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843935

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
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	Psychiatric Hospitals: 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, whether his Department plans to provide fiscal support to increase the provision of emergency beds for mental health crisis patients in the Black Country.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	128329
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>Walsall Clinical Commissioning Group advises that it is delivering services to support the intentions laid out in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. This will identify mental health needs at an earlier opportunity and provide community support and treatment to reduce the use of crisis inpatient services going forward.</p><p> </p><p>Commissioners across the Black Country Sustainability and Transformation Partnership area have assessed local service provision and are working collaboratively to address gaps in services and deliver improved service delivery across the region. This includes potentially jointly commissioning services.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 128050 question first answered 27/02/2018 15:36:27 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

843936

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests
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 potential merits of including first aid in the driving test.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	128052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) includes first aid information in its study materials for both the theory and practical driving tests. In addition, the theory part of the driving test includes questions about first aid.</p><p> </p><p>Introducing a test on first aid into the practical driving test would lengthen the test, resulting in fewer tests per day, longer waiting times for tests and higher cost.</p><p> </p><p>The Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) for vocational drivers includes first aid training, and there are 130 CPC approved courses that are wholly first aid courses.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 27/02/2018 10:23:39 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

843941

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Self-employed: Adoption
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to provide financial support for self-employed people taking adoption leave.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	128332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>The government set out in its response to the Taylor Review of modern employment practices that it agrees with the principle of equalising benefits for the</p><p>self-employed. However, it is right that we only consider making changes to this area once we have carefully considered this in the wider context of tax, benefits and rights over the longer term.</p><p> </p><p>The government has taken significant steps to equalise the state benefits provided to the employed and self-employed, including giving the self-employed access to the full rate of the new State Pension for the first time, (worth an additional £1,900 per year).</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 27/02/2018 17:15:54 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

843942

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Adoption Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reasons self-employed and employed people are treated differently on the provision of statutory adoption leave.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	128058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>The main reason why parental leave entitlements for adopters focus on supporting employed parents is that they do not generally have the same level of flexibility and autonomy over the time they take off work as self-employed adopters do.</p><p>The Government is not ruling out providing further support for self-employed parents in the future. But, as set out in the Government response to the Taylor Review of modern employment practices, while we agree with the principle of equalising benefits for the self-employed it is right to only consider making changes to this area once we have carefully considered this in the wider context of tax, benefits and rights over the longer term.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 27/02/2018 14:01:41 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

843944

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adoption: Self-employed
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many self-employed people adopted a child in (a) Oxfordshire and (b) England in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	128334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally</p><p>The latest figures on adoption were published in a Statistical First Release ‘Children looked after in England including adoption: 2016 to 2017’ on the 7 December 2017. The release is available on the department’s website <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/<br> statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2016-to-2017</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 27/02/2018 17:38:38 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

843947

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	The Communication Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons his Department has reduced funding for the Communications Trust.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	128063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>Specialist speech, language and communication support is not funded directly by the Department for Education. It is commissioned locally, for example by local authorities using their high needs funding budgets, and also via clinical commissioning groups. Separate funding to provide these services is not allocated from the department’s budget.</p><p> </p><p>The department’s current one-year contract with I CAN, on behalf of The Communication Trust (TCT), is due to end as planned at the end of March 2018. The contract was for £650,000 to develop sustainable resources and programmes to support the education workforce to develop their skills in supporting children and young people with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). We are in discussion with TCT about how best to ensure that all practitioners are able to make continued use of the materials and training developed through this contract.</p><p> </p><p>We remain committed to upskilling the workforce to support those with SLCN, and want to do more to embed knowledge and ensure good practice is disseminated and understood widely. Our Social Mobility Action Plan (SMAP), ‘Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential’, prioritises work in the early years to close the word gap and improve early language acquisition for disadvantaged children. The SMAP includes proposals for continuing professional development training; and an early language assessment tool for health visitors and early years practitioners, to ensure that any language delays can be picked up and the right support put in place quickly. We expect to invite tenders for this work in due course. The value for this work has not yet been finalised. Further information on SMAP, ‘Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential’, is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/667690/Social_Mobility_Action_Plan_-_for_printing.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/667690/Social_Mobility_Action_Plan_-_for_printing.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 128336 128337 question first answered 27/02/2018 17:29:47 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

843948

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Speech and Language Disorders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding his Department has allocated to Speech Language and Communication Needs in each of the last 5 years.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	128336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>Specialist speech, language and communication support is not funded directly by the Department for Education. It is commissioned locally, for example by local authorities using their high needs funding budgets, and also via clinical commissioning groups. Separate funding to provide these services is not allocated from the department’s budget.</p><p> </p><p>The department’s current one-year contract with I CAN, on behalf of The Communication Trust (TCT), is due to end as planned at the end of March 2018. The contract was for £650,000 to develop sustainable resources and programmes to support the education workforce to develop their skills in supporting children and young people with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). We are in discussion with TCT about how best to ensure that all practitioners are able to make continued use of the materials and training developed through this contract.</p><p> </p><p>We remain committed to upskilling the workforce to support those with SLCN, and want to do more to embed knowledge and ensure good practice is disseminated and understood widely. Our Social Mobility Action Plan (SMAP), ‘Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential’, prioritises work in the early years to close the word gap and improve early language acquisition for disadvantaged children. The SMAP includes proposals for continuing professional development training; and an early language assessment tool for health visitors and early years practitioners, to ensure that any language delays can be picked up and the right support put in place quickly. We expect to invite tenders for this work in due course. The value for this work has not yet been finalised. Further information on SMAP, ‘Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential’, is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/667690/Social_Mobility_Action_Plan_-_for_printing.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/667690/Social_Mobility_Action_Plan_-_for_printing.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 128063 128337 question first answered 27/02/2018 17:29:47 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

843949

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Speech and Language Disorders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding his Department plans to allocate to Speech Language and Communication Needs in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	128337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>Specialist speech, language and communication support is not funded directly by the Department for Education. It is commissioned locally, for example by local authorities using their high needs funding budgets, and also via clinical commissioning groups. Separate funding to provide these services is not allocated from the department’s budget.</p><p> </p><p>The department’s current one-year contract with I CAN, on behalf of The Communication Trust (TCT), is due to end as planned at the end of March 2018. The contract was for £650,000 to develop sustainable resources and programmes to support the education workforce to develop their skills in supporting children and young people with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). We are in discussion with TCT about how best to ensure that all practitioners are able to make continued use of the materials and training developed through this contract.</p><p> </p><p>We remain committed to upskilling the workforce to support those with SLCN, and want to do more to embed knowledge and ensure good practice is disseminated and understood widely. Our Social Mobility Action Plan (SMAP), ‘Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential’, prioritises work in the early years to close the word gap and improve early language acquisition for disadvantaged children. The SMAP includes proposals for continuing professional development training; and an early language assessment tool for health visitors and early years practitioners, to ensure that any language delays can be picked up and the right support put in place quickly. We expect to invite tenders for this work in due course. The value for this work has not yet been finalised. Further information on SMAP, ‘Unlocking Talent, Fulfilling Potential’, is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/667690/Social_Mobility_Action_Plan_-_for_printing.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/667690/Social_Mobility_Action_Plan_-_for_printing.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 128063 128336 question first answered 27/02/2018 17:29:47 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

843950

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department has taken to support the embedding of diversity and inclusion in single departmental plans.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	128338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>Single Departmental Plans set out a department’s objectives, how it will use its resources to achieve them and how its performance should be measured. This includes their policies to promote diversity and inclusion in wider society, as well as what they are doing within their own organisation.</p><p>Departments are expected to set out in their Single Departmental Plans how they intend to increase diversity and inclusion, in support of the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and the Civil Service’s ambition is to become the UK’s most inclusive employer. From April 2018, the Civil Service will publish a data dashboard detailing progress on diversity and inclusion. Departments also publish, at least every four years, their equality objectives (which public sector organisations must publish under Public Sector Equality Duty within the Equality Act 2010), These can be found on GOV.UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 27/02/2018 16:37:47 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

843952

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
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	Tezacaftor/ivacaftor
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 has been made of the clinical benefits of making Symdeko available to people with cystic fibrosis; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	128340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>Symdeko, a combination of two drugs – ivacaftor and tazacaftor, will be reviewed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) within its Technology Appraisal programme. The consultation on the suggested remit, draft scope and provisional matrix of consultees and commentators was held from 23 November 2017 – 21 December 2017.</p><p> </p><p>We anticipate NICE will make its recommendation on whether its use should be referred onto its work programme within the National Health Service later this year/early 2019.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 27/02/2018 16:46:07 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran