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445149

registered interest
date	15/01/2016
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	Neonicotinoids: EU Action
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the EU ban on neonicotinoids has been renewed; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
uin	22708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>EU restrictions prohibiting the use of three neonicotinoids on some crops have been in place since 1 December 2013. Other uses of these neonicotinoids remain approved. The restrictions have been implemented in full in the UK and will remain in place unless and until the European Commission decides to change them. The Commission has mandated the European Food Safety Authority to carry out a scientific review of the effects of neonicotinoids on pollinators. The UK will participate in that process.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 20/01/2016 11:11:49 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

445176

registered interest
date	15/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Rehabilitation Companies: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which community rehabilitation companies have informed his Department of plans to reduce staff in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	22714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>All Community Rehabilitation Companies informed the MoJ of their plans to restructure as part of the bidding process, which was robustly evaluated. They are contractually required to maintain a professional and appropriately skilled workforce to deliver the services set out in their contracts. We are robustly managing the contracts to make sure the providers deliver services which reduce reoffending, protect the public and provide value for money to the taxpayer.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 20/01/2016 11:46:11 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

445177

registered interest
date	15/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what anti-racism training is given to youth court magistrates.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	22715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>All judicial office holders are required to apply the law fairly and objectively regardless of the ethnicity of those who appear before them. A key principle of judicial training is that it should include the social context within which judges and magistrates operate, such as awareness of diversity issues. Additionally, the Judicial College, which oversees the delivery of judicial training on behalf of the Lord Chief Justice, maintains an Equal Treatment Bench Book to assist judicial office holders to deal fairly with those who appear before them. The Bench Book is publicly available at: <a href="https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/publications/equal-treatment-bench-book/" target="_blank">https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/publications/equal-treatment-bench-book/</a></p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 20/01/2016 11:49:36 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

445181

registered interest
date	15/01/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) budget for and (b) expenditure on in-service emissions testing was for the (i) Vehicle Certification Agency and (ii) Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Riverside
tabling member printed	Mrs Louise Ellman
uin	22741
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>The Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA) in-service emissions budget is in the table below:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>Budget</p></td><td><p>Expenditure</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006 / 2007</p></td><td><p>Not available</p></td><td><p>Not available</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007 / 2008</p></td><td><p>Not available</p></td><td><p>£170k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008 / 2009</p></td><td><p>Not available</p></td><td><p>£205k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009 / 2010</p></td><td><p>£200K</p></td><td><p>£200K</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010 / 2011</p></td><td><p>£200K</p></td><td><p>£200K</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011 /2012*</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012 /2013</p></td><td><p>£40K</p></td><td><p>£40K</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013 /2014</p></td><td><p>£50K</p></td><td><p>£29.5K</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014 / 2015</p></td><td><p>£150K</p></td><td><p>£42.3K</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 / 2016</p></td><td><p>£123.2K</p></td><td><p>**</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>* Following the work in 2010-2011, the focus of emissions testing changed to consider aftermarket alteration of vehicles, both light and heavy duty.</p><p>** Ongoing £96K anticipated.</p><br /><p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency does not hold a budget for in-service emissions testing and it does not have expenditure for in service emissions testing.</p><br /> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 20/01/2016 15:44:45 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	484 label Biography information for Dame Louise Ellman

445186

registered interest
date	15/01/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether a person is entitled to be paid their full pension from the day they turn 65 years old.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	22748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>The State Pension age is changing as outlined in the timetable here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/310231/spa-timetable.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/310231/spa-timetable.pdf</a></p><br /><p>For those not moving from a working age benefit to State Pension, the current State Pension is paid only in full benefit weeks. This does mean that depending on the individual’s payday, as determined by their National Insurance number, payment may not begin from the day they reach their State Pension age.</p><br /><p>New rules will apply in the new State Pension scheme from 6 April 2016. Individuals who reach State Pension age on or after that date will be paid their new State Pension from the date they reach their State Pension age. Payments will be made in arrears on a payday based on the individual’s National Insurance number. This means that in most cases the first payment may be in respect of a part of a week – that is from the day the individual reaches State Pension age to their first normal payday.</p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 20/01/2016 15:54:01 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

444875

registered interest
date	14/01/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Public Records
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 13 January (HL4703 and HL4704), whether they will place in the Library of the House a list of the grounds for retention linked to the relevant retention instruments.
tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
uin	HL5073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>I refer the noble Lord to the response to HL4704.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 20/01/2016 12:04:52 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

444899

registered interest
date	14/01/2016
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	Green Investment Bank
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November 2015 to Question 14108, which projects are part of the Green Investment Bank's forward business plan; what the (a) stage of completion and (b) amount of funding given is for each of those projects; and what guarantees are in place to ensure that these schemes are completed by any new owners of the Green Investment Bank.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	22578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2016 answer text <p>Potential investment opportunities identified in the forward business plan of UK Green Investment Bank (GIB), and the company’s estimates of what level of financing it might commit to these, are commercially sensitive matters and are not made public. Potential investors in GIB will be invited to consider the company’s business plan in accordance with appropriate confidentiality agreements.</p><br /><p>Irrespective of whether GIB remains in Government ownership or is moved into the private sector, there is no way to guarantee that any of the projects identified in GIB’s business plan will in fact proceed nor any certainty that GIB will be involved in their financing if they do - they remain only potential investment opportunities.</p><br /><p>Details of the commitments GIB has entered into to date can be found on the company’s website at: <a href="http://www.greeninvestmentbank.com/our-investments/" target="_blank">http://www.greeninvestmentbank.com/our-investments/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 19/01/2016 16:12:50 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

444905

registered interest
date	14/01/2016
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	Insolvency Service: Kingston upon Hull
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the total annual saving to the public purse has been of the closure of the Hull office of the Insolvency Service.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	22593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2016 answer text <br /><p>The decision to close the Hull office, with effect from 14 November 2014, was based on savings with a Net Present Value of £289,000 over 5 years. The profile of savings is such that they will mainly be realised towards the end of that period. Current information is that we are on course to achieve these savings.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 19/01/2016 16:46:34 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

444912

registered interest
date	14/01/2016
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	Green Investment Bank: Privatisation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November 2015 to Question 14108, if he will place in the Library a copy of the preliminary feedback on his announcement of the privatisation of the Green Investment Bank.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	22689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2016 answer text <p>The preliminary feedback to which my earlier answer refers is the outcome of private informal conversations that the Green Investment Bank (GIB) and our financial advisers have had with a number of potential investors on an in‑confidence basis to help gauge market appetite for acquiring a stake in GIB. The substance of these conversations is commercially sensitive and not for publication. The Government does, though, intend to report to Parliament setting out our detailed plans for a sale and to provide a further report following completion of a transaction and any subsequent transactions.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 19/01/2016 16:15:01 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

444916

registered interest
date	14/01/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Social Outcomes Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which government department will have responsibility for the management of the social investment outcomes fund.
tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
tabling member printed	Dr Poulter
uin	22545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>In the spending review the Chancellor announced £80m for a new social outcomes fund to support the creation of locally developed social impact bonds tackling a range of social problems. The Cabinet Office has responsibility for the fund. The detailed criteria for the fund is being developed, but it will provide a portion of outcome payments for locally commissioned social impact bonds where some of the benefits and savings generated fall to central government.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson grouped question UIN 22530 question first answered 20/01/2016 16:04:02 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter