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1655062

registered interest
date	24/07/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Shipping: Russia
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 19 July (HL9306), what assessment they have made of whether the ships of the Russian Main Directorate of Deep-Sea Research are responsible for surveys and operations involving seabed infrastructure.
tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
uin	HL9661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Department for Transport has not commissioned such an assessment. Any such assessment would fall within the remit of the Ministry of Defence. </del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">As a matter of long-standing policy, the Government does not comment on the specific detail of classified intelligence matters.</ins></p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 26/07/2023 14:46:13 question first ministerially corrected 25/08/2023 12:39:32 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton previous answer version 90272 answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

1653921

registered interest
date	18/07/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July to Question 192193 on Armed Forces: Housing, how many service accommodation units do not have valid gas certificates.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	194672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>As at 19 July 2023, <del class="ministerial">116</del><ins class="ministerial">353</ins> occpied Service Family Accommodation (SFA) properties do not have a valid gas safety certificate. This equates to 0.26% of the 43,928 SFA properties with a mains gas supply.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 20/07/2023 15:01:55 question first ministerially corrected 18/08/2023 10:27:30 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge previous answer version 89169 answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1653412

registered interest
date	17/07/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Aviation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to sub-target two of the Greening Government Commitments reporting requirements for 2021 to 2025 last updated on 15 December 2022, whether his Department follows the encouragement in that guidance to (a) monitor and (b) report on the number of domestic flights for which her Department is responsible each year; and how many domestic flights were taken by Ministers in his Department in (i) 2021 and (ii) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	194399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>In support of the Greening Government Commitments (GGC), Defence's domestic business flights are recorded and associated annual carbon emissions reported in the Department's Annual Report and Accounts.</p><p>For 2021, our records show there was a total of <del class="ministerial">48</del> <ins class="ministerial">36 </ins>domestic flights recorded as being used by Ministers e.g. Commercial flights, RAF planes and RAF helicopters. For 2022, our records show there were a total of<del class="ministerial"> 91</del> <ins class="ministerial">41</ins> domestic flights.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 20/07/2023 13:24:04 question first ministerially corrected 24/07/2023 08:49:26 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge previous answer version 89096 answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1653025

registered interest
date	13/07/2023
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	Brain: Tumours
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Early Access to Medicines Scheme to ensure that brain tumour patients are able to access the most promising treatments.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL9326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">We do not currently have a national mechanism to capture and report incidents of violence and aggression in the National Health Service. Data is held at a local level.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">At a national level, data on self-reported violent incidents is gathered through the NHS Staff Survey. Results from the 2022 NHS Staff Survey indicated that 14.7% of NHS staff have self-reported that they have experienced at least one incident of physical violence from patients, service users, relatives or other members of the public in the last 12 months.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">27.8% of NHS staff who completed the NHS Staff Survey experienced at least one incident of harassment, bullying or abuse in the last 12 months from patients or service users, their relatives or members of the public. This figure is similar to previous years’ NHS Staff Survey data.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">NHS England has commissioned a number of data insight workstreams to better understand the current landscape of statistics, data reporting and associated challenges. This includes a national review of all available data and intelligence sources, an analysis of the costs of violence to the health care system in England and a review of the impact on the safety and wellbeing of NHS staff.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The Ministry of Justice collects data on prosecution, conviction and sentences for the offence of assault on an emergency worker, although it does not identify the type of emergency worker. This data is available in the Criminal Justice Statistics Quarterly and the Outcomes of Offence Tool and Offence Group Classification: Criminal Justice System Statistics Quarterly: December 2022, a copy of which is attached.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The early access to medicines scheme (EAMS) aims to give patients with life threatening or seriously debilitating conditions access to medicines that do not yet have a marketing authorisation when there is a clear unmet medical need.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Under the scheme, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) will give a scientific opinion on the benefit/risk balance of the medicine, based on the data available when the EAMS submission was made and the EAMS criteria. The MHRA will make an evaluation of products, including drugs such as for brain tumour treatments, once an application is received.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">If we do receive an application, it is only made public where an EAMS Scientific Opinion (SO) is awarded. All EAMS SOs are published on the EAMS webpage. All drugs that have previously held an EAMS SO are also published on the EAMS webpage.</ins></p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 19/07/2023 16:58:18 question first ministerially corrected 20/07/2023 11:30:24 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham previous answer version 88876 answering member printed Lord Markham answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham attachment 1 file name criminal-justice-statistics-december-2022.pdf title Criminal Justice statistics
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1652457

registered interest
date	12/07/2023
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Domestic Visits: Belfast East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when a Minister from his Department last made an official visit to the Belfast East constituency.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	193760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2023 answer text <p>My Ministers and I regularly travel to Northern Ireland for a variety of engagements. The following are the most recent visits made by Northern Ireland Office Ministers to each constituency in Northern Ireland:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Belfast East</strong> - 28th June 2023</p><p> </p><p><strong>Belfast North</strong> - 7th June 2023</p><p> </p><p><strong>Belfast South</strong> - 16th June 2023</p><p> </p><p><strong>Belfast West</strong> - 16th April 2023</p><p> </p><p><strong>East Antrim</strong> - 15th June 2023</p><p> </p><p><strong>East Londonderry</strong> - 18th May 2023</p><p> </p><p><strong>Fermanagh and South Tyrone </strong>- 8th May 2023</p><p> </p><p><strong>Foyle </strong>- 18th May 2023</p><p> </p><p><strong>Lagan Valley</strong> - 25th May 2023</p><p> </p><p><strong>Mid Ulster</strong> - 8th September 2022</p><p> </p><p><strong>Newry &amp; Armagh</strong> - 16th November 2022</p><p> </p><p><strong>North Antrim</strong> - 15th April 2023</p><p> </p><p><strong>North Down</strong> - 25th May 2023</p><p> </p><p><strong>South Antrim</strong> - 7th June 2023</p><p> </p><p><strong>South Down</strong> - 28th June 2023</p><p> </p><p><strong>Strangford</strong> - <ins class="ministerial">27th January 2023</ins> <del class="ministerial">15th August 2022</del></p><p> </p><p><strong>Upper Bann</strong> - 12th July 2023</p><p> </p><p><strong>West Tyrone</strong> - 7th March 2023</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 19/07/2023 10:49:18 question first ministerially corrected 20/07/2023 10:31:11 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris previous answer version 88654 answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1651889

registered interest
date	11/07/2023
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, if she will review her Department’s use of hotel accommodation to help improve the suitability of accommodation offered to asylum seekers.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	193421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The United Kingdom has a statutory obligation to provide destitute asylum seekers with accommodation and other support whilst their application for asylum is being considered as set out in the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The United Kingdom has a statutory obligation to provide destitute asylum seekers with accommodation and other support whilst their application for asylum is being considered as set out in the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The enduring solution is to stop the illegal, dangerous, and unnecessary small boat crossings that are overwhelming our asylum system. The Home Office is working tirelessly, alongside other government departments, to reduce the Government’s dependency on hotels for contingency accommodation through a package of long-term and short-term measures.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Asylum Accommodation service providers identify suitable accommodation and ensure that it conforms to the accommodation standards and provision set out in Schedule 2 of the Asylum Accommodation and Support Contracts (AASC). The Statement of Requirements, available via the link below, sets out the full details of our contractual obligations:</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdata.parliament.uk%2FDepositedPapers%2FFiles%2FDEP2018-1112%2FAASC_-_Schedule_2_-_Statement_of_Requirements.pdf&amp;data=05%7C01%7CASRA-briefingcorrespondence%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C5e6d5c5bfb44494ab67908db52093aed%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638193971807310448%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=bMVyR1sTTK8B9OqTMGxv90cXfwX%2BMMdYHD%2BEmROCTS0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2018-1112/AASC_-_Schedule_2_-_Statement_of_Requirements.pdf(opens in a new tab)</a>.</ins></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 19/07/2023 15:45:44 question first ministerially corrected 20/07/2023 10:30:51 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick previous answer version 88809 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

1651487

registered interest
date	10/07/2023
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	Pharmacy: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the level of support available under the Pharmacy Access Scheme; and whether the criteria includes the (1) quality, (2) opening hours, and (3) range of provision, of existing pharmacies.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL9200
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The early access to medicines scheme (EAMS) aims to give patients with life threatening or seriously debilitating conditions access to medicines that do not yet have a marketing authorisation when there is a clear unmet medical need.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Under the scheme, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) will give a scientific opinion on the benefit/risk balance of the medicine, based on the data available when the EAMS submission was made and the EAMS criteria. The MHRA will make an evaluation of products, including drugs such as for brain tumour treatments, once an application is received.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">If we do receive an application, it is only made public where an EAMS Scientific Opinion (SO) is awarded. All EAMS SOs are published on the EAMS webpage. All drugs that have previously held an EAMS SO are also published on the EAMS webpage.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Pharmacy Access Scheme provides additional funding to pharmacies where the next nearest pharmacy is more than a 20-minute walk away. This is calculated as a 0.8-mile walking distance in areas of high deprivation and 1 mile in other areas. In 2021, we agreed updated eligibility criteria and an updated payment model with Community Pharmacy England. To be eligible for the payment, pharmacies must deliver the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service. Quality and opening hours are not included in the eligibility criteria.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 19/07/2023 15:05:50 question first ministerially corrected 20/07/2023 15:18:01 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham previous answer version 88780 answering member printed Lord Markham answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1651688

registered interest
date	10/07/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Savings and Investments: Environment Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much money was invested in National Savings and Investments green savings bonds in the financial year 2022-23.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	193094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2023 answer text <p>During the 2022-23 Financial Year, £622,660<ins class="ministerial">,000</ins> <del class="ministerial">million</del> was invested in NS&amp;I’s Green Savings Bonds.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 17/07/2023 12:12:51 question first ministerially corrected 11/08/2023 13:29:16 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith previous answer version 87876 answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1651760

registered interest
date	10/07/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: P&O Ferries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2023 to Question 192709 on 10 July 2023, what was the cost to the public purse of payments made to P&O Ferries for (a) support of operational movement services and (b) business travel between 17 March 2022 and 1 July 2023.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	193273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Between 17 March 2022 and 1 July 2023, the Ministry of Defence made payments of nearly £92,000 directly to P&amp;O using ePC cards primarily for freight movements, some £235,000 by the National Movement Coordination Centre (Army) for operational movements, and some £164,000 was spent through GBT, the MOD’s contracted travel management company, primarily for business travel.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Department will continue to use P&amp;O Ferries where there are robust operational or technical reasons for doing so. Some routes are solely serviced by P&amp;O Ferries and may offer the only option for our strategic movement requirements.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Between 17 March 2022 and 1 July 2023, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) made payments of £425,166 directly with P&amp;O using ePC cards primarily for freight movements (this includes operational and freight movements by the National Movement Coordination Centre (Army)), and a further £164,000 was spent through GBT, the MOD’s contracted travel management company, primarily for business travel.</ins></p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 13/07/2023 09:01:57 question first ministerially corrected 19/07/2023 09:44:52 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge previous answer version 87335 answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1651144

registered interest
date	07/07/2023
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	Reptiles: Import Controls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason live reptiles imports from the EU have been moved from Low to High Risk under the Target Operating Model method.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	192991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Under the new model SPS commodities are categorised based on the inherent risk (high, medium or low) that the commodity poses to biosecurity, combined with any specific risk from the country of origin.</del> Live animals are inherently high risk; they cannot be kept in sealed consignments and some of them pose not only a potential animal health risk but also a risk <ins class="ministerial">for</ins> <del class="ministerial">to</del> the environment in the case of non-native species or invasive pests, and a risk to the trade on endangered species. <ins class="ministerial">Later in 2024 we expect all checks on live animals (except pet animals) to be carried out at a live animal Border Control Post, as they become operational.</ins><del class="ministerial">Under the Target Operating Model we will apply the same rules to the EU that currently apply to Rest of World imports of live animals including reptiles and amphibians.</del></p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 12/07/2023 09:34:52 question first ministerially corrected 19/07/2023 09:45:04 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer previous answer version 87089 answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury