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1023903

registered interest
date	12/12/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Equitable Life Assurance Society: Compensation
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 validity of the Equitable Members Action Group statement that former Equitable policyholders are owed £2.5 billion; and whether he plans to allocate that amount to the Equitable Life Compensation Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	201688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>There are no plans to allocate any further funds to the Equitable Life Payment Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 17/12/2018 13:48:52 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1023349

registered interest
date	11/12/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2018 to Question 194792 on Electric Vehicles, if he will publish the internal assessment referred to in that Answer.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	201276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s internal assessment relies, in part, on commercially sensitive data from manufacturers and cannot be published for that reason.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 17/12/2018 14:00:29 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1023350

registered interest
date	11/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has made an assessment of (a) the cost to the public purse of increasing free childcare provision to all two year old and younger children, and (b) the economic effect of increasing free childcare provision.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	201277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>The government has no plans to extend the early learning for two-year-olds programme. However, the government does have a range of offers available to support parents with care for children under the age of 12 (or children with disabilities until the age of 17). The government is already supporting working parents of two-year-olds with middle or higher incomes. We have also introduced Tax-Free Childcare, which will be available to around 1.5 million households to help pay for childcare costs. Parents can also claim up to 85% of their childcare costs through Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>In September 2017, the government introduced 30 hours free childcare for working parents, which gave parents who qualified an additional 15 hours a week of free childcare.</p><p> </p><p>In September 2018, the department published an independent year one evaluation of 30 hours[1]. The evaluation showed that 30 hours is making a real difference to family finances with the majority of parents reporting that they had more money to spend (78%).</p><p>Over a quarter of mothers said, they had increased their hours and more than one in ten (15%) stated they would not be working without the extended hours. These effects were stronger for lower income families.</p><p> </p><p>The study also showed that over half (51%) of providers increased staff hours or number of staff to deliver extended hours.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1]<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/629460/Evaluation_of_early_implementation_of_30_hours_free_childcare_.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/629460/Evaluation_of_early_implementation_of_30_hours_free_childcare_.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 17/12/2018 15:19:23 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1023351

registered interest
date	11/12/2018
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	Ambulance Services: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the category 1 mean response time has been in each quarter since the classification of ambulance response times changed.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	201278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>The data is not available in the format requested. Data on ambulance response times, including category 1 response times, is published monthly by NHS England and can be found at the following address:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ambulance-quality-indicators/ambulance-quality-indicators-data-2018-19/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ambulance-quality-indicators/ambulance-quality-indicators-data-2018-19/</a></p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 17/12/2018 17:41:27 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1015217

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to replace the service on a bus route when an operator removes it; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	195685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>The bus market in England, outside London, is deregulated and most services are provided on a commercial basis by private operators. Where there is not enough demand for a bus route to be commercially viable in its own right all local authorities have powers to subsidise bus services.</p><p> </p><p>Local bus services have to be registered with the Traffic Commissioner. When an operator wants to vary or cancel a registered bus service it must provide relevant local authorities with a copy of the application at least 28 days before it makes the application to the Traffic Commissioner. Once the application has been submitted to the Traffic Commissioner the service can be varied or cancelled after 42 days, or less in certain prescribed circumstances if agreed by the Traffic Commissioner.</p><p> </p><p>This system provides local authorities with time to consider the implications of a service variation or cancellation and in particular whether they wish to procure and subsidise a replacement service.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 29/11/2018 14:38:55 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1015218

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Bus Services: Subsidies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide sufficient funding to local authorities to enable bus subsidies to return to their 2010 levels in real terms.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	195686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>Government support for bus services has averaged £2.2 billion a year since 2010/11, which is 23 per cent more than the average yearly spend between 1996/97 and 2009/10 in real terms.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 29/11/2018 12:14:05 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1015219

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
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	Bus Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on funds for the new powers to bring about change and unlock the potential for the bus industry to achieve more for passengers as set out in the Bus Services Act 2017.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	195687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State meets with ministers, including HMT ministers, regularly to discuss a range of issues relating to local government. Local authorities in England outside London spend over £1 billion a year on bus services. Over the five year period from 2015-16 to 2019-20 councils will have access to more than £200 billion, after the Autumn 2018 budget.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 04/12/2018 15:45:57 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1015222

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles and Hybrid Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he made an assessment of the potential effect of reducing incentives for plug-in hybrid and electric cars on the number of purchases of those vehicles before taking the decision to reduce those incentives.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	195689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>Since 2011, the plug-in car grant has provided a discount to the price of over 170,000 cars, and disbursed over £0.7 billion to support the early market for ultra low emission vehicles. Based on internal assessments made before the change to grant rates in October 2018, we expect sales of ultra low emission cars to continue at similar levels in 2019 to those seen in 2018.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 29/11/2018 12:49:30 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1012302

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Playing Fields
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his Department's definition is of wholly or mainly used when deciding whether a detached playing field is part of a school's premises or is a facility used by a school.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	194702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>The Department’s understanding of the term ‘used wholly or mainly’, in the context of determining if land forms part of a school’s premises, is whether the school has exclusive or majority use or enjoyment of the land for greater than 50% of the time.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 27/11/2018 15:36:50 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1012491

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles and Hybrid Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the effect of reducing incentives for plug-in (a) hybrid and (b) electric cars on the number of purchases of those vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	194792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>Based on our internal assessment, following the change in grant rates we expect sales of ultra low emission cars to continue at similar levels in 2019 to those seen this year.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 27/11/2018 15:47:24 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones