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1546411

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Driving Licences: North East Hampshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many driving licence applications (a) have been and (b) are yet to be processed by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency from people in North East Hampshire constituency in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	98802
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2022 answer text <p>Information on the number of driving licence applications processed or awaiting processing is not held by Parliamentary constituency or region.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 02/12/2022 09:53:45 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1545030

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will issue guidance to train companies stating that they should always seek to run trains as long-form not short-form, including when operating strike day timetables.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	94819
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2022 answer text <p>The Department’s contracts with train operators include obligations upon operators to plan services that provide sufficient capacity to meet the expected level of passenger demand and within the constraints of the infrastructure and the available resources. Operators are also required to act with reasonable endeavours to mitigate the impact of any disruption to their planned services, including during strike action.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 29/11/2022 11:08:39 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1545026

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2022
	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	General Practitioners: North East Hampshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions his Department has had with Integrated Care Boards on the ability of patients to access (a) GP appointments and (b) follow up care in North East Hampshire; and what steps his Department is taking to make this process quicker.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	94818
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2022 answer text <p>There have been no recent discussions. The Department supports NHS England to ensure that the efficiency of elective pathways in each National Health Service trust is regularly assessed. Where necessary, NHS England will engage with the relevant integrated care board or trust.</p><p>We are investing at least £1.5 billion to create an additional 50 million general practice appointments by 2024 by increasing and diversifying the workforce. We have allocated more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25, in addition to the £2 billion Elective Recovery Fund and £700 million Targeted Investment Fund already made available in 2021/2022 to increase elective activity.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 29/11/2022 14:50:25 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1545003

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2022
	answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept id	211
	answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
	hansard heading	Shared Ownership Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his department's policy to help more families get on the housing ladder by (a) increasing the maximum household income limits for shared ownership properties to £110,000 outside London and £130,000 in London and (b) introducing an intermediate South East limit of £120,000.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	94817
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2022 answer text <p>To purchase a Shared Ownership home, applicants must have a gross household income of £90,000 or less in London, and £80,000 or less across the rest of the country. Applicants must also be otherwise unable to purchase a suitable property to meet their housing needs on the open market. If my Rt. Hon. Friend has evidence to which he would like to draw our attention, I would welcome him writing to me.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 01/12/2022 14:32:03 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1544998

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Business: Hampshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the (a) current and (b) potential volume of international trade undertaken by businesses in Hampshire.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	94816
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2022 answer text <p>HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) is responsible for the collection and publication of data on imports and exports of goods to and from the UK. HMRC releases this information monthly as a National Statistic called the Overseas Trade in Goods Statistics (OTS), which is available via their dedicated website (<a href="http://www.uktradeinfo.com/" target="_blank">www.uktradeinfo.com</a>).</p><p> </p><p>On this website, HMRC also publishes annual statistics titled Regional trade in goods statistics disaggregated by smaller geographical areas. This includes statistics for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Further information and the latest release for 2021 can be found via this link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/regional-trade-in-goods-statistics-disaggregated-by-smaller-geographical-areas-2021" target="_blank">Regional trade in goods statistics disaggregated by smaller geographical areas: 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>. Statistics for 2022 will be published in November 2023.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC does not estimate potential volume of trade.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 29/11/2022 14:44:41 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1544662

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2022
	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	Wildlife: Smuggling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to help tackle the illegal wildlife trade.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	93594
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2022 answer text <p>The United Kingdom is taking steps to help protect endangered animals and plants from poaching and illegal trade to benefit wildlife, local communities and the economy, and protect global security.</p><p> </p><p>HMG has committed over £46 million between 2014 and 2022 on work to directly counter illegal wildlife trade (IWT), including through the Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund. Our actions include: training border force agents and building capacity through the British military to train rangers and disrupt poaching in targeted African countries; developing behaviour change campaigns to discourage purchases of wildlife products; supporting legislative reform to increase penalties and conviction rates for wildlife crime; and helping communities to protect the wildlife they rely on for their livelihoods.</p><p> </p><p>We are also contributing £250 million to the Global Environment Facility between 2018-2022, which includes the world's biggest fund for tackling IWT, the Global Wildlife Programme (GWP), supporting IWT projects across 32 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In June this year, at the Stockholm +50 meeting, Lord Goldsmith announced the UK Government’s pledge of £330m to the eighth replenishment of the Global Environment Facility (GEF8) covering the period 2022 – 2026. The GEF8 replenishment delivered a record breaking $5.33bn with a 46% increase in biodiversity funding. This includes the Wildlife Conservation for Development programme which will combat Illegal and High-Risk Wildlife Trade through a supply-chain approach to curbing poaching, disrupting trafficking, and reducing demand for illegal, unsustainable, and high zoonotic-risk wildlife within and between countries.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 30/11/2022 17:39:43 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1544392

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Hampshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the level of educational choice for parents of children with SEND in North East Hampshire constituency.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	93593
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2022 answer text <p>A joint local area special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) inspection of Hampshire was undertaken by Ofsted and Care Quality Commission (CQC) in March 2020. At the time, inspectors identified no significant areas of weakness in SEND services.</p><p>The department’s SEND data collection is about a full local authority and does not analyse by districts. Nor do we collect data on the level or range of choices of provision in each local area.</p><p>Local authorities are statutorily responsible (under the Children and Families Act 2014) for keeping their local offer of services and provision for children and young people with SEND under review, in co-production with parents, young people and educational providers. It is for local authorities to ensure there are sufficient good school places for all pupils, including those with SEND. The Hampshire local offer provides some information about schools by major towns in Hampshire, but not by districts. Further information can be accessed here: <a href="https://fish.hants.gov.uk/kb5/hampshire/directory/results.page?familychannel=6-1-3" target="_blank">https://fish.hants.gov.uk/kb5/hampshire/directory/results.page?familychannel=6-1-3</a>. Under the Act, parents or young people have the statutory right to request that a particular school, further education college in England or other educational institution is named in their Education, Health, and Care plan.</p><p>In March 2022, the department announced High Needs Provision Capital Allocations (HNPCA) amounting to a new investment of over £1.4 billion. This funding is to support local authorities to deliver new places for academic years 2023/24 and 2024/25, and to improve existing provision for children and young people with SEND or who require alternative provision (AP). This funding forms part of the £2.6 billion the department is investing between 2022 and 2025 and represents a significant, transformational investment in new high needs provision. It will support local authorities to deliver new places in mainstream and special schools, as well as other specialist settings, and will also be used to improve the suitability and accessibility of existing buildings.</p><p>Hampshire’s provisional high needs revenue funding allocation for 2023/24 will be £187.2 million, a 24% per head increase over two years on the amount of high needs funding allocated in 2021/22. In addition to this funding, the 2022 Autumn Statement announced that the national core schools budget (covering both mainstream schools and high needs) will increase by £2 billion in 2023/24 and a further £2 billion in 2024/25, over and above totals announced in the 2021Spending Review. We will confirm plans for how this additional funding will be allocated shortly.</p><p>Hampshire received a total of just over £31.3 million through the HNPCA announced in March 2022. This amount represents funding for financial years 2022/23 and 2023/24 and will help the local authority to create new places and improve facilities for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities or who require alternative provision. Prior to that, the local authority received just below £6.8 million through its 2021/22 HNPCA funding announced in April 2021.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 30/11/2022 17:52:11 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1543992

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hampshire Constabulary: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of the additional 20,000 police officers announced by the Government (a) have been and (b) will be recruited to Hampshire Constabulary.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	92286
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2022 answer text <p>As part of the Police Officer Uplift Programme, the Home Office publishes a quarterly update on the number of officers in England and Wales, broken down by Police Force Area since recruitment began in October 2019, the latest of which is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-officer-uplift-quarterly-update-to-september-2022" target="_blank">Police officer uplift, quarterly update to September 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>Table U2 of the <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1113096/police-officer-uplift-quarterly-update-to-sept-2022-tables-271022.ods" target="_blank">data tables</a> accompanying this quarterly publication provides a breakdown of these additional officers recruited from funding for the Police Uplift Programme by month since October 2019.</p><p>As at 30 September 2022, police forces in England and Wales have recruited 15,343 additional police officers attributable to the Police Uplift Programme. Of these, 481 (3.1%) have been recruited by Hampshire Constabulary.</p><p>Table B1 of the <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1113096/police-officer-uplift-quarterly-update-to-sept-2022-tables-271022.ods" target="_blank">data tables</a> accompanying the quarterly publication shows how many of the 20,000 additional police officers announced have been allocated to each Police Force Area for the three years of the programme.</p><p>Hampshire Constabulary have been allocated a total of 518 additional police officers by March 2023, 2.6% of the national allocation of 20,000.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 29/11/2022 14:18:09 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1543991

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2022
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: North East Hampshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to support SMEs in North East Hampshire.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	92285
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2022 answer text <p>Businesses in North East Hampshire will have benefitted from a range of Government measures, including reversal of the National Insurance rise, which will save SMEs approximately £4,200 on average, cut to fuel duty for 12 months and the Energy Bill Relief Scheme, which will protect small businesses from high energy costs over the winter. Furthermore, we have raised the Employment Allowance to £5,000 and are freezing the business rates multiplier for another year to protect businesses from rising inflation, worth £9.3 billion over the next 5 years.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, finance is available to SMEs across the UK through the Recovery Loan Scheme, and the Start Up loan scheme has provided 84 SMEs in North East Hampshire with loans to the value of £926,620 as of October 2022.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 29/11/2022 17:19:40 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1140090

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	If he will allocate additional funding to improve roads outside the major road network and the strategic road network.
	tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
	tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	uin	912043
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Transport is committed to providing over £6.7 billion to local highway authorities in England, outside London, from 2015 to 2021 to help improve the condition of roads and reduce congestion. The funding includes a £296 million Pothole Action Fund and £420 million for highways maintenance and a congestion busting fund as announced in Budget 2018.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 18/07/2019 16:03:28 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena