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1662874

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers are housed in (a) Sandwell and (b) each of the other local authorities in the West Midlands as of 13 October 2023.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	200728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2023 answer text <p>Published statistics of where asylum seekers are accommodated can be viewed under the Local Authority Dataset Asy-D11 at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets" target="_blank">Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 19/10/2023 13:18:01 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1655801

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	University of Cambridge and University of Oxford: Overseas Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many student visas were issued to students at (a) Oxford and (b) Cambridge University in 2022.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	195637
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>We do not routinely publish the number of student visas for individual sponsors. For details of our published data on student visas, this can be found in the available Migration Statistics on GOV.UK: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-june-2023/why-do-people-come-to-the-uk-to-study" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-june-2023/why-do-people-come-to-the-uk-to-study</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/09/2023 15:54:28 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1625242

registered interest
date	02/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	TLScontact
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the ability of TLScontact to meet the terms of its contract with her Department.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	183308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2023 answer text <p>UKVI closely monitor and manage the contract with TLS Contact on a daily basis and robustly review how they are performing to ensure we are providing a high-quality service for our visa customers.</p><p>This includes holding regular reviews to assess their performance in line with the Service Level Agreements in the contract and to ensure any service level failures are identified and resolved. We have a clear governance process in place to ensure that any incidents, risks and issues are effectively addressed.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 15/05/2023 15:16:18 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1522904

registered interest
date	17/10/2022
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	Health Services: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the provision of local retention initiatives in the Black Country Integrated Care System area.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	63917
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. However, the NHS People Plan sets out a range of actions to improve staff retention through strengthening measures to address health and wellbeing, equality and diversity, culture and leadership and flexible working. NHS England also support systems to develop tailored health and wellbeing offers to meet the needs of the local workforce. This includes the mental health hubs in each integrated care system (ICS) and occupational health services which are being supported through the Growing Occupational Health and Wellbeing programme.</p><p>The Black Country ICS is implementing national retention initiatives in addition to a dedicated pensions portal and collaboration with organisations such as Timewise to support flexible working within clinical areas. Targeted assessments of the general practitioner workforce are made and reported via a monthly partnership board.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 25/10/2022 11:20:06 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1504254

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Fungal Diseases: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the current level of funding for research into fungal infections is; and what the projected budget for such research is for the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	45706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>The Department’s National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including fungal infection research. However, it is not usual practice to ring-fence funds for particular topics or conditions. Applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality. In the last five years, the NIHR has invested more than £6 million in research into fungal infection.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/09/2022 13:45:55 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1091397

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Boilers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which stakeholders and other Government Departments he consulted with prior to his announcement of a ban on gas boilers in new dwellings from 2025.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	234098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>Treasury Ministers and officials have meetings with a wide variety of organisations in the public and private sectors as part of the process of policy development and delivery, and the Future Homes Standard went through the usual approvals process for Spring Statement measures. Details of ministerial and permanent secretary meetings with external organisations on departmental business are published on a quarterly basis and are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-ministers-meetings-hospitality-gifts-and-overseas-travel</a></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 25/03/2019 12:51:43 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1088727

registered interest
date	14/03/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Boilers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he had with (a) the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, (b) the boiler manufacturing industry and (c) trade unions prior to his announcement on 13 March 2019 of a ban on gas boilers in new dwellings from 2025.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	232519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>As part of its preparations for Spring Statement, HM Treasury engages with a wide range of stakeholders and other government departments. The government will consult on the detail of the Future Homes Standard as part of its review of the Building Regulations energy efficiency standards in 2019, and input from stakeholders will be welcomed.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 19/03/2019 11:38:07 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

943164

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Red Diesel: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the annual cost to the Exchequer is of revenue foregone through the Red Diesel scheme.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	164857
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>The cost to the Exchequer of the rebate on red diesel duty rate is published along with other principal tax reliefs here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/main-tax-expenditures-and-structural-reliefs" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/main-tax-expenditures-and-structural-reliefs</a></p><p> </p><p>The latest estimate of the revenue foregone is £2.45bn in 2017/18 if compared with taxing all diesel fuel at the road fuel rate (57.95 pence per litre).</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 25/07/2018 11:09:23 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar