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746301

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	High Rise Flats: Electrical Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the merits of introducing white goods safety checks in tower blocks in response to the Grenfell Tower disaster.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	1803
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The UK has one of the highest sets of product safety requirements in the EU which requires goods to meet strict safety rules before they are put into use.</p><p>The Working Group on Product Recalls and Safety submitted its final report in April 2017. I had intended to publish the report then, but the announcement of the General Election prevented me from doing so.</p><p>Following the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy, I asked the Working Group to urgently review their findings and their report has been published today.</p><p>I have also asked the Working Group to look at further potential areas of product safety and recalls where action might be required, in light of the tragic events at Grenfell Tower.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 19/07/2017 15:09:17 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James previous answer version 1471 answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

751794

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	West Cumberland Hospital
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure adequacy funding for the final stage of construction of the West Cumberland Hospital.
	tabling member constituency	Copeland
	tabling member printed	Trudy Harrison
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4831
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The West, North and East Cumbria Sustainability and Transformation Project has made an application for funding for the West Cumberland scheme from the additional £325 million capital funding announced in the spring budget earlier this year. An announcement on the successful applications will be made shortly.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 19/07/2017 09:03:36 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison

751725

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Channel Four
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to publish the outcome of the consultation Increasing the Regional Impact of Channel 4.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4884
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The government's consultation closed on 5 July and we will set out the next steps on this issue in due course.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 19/07/2017 13:26:42 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

752136

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Childcare Implementation Taskforce
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many times the childcare implementation taskforce has met since its establishment; what were the dates on which it met; and who attended each meeting.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4999
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Childcare ITF is chaired by the Education Secretary and was established to drive delivery of a coherent and effective government-wide childcare offer to support parents in work. To protect the integrity of the policy making process, we do not not publish details of when Implementation Taskforces met or what they discussed.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/07/2017 12:40:07 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

751360

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total NHS pay bill has been in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Corby
	tabling member printed	Tom Pursglove
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4756
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The total Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) pay bill for the previous five years is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total HCHS pay bill (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>43.284 billion</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>43.663 billion</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>44.140 billion</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>45.085 billion</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>46.112 billion</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Department of Health’s Headline HCHS Pay bill Metrics, which are based primarily on earnings statistics published by NHS Digital, supplemented by employer pension and national insurance contributions estimates informed by unpublished and unvalidated data from the Electronic Staff Record Data Warehouse.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The HCHS pay bill data for 2016-17 is not yet available.</p><p>The HCHS workforce comprises of staff working within hospital and community health settings, and so excludes general practitioners (GPs), GP practice staff and General Dental Practitioners.</p><p> </p><p>The HCHS pay bill for 2015/2016 is around £46 billion. National Health Service trusts and foundation trusts spend around 60% of their entire expenditure on pay. NHS pay systems have an inbuilt pressure because of incremental pay of around £790 million a year. The value of increments for non-medical staff employed under the national Agenda for Change pay framework ranges from £176 to £4,599; and from 1.0% to 6.7%, which is in additional to annual pay awards.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 19/07/2017 13:40:54 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove

748854

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2017
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the number of elite trade negotiators needed to broker trade deals following Brexit; and how many have been recruited to date.
	tabling member printed	Marquess of Lothian
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL517
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>I refer my Rt Hon. and learned Friend the Marquess of Lothian QC to the answer I gave to the noble Member Lord Adonis on 17/07/2017 (HL312).</p> answering member printed Lord Price question first answered 19/07/2017 15:30:01 answering member 4570 label Biography information for Lord Price
	tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

748855

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what meetings they have held with representatives of the insurance industry to address rises in car insurance policy premiums faced by drivers.
	tabling member printed	Marquess of Lothian
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL518
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Transport has held a number of recent discussions with the motor insurance industry, for example to discuss young driver safety and technology measures, and changes to the personal injury discount rate which affect on the cost of insurance.</p><p> </p><p>The Queen’s Speech, on 21 June, confirmed that a Civil Liability Bill will be introduced to tackle the continuing high number and cost of whiplash claims and to help reduce motor insurance premiums.</p><p> </p><p>The pricing of insurance products is a commercial matter for individual insurers in which the Government does not seek to intervene.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 19/07/2017 13:15:38 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

747973

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2017
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the decision by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation to ban the Jehovah's Witnesses on the grounds that the group is considered to be an extremist organisation.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Coventry
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL427
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The UK is deeply concerned by the dismissal of an appeal against the decision of Russia's Supreme Court to categorise the Jehovah's Witnesses as extremists. This ruling effectively criminalises the peaceful worship of some 175,000 Russian citizens and is at odds with the right to religious freedom which is enshrined in the Russian Constitution.</p><p>I issued a statement on 18 July expressing our concerns. We have raised this issue with the Russian Government and continue to call on them to uphold their commitment to this basic freedom in international fora, including in the Council of Europe.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 19/07/2017 15:57:06 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	4266 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Coventry

747975

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2017
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the situation facing Bahá'ís and other religious minorities in Yemen.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Coventry
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL429
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is concerned about the situation faced by the Bahá'ís in Yemen. This is particularly the case in areas under the control of the Houthis and forces loyal to ex-president Saleh, where they have faced persecution due to their religious beliefs. The UK has raised the issue with the Government of Yemen and highlighted their plight through public diplomacy. Mr Burt, the Minister for the Middle East and North Africa, also met with representatives of the Bahá'í community on 13 July.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 19/07/2017 15:56:43 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	4266 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Coventry

749952

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Kingston Hospital
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government who were the experts the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence consulted in their recent review of Clinical Guideline CG 53 for chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis: diagnosis and management.
	tabling member printed	The Countess of Mar
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL637
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) routinely consults a range of topic experts as part of its surveillance review process. NICE is currently consulting on a review proposal for its clinical guideline on the diagnosis and management of chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis. NICE does not routinely publish the names of topic experts as they are not part of the decision making process for the surveillance review.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 19/07/2017 11:03:41 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	1861 label Biography information for The Countess of Mar