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1471625

	registered interest
	date	20/06/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will hold discussions with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on the potential merits of establishing a specialised apprenticeship scheme for women who want to pursue careers in (a) engineering and (b) mechanics.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	21186
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.</p><p> </p><p>Apprenticeships are a great way for women to receive high-quality training and begin or progress in a career in engineering or mechanics. There are over 80 occupationally specific apprenticeship standards available in these sectors, such as digital engineering technician at level 3 and electro-mechanical engineer at level 6. The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education ensures that all standards have a gender-neutral language approach, to ensure that they are appealing to both women and men.</p><p> </p><p>The department has no plans to introduce a specialised apprenticeship scheme for women. Our Apprenticeships Diversity Champions Network is championing gender representation amongst employers in sectors that are traditionally male dominated, such as engineering and mechanics, and we continue to promote apprenticeships to girls in schools through our Apprenticeship Support and Knowledge Programme.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 27/06/2022 11:59:59 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1627836

	registered interest
	date	15/05/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Civil Service: Political Impartiality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure that the impartiality rules operate in the same manner in each branch of the civil service across the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	184975
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2023 answer text <p>The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of all civil servants to uphold the Civil Service’s core values, which are integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality. Impartiality, and in particular political impartiality, is one of the fundamental values of the Civil Service. Impartiality means all civil servants must serve the Government, whatever its political persuasion, to the best of their ability.</p><p> </p><p>Civil servants working for the Scottish and Welsh Governments, and their agencies, have their own versions of the code. Similar codes apply to the Northern Ireland civil service and the Diplomatic Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 24/05/2023 18:31:53 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1639194

	registered interest
	date	22/05/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Contracts for Services: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to help support companies registered in Northern Ireland compete for UK-wide public contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	186066
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2023 answer text <p>The Procurement Bill, currently being debated by Parliament, will create a simpler and more transparent public procurement regime that will make it easier for suppliers to bid for UK public contracts. Contracting authorities in Northern Ireland are included within the scope of the Bill, so companies registered in Northern Ireland will be able to compete for opportunities from those authorities as well as those on the UK mainland. Companies in Northern Ireland can already access UK public contracting opportunities worth over £12K on Contracts Finder.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 25/05/2023 17:20:21 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1507545

	registered interest
	date	22/09/2022
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Pay: Private Rented Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications of differential increases in (a) wages and (b) private rent for her Department's policies, in the context of lower growth in wages than private rent since 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	54526
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2022 answer text <p>No assessment has been made.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 13/10/2022 15:02:36 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1685410

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2024
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Police Service of Northern Ireland: Data Protection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has had discussions with the Police Service of Northern Ireland on lessons learned from data breaches.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	11781
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is devolved and has operational independence. It is for the Northern Ireland Policing Board (NIPB) to monitor and provide oversight of PSNI performance.</p><p>The PSNI and the NIPB commissioned an independent review into the data breach and a report was published on 11 December 2023.</p><p>The Government’s focus following the data breaches of August 2023 was on providing specialist support and expertise to the PSNI in its handling of this issue. Officials in the Cabinet Office chaired regular operational meetings - initially daily - bringing together the PSNI, Government Departments and the Security Services, to ensure that their collective skills, including cyber-expertise, were brought to bear in supporting the PSNI.</p><p>The Government published on 14 December 2023 technical guidance relating to the approach to be taken by FOI practitioners across central government when a requestor asks for disclosure in a spreadsheet format.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 06/02/2024 14:57:51 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1661736

	registered interest
	date	19/09/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Expenditure: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had with the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland on fraudulent or incorrect payments paid out by public bodies in Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	200321
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2023 answer text <p>The UK Government does not hold this information and is a matter for the Northern Ireland Civil Service.</p><p>However, we are committed to combatting fraud through prevention, detection and taking action against those who commit it.</p><p>The Cabinet Office worked with HM Treasury to launch the Public Sector Fraud Authority (PSFA) in August 2022. The PSFA is the government’s centre of expertise and works with ministerial departments and public bodies to understand and reduce the impact of public sector fraud. The PSFA provides counter fraud data analytics capability through the National Fraud Initiative (NFI) to public bodies including those in Northern Ireland. Between 1 April 2020 and 31 March 2022, the NFI achieved £4.4 million of counter fraud savings through the prevention or recovery of fraud in Northern Ireland.</p><p>The Rt Hon. Jeremy Quin MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office and HM Paymaster General, has not had any meetings on the subject of fraudulent or incorrect payments paid out by public bodies with the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 20/10/2023 13:59:40 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1682396

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2024
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Surveillance: China
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department is taking steps with Cabinet colleagues to (a) find and (b) remove Chinese surveillance technology from national security infrastructure.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	9826
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2024 answer text <p>The UK takes its national security extremely seriously and has taken robust action to secure and protect its national security infrastructure.</p><p>Following Royal Assent of the Procurement Act on 26 October 2023 the Government committed to publishing a timeline for the removal of surveillance equipment supplied by companies subject to the National Intelligence Law of China from sensitive sites within six months.</p><p>To meet this commitment, the Cabinet Office has been working with departments to identify any such equipment on their sensitive sites, and will publish a timeline for when the removal process will be complete, by 26 April 2024.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 24/01/2024 17:31:35 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1248715

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Barristers: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on access to justice of barristers registered with the Bar of Northern Ireland and who are based in Great Britain reportedly being precluded from claiming travel and accommodation expenses in connection with Northern Ireland court cases.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	111519
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2020 answer text <p>Under the framework established by the Legal Services Act 2007, the legal services sector in England and Wales is independent of government, and lawyers are regulated by their own independent regulators. Similarly, the Government is not responsible for the regulation of legal services in Northern Ireland. The Code of Conduct of the Bar Council of Northern Ireland sets out how barristers practicing in Northern Ireland should calculate their fees and expenses for a case.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 10/11/2020 17:27:28 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1420084

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2022
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Children: Abuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Attorney General, what steps he is taking to help increase the number of successful prosecutions for cases involving child abuse.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	119570
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2022 answer text <p>Child sexual abuse cases are some of the most challenging, complex and sensitive cases. They are dealt with by specially trained prosecutors, working closely with the police to build the strongest possible cases that meet the legal test. In 2020-2021 there were 6,402 prosecutions for cases classified as child abuse. In the same period the conviction rate was 85.6%, an increase of 2.7% on the previous year.</p><p> </p><p>The government has successfully rolled out Section 28 for vulnerable victims and witnesses, including children, in all Crown Courts from November 2020. We know that Section 28 provisions which provide for pre-recorded cross-examination can help to improve the experience of victims by enabling them to give their evidence earlier in the process and outside of the courtroom.</p><p> </p><p>The CPS has comprehensive Legal Guidance for prosecutors on cases involving child abuse. This Guidance supports prosecutors to build strong cases and bring effective prosecutions. It is currently being updated to take account of the latest developments in law and policy.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 15/02/2022 15:59:00 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1341080

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Detention Centres and Prisons: Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made a recent assessment of the trends in the levels of crimes that take place inside prisons and detention centres; and what steps he plans to take to eradicate those crimes.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	23190
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2021 answer text <p>The ‘Crime in Prison Tracker’ method of recording crime in the prison estate, launched shortly before the pandemic, was temporarily suspended in 2020. Whilst prisons have not been required to upload all data using the dedicated tool, they were asked to keep a record of the number of referrals made to the Police and whether the referrals were accepted or referred back to the prison to be dealt with internally by way of adjudication. Prisons will be asked to upload the data collected during the pandemic retrospectively once the ‘Tracker’ tool is re-launched.</p><p>Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service continues to review and engage with prisons on crime committed. This enables national and local trends, and areas of concern to be identified – allowing work on reduction to take place.</p><p>The Crime in Prison Board, chaired by HMPPS, with attendance from the National Police Chief’s Council and Crown Prosecution service, sits quarterly to progress delivery objectives and resolve cross-agency challenges. This ensures all criminal justice partners are working towards the same goals and that justice is being pursued for our staff and other victims of crime.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 06/07/2021 16:37:15 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon