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Daily Report Thursday, 24 October 2019 CONTENTS Daily Report Thursday, 24 October 2019 This report shows written answers and statements provided on 24 October 2019 and the information is correct at the time of publication (06:44 P.M., 24 October 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 Employment: Romford 16 ATTORNEY GENERAL 6 European Parliament and Prison Sentences: Hampshire 6 Local Government: Elections 16 BUSINESS, ENERGY AND Offshore Funds 16 INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 6 DEFENCE 17 Carbon Emissions 6 Armed Forces: Private Department for Business, Education 17 Energy and Industrial Strategy: Armed Forces: Recruitment 18 Jainism 7 Army: Finance 19 Energy: Private Rented Baker Barracks 19 Housing 7 Defence: International Groceries Code Adjudicator 9 Cooperation 20 Housing: Insulation 9 Defence: Modernisation 20 Public Holidays 10 Ministry of Defence: Climate Solar Power 11 Change 21 Thomas Cook: Insolvency 11 Ministry of Defence: Public CABINET OFFICE 12 Appointments 21 10 Downing Street: Catering Red Arrows 21 and Cleaning Services 12 Veterans: Pensions 22 Cabinet Office: Health 12 DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND Cabinet Office: Living Wage 14 SPORT 22 Cabinet Office: Public Badminton and Football: Appointments 14 Racial Discrimination 22 Census: Sikhs 15 Data Protection: Government Departments 23 Cervical Cancer: Death 15 Electronic Government: Proof of Identity 15 Department for Digital, Foreign and Commonwealth Culture, Media and Sport: Office: Living Wage 39 Lobbying 23 Foreign and Commonwealth Department for Digital, Office: Public Appointments 40 Culture, Media and Sport: France: Foreign Relations 40 Public Appointments 23 Germany: British Nationals Pornography: Internet 23 Abroad 40 Public Buildings: Flags 24 Ilois: Overseas Aid 41 Third Sector 24 Nigeria: Foreign Relations 41 Voluntary Work: Young People 29 Pakistan: Capital Punishment 42 EDUCATION 29 Pakistan: Detainees 42 Apprentices: Arts 29 Pakistan: Human Rights 42 Apprentices: Romford 30 Pakistan: Religious Freedom 43 Apprentices: Taxation 31 Persecution of Christians Children in Care 31 across the Globe Independent Children: Social Services 32 Review 44 Corporal Punishment: Children 32 Syria: British Nationals Abroad 44 Department for Education: Syria: Children 45 Energy Supply 33 Syria: Military Intervention 45 Department for Education: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE 46 Public Appointments 33 Abortion: Northern Ireland 46 Education: Hearing Accident and Emergency Impairment 33 Departments 48 Further Education: Pay 34 Autism and Learning Disability: Schools: Transport 35 Children 48 Supply Teachers 35 Autism: Health Services 49 Universities: Admissions 36 Barts Health NHS Trust: Legal ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND Costs 49 RURAL AFFAIRS 36 Blood: Contamination 50 National Parks: Finance 36 Breast Cancer: Screening 50 FOREIGN AND Cancer: Screening 52 COMMONWEALTH OFFICE 36 Compulsorily Detained Anne Sacoolas 36 Psychiatric Patients: Prisoners' Armed Conflict: Children 38 Release 52 Colombia: Armed Conflict 38 Cystic Fibrosis: Drugs 52 Colombia: Homicide 39 Cystic Fibrosis: Research 52 Department of Health and HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND Social Care: Public LOCAL GOVERNMENT 63 Appointments 53 Buildings: Insulation 63 Genetics: Screening 53 Housing: Standards 63 Health Professions: Parking (Code of Practice) Act Recruitment 53 2019 63 Health Services 54 INTERNATIONAL Health Services: British DEVELOPMENT 64 Nationals Abroad 54 Africa: Foreign Relations 64 Hearing Aids: Children 55 Democratic Republic of Hearing Impairment: Children 55 Congo: HIV Infection 64 Hip Replacements 56 Developing Countries: HIV Infection 56 Disability 64 HIV Infection: Males 57 Developing Countries: Education 65 Hospitals: Waiting Lists 57 Developing Countries: HIV Medicine: Research 57 Infection 65 Mental Health Services: Developing Countries: Human Standards 58 Rights 66 NHS: Drugs 58 Developing Countries: Northwick Park Hospital: Insurance 66 Accident and Emergency Developing Countries: Third Departments 59 Sector 67 Northwick Park Hospital: Overseas Aid 67 Hospital Beds 59 Sub-saharan Africa: Foreign Northwick Park Hospital: Relations 68 Repairs and Maintenance 59 Syria: Humanitarian Aid 68 Psoriasis 59 Uganda: Education 68 Surgery: East Riding 60 INTERNATIONAL TRADE 69 Tobacco: Packaging 60 Arms Trade: Turkey 69 Visual Impairment: Stem Cells 61 Overseas Trade 69 HOME OFFICE 61 JUSTICE 70 Burglary: North Wales 61 Burglary: Trials 70 Fire and Rescue Services: Staff 61 Crimes against the Person: Trials 70 Firearms: Licensing 62 Firearms: Trials 71 Musicians: EEA Nationals 62 Legal Aid Agency: Standards 72 TRANSPORT 84 Legal Representation: A15: Dual Carriageways 84 Coroners 72 Department for Transport: Members: Correspondence 72 Brexit 85 Ministry of Justice: Islam 73 Department for Transport: Ministry of Justice: Public Equal Pay 85 Appointments 74 Department for Transport: Ministry of Justice: Ystradffin Health 85 Farm 75 Department for Transport: Pay 86 Offenders: Work Experience 76 Department for Transport: Prison Sentences 76 Public Appointments 87 Prisoners: Domestic Abuse 76 Electric Vehicles: Bicycles 87 Prisons: Discipline 76 High Speed 2 Railway Line 87 Prisons: Repairs and Pedestrian Areas: Safety 88 Maintenance 78 Railways: Gloucester 88 Rape: Trials 79 Railways: Japanese Knotweed 88 Religious Hatred: Trials 80 Railways: North of England 89 Reoffenders: Sentencing 80 Railways: Standards 89 Resomation 81 Roads: Repairs and Stalking: Trials 81 Maintenance 89 LEADER OF THE HOUSE 82 Taxis 89 Leader of the House of Taxis: Disability 90 Commons: Public Tonnage Tax 90 Appointments 82 Transport 90 Private Members' Bills: TREASURY 91 Timetabling of Bills 82 Children: Day Care 91 NORTHERN IRELAND 82 Companies 91 Abortion and Marriage: Northern Ireland 82 Cystic Fibrosis: Drugs 91 British Nationality 83 Economic Growth and Taxation 92 Northern Ireland Office: Islam 83 Forests: North of England 92 SCOTLAND 83 Mortgages 93 Food Poverty: Scotland 83 Offshore Funds: Government Police Scotland 84 Controlled Companies and Scotland Office: Islam 84 Government Departments 93 WALES 94 CABINET OFFICE 104 Wales Office: Islam 94 The European Union WORK AND PENSIONS 94 (Withdrawal) Act and Common Frameworks Report 104 Maternity Allowance 94 EXITING THE EUROPEAN Social Security Benefits: UNION 105 Suicide 94 General Affairs Council, Social Security Benefits: October 2019 105 Wolverhampton 95 FOREIGN AND Thomas Cook: Insolvency 95 COMMONWEALTH OFFICE 105 Universal Credit 96 Foreign Affairs Council – 14 WRITTEN STATEMENTS 98 October 2019 105 BUSINESS, ENERGY AND HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE 107 INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 98 Department of Health and Energy Policy 98 Social Care Update 107 Insolvency Service HOME OFFICE 111 Performance Targets 2019-20 99 Immigration 111 Post- October EU Environment The Independent Inquiry into Council 101 Child Sexual Abuse’s Report on the Ealing Abbey and St Benedict’s School Case Study 112 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 Prison Sentences: Hampshire Mr Ranil Jayawardena: [1073] To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of requests to his Department in relation to a custodial sentence from people in Hampshire fall outside of the unduly lenient sentence scheme. Michael Ellis: In 2018, of the 20 requests that were received for sentences handed down in Winchester, Portsmouth and Southampton Crown Court, 9 fell out of the remit of the scheme. Therefore 45% fell outside the scheme. In 2019, to date, of the 16 requests that were received for the sentences handed down in Winchester and Southampton Crown Court, 6 fell out of the remit of the scheme. Therefore 38% fell outside the scheme. BUSINESS, ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY Carbon Emissions Graham Stringer: [1585] To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether her Department has received from the Committee on Climate Change an estimate of the costs of achieving net zero carbon emissions in each year from 2020 to 2049. Kwasi Kwarteng: The Committee on Climate Change has not provided the Department with an estimate of the costs in each year from 2020 to 2049 for delivering the UK’s net zero target. Costs are inevitably uncertain between 2020 and 2049 but the CCC estimate that the costs of delivering the net zero target will be equivalent to 1-2% of GDP in 2050. We will publish further detail in the impact assessment for the sixth carbon budget and for all policies which we take forward to deliver the net zero target. In addition, HM Treasury are carrying out a review into the costs of transitioning to a net zero economy, as recommended by the CCC. The review will consider how to pay for this and how to achieve the transition in a way that works for households, businesses and public finances, as well as how we can ensure this is compatible with plans for a thriving and competitive economy. Graham Stringer: [1586] To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in each year between 2020 and 2050. Kwasi Kwarteng: The Committee on Climate Change has not provided the Department with an estimate of the costs in each year from 2020 to 2050 for delivering the UK’s
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