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1007135

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Zero Hours Contracts: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Youth unemployment down 50% since 2010, published on gov.uk on 16 October 2018, what proportion of recorded employment was under a zero-hours contract.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	191422
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) use the Labour Force Survey (LFS) to provide estimates for the number of people employed on zero hours’ contracts.</p><p> </p><p>The ONS figures for people in employment on zero hours’ contracts broken down by age, do not go back to 2010 and are only currently available up to April-June 2018. Therefore no directly comparable figures to the youth unemployment statistics cited are available.</p><p> </p><p>The majority of young people are not employed on zero hours’ contracts. In 2018 (Apr-Jun) there were 261,000 16-24 year olds on a zero hours’ contracts – representing only 6.9% of employed 16-24 year olds.</p><p> </p><p>This is down from 299,000 young people (7.8% of employed young people) in 2017 (Apr-Jun), but a slight increase from the first comparable data available, which shows in 2014 (Apr-Jun) there were 235,000 young people on a zero hours’ contract (or 6.3% of employed young people).</p><p> </p><p>Many people in full-time education are employed on zero hours’ contracts, in part because of the flexibility they provide. 18.5% of all people in 2018 (Apr-Jun) on zero hours’ contracts were in full-time education – compared to 2.3% of people not on a zero hours’ contract.</p><p> </p><p>The ONS data shows that the majority of people on zero hours’ contracts are happy with the hours provided by their zero hours’ contract.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 20/11/2018 16:24:01 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 85857 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1006101

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he plans to take to ensure that EU Settlement Scheme grant funding reaches groups (a) that have a real and established relationship with Roma communities and (b) in geographical areas where Roma communities are concentrated.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	190877
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office has undertaken extensive engagement with the voluntary and community sector, which includes specific engagement with organisations that work with Roma communities across the UK, through organised meetings, fora, teleconferences and workshops. Evaluation of bids will include criteria on geographical coverage and the range of people to be supported.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/11/2018 15:09:16 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1006102

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will consider changing in the EU Settlement Scheme grant funding the eligibility criterion that applications can be for no more than 25 per cent of an organisation’s annual income so that smaller community groups are not disadvantaged.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	190878
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>Following market engagement, the Home Office is considering accepting bids from organisations where the grant would exceed 25% of an organisation’s annual income and how this might affect evaluation of a bid. The final criteria, including evaluation of financial viability, will be available in the invitation to tender documentation.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/11/2018 15:12:16 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1006104

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to publish the findings of the second phase of the testing of settled status applications which includes testing with Roma applicants.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	190879
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>As set out in the Immigration Rules, the second phase of the private beta testing is open to workers in the health and social care sector across the country, as well as employees of all institutions classified as a Higher Education Institution listed on the Tier 4 sponsor register. This phase will also include some vulnerable individuals being supported by a small number of local authorities and civil society organisations.</p><p>We will provide further details in due course of the planned phased implementation of the scheme, and we will continue to update Parliament as part of that process. The second phase of this private beta testing runs from 1 November to 21 December.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/11/2018 15:11:11 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1006141

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Detainees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women are currently being held in immigration detention while their asylum claims are being processed.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	190881
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>The department currently does not record the information on the criteria as set; the number of women being held in detention while their asylum claims are being processed.</p><p>The number of women who were detained from 2010 Q1 to 2018 Q2 is available in table dt_13_q in the latest release of the ‘Immigration Statistics, ‘Year ending June 2018’, available from the Home Office website at; <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018-data-tables</a>.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/11/2018 15:32:33 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1006142

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Detainees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 28 of the independent report entitled Welfare in detention of vulnerable persons review: progress report, published on gov.uk in July 2018, what steps his Department is taking in response to the recommendation that it should take steps to identify women claiming asylum who are being held in detention whose cases would be better processed in the community.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	190882
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>Almost all asylum claims are processed in the community. Individuals who have their claim processed in detention have usually claimed asylum after being detained for removal, are detained for public protection reasons or have previously failed to comply with the UK’s immigration rules. In response to recommendation 10 in Stephen Shaw’s second report, we are considering whether more of those who claim asylum in detention could have their claims processed in the community.</p><p>In addition, the Home Secretary has undertaken to establish a pilot to manage vulnerable women in the community who would otherwise be detained in Yarl’s Wood and we anticipate that the pilot will have a role in addressing recommendation 10 for women who have claimed asylum in detention.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/11/2018 15:30:46 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

1005796

	registered interest
	date	12/11/2018
	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 Illness: Preventive Medicine
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department’s new strategy based on prevention will aim to prevent the onset of mental health disabilities.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	uin	190490
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s vision document, ‘Prevention is better than cure’, sets out our ambition to put prevention at the heart of health and social care in England. This includes both physical and mental health. However, there are already a number of measures in place or being planned to prevent the onset of mental health difficulties, and to support recovery for those who have experienced such difficulties, including introducing an access target for the service called 'Early Intervention in Psychosis' to help people recover after their first psychotic episode and prevent the condition from worsening in the future, and the range commitments outlined in the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Green Paper.</p><p> </p><p>We will be publishing a Green Paper in 2019 which will set out our further plans on prevention in greater detail.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 20/11/2018 15:00:50 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron