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1054889

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	answering body	Prime Minister
	answering dept id	23
	answering dept short name	Prime Minister
	answering dept sort name	Prime Minister
	hansard heading	10 Downing Street: Flags
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2019 to Question 215221 on 10 Downing Street: Flags, whether there are any plans to raise the flag of the European Union above Downing Street in order for it to be ceremonially lowered on the day the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
	tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
	uin	216355
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>We have no plans to lower the EU flag on leaving the European Union, as it is already the case that the EU flag is not flown.</p> answering member constituency Maidenhead answering member printed Mrs Theresa May question first answered 07/02/2019 15:44:36 answering member 8 label Biography information for Mrs Theresa May
	tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1054892

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	A400M Aircraft: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many A400M aircraft have been ordered for the Royal Air Force in total; how many of those aircraft have (a) been delivered and (b) yet to be delivered; and what estimate he has made of the (i) procurement cost of all A400Ms ordered and (ii) lifetime cost of one A400M programme.
	tabling member constituency	Rayleigh and Wickford
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Francois
	uin	216163
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>Twenty two A400M aircraft have been ordered for the Royal Air Force and of these, 20 have been delivered with two remaining. The forecast procurement cost for these aircraft is £2.6 billion, and the whole life support cost for the fleet is currently forecast to be approximately £6.7 billion, up to the A400M's planned out-of-service date.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 07/02/2019 16:35:18 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois

1054681

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	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	Accident and Emergency Departments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to introduce screening questions to patients at A&E Departments to reduce waiting times.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	216184
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>All eligible acute trusts with a type 1 accident and emergency (A&amp;E) Department have front-door primary clinical streaming services in place. Clinical streaming triages patients on arrival and directs them to a clinically appropriate service and clinician.</p><p> </p><p>Patient streaming to other services can include on site primary care, same day emergency care services, mental health services and urgent treatment centres.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the Spring 2017 statement, the Chancellor announced £100 million ringfenced capital funding for up to 100 new triage projects at English hospitals to support the delivery of primary care streaming in all A&amp;Es by October 2017, as a component of improving performance against the operational standard of at least, 95% of patients attending A&amp;E to be admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 11/02/2019 13:56:42 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

1054666

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adoption and Free Schools
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many civil servants in his Department work on the (a) free school and (b) adoption policy streams; and how many civil servants worked on those streams in June 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	216122
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>Civil servants working within the Free Schools Directorate are responsible for the policy development and the delivery of the free schools programme. They are supported by civil servants working within the Free Schools Capital Division, who are responsible for finding sites and buildings, and refurbishing existing buildings for new free schools. The Free Schools Programme is predominantly delivered by central government, with tightly prescribed responsibilities for local authorities. As of 5 February 2019, there are approximately 290 full-time equivalent civil servants working in the Free Schools Directorate and within the Free Schools Capital Division (which sits in the Operations Directorate). In June 2016, there were slightly fewer civil servants working within Free Schools Directorate and the Free Schools Capital Division.</p><p>As of 5 February 2019, there are approximately 15 full-time equivalent civil servants working on adoption policy in the Social Care, Mobility and Disadvantage Directorate. In June 2016, there were approximately 20 full-time equivalent civil servants working on adoption policy in the Social Care, Mobility and Disadvantage Directorate. These civil servants are responsible for national adoption policy. The majority of the delivery of adoption policy is carried out by the local adoption agencies in each top tier local authority, based on the statutory requirements.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 08/02/2019 12:00:08 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton previous answer version 100465 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1054819

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adult Education: Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the adult skills budget was spent on (a) level 2, (b) level 3, (c) level 4 and (d) level 5 qualifications in each of the last five years for which information is available.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	216424
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The information is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Below is the proportion of the adult education budget (excluding apprenticeships) spent on level 2 aims (excluding maths, English, English for speakers of other languages - ESOL - and traineeships) in each of the last 3 years:</p><ul><li>2015-16: 20%.</li><li>2016-17: 19%.</li><li>2017-18: 23%.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Below is the proportion of the adult education budget (excluding apprenticeships) spent on level 3 aims (excluding maths, English, ESOL and traineeships) in each of the last 3 years:</p><ul><li>2015-16: 8%.</li><li>2016-17: 8%.</li><li>2017-18: 5%.</li></ul> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 12/02/2019 16:13:47 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1054827

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adult Education: Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the adult skills budget is spent on short course programmes.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	216425
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>In 2017-18, 19% of the adult education budget was spent on entry and level 1 learning aims (excluding maths, English, ESOL – English for speakers of other languages - and traineeships). In addition, 18% of the adult education budget was spent on community learning. These low-level aims and community learning aims tend to be of shorter duration.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 11/02/2019 13:29:00 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1054815

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adult Education: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the number of (a) employers and (b) organisations that offer retraining programmes that are funded by the adult skills budget.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	216423
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>In 2017-18<strong>, </strong>there were 650 providers that delivered level 2 learning aims and qualifications through the adult education budget (excluding apprenticeships). The majority of the level 2 qualifications delivered are to learners who already have a level 2 or equivalent qualification.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 08/02/2019 14:31:08 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

1054737

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	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	Affordable Housing: North West
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the press statement entitled, Brokenshire unveils £500 million affordable homes funding boost, published in January 2019, how many of the 11,000 homes will be built in (a) the North West (b) the Liverpool City Region and (c) Wallasey constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Wallasey
	tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
	uin	216142
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>On 31 January, we announced a further eight Strategic Partnerships between Homes England and housing associations which will deliver an additional 11,676 affordable homes for £496.7 million of grant.</p><p>This takes our total to 23 Strategic Partnerships, which will deliver almost 40,000 additional affordable housing starts by March 2022.</p><p>In total, just over 6,000 affordable homes will be delivered across the North West through Strategic Partnerships. Given the flexibility on delivery we provide Strategic Partners, we are not able to break these down below regional areas.</p><p>All funding for Strategic Partnerships is from our £9 billion Affordable Homes Programme.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 07/02/2019 16:18:17 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

1054758

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	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	Agriculture: Ammonia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Government's press release entitled Government launches world leading plan to tackle air pollution, published in 14 January 2019, what the evidential basis is for the statement that agriculture is responsible for 88% of ammonia emissions.
	tabling member constituency	Morley and Outwood
	tabling member printed	Andrea Jenkyns
	uin	216410
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The data used in compiling this statistic are 2016 figures from the UK National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (NAEI) which is available via the uk-air.defra.gov.uk website. The NAEI reports emissions of air pollutants from all sources including the agriculture sector.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 11/02/2019 09:56:34 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4490 label Biography information for Dame Andrea Jenkyns

1054560

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	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	Agriculture: Migrant Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the paper entitled The UK future skills-based immigration system, published by the Home Office on 19 December 2018, what discussions he has had with his Cabinet colleagues on the effect of the recently announced skills-based immigration system on (a) the food and farming sector and (b) the UK’s security of food supply.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	216166
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>It is a priority of this Government to enable an innovative, productive and competitive food supply chain.</p><p>Whilst the UK prepares to leave the EU, Defra is working closely with the Home Office to ensure that there is a long term strategy for the food and farming workforce as part of the future immigration policy.</p><p>Following publication of the Immigration White Paper on 19 December, the Home Office has initiated an extensive twelve month programme of targeted engagement across the UK, and with the EU and international partners, to capture views and ensure that we design a future system that works for the whole of the UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 07/02/2019 14:13:29 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron