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1257463

registered interest
date	02/12/2020
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Aerospace Industry: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps the Government is taking to support the aerospace sector in Northern Ireland during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	909544
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2020 answer text <p>This is clearly an uncertain time for many businesses, including those in the aerospace industry, a sector valued at over £1.8bn in Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>As well as the Furlough Scheme, the Government is supporting the UK’s aerospace and aviation industries with over £8.5bn in grants, loans and export guarantees. UK Export Finance is supporting £3.5bn of sales in the next 18 months, and £2.1bn has been made available through the COVID Corporate Financing Facility.</p><p> </p><p>Having met recently with both management and Unite union representatives, I am pleased that Spirit and Bombardier have completed a deal that will end uncertainty for some 3,000 employees. This is a major vote of confidence in Northern Ireland’s highly skilled aerospace workforce.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 02/12/2020 17:18:33 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

1257464

registered interest
date	02/12/2020
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	United Kingdom
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to strengthen the Union.
tabling member constituency	Aberconwy
tabling member printed	Robin Millar
uin	909545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2020 answer text <p>This Government is committed to strengthening the Union. The UK is a family of nations which shares cultural, social and economic ties that, together, make us safer, more secure, and more prosperous.</p><p><br>The Government is committed to levelling up the whole of the UK and we will take every opportunity to strengthen Northern Ireland’s place within the Union, particularly as we approach its centenary year. This is something we have clearly demonstrated through the £2.8 billion previously provided to the Northern Ireland Executive to help fight coronavirus, along with the announcement last week by the Chancellor of an additional £918 million of funding for Northern Ireland for the incoming financial year.</p><p><br>The Government is clear that the UK must function as a single customs territory in practice as we operationalise the Protocol. That is why we have unequivocally committed to unfettered access for Northern Ireland goods to the rest of the UK, as outlined in New Decade, New Approach and in the 2019 manifesto.</p><p><br>We have brought forward draft regulations which establish the definition of Qualifying Northern Ireland Goods, ensuring no changes in how Northern Ireland businesses move goods directly to the rest of the UK from 1 January 2021, and the UKIM Bill will ensure that qualifying Northern Ireland goods can continue to be placed on the whole UK market and prohibit checks and controls as goods move from Northern Ireland to the rest of the UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 02/12/2020 17:26:24 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4746 label Biography information for Robin Millar

1257465

registered interest
date	02/12/2020
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Apprentices: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What discussions he has had with (a) the Northern Ireland Executive and (b) Cabinet colleagues on increasing the number of apprenticeships in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	909547
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2020 answer text <p>We want Northern Ireland not only to recover, but to prosper, and - to do that - Northern Ireland needs a skilled and productive workforce. This Government recognises, and I know my hon Friend is a champion of the huge benefit of, apprenticeships in helping young people into employment and employers to invest in skills. I have been struck on my visits to Northern Ireland businesses how many already value apprenticeships as a means to recruit and foster new talent.</p><p> </p><p>Apprenticeships are devolved in Northern Ireland and I welcome the steps that the Executive have taken through the Apprenticeship Recovery Package to help the apprenticeship system respond to the impact of the pandemic. I look forward to seeing how they will build on this as they work to maximise the potential of apprenticeships in Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 02/12/2020 17:11:30 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1257466

registered interest
date	02/12/2020
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Veterans: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent discussions he has had with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) the Northern Ireland Executive on a timeframe for bringing forward standalone legislative proposals on vexatious claims against veterans who served in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
uin	909548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2020 answer text <p>The Government has been clear that it will bring forward legislation to address the legacy of the Troubles which focuses on reconciliation, delivers for victims, and ends the cycle of investigations that has failed victims and veterans alike.</p><p> </p><p>We remain committed to making progress, and engaging with the Irish Government, the Northern Ireland parties, and stakeholders from across the community on this issue.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 02/12/2020 17:13:24 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson

1257467

registered interest
date	02/12/2020
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Protocol
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the preparedness of (a) businesses and (b) communities for the implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	909551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2020 answer text <p>It is essential that businesses and the wider public continue to take steps to prepare for the end of the transition period. We are working closely with businesses and communities to ensure that action is taken now.</p><p> </p><p>As well as regular meetings of the Business Engagement Forum, led by my department, we are in constant contact with communities in Northern Ireland. Last month the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland chaired a roundtable with civic leaders from across Northern Ireland, facilitating a really valuable two-way dialogue on readiness. We will continue that dialogue to ensure that Northern Ireland is ready on 1 January 2021.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 909560 question first answered 02/12/2020 17:16:05 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1257468

registered interest
date	02/12/2020
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Protocol
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment he has made of the preparedness of (a) businesses and (b) communities for the implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Withington
tabling member printed	Jeff Smith
uin	909560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2020 answer text <p>It is essential that businesses and the wider public continue to take steps to prepare for the end of the transition period. We are working closely with businesses and communities to ensure that action is taken now.</p><p> </p><p>As well as regular meetings of the Business Engagement Forum, led by my department, we are in constant contact with communities in Northern Ireland. Last month the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland chaired a roundtable with civic leaders from across Northern Ireland, facilitating a really valuable two-way dialogue on readiness. We will continue that dialogue to ensure that Northern Ireland is ready on 1 January 2021.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 909551 question first answered 02/12/2020 17:16:05 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4456 label Biography information for Jeff Smith

1257106

registered interest
date	01/12/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 12 October to Question 100465 on Apprentices; how many apprenticeships were available at (a) level 2 and (b) level 3 through apprenticeship (i) standards and (ii) frameworks in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	123628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2020 answer text <p>The number of learners starting apprenticeships for the 2019/20 academic year in England is published here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships</a>. The table attached provides figures for level and type of apprenticeship.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 08/12/2020 14:31:34 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan attachment 1 file name 123628_table_showing_apprenticeship_availability.pdf title 123628_table
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1256539

registered interest
date	30/11/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to reduce anxiety in children; and what discussions he has had with (a) the NSPCC and other children's charities on that matter.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	122934
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2020 answer text <p>The Department for Education works closely with the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) and its agencies, including Public Health England (PHE), on action to promote good mental health and wellbeing. On 8 September, PHE launched a mental wellbeing campaign for children and young people. It expands PHE’s Better Health-Every Mind Matters website with content specifically for children and young people and their parents and carers.</p><p>We know that the COVID-19 outbreak is having a particular impact on children and young people’s wellbeing and mental health. DHSC have published a mental health and wellbeing support plan, setting out a wide range of actions that the government is supporting across the NHS and wider services to support mental health and wellbeing recovery, including for children and young people. This can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/staying-mentally-well-winter-plan-2020-to-2021/staying-mentally-well-this-winter" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/staying-mentally-well-winter-plan-2020-to-2021/staying-mentally-well-this-winter</a>.</p><p>The plan highlights the importance of the action that we have taken to ensure that pupils are able to return to school. It also sets out a range of actions that have been taken by the department to support schools, and specific groups of children and young people. This includes the £8 million Wellbeing for Education Return programme, providing schools and colleges with the knowledge and access to resources to support children and young people, teachers and parents.</p><p>The department engages regularly with key children’s charities and has valued the insight and challenge from charities in shaping our response to supporting children through the COVID-19 outbreak. Our focus has been to ensure that, together, we support as many children as possible. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak we have met monthly with the NSPCC, and several other key children’s charities, to understand key issues facing the system, the challenges facing vulnerable young people, and to ensure a coherent response to providing support.</p><p>Additionally, to inform our work to support the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people, my hon. Friend, the Minister of State for Patient Safety, Suicide Prevention and Mental Health, and I held a roundtable in July, attended by stakeholders from NHS mental health services, local government, and the voluntary and community sector, including Childline. This was conducted to explore ways of mitigating the mental health impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on children and young people and strengthen partnership working between schools, mental health services, and local organisations.</p><p>To increase support further in the long term, we remain committed to our joint green paper delivery programme with DHSC and NHS England, including introducing new mental health support teams linked to schools and colleges, providing training for senior mental health leads in schools and colleges, and testing approaches to faster access to NHS specialist support.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 08/12/2020 13:07:46 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1256544

registered interest
date	30/11/2020
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Pakistan: Forced Marriage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the Pakistani Government on behalf of (a) Maira Shahbaz, (b) Arzoo Raja and (c) other girls who have been kidnapped, forcibly converted and married in Pakistan.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	122698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2020 answer text <p>The UK Government strongly condemns the forced marriage and forced conversion of women and girls from religious minorities in Pakistan. We are closely monitoring the cases of Maira Shahbaz and Arzoo Raja. We regularly raise our concerns about Freedom of Religion or Belief, women and girls' rights and gender equality with the Government of Pakistan at a senior level. On 19 October, the Minister of State for South Asia and Minister responsible for Human Rights, Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon, raised our concerns about child, early and forced marriage and forced conversion of women and girls with Pakistan's Minister for Human Rights, Dr Shireen Mazari. In addition, Lord Ahmad raised our concerns about Freedom of Religion or Belief with Dr Mazari on 16 November. The British High Commissioner to Pakistan, Dr Christian Turner CMG, raised our concerns about the case of Maira Shahbaz with the Governor of Punjab, Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar, on 16 November.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 07/12/2020 20:55:19 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1256545

registered interest
date	30/11/2020
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Pakistan: Abduction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he has taken to encourage the Pakistani Government to investigate and prevent cases of enforced disappearances and extra-judicial killings in (a) Sindh, (b) Baluchistan and (c) Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	122699
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2020 answer text <p>The UK strongly condemns any instances of extrajudicial killings or enforced disappearances. On 16 November, the Minister of State for South Asia and Minister responsible for Human Rights, Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon, raised concerns about the human rights situation in Pakistan with Dr Shireen Mazari, Pakistan's Minister for Human Rights. On 8 June, the British High Commissioner to Pakistan, Dr Christian Turner CMG, raised issues regarding civic freedoms and legislation on enforced disappearances with Dr Mazari.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 07/12/2020 20:57:27 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon