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1060737

registered interest
date	13/02/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	EU External Trade: Trade Agreements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what progress he has made in obtaining assurances that the UK will be able to replicate the 40 free trade agreements that the EU has with third party countries during the transition period.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	220919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>Alongside the Withdrawal Agreement, the EU undertook to notify its treaty partners that the UK is treated as a Member State for the purposes of EU international agreements during the IP. This includes trade agreements. This notification is expected to issue following signature of the Withdrawal Agreement.</p><p> </p><p>Discussions with all partner countries have demonstrated a commitment to finding a pragmatic way to ensure continuity of our existing international agreements. A number of countries have already publicly welcomed this approach (Library deposit of 13 September DEP2018-0926 provides a list of countries). Others are, understandably, waiting for the notification to be issued before responding formally. We are working closely with our trading partners to ensure that there would be no disruption to trade as we move into the Implementation Period. Alongside this, the government will continue to do the responsible thing and prepare for all eventualities with partner countries, including a ‘no deal’ Brexit scenario.</p> answering member constituency Meon Valley answering member printed George Hollingbery question first answered 21/02/2019 10:40:07 answering member 4016 label Biography information for Sir George Hollingbery
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1061057

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
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	Universal Credit: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people (a) are currently in and (b) have been active in the Universal Credit Youth Obligation Support Programme; how many people who are active in that programme have been sanctioned; how long those people have been sanctioned for; and for what reason those people have been sanctioned.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	221674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>We are clerically collecting Management Information on the number of programme participants from January 2019. This is the first month in which we will have fully rolled out the programme across the entire country. We will consider whether this information can be published in due course, subject to appropriate quality assurance checks.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested on sanctions is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 21/02/2019 17:06:24 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1061058

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
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	Universal Credit: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have entered full-time work with a permanent contract after completing the Universal Credit Youth Obligation Support Programme; how many people have been placed into zero-hour contracts after completing that programme; and how many have re-entered that programme after finishing a short-term contract.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	221675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>Information on the type of employment entered by those who have completed the Youth Obligation Support Programme and the number of re-entries into the programme is not centrally recorded and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 21/02/2019 17:13:00 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1061059

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
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	Universal Credit: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which industries people who have completed the Youth Obligation Support Programme have been placed in; how many people have been placed in each such industry; and how many people did not complete that programme.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	221676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>Information on the industry outcomes of those who have completed the Youth Obligation Support Programme is not centrally recorded and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 21/02/2019 17:10:54 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1061210

registered interest
date	14/02/2019
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason her Department decided to track only the first 10,000 successful applicants through the managed migration pilot and not to track unsuccessful applications.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	221636
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>Subject to parliamentary approval, we have sought powers to conduct a pilot phase of Managed Migration, to track up to a maximum of 10,000 claimants through the process. The goal of the pilot is to learn as much as possible and to increase numbers as slowly and gradually as necessary, and there will be safeguards in the process to ensure that no-one is left behind. We will report on our findings from the pilot before bringing forward legislation to extend managed migration.</p><p> </p><p>We have said that all individuals will be tracked all the way through the pilot process and understanding the reasons for unsuccessful applications will be an important part of the pilot. However, there will be safeguards in place to protect those who might otherwise fail to make a successful claim.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is committed to finding those who will need support and will help them through the process, including home visits where necessary. This will give an indication of the size of the support requirement which will be key information for any future scaling.</p><p> </p><p>Our stakeholders and partners will also play a key role and we will work with partners to ensure we reach people who might otherwise be missed, and the further development of these delivery relationships is a major aspect of this phase of the programme.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 21/02/2019 16:46:53 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Lord Sharma
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1063599

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Homelessness: Nottinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding (a) Ashfield District Council and (b) Broxtowe Borough Council have received from the Homelessness Relief Fund.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	222603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities, including both Ashfield District Council and Broxtowe Borough Council, receive funding to prevent and relieve homelessness from my Department. This includes preventing homelessness core funding and flexible homelessness support grant funding. However, we do not operate a fund called the Homelessness Relief Fund and are therefore unable to provide the specific information you request.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 21/02/2019 13:38:43 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

1063618

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Ashfield
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and which schools in Ashfield constituency meet all eight Gatsby benchmarks for careers education.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	222605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p>The Careers &amp; Enterprise Company and the Gatsby Charitable Foundation developed Compass, a free online tool that helps schools to evaluate and monitor improvements in their careers provision against the Gatsby benchmarks, which is now used by over 3,000 schools and colleges.</p><p>The Careers &amp; Enterprise Company collects this information, which is published annually at a national level. The 2018 ‘State of the Nation’ report provides an updated assessment of progress, based on the Compass results of 3,092 schools and colleges. It shows that benchmark engagement and performance have both improved:</p><ul><li>There are now five times more schools and colleges assessing themselves against the benchmarks since 2017, and ten times more than in 2014.</li><li>The average school or college is now fully achieving 2.13 benchmarks, up from 1.87 in 2017 and 1.34 in 2014.</li><li>21 schools and colleges (0.7%) are now meeting all eight of the benchmarks.</li></ul><p>The report is available to view at: <a href="https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/stateofthenation" target="_blank">https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/stateofthenation</a>.</p><p>A good way to highlight the importance of the Gatsby Benchmarks is for individual MPs to contact the schools in their constituency.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 21/02/2019 17:54:09 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

1063619

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Nottinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to encourage schools in (a) Ashfield and (b) Nottinghamshire to become part of a Careers Hub.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	222606
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>The government’s careers strategy committed to testing “Careers Hubs” in 20 areas. Careers Hubs comprise of up to 40 local schools and colleges working together with universities, training providers, employers and careers professionals to improve careers education.</p><p> </p><p>In October 2018 the Secretary of State announced the government would test Careers Hubs in a further 20 areas. This will bring the total amount of government investment in Careers Hubs to £7.5 million. Applications are being accepted for the second wave of Careers Hubs until 22 February 2019. The standard model is for Local Enterprise Partnerships and Combined Authorities to coordinate bids in partnership with named schools and colleges. However, in any places where the Local Enterprise Partnership or Combined Authority does not wish to bid, we will welcome bids from other groups of 20-40 schools and colleges who wish to come together.</p><p> </p><p>To support all interested groups in applying for the second wave of Careers Hubs, The Careers &amp; Enterprise Company produced a ‘Careers Hub Prospectus’. This can be found on The Careers &amp; Enterprise Company website at: <a href="https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/bid-become-hub" target="_blank">https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/bid-become-hub</a>. Regional Leads from The Careers &amp; Enterprise Company have also been in touch with potential bidders to offer guidance on how to interpret the prospectus.</p><p> </p><p>Successful applications for the second wave of Hubs will be notified by mid-April and will be operational from September 2019.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 21/02/2019 18:00:04 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

1063620

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	GCSE
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost is for an adult to re-sit a GCSE in (a) maths and (b) English language; and whether (i) funding for re-sitting is available to providers or (ii) the cost of re-sitting has to be paid by learners.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	222607
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>We provide full funding up to and including Level 2 English and maths for adults aged 19 and above, including those who are employed, who do not have a GCSE grade 4, grade C, or higher. This is a legal entitlement as set out in the Apprenticeships, Skills and Children’s Learning Act 2009. Funding for these qualifications is provided through the Adult Education Budget (AEB), paragraphs 171 to 177 of the AEB funding rules for 2018 to 2019 gives further information on eligibility and entitlements, available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-education-budget-funding-rules-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-education-budget-funding-rules-2018-to-2019</a>.</p><p> </p><p>If a learner wants to ‘retake’ their GCSE English and maths qualification because they did not achieve a grade 4 or higher (C or higher), then we will not fund the learner to re-sit the exam only. We will, however, fully fund the learner if they complete the learning programme again before retaking the exam.</p><p> </p><p>Learners wishing to ‘retake’ their English and maths qualification only, will need to approach their provider who can check with the relevant awarding organisation that private candidates are accepted and what fee will be charged.</p><p> </p><p>Providers, in receipt of an AEB allocation, will receive £811 if they deliver English and maths GCSEs to adults aged 19 and above. Further information can be found via the AEB: Funding rates and formula 2018 to 2019, available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-education-budget-funding-rates-and-formula-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-education-budget-funding-rates-and-formula-2018-to-2019</a>.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 21/02/2019 17:56:19 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

1063622

registered interest
date	18/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	GCSE: Nottinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many providers have run courses for adults to resit GCSE maths and English language in (a) Ashfield constituency and (b) Nottinghamshire in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	222609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2019 answer text <p>The attached table contains the number of providers where adult (19+) learners are participating in GCSE English or maths courses in the Ashfield constituency and Nottinghamshire.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 21/02/2019 17:57:42 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton attachment 1 file name 222609_Providers_with_adult_learners_in_GCSE_English_or_Maths.xls title 222609_Providers_with_adult_learners_in_GCSE_
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero