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1140099

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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 improve local authority support for vulnerable children.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	912085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>We are providing local authorities with more money to support vulnerable children, with an additional £410 million invested this year across adults’ and children’s social care. Separately, we are investing £84 million over 5 years to drive improvements in children’s services across local authorities, especially through early intervention.</p><p>In 2018, the department introduced a new, tougher Ofsted inspection framework to drive improvement in children’s services. The department intervenes robustly in every local authority judged ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted, bringing in experts to assess which improvements will ensure better services. This might include removing service delivery from the council’s control by establishing a trust, giving children’s services a fresh start.</p><p>Since May 2010, 46 local authorities have been lifted out of intervention and have not returned, and the number of inadequate local authorities has reduced from 30 to 19 since July 2017. We aim to continue making these improvements at pace so that, by 2022, less than 10% of local authorities are rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted, halving failure rates within 5 years and providing consistently better services for thousands of children and families across the country.</p><p>To get ahead of failure, we are investing an additional £20 million in our regional improvement strategy, working collaboratively with the Association of Directors of Children’s Services, Local Government Association, Solace and the rest of the sector to identify local authorities that need additional support. Our Regional Improvement Alliances and high-performing ‘Partners in Practice’ local authorities support those at risk of failure, embedding a system of sector-led improvement with more than 70 local authorities receiving support to date.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 22/07/2019 16:46:42 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

1139675

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Cultural Heritage: Africa
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the French Government's approach to returning African cultural artefacts to their countries of origin, including the joint development of secure museums in those countries, what assessment he has had made of the potential merits of the UK adopting a similar approach to the return of artefacts held by UK museums.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	278486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The French Government is still formulating their approach to these issues, including the basis on which any African cultural artefacts might be returned to countries of origin.</p><p> </p><p>Decisions about items in collections are a matter for UK museums themselves - and in the case of national museums, statutory duty lies with the board of trustees who operate independently from government.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is a world leader in culture and heritage and our museums co-operate extensively with countries around the world on the circulation, promotion and protection of their collections, including capacity building programmes supporting museums development and cultural heritage protection.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 22/07/2019 10:07:00 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1139676

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Africa: Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the announcement by the French Development Agency of €1 billion in equity and €1 billion in loans being made available to African entrepreneurs through the programme Choose Africa, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the UK adopting a similar scheme.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	278487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The UK is committed to supporting entrepreneurship in Africa to grow local economies, create jobs, reduce poverty and support sustainable development. Last summer, the PM announced that CDC Group, the UK’s Development Finance Institution, would invest up to £3.5 billion in businesses in Africa over four years (2018 to 2021). CDC has already committed £1.9bn in Africa over the last 3 years (2016-2018). CDC is invested in 698 different companies in Africa, directly supporting 370,000 jobs.</p><p>Through CDC and other country specific initiatives, we will mobilise a further £4 billion of private investment for Africa. This investment will allow businesses to grow, produce goods and services for local people, generate income and tax revenues, and help address the financing gap for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.</p><p>In January next year, the UK will convene an Africa Investment Summit to further promote investment in Africa and to strengthen the partnership with UK investors and companies.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 22/07/2019 16:10:45 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1139678

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Freeports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the role of free ports in tackling global tax avoidance and evasion.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	278534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>Free Trade Zones and ports play a clear role in facilitating legitimate international trade, but where there is lax oversight or weak governance they are susceptible to abuse by transnational criminal networks. Under the joint leadership of HMRC and the US Department of Homeland Security, the OECD Countering Illicit Trade Taskforce has made significant progress in developing draft guidance on measures to enhance the transparency of Free Trade Zones, so as to promote clean and fair trade and to make them unattractive to people and organisations looking to conduct tax evasion and commit crime.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 22/07/2019 15:58:56 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1139684

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
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	Smoking: County Durham
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 he has made of the adequacy of public health funding for smoking cessation services in County Durham.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	278474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities will receive over £3.1 billion in 2019/20 for use on public health. It is for local authorities themselves to determine how best to use these resources based on their assessment of local need and with regard to their statutory duties. Future funding for local authorities’ public health responsibilities will be considered carefully in the next spending review, taking full account of the available evidence.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 22/07/2019 15:35:40 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1139685

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
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	Cancer: County Durham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to NHS England's Commissioner-based Cancer Waiting Times for May 2019 (Provisional), published on 11 July 2019, for what reason the NHS Durham Dales, Easington and Sedgefield Clinical Commissioning Group is not meeting the target for patients to receive their first cancer treatment within 62 days of an urgent GP referral.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	278475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>Cancer is a priority for this Government and impetus has been given to ensuring that more patients are seen and treated for cancer. The drive to improve survival rates through earlier diagnosis, therefore, has meant that demand and activity have been rising for a number of years. This has resulted in more people being referred and diagnosed than ever before.</p><p>Improving diagnosis and ensuring better outcomes for patients diagnosed with cancer is a priority for Durham Dales, Easington and Sedgefield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), and County Durham is consistently better in terms of coverage than the national average for all three cancer screening programmes. The CCG is working collaboratively with colleagues from public health, primary care and secondary care on a strategic piece of work, with a view that a multi-disciplinary approach is necessary in order to address inequalities in cancer.</p><p> </p><p>The CCG has developed the Action Plan ‘County Durham Reducing Health Inequalities in Cancer Action Plan for 2018-19’.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 22/07/2019 14:29:17 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1139689

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
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	Continuing Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many applications for Standard NHS Continuing Healthcare were completed in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18 and (d) 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	278451
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The following table provides the total number of standard referrals received for standard NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC), for the years 2016/17 to 2018/19. We do not hold this data for 2015/16.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p>Number of Referrals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>76,945</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>75,322</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>73,475</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of referrals which were completed for standard CHC, for the years 2017/18 to 2018/19. We do not hold data on the number of referrals which were completed before 2017/18.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p>Number of referrals completed</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>75,426</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>76,803</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of people assessed as eligible for standard CHC, for the years 2015/16 to 2018/19.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p>Number assessed as eligible</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>22,346</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>19,173</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>16,947</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>15,963</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 278452 278453 question first answered 22/07/2019 16:28:36 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1139690

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
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	Continuing Care: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many assessments for Standard NHS Continuing Healthcare were completed in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18 and (d) 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	278452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The following table provides the total number of standard referrals received for standard NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC), for the years 2016/17 to 2018/19. We do not hold this data for 2015/16.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p>Number of Referrals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>76,945</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>75,322</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>73,475</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of referrals which were completed for standard CHC, for the years 2017/18 to 2018/19. We do not hold data on the number of referrals which were completed before 2017/18.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p>Number of referrals completed</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>75,426</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>76,803</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of people assessed as eligible for standard CHC, for the years 2015/16 to 2018/19.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p>Number assessed as eligible</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>22,346</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>19,173</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>16,947</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>15,963</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 278451 278453 question first answered 22/07/2019 16:28:36 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1139691

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
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	Continuing Care: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were assessed as eligible for Standard NHS Continuing Healthcare in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18 and (d) 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	278453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The following table provides the total number of standard referrals received for standard NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC), for the years 2016/17 to 2018/19. We do not hold this data for 2015/16.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p>Number of Referrals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>76,945</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>75,322</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>73,475</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of referrals which were completed for standard CHC, for the years 2017/18 to 2018/19. We do not hold data on the number of referrals which were completed before 2017/18.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p>Number of referrals completed</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>75,426</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>76,803</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of people assessed as eligible for standard CHC, for the years 2015/16 to 2018/19.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p>Number assessed as eligible</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>22,346</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>19,173</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>16,947</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>15,963</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 278451 278452 question first answered 22/07/2019 16:28:36 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1139693

registered interest
date	17/07/2019
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	William Hill: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department will make an assessment of the effect on trends in the level of high street footfall of William Hill's recent announcement to close branches throughout the UK.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	278547
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold data on the effects of individual store closures on High Street footfall.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 22/07/2019 16:56:32 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows