The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-06-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department’s Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern contractual breach notice, dated 7 July 2015.
Claire Perry
A copy will be placed in the libraries of both Houses.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Amanda Solloway on 2016-09-02.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the proposed A52 improvement programme.
Mr John Hayes
Highways England, in accordance with its Delivery Plan, is delivering the A52 scheme in Roads Investment Strategy Period 1 (2015-2020) and plans to start construction by 2019/20. The scheme will deliver a package of measures to improve junctions along the A52 near Nottingham to assist with the development of the Nottingham Enterprise Zone adjacent to the A52.
Highways England has appointed design consultants to work up and assess a range of options and will be engaging stakeholders in the coming months.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Blencathra on 2016-10-19.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have plans to replace the permanent secretary to the Treasury or the permanent representative at the UK Permanent Representation to the EU.
Baroness Anelay of St Johns
There are no plans to replace the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury or the Permanent Representative at the UK Permanent Representation to the EU.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alex Chalk on 2016-01-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps she is taking to support the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the security services in tackling terrorism in Northern Ireland.
Mrs Theresa Villiers
The PSNI do an outstanding and vital job keeping people safe from violent dissident republicans.
That is why they will receive £160 million extra security funding over the next five years from the UK Government to tackle this threat.
This builds on £231 million additional security funding we have provided since 2011.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2016-02-03.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what programmes her Department has contributed to from the £300 million it allocated to eradicate polio.
Mr Nick Hurd
The United Kingdom remains fully committed to global polio eradication and has pledged £300 million to support the Global Polio Eradication Initiative for 2013 to 2019. Of the £300 million, £270 million is directed to the World Health Organisation, which hosts the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. £30 million is allocated to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to support its role in the global introduction of the Inactivated Polio Vaccine, a key step in the path to eradication.
As the third largest contributor towards global polio eradication, UK support has played a crucial role in the more than 99% decrease in polio cases since the launch of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in 1988.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Karl McCartney on 2016-02-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps the Government took to ensure that its response to its consultation, Sunday Trading, published in August 2015, took substantive account of the range of responses to that consultation.
Anna Soubry
The Government has conscientiously taken into account all the responses and evidence submitted during the consultation in formulating our proposals.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-03-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will estimate how many and what proportion of all women with mental health issues in the UK have been internally or internationally trafficked.
Mike Penning
The Home Office do not hold data that allows us to establish how many women with mental health issues in the UK have been trafficked.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Byford on 2016-04-28.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government which plant protection products are banned for use in the UK but are currently being used in other member states of the EU.
Lord Gardiner of Kimble
There is a two-step process before a plant protection product can be placed on the market and used. First, the active substance or active substances contained in the product must be approved EU-wide by the European Commission. Second, the product itself must be authorised by the Member State. Authorisations are determined on the basis of an assessment of the risks to people and to the environment. The approach to the assessment is harmonised across the EU, but the outcomes of applications for the same product may differ because of variations in national conditions.
Companies will decide the Member States from which they wish to seek authorisation and authorisation holders may, at any time, instruct that authorisations are withdrawn.
Product authorisations may therefore vary between Member States. At present, there is no central database of authorisations which records these differences.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liz McInnes on 2016-06-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department plans to take to collect data on the number of people with arthritis who qualify for personal independence payments on the basis of their need to use aids and appliances.
Justin Tomlinson
The department routinely collects management information on the descriptors awarded to each claimant when they have a PIP assessment.
In the PIP assessment, individuals are assessed on their ability to complete a number of key every day activities (for example, relating to the ability to dress and undress). Within each activity there are a number of descriptors, each representing a varying level of ability to carry out the activity. A descriptor may indicate the need to use an aid or appliance.
Data on the claimant’s primary disabling condition is recorded for those individuals who have a PIP assessment. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which their decision is based, but only the primary condition is recorded.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Deidre Brock on 2016-09-02.
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, which treaties the UK is a signatory to as a member of the EU which will require renegotiation as a result of the UK leaving the EU.
Mr Robin Walker
We are examining all treaties which relate to our membership of the EU with a view to delivering the best outcomes for the UK.