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388172

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2015
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Civil Partnerships Act 2004
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she has any plans to bring forward an amendment to the Civil Partnerships Act 2004 to permit opposite sex civil partnerships.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	5833
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to extend the Civil Partnership Act 2004 to opposite sex couples.</p><p> </p><p>The Government carried out a review of the operation and future of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 required by The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, which included a full public consultation inviting views on potential changes to civil partnership.</p><p> </p><p>The Government published a report, following the review, which concluded that the Government would not make any changes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/07/2015 06:06:17 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

388993

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2015
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Civil Partnerships: Human Rights
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the compatibility of civil partnerships being available to only same-sex couples with the Human Rights Act 1998.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	6478
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>The availability of civil partnership only to same sex couples is compatible with the Convention rights and we note that the application to the European Court of Human Rights challenging the availability of civil partnership only to same sex couples was declared inadmissible on 12 December 2013.</p><p>The Government carried out a review of the operation and future of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 required by The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, which included a full public consultation inviting views on potential changes to civil partnership.</p><p>The Government published a report, following the review, which concluded that the Government would not make any changes.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/07/2015 16:39:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

423409

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2015
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Civil Partnerships
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether plans to amend the Civil Partnership Act to allow opposite sex partnerships.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	13132
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2015 answer text <p>Ireferthe Right Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 14 July to the written question below.</p><p><strong>Answer referred to</strong>:Civil Partnerships Act 2004: written question - 5833</p><p><strong>Tim Loughton:</strong>To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she has any plans to bring forward an amendment to the Civil Partnerships Act 2004 to permit opposite sex civil partnerships.</p><p><strong>Caroline Dinenage:</strong>The Government has no plans to extend the Civil Partnership Act 2004 to opposite sex couples.</p><p>The Government carried out a review of the operation and future of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 required by The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, which included a full public consultation inviting views on potential changes to civil partnership.</p><p>The Government published a report, following the review, which concluded that the Government would not make any changes.</p><p>(14 July 2015 : written question 5833)</p><br /> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 27/10/2015 16:34:03 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

443818

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2016
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Government Equalities Office: UK Membership of EU
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what contingency arrangements the Government Equalities Office has made for the eventuality of a majority leave vote in the upcoming EU referendum.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	21944
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text <p>We refer the Right Hon. MP to the response submitted by the Cabinet Office.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/01/2016 17:39:44 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

447442

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2016
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Civil Partnerships
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many civil partnerships have been (a) conducted, (b) terminated and (c) converted to marriage status since such partnerships were established.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	24071
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>Based on the latest publicly available data from the Office of National Statistics, since the Civil Partnership Act came into force in December 2005, the total number of civil partnerships formed in England and Wales up to the end of 2014 is 62,621.</p><br /><p>From January 2007 to December 2014, there were 4,527 civil partnerships dissolutions in England and Wales.</p><br /><p>A total of 7,732 couples chose to convert their existing civil partnership into a marriage in the six months between 10 December 2014 and 30 June 2015 in England and Wales.</p><br /><p>This information is available from the Office of National Statistics: <a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/taxonomy/index.html?nscl=Civil+Partnerships" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/taxonomy/index.html?nscl=Civil+Partnerships</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 28/01/2016 13:49:11 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

709758

	registered interest
	date	09/03/2017
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Civil Partnerships
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the Appeal Court ruling in the case of Steinfeld and Keidan on opposite sex civil partnerships; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	67372
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government carried out a consultation on the future of civil partnerships in 2014. Views were invited on three options: abolishing civil partnerships; phasing them out; or extending them to opposite sex couples.</p><p>The review found that there was no clear consensus on the future of civil partnerships. A majority of respondents to the consultation were against extending civil partnerships to opposite sex couples and several significant stakeholders thought it was too soon to consider making changes to civil partnerships until the impact of extending marriage to same sex couples is known. Given the lack of any consensus, the government did not change the Civil Partnership Act 2004.</p><p>The decision not to change the law was judicially reviewed last year and the Government won in the High Court. The Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal against the High Court judgment this week and confirmed that the Government’s approach is lawful.</p><p>We welcome the Court’s ruling. Before we take any action on this issue, it is right that we evaluate the impact that same sex marriage has on the take-up of civil partnerships. We will also carefully consider this judgment and its implications before deciding on our next steps.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 14/03/2017 16:30:17 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

622576

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children and Young People: Grants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what grants her Department has made to (a) children and young people's charities and (b) children and young people's organisations in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	50791
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not record if grant recipients are children’s and young people’s charities and organisations and therefore cannot respond to the specifics of your question. I am able to provide a list of the Voluntary and Community Sector organisations that were funded by the Department for the 2015-16 financial year under the Children’s Services National Prospectus. Details of all of the grants are available in this press notice: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/25-million-injection-to-help-life-changing-childrens-services" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/25-million-injection-to-help-life-changing-childrens-services</a></p><p> </p><p>All Government Departments publish information on the Government Grants Register, available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-grants-register" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-grants-register</a></p><p> </p><p>If you have particular organisations you are keen to receive information about, then we will be able to access our financial records to review payments made to these organisations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/11/2016 17:20:32 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

625930

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Teachers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what incentives are in place for teachers to achieve early-years teaching status rather than qualified teaching status.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	51169
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>Early years teachers are specialists in early childhood development, trained to lead education and care for children from birth to five years. The department believes the status of Early Years Teachers is an important matter. We value the work that Early Years Teachers do and are looking at ways to continue to raise their status and recognition amongst employers and parents.</p><p> </p><p>Early Years Teachers are graduates responsible for organising and leading high quality practice in early years settings and have an understanding of the educational continuum through Key Stages 1 and 2. Individuals with QTS are able to teach all age ranges, however, the award of qualified teacher status does not guarantee any particular promotion opportunities. It is for schools to decide which staff to promote. Due to the diverse nature of the early years sector, staffing structures vary greatly and there is no single career path for early years teachers. We are considering, as part of the development of an early years workforce strategy, how government can support the sector to create career paths that help staff maximise their potential and forge a successful career within early years.</p><p> </p><p>The workforce strategy will consider and look to build on action the government already takes to attract quality staff into the early years, including the £7,000 of funding we provide to cover course fees, and bursaries of up to £5,000 for eligible trainees. We also currently support employers to help with staff training by contributing £7,000 for costs incurred by the employer.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 51167 51168 question first answered 03/11/2016 15:41:52 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

625931

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Teachers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons teachers with early-years teacher status do not have qualified teaching status.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	51167
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>Early years teachers are specialists in early childhood development, trained to lead education and care for children from birth to five years. The department believes the status of Early Years Teachers is an important matter. We value the work that Early Years Teachers do and are looking at ways to continue to raise their status and recognition amongst employers and parents.</p><p> </p><p>Early Years Teachers are graduates responsible for organising and leading high quality practice in early years settings and have an understanding of the educational continuum through Key Stages 1 and 2. Individuals with QTS are able to teach all age ranges, however, the award of qualified teacher status does not guarantee any particular promotion opportunities. It is for schools to decide which staff to promote. Due to the diverse nature of the early years sector, staffing structures vary greatly and there is no single career path for early years teachers. We are considering, as part of the development of an early years workforce strategy, how government can support the sector to create career paths that help staff maximise their potential and forge a successful career within early years.</p><p> </p><p>The workforce strategy will consider and look to build on action the government already takes to attract quality staff into the early years, including the £7,000 of funding we provide to cover course fees, and bursaries of up to £5,000 for eligible trainees. We also currently support employers to help with staff training by contributing £7,000 for costs incurred by the employer.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 51168 51169 question first answered 03/11/2016 15:41:52 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

625932

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Career Development
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what promotion opportunities are available to teachers with qualified teaching status but not to teachers with early-years teacher status.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	51168
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>Early years teachers are specialists in early childhood development, trained to lead education and care for children from birth to five years. The department believes the status of Early Years Teachers is an important matter. We value the work that Early Years Teachers do and are looking at ways to continue to raise their status and recognition amongst employers and parents.</p><p> </p><p>Early Years Teachers are graduates responsible for organising and leading high quality practice in early years settings and have an understanding of the educational continuum through Key Stages 1 and 2. Individuals with QTS are able to teach all age ranges, however, the award of qualified teacher status does not guarantee any particular promotion opportunities. It is for schools to decide which staff to promote. Due to the diverse nature of the early years sector, staffing structures vary greatly and there is no single career path for early years teachers. We are considering, as part of the development of an early years workforce strategy, how government can support the sector to create career paths that help staff maximise their potential and forge a successful career within early years.</p><p> </p><p>The workforce strategy will consider and look to build on action the government already takes to attract quality staff into the early years, including the £7,000 of funding we provide to cover course fees, and bursaries of up to £5,000 for eligible trainees. We also currently support employers to help with staff training by contributing £7,000 for costs incurred by the employer.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 51167 51169 question first answered 03/11/2016 15:41:52 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton