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1712641

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date	22/04/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Import Controls
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 14 March (HL2915), why they do not plan to publish further information on business readiness of the Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) now the details of BTOM have changed since the original readiness assessment was undertaken.
tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
uin	HL4002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>The approach and plans set out within the Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) remain unchanged. We will continue to support business readiness throughout the implementation of checks and take a sensible pragmatic approach to enforcement.</p><p>The government’s consumer food price inflation model for the BTOM included an assessment of policy measures likely to affect the cost and/or quantity of traded products, including the Government-run BCP operating costs that will be recovered via a Common User Charge. Estimates of the cost and impact of the Charge were included in the modelling of the inflationary impact of the BTOM and we stand by these estimates.</p><p>This data includes a mix of published and unpublished commercially sensitive data sources. To publish only a partial picture of that data would not be in keeping with statistical propriety.</p><p><strong><p><p></strong></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL4004 HL4005 question first answered 07/05/2024 16:09:08 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

1712728

registered interest
date	22/04/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Army: Ammunition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to Defence Equipment and Support's article entitled DE&S places new order with BAE Systems to increase 155mm shells stockpile for British Army, published on 11 July 2023, when his Department expects to achieve an eight-fold increase in 155mm ammunition production.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	22848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>I refer the right hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 25 July 2023 to Question 194703.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 13/05/2024 12:17:06 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge attachment 1 file name 194703 - Ammunition.docx title Ammunition
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1712734

registered interest
date	22/04/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Guided Weapons: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Department last signed new contracts for (a) AMRAAM, (b) ASRAAM, (c) CAMM, (d) Javelin, (e) NLAW, (f) Tomahawk and (g) Aster missiles.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	22852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>The below table contains the dates of when new contracts were last signed for each of the munition type requested. It does not contain subsequent contract amendments or renewals.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Weapons</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Last signed new contracts</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AMRAAM</p></td><td><p>December 2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ASRAAM</p></td><td><p>December 2023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CAMM</p></td><td><p>March 2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Javelin</p></td><td><p>April 2023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NLAW</p></td><td><p>December 2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tomahawk</p></td><td><p>June 2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aster missiles</p></td><td><p>August 1999</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><ol><li>Javelin and Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) are procured through Foreign Military Sales, a government to government agreement directly between the UK MOD and the US Government.</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 14/05/2024 16:22:32 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1712740

registered interest
date	22/04/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Helicopters: Military Aircraft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to Defence Equipment and Support's article entitled £122m contract sees UK’s fleet of Airbus H145s expanded with six procured for overseas duties, published on 18 April 2024, whether that contract includes through-life support costs.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	22858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>The £122 million contract with Airbus Helicopters UK for six Airbus H145 helicopters to provide aviation support to Defence outputs in Brunei and Cyprus encompasses the procurement of the aircraft, an initial three-year support plan, and includes the expenses required to establish the capability in each overseas location.</p><p>Support beyond the first three years is subject to a separate project which will include determining the nature of the procurement strategy for the future support solution.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 30/04/2024 12:02:53 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1712743

registered interest
date	22/04/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: National Union of Rail Maritime and Transport Workers and Nautilus UK
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department last met (i) the Nautilus and (ii) RMT Unions.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	22861
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>I can confirm that there have been no confirmed Ministerial meetings with these organisations.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 29/04/2024 14:34:05 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1712745

registered interest
date	22/04/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Small Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much and what proportion of his Department's spending was with SMEs in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	22863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2024 answer text <p>The methodology used to calculate Government Departments’ spend with SMEs changed with effect from financial year (FY) 2013-14 to include sub-contracted spend. Since then the Cabinet Office has published all Departments’ direct and indirect spend with SMEs annually on the gov.uk website at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fcentral-government-spend-with-smes&amp;data=05%7C02%7CDefComrclSSM-Mailbox%40mod.gov.uk%7Cf6d9a9a3255449afea3408dc636698c3%7Cbe7760ed5953484bae95d0a16dfa09e5%7C0%7C0%7C638494539496570454%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ycveoiDBrEjfFDiCXIYIXlhA01Pk1Tp2h951K1UPM58%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/central-government-spend-with-smes</a></p><p> </p><p>Data from 2010-2013, which only covers direct spend that the MOD had with SMEs, is set out in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>FY</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Spend with SMEs </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of MOD spending</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£0.69 billion</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£1 billion</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£1 billion</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 30/04/2024 12:08:12 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1702410

registered interest
date	19/04/2024
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Iran: Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, what recent discussions he has had with his Iranian counterpart on (a) the treatment of women, (b) freedom of expression and (c) other human rights issues.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	22794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>We continue to work with international partners to hold Iran accountable for its unacceptable human rights record. At the 55th Human Rights Council session, the UK was on the core group for the Iran human rights resolution, which successfully renewed the mandates of the Special Rapporteur and the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Iran human rights, enabling continued monitoring of abuses against women and girls and religious and ethnic minorities, as well as freedom of expression. We continue to engage with UK-based and international organisations on human rights, including Iranian diaspora organisations. In October 2023, the former Foreign Secretary and Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon hosted a roundtable with women's rights activists, joining them publicly in calling for an end to impunity and violence. Since October 2022, we have sanctioned 94 individuals or entities for human rights abuses, including senior decision makers responsible for enforcing Iran's mandatory hijab law. We continually assess our human rights sanctions regime, and will make further designations where we have the evidence to do so. We will continue to raise human rights issues with the Iranian Government.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 22791 22792 22793 question first answered 29/04/2024 16:26:41 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1702417

registered interest
date	19/04/2024
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	WhatsApp: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of Meta's decision to lower the minimum age for access to WhatsApp to 13 on children's levels of exposure to extremist content.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	22801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The UK’s Online Safety Act will make the UK the safest place to be a child online. The strongest protections in the Online Safety Act are for children. Providers which have age restrictions need to specify in their terms of service what measures they use to prevent underage access and apply these terms consistently The Online Safety Act will require user-to-user and search services to implement robust processes to tackle illegal content and safeguard children on their platforms.</p><p> </p><p>Under the Act, where an in-scope provider makes significant changes to their service, they will be required to update their illegal content and children’s risk assessment. Ofcom will have strong investigatory powers to determine the impact of changes that particular providers make. Where Ofcom finds that a functionality is a risk factor for illegal content or harm to children on particular services, then it is empowered to set out steps providers should take to mitigate this. Ofcom have robust enforcement powers available to use against companies who fail to fulfil their duties, including imposing substantial fines.</p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Saqib Bhatti grouped question UIN 22803 question first answered 29/04/2024 16:32:35 answering member 4818 label Biography information for Saqib Bhatti
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1702470

registered interest
date	19/04/2024
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: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many fraudulent advance Universal Credit claims have been identified by his Department's machine learning algorithm.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Dame Angela Eagle
uin	22688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>Publishing these figures would compromise our ability to prevent or detect fraud.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard grouped question UIN 22692 22693 22694 22695 question first answered 29/04/2024 16:01:24 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1702471

registered interest
date	19/04/2024
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	Social Security Benefits: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total annual cost of his Department’s use of machine learning algorithms to identify fraudulent benefit claims is.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Dame Angela Eagle
uin	22689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The Department does not record this information.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard grouped question UIN 22690 question first answered 29/04/2024 15:51:32 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle