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1127139

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
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	General Practitioners: Migrant Workers
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 GPs have been recruited through the international GP recruitment programme in each of the last five years; and which countries those GPs were recruited from.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	255395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2019 answer text <p>The International GP Recruitment (IGPR) Programme was announced in August 2017 and recruitment began from April 2018. Prior to this, four pilot schemes were established between May 2016 and November 2017. Data on the number of general practitioners (GPs) who accepted a place on the IGPR programme and the pilot schemes and which countries they were recruited from for the years 2016/17 - 2019/20 could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Staff involved in the IGPR Programme are undertaking wider workforce retention activities and the spend on international recruitment is therefore not separately identifiable. A number of staff roles are shared across general practice workforce initiatives to ensure maximum use of the available resource.</p><p>NHS England, Health Education England, and partner organisations continue to review the effectiveness of all measures in place to increase the GP workforce, including international GP recruitment, as part of the wider development of a sustainable general practice workforce.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 255396 255397 question first answered 24/05/2019 13:50:41 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1127143

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sentencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of people convicted in each of the last twelve years who previously had (a) no, (b) between one and four, (c) between five and nine, (d) between 10 and 15, (e) between 16 and 25, (f) between 26 and 50, (g) between 51 and 75, (h) between 76 and 100 and (i) 101 or more convictions received (i) an immediate custodial sentence, (ii) a suspended sentence and (iii) a community sentence.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	255398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2019 answer text <p>Data on the percentage of occasions on which an offender was convicted with a specified number of previous convictions and received a specified sentence, covering the period 2006 – 2018, can be viewed in the attached table.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 24/05/2019 12:34:07 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland attachment 1 file name Copy of PQ255398 Response Table.xlsx title Table
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1127153

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education: GCSE
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students in further education colleges have been required to take (a) English and (b) mathematics GCSEs because of the requirement that all 16 to 18 year old students who have not yet achieved a grade 4 while at secondary school resit these exams in each of the last six years; and how many of those students achieved a pass at grade 4 or the equivalent required standard.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	255399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>From August 2014, students who left key stage 4 without a GCSE grade 4/C or above (or equivalent) in English and/or maths were required to continue studying these subjects as part of their 16-19 study programme. From the following year, students starting a new study programme with a GCSE grade 3/D (or equivalent) in English and/or maths had to enrol on GCSE courses only. From August 2019, students starting a new or continuing an existing study programme with a GCSE grade 2 (or equivalent) or below can study towards a pass in Functional Skills Level 2 or they can still study towards a GCSE grade 4 to 9. Those with a grade 3 (or equivalent) must still study GCSE only. Providers have the freedom to decide if and when students are ready to re-enter for an examination.</p><p> </p><p>For years up until 2014/15 the Department published statistics on the achievement in English and maths by students who had not achieved GCSE A*-C 2 years previously (i.e. the 2014/15 estimates were based on those at end of key stage 4 in 2012/13). From 2015/16, figures are based on students at the end of their 16-18 study (up to 3 years of study)<a href="https://educationgovuk.sharepoint.com/sites/cd/c/WorkplaceDocuments/Written%20PQ%20Team/Written%20PQ%20-%202017-19%20drafts/255399%20QC%20200519.docx#_ftn1" target="_blank"><sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup></a>. This means that figures for 2014/15 and earlier are not directly comparable to those for later years.</p><p> </p><p>The tables attached show the number of students in further education colleges, in England, from 2012/13 to 2017/18 who did not achieve a grade 4/C or equivalent in English or maths at key stage 4 and how many of them went on to achieve a grade 4/C or better (or equivalent).</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://educationgovuk.sharepoint.com/sites/cd/c/WorkplaceDocuments/Written%20PQ%20Team/Written%20PQ%20-%202017-19%20drafts/255399%20QC%20200519.docx#_ftnref1" target="_blank">[1]</a> Available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-attainment-at-19-years" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-attainment-at-19-years</a>. For 2012/13 to 2014/15, scroll down to the ‘level 1 and 2 attainment’ section and open the link for each year. In the national tables, you require tables 2 and 4. For 2015/16 to 2017/18, open the revised publication at the top of the page for 2016, 2017 or 2018 and then open the ‘English and maths tables’. Institution type breakdowns are available in table 14a and 14b.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 21/05/2019 16:55:22 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton attachment 1 file name 255399_table.doc title 255399_table
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1121424

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the £1,000 work allowance increase announced in Budget 2018.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	244182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The £1,000 increase to the Universal Credit (UC) work allowance, announced in Budget 2018, will increase the amount that 2.4 million households can earn before their UC begins to be withdrawn. This change will enable working parents and people with disabilities on Universal Credit to keep over £630 extra income each year. The Budget 2018 work allowance change increased government support for UC by £1.7bn per year by 2023-24. No assessment has been made of the cost of a further £1,000 increase in the work allowances over and above those which were increased in Budget 2018.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury’s distributional analysis, published alongside Budget 2018, shows the cumulative effect on household incomes of policies on welfare, tax, and public service spending measures. Because different measures often interact with each other, this cumulative assessment provides the best representation of the overall intended policy effect. This shows that since this Chancellor and Prime Minister took office, their decisions have benefited households throughout the income distribution, with the poorest households gaining the most as a percentage of net income.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 244183 244184 244185 question first answered 29/04/2019 12:48:55 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1121425

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the distributional effect by decile of the work allowance increase announced in Budget 2018; and what proportional increase in the income of each income decile will be.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	244183
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The £1,000 increase to the Universal Credit (UC) work allowance, announced in Budget 2018, will increase the amount that 2.4 million households can earn before their UC begins to be withdrawn. This change will enable working parents and people with disabilities on Universal Credit to keep over £630 extra income each year. The Budget 2018 work allowance change increased government support for UC by £1.7bn per year by 2023-24. No assessment has been made of the cost of a further £1,000 increase in the work allowances over and above those which were increased in Budget 2018.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury’s distributional analysis, published alongside Budget 2018, shows the cumulative effect on household incomes of policies on welfare, tax, and public service spending measures. Because different measures often interact with each other, this cumulative assessment provides the best representation of the overall intended policy effect. This shows that since this Chancellor and Prime Minister took office, their decisions have benefited households throughout the income distribution, with the poorest households gaining the most as a percentage of net income.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 244182 244184 244185 question first answered 29/04/2019 12:48:55 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1121426

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the fiscal cost would be of a further £1,000 increase to the same work allowances which were increased in Budget 2018.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	244184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The £1,000 increase to the Universal Credit (UC) work allowance, announced in Budget 2018, will increase the amount that 2.4 million households can earn before their UC begins to be withdrawn. This change will enable working parents and people with disabilities on Universal Credit to keep over £630 extra income each year. The Budget 2018 work allowance change increased government support for UC by £1.7bn per year by 2023-24. No assessment has been made of the cost of a further £1,000 increase in the work allowances over and above those which were increased in Budget 2018.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury’s distributional analysis, published alongside Budget 2018, shows the cumulative effect on household incomes of policies on welfare, tax, and public service spending measures. Because different measures often interact with each other, this cumulative assessment provides the best representation of the overall intended policy effect. This shows that since this Chancellor and Prime Minister took office, their decisions have benefited households throughout the income distribution, with the poorest households gaining the most as a percentage of net income.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 244182 244183 244185 question first answered 29/04/2019 12:48:55 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1121427

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the distributional effect of a further £1,000 increase to the same work allowances which were increased in Budget 2018 on the percentage increase in the incomes of each decile.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	244185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The £1,000 increase to the Universal Credit (UC) work allowance, announced in Budget 2018, will increase the amount that 2.4 million households can earn before their UC begins to be withdrawn. This change will enable working parents and people with disabilities on Universal Credit to keep over £630 extra income each year. The Budget 2018 work allowance change increased government support for UC by £1.7bn per year by 2023-24. No assessment has been made of the cost of a further £1,000 increase in the work allowances over and above those which were increased in Budget 2018.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury’s distributional analysis, published alongside Budget 2018, shows the cumulative effect on household incomes of policies on welfare, tax, and public service spending measures. Because different measures often interact with each other, this cumulative assessment provides the best representation of the overall intended policy effect. This shows that since this Chancellor and Prime Minister took office, their decisions have benefited households throughout the income distribution, with the poorest households gaining the most as a percentage of net income.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 244182 244183 244184 question first answered 29/04/2019 12:48:56 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1121429

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in each year since 1995 in real terms (a) what total school funding there was, (b) what total secondary school funding there was, (c) what total primary school funding there was, (d) what total school funding per pupil there was, (e) what total secondary school funding was per pupil; and (f) what total primary school spending per pupil was.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	244187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>Per pupil funding in cash terms from 1996/97 to 2018/19, and total schools funding from 2001/02 to 2018/19 are set out in following tables. Before 2001 schools funding was included within the local government funding settlement. For this reason, the total funding prior to 2001 is not readily available. Before 2018/19 funding was not allocated separately for primary and secondary phases.</p><p> </p><p>The government publishes gross domestic product deflators that can be used to understand the impact of inflation over time. These are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/gdp-deflators-at-market-prices-and-money-gdp-october-2018-budget-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/gdp-deflators-at-market-prices-and-money-gdp-october-2018-budget-2018</a>.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Table 1</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Funding 1996/97 to 2000/01</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>1996/97</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1997/98</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1998/99</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1999/00</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2000/01</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Funding for schools (£m) cash terms</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Funding per pupil cash term</p></td><td><p>£2,178</p></td><td><p>£2,352</p></td><td><p>£2,485</p></td><td><p>£2,673</p></td><td><p>£2,938</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>Per pupil funding to local authorities for financial years based on Standard Spending Assessment (SSA) allocations for pupils aged 3 to 15.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Table 2</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Funding 2001/02 to 2005/06</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2001/02</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2002/03</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2003/04</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2004/05</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2005/06</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Funding for schools (£m) cash terms</p></td><td><p>21,710</p></td><td><p>23,683</p></td><td><p>25,169</p></td><td><p>27,244</p></td><td><p>28,944</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Funding per pupil cash terms</p></td><td><p>£3,184</p></td><td><p>£3,367</p></td><td><p>£3,612</p></td><td><p>£3,853</p></td><td><p>£4,132</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>Funding to local authorities based on SSA to 2003/04 and Education Formula Share (EFS) allocations from 2003/04 for pupils aged 3 to 15.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Table 3</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Funding 2006/07 to 2012/13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2006/07</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2007/08</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2008/09</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009/10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Funding for schools (£m) cash terms</p></td><td><p>30,638</p></td><td><p>32,353</p></td><td><p>33,477</p></td><td><p>34,710</p></td><td><p>36,506</p></td><td><p>37,167</p></td><td><p>38,035</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Funding per pupil cash term</p></td><td><p>£4,200</p></td><td><p>£4,487</p></td><td><p>£4,687</p></td><td><p>£4,887</p></td><td><p>£5,143</p></td><td><p>£5,169</p></td><td><p>£5,245</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8"><p>Up to 2010/11, the figures include the total Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) (schools block, early years block and the high needs block), and other schools related grants. From 2011/12 the total funding figures includes the DSG, the pupil premium and other schools related grants.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Table 4</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Funding 2013/14 to 2018/19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Financial year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Funding for schools</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>40,861</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>42,466</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>43,965</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>44,413</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>45,742</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>46,332</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(£ million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>High Needs Block</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>4,967</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>5,184</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>5,247</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>5,300</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>5,827</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>6,115</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(£ million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Schools Block</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>30,412</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>30,655</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>32,168</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>32,650</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>33,094</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>33,684</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(£ million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Schools block unit of funding (£)</p></td><td><p>4,551</p></td><td><p>4,555</p></td><td><p>4,612</p></td><td><p>4,636</p></td><td><p>4,619</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Schools block primary unit of funding (£)</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td><td><p>4,058</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Schools block secondary unit of funding (£)</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td><td><p>5,229</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p>From 2013/14, per pupil funding figures are based on the DSG schools block only. Schools receive funding on top of this through the pupil premium, primary PE and sport premium, Year 7 Catch Up premium and the grant to support universal infant free school meals (from 2014/2015). In 2017/18, the balance between the schools and high needs block was re-set, with some £250 million being transferred from the schools block to the high needs block, to better reflect the actual spending decisions that local authorities had been taking. This accounts for the apparent reduction in the School Block Unit of Funding in that year. Before 2018/19, schools block funding was not allocated separately for primary and secondary phases.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 23/04/2019 11:45:10 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1104988

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Treaties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 22 March 2019 to Question 234199 on Treaties, if he will provide a full list naming each of the 52 multilateral treaties from which the UK has unilaterally withdrawn since 1 January 1988.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	236572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>A full list of those 52 multilateral treaties from which the UK has unilaterally withdrawn since 1 January 1988 is attached.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 28/03/2019 16:55:15 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan attachment 1 file name PQ TREATIES THE UK HAS WITHDRAWN FROM SINCE 1 JANUARY 1988.docx title Treaties the UK has withdrawn from since 01.01.88
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1091219

registered interest
date	19/03/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Treaties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list the treaties from which the UK has unilaterally withdrawn since 1 January 1988.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	234199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>​The UK has unilaterally withdrawn from 52 treaties since 1 January 1988. All of these have been multilateral treaties.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 22/03/2019 14:35:42 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien