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Daily Report Monday, 12 March 2018 CONTENTS Daily Report Monday, 12 March 2018 This report shows written answers and statements provided on 12 March 2018 and the information is correct at the time of publication (06:39 P.M., 12 March 2018). For the latest information on written questions and answers, ministerial corrections, and written statements, please visit: http://www.parliament.uk/writtenanswers/ CONTENTS ANSWERS 8 Department for Business, ATTORNEY GENERAL 8 Energy and Industrial Strategy: Internet 15 Attorney General: Apprentices 8 Drugs: Research 16 Attorney General: Business Interests 8 Energy: Meters 16 Crown Prosecution Service 8 Environment Protection: Taxation 17 Financial Services: Sanctions 9 GKN: Melrose 17 Hare Coursing: Fines 9 Iron and Steel: USA 18 Serious Fraud Office 9 Limited Liability: Public Sexual Offences: Newcastle Consultation 18 Upon Tyne 9 Limited Liability: Scotland 18 BUSINESS, ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 10 Natural Gas: Weather 19 Business: North East 10 Renewable Energy 19 Carbon Emissions 11 Social Services: Pay 20 Carillion: Insolvency 12 Tidal Power: Swansea Bay 20 Cats: Poisoning 12 CABINET OFFICE 20 Coal 13 Blood: Contamination 20 Conditions of Employment: Cabinet Office: Arms Length Weather 13 Bodies 21 Department for Business, Cabinet Office: Beverage Energy and Industrial Strategy: Containers 21 Emergencies 14 Cabinet Office: Departmental Department for Business, Responsibilities 21 Energy and Industrial Strategy: Cabinet Office: Flexible G8 14 Working 22 Cabinet Office: Ministerial Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft 33 Powers 22 Ministry of Defence: Internet 33 Cabinet Office: Written Ministry of Defence: Iron and Questions 22 Steel 34 Cabinet Office: Zero Hours Veterans: Scotland 34 Contracts 23 DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND Carillion 23 SPORT 34 Civil Servants: Recruitment 24 Charities: Data Protection 34 Civil Servants: Training 25 Culture, Practices and Ethics Emergencies: Departmental of the Press Inquiry 35 Responsibilities 26 Digital Technology: EU Families 26 Internal Trade 35 General Elections: Dementia 26 Internet: Security 36 Government 26 UN Convention for Protection Government Departments: of Cultural Property in Event of Contracts 27 Armed Conflict 37 Government Departments: EDUCATION 37 Databases 27 Academies 37 Government Departments: Apprentices 38 Land 28 Apprentices: Average Prostate Cancer 28 Earnings 38 Public Sector: Cybercrime 28 Apprentices: Ethnic Groups 39 DEFENCE 29 Apprentices: Wolverhampton 39 Armed Forces: Discharges 29 Child Minding: Registration 40 Armed Forces: Dogs 29 Children: Day Care 40 Armed Forces: Mental Health Department for Education: Services 30 Public Appointments 41 Armed Forces: Pay 30 Department for Education: Armed Forces: Surveys 31 Staff 42 Astute Class Submarines 32 Digital Technology: Curriculum 43 Boeing 32 Faith Schools: Equality 43 Defence Equipment: Exports 32 Further Education: ICT 43 Defence: Procurement 32 Mature Students 44 Firing Ranges: Dundrennan 33 Pre-school Education: Assessments 45 HMS Ambush 33 Students: Loans 45 Students: Protection 45 EU Countries: British Nationals Teachers: Training 46 Abroad 56 Universities Superannuation FOREIGN AND Scheme 46 COMMONWEALTH OFFICE 56 Universities: Freedom of Football: Northern Ireland 56 Expression 47 Hamed bin Haydara 56 Universities: Strikes 47 Jamaica: Foreign Relations 57 ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe 57 RURAL AFFAIRS 47 Nigeria: Religious Freedom 57 Agriculture: Apprentices 47 Saudi Arabia: Overseas Trade 58 Agriculture: Genetic South Sudan: Armed Conflict 58 Engineering 48 Sri Lanka: Community Agriculture: Subsidies 49 Relations 59 Animals: Tagging 49 Sri Lanka: Violence 59 Beetles: Conservation 49 Syria: Armed Conflict 60 Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Syria: Military Intervention 61 Control 50 Tanzania: Religious Buildings 62 Chemicals: EU Law 50 Yemen: Armed Conflict 62 Common Agricultural Policy: Wales 50 Yemen: Peace Negotiations 62 Department for Environment, HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE 63 Food and Rural Affairs: Breast Cancer: West Midlands 63 Fairtrade Initiative 50 Clinical Commissioning Hill Farming 51 Groups: Halton 63 Packaging 51 Compulsorily Detained Pollution Control: North West 52 Psychiatric Patients: Ethnic Groups 64 Public Footpaths 53 Compulsorily Detained Public Footpaths: South West 53 Psychiatric Patients: Restraint Seasonal Agricultural Workers' Techniques 64 Scheme 53 Department of Health and Water Supply 54 Social Care: Internet 64 EXITING THE EUROPEAN Eating Disorders 65 UNION 55 General Practitioners: Labour Brexit 55 Turnover 66 Department for Exiting the Health Professions 67 European Union: Apprentices 55 Health Services: Females 67 Health Services: Reciprocal Passports 82 Arrangements 67 Police: Pay 83 Health Services: Veterans 68 Police: Training 83 Health Services: Waiting Lists 68 Sexual Offences: Newcastle Members: Correspondence 69 Upon Tyne 84 Mental Health Services 69 Yarl's Wood Immigration Mental Health Services: Wirral 72 Removal Centre 84 Mental Illness: Devon 72 HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT 85 Nabiximols 73 Alcoholic Drinks: Minimum NHS: Translation Services 73 Prices 85 Obesity: Children 74 Alcoholic Drinks: Prices 85 Personal Injury: Compensation 74 Council Tax: Dorset 86 Prisoners: Abortion 74 Council Tax: Empty Property 86 Prostate Cancer: Screening 75 High Rise Flats: Fire Sexual Offences: Essex 75 Prevention 86 Social Services: Minimum Homelessness 87 Wage 76 Housing 88 Spectacles: Prescriptions 76 Housing: Construction 88 Wirral University Teaching Housing: Dorset 89 Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 76 Local Enterprise Partnerships 89 HOME OFFICE 77 Local Government: Disclosure of Information 90 Alfie Dingley 77 Local Government: Dorset 90 Asylum: Detainees 78 Ministry of Housing, Community Policing 78 Communities and Local Counter-terrorism 79 Government: Internet 91 Dogs: Theft 79 Ministry of Housing, Domestic Violence 79 Communities and Local Government: Written Fire Prevention: Inspections 79 Questions 91 Home Office: Carillion 80 Opportunity and Integration Housing: Fire Prevention 80 Review 91 Immigrants: Detainees 81 Private Rented Housing 92 Islam: Publications 82 Right to Buy Scheme: Stafford 92 Libya: Unexplained Wealth Sleeping Rough 92 Orders 82 Sleeping Rough: Weather 93 Prisoners: Wales 110 Social Services: Children 93 Prisons: Contracts 112 INTERNATIONAL Prisons: Mother and Baby DEVELOPMENT 94 Units 112 Developing Countries: HIV Prisons: Profits 112 Infection 94 Prisons: Repairs and Developing Countries: Nurses 94 Maintenance 113 Developing Countries: Prisons: Visits 114 Sanitary Protection 94 Reoffenders: Females 114 Palestinians: Overseas Aid 95 Segregation of Prisoners 116 INTERNATIONAL TRADE 96 Social Security and Child Small Businesses: Overseas Support Tribunal: Staff 117 Trade 96 NORTHERN IRELAND 117 JUSTICE 96 Northern Ireland Office: Approved Premises 96 Domestic Visits 117 Children: Custody 97 Northern Ireland Office: Civil Proceedings 97 Internet 118 Community Orders 98 SCOTLAND 118 Council Tax: Non-payment 99 Scotland Office: Internet 118 Courts: Closures 99 TRANSPORT 119 Courts: ICT 101 Aviation 119 Courts: Video Conferencing 102 Bus Services: Pollution Control 119 Crime: Victims 103 Department for Transport: Carillion 119 Judiciary: Gender 103 Department for Transport: Legal Aid Scheme: Housing 104 Internet 120 Legal Aid, Sentencing and East Coast Railway Line 120 Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 104 Helicopters: Offshore Industry 121 Legal Representation 105 Luton Airport: Railways 122 Ministry of Justice: Contracts 106 Parking: Pedestrian Areas 123 Ministry of Justice: Internet 106 Railway Stations: Wellingborough 123 Parole Board 107 Railways: Fares 124 Prison Officers 108 Severn River Crossing: Tolls 124 Prison Sentences 109 Silvertown Tunnel 125 Prisoners: Mental Health 110 South Western Railway: Motability: Coventry South 143 Season Tickets 125 Motability: Garston and Southeastern: Compensation 126 Halewood 143 Southeastern: Standards 126 Occupational Pensions: TREASURY 128 Private Sector 144 Apprentices: Minimum Wage 128 Pension Protection Fund 144 Business Bank Italy 128 Personal Independence Payment 145 Business Premises Renovation Allowance 129 Personal Independence Payment: Mental Illness 146 Children: Day Care 129 Personal Independence Cryptocurrencies 130 Payment: Parkinson's Disease 147 Self-employed: East Ham 130 Social Security Benefits: Social Rented Housing: Rents 130 Agriculture 148 Unemployment 131 State Retirement Pensions: WALES 131 British Nationals Abroad 149 Wales Office: Land 131 Trampolining: Regulation 149 WOMEN AND EQUALITIES 131 Universal Credit 149 Equality and Human Rights Universal Credit: Disability 150 Commission 131 Universal Credit: WORK AND PENSIONS 132 Disqualification 150 Christchurch Hospital: Universal Credit: Temporary Personal Independence Employment 151 Payment 132 Work Capability Assessment 152 Cold Weather Payments 132 MINISTERIAL CORRECTIONS 153 Department for Work and INTERNATIONAL TRADE 153 Pensions: Internet 134 Trade Promotion 153 Disability Premium 135 WRITTEN STATEMENTS 154 Domestic Violence 137 BUSINESS, ENERGY AND Employment and Support INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 154 Allowance 138 Competitiveness Council, 12 Jobcentre Plus: Training 138 March 154 Members: Correspondence 139 EXITING THE EUROPEAN Mortgages: Government UNION 154 Assistance 139 UK-Gibraltar Relationship 154 Motability 142 FOREIGN AND TRANSPORT 160 COMMONWEALTH OFFICE 155 HS2 Update 160 Opposition Day Debate: TREASURY 161 Refugees and Human Rights 155 ECOFIN: 13 March 2018 161 HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE 156
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