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1726141

	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre (CMIC), sponsored by the Department for Business and Trade, is currently undertaking an updated criticality assessment, with the results to be released later this year. The methodology for this assessment can be found on the CMIC website and the process involves assessing over 80 candidate materials, including copper.</p>
	tabling member	5116

1726142

	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre (CMIC), sponsored by the Department for Business and Trade, will publish an updated assessment of the criticality of over 80 candidate materials, later this year. This assessment is focused on the UK's circumstances, needs and priorities, and no comparative assessment of other jurisdictions has been undertaken to date.</p>
	tabling member	5116

1726886

	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The government is working at pace to establish the national wealth fund which is critical to our growth and green energy missions.</p><p> </p><p>It will crowd in investment from the private sector into the industries of the future and create jobs across the country.</p><p> </p><p>The Chancellor will set out more detail at the international investment summit in October.</p>
	tabling member	5116

1723850

	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The Government acknowledges the undertakings set out in the offer to shareholders which show that the prospective buyers are alert to the importance of Royal Mail and the special place it has in the UK.</p><p>We are engaging with the bidder to understand better their plans for Royal Mail and to set out the Government’s expectations for its future.</p>
	tabling member	5116

1719275

	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>HM Treasury considers the issue of compensation for former Northern Rock shareholders to be settled. Both the Upper Tribunal in 2011 and the Court of Appeal in 2013 upheld the independent valuation of Northern Rock shares at nil value immediately prior to public ownership, and that no compensation was therefore due. HM Treasury does not intend to revisit this issue.</p>
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1717864

	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>Social workers are recruited under the Health and Care Worker visa, and therefore are exempt from the salary threshold of £38,700 required by the Skilled Worker visa. Social workers recruited from overseas are subject to national pay scales, and therefore must be paid in line with the National Health Service agenda for change pay scales.</p>
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1717865

	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The most recently available information is regularly published on the government website.</p>
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1717866

	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The most recently available information is regularly published on the government website. <strong> </strong></p>
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1717867

	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The most recently available information is regularly published on the government website.</p>
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1717868

	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The most recently available information is regularly published on the government website.</p>
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1717869

	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The most recently available information is regularly published on the government website.</p>
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1717870

	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The decision for any UAS child to be referred to the NTS for transfer lies with the local authority as the child’s corporate parent. The NTS Protocol sets out the criteria for referring a child to the NTS, and the associated timeframes, which can be found here: Unaccompanied asylum seeking children: national transfer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). The NTS Protocol also outlines the escalation procedure on how to proceed when any issues arise between the receiving local authority around a transfer.</p><p>The most recent published data can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rasi-resettlement-asylum-support-and-integration-data-q3-2023" target="_blank">RASI (Resettlement, Asylum Support and Integration) data: Q3 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</a></p>
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1717871

	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The decision for any UAS child to be referred to the NTS for transfer lies with the local authority as the child’s corporate parent. The NTS Protocol sets out the criteria for referring a child to the NTS, and the associated timeframes, which can be found here: Unaccompanied asylum seeking children: national transfer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). The NTS Protocol also outlines the escalation procedure on how to proceed when any issues arise between the receiving local authority around a transfer.</p><p>The most recent published data can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rasi-resettlement-asylum-support-and-integration-data-q3-2023" target="_blank">RASI (Resettlement, Asylum Support and Integration) data: Q3 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</a></p>
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1717872

	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The decision for any UAS child to be referred to the NTS for transfer lies with the local authority as the child’s corporate parent. The NTS Protocol sets out the criteria for referring a child to the NTS, and the associated timeframes, which can be found here: Unaccompanied asylum seeking children: national transfer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). The NTS Protocol also outlines the escalation procedure on how to proceed when any issues arise between the receiving local authority around a transfer.</p><p>The most recent published data can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rasi-resettlement-asylum-support-and-integration-data-q3-2023" target="_blank">RASI (Resettlement, Asylum Support and Integration) data: Q3 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</a></p>
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1717484

	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The independent evaluation of the Safety of Women at Night (SWaN) Fund, worth £5 million and delivered over the 2021/22 financial year, was published on 10 April.</p><p>Learnings from the SWaN Fund were incorporated into rounds Four and Five of the Safer Streets Fund, worth £50m and £35m respectively, which included a primary objective around combatting violence against women and girls in public spaces, and have funded a range of interventions including CCTV, streetlighting and educational initiatives with a focus on changing attitudes and behaviours. Round five is currently ongoing.</p>
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1717485

	answering dept sort name	Transport
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>Since the first Safeguarding on Rail Scheme accreditation for Great Western Railway (GWR) in 2021, no rail operator has lost their accreditation.</p><p> </p>
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1717486

	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>Clear and accurate alcohol product labelling is crucial to ensuring consumers have access to essential information about the products they are purchasing, whilst also promoting transparency, responsible consumption, and safety.</p><p>Current alcohol labelling guidance recommends that health information, including pregnancy warnings, a drink driving warning, and the Chief Medical Officer’s weekly limit guidance, are included on the label for alcohol products. It is also a legal requirement to display alcohol by volume (ABV) labelling on drinks above the 1.2% ABV threshold.</p><p>The Department has recently consulted on updating labelling guidance for non-alcoholic and low alcohol products. This consultation closed on 23 November 2023, and the consultation response will be published shortly.</p>
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1717487

	answering dept sort name	Education
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>There is no universally agreed definition of ultra-processed foods. The term defines foods by how much processing they have been through rather than their nutritional composition.</p><p>The standards for school food are set out in The Requirements for School Food Regulations 2014. These regulations are designed to ensure that schools provide pupils with healthy food and drink options and to make sure that pupils have the energy and nutrition they need throughout the school day.</p><p>The ‘School Food Standards’ define the foods and drinks that must be provided, those which are restricted and those which must never be provided. The standards already restrict foods high in fat, salt and sugar, including crisps, confectionery and high-sugar drinks, as well as low quality reformed or reconstituted foods. They also ensure that the right foods are available for children every day. For example, one or more portions of fruit must be provided every day and at least three different fruits every week.</p><p>Compliance with the standards is mandatory for all maintained schools, academies and free schools. School governors and trustees have a responsibility to ensure compliance and should appropriately challenge the headteacher and the senior leadership team to ensure the school is meeting its obligations.</p><p>The department believes that the standards provide a robust yet flexible framework for school food provision. The government continues to keep the standards under review.</p>
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1715998

	answering dept sort name	Justice
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>It is standard practice not to comment on discussions between Ministers and the judiciary.</p><p>The Lord Chancellor is supportive of any efforts to help ensure sufficient capacity in the courts to hear bail applications and to remove principal structural barriers to applications being submitted, and he welcomes the revised guidance launched by Judicial Office which sets out that all second and subsequent bail applications to the Crown Court should be heard remotely unless ordered otherwise by a judge.</p>
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1715803

	answering dept sort name	Justice
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>Whilst the detailed allocation of funding to HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) for 2024/25 is still being finalised, the annual support cost for Digital Case Management system is expected to be £0.6 million for the foreseeable future, plus another £0.4 million to complete work on an interface between this and Common Platform in 2024/25.</p>
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1714760

	answering dept sort name	Justice
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The syllabus for training staff in under-18 young offender institutions and the secure training centre in Managing and Minimising Physical Restraint (MMPR) focuses exclusively on behaviour management and restraint.</p><p>It is essential that staff are trained for every aspect of their role, including in techniques they may need to use to prevent serious physical harm to a child or adult. Staff will continue to be trained in the safe use of pain-inducing techniques, as part of a separate package of interventions for use only in situations where that is the only means of preventing serious physical harm.</p><p>Any response must be necessary, reasonable, and proportionate in view of the risk of harm which is present. All instances where a pain-inducing technique is used are subject to detailed scrutiny by on site MMPR Coordinators, as well as by members of the Independent Restraint Review Panel.</p>
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1714761

	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The Home Office takes our duty of care towards children and young people extremely seriously and we prioritise applications from children and young people.</p><p>The Home Office does not currently have a target time for processing applications for asylum, but is committed to ensuring claims are considered without unnecessary delay. We have already made progress in prioritising claims with acute vulnerability and those in receipt of the greatest level of support, including Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children.</p><p>Introducing a service standard for asylum claims is a complex consideration which needs to be balanced between the requirements of operational efficiency, the needs of service users and the integrity of asylum control measures, including the implementation of the Illegal Migration Act. A project to review these considerations, along with scope and potential implementation timescales, will be undertaken. Once the project is completed, a final decision will be taken on any potential asylum claim service standards.</p>
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1714762

	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The Home Office is committed to the continuous review of the NRPF policy and are engaging with public and private sector organisations on a regular basis to understand the impacts of the NRPF condition.</p><p>The Government published an overarching Equality Impact Assessment on the Compliant Environment measures, of which No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) is part; <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/compliant-environment-overarching-equality-impact-assessment/compliant-environment-overarching-equality-impact-assessment-accessible" target="_blank">Compliant environment: overarching equality impact assessment (accessible) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). </a></p><p>In general, temporary migrants are expected to support themselves and any accompanying family members in the UK without recourse to public funds. This is a well-established principle that protects taxpayer-funded public services from becoming overburdened.</p><p>Nonetheless, there are important safeguards in place for those in genuine need. Migrants with permission under the Family or Private Life routes, or the Hong Kong British National (Overseas) routes, can apply, for free, to have their NRPF condition lifted by making a ‘Change of Conditions’ application. An individual on these routes can apply to have their NRPF condition lifted if they are destitute or at risk of imminent destitution, if there are reasons relating to the welfare of a relevant child, or where they are facing exceptional circumstances affecting their income or expenditure.</p><p>For all other immigration routes (other than Family or Private Life, or the Hong Kong BN(O) routes), the general expectation is that they will return to their home country should they become unable to meet their essential living needs in the UK. If there are particularly compelling circumstances why leaving the UK is not possible, discretion can be used to consider if the circumstances justify access to public funds.</p><p>Local authorities may also provide basic safety net support, regardless of immigration status, if it is established either that there is a risk to the wellbeing of a child or there is a genuine care need that does not arise solely from destitution: for example, where a person has community care needs or serious health problems. Support provided to a child by local authorities is not dependent on the immigration status of the child or their parent(s).</p><p>Migrants with NRPF who have paid the necessary National Insurance contributions or have relevant periods of employment or self-employment, can claim contributory benefits and statutory payments such as New Style Jobseekers Allowance, Statutory Sick Pay, and the State Pension.</p>
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1714763

	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>We are continuing to discuss revisions to the Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice, consulted on in 2022, with the Ministry of Justice. Further details on next steps will be shared with the sector in due course.</p>
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1714765

	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>In December 2021, the Government set out its strategy for the social care workforce in The People at the Heart of Care white paper. This set out our commitment to the continued success of the social work profession, and included plans to develop the domestic care workforce, including the launch of the care workforce pathway and an investment of over £20 million for adult social care nurse and social work apprenticeships.</p><p>On 10 January 2024, the Government announced a new fund to support the recruitment of social work apprentices into adult social care, over the next three years. Nearly £8 million from this fund has already been released to local authorities, and in the summer there will be another opportunity to apply to this fund.</p>
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham