Daily Report Monday, 1 July 2019 CONTENTS
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Daily Report Monday, 1 July 2019 This report shows written answers and statements provided on 1 July 2019 and the information is correct at the time of publication (07:06 P.M., 01 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 6 Political Parties: Finance 16 BUSINESS, ENERGY AND Senior Civil Servants: INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 6 Education 18 Biofuels 6 Senior Civil Servants: Private Carbon Capture and Storage 6 Education 18 Carbon Capture and Storage: Small Businesses: Scotland 9 Procurement 19 Carbon Emissions: DEFENCE 19 Departmental Coordination 10 Armed Forces: Heart Diseases 19 Carbon: Scotland 10 Armed Forces: Mental Health Climate Change 11 Services 19 Climate Change Convention: European Fighter Aircraft 20 USA 11 Future Large Aircraft 21 Climate Change: Hawk Aircraft 22 Commonwealth 11 Saudi Arabia: Arms Trade 22 Energy: Housing 12 Saudi Arabia: Military Aid 23 Energy: Prices 13 Warrior Armoured Vehicle 23 Motor Vehicles: Manufacturing DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND Industries 13 SPORT 23 Nuclear Power Stations: BBC 23 Construction 14 Electronic Publishing: VAT 24 Offshore Industry: Helicopters 14 Hate Crime: Transgender Oil: Exploration 15 People 24 CABINET OFFICE 15 Internet: Safety 24 Civil Servants: Education 15 Lotteries: Prizes 25 GovTech Fund 15 Mobile Phones: Price Fixing 25 Immigrants: Suicide 16 Pupils: Sports 25 Air Pollution 39 Television: Licensing 26 Animal Welfare: Inspections 40 EDUCATION 27 Animal Welfare: Sentencing 41 Apprentices: Free School Climate Change 41 Meals 27 Horse Racing: Animal Welfare 42 Apprentices: North West 27 Horse Racing: Equine Flu 43 Climate Change: Education 28 Peat 43 Education: Judaism 28 Plastics: Waste 44 Higher Education: Admissions 29 Radioactive Waste 44 Higher Education: Free School Recycling 46 Meals 30 Rural Areas: Loneliness 46 Learning Disability Week: Publicity 30 Schools: Energy 47 Medicine: Education 31 Southern Water 47 Physical Education: GCE A- Tree Planting 48 level and GCSE 31 Wood-burning Stoves 48 Post-18 Education and EXITING THE EUROPEAN Funding Review 32 UNION 48 Pupil Exclusions 32 Borders: Northern Ireland 48 Pupils: Absenteeism 33 Brexit 49 Pupils: Health and Sports 33 NHS 50 Pupils: Sanitary Protection 33 FOREIGN AND Refugees: Children and Young COMMONWEALTH OFFICE 50 People 34 Christianity: Oppression 50 Schools: Finance 34 IRA: Libya 50 Social Mobility 35 Jagtar Singh Johal 51 Soft Drinks: Taxation 36 Russia: Council of Europe 51 Sure Start Programme 37 Western Sahara: Human Teachers: Absenteeism 37 Rights 51 Teachers: Training 37 Western Sahara: Sovereignty 52 Wakefield City Academies Yemen: Military Intervention 52 Trust: Deloitte and Touche 38 HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE 53 ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND Abortion 53 RURAL AFFAIRS 38 Abortion: Health Education 53 Agriculture: Plastics 38 Abortion: North West 53 Abortion: Trials 54 Suicide: Males 68 Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse 54 HOME OFFICE 69 Ambulance Services: Essex 55 Asylum: Iraq 69 Antidepressants 55 Criminal Proceedings: Artificial Autism and Learning Disability: Intelligence 69 Newcastle-under-Lyme 56 Detention Centres: Operating Breast Cancer: Screening 56 Costs 70 Cannabis: Prescriptions 57 Domestic Abuse and Stalking 70 Cataracts: Surgery 58 Domestic Abuse: Ethnic Groups 70 Dementia 59 Forced Marriage 71 Drugs: Misuse 59 Immigrants: Detainees 72 East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust 60 National Police Air Service: Humberside Police 73 Gender Recognition: Health Services 61 Police 74 General Practitioners: Police Stations: Merseyside 74 Hullbridge 61 Police: Finance 75 Genito-urinary Medicine 61 Stalking 75 Health Services: HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND Undocumented Migrants 62 LOCAL GOVERNMENT 75 Health: Children 63 Buildings: Insulation 75 Healthy Start Scheme 63 Carbon Monoxide: Alarms 76 Hospitals: Essex 63 Coal: Opencast Mining 77 NHS England: Publications 64 Derelict Land 77 NHS Trusts: Legal Opinion 64 Derelict Land: Walsall 77 Nurses: Vacancies 65 Garden Communities 78 Prescriptions: Fees and High Rise Flats: Insulation 78 Charges 65 Homelessness 79 Prescriptions: Universal Credit 66 Homelessness: Young People 81 Social Services: Older People 66 Housing: Business Premises 81 Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Housing: Greater London 82 Drugs 66 Leasehold 82 Streptococcus: Health Education 68 Neighbourhood Development Plans 83 Suicide: Ethnic Groups and Immigrants 68 Shared Ownership 83 Shared Ownership: Greater Probation: Disciplinary London 84 Proceedings 99 Temporary Accommodation 85 Probation: ICT 103 INTERNATIONAL Probation: Pay 104 DEVELOPMENT 86 Television: Licensing 104 Developing Countries: Treatment of, and Outcomes Depressive Illnesses 86 for, Black, Asian and Minority Overseas Aid 87 Ethnic Individuals in the Syria and Yemen: Criminal Justice System Humanitarian Aid 87 Independent Review 105 INTERNATIONAL TRADE 87 Young Offenders: Homelessness 105 Belt and Road Initiative: Construction 87 LEADER OF THE HOUSE 106 JUSTICE 88 Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund 106 Court Orders 88 NORTHERN IRELAND 106 Courts: Staff 89 Apprentices: Taxation 106 Crimes of Violence: Sentencing 89 Magilligan Prison 106 Criminal Injuries Politics and Government: Compensation 90 Northern Ireland 107 HM Courts and Tribunals PRIME MINISTER 107 Service: Enforcement 91 European Parliament: HM Courts and Tribunals Elections 107 Service: Staff 92 TRANSPORT 107 Legal Aid Scheme: Terrorism 93 Blue Badge Scheme 107 Ministry of Justice: Telephone Blue Badge Scheme: Services 94 Dementia 108 Prisoners: Compensation 94 Bus Services: Franchises 108 Prisoners: Females 95 Driving Tests 108 Prisoners: Homelessness 96 Driving: Qualifications 109 Prisons: Crimes of Violence 97 East-West Rail Link 109 Prisons: Gates 98 Electric Vehicles: Buses 109 Prisons: Unmanned Air Helicopters: Offshore Industry 110 Vehicles 98 High Speed 2 Railway Line: Probate 99 Wigan 111 Motor Vehicles: Hire Services 111 Motor Vehicles: ICT 111 WORK AND PENSIONS 125 Network Rail 112 Children: Maintanance 125 Network Rail: Property 112 Debt Collection 125 Railways: Bolton 113 Employment: Mental Illness 129 Railways: Crime 114 Job Centres: Stanley 129 Railways: Franchises 114 Pension Credit 130 Taxis: Assistance Animals 114 Personal Independence Transport: Disability 115 Payment 131 Transport: Loneliness 115 Personal Independence Payment: County Durham 132 West Anglia Railway Line 116 Personal Savings: Older TREASURY 117 People 132 Borders: Northern Ireland 117 Social Security Benefits: Cash Dispensing 117 Disqualification 133 Consumers: Expenditure 118 Television: Licensing 133 Dementia: Health Services 118 Universal Credit 134 Economic Crime Strategic Work Capability Assessment 135 Board 118 WRITTEN STATEMENTS 137 Electricity Generation: Private BUSINESS, ENERGY AND Sector 120 INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 137 Infrastructure: Finance 120 Industrial Strategy update 137 Pensions: Public Sector 120 INTERNATIONAL Schools: Finance 121 DEVELOPMENT 138 Share Fishermen 121 The Global Fund to Fight Share Fishermen: Taxation 121 AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (The Global Fund) 138 Sovereign Grant 122 JUSTICE 140 Tax Avoidance 123 Amendment to the Social Taxation: Self-assessment 124 Security Contributions and WALES 125 Benefits Act 1992 140 Public Expenditure: Wales 125 TRANSPORT 141 Maritime Safety 141 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 Biofuels Alex Cunningham: [268485] To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of potential UK capacity to supply bioenergy that can generate negative emissions through bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS). Chris Skidmore: The Government believes that carbon capture, usage & storage (CCUS) has a potentially important role to play in meeting the UK’s climate targets and supporting our Industrial Strategy. CCUS can add value to the economy and help tackle hard to decarbonise sectors. We recognise that bioenergy with carbon capture and storage could be a key technology in helping us achieve net zero through generation of negative emissions. However, availability of sustainable biomass is finite and as such we need to decide how to best deploy this resource in our efforts to decarbonise across the economy. Carbon Capture and Storage Alex Cunningham: [268483] To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the role that carbon capture and storage technology could play in reducing emissions in the (a) heavy industry, (b) transport, (c) power and (d) heating sectors. Chris Skidmore: The Government is committed to supporting the development of carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) in the UK. CCUS has the potential to support us in meeting our 2050 emissions target and support our Industrial Strategy. Our CCUS Action Plan, published in November 2018, sets out our view that CCUS has a potentially essential role in supporting the decarbonisation of the UK’s economy, reducing emissions from the heavy industry, transport, power and heating sectors. On 27 June we announced that nine companies have secured £26 million of government funding, in addition to industry backing, to advance the rollout of carbon capture, utilisation