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date	22/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children and Young People: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure teachers in schools are able to identify (a) eating disorders, (b) anxiety, and (c) depression in children and young people.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	133992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government has taken action to improve the knowledge school staff have about mental health. The Department of Health and Social Care is funding Mental Health First Aid training to all secondary schools, and has committed to offering training in mental health awareness to every primary school during this Parliament. In addition the Government has funded MindEd, a free online portal that provides training for all adults working with children and young people about mental health problems. The Department will also be updating its Mental Health and Behaviour guidance later this year, which provides advice to schools on how to identify pupils who need additional support.</p><p>The green paper <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/transforming-children-and-young-peoples-mental-health-provision-a-green-paper" target="_blank">Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision</a> sets out proposals to improve support for schools to identify those pupils who need mental health support, backed with over £300 million in funding.</p><p>The Government is incentivising schools to put in place a Designated Senior Lead for mental health by providing training on how to promote and support good mental health and wellbeing and to identify where a pupil might have a mental health issue. The lead will be supported by new, clinically-supervised Mental Health Support Teams based in or near schools, which will provide support for those with mild to moderate needs, and better links to specialist NHS services for those who need them.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 27/03/2018 16:28:27 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

869479

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date	22/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of university tuition fees on the financial viability of students attending university.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	133993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>The student finance system ensures upfront costs of tuition are not a barrier to accessing higher education. Eligible students, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds, can apply for up-front fee loans to meet the full costs of their tuition.</p><p> </p><p>Full-time students from disadvantaged backgrounds also have access to the highest ever amounts of cash in hand loan support for their living costs. Monthly loan repayments are linked to income, not to interest rates or the amount borrowed.</p><p> </p><p>The current system has enabled record numbers of 18 year olds to benefit from higher education with progress continuing to be made on widening participation. There is a record entry rate for 18 year olds going to university for full-time study, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds.</p><p> </p><p>The government publishes Equality Analyses setting out the impact of the annual changes to student finance on protected and disadvantaged groups of students.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 27/03/2018 16:48:13 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

869481

registered interest
date	22/03/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Burma: International Development Select Committee
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has had discussions with the Government of Burma on its decision not to provide visas to members of the International Development Committee.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	133995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>We are disappointed at the refusal of the Burmese authorities to grant visas to the International Development Committee's members. In the run up to the Committee's visit, the FCO pressed for the visas to be granted, through calls to the Burmese Ambassador in London and representations to senior officials at the Burmese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.</p><p>The Minister for Asia and the Pacific summoned the Burmese Ambassador on 6 March to register formally the UK's grave concern at the refusal to grant the visas.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 27/03/2018 16:01:34 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

869482

registered interest
date	22/03/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health: Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to address the mental health needs of refugees.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	133996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2018 answer text <p>Anyone granted asylum, temporary protection or humanitarian protection under the Immigration Rules of section 3 of the Immigration Act 1971 is recognised as a refugee and able to access all health care services, including mental health care services, exempt from charges.</p><p> </p><p>If people experience symptoms of poor mental health, they can access evidence-based mental health treatment via their general practitioner (adults and children) or local (adult) Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services. For children and young people there will be locally agreed access arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>If further support, is needed, the National Health Service follows a stepped up model of care, whereby there is an assessment of need to in order to target the most specialist treatment at those displaying clinical symptoms.</p><p> </p><p>‘Commissioning mental health services for vulnerable adult migrants’ (February 2015), was co-produced by MIND and NHS England, with the aim of supporting NHS commissioners and providers to provide timely, good quality and person-centred mental health services for vulnerable migrants, in particular refugees and those seeking asylum.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 27/03/2018 12:08:15 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill