The Department does not hold this information.

National guidance is clear that immediately necessary or urgent care should never be withheld or delayed for reasons to do with eligibility or payment. Whether care is urgent is a decision only a clinician can make and on a case-by-case basis, informed by national guidance.

The Government believes that widespread access to cash remains extremely important to the day-to-day lives of many consumers and businesses. That is why the Government continues to engage with the regulators and industry in this area.

In 2015, the Government established the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), with a statutory objective to ensure that the UK’s payment systems work in the interests of their users. As a result, the PSR is closely monitoring developments within ATM provision, and has used its powers to ensure LINK meets its commitment on maintaining the broad geographical spread of free-to-use ATMs.

The Treasury has not made an estimate of the number of free-to-use ATMS that have been converted to pay-to-use in each of the last five years. Detailed statistical data on the number of free-to-use and pay-to-use ATMs since 1998 is publicly available on the LINK website.

The Government believes that widespread access to cash remains extremely important to the day-to-day lives of many consumers and businesses. That is why the Government continues to engage with the regulators and industry in this area.

In 2015, the Government established the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), with a statutory objective to ensure that the UK’s payment systems work in the interests of their users. As a result, the PSR is closely monitoring developments within ATM provision, and has used its powers to ensure LINK meets its commitment on maintaining the broad geographical spread of free-to-use ATMs.

The Treasury has not made an estimate of the number of free-to-use ATMS that have been converted to pay-to-use in each of the last five years. Detailed statistical data on the number of free-to-use and pay-to-use ATMs since 1998 is publicly available on the LINK website.

The Government has made no assessment on the effectiveness of the Health and Care Professions Council’s (HCPC) equality impact assessment process for its recent decision to increase registration fees. The HCPC is independent of Government and funded by registrants’ fees on a cost recovery basis.

Following public consultation, the HCPC is planning to raise its annual fees by £16. If adopted, the HCPC’s annual registration fee will rise from £90 to £106 a year from October 2019. The HCPC registration fees will remain the lowest of any of the United Kingdom-wide health and care regulators. Registration fees are tax-deductible and this fee rise will amount to just over £1 a month extra for most of the HCPC’s registrants.

The Government has given councils access to around £10 billion more dedicated funding for social care from 2017/18 to 2019/20. The 2018 Autumn Budget also announced that a further £410 million is available in 2019/20 to improve social care for older people, people with disabilities and children.

Under the Care Act 2014, local authorities are required to shape their local markets to ensure that they are sustainable, diverse and offer high quality care and support. Councils have statutory duties to meet the social care needs of the elderly, disabled and vulnerable people in their area.

This Government is also committed to ensuring that the social care system is sustainable in the longer term, which is why we will be publishing a Green Paper at the earliest opportunity, setting out our proposals for reform. This will include ideas for including an element of risk pooling in the system, to protect people from the highest costs and improve consumer choice and protection.

The Home Office does not record fees received from applications by British-born children separately to a unique account code within our accounting software, and therefore does not have sufficiently detailed management information to breakdown income into any component categories, for example by spouse/partner/child applications

Amounts received from Visa/Citizenship applications are not differentiated between the various categories in which they are received. We do not have a separate code or field for children’s nationality applications. Our ledger will not allow us to provide this level of detail.

The Home Office keeps its refund policy under review. We have committed to considering the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders, Immigration and Citizenship’s recommendations (made in his review entitled “An Inspection of the Home Office Borders, Immigration and Citizenship System’s policies and practises relating to charging and fees”) on refunds associated with refused nationality and settlement applications in the context of the next Spending Review.

The Department does not hold information in the format requested.

The Department has no current plans to review or amend the list of medical conditions that provide exemption from prescription charges because arrangements exist to ensure that prescriptions are affordable for everyone. Accordingly, no recent discussions about this matter have taken place at Ministerial level with NHS England.

The single use carrier bag charge introduced in 2015 has seen plastic bag sales in major supermarkets drop by 86%. This is equivalent to 19 bags per person in 2016/17 in England, compared with 140 bags each before the government introduced the charge. It has taken 13 billion plastic bags out of circulation in the last two years and last year alone generated over £51.6 million for charities and other good causes.

The HMT call for evidence on tackling single use plastic waste through the use of fiscal measures or new charges closed in May. A summary of responses was published in August ahead of the Chancellor’s Budget on 29 October.

The government sets maximum fees for home students studying undergraduate courses. These will remain at £9,250 for full-time courses for the 2018/19 and 2019/20 academic years. Universities are able to set the precise level of fees they charge provided they do not exceed these caps.

Ministers have regular meetings with Ministerial colleagues and others as part of the process of policy development and delivery. As was the case with previous administrations, it is not the Government's practice to provide details of all such meetings.

Decisions on overdraft fees and charges are a commercial matter for firms. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) requires firms to treat their customers fairly and has broad and robust powers to enforce breaches of its rules.

As part of its ongoing work on high-cost credit, the FCA is currently consulting on measures that aim to secure greater protection for consumers using overdrafts. The consultation can be found online at: https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/consultation/cp18-13.pdf

The FCA is also considering overdraft pricing as part of its wider Strategic Review of Retail Business Banking Models. It has recently published an update on this work, which can be found online at: https://www.fca.org.uk/publications/multi-firm-reviews/strategic-review-retail-banking-business-models

The Government supports the FCA’s work in this area and will continue to work with it to ensure that all consumers who use overdrafts are treated fairly.

Source: Ofcom Communications Market Report 2017

Available at https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/105074/cmr-2017-uk.pdf

In order to improve national air quality, the 2015 national air quality plan for nitrogen dioxide introduced the concept of a Clean Air Zone, which defines an area where targeted action is taken to improve air quality, and where resources are prioritised and coordinated in order to deliver improved health benefits and support economic growth in the urban environment.

The 2015 plan named five cities, one of which is Birmingham, that are required to introduce a Clean Air Zone and the Government is currently engaging with the local authority on the scheme’s detailed design.

In light of both updated information on real world emissions from diesel vehicles and the High Court judgement last year, we will be publishing a revised air quality plan for nitrogen dioxide shortly. The consultation will address the measures needed to reduce nitrogen dioxide concentrations.

The Government is absolutely clear that victims of domestic violence must have access to the help that they need, including access to legal aid.

Legal aid is available for the purpose of obtaining urgent protection via the courts and this funding is not subject to evidence requirements. Legal aid is also available, to those affected by domestic violence, for private family matters such as child contact and financial arrangements following separation. In these cases objective evidence is required and a letter from a health professional, which does not have to be a GP, is one of the types of evidence that can be accepted. We are aware that a small number of GPs have been charging for this but we do not believe that there is a need to do so.

In July to September of 2016 the number of applications for legal aid for private family matters in which evidence of domestic violence is required was 26% higher than the same quarter of the previous year and the proportion of applications granted has increased to over 75% in the last three quarters.

There are no unpaid court or tribunal fees. Cases do not proceed unless fees are paid or remitted.

HMCTS offers fee remission to those people who, according to ability to pay criteria, are exempt from paying court fees.

The Department has not received any representations on this matter from schools or union representatives. As we stated in the answer of 9 May 2016 to Question 36326, academy trusts have the freedom to make decisions which reflect the local circumstances of their school. We expect these decisions to be made in a fair and transparent way.

Academy trusts have the freedom to make decisions which reflect the local circumstances of their school. We expect these decisions to be made in a fair and transparent way.