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783158

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date	03/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Organised Crime: Merseyside
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of child exploitation by criminal gangs across Merseyside.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	111303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>Intelligence and information on child criminal exploitation is collected at individual force level and Merseyside Police will hold the relevant information. At a national level, the National Crime Agency (NCA) is responsible for producing a national threat assessment on county lines based on information provided by individual forces and Regional Organised Crime Units and this includes child criminal exploitation. The next national threat assessment by the NCA is due to be published very shortly.</p><p> </p><p>We are taking firm action to tackle the issue of child criminal exploitation and county lines this includes: publishing new guidance for practitioners on identifying county lines and helping those being exploited; funding a pilot service for exploited young people caught up in county lines drugs running; match-funding local reviews to build resilience in areas where there are concerns about county lines; and we will be shortly implementing new powers to enable the police to close down mobile phone numbers that are being used to deal drugs as part of the county lines model.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/11/2017 17:29:02 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

783161

registered interest
date	03/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Apprentices: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the amount allocated to the Welsh Assembly under the apprenticeship levy is calculated.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	111339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>The UK government provides the Welsh Government with a population share of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR’s) apprenticeship levy forecast from March 2016. This means the Welsh Government will receive £128m in 2017-18, £133m in 2018-19, and £138m in 2019-20. Beyond 2019-20, once the levy is embedded, the normal operation of the Barnett Formula will continue to provide a population-based share of funding.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 13/11/2017 14:04:03 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

783163

registered interest
date	03/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Apprentices: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much apprenticeship levy funding has been collected in Wales.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	111337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>It is not possible to produce meaningful estimates of the amount of levy payments made by employers in specific geographical areas. HMRC have information on where PAYE schemes are registered, though not on the workplaces of the employer. Many large employers will have various workplaces across the UK or outsource their payroll to a payroll provider based in a different location.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 13/11/2017 14:05:41 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

783165

registered interest
date	03/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Business: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November 2017 to Question 110240 on the Royal Bank of Scotland, what plans he has to extend the responsibilities of the Financial Conduct Authority to oversee business lending.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	111359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to extending the regulatory perimeter only where there is a clear case for doing so, in order to avoid putting additional costs on lenders that would ultimately lead to higher costs for businesses.</p><p> </p><p>However, unincorporated sole traders and small partnerships borrowing less than £25,000 do receive regulatory protection. In practice, the effect of this is that the smallest SMEs are more likely than not to receive regulatory protections when borrowing.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 07/11/2017 14:53:11 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

783169

registered interest
date	03/11/2017
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	Department for Communities and Local Government: Trade Union Officials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department's public bodies spent on employees partly or wholly employed on trade union duties in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	111400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>The table below shows how much the Department for Communities and Local Government Arm’s Length Bodies and Non Departmental Public Bodies have spent on employees partly or wholly employed on trade union duties in each year since 2015.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>FY - 2015/16</p></td><td><p>FY - 2016/17</p></td><td><p>FY - 2017/18</p></td><td><p>Accumulative total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Planning Inspectorate (PINS)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£19,111.00</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£14,173.00</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£5948.00</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£39,232.00</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Homes and Communities Agency (HCA)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£17,579.00</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£20,660.00</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£17,399.55</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£55,638.55</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>*Valuation Tribunal Service</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£119.25</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£120.45</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£0.00</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£239.70</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>QE11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£0.00</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£0.00</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£0.00</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£0.00</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Lease</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£0.00</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£0.00</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£0.00</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£0.00</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Ebbsfleet</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£0.00</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£0.00</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£0.00</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£0.00</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*Individual support to Unison members has been provided via their Regional Officer, which has meant that the costs have predominately fallen on Unison not the VTS.</p><p>In addition, Housing Ombudsman has two union representatives that are released on an ad hoc basis for trade union activities. The cost is not centrally recorded.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 13/11/2017 17:10:41 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

783170

registered interest
date	03/11/2017
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	Department for Communities and Local Government: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the cost of (a) fraud and (b) financial error in (i) his Department, (ii) its executive agencies and (iii) its non-departmental public bodies in each year from 2015.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	111401
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The cost of a) fraud and b) error to the Department and its agencies is zero, since all identified fraud losses have been recovered subsequently. In the instances of 'error', which is generally caused by internal employee payment issues, the Department recovers these losses through payroll so there is no outstanding cost to the Department or its agencies to report.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 05/12/2017 17:04:00 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

783173

registered interest
date	03/11/2017
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	Job Creation: Enterprise Zones
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2017 to Question 108119, on job creation: enterprise zones, how many jobs enterprise zones were planned to create in each year since 2013.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	111426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2017 answer text <p>We do not collect data on forecast job numbers for Enterprise Zones and do not publish estimates for net additional jobs.</p><p>Enterprise Zones are a twenty five year programme to support local economic growth, helping businesses to expand and ensure there is the high quality office and industrial space needed for them to do so. Local Enterprise Partnerships report that since 2012 and up to September 2016, Enterprise Zones had attracted over 822 businesses and more than £3.3 billion in private investment.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 09/11/2017 14:37:21 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

783175

registered interest
date	03/11/2017
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	Troubled Families Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2017 to Question 108916, on families: disadvantaged, when the decision was made to make the troubled families programme subject to a comprehensive national evaluation; and which Minister made that decision.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	111428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>The decision to make the current Troubled Families Programme (2015-2020) subject to a comprehensive national evaluation was made in October 2014, by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 13/11/2017 17:14:58 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

783178

registered interest
date	03/11/2017
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	Broadband: Universal Service Obligation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if the Government will publish the full description of BT's voluntary offer to deliver the Universal Service Obligation for broadband, the Government's response to that offer and the timetable for the release of those publications.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
uin	111397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>On 6 October, Openreach published details of the key elements of the offer which are available here (<a href="https://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/updates/downloads/Deliveringuniversalbroadbandcoverage.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/updates/downloads/Deliveringuniversalbroadbandcoverage.pdf</a>) . The Department is currently considering two approaches for delivering universal broadband - a regulatory USO and BT's voluntary proposal. A decision will be made in due course on which approach to follow.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 13/11/2017 13:39:17 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

783181

registered interest
date	03/11/2017
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	Archives: Public Interest
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 definition her Department uses for the phrase archiving in the public interest.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	111381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>We recognise the importance of the permanent preservation of archives for long-term public benefit by museums, galleries, archives and libraries. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Bill permit such organisations to process personal data (including sensitive personal data) without consent, where necessary for “archiving purposes in the public interest”, subject to appropriate safeguards for the rights and freedoms of data subjects. It also exempts archiving services from complying with certain rights of data subjects (for example, rights to access, rectify or erase their data), where the exercise of such rights would seriously impair or prevent them from fulfilling their objectives.</p><p> </p><p>‘Archiving in the public interest’ is a new term in data protection law. The Data Protection Act 1998 made no express reference to it and it is not defined in the GDPR, but Recital 158 to the GDPR may help to understand it. It says:</p><p> </p><p>“Public authorities or public or private bodies that hold records of public interest should be services which, pursuant to Union or Member State law, have a legal obligation to acquire, preserve, appraise, arrange, describe, communicate, promote, disseminate and provide access to records of enduring public value for general public interest.”</p><p> </p><p>This is likely to apply to a wide variety of community, private, public sector, charitable/trust and voluntary sector archives. It could also include archives that may be closed to researchers at the present time, but which would become accessible at some future date, and archives which are held in analogue or digital format. The definition would not, however, cover organisations which gather and use data, information and records purely for their own commercial gain or that have no enduring public value.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that concerns have been raised about the reference in the Recital to archiving organisations being under a ‘legal obligation’ to archive. While this may reflect the archival system in some other EU member states, it does not reflect the position in the UK. Many smaller archives, particularly in the private sector, are unlikely to have any statutory obligations to archive.</p><p> </p><p>We do not think the best approach is to create new statutory duties requiring organisations to archive. This could force organisations to archive that had no intention or means of doing so. Instead, we want to reassure bona fide archiving services that they will be able to continue to process personal data for the purposes of archiving in the public interest, regardless of whether they have a statutory obligation to do so. The reasons for this are:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Recitals act as explanatory notes to European regulations and have no direct legal effect. They may be taken into account by regulators and the courts when interpreting and applying the law, but they are not the law.</li><li>In any event Recital 158 should be read in conjunction with Recital 41 which says that “where this regulation refers to a legal basis or legislative measure, this does not necessarily require a legislative act adopted by a parliament”, providing that such a legal basis is clear and precise and its application is foreseeable to persons subject to it.</li><li>In the UK, most archives operate on a permissive basis under the general provisions of common law or statutory permissive powers, such as the British Library Act 1972 or the Local Government (Records) Act 1962. It may be open to organisations to rely on such a basis to satisfy the requirements of Recital 158.</li><li>Where there are no clear permissive powers, organisations may still be able to point to funding agreements, management agreements or constitutional documents which set out the purposes of the archive, particularly if the failure to adhere to such purposes could have legal or quasi-legal effects, for example for a body’s charitable status. Although this may not amount to a statutory obligation to archive, it would give organisations a legal basis upon which to rely.</li><li>Up until now, organisations responsible for archiving may have relied on exemptions from subject access rights under the ‘historical research’ provisions in section 33 of the Data Protection Act 1998. These provisions will continue in the new Data Protection Bill, and have not been abolished by GDPR. Most of the exemptions from data subjects’ rights in relation to archiving also exist in relation to historical research. If archiving services cannot confidently rely on the exemptions for archiving in the public interest, they may be able to rely on exemptions for historical research as an alternative. We recognise that there is some debate about this point within the sector because some archives may not exist for historical research purposes. In that case, a legal basis for archiving will be needed, but it does not need to be statutory.</li></ul> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 13/11/2017 18:35:30 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds