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1667011

registered interest
date	25/10/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Sudan: Visas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with colleagues in the Home Department on support for evacuees from Sudan who are approaching the end of their six month compassionate dispensation visas.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	204070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 26/10/2023 11:01:39 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1666495

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Local Press: Sustainable Development
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of trends in the number of journalists on the sustainability of local media reporting.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	203808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>We are working to support journalism and local newsrooms to ensure the sustainability of this vital industry.</p><p>This includes our new digital markets regime, which will help rebalance the relationship between online platforms and those who rely on them – including local press publishers.</p><p>Additionally, our support for the sector has included the delivery of the £2 million Future News Fund; the zero rating of VAT on e-newspapers; the extension of a 2017 business rates relief on local newspaper office space until 2025; the publication of the Online Media Literacy Strategy; and the BBC also supports the sector directly, through the £8m it spends each year on the Local News Partnership, including the Local Democracy Reporting Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Sir John Whittingdale question first answered 26/10/2023 08:05:48 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1666498

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress he has made on (a) increasing the availability of driving tests and (b) reducing the wait time between bookings for people retaking their tests.
tabling member constituency	Warrington South
tabling member printed	Andy Carter
uin	203963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>As of 23 October 2023, there were 571,820 car practical driving tests booked, and 72,787 driving tests available within the 24-week booking window.</p><p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is taking all the measures it can to reduce driving test waiting times. This includes carrying out overtime, such as at weekends and on public holidays, buying back annual leave from driving examiners (DE) and, inviting recently retired DEs to return to work.</p><p> </p><p>Since April 2021, measures put in place by the DVSA to reduce waiting times for its customers, together with the ongoing recruitment of DEs, is creating on average over 40,000 extra car test slots each month.</p><p> </p><p>The DVSA has also deployed all eligible managers and administrative staff back on the front line to do driving tests from the beginning of October 2023 until the end of March 2024, which will create around 150,000 test slots.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 26/10/2023 06:51:04 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4791 label Biography information for Andy Carter

1666499

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Personal Savings: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure consistency of collection of tax on the interest of savings that are not due until maturity of the savings bond.
tabling member constituency	Warrington South
tabling member printed	Andy Carter
uin	203964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>The taxation of interest arising on savings bonds depends on the terms and conditions applying to each and may differ as not all savings bonds are the same.</p><p> </p><p>Income tax is charged on the full amount of interest ‘arising’ to a person in a tax year and interest normally ‘arises’ when the amount is received or is credited to an account on which the holder is free to draw.</p><p> </p><p>The terms of a savings bond may be that interest is credited each year and, once credited, the bondholder is able to draw on it. In this case, the interest arises each year and is taxed each year as it is credited.</p><p> </p><p>On the other hand, it is possible that interest may be credited each year, but the terms of the bond may mean the bondholder cannot draw on it or benefit from it until the end of the term. In that case all the interest paid on the bond would be regarded as ‘arising’ when it became available to the bondholder on maturity of the bond.</p><p> </p><p>This long-standing position is explained in HMRC’s guidance at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/savings-and-investment-manual/saim2440#:~:text=Interest%20'arises'%20when%20it%20is,when%20interest%20arises%20see%20SAIM2400." target="_blank">SAIM2440</a>, and there have been no recent changes.</p><p> </p><p>In either case, to the extent that the interest arising in any year is not covered by personal allowances, such as the Personal Savings Allowance, the tax will be collected in the same way, usually through a taxpayer’s PAYE code or a self-assessment tax return.</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 26/10/2023 10:56:17 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4791 label Biography information for Andy Carter

1666502

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Buses: Driving
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish a summary of the outcomes of the Bus and Coach Driver Summit hosted by his Department and the Confederation of Passenger Transport in November 2022.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	203762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>The Department for Transport and Confederation of Passenger Transport co-chaired a Bus and Coach Summit in November 2022. The summit brought together experts from industry, national and local government to look at issues facing driver recruitment and retention to bus and coach operators, and identified ideas and actions to help address these. Many of these are owned by industry, who as aforementioned, are responsible for recruiting drivers.</p><p> </p><p>While the Department has no current plans to publish the full list of outcomes from the summit, some of the issues raised require action from the Department for Transport.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 26/10/2023 06:55:31 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1666503

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
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	Ovarian Cancer: Health Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will launch an awareness campaign on abdominal and urological symptoms of ovarian cancer.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	203763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>NHS England is currently running a ‘Help us Help you’ campaign highlighting the abdominal and urological symptoms of cancer, including ovarian cancer, and addressing the barriers that stop people from accessing services in the National Health Service.</p><p>It encourages the public to contact their general practitioner if they're worried about symptoms, such as “tummy discomfort or diarrhoea that lasts for three weeks or more, or if they've seen blood in their pee even once”.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 26/10/2023 08:50:31 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1666504

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many illegal drugs have been seized (a) since the £100 million funding for prison x ray scanners was completed in 2020 and (b) in the comparable time period before that funding was allocated.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	203764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>Delivery of the £100m Security Investment Programme was completed in March 2022 and included measures to prevent the smuggling of illicit items, such as drugs, into prisons. Under this investment, 75 additional X-ray body scanners were deployed, resulting in full coverage of the entire closed adult male prison estate. Between July 2020 and October 2022 there were approximately 28,000 positive indications on these X-ray body scanners.</p><p> </p><p>The number of incidents where drugs are found in prisons in England and Wales is published in the HMPPS Annual Digest through the <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1174265/8.__Finds_incidents_data_tool.xlsx" target="_blank">incidents data tool</a>. Between April 2020 and March 2022, there were 37,995 drug find incidents in prisons in England and Wales. In comparison, between April 2018 and March 2020, there were 39,900 drug find incidents in prisons in England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>This reports the number of drug find incidents rather than the amount of drugs found, and incidents can include different quantities of drugs. It is important to consider with incidents of drug finds in prisons, that an increase in numbers may be as a result of more items being found, rather than more items being present in prisons.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 26/10/2023 11:17:53 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1666505

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Prime Minister: Sloane Helicopters
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 12 September to Question 197420, which contract covered the provision of rotary wing command air transport by Sloane Helicopters for the Prime Minister’s visit to Clacton-on-Sea on 18 October 2023.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	203777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the right hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 26/10/2023 11:11:37 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1666506

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Gaza: Humanitarian Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support the Egyptian Government's decision to open the Egypt-Gazza Rafah crossing.
tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
tabling member printed	Mr Tobias Ellwood
uin	203766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 26/10/2023 11:35:37 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood

1666507

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Royal Navy: Cleaning Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many laundrymen (a) directly and (b) indirectly employed by the Royal Navy are from (i) China and (ii) Hong Kong.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	203942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>The Royal Navy contracts its laundry services to NAAFI who are responsible for the employment of all of our laundrymen.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently less than ten laundrymen serving in Royal Navy vessels and all of them are from Hong Kong<em>. </em></p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 26/10/2023 08:22:48 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard