Asked by: Michael Fallon (Conservative - Sevenoaks)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS emergency treatment centres are located inside the London congestion charge zone.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
NHS Improvement has confirmed two hospitals with emergency treatment centres are located inside the London congestion charge zone. These are St Thomas’ Hospital, with accident and emergency (A&E) and Urgent Care Centre (UCC) facilities and Guy’s Hospital, which contains a standalone UCC but no A&E.
Asked by: Michael Fallon (Conservative - Sevenoaks)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many ambulance crew are based inside the London congestion charge zone.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This information is not collected centrally.
Asked by: Michael Fallon (Conservative - Sevenoaks)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ban smoking on all NHS premises.
Answered by Steve Brine
The Department supports the implementation of smokefree policies across all hospitals in England. The Government’s tobacco control plan for England published in July 2017 reiterates our ambition to achieve smokefree mental health services by the end of 2018 and to see all National Health Service estates becoming smoke-free by 2019/20, as set out in NHS England’s ‘Next steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View’ mandate.
Asked by: Michael Fallon (Conservative - Sevenoaks)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the Law Commission’s 2001 report on Cohabitation.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The Law Commission’s proposals on cohabitation are contained in its 2007 report.
The Government will be considering how to proceed in relation to the Law Commission’s proposals in the context of any further reforms to the family justice system.
Asked by: Michael Fallon (Conservative - Sevenoaks)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to progress the RBS Global Restructuring Group redress scheme.
Answered by John Glen - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
In November 2016 the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) announced, with the agreement of the Financial Conduct Authority, a Global Restructuring Group (GRG) complaints process overseen by an Independent Third Party, and an automatic refund of complex fees paid by relevant customers in GRG between 2008 and 2013. This scheme is a commercial matter for RBS, and the Government has played no role in the establishment or operation of this scheme.
The Government’s shareholding in RBS is managed commercially and at arm’s length by UK Financial Investments (UKFI). RBS retains its own board which is responsible for commercial and operational decisions.
Asked by: Michael Fallon (Conservative - Sevenoaks)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the implications of the snap-back clauses in the Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations for private individuals who are self-building.
Answered by Dominic Raab
Self builders are able to obtain an exemption from the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) if they are building, or have commissioned the building of, a home for their own use. There are necessary and proportionate 'claw-back' provisions to help guard against any 'gaming' of CIL liabilities following the granting of an exemption. These provisions require the self builder benefitting from the exemption to occupy the dwelling as their main home for a minimum of three years, and not to otherwise sell or let the property during that period.
The exemptions process has to fit within the legislative process within which CIL operates. CIL is, by law, a set charge on new development and the regulations incorporate a series of standard trigger points. These are intended to provide consistency, reduce complexity and aid local authorities and developers in administering CIL. The Commencement Notice is one of these trigger points. The Commencement Notice marks the start of the time period which, for most of the available exemptions from CIL, exempted developments need to comply with in terms of the 'claw-back' requirements. Failure to submit a Commencement Notice can result in an exemption being lost.
The Government have announced an ambitious package of reforms to CIL and will be consulting on these in due course.
Asked by: Michael Fallon (Conservative - Sevenoaks)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to offer guidance to self-builders on serving a commencement notice within a timeframe that allows them a waiver from the Community Infrastructure Levy.
Answered by Dominic Raab
Self builders are able to obtain an exemption from the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) if they are building, or have commissioned the building of, a home for their own use. There are necessary and proportionate 'claw-back' provisions to help guard against any 'gaming' of CIL liabilities following the granting of an exemption. These provisions require the self builder benefitting from the exemption to occupy the dwelling as their main home for a minimum of three years, and not to otherwise sell or let the property during that period.
The exemptions process has to fit within the legislative process within which CIL operates. CIL is, by law, a set charge on new development and the regulations incorporate a series of standard trigger points. These are intended to provide consistency, reduce complexity and aid local authorities and developers in administering CIL. The Commencement Notice is one of these trigger points. The Commencement Notice marks the start of the time period which, for most of the available exemptions from CIL, exempted developments need to comply with in terms of the 'claw-back' requirements. Failure to submit a Commencement Notice can result in an exemption being lost.
The Government have announced an ambitious package of reforms to CIL and will be consulting on these in due course.
Asked by: Michael Fallon (Conservative - Sevenoaks)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when the Government last reviewed its planning practice guidance relating to community infrastructure levy exemptions.
Answered by Dominic Raab
Self builders are able to obtain an exemption from the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) if they are building, or have commissioned the building of, a home for their own use. There are necessary and proportionate 'claw-back' provisions to help guard against any 'gaming' of CIL liabilities following the granting of an exemption. These provisions require the self builder benefitting from the exemption to occupy the dwelling as their main home for a minimum of three years, and not to otherwise sell or let the property during that period.
The exemptions process has to fit within the legislative process within which CIL operates. CIL is, by law, a set charge on new development and the regulations incorporate a series of standard trigger points. These are intended to provide consistency, reduce complexity and aid local authorities and developers in administering CIL. The Commencement Notice is one of these trigger points. The Commencement Notice marks the start of the time period which, for most of the available exemptions from CIL, exempted developments need to comply with in terms of the 'claw-back' requirements. Failure to submit a Commencement Notice can result in an exemption being lost.
The Government have announced an ambitious package of reforms to CIL and will be consulting on these in due course.
Asked by: Michael Fallon (Conservative - Sevenoaks)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to establish an independent tribunal to act as a mandatory first dispute resolution mechanism between banks and small and medium-sized enterprises; and what representations he has received on such a tribunal since 2015.
Answered by John Glen - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
The Government receives representations on a number of issues from both MPs, organisations and individuals.
The Financial Conduct Authority recently published its consultation on widening the remit of the Financial Ombudsman Service, and its feedback statement on its 2015 SME paper. The Government is considering those findings closely, and considering wider options being put forward on dispute resolution between small and medium-sized enterprises and banks.
Asked by: Michael Fallon (Conservative - Sevenoaks)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information his Department holds on the number of UK companies which operated employee share schemes in (a) 1988, (b) 1990, (c) 2000, (d) 2010 and (e) 2017.
Answered by Mel Stride - Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The number of UK companies that operated each of the four tax-advantaged Employee Share Schemes from 2000-01 to 2015-16 can be found on the gov.uk website at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/companies-with-tax-advantaged-employee-share-schemes
Information for earlier years is not available.
Information for 2017-18 is due to be published in June 2019.