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1669178

registered interest
date	10/11/2023
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	Indigenous Peoples: Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to United Nations press release entitled General Assembly Adopts Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples; ‘Major Step Forward’ towards Human Rights for All, Says President, published on 13 September 2007, whether it remains the Government’s policy that (a) national minority groups and (b) other ethnic groups within the UK do not fall within the scope of the indigenous peoples to which the Declaration applies.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	1377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>The UK fully recognises that individuals belonging to indigenous communities are entitled to the full protection of their human rights and fundamental freedoms in international law. The UK supports the provisions in the Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) that underline this. Human rights are universal and apply equally to all. Our position remains that national minority groups, and other ethnic groups within the territory of the United Kingdom, and its overseas territories, do not fall within the scope of indigenous people, to which UNDRIP applies.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 15/11/2023 17:00:51 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1669179

registered interest
date	10/11/2023
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	Natural England: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 25 October 2023 to Question 203372 on Natural England, if Natural England will publish the register of board members’ interests as a separate document on gov.uk.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	1378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>Natural England will publish the Board register of interests on GOV.UK in due course.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 28/11/2023 16:46:27 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1669214

registered interest
date	10/11/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the DVLA is taking to help ensure that people without internet access are able to use their services following the end of its contract with the Post Office in March 2024.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	1379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>Post Office Ltd currently provides a limited range of Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) services and an extension to the current contract has been agreed, ensuring that DVLA services will be available at post offices until the end of March 2024.</p><p>The DVLA wants its customers to be able to access its services as quickly and as easily as possible and the role of front office counter services will form part of the considerations of future service offerings, utilising government agreements if necessary.</p><p>The vast majority of those licensing vehicles already do so online or via the DVLA’s automated telephone service, which is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The DVLA will continue to ensure that all customers are able to license their vehicles.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 15/11/2023 16:33:52 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1669215

registered interest
date	10/11/2023
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	Dental Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 13 September 2023 to Question 198352 on Dental Services: Cornwall, how funding recovered from NHS dentists may be spent by his Department.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	1380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2023 answer text <p>NHS England has provided guidance for integrated care boards (ICBs) that requires dental funding to be ringfenced, with any unused resources re-directed to improve National Health Service dental access in the first instance. A schedule setting out the dental ringfence has been issued to ICBs. NHS England’s 2023/24 revenue finance and contracting guidance, which provides more detail, is available at the following link: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/2023-24-revenue-finance-and-contracting-guidance/</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 16/11/2023 12:10:42 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 1081 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1669270

registered interest
date	10/11/2023
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	Natural England: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 25 October 2023 to Question 203372 on Natural England, for what reason Natural England have not published the declaration of interests made at and (b) minutes of the board meeting of 28 June 2023.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	1381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>Natural England will publish a record of the meeting which will include details of how to request a transcript on GOV.UK in due course.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 28/11/2023 16:48:32 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1667677

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Defibrillators: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the cost to the public purse of waiving VAT on (a) defibrillators and (b) associated apparatus.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2023 answer text <p>The cost of relieving VAT on defibrillators is uncertain owing to the lack of data on purchases of defibrillators and associated apparatus, and on purchasers who are able to reclaim the VAT on these purchases. Businesses are not required to provide information at a product level in their VAT returns, as this would impose an excessive administrative burden; HMRC does not therefore hold this data. All taxes are kept under review; any policy measure would be costed in the usual way.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is currently inviting community organisations to bid for funding as part of a £1 million grant scheme that expands public access to AEDs, particularly in public places where they are most needed.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, last year the Government committed to supplying state-funded schools in England with defibrillators to make sure there is a device in every school, with deliveries completed in June 2023. This means that every state-funded school in England, over 21,500 schools, now has access to an AED.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 13/11/2023 11:57:15 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1667678

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to help prevent the provision of fraudulent information to the DVLA when a vehicle's keeper changes.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has long-standing and robust measures in place to ensure that keepers notify when they buy and sell a vehicle.</p><p>It is an offence to provide the DVLA with false or misleading information and the DVLA works with key stakeholders to identify and prevent vehicle fraud. The DVLA actively gathers information and intelligence regarding illegal and improper conduct and will follow up any notifications of fraudulent activity with the relevant authorities.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 15/11/2023 16:32:42 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1667679

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Cleaning Services: Business Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor for the Exchequer, for what reason commercial laundries are excluded from retail, hospitality and leisure relief from business rates.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>Business rates are administered by local government and it is for local authorities to determine eligibility for reliefs, having regard to guidance issued by the Government.</p><p> </p><p>Guidance setting out eligibility for the 2023-24 Retail, Hospitality and Leisure relief was published by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/business-rates-relief-202324-retail-hospitality-and-leisure-scheme-local-authority-guidance</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 15/11/2023 15:48:42 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1667680

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
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	Huntington's Disease: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to ensure patients with Huntington’s Disease have access to community mental health services when psychiatric symptoms are present.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2023 answer text <p>We have been made aware of instances of people with Huntington’s disease experiencing difficulty in accessing mental health services. NHS England has circulated a statement to integrated care services (ICSs) to say that mental health services should be offered based on clinical need and people should not be excluded due to coexisting conditions where the service is clinically appropriate.</p><p>We are also investing at least £2.3 billion of additional funding a year by March 2024, compared to 2018/19, to expand and transform mental health services in England so that two million more people including those with Huntington’s disease can get the mental health support that they need.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 13/11/2023 09:22:22 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1667681

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorcycles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the phase out dates for new non-zero emission (a) mopeds and (b) motorcycles.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2023 answer text <p>The consultation on when to end the sale of new non-zero emission L-category vehicles (including mopeds and motorcycles) was open to responses from 14 July to 21 September 2022 and supported by a thorough programme of stakeholder engagement with stakeholders. The Department is now in the process of analysing the responses and will bring forward the Government’s response in due course.</p><p>The Government will consult on any future regulatory framework to deliver and enforce the end of sale dates for new non-zero emission L-category vehicles as is appropriate. The Government keeps all its regulations under review to ensure that they are fit for purpose and futureproofed.</p><p>The UK’s exit from the European Union has provided the opportunity for this country to develop its own regulatory approach to decarbonising its entire fleet of new road vehicles, which will help to support UK industry in the process. The proposed end of sales dates for motorcycles positions the UK as a world leader in decarbonisation, will drive innovation and create a market for zero emission L-category vehicles.</p><p>The Government considers the greenhouse gas emissions of all sectors to ensure that it meet the UK’s legally binding net zero targets by 2050. The Government’s net zero commitment requires all sectors of the UK’s economy, including motorcycles, to deliver substantial cuts to emissions to end the UK’s contribution to climate change.</p> answering member constituency South Cambridgeshire answering member printed Anthony Browne grouped question UIN 366 367 question first answered 15/11/2023 12:36:56 answering member 4801 label Biography information for Anthony Browne
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas