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Daily Report Tuesday, 13 March 2018 This report shows written answers and statements provided on 13 March 2018 and the information is correct at the time of publication (06:32 P.M., 13 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 Solar Power ATTORNEY GENERAL Solid Fuels Personal Injury: Fraud Toys R Us: Insolvency BUSINESS, ENERGY AND CABINET OFFICE INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY Arms Length Bodies [Subject Heading to be Death: Weather Assigned] Employment: North East Accountancy: Qualifications Firearms: Greater London Agriculture: Technology Life Expectancy Audit: EU Law Young People: Employment Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: CHURCH COMMISSIONERS Scotland Churches: Blackburn Electricity: Exports Churches: Broadband and Employment WiFi Energy: Meters DEFENCE Energy: Older People Armed Forces: Mental Health Services Environment Protection: Taxation Defence GKN: Melrose Defence: Modernisation Infrastructure: North East Defence: Procurement Job Creation: Jarrow Members: Correspondence Productivity: North East Ministry of Defence: Empty Property Renewable Energy Ministry of Defence: Public Shipping: Procurement Appointments Small Businesses MOD West Freugh Norway: Military Exercises ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND Strike Experimentation Group RURAL AFFAIRS DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND Agriculture SPORT Bovine Tuberculosis: South Broadband: Telford West Channel Four Television Caviar Northamptonshire County Glass: Recycling Council: Public Libraries Water Supply EDUCATION EXITING THE EUROPEAN Academies UNION Academies: Property EU Institutions Adult Education Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements Adult Education: Inspections Members: Correspondence Apprentices FOREIGN AND Higher Education: Admissions COMMONWEALTH OFFICE Higher Education: Greater Benjamin Ryalls London China: Human Rights Office for Students Comprehensive Test Ban Out-of-School Education Treaty Out-of-School Education: Eritrea: Human Rights Inspections Foreign and Commonwealth Out-of-School Education: Office: Motor Vehicles Public Consultation Haji Musa Mohammed Nur Pre-school Education: Finance Israel: Travel Restrictions Pre-school Education: Teachers Li Baiguang Pupils: Disadvantaged Money Laundering and Sanctions Residential Care Leadership Board Nigeria: Politics and Government Schools: Data Protection North Korea: Nuclear Schools: Vocational Guidance Weapons Students: Protection Nuclear Weapons Young People: Carers Pakistan: Religious Freedom South Sudan: Conflict Resolution UK Permanent Representation Prostate Cancer: West to the EU Midlands UN Non-proliferation of Prosthetics Nuclear Weapons Treaty Pulmonary Arterial Review Conference Hypertension World War II: Genocide HOME OFFICE HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE College of Policing Ambulance Services Counter-terrorism Breast Cancer Crime: Rural Areas Carers: Vaccination Drugs: West Midlands Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Firearms: Greater London Colorectal Cancer: West Home Office: Welsh Language Midlands Immigrants: Detainees Drugs: Research Immigration General Practitioners Independent Anti-slavery Health Services: Reciprocal Commissioner Arrangements Inquiries: Rules of Procedure Hepatitis Knives: Crime Hyperactivity: Prescription Drugs National Security Inflammatory Bowel Disease Police Community Support Officers: Greater London Local Government Refugees: Children Medical Treatments: Safety Sexual Harassment Mental Health UK Visas and Immigration Mental Health Services: Young People Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre NHS: South Tyneside HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND Nurses: Training LOCAL GOVERNMENT Palliative Care: Children and Hate Crime: Travellers Young People Private Rented Housing Parkinson's Disease: Prisoners Private Rented Housing: Housing Benefit Patients: Safety Refuges: Finance Pregnancy: Sodium Valproate Refuges: West Midlands Prostate Cancer: Halton Rough Sleeping Advisory Government Departments: Panel Electric Vehicles INTERNATIONAL Luton Airport: Railways DEVELOPMENT Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Gaza: Tunnels Emissions Nigeria and Pakistan: Railways: Concessions Religious Freedom Railways: Standards INTERNATIONAL TRADE Railways: Tickets Foreign Investment in UK: Southeastern: Compensation Republic of Ireland Southeastern: Standards Overseas Trade TREASURY JUSTICE Aggregates Levy Approved Premises Apprentices: Minimum Wage Brixton Prison: Ministers of Religion Bank Services Carillion Climate Change Levy Crime Prevention: Young Combined Heat and Power: People Taxation HM Courts and Tribunals Corporation Tax: Scotland Service: Temporary Environment Protection: Employment Taxation Prisoners' Release European Investment Bank Prisoners: Childbirth Marginal Tax Rates Prisons: Contracts Natural Gas: Northern Ireland Sexual Harassment Tobacco: Scotland Undocumented Workers WORK AND PENSIONS Witnesses: Video Recordings Department for Work and SCOTLAND Pensions: Motor Vehicles Scotland Office: Land Ethnic Minority Engagement Stakeholder Group TRANSPORT Flexible Support Fund Blue Badge Scheme Jobcentre Plus: Schools British Transport Police: Scotland Mortgages: Government Assistance Department for Transport: Motor Vehicles State Retirement Pensions: Females Unemployment: North East WRITTEN STATEMENTS Universal Credit FOREIGN AND Universal Credit: Carers COMMONWEALTH OFFICE Universal Credit: Disability Foreign Affairs Council – 26 February 2018 Universal Credit: Temporary Employment TREASURY Welfare Tax Credits Spring Statement Welfare Tax Credits: West Spring Statement - Midlands consultations 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 Personal Injury: Fraud Ellie Reeves: [130047] To ask the Attorney General, how many proven fraudulent personal injury claims were made by (a) horse-riders, (b) pedestrians, (c) cyclists and (d) other vulnerable road users in the last 12 months. Robert Buckland: The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of the number of prosecutions for personal injury insurance frauds. Nor is any record held to show if defendants were purporting to have sustained an injury on a road when making a fraudulent claim. This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost. Ellie Reeves: [130048] To ask the Attorney General, how many successful prosecutions there have been for personal injury insurance fraud in the UK court system in the last 12 months. Robert Buckland: The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of the number of prosecutions for personal injury insurance frauds. Nor is any record held to show if defendants were purporting to have sustained an injury on a road when making a fraudulent claim. This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost. BUSINESS, ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY [Subject Heading to be Assigned] Richard Graham: [904338] What steps he is taking to support the marine energy industry. Claire Perry: We’re committed to supporting our marine energy industry. Through the European Marine Energy Centre, based in the Orkney Islands and the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, we are world leaders in developing marine technologies. We have provided more support for offshore wind than any other country in the world. And we are making up to £557 million of annual support available for offshore wind, wave and tidal stream in upcoming competitive CFD allocation rounds. Jeff Smith: [904339] What steps he is taking to support the renewable energy sector. Claire Perry: The development of renewable energy is a tremendous UK success story. Thanks to our significant investment and support, renewable capacity has quadrupled since 2010. Last year 30% of our electricity generation came from renewable sources. The Clean Growth Strategy sets out further actions for supporting renewables. £557 million of annual support is being made available to bring forward new renewable electricity projects, as well as £4.5bn between 2016 and 2021 to support low carbon heating under the Renewable Heat Incentive, and £177m (for renewables) between 2015 and 2021 for innovation projects. Accountancy: Qualifications Stephen Timms: [131694] To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to secure recognition of UK accountancy qualifications across the EU after the UK leaves the EU. Andrew Griffiths: The UK Government has agreed to protect the rights of EU citizens in the UK and UK nationals in the EU under the Withdrawal Agreement. This includes the continued recognition of EU qualifications, where recognition decisions were received or where recognition procedures were ongoing before the withdrawal date and where an EU citizen is resident in the UK on the date of withdrawal (and vice versa). The Government has stated that it will seek to agree a continued system for the recognition of professional qualifications as part of the future economic partnership, and we hope to begin this phase of negotiations shortly. Agriculture: Technology Mrs Sheryll Murray: [904347] What steps the Government is taking to support the growth of the agri-tech sector. Mr Sam Gyimah: The £160 million agri-tech strategy which was launched five
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