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1674109

registered interest
date	29/11/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Nutrition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she takes to monitor the number of schools pupils that are malnourished.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	4463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2023 answer text <p>The government supports the provision of nutritious food in schools. The Requirements for School Food Regulations (2014) require schools to provide children with healthy food and drink options, and to make sure that children get the energy and nutrition they need across the school day. These regulations are accessible at: <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1603/contents/made" target="_blank">https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1603/contents/made</a>.</p><p>The school food standards restrict foods high in fat, salt and sugar, as well as low quality reformed or reconstituted foods. Compliance with the school food standards is mandatory for all maintained schools, academies and free schools.</p><p>The department spends over a £1 billion a year on school food, including £600 million for universal infant free school meals (FSM). Under the benefits-based criteria, 2 million of the most disadvantaged pupils are eligible for, and claiming, a FSM. Almost 1.3 million additional infants enjoy a free, healthy and nutritious meal at lunchtime following the introduction of the universal infant FSM policy in 2014. In addition, the school fruit and vegetables scheme provides over 2.2 million children in reception and key stage 1 with a portion of fresh fruit or vegetables each day at school.</p><p>The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities collect data on child weight through the National Child Measurement Programme. The latest data from October 2023 shows that among reception children (aged 4-5 years), prevalence of underweight remained at 1.2% in 2022/23, which is higher than pre-pandemic levels in 2019/20 (0.9%). In year 6 pupils (aged 10-11 years), underweight prevalence went up from 1.2% to 1.5%, but is similar to pre-pandemic levels in the 2019/20 data (1.4%). Although the increase in the proportion of underweight children is statistically significant, this is below the 2% level expected in a healthy population, and therefore does not raise concerns.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 4464 question first answered 07/12/2023 15:42:33 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1464085

registered interest
date	18/05/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ranger Regiment: Deployment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make it his Department's policy that deployments by the Ranger Regiment be (a) made public and (b) subject to parliamentary scrutiny.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	4463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2022 answer text <p>The Ranger Regiment is part of the newly established Army Special Operations Brigade. Its work will include deploying alongside partner forces around the world to counter Violent Extremist Organisations and hostile state threats.</p><p> </p><p>The MOD is committed to being open and transparent to Parliament. However in certain circumstances operational security will prevent confirmation or otherwise of operational activity.</p><p>As with other military deployments, it is not the MOD’s intention to update the house each time the Ranger Regiment is deployed, unless there is a specific need and public interest in doing so.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey grouped question UIN 4462 question first answered 23/05/2022 13:19:34 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1171431

registered interest
date	16/01/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Sanitary Products: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make VAT on female sanitary products zero-rated.
tabling member constituency	South Antrim
tabling member printed	Paul Girvan
uin	4463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government will replace the 5% reduced VAT rate with a zero rate as soon as it is legally able to do so. Until then, a £15 million annual Tampon Tax Fund has been put in place to support women’s charities. This provides funding equivalent to the VAT raised on women’s sanitary products.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 23/01/2020 15:53:38 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4633 label Biography information for Paul Girvan

751452

registered interest
date	12/07/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Tunnels: Pennines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress his Department has made on the proposed trans-pennine tunnel.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	4463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>Highways England and Transport for the North are continuing work to understand the cost and benefits of linking the Manchester and Sheffield areas by tunnel. This will be completed by the autumn, when more information will be made available.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 20/07/2017 13:23:33 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

385956

registered interest
date	26/06/2015
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	Thames Tideway Tunnel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, under what circumstances the Government would invest equity in the Thames Tideway Tunnel infrastructure project.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Roger Mullin
uin	4463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>A Written Ministerial Statement of 5 June 2014 (Official Record, Col. 11WS) sets out the reasons for the Government’s decision to provide contingent financial support for the Thames Tideway Tunnel (TTT) project, and the scope of that provision. The TTT project will be financed and delivered by a competitively tendered Infrastructure Provider (IP), which will be an entirely separate entity to Thames Water. This will keep project costs down and provide value for money for customers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The support package is designed to make sure taxpayers’ interests are protected throughout the construction phase to which it applies, and the likelihood of it being called upon is remote. If the support package is not called upon, there will be no cost to the taxpayer. The IP will pay the Government for certain limbs of the support package at an appropriate commercial rate. The precise financial details of the package and particular circumstances under which Government equity or short-term loans would be provided to the project remain commercially sensitive while procurement of the IP is ongoing.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government formally notified the European Commission of the State Aid implications of the support package earlier this year. The EC has yet to announce its decision on State Aid approval. We will inform Parliament of the outcome of Thames Water’s procurement of the IP when it is complete.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 4459 4460 4461 4462 4465 question first answered 06/07/2015 14:13:32 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4468 label Biography information for Roger Mullin