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Daily Report Wednesday, 10 October 2018 CONTENTS Daily Report Wednesday, 10 October 2018 This report shows written answers and statements provided on 10 October 2018 and the information is correct at the time of publication (07:09 P.M., 10 October 2018). For the latest information on written questions and answers, ministerial corrections, and written statements, please visit: http://www.parliament.uk/writtenanswers/ CONTENTS ANSWERS 4 Brineura 9 BUSINESS, ENERGY AND Cervical Cancer: Screening 10 INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 4 Child Sexual Abuse Directors: Gender 4 Independent Panel Inquiry 10 Self-employed 4 General Practitioners: Self-employed: Older Workers 4 Merseyside 10 Small Businesses: Billing 5 General Practitioners: South Tyneside 11 Work Experience: Pay 5 Health Services: Standards 13 CABINET OFFICE 5 Horses: Slaughterhouses 14 Constitution Reform Group: Freedom of Information 5 Lung Diseases: Health Education 14 Voting Rights: British Nationals Abroad 6 Mental Health Services: Children and Young People 15 EXITING THE EUROPEAN UNION 7 Mental Health Services: Sexual Offences 15 Department for Exiting the European Union: Living Wage 7 Mental Health Services: Yorkshire and the Humber 16 FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE 7 Obesity: Children 16 Iraq: Internally Displaced Paediatric Autoimmune People 7 Neuropsychiatric Disorders 16 Iraq: Politics and Government 8 Parc Prison: Mental Health Services 17 Israel: Palestinians 8 Pharmacy: Hampstead and USA: UNRWA 8 Kilburn 17 HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE 9 Preventive Medicine 17 Allergies: Medical Treatments 9 Prostate Cancer: Tomography 17 BAN2401 9 Rare Diseases: Drugs 18 Palestinians: Overseas Aid 26 HOME OFFICE 18 Palestinians: USA 26 Antisocial Behaviour: Young Rohingya: Refugees 26 People 18 INTERNATIONAL TRADE 27 Asylum: Housing 19 Trade Promotion: Liberia 27 Crimes of Violence 19 JUSTICE 27 Crimes of Violence: Armed Forces: Death 27 Conferences 20 Birmingham Prison 28 Deportation: Windrush Generation 20 Community Orders: Reoffenders 29 Domestic Violence: Children 21 Crime: Victims 30 Entry Clearances: Overseas Students 21 Ministry of Justice: Staff 31 Home Office: Staff 21 Ministry of Justice: Working Hours 31 Home Office: Working Hours 21 Prisoners' Release 31 Immigration: Windrush Generation 22 Sexual Assault Referral Centres: Finance 32 Police 22 NORTHERN IRELAND 32 Police Service of Northern Ireland 23 Northern Ireland Office: Living Wage 32 Police Stations: Closures 23 SCOTLAND 32 Police: ICT 23 Scotland Office: Living Wage 32 Police: Sick Leave 23 Scotland Office: Staff 33 Serious Violence Taskforce 24 Scotland Office: Working UK Visas and Immigration: Hours 33 Telephone Services 24 TRANSPORT 34 INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 25 Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency: Staff 34 Developing Countries 25 Driving: EU Law 34 Developing Countries: Nature Conservation 25 Gospel Oak-Barking Railway Line 35 Developing Countries: Rule of Law 25 WORK AND PENSIONS 36 Developing Countries: Trade Housing Benefit: Social Promotion 25 Rented Housing 36 Overseas Aid: Private Sector 26 Personal Independence Payment 37 WRITTEN STATEMENTS 38 HOME OFFICE 43 BUSINESS, ENERGY AND Publication of the INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 38 Government’s response to Competitiveness Council David Anderson’s review into (Internal Market, Industry, Deportation with Assurances 43 Research and Space), 27-28th Report of the Independent September 38 Reviewer of Terrorism Energy Policy 40 Legislation on the operation in 2017 of the Terrorism Acts DEFENCE 41 2000 and 2006, the Terrorism Future Accommodation Model 41 Prevention and Investigation DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND Measures Act 2011, and the SPORT 41 Terrorist Asset Freezing Etc. Act 2010 44 Contingent Liability for the British Board of Film INTERNATIONAL Classification (BBFC) as the DEVELOPMENT 44 Age Verification Regulator 41 EBOLA OUTBREAK IN THE EDUCATION 42 DRC: UPDATE ON UK RESPONSE 44 Government Asset Sale 42 JUSTICE 45 Justice and Home Affairs pre- Council statement 45 Notes: Questions marked thus [R] indicate that a relevant interest has been declared. Questions with identification numbers of 900000 or greater indicate that the question was originally tabled as an oral question and has since been unstarred. ANSWERS BUSINESS, ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY Directors: Gender Justin Madders: [174746] To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential value to the UK economy of achieving a better gender balance on company boards. Kelly Tolhurst: The Government is committed to a cohesive society, where everyone – no matter what their background – has the opportunity to enter into and progress at work and achieve on merit. Gender diversity in the workforce and in business leadership is good for company performance and productivity; it benefits investors, the wider economy and society as a whole. A report published by McKinsey in 2016 has estimated that bridging the UK gender gap in work has the potential to create an extra £150 billion on top of business-as-usual GDP forecasts in 2025. That is why we need our top companies to lead the way on this. The Government commissioned and supports the independent, business-led Hampton-Alexander Review to meet its targets of women holding 33% of senior leadership positions and 33% of board positions in FTSE350 companies by 2020. Self-employed Justin Madders: [174745] To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate he has made of the number of self-employed people (a) with and (b) without employees. Kelly Tolhurst: This data is available publicly here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentande mployeetypes/bulletins/uklabourmarket/september2018 Self-employed: Older Workers Justin Madders: [174744] To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the number of self-employment among workers aged 65 and above. Kelly Tolhurst: This data is available publicly here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentande mployeetypes/bulletins/uklabourmarket/september2018 Small Businesses: Billing Bill Esterson: [174703] To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to encourage businesses to become signatories to the Prompt Payment Code. Kelly Tolhurst: The Government supports the Prompt Payment Code as an industry-led and voluntary set of best-practice principles. We work closely with the Chartered Institute of Credit Management (CICM), who administer the Code, in encouraging organisations to sign up to the Code. Furthermore, the Department has now launched a call for evidence seeking views on how we can build on the government’s existing late payment policies, including the Prompt Payment Code, to drive an end to late payments. Work Experience: Pay Justin Madders: [174739] To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to his Answer of 18 July 2018 to Question 163133 on Work Experience: Pay, what the timetable is for the public guidance to be updated. Kelly Tolhurst: The updated internship guidance will clarify the checks employers need to take to ensure compliance with the law. The update will be published shortly alongside other regular updates to the guidance entitled “Calculating the National Minimum Wage”. HMRC are continuing to write to employers advertising unpaid internships to help them understand National Minimum Wage law. Similarly, HMRC also engage with at- risk groups, with over 1.6 million text messages sent to workers, 1.3 million texts sent to working tax credit recipients, and 370,000 texts sent to apprentices. HMRC responds to 100% of worker complaints and also conducts proactive, targeted enforcement. In the 2017/18 financial year, HMRC identified £15.6 million in arrears for over 200,00 workers. CABINET OFFICE Constitution Reform Group: Freedom of Information Cat Smith: [169501] To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many freedom of information requests the Constitution Group has received each year since 2015; and what proportion of such requests were (a) granted in full, (b) are still outstanding, (c) partially withheld and (d) fully withheld. Chloe Smith: The number of FOI requests received by Constitution Group since 2015, broken down by year, are as follows: 2015: 32 2016: 20 2017: 41 2018 (first quarter): 14 Cabinet Office records the outcome of cases, including the nature of the response and the statutory exemptions used, at the departmental level and these Cabinet Office statistics are published quarterly as part of the wider FOI performance of central government. In order to provide the level of detail requested for just Constitution Group, the Cabinet Office would need to review each individual request and this would exceed the threshold of cost and time. The Cabinet Office’s publishing of statistics on the operation of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, including the outcome of cases, can be found at the following weblink: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics. Voting Rights: British Nationals Abroad Tom Brake: [173936] To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the potential cost to the public purse of removing the 15-year time limit on the right of British citizens living overseas to vote in UK parliamentary elections. Chloe Smith: British citizens living abroad retain strong links with the United Kingdom. Their stake in our country must
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