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947353

registered interest
date	24/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Insurance Premium Tax
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 effect of changes in the rate of insurance premium tax on the cost of insurance premiums since 2011.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	168115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>It is difficult to isolate the impact of insurance premium tax rate increases from other factors impacting on the price of insurance products.</p><p> </p><p>The Government nonetheless publishes prospective impact assessments for the changes in the rate of Insurance Premium Tax (IPT).</p><p> </p><p>The assessment for the most recent change (announced at Autumn Statement 2016) can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/insurance-premium-tax-increase-of-standard-rate/insurance-premium-tax-increase-of-standard-rate" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/insurance-premium-tax-increase-of-standard-rate/insurance-premium-tax-increase-of-standard-rate</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 10/09/2018 10:35:51 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

947354

registered interest
date	24/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many investigations HMRC has launched against firms using the Employment Allowance avoidance scheme referred to in the HMRC guidance of 29 June 2015.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	168116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>Since issuing the guidance of 29 June 2015 HMRC has seen changes in the way the Employment Allowance has been abused. HMRC undertakes a wide range of targeted compliance interventions, including where appropriate referrals for criminal prosecution, to address any abuse of the Employment Allowance. In November 2016 HMRC formed the Employment Status and Intermediaries team which leads the operational response to issues such as the abusive use of the Employment Allowance by agencies and payroll companies.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 10/09/2018 15:50:44 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

947355

registered interest
date	24/07/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the judgment of Beatt v Croydon Health Services NHS Trust [2017] EWCA Civ 401, what steps are being taken to ensure that responses to disclosures by NHS whistleblowers are not influenced by the personal feelings of staff towards those people making such disclosures.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	168117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>Speaking up and raising concerns should be routine in business in the National Health Service and is a key part of ensuring patient safety and improving the quality of services. The NHS should support and welcome all staff to raise concerns wherever they spot them, without prejudice to any personal feelings regarding those speaking up.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Improvement has developed the national integrated whistleblowing policy, which acts as a minimum standard for NHS trusts, and has been designed so as to minimise the chance of personal feelings influencing the way that people who speak up are treated.</p><p> </p><p>The National Guardian’s Office has advised the Department that all NHS trusts are required to have a Freedom to Speak Up Guardian to provide safe, consistent, person-centred support for speaking up, whether the individual would qualify for protection under the law or not. Freedom to Speak Up Guardians are trained by the National Guardian’s Office to support all individuals equally. They also work within their organisation to improve all aspects of speaking up so that individuals receive the same quality of support irrespective of the route that they use.</p><p> </p><p>Their training also routinely includes an assessment of their organisation’s speaking up / whistleblowing policies so that aspects of policies that may act as a barrier to speaking up are identified and changed.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 04/09/2018 16:14:45 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

947361

registered interest
date	24/07/2018
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Females: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking to ensure that indicator 5.c.1 of the Sustainable Development Goals is assessed effectively across Government.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	168122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2018 answer text <p>Indicator 5.c.1 is a non-statistical global indicator to monitor global progress toward Target 5c, which calls on Member States to ‘adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels’.</p><p> </p><p>The UK’s Office for National Statistics is responsible for providing UK data on the global indicators to the UN for its annual progress reporting.</p><p> </p><p>This Government has adopted many programmes and policies that address Target 5c, including the introduction of gender pay gap reporting regulations, increasing flexible working opportunities, promoting shared parental leave and implementing a strategy to prevent violence against women and girls.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will be reporting on its progress towards implementing Sustainable Development Goal 5 as part of the UK’s Voluntary National Review in 2019.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 07/09/2018 15:06:42 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

947366

registered interest
date	24/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Council Housing: Secure Tenancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the statement in the letter of 13 March 2018 from the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Housing and Homelessness) to the hon. Member for Oxford East, whether the statement that the Government wants to support all landlords to offer longer tenancies where they are wanted means that it is the Government's policy that local authorities will be provided with the flexibility to retain secure tenancies as standard in local Tenancy Strategies under the responsibilities conveyed by the Housing and Planning Act 2016.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	168127
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to my answer of June 26 2018 to Quesion UIN156488.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 04/09/2018 15:14:28 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

942997

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Gaza: Disaster Relief
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant the Answer of 10 July 2018 to Answer 160363 on Gaza: Disaster Relief, whether difficulties with permits and access were experienced when the Emergency Medical Team was deployed to Gaza in 2014.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	165174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>Members of the UK Emergency Medical Team (EMT) were deployed to Gaza in 2014, through the DFID programme ‘Support to the UK International Emergency Trauma Register’. Difficulties were experienced with permits and access during the conflict; however, some of the team were able to secure access immediately after the 2014 conflict to treat 156 patients and train 364 health workers.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 23/07/2018 15:07:53 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

942998

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Gaza: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment she has made of the potential (a) immediate and (b) long-term effect of the UK-MED specialist rehabilitation team cell on people injured by lower limb gunshot wounds in Gaza.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	165175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>Taking into account lessons learned from previous deployments, including safety concerns for deploying UK nationals and problems with access and permits, the current Emergency Medical Team is not designed to be deployed into active conflict zones. Therefore no such assessment has been made.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 23/07/2018 15:08:45 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

943000

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Gaza: Disaster Relief
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2018 to Question 160362 on Disaster Relief, for what reasons the UK Emergency Medical Team was not deployed to Gaza.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	165176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>Taking into account lessons learned from previous deployments, including safety concerns for deploying UK nationals and problems with access and permits, the current Emergency Medical Team is not designed to be deployed into active conflict zones.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 23/07/2018 15:09:32 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

943029

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Social Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 20 June 2018 to Question 155938 whether he has decided on a date for when the next steps will be set out.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	165177
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>The Housing and Planning Act 2016 introduced changes to local authority tenancies by making it mandatory for most new council tenancies to be for a fixed term however this has not yet been implemented. Next steps will be set out shortly.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 25/07/2018 16:26:01 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

943030

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
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	Sayed Alwadaei
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 April 2018 to Question HL6839, what assessments the Government has since made of the ability of Bahraini human rights defender, Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, to continue his work given the recent threats and reprisals facing his imprisoned mother-in-law, Hajer Mansoor Hassan.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	165178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>​We have received assurances from the Bahraini authorities that there have been no reprisals against the family members of Sayed Alwadaei. We understand that he has been able to continue his work in the UK.</p><p>We encourage those with concerns about treatment in detention to report these to the appropriate oversight body. We urge these oversight bodies to carry out swift and thorough investigations into any such claims.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 23/07/2018 15:25:41 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds