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941993

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Firearms
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	Whether his Department plans to support the arming of rural police officers; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
uin	906468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>It is for chief officers to determine the number of armed officers in their areas, based on a thorough assessment of threat and risk. The policy in this country has long been that the police should not generally be armed. This is vital in promoting good relations with the public and the community they serve.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 16/07/2018 15:54:48 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

941994

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services and Police: Cooperation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to encourage greater collaboration between the police and fire services.
tabling member constituency	North East Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Lee Rowley
uin	906469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government is working with police and fire services to implement provisions in the Policing and Crime Act 2017 that enable collaboration to go further and faster, including the new statutory duty to collaborate and enabling PCCs to take on fire and rescue governance, where a local case exists.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 16/07/2018 15:52:21 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley

941995

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to ensure that illegal migrants cannot profit from working in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	906470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>In the Immigration Act 2016, we made illegal working a criminal offence so that wages can be seized as proceeds of crime and introduced tougher sanctions on rogue employers. We have also recently introduced additional safeguards to protect legal migrants seeking employment who do not have the necessary documentation to establish their lawful immigration status.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 16/07/2018 15:50:38 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

941996

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to ensure that illegal migrants cannot profit from working in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Halesowen and Rowley Regis
tabling member printed	James Morris
uin	906471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>In the Immigration Act 2016, we made illegal working a criminal offence so that wages can be seized as proceeds of crime and introduced tougher sanctions on rogue employers. We have also recently introduced additional safeguards to protect legal migrants seeking employment who do not have the necessary documentation to establish their lawful immigration status.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 16/07/2018 15:51:32 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3992 label Biography information for James Morris

941997

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to ensure that the UK's security services have the resources required to counter terrorism.
tabling member constituency	Torbay
tabling member printed	Kevin Foster
uin	906473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>In 2015, the Government committed to spending more than £2 billion per year on counter-terrorism and investing 30% more over the Spending Review period, including £1.4 billion investment in new capabilities for the security and intelligence agencies.</p><p>In light of the changing threat picture set out in our strengthened and updated CONTEST strategy, we have also allocated an additional £50m funding to Counter-Terrorism Policing this year.</p> answering member constituency Bromsgrove answering member printed Sajid Javid question first answered 16/07/2018 15:47:32 answering member 3945 label Biography information for Sir Sajid Javid
tabling member	4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster

941998

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Shoplifting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to reduce shop theft.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	David Hanson
uin	906474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>I chair the National Retail Crime Steering Group with the British Retail Consortium. This brings retailers and the police together to ensure an effective response to crimes affecting retailers and includes work to reduce shop thefts.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 16/07/2018 15:45:54 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

939899

registered interest
date	12/07/2018
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	Palliative Care: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made the ability of the Government to meet its end of life care choice commitment to babies, children and young people by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
uin	163483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2018 answer text <p>In July 2016, the Government set out its commitment to everyone at the end of life in the Government response to the independent Review of Choice in End of Life Care. Our Commitment to you for end of life care set out what everyone should expect from their care at the end of life and the actions we are taking to make high quality and personalisation a reality for all, both adults and children, and to end variation in end of life care across the health system by 2020. On 21 September 2017 we published One year on: the government response to the review of choice in end of life care, an assessment of the progress made in delivering this over the first year. Copies of the Choice Commitment and the progress report can be found at the following links:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/choice-in-end-of-life-care-government-response" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/choice-in-end-of-life-care-government-response</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/choice-in-end-of-life-care-government-progress" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/choice-in-end-of-life-care-government-progress</a></p><p> </p><p>Through the Mandate, we have asked NHS England to deliver the Choice Commitment, and working through NHS England’s National Programme Board for End of life Care with all key system partners and stakeholders, including the children’s end of life care charity Together for Short Lives. In the 2017-18 Mandate we asked for the identification of metrics to assess quality and choice in end of life care. As a result, we have in place a new indicator to measure the proportion of people with three or more emergency admissions in their final 90 days of life, which will help us assess how well patients with end of life care needs are being supported by local health and care services out of hospital and in the community.</p><p> </p><p>For 2018-19, the Government’s Mandate asks NHS England to increase the percentage of people identified as likely to be in their last year of life, so that their end of lifecare can be improved by personalising it according to their needs and preferences at an earlier stage. NHS England will use the Quality Outcomes Framework to demonstrate such an increase by looking at the percentage of people who are on the general practitioner register for supportive and palliative care, and consider expected levels based on local populations. Further work will also be undertaken to develop indicators that will enable NHS England to assess the effectiveness of local health economies in delivering choice and quality in end of life care in line with the Government’s commitment.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England knows that it can be difficult for some commissioners to develop suitable commissioning models for children with palliative and end of care needs, given the relatively small number of children concerned and their geographical spread. NHS England has established a Task and Finish Group to bring together knowledge and expertise in children’s end of life care to consider the development of commissioning models suitable for this vulnerable group of patients. The group met for the first time on 31 May 2018.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/07/2018 11:53:02 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

939901

registered interest
date	12/07/2018
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	Bread: Labelling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his Department's policies of the recommendations contained in the Honest Crust campaign published by the Real Bread Campaign and the charity Sustain published November 2017.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	163615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>We are satisfied that compliance with EU Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers and General Food Law Regulation (EC) 178/2002 together ensure that the labelling and advertising of food must not mislead the consumer. EU Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 ensures that pre-packaged loaves display a full ingredient list, while the exemption of loaves sold at the point of production is made in the interests of small businesses and bakeries, reducing unnecessary regulatory burden while retaining essential, relevant information for the consumer.</p><p>EC Regulation 1333/2008 adequately defines the approved additives and their conditions of use in bread. These requirements, together with guidance on terms such as ‘hand-made’, ‘Farmhouse’ and ‘home-made’ used by food businesses and trading standards officers, already provide robust protection to consumers against misleading practices. However if a consumer does think that they are being misled by bread labelling, they should seek advice from their local trading standards office.</p><p> </p><p>A restricted number of additives are permitted in sourdough bread under EC Regulation 1333/2008 – there are no plans at present to change these. There are many products on the market that do not have definitions set out in legislation, however there are general rules in place to protect consumers. The Bread &amp; Flour Regulations 1998 contain a few, limited definitions but the focus of the legislation is on the fortification of white and brown flour with certain nutrients, mostly for restorative purposes.</p><p> </p><p>There are no current plans to include a legal definition for sourdough within the Bread and Flour Regulations 1998 but the baking industry itself may consider agreeing a code of practice about what should be described as a UK sourdough bread.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 16/07/2018 15:22:17 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

939902

registered interest
date	12/07/2018
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Trade Promotion: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many times he has met the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to discuss the promotion of Scottish interests internationally; and what joint work they have agreed on such promotion.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Lesley Laird
uin	163621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2018 answer text <p>I congratulate the Foreign Secretary on his appointment and look forward to discussing these and other matters regularly with him.</p><p> </p><p>Our Departments work to promote Scottish interests internationally through overseas visits as well as key campaigns including GREAT and Global Britain.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 17/07/2018 11:51:34 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4660 label Biography information for Lesley Laird

939905

registered interest
date	12/07/2018
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	Agricultural Products: Imports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions officials in his Department with responsibility for the UK leaving the EU have had with (a) port authorities, (b) major retailers, and (c) haulage firms on the volume and nature plant and animal materials imported to the UK from EU countries; and on what dates those discussions took place.
tabling member constituency	Workington
tabling member printed	Sue Hayman
uin	163575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2018 answer text <p>My officials talk regularly with a wide range of stakeholders, including the groups mentioned.</p><p> </p><p>From a Port Health Authority perspective (which will include the Food Standards Agency and the Animal and Plant Health Agency) there have been five Official meetings:</p><p> </p><p>Three have been chaired by Border Delivery Group and took place on the 28th February, 1st May and 2nd July 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Two have been chaired by the Biosecurity and Food Project directorate and took place on the 9<sup>th</sup> February and 15<sup>th</sup> March 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside these official meetings, various informal meetings and workshops have taken place.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice grouped question UIN 163576 question first answered 17/07/2018 10:31:05 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4395 label Biography information for Baroness Hayman of Ullock