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1504927

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2022
	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	Cost of Living Payments: Housing Benefit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to answer of 8 July 2022 to Question 26876 on Cost of Living Payments: Housing Benefit, what assessment he has been made of (a) how many people receiving housing benefit only are not receiving the £650 cost of living payment and (b) the sufficiency of the Household Support Fund to reach all those requiring additional support.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	47623
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>(A) How many people receiving HB only are not receiving the £650 Cost Of Living payment</p><p> </p><p>Approximately 100 thousand working-age HB claimants were not in receipt of a qualifying benefit or Tax Credit and so would not receive a cost of living payment of £650 paid in two lump sums of £326 and £324.</p><p> </p><p>There are a further 370 thousand pensioner HB claimants who were also not in receipt of any qualifying benefit but will receive the £300 Cost of Living payment paid through an increase to the Winter Fuel Payment.</p><p> </p><p>(B) What assessment has been made of the sufficiency of the Household Support Fund to reach all those requiring additional support.</p><p> </p><p>£842m has already been allocated to Local Authorities in England through the Household Support Fund to support those in need for the period October 2021- September 2022. Almost 9 million awards were given to those in need between October 2021 and March 2022 alone. A further £421m is being provided to extend the Household Support Fund from October 2022 to March 2023, taking the total funding for this support to over £1.2bn.</p><p> </p><p>Local Authorities have the ties and local knowledge to best determine how this support should be provided to their local communities, and they have the discretion to design their own local schemes to best meet local need, within the parameters of the grant determination and guidance for the fund.</p><p> </p><p>The Household Support Fund is just one part of a wider package of government support for the cost of living now totalling over £37bn this year.</p><p> </p><p /> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 27/09/2022 10:04:00 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1663146

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2023
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Standard Individual Export Licences: China
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many standard individual export licenses were granted to UK university sponsored applications for proposed exports to China in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	201000
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2023 answer text <p>(a) 2 SIELs were granted to UK universities for proposed exports to China in 2020.</p><p>(b) 2 SIELs were granted to UK universities for proposed exports to China in 2021.</p><p>(c) 2 SIELs were granted to UK universities for proposed exports to China in 2022.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 18/10/2023 14:35:56 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1663145

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2023
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Standard Individual Export Licences: China
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many standard individual export licenses were granted for proposed exports to Chinese universities in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	200999
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2023 answer text <p>(a) 238 Standard Individual Export Licences (SIELs) were granted for proposed exports to Chinese universities in 2020.</p><p>(b) 223 SIELs were granted for proposed exports to Chinese universities in 2021.</p><p>(c) 125 SIELs were granted for proposed exports to Chinese universities in 2022.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 18/10/2023 14:34:01 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

997393

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2018
	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	British Council: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many staff (a) are employed directly by, (b) are seconded to and (c) work under contract in the British Council.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	185152
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>(a) Employed directly -10750</p><p>(b) Secondees - 0</p><p>(c) Work under contract*- 1115</p><p>Total 11865</p><p> </p><p><strong>* </strong>This figure is a total of external Non-Permanent Workers (NPW) that the British Council have recorded both in the UK and overseas, this however does not capture invigilators/examiners, those provided by other companies to fulfil contracts or other cases of short term duration external workers.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 01/11/2018 16:06:23 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1344372

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2021
	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 and Income: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on levels of (a) employment and (b) income of young people.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	28283
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2021 answer text <p>(a) Employment levels of young people are published and available in Office for National Statistics Table A06 at:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/datasets/educationalstatusandlabourmarketstatusforpeopleagedfrom16to24seasonallyadjusteda06sa" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/datasets/educationalstatusandlabourmarketstatusforpeopleagedfrom16to24seasonallyadjusteda06sa</a></p><p> </p><p>(b) Family Resources Survey based data on incomes is only available up to financial year 2019/20. More recent trends in median earnings for younger people are published and available from ONS Real Time Information at:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/realtimeinformationstatisticsreferencetableseasonallyadjusted" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/realtimeinformationstatisticsreferencetableseasonallyadjusted</a></p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 12/07/2021 14:00:58 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

823699

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Beverage Containers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate has been made of the number of single use disposable cups that are (a) used each year and (b) sent for recycling by his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	123150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>(a) On 11 January 2018, at the Secretary of State’s request, all single use plastic water cups were removed from Defra. Re-usable glasses are now provided instead. In recent years Defra’s outsourced Catering and Facilities Management providers purchased disposable cups for the Defra offices.</p><p> </p><p>Since October 2014, the number of disposable cups purchased by Defra’s catering provider has fallen by a third:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Period</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Cups</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1/10/2014 – 30/09/2015</p></td><td><p>536,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1/10/2015 – 30/09/2016</p></td><td><p>391,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1/10/2016 – 30/09/2017</p></td><td><p>369,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1/10/2017 – 31/12/2017</p></td><td><p>49,500</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The current catering contract expires this summer. The tender for the new contract stipulates that the supplier must not use single use plastics and must provide alternatives to single use disposable cups or implement a recycling scheme.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2013, the number of disposable cups purchased by Defra’s facilities contractor has fallen by more than half.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Calendar Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Cups Purchased</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>380,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>280,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>240,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>200,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>168,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>1,268,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Different time periods have been used in the tables above as the catering provider and facilities contractor have different financial years.</p><p> </p><p>(b) The department cannot estimate the number of single use disposable cups sent for recycling as Defra uses mixed recycling bins and it is not possible to quantify the separate elements.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 29/01/2018 12:04:51 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1505859

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum and Visas: Applications
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to (a) recruit more staff, (b) increase the responsiveness to MPs written and helpline enquiries and (c) put in place other resources to mitigate delays in processing visa and asylum applications.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	49227
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>(a) Staffing levels in the MP Account Management team have increased by 20% over the last 6 months and recruitment is continuing, with additional staff joining over the coming weeks.</p><p> </p><p>(b) A recovery plan is in place which will lead to incremental improvements in service standards over the coming 5 months with a return to 20 day service standard by March 2023.</p><p> </p><p>(c) The Home Office had been prioritising Ukraine Visa Schemes applications in response to the humanitarian crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Staff from other government departments, including DWP and HMRC, have been surged into the department to help with Ukraine work and enable normal visa routes to return to normal service levels in due course.</p><p>To help reduce the number of outstanding claims for protection we are investing in a programme of transformation and business improvement initiatives that will speed up and simplify our processes, reduce the time people spend in the asylum system and decrease the number of people who are awaiting an interview or decision.</p><p> </p><p>We have extensive ongoing recruitment plans in place and are actively increasing the number of asylum decision makers. Additionally we have career progression options that will aid the retention of staff.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 22/09/2022 10:45:25 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

687003

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	STEM Subjects: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps her Department has taken to encourage the uptake of STEM subjects by female students.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	63715
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2017 answer text <p>12,000 more girls took STEM A levels in 2016 compared to 2010, and the Government is committed to doing more to encourage girls to study STEM subjects.</p><p>Improving the quality of teaching is vital to encourage pupils of both genders to study STEM subjects. We are investing up to £67m over the term of this Parliament to recruit and train more mathematics and physics teachers, and offering bursaries and scholarships to attract top graduates into mathematics and science teaching. We are also providing support to schools to raise the quality of mathematics and science teaching through programmes such as the network of Maths Hubs and Science Learning Partnerships, and the Network of Teaching Excellence in Computer Science. Two of these programmes, the Stimulating Physics Network and the Further Maths Support Programme, have a particular focusing on engaging more girls in mathematics and physics.</p><p>The Government also supports STEM Ambassadors, a nationwide network of over 30,000 volunteers from a wide range of STEM employers and businesses. STEM Ambassadors engage with pupils to provide stimulating and inspirational activities to increase their interest in STEM subjects and to raise awareness of the range of careers that STEM qualifications offer.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 20/02/2017 11:39:03 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

800599

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2017
	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	Burma: Rohingya
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the security and protection of the Rohingya are prioritised in the Bangladesh-Myanmar deal on returning Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	117220
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p><br>The Government has been clear throughout the current crisis that the Rohingya refugees who have fled into Bangladesh must be able to return to their homes in Burma safely, voluntarily and in dignity. The UK proposed and secured a UN Security Council Presidential Statement on 6 November which called for these conditions to be met and urged the Governments of Burma and Bangladesh to invite the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to participate fully in the implementation of anyreturns process.</p><p>I made clear in my 20 November meeting with the Chief of Staff to State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi that the UK expects that the Burmese authorities to ensure the safety and security of all Rohingya refugees who have fled to Bangladesh on their return to Burma. I also discussed the agreement with Bangladesh Minister of State Shahriar Alam on 30 November, setting out that any returns should be voluntary, safe, and in dignity.</p><p>The agreement signed on 23 November between the Governments of Burma and Bangladesh includes a commitment from the Government of Burma to allow refugees who fled to Bangladesh since October 2016 to return to their original places of residence in Burma or a safe and secure place of their choice. The UK will work with international partners to ensure any returns take place in line with international norms and under international monitoring.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 12/12/2017 17:21:38 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1077304

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Firearms and Knives: Haringey
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information his Department holds on the number of incidents involving (a) knives and (b) firearms in the London Borough of Haringey for 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	225584
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The information requested is not collected centrally.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Home Office collects data on the number of offences involving knives or firearms recorded by the police in England and Wales at the Police Force Area level but not at local authority level.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Information on offences involving knives / sharp instruments or firearms by Police Force Area can be found in the Offences involving the use of weapons data tables published by the Office for National Statistics, available here:</del></p><p><del class="ministerial"><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/offencesinvolvingtheuseofweaponsdatatables" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/offencesinvolvingtheuseofweaponsdatatables</a></del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The information requested is not collected centrally.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Home Office collects data on the number of offences involving knives or firearms recorded by the police in England and Wales at the Police Force Area level but not at local authority level.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Information on offences involving knives / sharp instruments or firearms by Police Force Area can be found in the Offences involving the use of weapons data tables published by the Office for National Statistics, available here:</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/offencesinvolvingtheuseofweaponsdatatables" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/offencesinvolvingtheuseofweaponsdatatables</a></ins></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/03/2019 14:18:45 question first ministerially corrected 09/09/2019 16:21:08 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 105807 answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd answering member 1561
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West