchased by Catering are in fact British – meat, poultry, dairy, eggs and most fruit and vegetables (when in season) are sourced from within the UK. We demand that UK or equivalent standards of welfare and/or production must be met as this is a consideration of quality rather than origin. UK standards on the whole are easy to follow, robust, commonly accepted and enforced across each sector.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 13/12/2018 12:12:12 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake previous answer version 90662 answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1019380

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hezbollah
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to review his policy on proscribing all parts of the Hezbollah organisation.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	198175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>It is Government policy not to comment on whether an organisation is or is not under consideration for proscription. A decision to proscribe an organisation must be based on a belief that it is concerned in terrorism as defined in the Terrorism Act 2000, and it must be proportionate.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 12/12/2018 17:47:51 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1019381

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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	Intellectual Property: Enforcement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will undertake an assessment of the adequacy of the level of penalties for the infringement of intellectual property.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	198176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government is currently undertaking a comprehensive review of the intellectual property enforcement framework, as set out in its Enforcement Strategy “Protecting creativity, supporting innovation: IP Enforcement 2020”. This review will include an assessment of the adequacy of the current penalties for infringement of intellectual property rights, and is expected to be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 05/12/2018 15:22:52 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar