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1643961

	registered interest
	date	07/06/2023
	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	Sustainable Development
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what progress his Department has made on meeting the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Theo Clarke
	uin	905355
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2023 answer text <p>Following numerous overlapping crises, achieving the SDGs and alleviating poverty is more pressing than ever. The UK is committed to achieving the SDGs and the alleviation of poverty, as affirmed in the International Development Strategy and the Integrated Review Refresh.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 13/06/2023 15:18:05 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
	tabling member	4819 label Biography information for Theo Clarke

1470822

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Stafford
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will reconsider the Government's proposal to relocate approximately 500 single male asylum seekers to Beaconside in Stafford.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Theo Clarke
	uin	19020
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>Due to the unprecedented demand to accommodate asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute, we have had to use temporary accommodation such as hotels and other large-scale sites to manage demands on the asylum estate. We are committed to working with local authorities to move to a fairer distribution of asylum seekers and bring an end to the use of hotels as contingency accommodation.</p><p>The Home Office has therefore announced all local authority areas in England, Scotland and Wales will be expected to participate in a new system of full dispersal to allow us to move away from hotels to less expensive and more suitable accommodation. We have also announced funding of approximately £3,500 per bedspace procured in this financial year to recognise the pressures of accommodating asylum seekers on Local Authority areas.</p><p>The Beaconside has been identified as a potential new site for Initial Accommodation as the current site in the West Midlands is due to close shortly. Our accommodation provider, Serco, are proceeding with the consultation on planning and once this is concluded we will convene a Multi-Agency Forum to discuss operations on site. The Multi-Agency forum will be made up of Home Office officials, along with the accommodation provider and representatives from Stafford County Council, the police service, NHS, and Public Health along with others from the voluntary sector. These meetings are an opportunity for all members to discuss any ongoing issues and to share best practice.</p><p>Ministers have also met with the Hon Member for Stafford who has expressed her concerns about and opposition to the proposal.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 27/06/2022 11:36:13 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 8231 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
	tabling member	4819 label Biography information for Theo Clarke

1401186

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Sub-Saharan Africa: Radicalism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to tackle violent extremist organisations in sub-Saharan Africa.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Theo Clarke
	uin	904841
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2022 answer text <p>The hon. Lady will have noted a similar question raised in the Topicals and in a recent PQ. The UK is committed in east, west and southern Africa, against not just the rise of violent extremism, which concerns us enormously, but also increasingly how our competitors and adversaries are using countries to develop their influence. We see that as a bad thing in the long term, and we are seeking to counter it.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 10/01/2022 18:00:21 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
	tabling member	4819 label Biography information for Theo Clarke

1328053

	registered interest
	date	26/05/2021
	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	Females: New Businesses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps she is taking to support female entrepreneurs.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Theo Clarke
	uin	900681
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2021 answer text <p>Our Start Up Loans Company has a great track record, supporting female entrepreneurs with over 33,000 loans worth over £270.5 million since the scheme launched in 2012, to the end of April 2021. This represents 40% of the total amount lent. Over £4.5 million of these loans have been made since the start of April 2021. The scheme provides intensive support to new entrepreneurs, including low-cost government-backed loans and free mentoring.</p><p>In March, we announced an award of £50,000 each to the UK's top female innovators, as well as bespoke mentoring, to scale up and bring to market their innovations, and to help the UK recover from COVID-19 and tackle global challenges.</p><p>The Government has taken active measures, publishing the Investing in Women Code and working with industry through the actions agreed by the Rose Review. In response to the Rose Review recommendations, we set an ambition to increase the number of female entrepreneurs by half by 2030, equivalent to nearly 600,000 additional female entrepreneurs.</p><p>The government-backed British Business Bank is part of HM Treasury’s Women in Finance Charter, which asks financial services firms to commit to industry actions to prepare their female talent for leadership positions.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 900689 question first answered 26/05/2021 16:03:45 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	4819 label Biography information for Theo Clarke