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683287

registered interest
date	02/02/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants have been recruited to his Department who previously worked at (a) PwC, (b) Deloitte, (c) Accenture, (d) KPMG, (e) McKinsey & Co, (f) Ernst & Young and (g) Bain & Company in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	62916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2017 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office does not hold information centrally about the previous employers of those recruited to the Civil Service.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 07/02/2017 10:18:11 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

683291

registered interest
date	02/02/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the consultation on Simplification of the Tax and National Insurance treatment of termination payments: government response and consultation on draft legislation, which closed for comments on 5 October 2016, what assessment he has made of the responses to that consultation; what changes he plans to make to the tax and national insurance treatment of redundancy payments in lieu of notice; and whether he still plans to introduce those changes in April 2018.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	62921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2017 answer text <p>The Government listened to stakeholder feedback on the consultation and published revised draft legislation in the provisions for Finance Bill 2017 on 5 December 2016.</p><p> </p><p>As announced at Autumn Statement 2016, all contractual and non-contractual payments in lieu of notice will be taxable as earnings. Tax will be applied to the equivalent of an employee’s basic pay if their notice is not worked.</p><p> </p><p>The first £30,000 of a termination payment will remain exempt from Income Tax and National Insurance.</p><p> </p><p>The changes will take effect from 6 April 2018.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 07/02/2017 15:15:26 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

683304

registered interest
date	02/02/2017
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	Affordable Housing
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 25 January 2017 to Question 60366, if he will publish his Department's unpublished impact assessment on the changes to the affordable housing programme announced in the Autumn Statement 2016.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	62983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Rt Hon Member to my reply to Question 60366.</p><p>The fiscal impact of the changes on public finances was included as part of the OBR’s policy costings for Autumn Statement 2016, which can be found at:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/571402/Policy_Costings_AS_2016_web_final.pdf</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 14/02/2017 16:08:53 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

683305

registered interest
date	02/02/2017
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	Housing: Migrants
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 January 2017 to Question 60963, if he will place in the Library unpublished research on the effect of immigration on housing commissioned or produced by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	62984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2017 answer text <p>My department has published all the completed research it has commissioned or produced on the effect of immigration on housing. There are no pieces of unpublished research to place in the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency Croydon Central answering member printed Gavin Barwell question first answered 09/02/2017 16:53:42 answering member 3955 label Biography information for Lord Barwell
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

683316

registered interest
date	02/02/2017
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Broadband: Rural Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her Department's press release of 22 December 2016, whether the £440 million made available for superfast rural broadband will include funding to cover difficult installations or provide access to isolated neighbourhoods.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	62907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2017 answer text <p>The money returned to projects by efficiency savings and gain-share will be invested using the same criteria set out for the earlier phases of superfast rollout. This means it will focus on areas where there is not commercial competition, and prioritised by value-for-money installations to connect the largest number of premises who do not receive superfast speeds. Urban areas have generally been excluded from Superfast Programmes as commercial competition already exists in these locations.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 10/02/2017 14:50:29 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

683337

registered interest
date	02/02/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Deployment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) Royal Navy, (b) Army and (c) Royal Air Force personnel have been deployed overseas on UN, EU and NATO operations and missions on tours exceeding a duration of (i) three, (ii) six and (iii) nine months in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	62860
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2017 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 07/02/2017 16:53:25 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

683340

registered interest
date	02/02/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Navy: Deployment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Royal Navy personnel have been deployed aboard warships for a duration exceeding (a) three, (b) six and (c) nine months in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	62861
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2017 answer text <p>Royal Navy (RN) ships' and submarines' complements are not fixed and vary depending on the nature of the deployment. All RN warships deploy with the personnel required to meet their operational tasking.</p><p>Identifying the personnel assigned aboard deployed warships for the periods requested could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 07/02/2017 16:51:37 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

683364

registered interest
date	02/02/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the change in the level of funding for maintained nursery schools in (a) England and (b) Coventry in the last three years; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	62947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2017 answer text <p>Local authorities have reported their planned expenditure for maintained nursery schools through annual Section 251 returns, showing how they plan to spend their funding from the Dedicated Schools Grant. The hourly rates of funding for delivering the 3 and 4 year-old entitlements in maintained nursey schools are shown below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>3 and 4 year-olds</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coventry</p></td><td><p>£ 7.29</p></td><td><p>£ 7.34</p></td><td><p>£ 7.52</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>£ 7.18</p></td><td><p>£ 7.19</p></td><td><p>£ 7.80</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>These rates do not include other sources of funding for maintained nursery schools.</p><p> </p><p>We are providing local authorities with supplementary funding of £55 million a year for their maintained nursery schools. This supplementary funding will allow local authorities to maintain their current levels of funding at least to the end of this Parliament. It will give maintained nursery schools stability during wider changes to the early years funding system whilst also allowing us the time to consult on the future of maintained nursery schools, which we will do in due course.</p><p> </p><p>We have committed to conducting a data assurance exercise in March this year to verify 2016-17 levels of expenditure on maintained nursery schools which will underpin the 2017-18 maintained nursery school local authority allocations of the £55 million.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 07/02/2017 17:34:37 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

683377

registered interest
date	02/02/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the sustainability of the GP network.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	62832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2017 answer text <p>The General Practice Forward View, published in April 2016, announced that investment in General Practice will increase from £9.6 billion in 2015/16 to over £12 billion by 2020/21, a major financial investment to transform primary care.</p><p> </p><p>Work is underway to increase the primary care workforce and reduce workload, to improve primary care estates and infrastructure, and to redesign care and spread innovation throughout the country.</p><p> </p><p>It is also becoming increasingly normal for general practices to work together at scale in networks or federation of practices, bringing greater opportunities for practices to work collaboratively to strengthen services and their sustainability.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 09/02/2017 11:26:04 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

683383

registered interest
date	02/02/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Department of Health: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many civil servants his Department plans to recruit in the next 12 months; and what the cost to the public purse of that recruitment will be.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	62929
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2017 answer text <p>The Department expects to recruit to approximately 340 posts over the next 12 months. All vacancies are advertised on the central Civil Service Jobs website, which does not attract additional costs.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 10/02/2017 13:39:09 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders