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939964

registered interest
date	12/07/2018
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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
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 suspend all cage trapping of badgers in cull areas owing to the unusually dry and hot weather.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	163504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2018 answer text <p>Natural England has published guidance to provide clear direction to those licensed to carry out the cage-trapping and dispatch of badgers to prevent the spread of bovine TB in cattle. It provides recommendations on best practice and highlights those areas of the technique that must be complied with, including licence conditions. The guidance ensures that licensed badger culling is done in a humane way, including reducing the risks of trapped badgers suffering exposure due to severe weather (extremes of hot or cold). Natural England keeps this under review during the course of licensed operations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 17/07/2018 13:35:01 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

938455

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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	South Sudan: Corruption
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he is making to the Government of South Sudan on political reform and tackling corruption.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	162975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2018 answer text <p>The UK continues to urge the parties to the conflict to engage meaningfully with ongoing peace talks, led by the region, in order to address the outstanding crucial governance and political reform issues that remain. In addition we are urging the parties to focus on negotiating inclusive and transparent governance arrangements - without this, there can be no sustainable peace in South Sudan.</p><p>The UK continues to work to tackle the corruption that enables conflict in South Sudan. We are engaging closely with British banks to analyse and tackle illicit financial flows, and are also working closely with the EU and international partners to clamp down on corruption and money laundering.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 17/07/2018 15:15:28 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

938495

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what alternative provision her Department plans to put in place for hon. Members' staff to use in place of the Basildon Service Centre for universal credit full service enquiries.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	162976
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>Prior to the roll-out of Universal Credit Full Service in their constituency, we write to each hon. Member. The letter explains the implicit consent arrangements for MPs and also provides the telephone number and email address of the District Manager in the constituency, so that MPs can contact District Managers if there are urgent constituent cases that need attention. This is the best route to raise issues on behalf of constituents and works well because MPs’ offices can establish local relationships.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 16/07/2018 10:38:56 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

938711

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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	India: Christianity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of recent attacks upon Christians in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	162977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>​We are aware of reports of attacks against Christians in Tamil Nadu. We condemn any instances of discrimination because of religion or belief, regardless of the country or faith involved. In support of minorities, the British High Commission in New Delhi, our network of Deputy High Commissions, as well as Foreign and Commonwealth Office officials in London, maintain a continuous assessment of the human rights situation across India.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 16/07/2018 15:38:48 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

938716

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the number of permanent exclusions from school as a proportion of the overall school population in each local authority area in each of the last five years where figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	162978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>The National Statistics release ‘Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England: 2015 to 2016’ includes numbers and rates of exclusions. The full release is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2015-to-2016</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Table 15 of the ‘Local Authority tables: SFR35/2017’ includes a breakdown of exclusion rates for each local authority in England in the 2015/16 academic year. Historic information (from the 2006/07 academic year onwards) is also available in the release’s Underlying data: SFR35/2017 section, in file ‘SFR35_2017_national_region_la_school_data.csv’. The figures can be filtered by the ‘la_name’ column.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 16/07/2018 16:27:53 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

937742

registered interest
date	10/07/2018
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	Veterinary Medicine: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans are in place to ensure that veterinary surgeons working in meat hygiene from (a) other EU member states and (b) non-EU states to access their pensions if they are no longer domiciled in the UK after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	162459
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2018 answer text <p>Private pension savings or accrued rights, including pensions accrued through an occupational pension scheme, are treated as the property of the individual scheme member. Private property is protected by both UK and international law. Consequently, individuals who have accrued a private pension in the UK are currently able to access their pension savings or pension rights regardless of whether they are domiciled outside of the UK in either an EU or a non-EU state.</p><p> </p><p>There will be no change for individuals who are domiciled in a non-EU state after the UK leaves the EU.</p><p> </p><p>The reciprocal rights and entitlements that will apply to UK citizens domiciled in EU states when the UK leaves the EU are subject to the wider negotiation on our future relationship with the EU and we will seek to ensure the best possible outcome for the British people, at home and overseas. However, irrespective of the outcome of those negotiations we would expect the current position in respect of private pensions to be maintained. We fully expect that people domiciled in an EU member state will continue to be able to access their UK private pension savings or UK private pension rights after the UK leaves the EU.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 17/07/2018 09:11:27 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

937829

registered interest
date	10/07/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	CCTV
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what protections there are to ensure that a personal CCTV system located in a residence or business does no film people on public property; and what recourse there is in the event that an owner of such a CCTV system does not provide film material of people on public property taken with that system when requested to do so.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	162460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) regulates and enforces the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) which covers images recorded by CCTV cameras. The DPA places obligations on individuals and organisations to process personal data in a lawful, fair and transparent manner.</p><p> </p><p>The ICO has a number of tools available to ensure compliance with data protection rules which include criminal prosecution, non-criminal enforcement and audits. For those who commit serious breaches there are significant financial penalties including fines up to £18 million or 4% of global turnover that can be applied as well as the backstop of criminal prosecution.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 16/07/2018 10:17:50 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

937830

registered interest
date	10/07/2018
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	Embassies: Members
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the procedures are for (a) an hon. Member and (b) a member of hon. Member's staff making direct contact with staff in an embassy or high commission when the welfare of an individual constituent is concerned.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	162461
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>​We offer a dedicated hotline for MPs and their staff who have consular enquiries regarding the welfare of individual constituents. Calls to this hotline are picked up by an in-house Consular Contact Centre, who offer 24/7/365 assistance. These calls are immediately escalated to the appropriate consular team in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 16/07/2018 15:00:08 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

937840

registered interest
date	10/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: South Sudan and Sudan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refugees and asylum seekers have been returned to (a) Sudan and (b) South Sudan in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	162462
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>The number of returns from the UK to (a) Sudan and (b) South Sudan is published in table rt_05 (returns data tables, volume 5) in ‘Immigration Statistics, year ending March 2018’. This can be broken down by asylum and non-asylum cases. The data are available from the GOV.uk website at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/709325/returns5-mar-2018-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/709325/returns5-mar-2018-tables.ods</a></p><p>Asylum cases refer to those who have claimed asylum at some point, regardless of the outcome of the application.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 16/07/2018 16:54:40 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

937841

registered interest
date	10/07/2018
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Sudan: Politics and Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment she has made of the political and economic situation in the Sudan.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	162463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2018 answer text Sudan faces a number of economic challenges. While US economic sanctions were lifted in late 2017, Sudan remains a challenging place to do business. The economic situation has been exacerbated by a shortage of foreign exchange which has resulted in fuel shortages. Sudan is still unable to access international financial assistance, in part due to its arrears to the International Monetary Fund and others and the failure to service its debt. Politically, the UK continues to work with the Government of Sudan to ensure that constitutional and political rights are respected. Sudan remains a Human Rights Priority Country for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. The UK continues to encourage Sudan to undertake macroeconomic and political reforms, including through the six-monthly Strategic Dialogue with the Government of Sudan. answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 17/07/2018 13:32:00 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew