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852653

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Public Transport: Hospitals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the accessibility by public transport of hospitals in rural areas.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	130649
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2018 answer text <p>The Bus Services Act 2017 will enable local authorities to take steps to improve service and grow passenger numbers. This could include introducing multi operator tickets, improved vehicle standards and better connections between transport modes, employment and housing. In terms of access to hospitals via public transport, the most recent statistics show that around 94% of the population of England can reach a large hospital within an hour by public transport or walking in urban areas. In rural areas this falls to around 59% of the population.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>More generally the Government is committed to making the transport system, in urban and rural areas, accessible to all users irrespective of the reason for or destination of the journey. The draft Accessibility Action Plan, published for consultation last year, set out a number of steps we will be taking across transport modes.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 09/03/2018 08:55:03 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

855952

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Public Transport: Hospitals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether public transport providers are taking steps to ensure that patients and staff can get to NHS hospital sites in England as safely, conveniently and economically as possible.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	131118
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>The bus market in England outside London is deregulated and decisions regarding service provision are primarily a matter for bus operators, although local authorities do support socially necessary routes that are not commercially viable.</p><p> </p><p>The Bus Services Act 2017 provides the tools local authorities need to improve local bus services. We are working with local authorities to determine which of the powers provided are best able to support bus networks in their areas.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 14/03/2018 17:10:57 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

789067

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Doctors: Death Certificates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what representations his Department has received on payments being (a) requested and (b) made for the submission to a doctor, GP or consultant of a death certificate for signature; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	112961
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department has not received any representations on payments being requested and made for the submission to a doctor, general practitioner or consultant of a death certificate for signature.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 22/11/2017 17:09:32 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

904045

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Local Government Services: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on the provision of statutory services for children by local authorities.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	143746
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has recently discussed children’s social care with colleagues, including the my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which includes the provision of statutory services for children by local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>The department works closely with the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government on a range of policy areas including local authority children’s social care services, the Troubled Families Programme and work to reduce the number of care leavers who experience homelessness and rough sleeping.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/05/2018 16:25:46 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

904046

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Local Government Services: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness with which local authorities are discharging their statutory duties to children.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	143747
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>Ofsted inspects local authority services for children in need of help and protection, children in care, and care leavers. These inspections focus on the effectiveness of local authority services, arrangements in discharging their statutory duties and the quality of leadership and management.</p><p> </p><p>The department uses this inspection data and a range of other measures to assess the overall health of the system and the performance of individual local authorities. Current inspection data suggests that significant improvements are needed before the sector is working at a good level, though there has been some good recent progress.</p><p> </p><p>‘Putting Children First’, published in 2016 sets out a clear approach to issues identified in the delivery of children’s social care services across the country and we continue to deliver the measures proposed in it.</p><p> </p><p>For individual local authorities, in particular those whose performance is deemed ‘inadequate’ or ‘requires improvement to be good’, the department works with the local government sector to drive improvements. We work with 15 ‘Partner in Practice’ local authorities to develop excellence in children’s social care services and to build capacity to support weaker councils to improve.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/05/2018 16:49:25 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

904047

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Local Government Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will assess the effectiveness of the way in which local authorities are funded to provide statutory services to children.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	143748
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>Funding for children’s services is an un-ring-fenced part of the wider local government finance settlement, to give local authorities the flexibility to focus on locally determined priorities and, of course, their statutory responsibilities, including children’s social care. Over the five year period from 2015-16 to 2019-20 councils will have access to more than £200 billion to deliver the local services their communities want to see, including children’s services. In February, Parliament confirmed the 2018-19 settlement for local government, providing a real terms increase in resources available to local government - £44.3 billion in 2017-18 to £45.1 billion in 2018-19.</p><p> </p><p>The government’s fair funding review of relative needs and resources will develop a robust, up-to-date approach to distributing funding across all local authorities in England at local government finance settlements, including for children’s services. We are working towards implementation in 2020/21, while keeping this date under review as our work progresses.</p><p> </p><p>To inform the review, the Department for Education and the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government have jointly commissioned a data research and collection project on the cost and demand pressures for children’s services, to understand local authorities’ relative funding needs.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 144888 question first answered 22/05/2018 16:52:41 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

905443

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the means by which local authorities are funded for the statutory services they provide to children.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	144888
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2018 answer text <p>Funding for children’s services is an un-ring-fenced part of the wider local government finance settlement, to give local authorities the flexibility to focus on locally determined priorities and, of course, their statutory responsibilities, including children’s social care. Over the five year period from 2015-16 to 2019-20 councils will have access to more than £200 billion to deliver the local services their communities want to see, including children’s services. In February, Parliament confirmed the 2018-19 settlement for local government, providing a real terms increase in resources available to local government - £44.3 billion in 2017-18 to £45.1 billion in 2018-19.</p><p> </p><p>The government’s fair funding review of relative needs and resources will develop a robust, up-to-date approach to distributing funding across all local authorities in England at local government finance settlements, including for children’s services. We are working towards implementation in 2020/21, while keeping this date under review as our work progresses.</p><p> </p><p>To inform the review, the Department for Education and the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government have jointly commissioned a data research and collection project on the cost and demand pressures for children’s services, to understand local authorities’ relative funding needs.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 143748 question first answered 22/05/2018 16:52:41 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

926710

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Day Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister for Children and Families of 19 December 2017, Official Report, column 363WH, on what date children in foster care will be able to receive 30 hours free childcare.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	154678
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>The department has been working with local authorities, fostering service providers, foster parents and others in the sector to develop plans to allow foster parents to access the additional 30 hours free childcare for their foster children when they are in paid work outside of their role as a foster parent and where it is right for the child. We plan to implement this change in time for September 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The department is introducing this change in new legislation, which will be made soon.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 154679 question first answered 26/06/2018 11:14:06 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

926713

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Day Care
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister for Children and Families of 19 December 2017, Official Report, column 364WH, whether secondary legislation will be required to extend the entitlement to 30 hours free childcare to foster children.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	154679
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2018 answer text <p>The department has been working with local authorities, fostering service providers, foster parents and others in the sector to develop plans to allow foster parents to access the additional 30 hours free childcare for their foster children when they are in paid work outside of their role as a foster parent and where it is right for the child. We plan to implement this change in time for September 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The department is introducing this change in new legislation, which will be made soon.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 154678 question first answered 26/06/2018 11:14:07 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

65893

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many apprentices have been employed by contractors and sub-contractors to her Department in each year since 2010-11; and what proportion of the total workforce of such contractors is made up by apprentices.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	204066
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Information is not held centrally and to obtain the data would incur <br>disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 09/07/2014 10:14:58 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon