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384739

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Alternatives to Prison
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what community programmes are available in lieu of prison sentences for (a) female and (b) gay or lesbian perpetrators of domestic violence; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	3495
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The National Probation Service (NPS) and Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) work with all offenders to address the factors associated with their offending, including factors associated with their violent behaviour. Depending on the individual offender’s needs, there are a wide range of services in the community to address their offending behaviour and the factors leading to offending. These include emotion management, treatment for substance misuse and mental health, relationship skills, dealing with own victimisation and stress management.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 30/06/2015 12:22:02 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

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

387102

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Family Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many family law cases have cited the Human Rights Act 1998 since that Act came into effect.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	5148
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Applications to the Family Court are made and recorded by reference to the relevant provision in family law. Details of how many family law cases specifically cited the Human Rights Act 1998 since it came into force could only be obtained by manually checking every case file at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 06/07/2015 11:07:53 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

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

384791

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Rehabilitation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he plans to take to increase the effectiveness of rehabilitation of female prisoners.
	tabling member constituency	South Derbyshire
	tabling member printed	Heather Wheeler
	uin	900507
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Maintaining family links, education and promoting aspiration are essential to helping female offenders turn their lives around. The women’s custodial estate has been reconfigured so that women offenders can be held as close as possible to their homes, with access to the right interventions and opportunities for meaningful resettlement.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, Community Rehabilitation Companies are providing embedded resettlement services, which are required to be tailored to the specific needs of women.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/06/2015 15:26:52 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler

385373

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the offences and length of time served in prison are of each of the 20 longest serving female prisoners.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	4117
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Of the twenty female prisoners who had served the longest amount of time in custody, as of 31 March 2015, twelve had served between 14 and 18 years and eight had served 18 years or more.</p><p> </p><p>All bar two of those female offenders were imprisoned for violent offences against the person.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/07/2015 14:05:13 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

416654

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Females: Offenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Advisory Board on Female Offenders in addressing the strategic objectives for female offenders; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Pendle
	tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
	uin	8612
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Since its inception in 2013, the Advisory Board has been supporting the development of locally driven whole system approaches in Greater Manchester and Wales which provide robust and effective sentencing options in the community. They also contributed to the development of guidance for the new probation providers on responding to the gender-specific needs of female offenders, and considered evidence from a cross-departmental working group on the links between debt and finance issues and female offenders.</p><p> </p><p>I believe the Advisory Board on Female Offenders has an important role to play in our work to drive forward improvements for female offenders. Since May 2015, we have refreshed the membership and Terms of Reference to enable the Board to provide stronger leadership, including holding key Government departments and delivery partners to account.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/09/2015 11:29:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

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