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772068

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Right to Buy Scheme: Housing Associations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the Government's policy is on implementing a right to buy scheme for tenants of housing association properties in England.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	108167
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2017 answer text <p>I refer my Hon Friend to the answer I gave to Question UIN 3273 on 10 July 2017.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 27/10/2017 11:28:37 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma previous answer version 16615 answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

1470822

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Stafford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will reconsider the Government's proposal to relocate approximately 500 single male asylum seekers to Beaconside in Stafford.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Theo Clarke
	uin	19020
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>Due to the unprecedented demand to accommodate asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute, we have had to use temporary accommodation such as hotels and other large-scale sites to manage demands on the asylum estate. We are committed to working with local authorities to move to a fairer distribution of asylum seekers and bring an end to the use of hotels as contingency accommodation.</p><p>The Home Office has therefore announced all local authority areas in England, Scotland and Wales will be expected to participate in a new system of full dispersal to allow us to move away from hotels to less expensive and more suitable accommodation. We have also announced funding of approximately £3,500 per bedspace procured in this financial year to recognise the pressures of accommodating asylum seekers on Local Authority areas.</p><p>The Beaconside has been identified as a potential new site for Initial Accommodation as the current site in the West Midlands is due to close shortly. Our accommodation provider, Serco, are proceeding with the consultation on planning and once this is concluded we will convene a Multi-Agency Forum to discuss operations on site. The Multi-Agency forum will be made up of Home Office officials, along with the accommodation provider and representatives from Stafford County Council, the police service, NHS, and Public Health along with others from the voluntary sector. These meetings are an opportunity for all members to discuss any ongoing issues and to share best practice.</p><p>Ministers have also met with the Hon Member for Stafford who has expressed her concerns about and opposition to the proposal.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 27/06/2022 11:36:13 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 8231 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4819 label Biography information for Theo Clarke

224722

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) public dividend capital and (b) other non-tariff payments have been made to the Mid-Stafforshire NHS Foundation Trust in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11, (iii) 2011-12, (iv) 2012-13, (v) 2013-14 and (vi) 2014-15 to date.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	225961
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department holds records of the total capital allocated to the respective recipient bodies as a result of the transfer of Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust services but does not have details of the breakdown by individual hospital site.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The capital provided to date is as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>£12,109,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>£12,153,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>£4,000,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>£28,262,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Revenue funding provided to date is set out in the following table:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust</ins></p><p> </p></td><td><p>£32,420,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust</ins></p></td><td><p>£5,480,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>£37,900,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The amount of public dividend capital issued to the Trust by the Department is as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>£214,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£21,000,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£21,385,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£30,397,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£64,425,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold central records of non-tariff payments made by local commissioning bodies to NHS providers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The work of the trust special administrators (TSAs) to secure safe and sustainable services at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust cost Monitor almost £19.5 million, including VAT, over 18 months.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The first phase of trust special administration cost £9 million, including expenses and VAT. During this phase there was a team of up to 30 members of staff who carried out three core tasks - to help to run the Trust, to design the future of services provided at Stafford and Cannock hospitals, and to run a large public consultation involving thousands of responses and a series of public meetings.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The second phase cost £10.5 million, including expenses and VAT. We are informed by Monitor that this second phase included a team of up to 50 people, which was required to continue to help run the hospital and implement the TSA’s recommendations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are also informed by Monitor that trust special administration at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust amounted to the rounded figure of 10,900 person-days for teams working on both phases of the process.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the table below, expenses incurred during the TSA process are split by the two phases of the TSA and totals are also provided. These expenses include:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(a) accommodation;</p><p> </p><p>(b) travel (car, taxi and train);</p><p> </p><p>(c) subsistence; and</p><p> </p><p>(d) other expenses incurred; and what other costs to the TSA were incurred</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Breakdown of expenses, these exclude VAT:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>TSA1</p></td><td><p>TSA2</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accommodation</p></td><td><p>£82,242.89</p></td><td><p>£170,622.67</p></td><td><p>£252,865.56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Travel</p></td><td><p>£144,122.38</p></td><td><p>£226,600.29</p></td><td><p>£370,722.67</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Subsistence</p></td><td><p>£16,171.73</p></td><td><p>£43,176.88</p></td><td><p>£59,348.61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other (incidentals such as printing, room hire and meeting refreshments)</p></td><td><p>£1,939.11</p></td><td><p>£3052.73</p></td><td><p>£4991.84</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>£244,476.11</p></td><td><p>£443,452.57</p></td><td><p>£687,928.68</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 10/03/2015 17:13:10 question first ministerially corrected 17/03/2015 16:58:22 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter previous answer version 49060 answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

224723

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many consultants have been employed by the Trust Special Administration (TSA) of the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust since its inception; how many person-days they have worked; what (a) accommodation, (b) travel, (c) subsistence and (d) other expenses they have incurred; and what other costs to the TSA they have incurred.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	225962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department holds records of the total capital allocated to the respective recipient bodies as a result of the transfer of Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust services but does not have details of the breakdown by individual hospital site.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The capital provided to date is as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>£12,109,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>£12,153,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>£4,000,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>£28,262,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Revenue funding provided to date is set out in the following table:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust</ins></p></td><td><p>£32,420,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust</ins></p></td><td><p>£5,480,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>£37,900,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The amount of public dividend capital issued to the Trust by the Department is as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>£214,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£21,000,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£21,385,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£30,397,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£64,425,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold central records of non-tariff payments made by local commissioning bodies to NHS providers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The work of the trust special administrators (TSAs) to secure safe and sustainable services at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust cost Monitor almost £19.5 million, including VAT, over 18 months.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The first phase of trust special administration cost £9 million, including expenses and VAT. During this phase there was a team of up to 30 members of staff who carried out three core tasks - to help to run the Trust, to design the future of services provided at Stafford and Cannock hospitals, and to run a large public consultation involving thousands of responses and a series of public meetings.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The second phase cost £10.5 million, including expenses and VAT. We are informed by Monitor that this second phase included a team of up to 50 people, which was required to continue to help run the hospital and implement the TSA’s recommendations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are also informed by Monitor that trust special administration at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust amounted to the rounded figure of 10,900 person-days for teams working on both phases of the process.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the table below, expenses incurred during the TSA process are split by the two phases of the TSA and totals are also provided. These expenses include:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(a) accommodation;</p><p> </p><p>(b) travel (car, taxi and train);</p><p> </p><p>(c) subsistence; and</p><p> </p><p>(d) other expenses incurred; and what other costs to the TSA were incurred</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Breakdown of expenses, these exclude VAT:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>TSA1</p></td><td><p>TSA2</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accommodation</p></td><td><p>£82,242.89</p></td><td><p>£170,622.67</p></td><td><p>£252,865.56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Travel</p></td><td><p>£144,122.38</p></td><td><p>£226,600.29</p></td><td><p>£370,722.67</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Subsistence</p></td><td><p>£16,171.73</p></td><td><p>£43,176.88</p></td><td><p>£59,348.61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other (incidentals such as printing, room hire and meeting refreshments)</p></td><td><p>£1,939.11</p></td><td><p>£3052.73</p></td><td><p>£4991.84</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>£244,476.11</p></td><td><p>£443,452.57</p></td><td><p>£687,928.68</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 10/03/2015 17:13:10 question first ministerially corrected 17/03/2015 17:12:17 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter previous answer version 49061 answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

224727

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hospitals: West Midlands
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has provided to implement the recommendations of the Trust Special Administration of Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust on (a) capital investment in Stafford Hospital, (b) capital investment in Royal Stoke University Hospital, (c) capital investment in Cannock Hospital, (d) capital investment in New Cross Hospital, (e) other capital investment, (f) revenue support for the University Hospitals of the North Midlands NHS Trust, (g) revenue support for the Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals Trust and (h) other revenue support.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	226012
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department holds records of the total capital allocated to the respective recipient bodies as a result of the transfer of Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust services but does not have details of the breakdown by individual hospital site.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The capital provided to date is as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>£12,109,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>£12,153,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>£4,000,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>£28,262,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Revenue funding provided to date is set out in the following table:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust</ins></p></td><td><p>£32,420,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust</ins></p></td><td><p>£5,480,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>£37,900,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The amount of public dividend capital issued to the Trust by the Department is as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>£214,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£21,000,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£21,385,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£30,397,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£64,425,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold central records of non-tariff payments made by local commissioning bodies to NHS providers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The work of the trust special administrators (TSAs) to secure safe and sustainable services at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust cost Monitor almost £19.5 million, including VAT, over 18 months.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The first phase of trust special administration cost £9 million, including expenses and VAT. During this phase there was a team of up to 30 members of staff who carried out three core tasks - to help to run the Trust, to design the future of services provided at Stafford and Cannock hospitals, and to run a large public consultation involving thousands of responses and a series of public meetings.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The second phase cost £10.5 million, including expenses and VAT. We are informed by Monitor that this second phase included a team of up to 50 people, which was required to continue to help run the hospital and implement the TSA’s recommendations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are also informed by Monitor that trust special administration at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust amounted to the rounded figure of 10,900 person-days for teams working on both phases of the process.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the table below, expenses incurred during the TSA process are split by the two phases of the TSA and totals are also provided. These expenses include:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(a) accommodation;</p><p> </p><p>(b) travel (car, taxi and train);</p><p> </p><p>(c) subsistence; and</p><p> </p><p>(d) other expenses incurred; and what other costs to the TSA were incurred</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Breakdown of expenses, these exclude VAT:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>TSA1</p></td><td><p>TSA2</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Accommodation</p></td><td><p>£82,242.89</p></td><td><p>£170,622.67</p></td><td><p>£252,865.56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Travel</p></td><td><p>£144,122.38</p></td><td><p>£226,600.29</p></td><td><p>£370,722.67</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Subsistence</p></td><td><p>£16,171.73</p></td><td><p>£43,176.88</p></td><td><p>£59,348.61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other (incidentals such as printing, room hire and meeting refreshments)</p></td><td><p>£1,939.11</p></td><td><p>£3052.73</p></td><td><p>£4991.84</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>£244,476.11</p></td><td><p>£443,452.57</p></td><td><p>£687,928.68</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 10/03/2015 17:13:10 question first ministerially corrected 17/03/2015 16:58:03 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter previous answer version 49059 answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

1011553

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Forces Help to Buy Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to announce whether the Forces Help to Buy scheme will continue beyond December 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	194176
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>As announced by the former Secretary of State for Defence in October 2016, the Forces Help To Buy scheme is due to close at the end of December 2018. Applications can be submitted up to this date. Work is ongoing to consider how to take this policy principle forward and details will be confirmed later this year.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 26/11/2018 17:10:14 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

102013

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	New Businesses: Stafford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many new companies were started in Stafford constituency in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	212794
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>In each of the last three years, the following numbers of companies were incorporated in the Staffordshire constituency:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>13,336</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>13,349</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>13,445</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/11/2014 10:22:42 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

102233

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	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	Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of recent employment trends.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	905826
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The latest figures show a record number of people in work - 30.76 million, up 736,000 on the year. There are a record 14.4m women in work, with a record female employment rate of 68.1%. This year there have been some of the largest annual increases in employment since the 1980s.</p><p>Total unemployment saw a record annual fall of 538,000, bringing unemployment below 2 million for the first time since 2008. Youth unemployment fell a record 253,000 on the year to 733,000. Long-term unemployment fell 194,000 on the year - the largest annual fall since 1998.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 03/11/2014 17:41:36 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

1024607

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Cultural Relations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps his Department is taking to promote cultural diplomacy.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	908182
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member to my response during Topical questions today in the Chamber.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 908184 question first answered 13/12/2018 13:05:21 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

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	registered interest
	date	10/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Staffordshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what financial support the Government has allocated to Staffordshire County Council in support of caring for unaccompanied (a) adult and (b) children asylum seekers in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	207253
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>The government provides funding to local authorities as a contribution to-wards the costs incurred in supporting unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) and young care leavers who were UASC.</p><p>For unaccompanied children arriving from 1 July 2016, local authorities can claim £114 per day for those children aged under 16 and £91 per day for those children aged 16 or 17. The overall value of each claim is dependent on the number of agreed days that children are supported by the local authority. More information on the funding available to local authorities supporting UASC and former UASC care leavers can be found in the funding instructions published at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/unaccompanied-asylum-seeking-children-uasc-grant-instructions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/unaccompanied-asylum-seeking-children-uasc-grant-instructions</a></p><p>The Home Office directly provides adult asylum seekers and their dependants who would otherwise be destitute with free furnished accommodation (rent and utility free) and a weekly cash allowance to cover their other essential living needs.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 17/01/2019 17:10:24 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy