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773072

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date	18/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Elections: Armed Forces
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of the recommendations of the WebRoots Democracy report, entitled Military Voting: Enhancing access to elections for the armed forces abroad, published on 1 August 2017; and what assessment he has made of the potential effectiveness of undertaking a pilot for an online voting option for UK military personnel based overseas.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	108551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government notes the recommendations in WebRoots Democracy report. This is an important issue that we take seriously. We are committed to supporting our servicemen and women in exercising their democratic rights and overcoming the barriers that might prevent them from voting.</p><p>However, the introduction of electronic voting (‘e-Voting’) would raise a number of issues which would need to be considered carefully. The selection of elected representatives for Parliament is regarded as requiring the highest possible level of integrity and, at present, there are concerns that e-Voting, by any means, is not seen by many to be suitably rigorous and secure, and could be vulnerable to attack or fraud. Furthermore, the Electoral Commission in their reports on the 2007 e-Voting pilots found that it had little direct effect on increasing turnout. To provide a system over which there are doubts to part of the electorate would not be appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 26/10/2017 15:23:04 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

773075

registered interest
date	18/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	UK Membership of EU: Referendums
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much funding from the public purse was allocated to the 2016 EU referendum for the (a) hire of accommodation for counting votes, (b) printing of polling cards, (c) distribution of polling cards and (d) accommodation for the opening of postal votes.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	108580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>The responsibility for managing the funding for national referendums using monies from the Consolidated Fund rests with the Electoral Commission. Counting Officers are given an overall maximum recoverable amount to cover the costs of running the poll. This is based on expenditure on the previous poll, updated for current circumstances, and is aimed to support flexibility in use of the monies by Counting Officers to make it work for the particular needs of their voting area.</p><p>In reference to the overall costs of the 2016 EU Referendum, please see the following Written Statement, presented to Parliament on 23rd March 2016 by the then Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office, John Penrose MP:</p><p><a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-03-23/debates/16032338000011/EUReferendum(CountingOfficers%E2%80%99Regulations)" target="_blank">https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-03-23/debates/16032338000011/EUReferendum(CountingOfficers%E2%80%99Regulations)</a> .</p><p>The European Union Referendum (Counting Officers’ and Regional Counting Officers’ Charges) Regulations 2016 lists the maximum recoverable amounts (MRA) for the services and expenses of counting officers and regional counting officers:</p><p><a href="https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/199442/The-European-Union-Referendum-Counting-Officers-and-Regional-Counting-Officers-Charges-Regulations-2016.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/199442/The-European-Union-Referendum-Counting-Officers-and-Regional-Counting-Officers-Charges-Regulations-2016.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 26/10/2017 13:00:11 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

773076

registered interest
date	18/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	UK Membership of EU: Referendums
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many hours were worked by public servants opening postal votes for the 2016 EU referendum.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	108581
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>This information is not centrally held by either the Cabinet Office or the Electoral Commission.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 26/10/2017 15:23:31 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

773077

registered interest
date	18/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Absent Voting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many voters in the (a) 2016 EU referendum and (b) 2017 UK General Election voted (i) at a polling station, (ii) by post and (iii) by proxy.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	108582
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2017 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission publishes data on voting at elections and referendums on its website. The information can be found at https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/our work/our-research/electoral- data/electoral-data- new</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 24/10/2017 16:00:47 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

773110

registered interest
date	18/10/2017
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: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what his policy is on the previous government's Accelerated Construction programme.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	108557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to the principles of the Accelerated Construction programme. These principles include using Modern Methods of Construction, partnering with small and medium-sized builders, contractors and others, to increase the pace of construction on surplus public sector land.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 27/10/2017 14:36:43 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

773154

registered interest
date	18/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Alternative Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department conducted a privacy impact assessment about the collection of data on pregnancy, health and mental health for the Alternative Provision Census 2018.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	108570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>Where a child of compulsory school age would not receive suitable education because of illness, exclusion or any other reason, local authorities have a duty to provide suitable ‘alternative provision’ (AP). Although the AP provider understands the reason for the child’s placement, as does the responsible local authority, nationally very little is known about these AP placements and the children who need them. This is fundamental to understanding the effectiveness of the AP system to better target policy interventions and improve the quality of education provided to these children.</p><p> </p><p>Conducting a privacy impact assessment is not a legal requirement of the Data Protection Act. The changes to the AP census relate to information already required (and held) by local authorities during the process of commissioning placements in AP and do not require the collection of any additional information by local authorities or AP providers from the individuals. The AP census is a long-standing data collection with established protocols and processes in place for the handling, collection and disclosure of individual level information. As the AP census already collects a range of characteristic information about individuals, these additional items of information (about the same individuals) do not present any new privacy risks over and above those already present so a formal privacy impact assessment was not completed.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 26/10/2017 16:48:59 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

773156

registered interest
date	18/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Alternative Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance and advice her Department plans to provide for data subjects and their parents on the alternative provision collection of pregnancy, health and mental health data from January 2018; and with and to whom those data will be shared and made accessible.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	108559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>Where a child of compulsory school age would not receive suitable education because of illness, exclusion or any other reason, local authorities have a duty to provide suitable ‘alternative provision’ (AP). Although the AP provider understands the reason for the child’s placement, as does the responsible local authority, nationally very little is known about these AP placements and the children who need them. This is fundamental to understanding the effectiveness of the AP system to better target policy interventions and improve the quality of education provided to these children.</p><p> </p><p>As data controllers in their own right, it is important that local authorities and AP providers collect, process and store all data (not just that collected for the purposes of the Department data collections) in accordance with the relevant data protection regulations. Being transparent and providing accessible information to individuals about how their personal data will be used is a key element of both the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) and the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The most common way to provide this information is via a privacy notice. The Department provides template privacy notices that schools and local authorities can use. However, the notices must be reviewed and amended according to local needs and circumstances. The AP census guidance reminds data providers of their responsibilities in this area and provides links to the template notices.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 26/10/2017 16:45:41 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

773159

registered interest
date	18/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Alternative Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussion she has had with (a) school leaders, (b) teachers and (c) the public on the expansion of the Alternative Provision school census to collect schoolchildren's (i) pregnancy, (ii) health and (iii) mental health data from January 2018.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	108574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>Where a child of compulsory school age would not receive suitable education because of illness, exclusion or any other reason, local authorities have a duty to provide suitable ‘alternative provision’ (AP). Although the AP provider understands the reason for the child’s placement, as does the responsible local authority, nationally very little is known about these AP placements and the children who need them. This is fundamental to understanding the effectiveness of the AP system to better target policy interventions and improve the quality of education provided to these children.</p><p> </p><p>The AP census collects details of children in local authority commissioned AP in settings other than state place funded schools. As such, there was no need to consult directly with schools about these changes. These changes have been informed by research into the AP sector involving input from a sample of local authorities and AP providers and were also considered by sector representatives via the Star Chamber Scrutiny Board (SCSB) process.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 26/10/2017 16:42:12 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

773160

registered interest
date	18/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Personal Records
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the criteria is for refusing current and former school pupils subject access requests for personal confidential data in the National Pupil Database; and what steps she is taking to ensure that criteria complies with the General Data Protection Regulation.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	108573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>Under section 7 of the Data Protection Act (DPA), an individual has the right to ask an organisation to provide them with personal confidential information they hold which identifies them and, in certain circumstances, a parent can make such a request on behalf of a child.</p><p>A subject access request for personal confidential information may be refused if it falls within a statutory exemption. The Research, History and Statistics exemption (section 33(4) of the DPA), applies to personal data being processed for research, historical or statistical purposes. As the personal information that a pupil or parent has requested is held on the NPD for these purposes, it is exempt from release to the pupil or parent.</p><p>The Department is undertaking a programme of work in preparation for General Data Protection Regulation coming into effect in May 2018. This will include a review of the policies and processes associated with Subject Access Requests.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 26/10/2017 16:44:44 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

773171

registered interest
date	18/10/2017
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	Pet Travel Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the EU-UK Pet Passporting Scheme will continue to operate (a) during any transitional period and (b) after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	108560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>Whilst we are a member of the European Union we remain signed up to the requirements of the Pet Travel Scheme. The Government is negotiating our exit from the European Union. Defra is working with the Department for Exiting the European Union to look at future arrangements, including those for the Pet Travel Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is proposing a time-limited implementation period. The detail of implementation period arrangements, including for the Pet Travel Scheme, will be a matter for negotiation.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 30/10/2017 15:53:50 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones