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49797

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of Government policy on the level of car insurance premiums.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Mr David Ward
	uin	903899
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Government continues to monitor the publically available sources of data on motor insurance premiums. The Government's reforms to civil litigation costs and funding will result in unnecessary and excessive costs being removed from the system. However, the level and timing of any reduction in such premiums is a matter for the insurance industry itself.</p><p>We are working with insurers to mitigate fraud, excessive whiplash claims and young drivers risk to reduce premiums further.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 08/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	3923 label Biography information for Mr David Ward

50548

	registered interest
	date	12/05/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department takes to ensure that support is provided to families bereaved by homicide.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Mr David Ward
	uin	198415
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the honourable Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
	tabling member	3923 label Biography information for Mr David Ward

1342937

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools that have had an academy order imposed upon them have waited (a) between 24 and 35 months, (b) between 36 and 47 months, (c) between 48 and 59 months and (d) longer than 60 months before their academisation process was completed.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	25850
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2021 answer text <p>As of the 1 June 2021, there have been 574 sponsored academies that have opened after the predecessor local authority maintained schools were issued with academy orders following receipt of inadequate Ofsted judgements. 56% of these sponsored academies opened in less than 12 months, and more than 90% opened in less than 24 months of the academy order being issued. Of the remainder:</p><ul><li>33 took between 24 and 35 months.</li><li>13 took between 36 and 47 months.</li><li>4 took between 48 and 59 months.</li><li>1 took longer than 60 months.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 12/07/2021 13:39:37 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

882608

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academies: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to improve the scrutiny of (a) finances and (b) academic performance at academies as a result of the collapse of the Wakefield City Academy Trust.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	135670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>The department continually reviews and improve systems and processes to oversee academies. We have strengthened our processes for monitoring the overall performance of MATs and ensuring growth is sustainable and delivers improvement. We have also improved support available, for example, through funding professional development programmes for MAT trustees[1] and funding Academy Ambassadors to match high calibre business leaders with academy trusts. Academy Ambassadors work closely with academy trusts and Regional Schools Commissioners to identify trust boards where additional business expertise would improve the governance of the trust and any skills or background that would be particularly desirable in light of the opportunities and challenges the trust is facing.</p><p> </p><p>The department has a robust system of financial accountability. Processes are founded on a clear framework communicated and regulated by the Education Skills and Funding Agency (ESFA), with effective oversight and compliance based on proportionate risk assessment, and robust intervention when things go wrong. ESFA scrutinises a broad range of academy trust data and intelligence to identify risk, including audited accounts and a number of annual financial returns.</p><p> </p><p>All academy trusts must publish details of their financial performance in annual accounts. To ensure strong external scrutiny, all academy trusts must have an annual external audit of their annual accounts by a registered statutory auditor and the department expect trusts to act on audit findings as an opportunity to strengthen their systems. The ESFA’s focus is much broader than intervention, working with the sector to continue building capacity and expertise in financial management and forecasting. To reinforce the importance of three year financial planning the ESFA are further strengthening budget forecasting, the ESFA CEO Eileen Milner wrote to academy trusts in March 2018 setting out the requirement for all academy trusts to submit three-year financial forecasts.</p><p> </p><p>Where concerns arise, ESFA works with trusts to prevent financial instability and enable them to recover their financial position and return to stable governance. Intervention is always proportionate, risk-based, and linked to non-compliance with requirements set out in the Academies Financial Handbook and academies’ funding agreements. The sector remains in a stable position, with just over 1% of academy trusts subject to an active Financial Notice to Improve.</p><p> </p><p>We constantly keep under review the financial control and reporting framework for academies and introduce any necessary enhancements through the Academies Financial Handbook and the Academies Accounts Direction, both of which are re-issued on an annual basis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/school-governors-professional-development</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/04/2018 16:55:36 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

511437

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2016
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Adam Smith Institute
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many meetings she had with the Adam Smith Institute between 1 October 2012 and 31 March 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	33609
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>Meetings with DFID Ministers are published on a regular basis at: <a href="https://data.gov.uk/dataset/dfid-sos-gifts-travel-hospitality-meetings-may-july-2010" target="_blank">https://data.gov.uk/dataset/dfid-sos-gifts-travel-hospitality-meetings-may-july-2010</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 18/04/2016 15:41:07 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

765341

	registered interest
	date	06/10/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Administration of Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to enhance joint-working between probation services and sentencers.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	105571
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>Successful joint working between the probation service and judges, magistrates and other key partners is vital to ensure that we not only keep people safe by ensuring offenders receive the most appropriate sentence, but help offenders turn away from a life of crime by ensuring they have the correct levels of supervision and support.</p><p> </p><p>The National Sentencer and Probation Forum has the primary aim of encouraging and facilitating engagement between sentencers, providers of probation services, and officials from the Ministry of Justice and Her Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service to discuss issues and trends which are relevant to sentencing and the provision of probation services at both a local and a national level.</p><p> </p><p>There are also a number of communication channels and existing forums to encourage effective joint working between probation service providers and sentencers at a local level. We continue to keep the effectiveness of these arrangements under review as part of our ongoing work to improve probation services.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 18/10/2017 16:05:48 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

932720

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Advisory Board on Female Offenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many meetings of the Advisory Board on Female Offenders (a) have taken place, (b) have been attended by a Minister of his Department and (c) he has attended since 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	159017
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>Since its inception in May 2013, there have been 20 formal quarterly meetings of the Advisory Board on Female Offenders, each chaired by the Minister with responsibility for female offenders. The Secretary of State for Justice, David Gauke, has met some of the Advisory Board members informally. I look forward to chairing my first Board meeting in October 2018, [and was pleased to be able to meet informally with some of the stakeholder members last month].</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 09/07/2018 17:03:04 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

649440

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Afghanistan: Armed Conflict
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many NATO airstrikes took place in Afghanistan on 2 and 3 November 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	55812
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>NATO does not conduct airstrikes in Afghanistan.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 06/12/2016 14:05:59 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1399367

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2022
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Afghanistan: British Nationals Abroad
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what support her Department is providing to British nationals in Afghanistan in need of urgent medical treatment.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	96905
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2022 answer text <p>Since 28 August 2021 the British Embassy in Kabul has suspended in-country operations. FCDO Travel Advice for Afghanistan states that only very limited medical facilities are available in Afghanistan and makes clear that consular assistance can only be provided remotely and is extremely limited. British nationals in Afghanistan can continue to access 24 hour consular assistance by phone. We can provide in-person consular assistance in neighbouring countries.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 12/01/2022 17:40:15 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1471425

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2022
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Afghanistan: British Nationals Abroad
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help support the Afghan relatives of British citizens who are under threat in that country.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	20262
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2022 answer text <p>Since the end of Op PITTING, the UK has supported over 4,600 individuals to leave Afghanistan, including British Nationals and their families and other eligible Afghans. We continue to work to ensure that the families of British nationals with entry clearance and those eligible for resettlement through the Afghanistan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) and Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS), are able to come to the UK. The UK is providing £286 million of humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan in 2022/23 and, together with our international allies, we are working to hold the Taliban to their commitments on human rights and safe passage for those wishing to leave the country. We continue to advise against travel to Afghanistan and cannot provide consular services in person in country as our Embassy is closed but have consular teams available in neighbouring countries.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 07/07/2022 16:41:39 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain