Asked by: David T C Davies (Conservative - Monmouth)
Question
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, for what reason hard-copy responses to the consultation on reform of the Gender Recognition Act have to be sent to an address at the Department for Education and online responses to the Government Equalities Office.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
As part of our pre-consultation engagement in the run up to publishing the Gender Recognition Act Consultation, the Government Equalities Office met over 70 organisations and stakeholders. These included LGBT organisations, women’s groups, faith organisations, refuges and domestic violence campaign groups, local government, campaign organisations such as Woman’s Place UK, unions, transgender charities, government departments and other European governments. Gendered Intelligence were one of these groups.
The Government Equalities Office is physically based in the Department for Education building in Westminster. Hard copy responses to the consultation must therefore be addressed to the Government Equalities Office in the Department for Education.
Asked by: David T C Davies (Conservative - Monmouth)
Question
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what collaborative work took place between Gendered Intelligence and the Government Equalities Office on the consultation on the reform of the Gender Recognition Act.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
As part of our pre-consultation engagement in the run up to publishing the Gender Recognition Act Consultation, the Government Equalities Office met over 70 organisations and stakeholders. These included LGBT organisations, women’s groups, faith organisations, refuges and domestic violence campaign groups, local government, campaign organisations such as Woman’s Place UK, unions, transgender charities, government departments and other European governments. Gendered Intelligence were one of these groups.
The Government Equalities Office is physically based in the Department for Education building in Westminster. Hard copy responses to the consultation must therefore be addressed to the Government Equalities Office in the Department for Education.
Asked by: David T C Davies (Conservative - Monmouth)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which organisations received more than £20 million from her Department in financial year 2017-18.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
The supply partners that received more than £20 million from DFID in financial year 2017-18 are in the table below.
Adam Smith International Ltd | KPMG LLP |
AECOM Professional Services | Marie Stopes International |
African Development Bank Group | Maternal Newborn and Child Health Programme, Pakistan |
AgDevCo Limited | Medicines for Malaria Venture |
Asian Development Bank | Mercy Corps Europe |
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank | Ministry of Finance and Economic Cooperation, Ethiopia |
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Ministry of Health, Government of Ethiopia |
BRAC | Mott MacDonald Ltd |
British Council | Norwegian Refugee Council |
British Red Cross | Oxford Policy Management |
CARE International | Pakistan National Cash Transfer Programme |
CDC Group plc. | Palladium |
Coffey International Development Ltd | Population Services International |
Commonwealth Scholarships Commission | PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS Ltd |
Crown Agents Bank Limited | Save the Children |
Crown Agents | SG Hambros Bank & Trust Ltd |
DAI Europe | St Helena Corporate Finance |
European Commission (including the European Development Fund) | State Bank of Pakistan |
European Commission – Core Development budget | Tanzania Ministry of Finance |
European Investment Bank | The International Committee of the Red Cross |
Food and Agriculture Organisation | The Power of Nutrition. |
Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) | The World Bank Group |
Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization | Trademark East Africa |
Government of Montserrat | United Nations Foundation |
IMA World Health | USAID |
IMC Worldwide Limited | Voluntary Services Overseas |
International Organization for Migration | World Food Programme |
International Rescue Committee | World Health Organisation |
Karandaaz Pakistan |
Asked by: David T C Davies (Conservative - Monmouth)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State Justice, how many people have been convicted of offences relating to forced marriage in the last three years.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The number of defendants prosecuted and convicted of offences relating to forced marriage, from 2015-2017, can be found at the following link:
Search ‘Offence’ for ’36.1 Forced marriage’ and ’66.6 Breach of a forced marriage protection order’.
Figures for 2018 are planned for publication in May 2019.
Asked by: David T C Davies (Conservative - Monmouth)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been convicted of offences relating to FGM in the last three years for which figures are available.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a crime and it is child abuse. The Government is clear that we will not tolerate a practice that can cause extreme and lifelong suffering to women and girls.
To date, there have been no convictions for FGM.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the police have highlighted that barriers to prosecution include a lack of referrals to the police, a lack of information from affected communities, and the age and vulnerability of victims. The Serious Crime Act 2015 introduced a number of measures to help overcome these, including: a new mandatory reporting duty for known cases of FGM in under-18s; extended extra-territorial jurisdiction over FGM offences committed abroad; lifelong anonymity for victims; FGM Protection Orders (FGMPOs), and a new offence of failure to protect a girl from the risk of FGM.
In addition, lead FGM prosecutors have been appointed, and the police and CPS have put in place joint FGM investigation and prosecution protocols. Border Force, the police and other agencies regularly carry out joint operations at the border to raise awareness of practices such as FGM to identify and protect potential victims.
Asked by: David T C Davies (Conservative - Monmouth)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many organisations have received more than (a) £1 million, (b) £10 million and (c) more than £20 million from DFID in the last 12 months.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
The number of suppliers receiving payments of a) more than £1 million, b) more than £10 million, c) more than £20 million from DFID in the financial year 2017/18 is given in the table below. Suppliers that receive more than £20 million or £10 million will be included in the count of suppliers receiving more than £1 million.
DFID payments to individual suppliers for financial year 2017/18
| Number of suppliers |
More than £1 million | 313 |
More than £10 million | 89 |
More than £20 million | 57 |
Asked by: David T C Davies (Conservative - Monmouth)
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
What steps she is taking to support armed forces veterans and police officers who have served in Northern Ireland.
Answered by Shailesh Vara
This Government is clear that it is only due to the unstinting efforts of our Police and Armed Forces that we have peace in Northern Ireland today. We have always acknowledged our ongoing duty of care to our former soldiers which includes providing legal support and representation.
Policing in Northern Ireland is a devolved matter. It is the role of the Police Federation to represent and promote the interests and welfare of the Police.
Asked by: David T C Davies (Conservative - Monmouth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2018 to Question 135890 on West Bromwich Albion Football Club, whether the Sports Ground Safety Association recommended approval of the application by West Bromwich Albion to install rail seating at The Hawthorns.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Spectator safety at sports grounds remains the priority for Government. The Sports Grounds Safety Authority (SGSA) is the regulatory body responsible for overseeing and advising on safety at sports grounds. I and my officials meet with and receive advice from the SGSA as part of the normal process of policy development. With regard to the application by West Bromwich Albion (WBA) to install rail seating at the Hawthorns, the Sports Grounds Safety Authority did not make a specific recommendation on whether Ministers should or should not approve the application by West Bromwich Albion.
Asked by: David T C Davies (Conservative - Monmouth)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what advice the Sports Ground Safety Association provided to his Department on the application by West Bromwich Albion to introduce a safe standing area at that club's stadium.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Spectator safety at sports grounds remains the priority for Government. The Sports Grounds Safety Authority (SGSA) is the regulatory body responsible for overseeing and advising on safety at sports grounds. My officials meet and receive advice from the SGSA as part of the normal process of policy development. The Sports Grounds Safety Authority provided technical advice and background information on the proposal from West Bromwich Albion FC to install rail seating at The Hawthorns.
Asked by: David T C Davies (Conservative - Monmouth)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 1 March 2018 to question 128954, what assessment he has made of whether as a result of increased interconnection (a) net employment in the GB electricity generating sector will increase or decrease and (b) UK GDP contribution from the GB electricity generating sector will increase or decrease in real terms.
Answered by Claire Perry
New interconnectors create jobs and contribute to GDP in their construction and ongoing operation. However, we do not hold sufficiently disaggregated data on employment in and GDP contribution from the electricity sector to make a quantitative assessment of the impact of increased interconnection on these points.