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1363069

	registered interest
	date	25/10/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	T-levels
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what current academic qualifications will lose funding following the proposed introduction of T-Level qualifications.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	62594
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2021 answer text <p>We will continue to fund high quality qualifications that can be taken alongside, or as alternatives to, T Levels and A levels, where there is a clear need for skills and knowledge that T Levels and A levels cannot provide.</p><p>We have not pre-judged which subject areas will be funded in future, but our plans for reform published in July listed a number of areas where we see a clear role for academic qualifications to sit alongside A levels. These include performing and creative arts, sport and STEM subjects.</p><p>Funding approval criteria for academic qualifications to be approved for delivery from 2024 and beyond will be published in 2022.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 02/11/2021 16:43:33 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1363074

	registered interest
	date	25/10/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Further Education: Coronavirus
	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 ensure that children who have been absent from school as a result of illness from covid-19 are not penalised in applications to further education institutions that have a fixed attendance requirement for enrolment.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	62596
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2021 answer text <p>We recognise that extended restrictions on attendance at school and colleges have had an impact on children and young people’s learning, but decisions about admissions by further education (FE) institutions are a matter for providers themselves and are not specified by the government.</p><p>The department does, however, expect FE providers to be mindful of the impact of COVID-19 when considering any entry requirements for young people entering FE.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 02/11/2021 16:45:03 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1197550

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme: Asylum
	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 ensure that legal aid for refugees and asylum seekers is effective in providing fair and high quality representation and advice.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	49588
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2020 answer text <p>Every practitioner who provides immigration and asylum advice in the UK is required to be regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority or by the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner. These bodies ensure that practitioners are competent and act in the best interest of the client.</p><p>To hold a legal aid contract, an individual must also be accredited under the Law Society’s Immigration and Asylum Accreditation scheme, ensuring a high standard and competency for practitioners advising on immigration and asylum law.</p><p>Legal aid contracts explicitly set out quality standards, including additional requirements for those advising child clients or where their client is in immigration detention.</p><p>Providers are monitored by the Legal Aid Agency in meeting these requirements on a regular basis, including through an independent peer review of case files.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 08/06/2020 15:39:03 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1223922

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Wills: Registration
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of making it a legal necessity to register wills similar to those requirements adopted by other countries.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	72809
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2020 answer text <p>There is no statutory requirement for will registration, but is it possible to deposit a will with HM Courts and Tribunals Service, and commercial will registration services are available.</p><p>The imposition of a legal requirement to register wills may have a deterrent effect in terms of people making wills and lead to an increase in invalidated wills and contentious probate cases. The Law Commission analysed this issue in their 2017 consultation paper on the law of wills, and concluded that ‘the disadvantages of such a system would far outweigh its benefits’.</p><p>The Government has no plans to reform this area of law at present.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 17/07/2020 15:56:24 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1229069

	registered interest
	date	28/08/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Administration of Justice: Equality
	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 (a) ensure objectiveness of judges and (b) tackle racial disparities in the justice system.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	81535
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2020 answer text <p>Statutory responsibility for the provision and content of training for the judiciary rests with the Lord Chief Justice as Head of the Judiciary in England and Wales, and the Senior President of Tribunals, in line with the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, and is delivered through the Judicial College. This provides a separation of powers which is crucial in maintaining and supporting the independence of the judiciary. As such, the job of ensuring the objectiveness of judges does not fall to the government. Judges are selected for appointment by the Independent Judicial Appointments Commission.</p><p>Upon appointment, all judges take the Judicial Oath to “do right to all manner of people after the laws and usages of this realm, without fear or favour, affection or ill will”. Judgments are made on the evidence presented at court; in criminal jury trials it is the jury which reaches a verdict on whether the defendant is guilty, and the judge’s responsibility is to ensure a fair trial. The Judicial College also provides cross-jurisdictional training for all new judges through a new faculty induction training course, which includes training in unconscious bias.</p><p>Where racial disparities are observed, and there is no reasonable explanation, the Government is committed to responding by reviewing the process or practice in question. A Criminal Justice Race and Ethnicity Board coordinates actions being taken in relation to race disparity across all criminal justice operational agencies and policy-making functions; its work was reported on in February 2020. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tackling-racial-disparity-in-the-criminal-justice-system-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tackling-racial-disparity-in-the-criminal-justice-system-2020</a></p><p>On 16 July 2020, the Prime Minister established the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. The independent Commission is reviewing inequality in the UK, focusing on areas including education, employment, health and the criminal justice system. The commission will aim to submit its findings to the Prime Minister by the end of the year.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 08/09/2020 16:04:43 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1235590

	registered interest
	date	17/09/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps is he taking to help ensure that women who have experienced sexual assault feel able to report it.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	91570
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises that sexual violence is a devastating crime and is committed to ensuring that every victim has access to the specialist support they need. We want victims to have the confidence to report these crimes, knowing they will get the support they need and that everything will be done to bring offenders to justice. We expect every report of sexual assault to be treated seriously from the point of disclosure, every victim to be treated with dignity and every investigation and every prosecution to be conducted thoroughly and professionally.</p><p> </p><p>To that end, a review of the criminal justice response to rape and serious sexual offences was commissioned in March 2019 by the National Criminal Justice Board (CJB), and it continues to gather and analyse detailed views from key groups and agencies across the Criminal Justice System to enable us to better understand how the system’s response to sexual assault cases can be improved. The Government intends to publish its initial findings in the autumn.</p><p> </p><p>To provide support to victims, the Ministry of Justice also directly commissions rape support centres across England and Wales and has committed to investing to recruit more Independent Sexual Violence Advisers - who play a critical role in ensuring that victims feel informed, supported and engaged throughout every stage of the criminal justice process. In addition, during the Covid-19 outbreak the Government ringfenced £10 million of funding for sexual violence support services to ensure they could continue to provide vital services.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also committed to delivering a new communications campaign to raise awareness around sexual violence and inform victims of their rights to support, and this campaign will be launched later this year.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 25/09/2020 13:39:25 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1287390

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Criminal Liability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he made of the implications for his policies of the 2013 Law Commission report entitled, Criminal Liability: Insanity and Automatism.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	154757
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2021 answer text <p>The Government has considered the proposals in the Law Commission’s 2013 discussion paper.</p><p>Whilst we note the Law Commission’s proposals on the potential to update the law in this area, we have no current plans to bring forward legislative proposals in relation to this rarely-used defence. However, we continue to keep this, and the wider and related law on unfitness to plead, under review.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 01/03/2021 15:50:27 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

417310

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the introduction of user charges in the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	9091
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to the principles of the National Health Service, enshrined in the NHS Constitution, that access to NHS services is based on clinical need, not the ability to pay, and we have previously ruled out introducing charges.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has committed to fully meeting the additional funding requirement – £8 billion per year over and above inflation by 2020-21 – identified by the Five Year Forward View.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 9092 question first answered 15/09/2015 11:42:33 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

417311

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential merits and demerits of introducing user charges in the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	9092
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to the principles of the National Health Service, enshrined in the NHS Constitution, that access to NHS services is based on clinical need, not the ability to pay, and we have previously ruled out introducing charges.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has committed to fully meeting the additional funding requirement – £8 billion per year over and above inflation by 2020-21 – identified by the Five Year Forward View.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 9091 question first answered 15/09/2015 11:42:33 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

514062

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Autism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department plans to introduce a GP registry for autism to allow the collection of population-level data.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	34519
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2016 answer text <p>General practitioners already maintain a register of people with learning disabilities which may include patients on their lists who also have autism where this has been diagnosed. The Royal College of General Practitioners’ Autism Initiative, which is part funded by the Department, is currently looking at the idea of an autism indicator in general practice. This work is at an early stage.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has been working with the Health and Social Care Information Centre to develop the Mental Health Services Data Set. This mandatory data set will include provision for the diagnosis of autism to be recorded. The data will be published and available for everyone to use to support and develop services based on health outcomes.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 34864 question first answered 27/04/2016 09:17:15 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman