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862166

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
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	Food: Labelling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to encourage the food industry to adopt the front-of-pack traffic light food labelling system.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	132585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, has not had any recent discussions with the food and drinks industry on calorie labelling, including carbohydrate content, on pre-packaged foods or food sold in restaurants, cafes, fast food outlets and takeaways.</p><p> </p><p>The mandatory nutrient declaration for pre-packaged food must include values for carbohydrate and calories. We welcome the actions taken by responsible producers and retailers who have adopted the front of pack and out of home nutrition labelling schemes. Businesses that have adopted the front of pack nutrition labelling scheme account for approximately two thirds of the market for pre-packed foods and drinks, and around a quarter of the food consumed outside the home currently has calories labelled at the point of choice, for example on menus and menu boards. But the challenge to industry to make further progress remains.</p><p> </p><p>The United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union will give us greater flexibility to determine what information should be presented on packaged food, and how it should be displayed. We want to build on the success of our current labelling scheme, and review additional opportunities to go further and ensure we are using the most effective ways to communicate information. This might include clearer visual labelling, such as teaspoons of sugar, that help consumers understand more about the sugar content in packaged food and drink.</p><p> </p><p>There has been no central assessment of the merits of introducing mandatory recommended dietary allowance guidelines on fast food packaging or in fast food outlets.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 132569 132571 132586 132587 132888 132890 132943 question first answered 22/03/2018 17:35:07 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

862167

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
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	Food: Labelling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to encourage food retailers to adopt calorie labelling on menus or at the point of purchase.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	132586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, has not had any recent discussions with the food and drinks industry on calorie labelling, including carbohydrate content, on pre-packaged foods or food sold in restaurants, cafes, fast food outlets and takeaways.</p><p> </p><p>The mandatory nutrient declaration for pre-packaged food must include values for carbohydrate and calories. We welcome the actions taken by responsible producers and retailers who have adopted the front of pack and out of home nutrition labelling schemes. Businesses that have adopted the front of pack nutrition labelling scheme account for approximately two thirds of the market for pre-packed foods and drinks, and around a quarter of the food consumed outside the home currently has calories labelled at the point of choice, for example on menus and menu boards. But the challenge to industry to make further progress remains.</p><p> </p><p>The United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union will give us greater flexibility to determine what information should be presented on packaged food, and how it should be displayed. We want to build on the success of our current labelling scheme, and review additional opportunities to go further and ensure we are using the most effective ways to communicate information. This might include clearer visual labelling, such as teaspoons of sugar, that help consumers understand more about the sugar content in packaged food and drink.</p><p> </p><p>There has been no central assessment of the merits of introducing mandatory recommended dietary allowance guidelines on fast food packaging or in fast food outlets.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 132569 132571 132585 132587 132888 132890 132943 question first answered 22/03/2018 17:35:07 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

862168

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
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	Food: Labelling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve food labelling for people with diabetes.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	132587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, has not had any recent discussions with the food and drinks industry on calorie labelling, including carbohydrate content, on pre-packaged foods or food sold in restaurants, cafes, fast food outlets and takeaways.</p><p> </p><p>The mandatory nutrient declaration for pre-packaged food must include values for carbohydrate and calories. We welcome the actions taken by responsible producers and retailers who have adopted the front of pack and out of home nutrition labelling schemes. Businesses that have adopted the front of pack nutrition labelling scheme account for approximately two thirds of the market for pre-packed foods and drinks, and around a quarter of the food consumed outside the home currently has calories labelled at the point of choice, for example on menus and menu boards. But the challenge to industry to make further progress remains.</p><p> </p><p>The United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union will give us greater flexibility to determine what information should be presented on packaged food, and how it should be displayed. We want to build on the success of our current labelling scheme, and review additional opportunities to go further and ensure we are using the most effective ways to communicate information. This might include clearer visual labelling, such as teaspoons of sugar, that help consumers understand more about the sugar content in packaged food and drink.</p><p> </p><p>There has been no central assessment of the merits of introducing mandatory recommended dietary allowance guidelines on fast food packaging or in fast food outlets.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 132569 132571 132585 132586 132888 132890 132943 question first answered 22/03/2018 17:35:07 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

853249

registered interest
date	02/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Bail
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's publication, Immigration Bail, version 1.0, published on 12 January 2018, what estimate she has made of the number of immigration detainees who will face homelessness if they are released without bail accommodation under schedule 10 of the Immigration Act 2016.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	130698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>Accommodation will be provided to immigration bail applicants if the person does not have adequate accommodation or the means of obtaining it – whether from a public body under different legislative powers or through their own efforts - and the provision of accommodation is necessary in order to avoid a breach of their human rights under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.</p><p>However, accommodation should only be provided if it is clear that the person cannot reasonably be expected to leave the UK. Any person who could leave the UK in order to avoid homelessness should do so.</p><p>The exceptional criteria set out in the immigration bail policy apply where a residence condition is set as a condition of immigration bail and the individual is unable to support themselves at that address.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 130699 question first answered 06/03/2018 15:20:01 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

853257

registered interest
date	02/03/2018
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	Skilled Workers: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure skilled EU professionals have their professional qualifications recognised after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	130706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2018 answer text <p>The UK Government has agreed to protect the rights of EU citizens in the UK and UK nationals in the EU under the Withdrawal Agreement. This includes the continued recognition of EU qualifications, where recognition decisions were received or where recognition procedures were ongoing before the withdrawal date and where an EU citizen is resident in the UK on the date of withdrawal (and vice versa). The government has stated that it will seek to agree a continued system for the recognition of professional qualifications as part of the future economic partnership, and we hope to begin this phase of negotiations shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 09/03/2018 12:10:12 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

853262

registered interest
date	02/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to change IT systems to allow information on the (a) average length of time for a decision on asylum support applications and (b) length of stay in initial accommodation for people applying for s95 non-emergency asylum support to be published.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	130711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office monitors closely the performance of asylum support application decision making and has a range of targets for processing support applications depending on the nature of the application being made. However information on processing times and the length of stay in initial accommodation is not recorded in a format suitable for publication and there are no plans to publish such statistics at this time.</p><p>We are working with the National Asylum Stakeholder Forum to consider what more information could be made publicly available once the new IT system for asylum support casework has been fully implemented later this year.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 07/03/2018 15:23:41 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

843584

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2018 to Question 123998 on asylum: housing, how many proposals for additionally funded service provision have been received; what the total financial value of those proposals is; whether those proposals and funds were used for any purposes deemed appropriate by the provider; and whether they adhered to the stipulations outlined in the Written Statement of 8 December 2016, HCWS335 on asylum accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	127925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>Asylum Accommodation Providers have submitted proposals under the terms of the contract for additionally funded service provision in each of the 6 contract regions. The Home Office has assessed proposals and provided additional funding in 5 of the contract regions. The level of funding is commercially sensitive; however, as part of the Governments transparency agenda the Home Office publishes spend data with all providers on the GOV.UK website where the spend is over £25,000.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-november-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-november-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 22/02/2018 17:13:39 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

843588

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has plans to require open book accounting clauses in respect of outsourced contracts; if she will publish any such clauses in contracts held by her Department; and how many of her Department's outsourced contracts contained such clauses in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18 by (i) Home Office policy area and (ii) contract value.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	127929
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office follows the Cabinet Office and Crown Commercial Service procurement policy that assists in enabling open book contract management to be used in a fair way depending on the risk level and complexity of the contract. This ensures it is used on those contracts where the additional cost is justified by the level of benefits and risk. Standard clauses are published as part of the government’s Model Services Contract. Details may be found on the following links:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/procurement-policy-note-0516-open-book-contact-management" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/procurement-policy-note-0516-open-book-contact-management</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/model-services-contract" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/model-services-contract</a></p><p> </p><p>Details of clauses within individual contracts are published via Contracts Finder <a href="https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 23/02/2018 14:57:59 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

843589

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to require in respect of her Department's outsourced public contracts (a) to publish the profit margin or (b) the permissible profit margin range that is agreed with the companies for such contracts.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	127930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office does not plan to require the profit margin or permissible (if any) profit margin range to be published for outsourced public contracts as this information is commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 26/02/2018 11:35:53 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

828611

registered interest
date	23/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the (a) the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government and (b) Ministers in the devolved administrations on the effect of releasing immigration detainees without bail accommodation on (a) local authorities, (b) street homelessness and (c) statutory homelessness applications.
tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
uin	124278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>Section 4(1) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 was repealed on 15 January on the coming into effect of new immigration bail provisions in Schedule 10 to the Immigration Act 2016, including new powers to provide accommodation in certain circumstances. The repeal of section 4(1) is not expected to have any discernible effect on the number of people released from immigration detention on immigration bail</p><p>There has been communication with the First-tier Tribunal about the implications of Schedule 10 to the 2016 Act, including the repeal of section 4(1) of the 1999 Act and provision of bail accommodation. Regular discussions have also taken place with Ministry of Justice officials from both HM Courts and Tribunals Service and HM Prisons and Probation Service. No discussions on this subject have taken place with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government or Ministers in the devolved administrations. <br>Section 4(1) of the 1999 Act was used to provide accommodation to people released from immigration detention on bail and in limited circumstances to other categories of migrants who required support in order to avoid a breach of their rights under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights</p><p>Paragraph 9 of Schedule 10 to the 2016 Act replaces this with powers to provide accommodation to people released from detention on bail and to those who require it in order to avoid a breach of their Article 3 rights</p><p>Additionally, individuals granted immigration bail who are asylum seekers or failed asylum seekers still have access to support provided under sections 95 or 4(2) of the 1999 Act if they would otherwise be destitute and meet the normal eligibility criteria. Any migrant who is not entitled to support and who could leave the UK in order to avoid homelessness should do so.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 124276 124277 question first answered 29/01/2018 15:47:45 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald