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423212

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Self-employed: Kent
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people declared themselves as self-employed in each of the last three years in (a) Dartford and (b) Kent.
tabling member constituency	Dartford
tabling member printed	Gareth Johnson
uin	13066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2015 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 26/10/2015 14:04:37 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ13066.pdf title UKSA Letter to Member - Self-Employed
tabling member	3970 label Biography information for Gareth Johnson

423216

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Sunday Trading
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what research his Department has commissioned or undertaken to assess the potential effect on small businesses of proposed changes to Sunday trading laws.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	13098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2015 answer text <br /> <br /><p>We have consulted on our proposals to devolve the power to extend Sunday trading hours to local areas, to which we received a large number of responses from a wide range of stakeholders. We will be publishing the Government’s response shortly. In the consultation, we said we considered that devolving this power would enable local areas to determine the Sunday trading hours that better reflect the need of local people, providing greater choice over when and where they shop. People may choose small retailers, as for example, they offer a diverse range of products and services from convenient locations. This is perhaps why the convenience sector last year saw the opening of two new stores a day and growth in turnover of 5%.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 27/10/2015 14:19:39 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

423224

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Public Houses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he expects to begin the Government's consultation on a statutory pubs code.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	12987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2015 answer text <p>The Pubs Code and Adjudicator consultation will be published imminently.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 27/10/2015 14:18:24 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

423226

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Special Advisers Remuneration Committee
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Special Advisors Remuneration Committee last met.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	13086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2015 answer text <p>Information relating to meetings of internal committees is not normally disclosed.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 27/10/2015 12:02:20 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

423227

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Digital Service: Business Plans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Government Digital Service plans to publish its business plan for 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	13089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2015 answer text <p>The Government Digital Service will set out its business plan after the spending review.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 27/10/2015 12:01:59 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

423228

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of efficiency savings arising from cross-departmental digital strategies in 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	13088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2015 answer text <p>As a result of cross government digital and technology strategies, £1.7 billion was saved in 2014-15. This sum was audited against a 2009-10 baseline.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 27/10/2015 12:01:04 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

423245

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Cumbria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what investment in the road network the Government plans to make in (a) Copeland constituency and (b) Cumbria as part of the Northern Powerhouse initiative.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	13099
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2015 answer text <p>The Government is working with Transport for the North to determine future transport investment priorities for the next road and rail investment periods in the North of England. This work builds on the “Northern Powerhouse: one Agenda, One economy, One North” report published in March this year with a further report focussing on investment priorities due in March 2016.</p><br /><p>In the meantime, Government is undertaking a Northern Trans-Pennine strategic study to examine the case for improving or dualling one or both of the A66 and A69 between the A1(M) and M6.Improvements to either of these routes would benefit the economy of Cumbria and further help the development of a northern powerhouse.</p><br /><p>Government is also providing £7.638m for integrated transport improvements and £75.981m for highways maintenance to Cumbria council for the three years 2015/16 to 2017/18, both of which can be used to invest in the road network in Cumbria and Copeland. Over £8m of Local Growth Funding has been provided to the Cumbria Local Enterprise Partnership for three local road projects in Kendal, Ulverston and Workington, although none of these are in the Copeland.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 27/10/2015 14:29:10 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

423300

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Free School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2015 to Question 12263, what estimate her Department has made of the number of Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 pupils who will qualify for free school meals in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	12983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2015 answer text <p>The continuation of free school meals was a commitment in the Conservative Party’s election manifesto. The government is currently conducting a spending review across all its programmes. We are not able to report on free school meals until after the outcome of that review.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 27/10/2015 11:58:17 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

423309

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Hinkley Point C Power Station
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of the safety issues identified in the Generic Design Assessment for the European Pressurised Reactor that EDF Energy plans to build at Hinkley Point C have still not been resolved to the satisfaction of the Office for Nuclear Regulation.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	13014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2015 answer text <p>The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has advised me that safety issues remaining at the end of Step 4 of Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of the European Pressurised Reactor were captured either as GDA Issues or Assessment Findings. GDA Issues are items that ONR requires to be addressed before a Design Acceptance Confirmation can be issued, successfully ending the GDA process, or before nuclear safety related construction can commence on site. All of the GDA Issues were addressed and closed by ONR in 2012. These Issues, the resolution plans to address them and information on their closure are published on ONR’s website:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.onr.org.uk/new-reactors/" target="_blank">http://www.onr.org.uk/new-reactors/</a></p><br /><p>Assessment findings are addressed throughout the post GDA phase through routine regulation under the nuclear site licence.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 27/10/2015 13:42:43 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

423320

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	China: Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of developments in the human rights situation in China since March 2015.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	12932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2015 answer text <p>We pay close attention to the human rights situation in China and report on it regularly through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy. The latest update was published on 15 July and outlines a range of developments from January to June this year.</p><p>Whilst we recognise the improvements China has made to social and economic rights, we continue to have concerns about a range of restrictions to civil and political rights. The operating space for civil society groups is shrinking, and over 200 lawyers have been detained or questioned since July. We regularly raise our concerns with China, both through the annual UK-China Human Rights Dialogue and through bilateral meetings, and will continue to do so. We also work through international fora, such as the UN Human Rights Council, to highlight our concerns.</p> answering member constituency East Devon answering member printed Mr Hugo Swire question first answered 27/10/2015 13:16:26 answering member 1408 label Biography information for Lord Swire
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton