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1110969

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date	10/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to ensure that prisoners are not released without providing them with suitable accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	243326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2019 answer text <p>It is vital that everyone leaving prison has somewhere stable and secure to live. Having somewhere stable to live acts as a platform for ex-offenders to be able to access the services and support needed to turn their back on crime for good. Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) and the National Probation Service (NPS) are required to facilitate access to housing for the offenders that they are managing. This includes working together with local partners to help offenders find and maintain accommodation as part of a package of support tailored to meet their individual needs.</p><p>We are investing an additional £22m per annum over the remaining life of the CRC contracts to ensure that CRCs deliver an enhanced Through The Gate service to offenders leaving prison. Alongside this investment we have introduced a new Through the Gate specification which will ensure that CRCs complete specific tasks, including to help every prisoner to secure and maintain settled accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the Government initiative to reduce and ultimately eliminate rough sleeping across England, we are investing up to £6.4 million over two years in a pilot scheme to help ex-offenders into accommodation from three prisons, namely Bristol, Pentonville and Leeds. The pilots will focus on male prisoners who have served shorter sentences and have been identified as having a risk of homelessness. We have launched our Invitation to Tender, to secure suppliers in the three pilot areas, and aim to award contracts in late April 2019. This is a concrete step in our commitment to tackling rough sleeping.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 18/04/2019 13:08:29 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1110971

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Climate Change and Environment Protection: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on the teaching of (a) environmental protection and (b) climate change in schools.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	243453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s 25 Year Environment Plan, published in January 2018, sets out the ambition to improve the environment within a generation. As part of the plan the Department for Education (DfE) has worked with Defra and Natural England on the Children and Nature Programme, a £10 million programme which aims to support children from disadvantaged backgrounds to have better access to the natural environment. The programme has been designed to make it possible for schools to undertake a range of activities in natural spaces, such as learning about nature and how to care for the natural environment. This programme complements the scope that already exists to study environmental issues throughout the curriculum, in particular in science and geography lessons.</p><p> </p><p>Defra and the DfE regularly work together on ways to make children aware of issues that impact on the environment and how they can help tackle them. There is scope to study environmental issues throughout the curriculum. For example, in primary school science, pupils are taught that environments can change and this can pose a danger to living things. In geography at key stage 3, pupils will look at how human and physical processes interact to influence and change landscapes, environments and the climate. In GCSE, science pupils will consider the evidence and uncertainties in evidence, for additional anthropogenic causes of climate change. In 2017, we introduced new environmental science A level for those students who want to study this area of science in more detail.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 18/04/2019 10:03:31 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1111011

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Wellingborough Prison: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to page 8 of the Prison Operator Competition Brochure, published by HM Prison & Probation Service in November 2018, what new requirements have been developed for HMP Wellingborough.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	243525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2019 answer text <p>Under the Prison Operator Services Framework Competition, bidders will be expected to comply with and deliver all of the requirements that are set out in the published Custodial Service Specifications, together with a bespoke set of requirements created for the first call-off competition for the new Resettlement Prison at Wellingborough. These bespoke requirements take into account the function and design of the new prison, and are intended to enhance service delivery and drive successful resettlement outcomes.</p><p> </p><p>I have placed the attached Contract Summary in the library of the House</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 243528 243529 question first answered 18/04/2019 11:47:29 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1111012

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to page 8 of the Prison Operator Competition Brochure, published by HM Prison & Probation Service in November 2018, what Quality Points will be used in the evaluation of call-off competitions.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	243526
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2019 answer text <p>As referenced on page 8 of the Prison Operator Competition Brochure the criteria for the qualitative assessment of bids have not been finalised. However, they will include, but will not be limited to, questions on custodial services, operational resources, property and facilities management, mobilisation, commercial and finance. There will also be an assessment of price.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 18/04/2019 13:05:40 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1111014

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to page 9 of the Prison Operator Competition Brochure, published by HM Prison & Probation Service in November 2018, what the 700+ requirements that bidders will be expected to navigate are.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	243528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2019 answer text <p>Under the Prison Operator Services Framework Competition, bidders will be expected to comply with and deliver all of the requirements that are set out in the published Custodial Service Specifications, together with a bespoke set of requirements created for the first call-off competition for the new Resettlement Prison at Wellingborough. These bespoke requirements take into account the function and design of the new prison, and are intended to enhance service delivery and drive successful resettlement outcomes.</p><p> </p><p>I have placed the attached Contract Summary in the library of the House</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 243525 243529 question first answered 18/04/2019 11:47:29 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1111015

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to page 9 of the Prison Operator Competition Brochure, published by HM Prison & Probation Service in November 2018, what the bespoke set of requirements for the first call off are.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	243529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2019 answer text <p>Under the Prison Operator Services Framework Competition, bidders will be expected to comply with and deliver all of the requirements that are set out in the published Custodial Service Specifications, together with a bespoke set of requirements created for the first call-off competition for the new Resettlement Prison at Wellingborough. These bespoke requirements take into account the function and design of the new prison, and are intended to enhance service delivery and drive successful resettlement outcomes.</p><p> </p><p>I have placed the attached Contract Summary in the library of the House</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 243525 243528 question first answered 18/04/2019 11:47:29 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1111056

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Concessions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how they intend to meet the £652 million funding gap, identified by analysis from the Local Government Association published on 9 February, required to cover the total costs of the National Concessionary Travel Scheme for bus passengers.
tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
uin	HL15189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2019 answer text <p>Funding for the English National Concessionary Travel Scheme (ENCTS) is provided to local authorities through the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s (MHCLG’s) revenue support grant. This funding is not ringfenced, which enables local authorities to make spending decisions that more closely match local needs and circumstances. It is misleading to talk about the grant in isolation when local authorities have access to council tax, business rates and other local income to deliver their local services.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 18/04/2019 10:27:52 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

1111120

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Seas and Oceans: Nature Conservation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to improve global ocean conservation.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	243489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2019 answer text <p>The UK is working both domestically and internationally to improve global ocean conservation in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, especially SDG14. Internationally, we are leading calls to protect 30% of the world’s ocean by 2030. We are on track to protect 4 million square kilometres of ocean across our Overseas Territories by 2020, and are backing an Ascension Island bid to protect 100% of its offshore waters. To support achievement of the “30by30” target, the UK is working hard to secure the agreement of a new Implementing Agreement under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction in 2020.</p><p> </p><p>Domestically, 36% of English inshore and offshore waters are protected within Marine Protected Areas. In addition, we have consulted on a further 41 Marine Conservation Zones. Sites to be designated will be in place by 7 June.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are also working to reduce plastic pollution in the ocean and are leading global efforts to tackle the problem through our support of the G7 Oceans Plastics Charter, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy and the Commonwealth Blue Charter. In April 2018, we launched the Commonwealth Clean Ocean Alliance (CCOA), which we co-lead with Vanuatu. The CCOA encourages its 25 member countries to take steps to eliminate avoidable single-use plastics, significantly reduce single use plastic carrier bags by 2021 and implement a ban of microbeads in rinse-off personal care products by 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s forthcoming International Ocean Strategy will set out our plan to work with our international partners to secure a sustainable, prosperous and secure ocean future.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 18/04/2019 10:11:46 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1111141

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Boats
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what impact assessment has been undertaken to examine the effect of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s proposals for older passenger boats on trends in the level of Environment Agency lock fees.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	243484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2019 answer text <p>The Environment Agency’s (EA) boat registration charge proposals for 2019-2021 were approved by Ministers in October 2018, before the Maritime and Coastguard Agency published its consultation on proposed amendments to the technical requirements applicable to UK domestic passenger vessels.</p><p> </p><p>EA charge proposals from 2021 will be subject to a full public consultation and also a business impact target assessment. The EA has committed to involving stakeholders in developing these proposals, in particular engaging the marine trade, through British Marine – the UK industry body which represents the interests of passenger boat operators.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 18/04/2019 09:56:03 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1111160

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
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	Mental Health Services: Hearing Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that deaf people are able to access appropriate, specialist mental health services.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	243354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2019 answer text <p>NHS England commissions specialised mental health services for children, young people and adults who are deaf. These include inpatient and outreach services for children and young people and services for adults who require inpatient care, including care in secure mental health services.</p><p>Access to services is based on a clinical assessment of need and conducted with the support and involvement of clinicians, including consultant psychiatrists and mental health nurses, with the skills and experience of working with deaf people with mental illness and are able to communicate using British Sign Language where needed.</p><p>To further develop these services, the Specialised Mental Health Clinical Reference Group provides advice and support to NHS England about improving commissioning, including through service specifications and quality schemes.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/04/2019 12:21:07 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead