Daily Report Monday, 12 March 2018 This report shows written answers and statements provided on 12 March 2018 and the information is correct at the time of publication (06:39 P.M., 12 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 8 Department for Business, ATTORNEY GENERAL 8 Energy and Industrial Strategy: Internet 15 Attorney General: Apprentices 8 Drugs: Research 16 Attorney General: Business Interests 8 Energy: Meters 16 Crown Prosecution Service 8 Environment Protection: Taxation 17 Financial Services: Sanctions 9 GKN: Melrose 17 Hare Coursing: Fines 9 Iron and Steel: USA 18 Serious Fraud Office 9 Limited Liability: Public Sexual Offences: Newcastle Consultation 18 Upon Tyne 9 Limited Liability: Scotland 18 BUSINESS, ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 10 Natural Gas: Weather 19 Business: North East 10 Renewable Energy 19 Carbon Emissions 11 Social Services: Pay 20 Carillion: Insolvency 12 Tidal Power: Swansea Bay 20 Cats: Poisoning 12 CABINET OFFICE 20 Coal 13 Blood: Contamination 20 Conditions of Employment: Cabinet Office: Arms Length Weather 13 Bodies 21 Department for Business, Cabinet Office: Beverage Energy and Industrial Strategy: Containers 21 Emergencies 14 Cabinet Office: Departmental Department for Business, Responsibilities 21 Energy and Industrial Strategy: Cabinet Office: Flexible G8 14 Working 22 Cabinet Office: Ministerial Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft 33 Powers 22 Ministry of Defence: Internet 33 Cabinet Office: Written Ministry of Defence: Iron and Questions 22 Steel 34 Cabinet Office: Zero Hours Veterans: Scotland 34 Contracts 23 DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND Carillion 23 SPORT 34 Civil Servants: Recruitment 24 Charities: Data Protection 34 Civil Servants: Training 25 Culture, Practices and Ethics Emergencies: Departmental of the Press Inquiry 35 Responsibilities 26 Digital Technology: EU Families 26 Internal Trade 35 General Elections: Dementia 26 Internet: Security 36 Government 26 UN Convention for Protection Government Departments: of Cultural Property in Event of Contracts 27 Armed Conflict 37 Government Departments: EDUCATION 37 Databases 27 Academies 37 Government Departments: Apprentices 38 Land 28 Apprentices: Average Prostate Cancer 28 Earnings 38 Public Sector: Cybercrime 28 Apprentices: Ethnic Groups 39 DEFENCE 29 Apprentices: Wolverhampton 39 Armed Forces: Discharges 29 Child Minding: Registration 40 Armed Forces: Dogs 29 Children: Day Care 40 Armed Forces: Mental Health Department for Education: Services 30 Public Appointments 41 Armed Forces: Pay 30 Department for Education: Armed Forces: Surveys 31 Staff 42 Astute Class Submarines 32 Digital Technology: Curriculum 43 Boeing 32 Faith Schools: Equality 43 Defence Equipment: Exports 32 Further Education: ICT 43 Defence: Procurement 32 Mature Students 44 Firing Ranges: Dundrennan 33 Pre-school Education: Assessments 45 HMS Ambush 33 Students: Loans 45 Students: Protection 45 EU Countries: British Nationals Teachers: Training 46 Abroad 56 Universities Superannuation FOREIGN AND Scheme 46 COMMONWEALTH OFFICE 56 Universities: Freedom of Football: Northern Ireland 56 Expression 47 Hamed bin Haydara 56 Universities: Strikes 47 Jamaica: Foreign Relations 57 ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe 57 RURAL AFFAIRS 47 Nigeria: Religious Freedom 57 Agriculture: Apprentices 47 Saudi Arabia: Overseas Trade 58 Agriculture: Genetic South Sudan: Armed Conflict 58 Engineering 48 Sri Lanka: Community Agriculture: Subsidies 49 Relations 59 Animals: Tagging 49 Sri Lanka: Violence 59 Beetles: Conservation 49 Syria: Armed Conflict 60 Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Syria: Military Intervention 61 Control 50 Tanzania: Religious Buildings 62 Chemicals: EU Law 50 Yemen: Armed Conflict 62 Common Agricultural Policy: Wales 50 Yemen: Peace Negotiations 62 Department for Environment, HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE 63 Food and Rural Affairs: Breast Cancer: West Midlands 63 Fairtrade Initiative 50 Clinical Commissioning Hill Farming 51 Groups: Halton 63 Packaging 51 Compulsorily Detained Pollution Control: North West 52 Psychiatric Patients: Ethnic Groups 64 Public Footpaths 53 Compulsorily Detained Public Footpaths: South West 53 Psychiatric Patients: Restraint Seasonal Agricultural Workers' Techniques 64 Scheme 53 Department of Health and Water Supply 54 Social Care: Internet 64 EXITING THE EUROPEAN Eating Disorders 65 UNION 55 General Practitioners: Labour Brexit 55 Turnover 66 Department for Exiting the Health Professions 67 European Union: Apprentices 55 Health Services: Females 67 Health Services: Reciprocal Passports 82 Arrangements 67 Police: Pay 83 Health Services: Veterans 68 Police: Training 83 Health Services: Waiting Lists 68 Sexual Offences: Newcastle Members: Correspondence 69 Upon Tyne 84 Mental Health Services 69 Yarl's Wood Immigration Mental Health Services: Wirral 72 Removal Centre 84 Mental Illness: Devon 72 HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT 85 Nabiximols 73 Alcoholic Drinks: Minimum NHS: Translation Services 73 Prices 85 Obesity: Children 74 Alcoholic Drinks: Prices 85 Personal Injury: Compensation 74 Council Tax: Dorset 86 Prisoners: Abortion 74 Council Tax: Empty Property 86 Prostate Cancer: Screening 75 High Rise Flats: Fire Sexual Offences: Essex 75 Prevention 86 Social Services: Minimum Homelessness 87 Wage 76 Housing 88 Spectacles: Prescriptions 76 Housing: Construction 88 Wirral University Teaching Housing: Dorset 89 Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 76 Local Enterprise Partnerships 89 HOME OFFICE 77 Local Government: Disclosure of Information 90 Alfie Dingley 77 Local Government: Dorset 90 Asylum: Detainees 78 Ministry of Housing, Community Policing 78 Communities and Local Counter-terrorism 79 Government: Internet 91 Dogs: Theft 79 Ministry of Housing, Domestic Violence 79 Communities and Local Government: Written Fire Prevention: Inspections 79 Questions 91 Home Office: Carillion 80 Opportunity and Integration Housing: Fire Prevention 80 Review 91 Immigrants: Detainees 81 Private Rented Housing 92 Islam: Publications 82 Right to Buy Scheme: Stafford 92 Libya: Unexplained Wealth Sleeping Rough 92 Orders 82 Sleeping Rough: Weather 93 Prisoners: Wales 110 Social Services: Children 93 Prisons: Contracts 112 INTERNATIONAL Prisons: Mother and Baby DEVELOPMENT 94 Units 112 Developing Countries: HIV Prisons: Profits 112 Infection 94 Prisons: Repairs and Developing Countries: Nurses 94 Maintenance 113 Developing Countries: Prisons: Visits 114 Sanitary Protection 94 Reoffenders: Females 114 Palestinians: Overseas Aid 95 Segregation of Prisoners 116 INTERNATIONAL TRADE 96 Social Security and Child Small Businesses: Overseas Support Tribunal: Staff 117 Trade 96 NORTHERN IRELAND 117 JUSTICE 96 Northern Ireland Office: Approved Premises 96 Domestic Visits 117 Children: Custody 97 Northern Ireland Office: Civil Proceedings 97 Internet 118 Community Orders 98 SCOTLAND 118 Council Tax: Non-payment 99 Scotland Office: Internet 118 Courts: Closures 99 TRANSPORT 119 Courts: ICT 101 Aviation 119 Courts: Video Conferencing 102 Bus Services: Pollution Control 119 Crime: Victims 103 Department for Transport: Carillion 119 Judiciary: Gender 103 Department for Transport: Legal Aid Scheme: Housing 104 Internet 120 Legal Aid, Sentencing and East Coast Railway Line 120 Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 104 Helicopters: Offshore Industry 121 Legal Representation 105 Luton Airport: Railways 122 Ministry of Justice: Contracts 106 Parking: Pedestrian Areas 123 Ministry of Justice: Internet 106 Railway Stations: Wellingborough 123 Parole Board 107 Railways: Fares 124 Prison Officers 108 Severn River Crossing: Tolls 124 Prison Sentences 109 Silvertown Tunnel 125 Prisoners: Mental Health 110 South Western Railway: Motability: Coventry South 143 Season Tickets 125 Motability: Garston and Southeastern: Compensation 126 Halewood 143 Southeastern: Standards 126 Occupational Pensions: TREASURY 128 Private Sector 144 Apprentices: Minimum Wage 128 Pension Protection Fund 144 Business Bank Italy 128 Personal Independence Payment 145 Business Premises Renovation Allowance 129 Personal Independence Payment: Mental Illness 146 Children: Day Care 129 Personal Independence Cryptocurrencies 130 Payment: Parkinson's Disease 147 Self-employed: East Ham 130 Social Security Benefits: Social Rented Housing: Rents 130 Agriculture 148 Unemployment 131 State Retirement Pensions: WALES 131 British Nationals Abroad 149 Wales Office: Land 131 Trampolining: Regulation 149 WOMEN AND EQUALITIES 131 Universal Credit 149 Equality and Human Rights Universal Credit: Disability 150 Commission 131 Universal Credit: WORK AND PENSIONS 132 Disqualification 150 Christchurch Hospital: Universal Credit: Temporary Personal Independence Employment 151 Payment 132 Work Capability Assessment 152 Cold Weather Payments 132 MINISTERIAL CORRECTIONS 153 Department for Work and INTERNATIONAL TRADE 153 Pensions: Internet 134 Trade Promotion 153 Disability Premium 135 WRITTEN STATEMENTS 154 Domestic Violence 137 BUSINESS, ENERGY AND Employment and Support INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY 154 Allowance 138 Competitiveness Council, 12 Jobcentre Plus: Training 138 March 154 Members: Correspondence 139 EXITING THE EUROPEAN Mortgages: Government UNION 154 Assistance 139 UK-Gibraltar Relationship 154 Motability 142 FOREIGN AND TRANSPORT 160 COMMONWEALTH OFFICE 155 HS2 Update 160 Opposition Day Debate: TREASURY 161 Refugees and Human Rights 155 ECOFIN: 13 March 2018 161 HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE 156