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1669661

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date	13/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Sleeping Rough
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of the time taken to bring forward legislative proposals to replace the Vagrancy Act 1824 on the number of arrests of rough sleepers.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	1696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2023 answer text <p>The Government does not collect figures on police usage of the Vagrancy Act where this does not result in prosecution.</p><p>As the Government made clear at the time, the repeal of the Vagrancy Act will be brought into force once suitable replacement legislation is in place to ensure local authorities and police have the powers, they need to support vulnerable individuals and keep communities safe.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 16/11/2023 15:21:49 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1169756

registered interest
date	09/01/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Cash Dispensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking with the Payment Systems Regulator to assess the scale of the reduction in the number of free to use ATM's, particularly in rural areas in the last two years.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	1696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises that widespread free access to cash remains extremely important to the day-to-day lives of many consumers and businesses in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>LINK, the scheme that runs the UK’s ATM network, has put in place a Financial Inclusion Programme that includes premium fees for ATM deployers to protect remote free-to-use ATMs one kilometre or further from the next nearest free-to-use ATM or Post Office counter. LINK recently announced that £5 million would also be made available to fund requests for new ATMs from local areas with poor access to cash.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, UK Finance – the trade association for the UK banking and financial services sector – has launched a Community Access to Cash Initiative, offering grants to local communities to improve cash access where an ATM is not appropriate or required.</p><p> </p><p>The Payment Systems Regulator is closely monitoring developments in the ATM market and has used its powers to hold LINK to account over commitments to preserve the broad geographic spread of ATMs.</p><p> </p><p>The Government continues to engage with the Payments Systems Regulator via the Joint Authorities Cash Strategy Group, along with the Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England, to ensure comprehensive oversight of the overall cash infrastructure.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 14/01/2020 12:38:49 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1150513

registered interest
date	17/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what policy changes his Department has made as a result of the declaration of a climate emergency.
tabling member constituency	West Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Martin Docherty-Hughes
uin	1696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence is developing its response to the Government's Net Zero Greenhouse Gas emissions announcement of June 2019. A revised policy framework and implementation plan is being developed that covers Defence's impact on the climate (reducing emissions) and the impact of climate change on Defence (building operational resilience).</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan question first answered 24/10/2019 14:29:11 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
tabling member	4374 label Biography information for Martin Docherty-Hughes

746164

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	M62
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the timetable is for completion of roadworks and lane closures on the M62 between Hull and Manchester.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	1696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is upgrading the M62 between Leeds and Manchester to a 4 lane smart motorway to reduce congestion and improve journeys. This is part of the current £15 billion investment in England’s motorways and major ‘A’ roads. The section from Junctions 18 to 20 is expected to complete later this year. Work on the Junctions 20 to 25 section is anticipated to start in 2019/20. As with any road, essential maintenance and repair work is also required from time to time.</p><p> </p><p>Highways England works hard to minimise the impact of major upgrades and maintenance on road users by carrying out work at night, or using narrow lanes to maintain the same capacity through roadworks, wherever it can.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 06/07/2017 13:51:22 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

349383

registered interest
date	09/06/2015
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	Housing Benefit: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people aged 18 to 21 who will retain entitlement to housing benefit under proposals to remove automatic entitlement to housing benefit from those people.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	1696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2015 answer text <p>We will set out our policy design in due course.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 15/06/2015 16:01:32 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms