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1019266

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date	03/12/2018
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	Climate Change Convention
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to hosting the 24th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in London.
tabling member printed	Lord Barker of Battle
uin	HL11955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The next potential opportunity for the UK to host COP is the 26<sup>th</sup> Conference of the Parties (COP26) in 2020. The UK is engaging with others to determine who is best placed to preside over COP26. Whoever takes on the COP26 Presidency in 2020 we will need to work with a wide range of partners to ensure it is a success and brings us closer to the long term goals of the Paris Agreement.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 11/12/2018 17:39:46 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	1389 label Biography information for Lord Barker of Battle

1019297

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Works
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the requirements local councils must adhere to in relation to the notification and coordination of street works.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL11986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>Section 59 of the New Roads and Street Works Act imposes a duty on local councils as street authorities to “use their best endeavours to co-ordinate the execution of works of all kinds”. Similarly, section 60 imposes a duty on utility companies to use their “best endeavours to co-operate with the street authority and with other undertakers”. Utilities have either to give notice to street authorities of their intention to carry out works or obtain a permit to do so, depending on whether the street authority in question operates a notice scheme or a permit (and in some cases, a lane rental) scheme.</p><p>In addition, there is a statutory code of practice, Code of Practice for the Co-ordination of Street Works and Works for Road Purposes and Related Matters, which can be viewed at</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/43578/street-works-code-of-practice.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/43578/street-works-code-of-practice.pdf</a></p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 11/12/2018 14:56:23 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

1019345

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to support local leaders in delivering better outcomes for vulnerable children.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	198189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The government is committed to ensuring that all children, irrespective of background, have a fair chance to go as far as their talent and hard work will take them. Every child – including those from economically deprived backgrounds, with special educational needs, or who are in need of help and protection from children’s social care – should have the opportunity to achieve good outcomes. The government is working to ensure that local leaders are supported to provide these vulnerable children with the services they need to achieve well in education and, where necessary, to have a safe and stable home life.</p><p>To help school leaders support the most disadvantaged children, we have spent over £13 billion since 2011 – almost £2.4 billion this year alone – through the pupil premium to tackle educational inequality. In 2011 we established the Education Endowment Foundation with £137 million to research and promote the most effective ways of using pupil premium, so that schools leaders can improve their disadvantaged pupils’ outcomes.</p><p>In schools, our system leaders continue to provide support to help deliver better outcomes for vulnerable children. To ensure that system leaders can support all students, teaching schools must demonstrate high levels of progress and attainment for all pupils, and especially disadvantaged pupils, in order to be designated and funded by the department.</p><p>We know that many disadvantaged pupils have special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), and the government has also provided over £340 million since April 2014, to support local authorities, working with their partners, including health and schools, to implement the SEND reforms. We have funded training and a SEND leadership programme to support local authorities and health services to deliver their SEND services, which included training on joint commissioning.</p><p>Equally, where children need help and support from social care to achieve safety and stability in their lives, we know effective leadership is vital for good practice to thrive. ‘Putting Children First’ sets out our reform programme to improve the quality of leadership and of the workforce in children’s social care. As part of these reforms, we have established the Children’s Social Care What Works Centre, to develop the evidence base for leaders to use in delivering what works to support vulnerable children and families. We are building further evidence of what works to improve these children’s educational outcomes at a national and a local level through the Children in Need review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 11/12/2018 16:24:04 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1019346

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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 steps his Department is taking to support local leaders in delivering the best outcomes for children through the delivery of high-quality children’s services.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	198190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>Effective leadership is vital for high quality local children’s services. We are improving the quality of leadership through £2 million for the Local Government Association to provide support to lead members and chief executives, and are increasing the support to Directors of children’s services. We have an ambitious programme to improve the social work workforce, which underpins transformative children’s services. We are improving the quality of social work initial education thorough £24 million in total supporting Teaching Partnerships, and our fast-track entry programmes - Step Up to Social Work and Frontline - have seen over 1,450 social workers trained. We are investing in professional development with £5 million annually for high quality programmes for those starting as social work practitioners, and over £4 million in total on supervisors and practice leaders.</p><p>Alongside this, we are creating effective system infrastructure to ensure high quality professional practice and standards become the norm, through the introduction of Social Work England and the National Assessment and Accreditation System. We are supporting innovation and regionally targeted improvement support (the innovation programme and Partners in Practice), and building understanding of the evidence on what drives system improvement through the What Works Centre in social care.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 11/12/2018 16:20:35 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1019347

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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 trends in the level of demand for local authority-provided children’s services.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	198191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The department publishes a range of statistics on children’s services and these data are available to all local authorities to help benchmark their services. This data shows that since 2013, levels of Children in Need, Children Protection Plans and Looked after Children have risen by 7.1%; 24.5% and 10.7% respectively.</p><p>The government is working between now and the Spending Review 2019 to get a sharper and more granular picture of demand for children’s services, to help ensure that local authorities have the resources they need.</p><p>We are also working with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government on the fair funding review of relative needs and resources, which is considering levels of demand in local authorities in more detail.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 11/12/2018 16:18:05 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1019348

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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 his Department has made of the long-term economic merits of supporting children to have a safe, happy and healthy childhood.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	198192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The department’s vision is to provide world-class education, training and care to make sure that everyone has the chance to reach their potential and live a more fulfilled life. This will create a more productive economy, so that our country is fit for the future.</p><p> </p><p>For example, one of the department’s priorities is to improve our understanding of child wellbeing and happiness. Beginning in 2019, the government will publish a State of the Nation report every year on World Mental Health Day. This report will highlight the trends and issues in young people’s mental well-being - the first time children’s mental health will be reported in this way, alongside their physical health and academic attainment. The government will also provide tools to help schools measure their students’ health, including their mental wellbeing - building on the commitment to make education in mental health and resilience a compulsory part of the curriculum. Further information on these announcements can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-pledges-action-on-suicide-to-mark-world-mental-health-day" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-pledges-action-on-suicide-to-mark-world-mental-health-day</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The department has also announced it is developing an activity passport - a template intended to provide ideas to schools to support their efforts to encourage young people to try a wider range of activities and develop new interests.</p><p> </p><p>Further details on how the department will ensure that education builds character, resilience and well-being is provided in our single departmental plan, available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-education-single-departmental-plan/may-2018-department-for-education-single-departmental-plan" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-education-single-departmental-plan/may-2018-department-for-education-single-departmental-plan</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Nothing is more important than safeguarding children and promoting their welfare. This is why we have strengthened local safeguarding arrangements through the Children and Social Work Act (2017) by placing a duty on the safeguarding partners, - the police, health and the local authority - to work together to make plans to keep children safe. As part of this we have consulted on and updated the ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’ statutory guidance.</p><p> </p><p>All children deserve a safe environment in which they can learn and schools and colleges are under a legislative duty to make arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of their pupils. We recently consulted on and strengthened the ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, statutory guidance for schools. We also provide a range of advice documents to support schools and colleges to keep their children safe, including sexual harassment and sexual violence advice, bullying advice and behaviour advice.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 11/12/2018 11:53:05 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1019349

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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 adequacy of local authority children’s services budgets.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	198193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>This government has made available over £200 billion for local services in England over the current five-year spending period (from 2015-2016 to 2019-2020).</p><p> </p><p>Funding for children’s services is a non-ringfenced part of the wider local government finance settlement. It is for councils to decide how best to use their settlement funding to meet their statutory duties and deliver the local services their communities want to see.</p><p> </p><p>Funding for local government services, including children’s services, is set initially at the spending review. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced that the next spending review will be in 2019. To help ensure decisions at the next spending review are based on the best available evidence, the government is working with the sector to develop a thorough understanding of children’s services costs and pressures.</p><p> </p><p>The annual settlement helps determine the distribution of that funding to councils using an assessment of relative needs and resources, which includes a children’s services funding formula. In preparation for the spending review, and as part of the government’s review of relative needs and resources, new, up-to-date formulas are being developed to ensure funding distribution to councils is based on the best available evidence. The Department for Education and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government have commissioned an ambitious data research project from independent contractors to inform this work.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 11/12/2018 15:57:51 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1019350

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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	Employment and Support Allowance: Salford and Eccles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people undergoing a work capability assessment for employment and support allowance in Salford and Eccles constituency were found to be fit for work in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	198289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The information on the number of Employment and Support Allowance claimants who have a Work Capability Assessment and the related outcomes by parliamentary constituency is published and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/login.xhtml" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/login.xhtml</a></p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 198291 question first answered 11/12/2018 10:56:13 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1019351

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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	Personal Independence Payment: Salford and Eccles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people undergoing a work capability assessment for personal independence payment in Salford and Eccles constituency were found to be fit for work in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	198290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is available to claimants with a long-term health condition or disability and can be paid regardless of whether a claimant is in or out of work. The work capability assessment is a feature of assessing entitlement to Employment Support Allowance and Universal Credit and is not part of the PIP assessment process</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 198292 question first answered 11/12/2018 11:07:29 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1019352

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
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	Employment and Support Allowance: Work Capability Assessment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people undergoing a work capability assessment for employment and support allowance were found to be fit for work in each constituency in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	198291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The information on the number of Employment and Support Allowance claimants who have a Work Capability Assessment and the related outcomes by parliamentary constituency is published and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/login.xhtml" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/login.xhtml</a></p><p>Guidance for users is available at:</p><p><a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 198289 question first answered 11/12/2018 10:56:14 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey