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606684

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date	20/10/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Air Passenger Duty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether any proportion of Air Passenger Duty revenue is used to fund the UK's commitment to Unitaid.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	49580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>The government does not hypothecate revenue collected from Air Passenger Duty.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 25/10/2016 09:25:59 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

606687

registered interest
date	20/10/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Air Passenger Duty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his policy is on moves to reduce Air Passenger Duty by 50 per cent in the near future.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	49579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>Like all taxes Air Passenger Duty is kept under review with any changes being announced at fiscal events.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 25/10/2016 09:13:01 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

606694

registered interest
date	20/10/2016
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	Angling: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much income has been received from anglers through the rod licence in each of the last five financial years; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
tabling member printed	Mr Charles Walker
uin	49562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>The income received from anglers through the rod licence for each of the last five years is provided in the table below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Income (in million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>£21,083</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£21,147</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£21,590</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£21,840</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£23,742</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 25/10/2016 10:46:07 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

606705

registered interest
date	20/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Strokes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answers of 11 and 18 October 2016 to Questions 46460 and 47904, whether the Government plans to put measures in place to replace the National Stroke Strategy after December 2017.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	49604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>The National Stroke Strategy remains valid and implementation of it continues. There are, therefore, no current plans to renew it. Action is being taken to ensure the progress made on stroke continues. This includes:</p><p> </p><p>- ongoing work in virtually all parts of the country to organise acute stroke care to ensure that all stroke patients, regardless of where they live or what time of the day or week they have their stroke, have access to high quality specialist care;</p><p> </p><p>- publication of the Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Outcomes Strategy in 2013, which includes many stroke specific strategic ambitions;</p><p> </p><p>- a CVD expert forum, hosted by NHS England, to coordinate delivery of the work which was initiated in the CVD Outcomes Strategy; and</p><p> </p><p>- NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Stroke works with the Strategic Clinical Networks, clinical commissioning groups, voluntary agencies and individual providers to support better commissioning and provision of stroke care.</p><p> </p><p>More generally, the NHS Five Year Forward View recognises that quality of care, including stroke care, can be variable and that patients’ needs are changing and new treatment options are emerging. The Five Year Forward View sets out high level objectives to address these issues.</p><p> </p><p>There are no current plans for a formal evaluation of the National Stroke Strategy. However there is a continuous evaluation of the quality of stroke care via the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP). This measures most of the key indicators defined as important in the strategy and findings are freely available on the SSNAP website at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.strokeaudit.org/" target="_blank">https://www.strokeaudit.org/</a></p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat grouped question UIN 49605 question first answered 25/10/2016 08:10:41 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

606706

registered interest
date	20/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Strokes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department plans to evaluate formally the National Stroke Strategy before the end of 2017.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	49605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>The National Stroke Strategy remains valid and implementation of it continues. There are, therefore, no current plans to renew it. Action is being taken to ensure the progress made on stroke continues. This includes:</p><p> </p><p>- ongoing work in virtually all parts of the country to organise acute stroke care to ensure that all stroke patients, regardless of where they live or what time of the day or week they have their stroke, have access to high quality specialist care;</p><p> </p><p>- publication of the Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Outcomes Strategy in 2013, which includes many stroke specific strategic ambitions;</p><p> </p><p>- a CVD expert forum, hosted by NHS England, to coordinate delivery of the work which was initiated in the CVD Outcomes Strategy; and</p><p> </p><p>- NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Stroke works with the Strategic Clinical Networks, clinical commissioning groups, voluntary agencies and individual providers to support better commissioning and provision of stroke care.</p><p> </p><p>More generally, the NHS Five Year Forward View recognises that quality of care, including stroke care, can be variable and that patients’ needs are changing and new treatment options are emerging. The Five Year Forward View sets out high level objectives to address these issues.</p><p> </p><p>There are no current plans for a formal evaluation of the National Stroke Strategy. However there is a continuous evaluation of the quality of stroke care via the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP). This measures most of the key indicators defined as important in the strategy and findings are freely available on the SSNAP website at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.strokeaudit.org/" target="_blank">https://www.strokeaudit.org/</a></p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat grouped question UIN 49604 question first answered 25/10/2016 08:10:41 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

606720

registered interest
date	20/10/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Joint Air Quality Unit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) structure and (b) membership of the cross-departmental air quality unit is.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	49572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>The Joint Air Quality Unit has been established to lead delivery of the national air quality plan for nitrogen dioxide, published in December last year.</p><p> </p><p>The unit is headed by a senior civil servant. The team consists of civil servants from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Department for Transport (DfT), and is primarily based within Defra.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>It reports to two Senior Responsible Officers: the Director for the Energy, Technology, and Innovation directorate in DfT, and the Director of the Environmental Quality directorate in Defra. The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is the Cabinet representative for air quality policy. Decisions relating to delivery of the national air plan for nitrogen dioxide are agreed jointly by the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Environment and Rural Life Opportunities at Defra, and the Minister of State at the Department for Transport.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 25/10/2016 09:09:12 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

606723

registered interest
date	20/10/2016
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	Habitual Residence Test
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims were stockpiled (a) before and (b) after the Upper Tribunal ruling of 17 March 2016 on the unlawful and discriminatory use of the past presence test.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Mr David Burrowes
uin	49598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>No claims were stockpiled before the Upper Tribunal ruling of 17 March 2016, 40 Disability Living Allowance claims were stockpiled after the ruling.</p><p>Section 27 of the Social Security Act 1998 provides that, where the Upper Tribunal decides on a social security appeal that the Secretary of State has made an error of law in his original decision and other claims subsequently fall to be decided by the Secretary of State, the judgment generally is not to be applied in relation to any period that predates the Upper Tribunal’s decision (s.27(3)). This statutory rule does not apply to the person who brought the original appeal, to people who have already lodged an appeal against a decision or who are still in time to do so, or to people whose case the Secretary of State has stockpiled (or whose appeal he has stayed) pending the judgment under section 25 of the Act.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 49599 question first answered 25/10/2016 10:40:54 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	1518 label Biography information for Mr David Burrowes

606724

registered interest
date	20/10/2016
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	Habitual Residence Test
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons refugees with disabilities who have been deemed entitled to disability living allowance have different backdating entitlements depending on whether their claim happened to be stockpiled before or after the Upper Tribunal ruling of 17 March 2016 on the past presence test.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Mr David Burrowes
uin	49599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p>No claims were stockpiled before the Upper Tribunal ruling of 17 March 2016, 40 Disability Living Allowance claims were stockpiled after the ruling.</p><p>Section 27 of the Social Security Act 1998 provides that, where the Upper Tribunal decides on a social security appeal that the Secretary of State has made an error of law in his original decision and other claims subsequently fall to be decided by the Secretary of State, the judgment generally is not to be applied in relation to any period that predates the Upper Tribunal’s decision (s.27(3)). This statutory rule does not apply to the person who brought the original appeal, to people who have already lodged an appeal against a decision or who are still in time to do so, or to people whose case the Secretary of State has stockpiled (or whose appeal he has stayed) pending the judgment under section 25 of the Act.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 49598 question first answered 25/10/2016 10:40:54 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	1518 label Biography information for Mr David Burrowes

606727

registered interest
date	20/10/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Conditions of Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to ensure that the employment rights contained in the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 will be (a) protected in the long-term and (b) retained in legislation.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
uin	49600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>As a Government, we have been clear that we will do nothing to undermine workers’ rights. All law in this area at the time of exit will be brought under UK law as part of the Great Repeal Bill, ensuring continuity.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 49601 question first answered 25/10/2016 08:16:02 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

606728

registered interest
date	20/10/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Working Hours: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will take steps to ensure that the rights contained in the Working Time Regulations 1998 will be (a) protected in the long-term and (b) retained in legislation.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
uin	49601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>As a Government, we have been clear that we will do nothing to undermine workers’ rights. All law in this area at the time of exit will be brought under UK law as part of the Great Repeal Bill, ensuring continuity.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 49600 question first answered 25/10/2016 08:16:02 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey