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Daily Report Tuesday, 23 July 2019 CONTENTS Daily Report Tuesday, 23 July 2019 This report shows written answers and statements provided on 23 July 2019 and the information is correct at the time of publication (06:35 P.M., 23 July 2019). For the latest information on written questions and answers, ministerial corrections, and written statements, please visit: http://www.parliament.uk/writtenanswers/ CONTENTS ANSWERS 7 Heating: Rural Areas 14 ATTORNEY GENERAL 7 Housing: Electricity 15 Attorney General: Ethnic Housing: Insulation 16 Groups 7 Insolvency 17 Attorney General: Working Manufacturing Industries 17 Hours 7 New Businesses 20 BUSINESS, ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 8 Research: Expenditure 20 Avara Avlon Pharma Services: Research: Finance 20 Insolvency 8 Research: Investment 21 Boilers: Standards 8 Seabed: Mining 21 Carbon Emissions: EU UK Seabed Resources: Pacific Countries 9 Ocean 21 Clean Growth Ministerial Waste Heat Recovery 22 Group 10 Wind Power 22 Companies House: Fraud 10 CABINET OFFICE 23 Design of UK Funding Cabinet Office: Credit Unions 23 Schemes for European and International Collaboration Constituencies 23 Review 11 Emergencies: Planning 23 Directors: Personation 11 Huawei: 5G 24 District Heating 12 Members: Correspondence 24 Electricity 12 DEFENCE 24 Energy: EU Grants and Loans 13 Armed Forces Covenant: Environment Protection: Veterans 24 Employment 13 Armed Forces: Pay 25 Heat Trust 13 Defence Fire and Rescue Service 25 Defence Fire and Rescue Personal, Social, Health and Service: Serco 25 Economic Education 40 Defence Medical Services: Post-18 Education and Training 26 Funding Review 40 Defence: Procurement 26 Private Education: Overseas Ministry of Defence: Aid 41 Disclosure of Information 27 Pupils: Incontinence 41 Ministry of Defence: Ethnic Schools: Admissions 42 Groups 28 Sex and Relationship Reserve Forces and Cadets Education 42 Association 28 Sex and Relationship Veterans UK: Fylde 29 Education: Primary Education 43 War Pensions 29 Special Educational Needs: War Pensions: Post-traumatic Barnsley 44 Stress Disorder 29 Special Educational Needs: DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND Hearing Impairment 45 SPORT 30 Universities: Sexual Offences 46 Gambling: Young People 30 ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND Loneliness 30 RURAL AFFAIRS 46 Loneliness: Scotland and Agriculture: Environment Wales 32 Protection 46 EDUCATION 32 Agriculture: Subsidies 47 Adoption: Finance 32 Animal Experiments 47 Adult Education: Qualifications 33 Floods: House Insurance 48 Children: Day Care 33 Food: Allowances 48 Children: Food Poverty 34 Horses: Animal Welfare 49 Citizenship: Education 35 Nature Conservation: North Cornwall 49 Department for Education: Working Hours 36 Plastics: EU Law 50 Further Education 36 [ Plastics: Recycling 50 Further Education: Fees and Rural Areas: Public Transport 50 Charges 37 Sheep Meat: UK Trade with Higher Education: Admissions 38 EU 51 Holiday Activities and Food Sheep: Transmissible Research Fund 38 Encephalopathies 53 National Retraining Scheme 39 EXITING THE EUROPEAN Cancer: Integrated Care UNION 53 Systems 63 Brexit 53 Cervical Cancer: Research 63 Finance: British Overseas Clinical Commissioning Territories 53 Groups: Standards 64 Gibraltar 54 Cystic Fibrosis: Drugs 64 UK Trade with EU: Dementia 65 Employment 54 Drugs: Storage 65 FOREIGN AND Genetics: Screening 66 COMMONWEALTH OFFICE 55 Health Services: Technology 66 British Indian Ocean Territory: Sovereignty 55 Heart Diseases and Strokes: Females 67 China: Ethnic Groups 55 HIV Infection: Drugs 68 China: State Visits 55 HIV Infection: Greater London 69 Eritrea: Yemen 57 Medical Treatments 69 Hezbollah and Islamic Resistance Support NHS: Drugs 70 Organization 58 Radiotherapy: Staffordshire 71 Hong Kong: Extradition 58 Rehabilitation Centres: County Iran: Baha'i Faith 58 Durham 71 Khaleda Zia 59 Sophie Holman 72 Norfolk Island: Foreign Synacthen: Prices 72 Relations 59 HOME OFFICE 73 North Macedonia: NATO 59 Hemp: Licensing 73 Sub-Saharan Africa: English Police: Mental Health 73 Language 60 Police: Mental Health Services 73 HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE 60 Sleeping Rough 74 5G: Health Hazards 60 Terrorism: British Nationals [ Accident and Emergency Abroad 74 Departments: Nottinghamshire 61 HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND Audiology and Hearing Aids 61 LOCAL GOVERNMENT 75 Calea: Parenteral Nutrition 61 Buildings: Insulation 75 Cancer: Children and Young Council House Transfers 76 People 62 Council Tax Reduction Cancer: Cornwall 62 Schemes 77 Cancer: Diagnosis 62 Disabled Facilities Grants 77 Ground Rent 77 Occupied Territories: Health Hate Crime: Sikhs 78 Services 89 High Rise Flats: Fire Overseas Aid 90 Prevention 79 Syria: Politics and Government 90 High Rise Flats: Insulation 81 INTERNATIONAL TRADE 91 Housing: Repairs and Arms Trade 91 Maintenance 81 Comprehensive and Local Government: Translation Progressive Agreement for Services 82 Trans-Pacific Partnership 91 Private Rented Housing: Defence and Security Energy 82 Organisation 92 Temporary Accommodation 82 Trade Agreements 92 INTERNATIONAL Trade Agreements: Trade DEVELOPMENT 83 Unions 93 Afghanistan and Pakistan: Trade Agreements: Wales 93 Poliomyelitis 83 JUSTICE 94 British Overseas Territories: County Courts: Lambeth 94 Environment Protection 83 Courts: Sales 94 Dalal Mughrabi and Omar Abu Laila 84 Cremation 95 Democratic Republic of Dangerous Driving 95 Congo: Ebola 84 European Arrest Warrants 96 Department for International Ministry of Justice: Reviews 96 Development: Ethnic Groups 85 Offenders: Electronic Tagging 97 Department for International Offenders: Foreign Nationals 97 Development: Working Hours 85 Offenders: Homelessness 97 Developing Countries: Education 86 Prisoners: Childbirth 98 Developing Countries: Prisoners: Employment 98 Nutrition 86 Prisons: Education 99 Gaza: Health Professions 87 Prisons: Mental Health Gaza: Health Services 87 Services 102 Humanitarian Aid 88 Secure Accommodation 102 Ilois: Resettlement 88 Segregation of Prisoners 103 International Assistance 89 Social Security Benefits: Appeals 103 Montserrat: Legislatures 89 Television: Licensing 104 Universal Credit: Appeals 104 Public Sector: Redundancy Universal Credit: Disability 104 Pay 116 Wakefield Prison: Pepper Gas 105 Social Services: VAT 116 NORTHERN IRELAND 105 Treasury: Credit Unions 116 Loughs Agency: Finance 105 Treasury: Ethnic Groups 117 Tourism Ireland: Finance 105 UK Trade with EU 117 SCOTLAND 106 VAT: Business 117 NHS: Drugs 106 WALES 118 Public Expenditure: Scotland 106 Wales Office: Ethnic Groups 118 TRANSPORT 107 WOMEN AND EQUALITIES 118 A422: Farthinghoe 107 Assistance Animals 118 Aviation: Carbon Emissions 108 Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Amendment) (Sibling Aviation: Safety 108 Couples) Bill [HL] 120 Bus Services 108 Civil Partnerships: Electric Vehicles: Charging Heterosexuality 120 Points 109 Employment: Disability 120 Electric Vehicles: Grants 109 Equal Pay 121 Heathrow Airport: Exhaust Gender Recognition: Children 121 Emissions 110 Government Equalities Office: Motor Vehicles: Children 111 Written Questions 122 Motorcycles 111 Human Papillomavirus: Parking: Disability 112 Vaccination 122 Railways: Surveys 112 WORK AND PENSIONS 122 Transport for Wales: Bristol 112 Amazon: Industrial Health and Transport: Infrastructure 113 Safety 122 TREASURY 114 Children: Day Care 123 Child Tax Credit 114 Children: Maintenance 123 Employment: Taxation 114 Employment and Support Allowance 124 EU External Trade: Import Controls 114 Employment: Autism 124 Minimum Wage and Work Pension Credit: Dementia 126 Experience 115 Pensions: Consumer Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties 115 Information 126 Non-domestic Rates 115 Social Security Benefits 127 Social Security Benefits: [ EDUCATION 142 Disability 127 Correction 142 Social Security Benefits: Higher Education Student Forms 129 Finance 143 Social Security Benefits: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE 148 Medical Examinations 129 Advancing our Health: Unemployment 129 Prevention in the 2020s 148 Universal Credit 130 Consultation on Pensions for Universal Credit: Disability 131 NHS Clinicians 149 Universal Credit: Domestic HOME OFFICE 150 Abuse 131 Consultation on the Universal Credit: Northern introduction of statutory Ireland 132 guidance to the police for MINISTERIAL CORRECTIONS 133 firearms licensing 150 EDUCATION 133 Immigration 151 Department for Education: Revision of the Police and Apprentices 133 Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (‘PACE’) Codes of Practice C Institute for Apprenticeships: and H 153 Apprentices 133 Terrorism 154 WRITTEN STATEMENTS 135 HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND BUSINESS, ENERGY AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT 155 INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 135 Local government update 155 Business Update 135 JUSTICE 157 Consumer Update 136 Appointment to the Prison Energy Update 138 Service Pay Review Body 157 Government Chemist Review TRANSPORT 157 2018 141 Annual Update on Crossrail DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND 2019 157 SPORT 142 Media Matters 142 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 ATTORNEY GENERAL Attorney General: Ethnic Groups Seema Malhotra: [279042] To ask the Attorney General, how many BAME staff are employed at (a) grade 7, (b) grade 5 and (c) grade 3 in his Department. Lucy Frazer: The recording of ethnicity is the responsibility of the individual to input via employee self-service. Due to small numbers of staff at each of the requested grades, we have grouped these together in our response below. Including those on temporary promotion at
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