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1382842

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the inclusion of sustainability in The National Standard for early years learning and childcare providers in Scotland, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of including sustainability in the inspection criteria for early year settings.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	83462
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2021 answer text <p>This is a matter for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman. I have asked her to write to the hon. Member and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 06/12/2021 17:00:49 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1382756

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2021
	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	Sewage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of requiring water companies to review their business plans in the control period to increase investment in reducing raw sewage
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	82395
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2021 answer text <p>I have been clear that the current level of sewage discharges is unacceptable.</p><p>Water companies are committed in the current 5-year business planning period to a significant programme of improvements to monitoring and management of sewer overflows. Water company investment in this area currently totals £3.1 billion, including £1.9 billion of investment in the Thames Tideway Tunnel and £1.2 billion elsewhere delivering over 800 improvement schemes in response to Event Duration Monitoring insights. Water companies must also certify to Ofwat each year that they have the funding, management resources and systems and controls in place to fulfil their regulated activities, including to meet their environmental obligations and should be investing accordingly in order to fulfil their regulatory requirements.</p><p>Companies have also already re-opened their business plans as part of our efforts to build back greener from the pandemic. Ofwat approved a draft package of over £2.7 billion and as part of this new package of investment, companies committed an additional £144 million to help eliminate the harm caused by Storm Overflows and trial the creation of two bathing rivers.</p><p>The Government has made tackling this a priority and we are the first Government to take concerted action to tackle this historic infrastructure issue.</p><p>Earlier this year the Government published a new draft set of strategic priorities for the water industry's financial regulator Ofwat. In this publication Government set out its expectation that water companies must take steps to &quot;significantly reduce the frequency and volume of sewage discharges from storm overflows.&quot;</p><p>The Environment Act then placed this direction on a statutory footing, setting a duty for water companies to achieve a progressive reduction in the adverse impacts of discharges from Storm Overflows. Defra intends to set out the level of ambition expected by this in due course.</p><p>The Government will take the necessary action to ensure that water companies perform against existing, and new, statutory obligations.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 06/12/2021 13:36:33 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1382843

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2021
	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	Nurses: Students
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of student nurses who are studying full time for a nursing qualification who have early years-aged children.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	83463
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2021 answer text <p>The Department has made no such estimate.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 06/12/2021 14:45:51 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1382844

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2021
	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	Nurses: Students
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support he is providing to student nurses to cover childcare costs while training for a nursing qualification.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	83464
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2021 answer text <p>Nursing students may be eligible for a childcare grant which is available to eligible students in higher education undertaking a full-time undergraduate course to help with weekly childcare costs. The amount payable is based on 85% of actual childcare costs, up to a maximum of £179.62 a week for one child or £307.95 a week for students with two or more children.</p><p> </p><p>We also offer a Parents’ Learning Allowance for eligible full-time undergraduate students with one or more dependent children. For the academic year 2021/22, students could receive up to £1,821 a year, depending on household income. In addition, the NHS Learning Support Fund provides eligible nursing students with one or more children with a non-means tested, non-repayable parental support payment of £2,000 per student, per academic year of a standard three-year course.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 06/12/2021 14:43:21 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1382927

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2021
	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	Neuromuscular Disorders: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the backlog in (a) neurology and (b) MS services.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	83465
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2021 answer text <p>We have made available £2 billion this year through the elective recovery fund, to tackle the elective care backlog, including for patients waiting for neurology and MS services. In addition we plan to spend more than £8 billion from 2022 to 2025 to deliver the equivalent of approximately nine million checks, scans, and procedures.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 06/12/2021 14:57:23 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1382930

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2021
	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	Neurology: Consultants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the number of consultant neurologists in England in comparison to other European nations.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	83468
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2021 answer text <p>The Department has made no such assessment.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 06/12/2021 14:51:53 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard