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Daily Report Thursday, 7 September 2017 CONTENTS Daily Report Thursday, 7 September 2017 This report shows written answers and statements provided on 7 September 2017 and the information is correct at the time of publication (06:28 P.M., 07 September 2017). For the latest information on written questions and answers, ministerial corrections, and written statements, please visit: http://www.parliament.uk/writtenanswers/ CONTENTS ANSWERS 7 Consumers: Public ATTORNEY GENERAL 7 Consultation 12 Legal Profession: Training 7 Directors: Incentives 13 War Crimes 7 Energy: Billing 13 BUSINESS, ENERGY AND Energy: Pre-payment 14 INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 8 Energy: West Midlands 15 Business: Pay 8 Foreign Companies 15 Business: Stafford 8 Public Houses and Pubs Carbon Capture and Storage 9 Advisory Service 15 Certification Quality Marks 9 Public Houses: Codes of Practice 15 Comite Europeen de Normalisation and Comite Public Houses: Rents 16 Europeen de Normalisation Pubs Code Adjudicator 16 Electrotechnique: Membership 10 Pubs Code Adjudicator: Competition and Markets Standards 17 Authority 10 Small Businesses 18 Competition Appeal Tribunal 10 Small Businesses: Glasgow Competition Appeal Tribunal: East 18 Business Interests 11 Social Services: Working Competition Appeal Tribunal: Hours 19 Operating Costs 11 Toys and Games: Counterfeit Competition Appeal Tribunal: Manufacturing 19 Public Appointments 11 Trading Standards: Wales 20 Competition Appeal Tribunal: Whisky: Scotland 20 Standards 12 Competition: Unfair Practices 12 Consumers: Protection 12 CABINET OFFICE 20 National Insurance Business Appointments Contributions: Offenders 31 Advisory Committee: Non-domestic Rates: Appeals 31 Correspondence 20 Plastic Surgery: VAT 32 Committee on Standards in Revenue and Customs: Brexit 32 Public Life 21 COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL Cybercrime 22 GOVERNMENT 33 GDS Advisory Board 22 Building Regulations: Fires 33 Public Sector: Ethnic Groups 22 Buildings: Insulation 33 Public Sector: Gower 23 Energy Performance Public Sector: Procurement 23 Certificates 34 Social Services 23 Fire Regulations 34 Voting Rights: British Nationals Grenfell Tower: Fire Abroad 24 Extinguishers 34 Young People: Gower 25 High Rise Flats: Fire TREASURY 25 Prevention 34 Annuities 25 Wind Power: Noise 35 Business: Terrorism 25 DEFENCE 35 Cash Dispensing: Rural Areas 26 Air Force 35 CCTV: Non-domestic Rates 26 Aircraft Carriers 36 Children: Day Care 27 Armed Forces 36 Cooperatives: Regulation 27 Army Foundation College 36 Debts 27 Department of Health: Procurement 37 Excise Duties: Alcoholic Drinks 28 Falkland Islands: Air Routes 37 Fire Extinguishers: Non- domestic Rates 28 Maritime Patrol Aircraft 38 Foreign Exchange 29 Nuclear Weapons 38 Foreign Exchange: Small DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND Businesses 30 SPORT 38 Halifax Bank of Scotland: Betting Shops 38 Fraud 30 Broadband: Gower 39 Money Laundering, Terrorist Department for Digital, Financing and Transfer of Culture, Media and Sport: Staff 39 Funds (Information on the Gambling 40 Payer) Regulations 2017 31 Gaming Machines 41 Listed Events: Sports 41 Pre-school Education: Mining: Cultural Heritage 41 Standards 58 Music: Education 42 Primary Education: School Meals 58 Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012 43 Pupils: Attendance 59 Sports 43 Pupils: Health 60 Sports Competitors: Entry Runaway Children 60 Clearances 44 Schools: Capital Investment 61 Sports: Wales 44 Schools: Finance 62 Sportsgrounds: Closures 44 Schools: Food 63 Telephone Services: Schools: Governing Bodies 63 Standards 45 Special Educational Needs: Tourist Attractions: Security 45 Brent 64 Treasure Act 1996 46 Special Educational Needs: WiFi: Neath 46 Hearing Impairment 64 YouTube 46 Special Educational Needs: Kent 65 EDUCATION 46 ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND Academies: Pay 46 RURAL AFFAIRS 65 Academies: School Meals 47 Agriculture: Subsidies 65 Asylum: Children 47 Air Pollution: Dementia 65 Children in Care 48 Whisky: Scotland 66 Children in Care: Special EXITING THE EUROPEAN Educational Needs 50 UNION 66 Children: Care Homes 51 Aerospace Industry 66 Children: Day Care 52 Brexit 66 Children: Disadvantaged 52 British Nationals Abroad: EU Children: Obesity 53 Countries 67 Children's Centres: Closures 53 Charter of Fundamental Rights Classroom Assistants: (EU) 68 Average Earnings 54 Companies: Registration 68 Education: Assessments 55 Department for Exiting the Free Schools 55 European Union: Legal Opinion 69 Learndirect 55 EU Nationals: Elections 69 Mathematics: Education 57 Immigration 69 Physical Education 57 National Security 70 Doncaster and Bassetlaw UK Trade with EU 70 Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 78 FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE 71 Eating Disorders 79 Burma: Foreign Relations 71 Eating Disorders: Mental Health Services 79 Central European University 71 General Practitioners 80 Chechnya: LGBT People 71 Hospices: Finance 80 Colombia and Venezuela: Visits Abroad 72 Hospital Beds 80 Diego Garcia: Ilois 72 Incontinence 81 Foreign and Commonwealth Mental Health Services 81 Office: Staff 72 NHS: Drugs 82 Iran: Christianity 72 NHS: Vacancies 83 Islamic State: Military Obesity: Surgery 83 Intervention 73 Pregnancy: Mental Health Israel: Bedouin 73 Services 84 Mexico: Death and Missing Prescriptions 84 Persons 73 Social Services: Minimum Nagorno Karabakh: Civilians 74 Wage 85 Nuclear Disarmament 74 Surrogate Motherhood: Lone Prisoners: British Nationals Parents 85 Abroad 75 HOME OFFICE 86 Sanctions 75 Acids 86 Syria: International Relations 76 Animal Experiments: Cats 86 Uganda: Politics and Animal Experiments: Primates 87 Government 76 Asylum: Children 88 UK Membership of EU 76 Asylum: EU Law 89 HEALTH 76 Counter-terrorism: Coeliac Disease 76 Surveillance 89 Coeliac Disease: Food 77 Crimes of Violence: Acids 90 Continuing Care 77 Electronic Surveillance 92 Dewsbury and District Hospital 77 Human Trafficking 92 Diabetes: Drugs 78 Immigration 92 Diabetes: Nurses 78 Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner 93 Knives: Yorkshire and the Dangerous Driving 106 Humber 93 Immigration: Appeals 107 Motorcycles: Road Traffic Social Security Benefits: Offences 94 Appeals 107 Poisons Act 1972 94 PRIME MINISTER 114 Poisons: Sales 94 Blood: Contamination 114 Police: North West 95 SCOTLAND 114 Radicalism 95 Citizens Advice Scotland 114 Refugees: Children 96 Food Banks 114 INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT 115 DEVELOPMENT 97 Aviation: Egypt 115 Asia: Malaria 97 Aviation: Tickets 115 Developing Countries: Education 98 East Midlands Rail Franchise: Standards 116 EU Development Fund: Brexit 98 Northern Rail: Rolling Stock 116 European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations Railways: Standards 116 Directorate General: Brexit 99 Roads: Accidents 117 Overseas Aid: Brexit 99 Rolling Stock: Disability 117 Yemen: Cholera 99 Rolling Stock: Procurement 118 INTERNATIONAL TRADE 100 Wales and Borders Rail Arms Trade: Trade Fairs 100 Franchise 118 Defence Equipment: Exports 102 WALES 118 Overseas Companies: China 103 Wales Office: Arms Length External Organisations 118 UK Trade and Investment Defence and Security WORK AND PENSIONS 119 Organisation 103 AEA Group: Pensions 119 JUSTICE 104 Citizens Advice Scotland 119 Cammell Laird: Strikes 104 Employment Schemes: Courts: Interpreters 105 Disadvantaged 119 Criminal Injuries Employment: Learning Compensation Authority: Disability 120 Standards 106 First Aid: Mental Health 121 Criminal Injuries High Rise Flats: Insulation 122 Compensation: Offences Jobcentres: Blaenau Gwent 122 against Children 106 Jobcentres: Closures 122 Jobcentres: Liverpool Work Capability Assessment: Riverside 124 Chronic Illnesses 135 Jobcentres: Location 124 Work Capability Assessment: Jobcentres: Mountain Ash 125 Pensioners 135 Jobcentres: Reorganisation 126 WRITTEN STATEMENTS 136 Jobcentres: Scotland 126 DEFENCE 136 Personal Independence Armed Forces' Pay Review Payment 127 Body Appointments 136 Personal Independence FOREIGN AND Payment: Bury St Edmunds 128 COMMONWEALTH OFFICE 136 Personal Independence FCO Services 136 Payment: Pensioners 129 Provision of Border Assistance Social Security Benefits 130 to Lebanon 136 Telereal Trillium 131 HEALTH 137 Unemployed People: Mental Recruitment in the NHS 137 Health 132 JUSTICE 138 Universal Credit: Self- Justice update 138 employed 133 TRANSPORT 139 Work Capability Assessment: Update on draft Airports Audio Recordings 134 National Policy Statement process 139 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 Legal Profession: Training Nick Thomas-Symonds: [8314] To ask the Attorney General, with reference to his oral contribution of 27 October 2016, Official Report, column 410, whether he plans to look at guidance given by the Crown Prosecution Service to the lawyers who appear before the courts and regularly deal with applications of sexual offences. Robert Buckland: Specially trained rape and serious sexual offences (RASSO) prosecutors are committed to robustly opposing applications pursuant to Section 41 Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 where it is appropriate to do so and are assisted in this process by online legal guidance and by face-to-face training which is compulsory for all RASSO prosecutors. With a view to ensuring that performance is maintained in this important area the CPS is currently developing a new training course on the Section 41 provisions which is designed to assist both RASSO prosecutors and members of the independent Bar. The CPS is also in the process
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