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1019813

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Opening Hours
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the effect on HM Courts and Tribunals Service staff will be included in the evaluation of the flexible operating hours pilots at (a) Brentford County Court, and (b) Manchester Civil Justice Centre.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	198789
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>As part of the Her Majesty’s Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) Reform Programme, the Flexible Operating Hours (FOH) project was set up to look at options to maximise the use of our court rooms by using them at different times of the day, outside of the traditional hours of 10am – 4pm. On 16 November 2018, it was announced that HMCTS will be proceeding with two pilots in the Civil and Family Courts in Brentford County Court and Manchester Civil Justice Centre and a revised Pilots Prospectus was published. Local Implementation Teams in Brentford and Manchester will finalise the pilot designs and start dates, which are likely to be in Spring 2019.</p><p> </p><p>A key objective of the FOH pilots is to understand the impacts of FOH for all court users, including HMCTS staff. An Evaluation Advisory Group has been established to ensure a balanced and comprehensive assessment of pilot activity by independent assessors. Consultation with trade unions will take place under separate arrangements in recognition of the need to consider FOH in the context of wider organisational changes affecting HMCTS staff.</p><p> </p><p>In Manchester Civil Justice Centre, the total number of Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staff is 205 with 29.5 FTE at Band A to D, 146 FTE at Band E and 29.5 FTE at Band F. In Brentford County Court, the total number of FTE staff is 15.5 with 1 FTE at Band C, 2 FTE at Band D, 11 FTE at Band E and 1.5 FTE at Band F. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 0.5. We are committed to ensuring that courts and tribunals have adequate staff to meet operational demands. Staffing requirements for the FOH pilots will be considered by the Local Implementation Teams.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 198790 198791 198792 question first answered 11/12/2018 12:17:34 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1019815

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Opening Hours
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which trade unions have been included on the Evaluation Advisory Group for the flexible operating hours pilots at (a) Brentford County Court, and (b) Manchester Civil Justice Centre.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	198790
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>As part of the Her Majesty’s Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) Reform Programme, the Flexible Operating Hours (FOH) project was set up to look at options to maximise the use of our court rooms by using them at different times of the day, outside of the traditional hours of 10am – 4pm. On 16 November 2018, it was announced that HMCTS will be proceeding with two pilots in the Civil and Family Courts in Brentford County Court and Manchester Civil Justice Centre and a revised Pilots Prospectus was published. Local Implementation Teams in Brentford and Manchester will finalise the pilot designs and start dates, which are likely to be in Spring 2019.</p><p> </p><p>A key objective of the FOH pilots is to understand the impacts of FOH for all court users, including HMCTS staff. An Evaluation Advisory Group has been established to ensure a balanced and comprehensive assessment of pilot activity by independent assessors. Consultation with trade unions will take place under separate arrangements in recognition of the need to consider FOH in the context of wider organisational changes affecting HMCTS staff.</p><p> </p><p>In Manchester Civil Justice Centre, the total number of Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staff is 205 with 29.5 FTE at Band A to D, 146 FTE at Band E and 29.5 FTE at Band F. In Brentford County Court, the total number of FTE staff is 15.5 with 1 FTE at Band C, 2 FTE at Band D, 11 FTE at Band E and 1.5 FTE at Band F. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 0.5. We are committed to ensuring that courts and tribunals have adequate staff to meet operational demands. Staffing requirements for the FOH pilots will be considered by the Local Implementation Teams.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 198789 198791 198792 question first answered 11/12/2018 12:17:34 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1019817

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many FTE staff are employed at each grade at (a) Brentford County Court, and (b) Manchester Civil Justice Centre.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	198791
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>As part of the Her Majesty’s Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) Reform Programme, the Flexible Operating Hours (FOH) project was set up to look at options to maximise the use of our court rooms by using them at different times of the day, outside of the traditional hours of 10am – 4pm. On 16 November 2018, it was announced that HMCTS will be proceeding with two pilots in the Civil and Family Courts in Brentford County Court and Manchester Civil Justice Centre and a revised Pilots Prospectus was published. Local Implementation Teams in Brentford and Manchester will finalise the pilot designs and start dates, which are likely to be in Spring 2019.</p><p> </p><p>A key objective of the FOH pilots is to understand the impacts of FOH for all court users, including HMCTS staff. An Evaluation Advisory Group has been established to ensure a balanced and comprehensive assessment of pilot activity by independent assessors. Consultation with trade unions will take place under separate arrangements in recognition of the need to consider FOH in the context of wider organisational changes affecting HMCTS staff.</p><p> </p><p>In Manchester Civil Justice Centre, the total number of Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staff is 205 with 29.5 FTE at Band A to D, 146 FTE at Band E and 29.5 FTE at Band F. In Brentford County Court, the total number of FTE staff is 15.5 with 1 FTE at Band C, 2 FTE at Band D, 11 FTE at Band E and 1.5 FTE at Band F. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 0.5. We are committed to ensuring that courts and tribunals have adequate staff to meet operational demands. Staffing requirements for the FOH pilots will be considered by the Local Implementation Teams.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 198789 198790 198792 question first answered 11/12/2018 12:17:34 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1019819

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Opening Hours
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of minimum staffing levels required for the flexible operating hours pilots to be undertaken at (a) Brentford County Court, and (b) Manchester Civil Justice Centre.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	198792
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>As part of the Her Majesty’s Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) Reform Programme, the Flexible Operating Hours (FOH) project was set up to look at options to maximise the use of our court rooms by using them at different times of the day, outside of the traditional hours of 10am – 4pm. On 16 November 2018, it was announced that HMCTS will be proceeding with two pilots in the Civil and Family Courts in Brentford County Court and Manchester Civil Justice Centre and a revised Pilots Prospectus was published. Local Implementation Teams in Brentford and Manchester will finalise the pilot designs and start dates, which are likely to be in Spring 2019.</p><p> </p><p>A key objective of the FOH pilots is to understand the impacts of FOH for all court users, including HMCTS staff. An Evaluation Advisory Group has been established to ensure a balanced and comprehensive assessment of pilot activity by independent assessors. Consultation with trade unions will take place under separate arrangements in recognition of the need to consider FOH in the context of wider organisational changes affecting HMCTS staff.</p><p> </p><p>In Manchester Civil Justice Centre, the total number of Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staff is 205 with 29.5 FTE at Band A to D, 146 FTE at Band E and 29.5 FTE at Band F. In Brentford County Court, the total number of FTE staff is 15.5 with 1 FTE at Band C, 2 FTE at Band D, 11 FTE at Band E and 1.5 FTE at Band F. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 0.5. We are committed to ensuring that courts and tribunals have adequate staff to meet operational demands. Staffing requirements for the FOH pilots will be considered by the Local Implementation Teams.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 198789 198790 198791 question first answered 11/12/2018 12:17:35 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1019832

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Fines
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of (a) court fines and (b) surcharges remain uncollected; and what steps he is taking to increase the rate of collection for those penalties.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	198793
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>We are not able to provide information on the proportion of the original fines and victim surcharge that remains outstanding for without incurring disproportionate cost. In order to extract this information we would need to conduct a manual search of all current financial penalty accounts within our fines database. Figures for the total amount of outstanding fines are published and can be found here</p><p> </p><ul><li><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/727387/HMCTS_Trust_Statement_2017-18_v16_web.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/727387/HMCTS_Trust_Statement_2017-18_v16_web.pdf</a></li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p>This Government takes recovery and enforcement of financial impositions very seriously and remains committed to finding new ways to ensure impositions are paid and clamping down on fine defaulters is a continued priority nationwide. The courts will do everything within their powers to trace those who do not pay. Money can be deducted from an offender's earnings or from benefits if they are unemployed. Other ‘upfront’ compliance actions include, increased use of telephone and text message chasing and use of tracing tools. Warrants can be issued instructing approved enforcement agents to seize and sell goods belonging to the offender. Ultimately an offender can be imprisoned for non-payment of their fine.</p><p> </p><p>Targeted initiatives to improve enforcement of financial penalties include the recent historic debt project. This project which commenced in September 2016 resulted in the re-working of accounts which had previously been administratively cancelled. As of November 2018, £34.3 million has been collected as a result of this project. Lessons learnt from the Project have been incorporated into business as usual processes within NCES.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/12/2018 12:23:15 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1019834

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Consultants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal Service is expecting to spend from the public purse on that service's change management consultancy contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	198794
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The HMCTS change management consultancy contract is with pwc, who provide a delivery partner service to support our reform programme. Overall, we are scheduled to spend up to £30 million with them on the contract which was signed in July 2017, and runs for two years, with an option for a one-year extension. It should be noted that this is a strategic partnership contract that replaced several individual contracts and as such gives us access to specialist skills across the change spectrum.</p><p> </p><p>The breakdown of the spend across the financial years can be shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>17/18 FY Spend</p></td><td><p>£10,418,186.08</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18/19 FY Forecast spend</p></td><td><p>£14,808,420.77</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Remaining Contract Cover</p></td><td><p>£4,773,393.15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>£30,000,000.00</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 11/12/2018 12:19:49 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1019450

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Greater London
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding has been provided by his Department for (a) domestic violence prevention programmes and (b) services to support victims of domestic violence in (i) London and (ii) the London borough of Lewisham.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	198335
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy sets out an ambitious programme to make tackling VAWG everybody’s business.</p><p>Over this spending review period, we are providing £100 million of dedicated funding to tackle VAWG. VAWG services are mainly commissioned at a local level by Police and Crime Commissioners, local authorities and health commissioners. The Government’s VAWG National Statement of Expectations encourages such decisions to be taken at a local level and driven by local need.</p><p>We created a £17 million 3-year VAWG Service Transformation Fund, which is funding projects across 41 areas in England and Wales to embed local best practice and ensure that early intervention and prevention, not crisis response, is the norm.</p><p>Over £2.4m is supporting six London Boroughs, including Lewisham, to deliver domestic abuse focused projects aiming to prevent future or further perpetration and protect victims and survivors.</p><p>£900,000 is supporting three innovative prevention programmes, in Sutton, Lambeth and Waltham Forest, and £1.4m of the funding is supporting projects to enhance the support and response for victims of domestic abuse. More details of the funding are available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/violence-against-women-and-girls-service-transformation-fund-successful-bids-2017-to-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/violence-against-women-and-girls-service-transformation-fund-successful-bids-2017-to-2020</a></p><p>Additionally, the Mayors Office of Policing and Crime (MOPAC) are being provided with £2.86M to 2020 from the Police Transformation Fund to support the Drive project, a preventative response to priority high risk perpetrators of domestic abuse</p><p>The Home Office also supports the national VAWG Helplines and recently committed funding of up to £1.1m per annum for these services until 2021.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/12/2018 17:29:31 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1019451

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	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	Diabetes: Lewisham
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in the (a) London borough of Lewisham and (b) Lewisham Deptford constituency are at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	198336
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>Data concerning the number of people at risk of developing type 2 diabetes at a London borough and constituency level is not centrally held.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England has developed a prevalence model for non-diabetic hyperglycaemia which estimates that in 2015 there were 25,692 individuals living in Lewisham Local Authority at risk of type 2 diabetes.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 11/12/2018 16:49:40 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1019452

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Lewisham
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the pupil to teacher ratio was in primary schools in (a) Lewisham Deptford constituency and (b) the London borough of Lewisham in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	198337
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The following table provides the pupil to teacher ratios, calculated using both qualified and unqualified teachers, in state funded primary schools (excluding nursery schools) in Lewisham, Deptford constituency, the London Borough of Lewisham, and England from November 2011 to 2017. These figures are not available for 2010.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Pupil to teacher ratios[1] <table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Primary Schools[2]</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Lewisham, Deptford</p></td><td><p>London Borough of Lewisham</p></td><td><p>England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011[3]</p></td><td><p>23.4</p></td><td><p>23.4</p></td><td><p>20.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012[4]</p></td><td><p>23.3</p></td><td><p>24.0</p></td><td><p>20.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013[5]</p></td><td><p>21.6</p></td><td><p>22.1</p></td><td><p>20.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014[6]</p></td><td><p>21.6</p></td><td><p>21.5</p></td><td><p>20.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>20.9</p></td><td><p>21.2</p></td><td><p>20.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>20.3</p></td><td><p>20.6</p></td><td><p>20.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>20.5</p></td><td><p>20.1</p></td><td><p>20.9</p></td></tr></tbody></table></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: School Workforce Census and Pupil Census</p><p> </p><p>[1] The Pupil Teacher Ratios (PTRs) are calculated by dividing the total full time equivalent (FTE) number of pupils on roll in schools in each year by the total number of FTE teachers in schools in each year. Where schools are not open on Census day (January) they are excluded. See School Workforce Census methodology document for further information: Methodology: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/719857/SWFC_MethodologyDocument_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/719857/SWFC_MethodologyDocument_.pdf</a>.</p><p>[2] Excludes nursery schools.</p><p>[3] Figures for Lewisham exclude 23 out of 66 primary schools that had PTRs that were not credible</p><p>or did not provide a return for teachers.</p><p>[4] Figures for Lewisham exclude 12 out of 66 primary schools that were not credible.</p><p>[5] Figures for Lewisham exclude four out of 67 primary schools that were not credible.</p><p>[6] Figures for Lewisham exclude one out of 66 primary schools that were not credible.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/12/2018 12:31:23 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1019445

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	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	Nabiximols
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in England have been prescribed Sativex in each year since 2010
	tabling member constituency	Gower
	tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
	uin	198333
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital reports that it does not hold information on the number of people in England who were prescribed Sativex in the years specified.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital does, however, hold data about prescription items dispensed by doctors and community pharmacies in England, which is detailed in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Cannabis (Sativex)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2,502</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2,964</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2,813</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2,832</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2,703</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2,448</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2,249</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2,204</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Prescription Cost Analysis, NHS Digital</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>Information is provided for Cannabis (Sativex) as listed in the British National Formulary in Section 10.2.2 – Skeletal muscle relaxants, using the classification system prior to edition 70.</li><li>NHS Digital does not hold data on drugs dispensed in hospitals, including mental health trusts, or private prescriptions.</li><li>NHS Digital does not hold data about prescriptions written but not dispensed.</li></ol> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 11/12/2018 16:52:23 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1015417

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has had discussions with the Treasury on the National Audit Office report on improving the Government's planning and spending framework; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
	tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
	uin	196237
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>Discussions on the NAO's report on improving the Government's planning and spending framework would be undertaken by senior officials in both Departments. The report is then signed and agreed by both Departmental Permanent Secretaries.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 11/12/2018 17:41:15 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

1020712

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	National Income
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if his Department will produce a regional breakdown for the estimated change in GDP predicted to occur in the event that (a) the UK adopts the Government’s proposed EU withdrawal agreement, (b) the UK leaves the EU and adopts a basic Free Trade Agreement and (c) the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	199762
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics do not publish estimates of regional GDP. However, they do publish estimates of regional Gross Value Added, which is a very similar measure. This data is used in the Government’s analysis.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s analysis provides estimates of long-run changes to regional GVA in four scenarios – modelled White Paper, modelled EEA-type, modelled average FTA, and modelled no deal - compared to today’s arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>The analysis shows that all regions and nations of the UK will be better off in the modelled white paper scenario than in the modelled no-deal.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 11/12/2018 15:31:51 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1020710

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2018
	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	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Ethnic Groups
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983, published on 6 December 2018, what assessment he has made of the finding that a disproportionate number of people from ethnic minorities have been sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	199761
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>We welcome the final report of the independent review of the Mental Health Act 1983.</p><p> </p><p>One of the reasons the Government commissioned the review was to understand better the reasons behind the disproportionate number of people from black and minority ethnic groups detained under the Act, and for suggested next steps to be recommended.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has already accepted two of the recommendations of the review including the creation of a new role of nominated person, chosen by the patient, to replace the current nearest relative provisions.</p><p> </p><p>We will consider the report and its recommendations in detail and respond in due course. We remain committed to reforming mental health law and will develop and bring forward legislation when Parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 199859 199860 199861 question first answered 11/12/2018 17:12:36 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1019365

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	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	Childbirth
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women reported experiencing birth trauma; and how much funding his Department has allocated to birth trauma support in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
	uin	198302
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>Data is not available in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 11/12/2018 17:14:46 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

1020100

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Air Pollution: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much money has been allocated to (a) local authorities and (b) other relevant bodies for the purpose of reducing children's exposure to air pollution in (i) 2018-19, (ii) 2017-18, (iii) 2016-17 and (iv) 2015-16; and how much money was allocated to each such (A) scheme and (B) project.
	tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
	tabling member printed	Teresa Pearce
	uin	198935
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Stockton North, Alex Cunningham, on 27 November 2018, PQ UIN192868.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 11/12/2018 16:18:54 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4003 label Biography information for Teresa Pearce

1023106

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Block Grant: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What assessment he has made of the effect of recent budgetary decisions on the Scottish block grant.
	tabling member constituency	Stirling
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kerr
	uin	908140
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>At Budget we announced a £700m increase in the Scottish block grant for 19/20 because of the additional money we are spending across the country.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/12/2018 14:36:20 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4604 label Biography information for Stephen Kerr

1019986

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Colombia: Overseas Aid
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many Afro-descendant-led organisations in Colombia are in receipt of UK Government funding.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Stephen Gethins
	uin	198881
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) data is collected and reported according to a standard international classification produced by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).</p><p>Following this classification, data is collected by broad groups of delivery partners and reported as such in TableA5 of DFID’s Statistics on International Development publication, available <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-final-uk-aid-spend-2017" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/12/2018 17:15:34 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4434 label Biography information for Stephen Gethins

1020579

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Cardiff South and Penarth
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers (a) with children and (b) without children resided in the Cardiff South and Penarth constituency and were subsequently held in detention centres each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	199875
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>We do not hold the data required to answer the question in the requested format specifically regarding those asylum seekers who were residing in the Cardiff and South Penarth constituency and who were subsequently held in detention centres.</p><p>However information relating to people detained or returned is available within published statistics and can be accessed via the following;</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018/how-many-people-are-detained-or-returned" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018/how-many-people-are-detained-or-returned</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 11/12/2018 17:41:16 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

1020582

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2018
	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 his Department is taking to plan for processing new residence documents as outlined in Article 18 of the EU Withdrawal Agreement.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	199877
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office is introducing the EU Settlement Scheme to enable EU citizens who have chosen to make their lives here to obtain the UK immigration status they need in accordance with Article 18 of the Withdrawal Agreement.</p><p>The Scheme will be fully open by 30 March 2019 and will be delivered through a streamlined, digital application process. In preparation, the Scheme entered private beta testing in August and is now in the second phase of that testing. This approach is now standard for the launch of new government services and enables the system and processes to be tested to ensure that they work effectively before being fully introduced.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 11/12/2018 17:42:49 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

1019786

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	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	Sign Language
	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 response to the consultation entitled, Market review of British Sign Language and communications provision for people who are deaf or have hearing loss, published in July 2017, what steps her Department has taken to fill the evidence gaps identified by respondents.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	198838
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The ‘Market review of British Sign Language and communications provision for people who are deaf or have hearing loss’ was a review of the present state of the market for support that facilitates communication for people who are deaf, deaf-blind or have hearing loss and those that need to engage with them.</p><p> </p><p>DWP worked with a wide range of stakeholders to develop the review’s parameters and criteria. These partners included other government departments; organisations that work for and with people who are deaf, Deafblind or have a hearing loss; and individuals from the communication and language professions. However, as was stated in the Report, it was not within the scope of the review to make policy recommendations based on the evidence received.</p><p> </p><p>The review aimed to look at provision in the UK as a whole, covering all forms of language and communication support. Interested organisations and individuals were publically invited to make a submission to the review. As was explained in the report, DWP did not undertake field research during the course of this work and the accuracy of information submitted during the review has therefore not been further assured by the department.</p><p> </p><p>This report published in July 2017 was a summary of the responses received. The report highlights current available evidence relating to the areas under review, including relevant published statistical data, and summarises common themes that were evident in the wide range of submissions that were received.</p><p>The review was designed to be a useful information resource, which would allow commissioners across both the public and private sector to make more informed decisions. The review is also a resource for policymakers. We have not assessed its impact across the public sector, but we can say that findings from the review informed DWP’s decision to increase the Access to Work Cap from £43,100 p.a. to £57,200 p.a. with effect from April 2018. Access to Work is also increasingly supporting the use of video relay services to complement support from face-to-face BSL Interpreters and allow for greater flexibility.</p><p> </p><p>Recruitment levels among British Sign Language interpreters are influenced by a range of market factors, including demand for their services in social and personal situations, which DWP does not directly influence. However, DWP works closely and on an ongoing basis with people who are deaf of or have hearing loss, as well as relevant stakeholder groups, to ensure their needs are understood and that initiatives like Access to Work help to meet those needs.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 198839 198840 question first answered 11/12/2018 10:11:15 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton previous answer version 91128 answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

1019787

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	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	Sign Language: Public Sector
	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 response to the consultation entitled, Market review of British Sign Language and communications provision for people who are deaf or have hearing loss, published in July 2017, what steps her Department has taken to improve the commissioning of British Sign Language interpretation by the public sector.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	198839
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The ‘Market review of British Sign Language and communications provision for people who are deaf or have hearing loss’ was a review of the present state of the market for support that facilitates communication for people who are deaf, deaf-blind or have hearing loss and those that need to engage with them.</p><p> </p><p>DWP worked with a wide range of stakeholders to develop the review’s parameters and criteria. These partners included other government departments; organisations that work for and with people who are deaf, Deafblind or have a hearing loss; and individuals from the communication and language professions. However, as was stated in the Report, it was not within the scope of the review to make policy recommendations based on the evidence received.</p><p> </p><p>The review aimed to look at provision in the UK as a whole, covering all forms of language and communication support. Interested organisations and individuals were publically invited to make a submission to the review. As was explained in the report, DWP did not undertake field research during the course of this work and the accuracy of information submitted during the review has therefore not been further assured by the department.</p><p> </p><p>This report published in July 2017 was a summary of the responses received. The report highlights current available evidence relating to the areas under review, including relevant published statistical data, and summarises common themes that were evident in the wide range of submissions that were received.</p><p>The review was designed to be a useful information resource, which would allow commissioners across both the public and private sector to make more informed decisions. The review is also a resource for policymakers. We have not assessed its impact across the public sector, but we can say that findings from the review informed DWP’s decision to increase the Access to Work Cap from £43,100 p.a. to £57,200 p.a. with effect from April 2018. Access to Work is also increasingly supporting the use of video relay services to complement support from face-to-face BSL Interpreters and allow for greater flexibility.</p><p> </p><p>Recruitment levels among British Sign Language interpreters are influenced by a range of market factors, including demand for their services in social and personal situations, which DWP does not directly influence. However, DWP works closely and on an ongoing basis with people who are deaf of or have hearing loss, as well as relevant stakeholder groups, to ensure their needs are understood and that initiatives like Access to Work help to meet those needs.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 198838 198840 question first answered 11/12/2018 10:11:15 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton previous answer version 91129 answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

1019788

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	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	Sign Language
	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 response to the consultation entitled, Market review of British Sign Language and communications provision for people who are deaf or have hearing loss, published in July 2017, what steps her Department has taken to increase the number of fully qualified and registered British Sign Language interpreters.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	198840
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The ‘Market review of British Sign Language and communications provision for people who are deaf or have hearing loss’ was a review of the present state of the market for support that facilitates communication for people who are deaf, deaf-blind or have hearing loss and those that need to engage with them.</p><p> </p><p>DWP worked with a wide range of stakeholders to develop the review’s parameters and criteria. These partners included other government departments; organisations that work for and with people who are deaf, Deafblind or have a hearing loss; and individuals from the communication and language professions. However, as was stated in the Report, it was not within the scope of the review to make policy recommendations based on the evidence received.</p><p> </p><p>The review aimed to look at provision in the UK as a whole, covering all forms of language and communication support. Interested organisations and individuals were publically invited to make a submission to the review. As was explained in the report, DWP did not undertake field research during the course of this work and the accuracy of information submitted during the review has therefore not been further assured by the department.</p><p> </p><p>This report published in July 2017 was a summary of the responses received. The report highlights current available evidence relating to the areas under review, including relevant published statistical data, and summarises common themes that were evident in the wide range of submissions that were received.</p><p>The review was designed to be a useful information resource, which would allow commissioners across both the public and private sector to make more informed decisions. The review is also a resource for policymakers. We have not assessed its impact across the public sector, but we can say that findings from the review informed DWP’s decision to increase the Access to Work Cap from £43,100 p.a. to £57,200 p.a. with effect from April 2018. Access to Work is also increasingly supporting the use of video relay services to complement support from face-to-face BSL Interpreters and allow for greater flexibility.</p><p> </p><p>Recruitment levels among British Sign Language interpreters are influenced by a range of market factors, including demand for their services in social and personal situations, which DWP does not directly influence. However, DWP works closely and on an ongoing basis with people who are deaf of or have hearing loss, as well as relevant stakeholder groups, to ensure their needs are understood and that initiatives like Access to Work help to meet those needs.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 198838 198839 question first answered 11/12/2018 10:11:15 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton previous answer version 91130 answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

1020580

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2018
	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	Universal Credit: South Glamorgan
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Cardiff and (b) Vale of Glamorgan have made successful claims for underpayments of universal credit since the beginning of the roll-out; and what the average value is of each such claim.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	199876
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>DWP only holds this data at a national level for estimated underpayments, which can be accessed at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/762141/fraud-and-error-stats-release-2017-2018-final-estimates.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/762141/fraud-and-error-stats-release-2017-2018-final-estimates.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 11/12/2018 18:03:13 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

1020595

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	A303 and Lower Thames Crossing: Private Finance Initiative
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 23 November to Question 188205, what range of models involving investment in infrastructure his Department plans to use to meet the proposals set out in the 2017 National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	199867
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline has been updated for 2018 and was published on the 26 November. This sets out planned and projected investment of over £600 billion over the next decade.</p><p>The UK uses a mixed model, using both public and private investment, to fund and finance its infrastructure.</p><p>Funding and financing arrangements for individual projects and programmes are outlined in the pipeline spreadsheet.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/12/2018 14:31:35 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1020594

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
	answering dept id	203
	answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
	answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
	hansard heading	Department for Exiting the European Union: Facebook
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, pursuant to the Answer of 12 November 2018 to Question 188822 on Department for Exiting the European Union: Facebook, which geographies including the details of any postcodes used have been targeted by his Department to ensure that their adverts are optimised to reach the right audience.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	199866
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department has previously confirmed (Question 188822) that a geographical targeted approach was used to ensure effective communication through social media.</p><p>Social media campaigns, including Facebook, have targeted EU citizens to communicate the progress of the UK’s EU exit. This has included the following countries:</p><p>UK</p><p>Hungary</p><p>Luxembourg</p><p>Estonia</p><p>Latvia</p><p>Slovenia</p><p>Lithuania</p><p>Croatia</p><p>Romania</p><p>Slovakia</p><p>Finland</p><p>Denmark</p><p>Bulgaria</p><p>Austria</p><p>Sweden</p><p>Portugal</p><p>Czech Republic</p><p>Greece</p><p>Netherlands</p><p>Poland</p><p>Ireland</p><p>Belgium</p><p>Italy</p><p>Spain</p><p>France</p><p>Germany</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 11/12/2018 13:28:10 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1020593

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Educational Testing Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer dated 4 December 2018 to Question 197314, in what circumstances was it (a) relevant and (b) not relevant to require people with TOEIC certificates whose results were found by ETS to be questionable to undertake a fresh test or an interview.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	199763
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>Information on the circumstances in which it was relevant to require a fresh test and an interview with a Home Office official was provided to the HASC on 17 August 2016. A link is provided here:<br><a href="http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/home-affairs-committee/english-language-testing/written/36543.pdf" target="_blank">http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/home-affairs-committee/english-language-testing/written/36543.pdf</a> Question 114 contains the information requested.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 11/12/2018 17:39:34 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1019345

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Protection
	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 support local leaders in delivering better outcomes for vulnerable children.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	198189
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The government is committed to ensuring that all children, irrespective of background, have a fair chance to go as far as their talent and hard work will take them. Every child – including those from economically deprived backgrounds, with special educational needs, or who are in need of help and protection from children’s social care – should have the opportunity to achieve good outcomes. The government is working to ensure that local leaders are supported to provide these vulnerable children with the services they need to achieve well in education and, where necessary, to have a safe and stable home life.</p><p>To help school leaders support the most disadvantaged children, we have spent over £13 billion since 2011 – almost £2.4 billion this year alone – through the pupil premium to tackle educational inequality. In 2011 we established the Education Endowment Foundation with £137 million to research and promote the most effective ways of using pupil premium, so that schools leaders can improve their disadvantaged pupils’ outcomes.</p><p>In schools, our system leaders continue to provide support to help deliver better outcomes for vulnerable children. To ensure that system leaders can support all students, teaching schools must demonstrate high levels of progress and attainment for all pupils, and especially disadvantaged pupils, in order to be designated and funded by the department.</p><p>We know that many disadvantaged pupils have special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), and the government has also provided over £340 million since April 2014, to support local authorities, working with their partners, including health and schools, to implement the SEND reforms. We have funded training and a SEND leadership programme to support local authorities and health services to deliver their SEND services, which included training on joint commissioning.</p><p>Equally, where children need help and support from social care to achieve safety and stability in their lives, we know effective leadership is vital for good practice to thrive. ‘Putting Children First’ sets out our reform programme to improve the quality of leadership and of the workforce in children’s social care. As part of these reforms, we have established the Children’s Social Care What Works Centre, to develop the evidence base for leaders to use in delivering what works to support vulnerable children and families. We are building further evidence of what works to improve these children’s educational outcomes at a national and a local level through the Children in Need review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 11/12/2018 16:24:04 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1019346

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Social 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 support local leaders in delivering the best outcomes for children through the delivery of high-quality children’s services.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	198190
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>Effective leadership is vital for high quality local children’s services. We are improving the quality of leadership through £2 million for the Local Government Association to provide support to lead members and chief executives, and are increasing the support to Directors of children’s services. We have an ambitious programme to improve the social work workforce, which underpins transformative children’s services. We are improving the quality of social work initial education thorough £24 million in total supporting Teaching Partnerships, and our fast-track entry programmes - Step Up to Social Work and Frontline - have seen over 1,450 social workers trained. We are investing in professional development with £5 million annually for high quality programmes for those starting as social work practitioners, and over £4 million in total on supervisors and practice leaders.</p><p>Alongside this, we are creating effective system infrastructure to ensure high quality professional practice and standards become the norm, through the introduction of Social Work England and the National Assessment and Accreditation System. We are supporting innovation and regionally targeted improvement support (the innovation programme and Partners in Practice), and building understanding of the evidence on what drives system improvement through the What Works Centre in social care.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 11/12/2018 16:20:35 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1019347

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Social Services
	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 trends in the level of demand for local authority-provided children’s services.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	198191
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The department publishes a range of statistics on children’s services and these data are available to all local authorities to help benchmark their services. This data shows that since 2013, levels of Children in Need, Children Protection Plans and Looked after Children have risen by 7.1%; 24.5% and 10.7% respectively.</p><p>The government is working between now and the Spending Review 2019 to get a sharper and more granular picture of demand for children’s services, to help ensure that local authorities have the resources they need.</p><p>We are also working with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government on the fair funding review of relative needs and resources, which is considering levels of demand in local authorities in more detail.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 11/12/2018 16:18:05 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1019348

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of the long-term economic merits of supporting children to have a safe, happy and healthy childhood.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	198192
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The department’s vision is to provide world-class education, training and care to make sure that everyone has the chance to reach their potential and live a more fulfilled life. This will create a more productive economy, so that our country is fit for the future.</p><p> </p><p>For example, one of the department’s priorities is to improve our understanding of child wellbeing and happiness. Beginning in 2019, the government will publish a State of the Nation report every year on World Mental Health Day. This report will highlight the trends and issues in young people’s mental well-being - the first time children’s mental health will be reported in this way, alongside their physical health and academic attainment. The government will also provide tools to help schools measure their students’ health, including their mental wellbeing - building on the commitment to make education in mental health and resilience a compulsory part of the curriculum. Further information on these announcements can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-pledges-action-on-suicide-to-mark-world-mental-health-day" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-pledges-action-on-suicide-to-mark-world-mental-health-day</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The department has also announced it is developing an activity passport - a template intended to provide ideas to schools to support their efforts to encourage young people to try a wider range of activities and develop new interests.</p><p> </p><p>Further details on how the department will ensure that education builds character, resilience and well-being is provided in our single departmental plan, available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-education-single-departmental-plan/may-2018-department-for-education-single-departmental-plan" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-education-single-departmental-plan/may-2018-department-for-education-single-departmental-plan</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Nothing is more important than safeguarding children and promoting their welfare. This is why we have strengthened local safeguarding arrangements through the Children and Social Work Act (2017) by placing a duty on the safeguarding partners, - the police, health and the local authority - to work together to make plans to keep children safe. As part of this we have consulted on and updated the ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’ statutory guidance.</p><p> </p><p>All children deserve a safe environment in which they can learn and schools and colleges are under a legislative duty to make arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of their pupils. We recently consulted on and strengthened the ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, statutory guidance for schools. We also provide a range of advice documents to support schools and colleges to keep their children safe, including sexual harassment and sexual violence advice, bullying advice and behaviour advice.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 11/12/2018 11:53:05 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1019349

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Social Services
	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 adequacy of local authority children’s services budgets.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	198193
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>This government has made available over £200 billion for local services in England over the current five-year spending period (from 2015-2016 to 2019-2020).</p><p> </p><p>Funding for children’s services is a non-ringfenced part of the wider local government finance settlement. It is for councils to decide how best to use their settlement funding to meet their statutory duties and deliver the local services their communities want to see.</p><p> </p><p>Funding for local government services, including children’s services, is set initially at the spending review. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced that the next spending review will be in 2019. To help ensure decisions at the next spending review are based on the best available evidence, the government is working with the sector to develop a thorough understanding of children’s services costs and pressures.</p><p> </p><p>The annual settlement helps determine the distribution of that funding to councils using an assessment of relative needs and resources, which includes a children’s services funding formula. In preparation for the spending review, and as part of the government’s review of relative needs and resources, new, up-to-date formulas are being developed to ensure funding distribution to councils is based on the best available evidence. The Department for Education and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government have commissioned an ambitious data research project from independent contractors to inform this work.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 11/12/2018 15:57:51 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1019564

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the article entitled, Why a new memorial to the Holocaust is essential, published in the Evening Standard on 3 September 2018, whether the images used in that article were created by a government agency; and for what reason the Buxton memorial was not included.
	tabling member constituency	Worthing West
	tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
	uin	198149
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The image used in the article ‘Why a new memorial to the Holocaust is essential’, published in the Evening Standard on 3 September 2018 and still available online here: <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/why-a-new-memorial-to-the-holocaust-is-essential-a3926426.html" target="_blank">https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/why-a-new-memorial-to-the-holocaust-is-essential-a3926426.html</a>. It was created during the design competition for the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre by the winning design team, Adjaye Associates, Ron Arad Architects and Gustafson Porter + Bowman. The image shows one view of their initial design concept and clearly includes the Buxton memorial.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 11/12/2018 17:19:24 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

1019565

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the news story entitled, Public consultation marks the next stage in development of UK Holocaust memorial and learning centre, published on gov.uk on 4 September 2018, what information the Government holds on which other cities considered the Adjaye Associates design for the proposed National Holocaust memorial and learning centre.
	tabling member constituency	Worthing West
	tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
	uin	198150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The design submitted by Adjaye Associates, Ron Arad Architects and Gustafson, Porter + Bowman was prepared specifically in response to the competition for a Memorial and Learning Centre at Victoria Tower Gardens.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 11/12/2018 17:04:12 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

1019566

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the document entitled, National memorial and learning centre search for a central London site, published by the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation in September 2015, how the proposal for a site at (a) Victoria Tower Gardens, (b) the Imperial War Museum and (c) Harmsworth Park met the criteria to (i) draw in and to inspire the largest possible number of visitors, (ii) provide 5-10,000 square metres of built space, (iii) allocate maximum funds to educational purposes, (iv) provide cost effectiveness, (v) allow buses, coaches, pedestrians and cyclists to be able to reach the site safely with full disability access, (vi) allow for a physical campus to engage and inspire a vast number of visitors, (vii) provide facilities for lectures and seminars and to run educational courses and workshops, (viii) allow for the provision of space for Holocaust organisations to locate their offices so as to fulfil the stated responsibility to bring together a network of the UK's existing Holocaust education in the UK, (ix) provide rooms for at least 500 people and (x) provide infrastructure to fulfil all security considerations.
	tabling member constituency	Worthing West
	tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
	uin	198151
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The document, <em>National Memorial and Learning Centre: Search for a Central London Site</em>, was published by the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation as part of extensive efforts to identify a suitable location for the Memorial and Learning Centre, which also included a thorough search of Central London by property experts CBRE. A map included in the published document indicates the area of Central London which was the focus of the site search. More than 50 locations were considered; detailed information supporting the assessment of each site is commercially confidential.</p><p>The Foundation identified Victoria Tower Gardens as the most fitting site in terms of its historical, emotional and political significance and its ability to offer the greatest potential impact and visibility for the project.</p><p>The Government accepted the Foundation’s advice and announced in January 2016 that Victoria Tower Gardens was the chosen location. An international design competition was launched in September 2016, seeking proposals for a Memorial and Learning Centre in Victoria Tower Gardens.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler grouped question UIN 198152 198153 question first answered 11/12/2018 16:47:17 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

1019567

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the document entitled, National memorial and learning centre search for a central London site, published by the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation in September 2015, which London parks considered by the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation were sufficiently central to meet the visions set out by the Holocaust Commission.
	tabling member constituency	Worthing West
	tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
	uin	198152
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The document, <em>National Memorial and Learning Centre: Search for a Central London Site</em>, was published by the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation as part of extensive efforts to identify a suitable location for the Memorial and Learning Centre, which also included a thorough search of Central London by property experts CBRE. A map included in the published document indicates the area of Central London which was the focus of the site search. More than 50 locations were considered; detailed information supporting the assessment of each site is commercially confidential.</p><p>The Foundation identified Victoria Tower Gardens as the most fitting site in terms of its historical, emotional and political significance and its ability to offer the greatest potential impact and visibility for the project.</p><p>The Government accepted the Foundation’s advice and announced in January 2016 that Victoria Tower Gardens was the chosen location. An international design competition was launched in September 2016, seeking proposals for a Memorial and Learning Centre in Victoria Tower Gardens.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler grouped question UIN 198151 198153 question first answered 11/12/2018 16:47:17 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

1019568

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the document entitled, National memorial and learning centre search for a central London site, published by the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation in September 2015, which potential locations for the national memorial and learning centre were noted by the Holocaust Commission; and whether Victoria Tower Gardens was on that list.
	tabling member constituency	Worthing West
	tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
	uin	198153
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The document, <em>National Memorial and Learning Centre: Search for a Central London Site</em>, was published by the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation as part of extensive efforts to identify a suitable location for the Memorial and Learning Centre, which also included a thorough search of Central London by property experts CBRE. A map included in the published document indicates the area of Central London which was the focus of the site search. More than 50 locations were considered; detailed information supporting the assessment of each site is commercially confidential.</p><p>The Foundation identified Victoria Tower Gardens as the most fitting site in terms of its historical, emotional and political significance and its ability to offer the greatest potential impact and visibility for the project.</p><p>The Government accepted the Foundation’s advice and announced in January 2016 that Victoria Tower Gardens was the chosen location. An international design competition was launched in September 2016, seeking proposals for a Memorial and Learning Centre in Victoria Tower Gardens.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler grouped question UIN 198151 198152 question first answered 11/12/2018 16:47:17 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

1019569

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the news story entitled, Public consultation marks the next stage in development of UK Holocaust memorial and learning centre, published on gov.uk on 4 September 2018, where in Victoria Tower Gardens that centre was proposed to be located; and how the proposed of location of the centre was made clear within the consultation document.
	tabling member constituency	Worthing West
	tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
	uin	198154
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>On 4 September 2018 a public exhibition was opened at Church House in Westminster, setting out proposals for the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre. The exhibition provided extensive information, including maps, to show the proposed design for the Memorial and Learning Centre and its location within Victoria Tower Gardens.</p><p>Over 3000 invitations to the exhibition were sent to local residents and businesses. The display boards were published on the Government’s website and made available to the national press.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 11/12/2018 16:58:09 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

1019570

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	National Holocaust Memorial Centre and Learning Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the news story entitled, Public consultation marks the next stage in development of UK Holocaust memorial and learning centre, published on gov.uk on 4 September 2018, what comparative assessment his department has made of the number of expected visitor numbers at the new centre and the average number of visitors to the Holocaust Galleries.
	tabling member constituency	Worthing West
	tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
	uin	198155
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>We expect around 500,000 visitors annually to the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre. The design will allow up to 1 million visitors annually to be accommodated. This will not lead to unacceptable queuing in the Gardens.</p><p>Visitors will be encouraged to explore other resources, including the Imperial War Museum London’s new Holocaust Galleries which are due to open in 2021. The UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation has welcomed the Imperial War Museum’s support and is firmly committed to working closely with them.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 11/12/2018 17:15:08 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
	tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

1017209

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	NATO
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what contribution the Government is (a) making and (b) has plans to make to NATO's (i) new Command in Norfolk, (ii) new Command in Ulm, (iii) Counter Hybrid Support Teams, (iv) Cyber Operations Centre, (v) Hub for the South in Naples and (vi) capacity building programmes in (A) Iraq, (B) Jordan and (C) Tunisia.
	tabling member constituency	New Forest East
	tabling member printed	Dr Julian Lewis
	uin	197309
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The UK remains committed to NATO and to Euro-Atlantic security. We were a leading proponent of the decision made at the Warsaw Summit in 2016 to recognise cyberspace as a domain of operations and will continue to support its full implementation, and play an active role in supporting the development of NATO's Cyber Operations centre. The UK is also engaged with NATO's efforts to project stability across the Middle East and North Africa region through our southern partnerships and the Defence and Related Security Capacity Building initiative. Discussions within NATO regarding the exact nature of individual Allies' contributions to its new Commands in Norfolk and Ulm, and to the Counter Hybrid Support Teams, are still ongoing. Once this information becomes available, I will write to my right hon. Friend with further detail.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 11/12/2018 16:22:07 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	54 label Biography information for Sir Julian Lewis

1019517

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	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	Eswatini: Human Rights
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the level of human rights violations in eSwatini.
	tabling member constituency	Rochford and Southend East
	tabling member printed	James Duddridge
	uin	198263
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>In recent years the Eswatini Government has made a number of positive legislative changes, with respect to the human rights of its citizens. These include the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Act, which was signed into law in July 2018. However, the human rights situation in Eswatini remains troubling and we regularly raise our concerns with the Swazi authorities. The UK was a full participant in the Eswatini’s Universal Periodic Review, which took place in at the Human Rights Council in Geneva in 2016, where a series of recommendations were made. We continue to press for an improvement in the Human Rights situation in Eswatini, including the implementation of these recommendations.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 11/12/2018 16:08:26 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge

1019783

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	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	Eswatini: Elections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment has he made of whether the eSwatini elections were free and fair.
	tabling member constituency	Rochford and Southend East
	tabling member printed	James Duddridge
	uin	198775
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The British High Commission in Pretoria deployed an informal election observation team to Eswatini in September. They, along with a number of official international observers, assessed the elections to be broadly free, fair and orderly. However, in line with the African Union's own election monitoring report, we note that the participation of political parties was prohibited and we recommend that Eswatini lift this restriction for future elections, so as to enable a more open and democratic system for its voters.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 11/12/2018 16:09:55 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge

1016314

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
	answering dept id	203
	answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
	answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
	hansard heading	Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how much the Government plans to spend on preparations for the UK leaving the EU without a deal in each month until March 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Bexleyheath and Crayford
	tabling member printed	Sir David Evennett
	uin	196731
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not record expenditure or forecasts against potential outcomes. It records expenditure and forecasts on a functional basis.</p><p>The Department will be fulfilling its objectives within our Spending Review settlement, which provides funding through to March 2020.</p><p>Based on this, we are expecting to fulfill our Departmental objectives within our budget allocations up to March 2019 which totals £96m for 2018/19.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 11/12/2018 13:24:02 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
	tabling member	1198 label Biography information for Sir David Evennett

1019491

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	South Eastern Rail Franchise
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December to Question 196117 on South Eastern Rail Franchise, when in the New Year he plans to make an announcement on the successful bidder of the new South Eastern rail franchise; and whether the new operator will be ready to take over in April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Bexleyheath and Crayford
	tabling member printed	Sir David Evennett
	uin	198250
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The evaluation for the South Eastern rail franchise competition continues, and the award for the next franchise will now be made in the New Year.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 11/12/2018 11:34:21 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	1198 label Biography information for Sir David Evennett

1011491

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2018
	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	Social Security Benefits: Greater London
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of working people in receipt of top-up benefits are resident in (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency, (b) Bexley Borough, and (c) London.
	tabling member constituency	Bexleyheath and Crayford
	tabling member printed	Sir David Evennett
	uin	194073
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The numbers of in work families receiving tax credits are in table 1.1 of the Child and Working Tax Credits statistics: finalised annual awards - 2016 to 2017 published by HMRC which can be accessed at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/720570/Main_publication_-_final_tables.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/720570/Main_publication_-_final_tables.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p>Geographical breakdowns including constituency level figures are available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/720739/Main_geographical_-_final_tables.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/720739/Main_geographical_-_final_tables.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit and Housing Benefit statistics for Great Britain are regularly published and the latest statistics for October 2018 and August 2018 respectively can be accessed at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The information available for the number of employed individuals that are in receipt of Income Support, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance across geographical areas can be found in the table in the document attached.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 11/12/2018 11:29:17 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma attachment 1 file name PQ194073 table.docx title Table-working people in receipt of IS, JSA or ESA
	tabling member	1198 label Biography information for Sir David Evennett

1020254

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
	answering dept id	203
	answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
	answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
	hansard heading	Borders: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for a hard border on the island of Ireland of the UK leaving the EU without a deal and trading on WTO terms.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	199409
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The backstop is our ultimate safeguard in the event there is a gap between the end of the implementation period and the start of our new ambitious relationship, we will uphold the commitments of the Belfast Agreement and ensure there’s no return to a hard border. This is essential to safeguarding the lives and livelihoods of the people of Northern Ireland.</p><p>The UK Government is clear that, in the event of no deal, we will do everything in our power to prevent a return to a hard border. In such a scenario, we must continue to respect our unique relationship with Ireland, with whom we share a land border and who are co-signatories of the Belfast Agreement.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 11/12/2018 13:25:22 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1019476

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Travellers: Caravan Sites
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has taken steps to implement the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s recommendation that local authorities in England should have a duty to provide sufficient safe and adequate sites for Gypsies and Travellers based on the pre-2015 Planning policy for Traveller sites definitions of Gypsy and of Traveller.
	tabling member constituency	Ipswich
	tabling member printed	Sandy Martin
	uin	198339
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>Under section 8 of the Housing Act 1985, there is a statutory requirement on local authorities to consider the needs of people residing or resorting to their district with respect to the provision of caravan sites. The <em>Planning Policy for Traveller Sites</em> (PPTS) sets out the Government’s planning policy for traveller sites and should be read in conjunction with the revised National Planning Policy Framework. The PPTS is clear that local planning authorities should make their own assessment of need for the purposes of planning. They should identify and update annually a supply of specific deliverable sites sufficient to provide 5 years’ worth of sites against their locally set targets. Travellers who do not fall within the definition in Annex 1 of the PPTS should have their housing needs assessed under the National Planning Policy Framework.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 11/12/2018 15:37:26 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4678 label Biography information for Sandy Martin

1020234

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of the funding allocated to his Department in Budget 2018 will be used to tackle violence in prisons.
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Ruth George
	uin	199476
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>We have committed to spending £30m to make improvements to the safety and decency of our prison estate and address the drivers of violence in prisons. We will do this through enhancing security and tackling drugs and continue our programme of decency upgrades. This latest investment is on top of the £40m announced over the summer, meaning a total of £70m is already being directed to tackling drugs and violence, and improving the basic conditions of our prisons.</p><p> </p><p>But the Foundation of managing violence in prisons is of course our front line operational staff, whose work and service constitutes approximately £812m of our budget.*</p><p> </p><p>* Front line operational staff defined as public sector Band 3 prison officers, Band 4 specialist officers and Band 5 Custodial Managers, across England and Wales, includes adults and youth prisons.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 11/12/2018 16:48:28 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart previous answer version 91027 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

1020601

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2018
	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	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her policy is on the provision of Departmental (a) guidance and (b) information to people that are subject to universal credit migration.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	199829
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=197657" target="_blank">197657</a> published on 10<sup>th</sup> December.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 11/12/2018 18:08:06 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1020102

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2018 to Question 196269, what estimate he has made of the cost of producing an in-house bid for the operation of new-build prisons.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	198937
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has recently launched a competition to establish a framework of prison operators, from which the operators of the new prisons at Wellingborough and Glen Parva will be selected. Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service will not be bidding in the competition. We have therefore not undertaken a detailed estimate of the cost of producing an in-house bid for the operation of new-build prisons. There will instead be a ‘public sector benchmark’, against which potential operators’ bids can be assessed. Where bids do not meet sufficient quality or value for money thresholds the public sector will act as the provider.</p><p> </p><p>As stated in my Written Ministerial Statement on 29<sup>th</sup> November, this competition is not about the difference between the public and private sector. It is about driving quality and innovation across the system and we expect bidders to provide high quality, value for money bids that deliver effective regimes to meet the specific needs of prisoners and help them turn their lives around to prevent reoffending.</p><p> </p><p>Through this approach we are, as we must, focusing our resources on getting the basics right by addressing the significant challenges we face in improving safety and decency in our prisons.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 11/12/2018 16:50:02 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1020245

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the announcement entitled, Minister announces 10 Prisons Project to develop new model of excellence, what criteria his Department plans to use to assess the effect on prisons of that project.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	199453
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The key criteria used to judge the effect on prisons will be a reversal in the rates of violence in the 10 prisons that are part of the project, which we will supplement with insight from the Governors and their teams. Learning from the project will then contribute to models of excellence for the rest of the estate.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 11/12/2018 13:46:35 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon