ESCAPE-Pain is a group-based, six week rehabilitation programme which combines exercise and education to help patients manage chronic joint pain using exercise and coping techniques. The programme is endorsed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, and has received Best Practice Awards from the British Society of Rheumatology and Royal Society of Public Health.

The programme, which is running at over 30 sites across England, can be provided in physiotherapy departments, the community and places of work, and lessons can also be accessed via an app that is free to download. Commissioning of self-management and rehabilitation programmes, such as ESCAPE-Pain, is a local matter.

Health is a devolved matter, and decisions about use of the ESCAPE-Pain programme in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland would be a matter for the devolved administrations of those countries.

In line with our manifesto commitment, we are looking at how to design a devolution framework that provides clarity for local areas about what a successful devolution agreement in England looks like. We will seek to set out our approach as soon as possible.

We have provided sectoral information to Parliament as required by the motion passed by the House of Commons on 1 November.

As we made clear in our written ministerial statement on 28 November, the same information was shared with the devolved administrations. You will be aware that under the Osmotherly Rules the reports are now the property of the aforementioned Committee. Therefore, you may wish to contact the Chair of the Commons Exiting the EU Committee directly.

Currently, the EU regulatory regime for plant protection products (pesticides) creates a consistent approach across the UK, but allows for the UK Government and devolved administrations to make some different choices on implementation. We have agreed with the devolved administrations to hold discussions on whether a consistent approach might be needed in future.

To allow space for those detailed discussions to continue, the EU (Withdrawal) Bill will replicate the current frameworks provided by EU rules in UK legislation, including the pesticides regime.

I have no current plans to propose any changes to the devolution settlement. This would be matter for discussion between the main Northern Ireland parties and the UK Government in accordance with the Belfast agreement.

Whether he plans to propose changes to the devolution settlement in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement.

I agree with my hon. Friend in terms of the need to see devolved government restored. That is where the focus needs to remain and it is why the Government will be doing all that we can, and reinjecting further momentum into the process, so that we see that Executive re-established and devolved government functioning for all the people of Northern Ireland.

I thank the Secretary of State for that answer, but given that the failing of the Executive and the Assembly to exist is detrimental to Northern Ireland, and given that it is only one party in Northern Ireland that is refusing to allow them to function, is it not time to look at the Belfast agreement to see whether we can evolve it so that, in future, the Assembly and the Executive will continue to serve the people of Northern Ireland? [Interruption.]

The Department set up a guidance development group in July 2017 to develop guidance for schools in England on adrenaline auto-injectors (AAIs) in anticipation of the introduction of the Human Medicines (Amendment) Regulations 2017. The guidance is non-statutory and aims to capture the good practice which schools in England should observe in using spare AAIs. Schools may wish to use this as the basis of any protocol or policy.

The guidance development group included representatives of the devolved administrations. The guidance was intended for use in England, but can be used by the devolved administrations if they wish, or to help inform their own guidance. The Scottish Government will be publishing its own guidance for schools shortly.

The UK Government is committed to engagement with the devolved administrations throughout the EU Exit process. The main forum for this is the Joint Ministerial Committee (EU Negotiations). This met in October and December and will meet again in the new year with work remitted to officials to take forward between meetings.

The Joint Ministerial Committee (EU Negotiations) is the formal mechanism for inter-administration discussion on negotiations for the UK leaving the EU. In the period between February and October 2017 when JMC(EN) did not meet, the First Secretary of State and the Secretary of State for Exiting the EU held a series of bilateral meetings with the devolved administrations on a range of issues related to EU Exit.

In the formulation of the Clean Growth Strategy (CGS), the devolved administrations were consulted on many of the policies contained within the Strategy. We will continue to work with the devolved administrations as we develop and implement the policies and proposals in the CGS, including green finance.

​The Gross Value Added (GVA) for each of the sub-sectors in the Creative Industries for the devolved administrations is available from 2010 to 2015 at https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossvalueaddedgva/adhocs/006815constrainedregionalgrossvalueaddedgvaestimatesfordepartmentforculturemediaandsportdcmscreativeindustriessubsectors, and in the tables below. Data for 2016 are due to be published in February 2018.

Gross value added (GVA) expressed in current prices, for Creative Industries sub-sectors in Wales

Unit: £m

Years: 2010 - 2015

Coverage: UK

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Notes

1. Data are in current prices (i.e. have not been adjusted for inflation).​

​Gross value added (GVA) expressed in current prices, for Creative Industries sub-sectors in Scotland

Unit: £m

Years: 2010 - 2015

Coverage: UK​

​Notes

1. Data are in current prices (i.e. have not been adjusted for inflation).

​Gross value added (GVA) expressed in current prices, for Creative Industries sub-sectors in Northern Ireland

Unit: £m

Years: 2010 - 2015

Coverage: UK​​

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​Notes

1. Data are in current prices (i.e. have not been adjusted for inflation).

The Secretary of State and junior ministers have had meetings with various Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs), including those for North Yorkshire, Sussex, Hertfordshire, Northumbria and Thames Valley, to discuss matters relating to the Criminal Justice System (CJS). Amongst the topics discussed have been their ambitions for greater devolution in the CJS.

Together with the Home Office, Ministry of Justice officials are exploring how PCCs and Mayors with PCC powers can play a greater role in the wider CJS. The strengths that PCCs currently bring to policing could be of real benefit to the wider CJS, and we are keen to explore this further.

The UK is a party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) individually as well as through the EU and we are bound by all the obligations of the Paris Agreement under international law. This includes the requirement to prepare, communicate and maintain successive nationally determined contributions.

The UK is firmly committed to the Paris Agreement and to our emissions reduction and climate finance efforts under it. We have demonstrated our commitment domestically – we were the first country to introduce legally binding emissions reduction targets through the Climate Change Act, and we have recently published our highly praised Clean Growth Strategy, which is ambitious and robust in setting out how we will decarbonise the UK economy through the 2020s.

Leaving the EU will not affect our statutory commitments under our own domestic Climate Change Act and indeed our domestic binding emissions reduction targets are more ambitious than those set by EU legislation. Our Clean Growth Strategy includes the commitment that our future approach to tackling climate change is at least as ambitious as the current schemes we have in place.

The Devolved Administrations were consulted in the formulation of many of the policies in the Clean Growth Strategy and in the development of EU legislation. We will continue to work with the Devolved Administrations as we develop and implement the policies and proposals that we have set out.

I have regular discussions with members of the Cabinet, including the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Barnett Formula is operating as usual where additional funding is being provided to UK Government departments to prepare for EU Exit in devolved areas.