Daily Report Thursday, 5 March 2020 CONTENTS
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Daily Report Thursday, 5 March 2020 This report shows written answers and statements provided on 5 March 2020 and the information is correct at the time of publication (06:46 P.M., 05 March 2020). For the latest information on written questions and answers, ministerial corrections, and written statements, please visit: http://www.parliament.uk/writtenanswers/ CONTENTS ANSWERS Office for Disability Issues BUSINESS, ENERGY AND DEFENCE INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY Type 31 Frigates: Crew British Nationals Abroad: Type 31 Frigates: Iron and Employment Steel Department for Business, Type 31 Frigates: Energy and Industrial Strategy: Procurement Flags VE Day: Anniversaries Electric Vehicles: Prices DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND Heating: Carbon Emissions SPORT Home Energy and Lifestyle Creative Europe: Membership Management: Green Deal Scheme Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Offshore Wind Programme Flags Board: Internet Migrant Workers: EU Nationals Post Office: Civil Proceedings Suicide: Internet Post Office: ICT Transparency Working Group Post Offices: ICT Video Games: Sales Scottish Limited Partnerships: Ownership EDUCATION Wind Power: Seas and Asylum: Children in Care Oceans Children: Social Services CABINET OFFICE Culture: Education Civil Servants: Work Department for Education: Experience Flags Honours: Equality Disabled Students' Ministers: Conduct Allowances: Higher Education Literacy: Children Music: Education Israel: Educational Exchanges Secondary Education: Bromley Libya: Armed Conflict Special Educational Needs: Liu Feiyue Kingston Upon Hull Nigeria: Economic Growth Students: Compensation Public Health: Emergencies Universities: Industrial Rendition and Torture Disputes Thailand: Elephants ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS Yemen: Military Intervention Air Pollution: Greater London HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease 5G: Health Hazards Control Accident and Emergency Coal: Heating Departments: Mental Illness Dangerous Dogs Antibiotics Floods: South Yorkshire Atrial Fibrillation: Diagnosis Fuels: Heating Barts Health NHS Trust: Private Finance Initiative Pets: Travel Breast Cancer: Obesity Solid Fuels: Heating Cancer: Children and Young Trade Agreements: Carbon People Emissions Cancer: Drugs Tree Planting Coronavirus FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE Coronavirus: Costs British Nationals Abroad: Coronavirus: Disease Control Detainees Coronavirus: Hospital Beds Cameroon: Homicide Coronavirus: Italy Diplomatic Service Coronavirus: Northern Ireland Greece: Immigration Dental Health: Public Guinea: Politics and Consultation Government Department of Health and Gulf of Guinea: Abduction Social Care: Written Questions Haiti: Peacekeeping Food: Advertising Operations Health Services: EU Nationals Integrated Security, Defence Health: Females and Foreign Policy Review Hospitals Iran: Detainees Life Expectancy Lung Diseases Refugees: Families Malnutrition HOUSE OF COMMONS Malnutrition: Health Education COMMISSION Mental Health Services: Parliamentary Estate: Hygiene Children and Young People HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND Mildmay International LOCAL GOVERNMENT NHS 111: Ambulance Services Building Regulations: Fires NHS 111: Coronavirus Buildings: Fire Prevention Obesity Community Housing Fund Pregnancy: Alcoholic Drinks Community Housing Fund: Blackpool Prostate Cancer: Health Education and Research Disabled Facilities Grants: Blackpool Shipping: Coronavirus High Rise Flats: Fire Social Services: Finance Prevention Suicide: Males High Rise Flats: Insulation HOME OFFICE Homelessness: Young People Abortion Housing: Carbon Emissions Asylum: Applications Housing: Construction Asylum: Disclosure of Housing: Parking Information Local Government: Carbon Asylum: Interviews Emissions British Nationality: Children Local Housing Allowance Deportation: Jamaica Ministry of Housing, Domestic Abuse Communities and Local Domestic Violence Protection Government: Flags Orders Parking: Fees and Charges Drugs: Developing Countries Planning Permission Female Genital Mutilation Sleeping Rough Gambia: Offences against Towns Fund Children INTERNATIONAL Human Trafficking DEVELOPMENT Immigration Controls: Equality Armed Conflict: Children Immigration: Married People Crimes of Violence: Children Offences against Children Department for International Refugees Development: Flags Marriage: Children Entrepreneurs' Relief: Ilford INTERNATIONAL TRADE North Arms Trade: Human Rights Foreign Companies: China Arms Trade: Saudi Arabia Housing: Energy Coronavirus: Trade Fairs Loneliness Financial Services: British Mortgages Nationals Abroad Overseas Companies: Hong Stock Market: China Kong JUSTICE Pensions: Tax Allowances Alternatives to Prosecution: Public Sector Debt: Gifts and Shoplifting Endowments Homicide: Reoffenders Social Security Benefits: Lone Parents Ministry of Justice: Flags Treasury: Flags Prison Sentences Whisky: USA Prisoners: Gender Recognition WOMEN AND EQUALITIES TRANSPORT Candidates: Disability Bus Services: Subsidies EnAble Fund for Elected Office Buses: Exhaust Emissions WORK AND PENSIONS Buses: Hydrogen Independent Serious Case Department for Transport: Panel Flags Local Housing Allowance Driving Tests Means-tested Benefits: Electric Vehicles: Charging Coronavirus Points Office for Disability Issues: Highways England: Pay Staff Maidstone Railway Line: Personal Independence Railway Stations Payment: North West Transport: Exhaust Emissions Poverty: Children TREASURY Social Security Benefits [Subject Heading to be Social Security Benefits: Assigned] Coronavirus Advertising: Internet Social Security Benefits: Economic Cooperation: India Suicide Entrepreneurs' Relief Universal Credit: Housing WRITTEN STATEMENTS Probation Update DEFENCE PRIME MINISTER Review of the UK's Defence Annual Report of the and Security Industrial Investigatory Powers Strategy Commissioner ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND TRANSPORT RURAL AFFAIRS Aviation Update Bovine TB WORK AND PENSIONS JUSTICE Reaching State Pension Age Consultation on Improving the on Universal Credit Victims’ Code and the Surplus Earnings Government Response to the 2019 Consultation: ’Proposals for revising the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime’ 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 British Nationals Abroad: Employment Alberto Costa: [19877] To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he is taking steps to encourage highly skilled UK nationals based overseas to return to this country following the UK's departure from the EU; and if he will make a statement. Paul Scully: The rights of UK nationals who wish to continue living in the EU beyond 31st December 2020 have been secured through the Withdrawal Agreement. UK citizens living and working in the EEA or Switzerland by the end of the transition period can bring their close family members back to the UK with them under current conditions, to enable their family members to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme, until 29 March 2022, as long as the relationship was formed by 31 January 2020. We will continue to maintain up-to-date guidance on the Gov.uk website for any UK national living abroad who is considering returning to the UK. We would welcome UK nationals of whatever skill level who wish to return to the UK, whether from within or beyond the EU. Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Flags Philip Davies: [21193] To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many (a) Union Jack, (b) St George, (c) Scottish Saltire and (d) Flag of Wales flags his Department owns. Nadhim Zahawi: The Department owns the following flags: (a) Union Jack: 11 (b) St George: 1 (c) Scottish Saltire: 1 (d) Flag of Wales: 1. Philip Davies: [21936] To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many times the (a) Union Jack, (b) St George's flag, (c) Scottish Saltire and (d) flag of Wales has been flown from the headquarters of his Department in London in each year since 2015. Nadhim Zahawi: The Department always flies the Union Jack. We do not hold records on how many times the St George’s flag, Scottish Saltire, and the flag of Wales have been flown. Thirty-nine flag-flying events have taken place since 2017, with 15 instances where the type of flag flown was recorded. Electric Vehicles: Prices Janet Daby: [22052] To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that electric vehicles are affordable. Nadhim Zahawi: The Government’s current intervention in the electric vehicle market aims to accelerate upfront price parity between electric and internal combustion engine equivalents, making electric vehicles more affordable for all consumers. We are supporting R&D to ensure that technologies for electric vehicles are developed and brought to market as early as possible. This includes support for power electronics and motors, and the development of battery technology through the £274 million Faraday Battery Challenge. We are also incentivising demand to allow those technologies to reach the mass market and scale as early as possible. In addition, government grants for plug-in vehicles continue to help reduce the upfront purchase price of electric vehicles. Drivers of ultra-low emission vehicles also receive other benefits, including