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Daily Report Thursday, 31 January 2019 CONTENTS Daily Report Thursday, 31 January 2019 This report shows written answers and statements provided on 31 January 2019 and the information is correct at the time of publication (06:31 P.M., 31 January 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 Mineworkers' Pension Scheme 13 ATTORNEY GENERAL 7 Post Offices 13 Attorney General: Brexit 7 CABINET OFFICE 14 Bhanu Choudhrie and Sudhir Cabinet Office: Brexit 14 Choudhrie 7 Cabinet Office: Staff 14 BUSINESS, ENERGY AND Government Departments: INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 7 Billing 14 BMW: Oxford 7 Life Expectancy 15 Coal: Manufacturing Industries 8 Personal Income: Leicester 15 Coal: Russia 8 DEFENCE 15 Companies House: Company Antiship Missiles 15 Investigations 9 Armed Forces: Training 16 Companies House: Prosecutions 10 Clyde Naval Base: Radiation Exposure 16 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Defence Equipment: Auctions 16 Brexit 10 Defence: Civilians 17 Department for Business, European Defence Agency 17 Energy and Industrial Strategy: Military Aircraft: Procurement 17 Contracts 11 Ministry of Defence: Brexit 18 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Sahel: Chinook Helicopters 18 Sikhs 11 DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND Department for Business, SPORT 18 Energy and Industrial Strategy: Canoeing 18 Staff 12 Commonwealth Games 2022 19 Mash Holdings: Company Accounts 12 Department for Digital, Department for Environment, Culture, Media and Sport: Food and Rural Affairs: Sikhs 30 Brexit 19 Department for Environment, Department for Digital, Food and Rural Affairs: Staff 30 Culture, Media and Sport: Civil Exhaust Emissions: Diesel Servants 19 Vehicles 31 Football: Travel 20 Farmers: Government Lotteries 20 Assistance 31 Pinterest 21 Farms: Inspections 32 Snooker 21 Farms: Pollution Control 32 Social Enterprises 21 Fisheries (Amendment) (EU Social Media: Information Exit) Regulations 2019 33 Warfare 22 Food Supply 34 EDUCATION 22 Government Departments: Apprentices: EU Nationals 22 Rural Areas 34 Apprentices: Finance 23 Invasive Non-native Species (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Children in Care: Mental Regulations 2019 35 Health 23 Litter 35 Department for Education: Brexit 23 Non-native Species 37 Education Funding Agency: Pâté de Foie Gras: Imports 38 Buildings 24 Pesticides 39 Frontline 24 Plastics: Pollution Control 39 Members: Correspondence 24 Polar Regions and Seas and Social Services: Children 25 Oceans: Waste 40 Social Workers: Training 26 Pollution: Measurement 41 Teachers: Academies 26 Slaughterhouses: Animal Welfare 41 Teachers: Pay 26 EXITING THE EUROPEAN Teachers: Training 27 UNION 42 ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND Civil Servants 42 RURAL AFFAIRS 28 Department for Exiting the Agriculture: Metaldehyde 28 European Union: Brexit 42 Air Pollution 29 Department for Exiting the Department for Environment, European Union: Sikhs 42 Food and Rural Affairs: Brexit 30 Department for Exiting the European Union: Staff 43 FOREIGN AND Health Services: Fuel Poverty 62 COMMONWEALTH OFFICE 43 Health Services: Immigrants 62 Azerbaijan: Christianity 43 Health Services: Pollution 63 Foreign and Commonwealth Health Services: Reciprocal Office: Brexit 49 Arrangements 63 Foreign and Commonwealth Health: Children 64 Office: Sikhs 49 Health: Screening 65 Iran: Human Rights 49 Hospitals: Malnutrition 65 Law of War 50 Incinerators: Health Hazards 65 Mali: Armed Conflict 50 Incontinence: Females 66 Oleg Kozlovsky 50 Infant Foods 66 Sudan: Demonstrations 51 Influenza: Vaccination 66 HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE 51 Mental Health Services: Staff 66 Accidents: Older People 51 Mental Health Services: Air Pollution: Research 52 Termination of Employment 67 Blood: Donors 53 National Child Measurement Breast Cancer: Nurses 54 Programme 68 Cancer: Diagnosis 54 NHS Walk-in Centres 68 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: NHS: Drugs 68 Research 55 NHS: Finance 70 Drugs: Shortages 56 NHS: Pay 72 Emigration: Children 56 NHS: Pensions 73 Fractures: Older People 57 NHS: Waiting Lists 73 General Practitioners: Patients: Safety 74 Insurance 57 Postnatal Depression 75 Genito-urinary Medicine: Contracts 58 Pregnancy: Mental Health Services 76 Haemochromatosis: Research 59 Social Services: Finance 76 Health 60 Suicide: Young People 77 Health Education England: Finance 60 Surgical Mesh Implants 77 Health Professions: Training 61 Symkevi 77 Health Services 61 HOME OFFICE 78 Health Services: Children and Asylum: Children 78 Young People 62 Asylum: Slavery 79 Cars: Theft 79 Ministry of Housing, Criminal Investigation: Costs 80 Communities and Local Government: Sikhs 91 Emergency Services Day: Finance 80 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Fire Prevention 81 Government: Staff 92 Home Office: Brexit 81 Private Rented Housing: Immigration: Computer Evictions 92 Software 81 Retail Trade: Urban Areas 92 Immigration: EU Nationals 82 Social Rented Housing: Independent Child Trafficking Construction 93 Advocates Service 83 Taxis: Licensing 94 Offences against Children: UK Shared Prosperity Fund 94 Criminal Investigation 84 INTERNATIONAL Offences against Children: DEVELOPMENT 94 Internet 84 Climate Change 94 Passports: Fees and Charges 85 Department for International Police: Finance 86 Development: Brexit 95 Police: Staff 86 UN High Commissioner for HOUSE OF COMMONS Refugees: Niger 95 COMMISSION 86 INTERNATIONAL TRADE 95 House of Commons Trade Agreements 95 Annunciator System 86 JUSTICE 97 HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT 87 Court of Protection: Mental Capacity Act 2005 97 Buildings: Insulation 87 Courts: Sales 98 Community Assets: Ownership 87 Criminal Injuries Future High Streets Fund 88 Compensation 98 Housing: Construction 88 Debt Collection 98 Housing: Design 89 HM Courts and Tribunals Housing: Regeneration 90 Service: ICT 99 Local Government Finance 91 Prisoners: Mental Health Ministry of Housing, Services 99 Communities and Local Tribunals 101 Government: Labour Turnover 91 LEADER OF THE HOUSE 101 Leader of the House of Commons: Sikhs 101 TRANSPORT 102 WORK AND PENSIONS 114 Aviation: Egypt 102 Access to Work Programme 114 Aviation: Scotland 102 Department for Work and Department for Transport: Pensions: Staff 115 Assets 102 Department for Work and Department for Transport: Pensions: Universal Credit 116 Sikhs 103 Health and Safety Executive: Department for Transport: Staff 116 Staff 103 Industrial Health and Safety 117 Driving Tests: Languages 104 Pension Credit: Wales 118 M20: Accidents 104 Pensions: Judicial Review 118 M20: Noise 105 Personal Independence M26: Large Goods Vehicles 105 Payment: Medical Examinations 119 Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions 106 Social Security Benefits: Mental Illness 119 Ports: Wales 106 Social Security Benefits: Railways: Oxfordshire 107 Overpayments 119 Road Traffic Control: West Universal Credit: Housing 120 Sussex 108 Universal Credit: Self- Taxis: Licensing 109 employed 121 TREASURY 110 Universal Credit: Support for Cash Dispensing: Rural Areas 110 Mortgage Interest 121 Cash Dispensing: Urban Areas 110 Work Capability Assessments 121 Corporation Tax 111 Work Capability Assessments: Corporation Tax: Tax Rates Mental Illness 122 and Bands 111 MINISTERIAL CORRECTIONS 123 Inflation and Social Security DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND Benefits 111 SPORT 123 Portsmouth Port 112 Culture: St Helens 123 Sheltered Housing Wardens: WRITTEN STATEMENTS 125 VAT 112 FOREIGN AND Tax Allowances 112 COMMONWEALTH OFFICE 125 Tax Avoidance 113 Foreign Affairs Council – 21 Treasury: Brexit 114 January 2019 125 HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE 126 European Union JHA Opt-In Outcome of Negotiations for Decision: Proposal to Recast the Primary Care Contract for the Returns Directive 128 GPs 2019/20 126 PRIME MINISTER 129 HOME OFFICE 127 Investigatory Powers European Union JHA Opt-In Oversight 129 Decision: Amended Proposal TREASURY 129 for a Regulation on the ECOFIN: 22 January 2019 129 European Union Agency for Asylum 127 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: Brexit Lee Rowley: [213444] To ask the Attorney General, what progress he has made in laying statutory instruments related to EU exit preparedness; and if he will make a statement. Robert Buckland: The Law Officers Departments do not require secondary legislation in order to prepare for EU Exit. The Government Legal Department, Crown Prosecution Service and Serious Fraud Office continue to support, as necessary, other Government departments in preparing statutory instruments related to EU exit preparedness. Bhanu Choudhrie and Sudhir Choudhrie Kelvin Hopkins: [212291] To ask the Attorney General, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that SFO investigations into (a) Sudhir Choudhrie and (b) Bhanu Choudhrie are (i) compliant with legislation and (ii) receive all relevant information. Robert Buckland: As highlighted in the answer given on 24 January to PQ 210434 the SFO can neither confirm nor deny if these individuals are subject to any investigation. The SFO carries out all of its work in compliance with legislation. The SFO also works collaboratively with law enforcement and regulatory partners to combat serious or complex fraud, bribery and corruption and share information, both in the UK and abroad. This includes membership of the newly launched multi-agency
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