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1565853

registered interest
date	11/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Public Appointments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions he has had with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) relevant stakeholders on the appointment of a migrants commissioner; and what is the timeline for their appointment.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	120991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2023 answer text <p>A range of options have been considered for delivering the Windrush recommendations, including discussions with external stakeholders. The Home Office is taking steps to be more transparent to ensure that the department is as open as possible to all types of scrutiny, both internal and external. <del class="ministerial">This requires a fundamental cultural shift in our attitude to people with different views on policy and those who make a complaint when something goes wrong.</del></p><p>We will keep the Home Affairs Select Committee updated on the progress of all the Wendy Williams recommendations.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 19/01/2023 18:01:29 question first ministerially corrected 20/01/2023 10:11:56 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick previous answer version 48638 answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1566002

registered interest
date	11/01/2023
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	Whipps Cross Hospital: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons his Department has not made a decision on the scheme-specific business case for the redevelopment of Whipps Cross Hospital.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	121043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2023 answer text <p>Whipps Cross Hospital is one of the Pathfinder schemes within the New Hospital Programme, these will be the first of the larger and more complex schemes to be taken forward. Decisions on specific business cases for schemes which are expected to <ins class="ministerial">be funded</ins><del class="ministerial">commence</del> after 2025 are dependent on the approval of the programme wide business case.</p><p>The New Hospital Programme continues to work closely with Barts Health NHS Trust to develop their new hospital scheme at Whipps Cross Hospital in line with the national programme approach to standardisation which will reduce end to end delivery timescales for individual schemes. The national approach will ensure efficient delivery of the new hospitals and provide value for money so that patients and staff have access to world class facilities.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince previous answer version 47296 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince 47596 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince question first answered 17/01/2023 16:25:24 question first ministerially corrected 26/01/2023 10:05:45 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1566026

registered interest
date	11/01/2023
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	Unispace Global: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Unispace Global Ltd fulfilled its contractual obligations on all PPE contracts it was awarded prior to its novation to Sante Global LLP.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	120948
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2023 answer text <p>The Department contract with Unispace Global Ltd for gloves was not fulfilled prior to that contract being novated to Sante Global LLP. However, in July <ins class="ministerial">2022</ins><del class="ministerial">2021</del>, a settlement was reached and the contract has now performed.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince previous answer version 48228 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince 51549 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince question first answered 31/01/2023 12:42:58 question first ministerially corrected 06/02/2023 10:23:39 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1564778

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
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	Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of funding the cost of medicines regulation undertaken by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	119066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">No assessment has been made.</del> The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is a largely fee charging regulator with approximately three quarters of its income derived from fees levied on applicants. This is a standard form of cost recovery for regulators worldwide. The MHRA has recently concluded a public consultation on its statutory fees to ensure all costs involved in delivery are recovered, which concluded on 23 November 2022.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 16/01/2023 15:48:08 question first ministerially corrected 16/01/2023 18:02:12 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 47021 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1565022

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Windrush Lessons Learned Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made on a programme of reconciliation events with members of the Windrush generation as recommended by the Windrush Lessons Learned Review.
tabling member constituency	Edmonton
tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
uin	119209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">In March 2020 the then Home Secretary published Wendy Williams's Windrush Lessons Learned Review, which set out 30 recommendations for the department.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">A substantial amount of work has been done on considering options for delivering this recommendation, including discussions with external stakeholders around the function of the recommendation. We will keep the Home Affairs Select Committee updated on the progress of all the Wendy Williams recommendations.</del></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We understand the importance and value of engaging with communities impacted by the Windrush scandal through face-to-face engagement. The Home Office has held over 200 public engagement and outreach events across the country to raise awareness of the Windrush Schemes, including 120 one-to-one surgeries attended by Windrush Help teams to support people applying for documentation.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We continue to work collaboratively with communities through the Windrush Community Fund launched in 2020 and have supported 27 community and grassroot organisations to provide promotional and outreach activity on the Windrush Schemes. On 20 September 2022, a new Community Engagement Fund was launched to bridge any remaining gaps in raising awareness of the Windrush Schemes, with a particular focus on also reaching those eligible from a non-Caribbean background. </ins></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 17/01/2023 11:42:19 question first ministerially corrected 17/01/2023 12:25:58 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick previous answer version 47371 answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

1565229

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
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	River Tees: Pyridine
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made in their investigation into pyridine in the River Tees.
tabling member printed	Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top
uin	HL4529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2023 answer text <p>Defra is not progressing any further investigative work into the presence of pyridine in the River Tees at this time. We are however finalising the development and validation of a detection method to reliably quantify the amounts of pyridine in crab tissues. Once completed, we will use this test to assess the levels of pyridine in environmental crab tissues associated with the impacted and non-impacted areas, to better understand the significance of pyridine in crustacea, including the potential for its endogenous production post-mortem.</p><p>The Government Chief Scientific Adviser has conveyed an independent external expert panel to review all the scientific evidence relating to this issue and report published on Friday 20 January<ins class="ministerial">.</ins></p><p>Defra scientists continue to engage with the wider academic community with regard to ongoing research and development work into the ecological status of the Tees and the wider North Sea.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 31/01/2023 17:00:55 question first ministerially corrected 01/02/2023 11:22:23 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon previous answer version 51824 answering member printed Lord Benyon answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	4150 label Biography information for Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top

1564329

registered interest
date	06/01/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Buses: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many new net zero emission buses were funded by his Department in the last five years; what the power source was for those buses; and how many and what proportion of those buses were manufactured in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	117446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>We have committed to funding 4,000 zero emission buses (ZEBs) this Parliament. Across the UK an estimated 3,250 ZEBs have been funded so far.</p><p> </p><p>Between financial years 2018-19 to 2022-23 the Department for Transport has provided funding for 2,594 zero emission buses. The number of buses ordered and delivered may change following the outcome of procurement processes undertaken by local transport authorities or bus operators.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 below presents the number of zero emission buses funded between financial years 2018-19 to 2022-23.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number of Zero Emission Buses</p></td><td><p>Number of Battery Electric Buses</p></td><td><p>Number of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Buses</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>76</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">43 </del> <ins class="ministerial">33</ins></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">33 </del> <ins class="ministerial">43</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>556</p></td><td><p>556</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>1298</p></td><td><p>1154</p></td><td><p>144</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022-23</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>TCF 2018-19 to 2022-23*</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London 2020-21 to 2022-23**</p></td><td><p>491</p></td><td><p>491</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>2594</p></td><td><p>2417</p></td><td><p>177</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*46 zero emission busses were funded through the Transforming Cities Fund (TCF) between financial years 2018-19 to 2022-23.</p><p>**491 zero emission buses were introduced in London in financial years 2020-21 to 2022-23 as a result of Department for Transport funding to Transport for London.</p><p> </p><p>Table 2 provides information, where available, on the bus manufacturer of these zero emission buses.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Bus Manufacturer</p></td><td><p>Number of Zero Emission Buses</p></td><td><p>Percentage of Zero Emission Buses</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Alexander Dennis Ltd</p></td><td><p>436</p></td><td><p>17%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wrightbus</p></td><td><p>188</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Switch Mobility</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Volvo</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Supplied by Pelican Bus &amp; Coach UK and manufactured by Yutong</p></td><td><p>221</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Supplied by Harris Group and manufactured by Higer</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Information not held by the Department</p></td><td><p>491</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bus manufacturer subject to outcome of procurement process by local transport authority or bus operator</p></td><td><p>1223</p></td><td><p>47%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>2594</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 16/01/2023 16:35:59 question first ministerially corrected 01/02/2023 09:22:39 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden previous answer version 47109 answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1564330

registered interest
date	06/01/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many probate cases are under consideration in England; and what proportion of those cases have been waiting for a decision for six weeks or more.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	117447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">There were 53,253 probate cases in the Open Caseload<sup>1</sup> as at 31 December. Of those 30,656 were more than 6 weeks old<sup>1</sup>. Of the cases over six weeks old 13,536 were stopped, 7,247 were awaiting documentation and 9,873 were ready to progress.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><sup>1 </sup>Data as at 31 December in line the official published stats. The administration of probate applications is dealt with as a national service, covering England and Wales. The open caseload excludes cases older than 6 months.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><sup>2</sup>The time outstanding is counted from the application submission date recorded in the case management system, except for digital applications with a Will, where the date of receipt of the original Will by HMCTS is used.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">This data is management Information. The management information presented in this table reflects what is recorded on relevant case-management systems on the date of extraction. The case management systems are continually updated and so the information presented will differ from previously published information. Management information can differ from the quality assured MOJ official statistics, which form the agreed definitive position. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and is the best data that is available.</ins></p><p><del class="ministerial">The total amount of unassessed probate cases where evidence has been received to enable a case to be assessed is 12,923.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">4805 of these cases are over 6 weeks since the date the evidence was received.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">In addition, there are 38,245 cases which are either waiting for evidence, such as the original will, to arrive, are subject to a legal hold following an application from another party or have been stopped due to an error or missing documentation and are waiting for a response from the applicant.</del></p><p>HMCTS has increased resources to meet the higher demand following an increased number of estates requiring probate and is further increasing resourcing to further bring down overall timeliness on digital and paper applications.</p><p>The improvement of the online probate system remains a priority for HMCTS, to ensure more applications can be issued first time and resources can be focused on reducing waiting times.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 16/01/2023 17:38:53 question first ministerially corrected 25/04/2023 12:20:11 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer previous answer version 47244 answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1564385

registered interest
date	06/01/2023
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	Pakistan: Diplomatic Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many UK-based staff from his Department have been deployed to the (a) High Commission and (b) relevant consulates in Pakistan in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	117747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>The total number of FCDO UK Based staff at the Embassy and Consulate in Pakistan are:-</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Banded headcount</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>90-99</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>100-119</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>90-99</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>80-89</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>90-99</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>80-89</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>70-79</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>60-69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>50-59</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><del class="ministerial">The Indo-Pacific Tilt is a whole of Government effort with many departments deploying staff onto the FCDO-led overseas platform at our Missions. The figures we have released represent numbers of FCDO UK based staff deployed to the Indo-Pacific and are therefore an underestimate of the UK Government's diplomatic presence in the region.</del></p><p>The figures also do not include FCDO Country-Based Staff in our overseas Missions, who are essential to the delivery of FCDO objectives.</p><p>Total headcount is FCDO UK Based staff within requested locations. Data from legacy departments has been aggregated for pre FCO/DFID merger years, as such it is not completely comparable.</p><p>Total headcount is FCDO UK Based staff within requested locations. Data from legacy departments has been aggregated for pre FCO/DFID merger years.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 16/01/2023 16:58:04 question first ministerially corrected 19/01/2023 11:40:32 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley previous answer version 47178 answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1563481

registered interest
date	20/12/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Hotels
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 the potential impact of the use of hotels to accommodate asylum seekers on local businesses in the (a) hospitality, (b) tourism and (c) entertainment sectors in (i) the UK, (ii) the West Midlands and (iii) Birmingham.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	114796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2023 answer text <p>For several years, record numbers of people cross the Channel in small boats, and this surge has placed the Home Office’s asylum support infrastructure and accommodation services under immense pressure. <ins class="ministerial">In order to meet our statutory obligations to accommodate asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute, we have been forced to temporarily house asylum seekers in hotels.</ins> The use of hotels is a short term solution and we are working hard with Local Authorities and our accommodation providers to find more appropriate accommodation.</p><p>We continue to work collaboratively with Local Authorities through the establishment of multi-agency forums to understand and address operational impacts on local areas. These regular forums include all key stakeholders and have been developed to mitigate and assure the on-going services provision within a local area.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 13/01/2023 12:58:05 question first ministerially corrected 13/01/2023 13:42:03 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick previous answer version 46582 answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill