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1150088

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	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	Autism: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will issue guidance on the duties of (a) statutory health providers and (b) local authorities in meeting the care needs of adults with autism.
	tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
	uin	1018
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2019 answer text <p>The Autism Act 2009 places a duty on the Secretary of<br>State for Health and Social Care to publish a strategy for meeting the needs of<br>autistic adults in England, and to review it periodically.</p><p /><p /> <p> </p><p /><p /> <p>In April 2014, the cross-Government adult autism strategy,<br>‘Think Autism’, was published. Statutory guidance for local authorities and National<br>Health Service organisations was published in March 2015 to support the adult<br>autism strategy’s implementation.</p><p /><p /> <p> </p><p /><p /> <p>We are currently reviewing the cross-Government autism<br>strategy and extending it to include children and young people. The Government<br>expects to publish the revised all age autism strategy by the end of the<br>calendar year.</p><p /><p /> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 24/10/2019 15:08:53 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

423856

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2015
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Government Equalities Office: Credit Unions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking to promote the use of credit unions in the work of the Government Equalities Office; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	13513
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <br /><p>I refer The Hon Member for Harrow West to the reply given by Her Majesty’s Treasury to PQ 13524 on 2 November 2015.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/11/2015 16:44:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

418002

	registered interest
	date	09/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Family Courts: Databases
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, who is responsible for the collection of data on families, their cases and the time in which they are within the justice system.
	tabling member constituency	Blaydon
	tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
	uin	9814
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Her Majesty’s Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) administers the Family Court and is responsible for recording and monitoring data of family cases on the main case management system. HMCTS use a system of standard operating procedures and data quality checks to ensure the effectiveness of recording data across HMCTS. Data is then extracted each month into a management information system (MIS).</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice use the data to produce the Family Court Statistics Quarterly bulletin which publishes workload and timeliness statistics for the Family Court.</p><p> </p><p>Data on timeliness in care proceedings are also published on the Open Justice website at Designated Family Judge level.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 9815 question first answered 16/09/2015 13:50:46 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

1232468

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2020
	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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Cybercrime and Digital Technology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July to Question 72907 and the Answer of 17 July 2020 to Question 72907 on Cybercrime and Digital Technology, how many individuals have completed digital skills courses through the (a) degree conversion course programmes in data science and artificial intelligence, (b) Fast Track Digital Workforce Fund covering the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Lancashire Local Enterprise Partnership areas, (c) Digital Skills Innovation Fund and The Digital Inclusion Innovation Fund, (d) Six Local Digital Skills Partnerships, (e) The Grenfell Digital Skills programme and (f) Code4000’s Coding in Prisons programme in the most recent period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	86650
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2020 answer text <p>(a) degree conversion course programmes in data science and artificial intelligence</p><p>No individuals have completed courses in the degree conversion course programme in data science and artificial intelligence announced on 10 June 2020. The first students in the programme will start in Autumn this year.</p><p>(b) Fast Track Digital Workforce Fund covering the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Lancashire Local Enterprise Partnership areas</p><p>The Fast Track Digital Workforce Fund is a £3 million fund aiming to boost digital skills training through short, responsive courses that will help employers recruit to hard to fill digital roles. The fund is estimated to train 741 individuals, with 158 courses completed to date, including:</p><ul><li><p>50 course completions within cloud engineering</p></li><li><p>48 course completions in software development</p></li><li><p>24 courses completions in digital marketing</p></li><li><p>19 course competitions in DevOps</p></li><li><p>16 course completion in Linux engineering</p></li></ul><p>(c) Digital Skills Innovation Fund and The Digital Inclusion Innovation Fund</p><p>The Digital Inclusion Innovation Fund was a £400,000 fund supporting older and disabled people, particularly those in rural areas. The 3 pilot projects impacted a total of 1672 individuals, including:</p><ul><li><p>1094 digital learners in the Living Smart Homes project in West Essex</p></li><li><p>55 patients in end of life care, their carers and patient care volunteers in the Weldmar Hospicecare Trust</p></li><li><p>523 users of the Down’s Syndrome Association’s HealthSwap app</p></li></ul><p>The Digital Skills Innovation Fund is a £1.1m fund supporting underrepresented groups or people from disadvantaged backgrounds get into digital roles or further training. 733 individuals have completed or nearly completed training from four pilot projects, including:</p><ul><li><p>The Heart of South West pilot helped 194 individuals over 12 months retrain and prepare for or advance a career in digital, primarily supporting women in small businesses. It focused on the 20% most deprived wards in the region.</p></li><li><p>Lancashire’s programme has 105 participants, who have completed or near completed women in business workshops, digital marketing, and IT Ready training. The programme is supporting unemployed residents from disadvantaged wards.</p></li><li><p>Sheffield City Region and Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire’s pilot supported women and autistic people gain demand-led digital skills. The pilot had 246 participants.</p></li><li><p>West of England’s programme supported women, particularly those living in deprived neighbourhoods, acquire skills for digital roles. The programme had 188 participants, with 28 completing a formal, recognised training course, 24 receiving advice and guidance on accessing digital jobs, and 166 completing ‘taster’ or other introductory sessions.</p></li></ul><p>(d) Six Local Digital Skills Partnerships</p><p>DCMS provides £75,000 per year to fund a Regional Coordinator, rather than training provision, in each Local Digital Skills Partnership. Regional Coordinators play an important role within the Local Enterprise Partnership/ Combined Authority to bring together cross-sector partners to co-design and deliver provision aligned to local needs, tackling local digital skills gaps, advancing digital inclusion, while contributing to regional economic growth.</p><p>(e) The Grenfell Digital Skills programme</p><p>The Grenfell Digital Skills Programme went live in November 2019. So far 292 sessions from 10 courses have been attended by 75 individuals.</p><p>(f) Code4000’s Coding in Prisons programme</p><p>DCMS provided a £100,000 grant to Code4000 to support their coding workshops in prisons. The funding supported 90 learners as follows:</p><ul><li><p>65 prisoners in the workshop at HMP Humber</p></li><li><p>25 prisoners in the workshop at HMP Holme House</p></li><li><p>5 of these prisoners were also supported on release at the pilot support hub in Sheffield</p></li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/09/2020 12:22:41 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

835963

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2018
	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	Department of Health and Social Care: Childcare Vouchers
	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 employees of his Department make use of the childcare voucher scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	126318
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>140 employees use the Department’s childcare voucher scheme as of 31 January 2018.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 07/02/2018 16:12:15 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1236119

	registered interest
	date	21/09/2020
	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	Music Venues: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many applications have been received for the Emergency Grassroot Music Venues Fund; and how many of those applications were unsuccessful.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	92852
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2020 answer text <p>236 eligible applications from grassroots music venues were submitted for the Emergency Grassroot Music Venues Fund. £3.36M was distributed to 136 successful applicants and 100 venues that applied did not receive funding.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 30/09/2020 13:36:07 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

712089

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Day Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Ofsted report, Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 December 2016, if she will make an assessment of the potential effect of the reduction in the number of childminders on the roll-out of the 30 hours childcare entitlement.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	68397
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2017 answer text <p>30 hours entitlement is already being delivered in eight Early Implementer areas, with over 4,000 parents already benefitting from this offer. Furthermore, four new councils have signed up to deliver 30 hours childcare offer early, from this April, before it is rolled-out nationally from September.</p><p> </p><p>Childminders are a valuable part of the childcare sector and we want to see them play a full role in delivering the 30 hours childcare entitlement. There were 44,000 childminders registered with Ofsted as at 31 December 2016. The total number fell by 700 (1.6%) in the period, but this is a smaller fall than the 3.5% (1,600) in the previous period from August to December 2016. We are pleased that the fall in numbers has slowed, although there is clearly more to do.</p><p> </p><p>In our Early Implementer areas, providers have been able to meet the parental demand for 30 hours, with many childminders working in partnership with other providers to deliver a seamless flexible offer.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/03/2017 16:29:29 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

442763

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2016
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Government Equalities Office: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many people of each gender work in the Government Equalities Office.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester West
	tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
	uin	21084
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>35 female and 20 male members of staff currently work in the Government Equalities Office.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/01/2016 12:56:44 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

677501

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Honours
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the total number of awards made to state schools in the New Year Honours List 2017 were to governors or employees of (a) local authority, (b) church and (c) academy and free schools.
	tabling member constituency	City of Chester
	tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
	uin	61169
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2017 answer text <p>41 governors and employees of state schools were recognised in the New Year Honours List 2017: 17 were employees or governors of local authority maintained schools, 6 were employees or governors of church schools and 18 were employees or governors of academies and free schools.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 31/01/2017 14:55:42 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

1182777

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2020
	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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Information Officers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many people are employed in communications roles in his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	25175
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>41 people were employed in communications roles in DCMS on 1st March 2020.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 09/03/2020 18:04:08 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin