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101090

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date	27/10/2014
answering body	Deputy Prime Minister
answering dept id	58
answering dept short name	Deputy Prime Minister
answering dept sort name	Deputy Prime Minister
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answers of 11 September 2014 to Questions 208200 and 208199, which local authorities have informed his Department that the capability of their computer systems to deal with individual electoral registration poses a threat to the successful implementation of individual electoral registration.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	212008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>All local authorities successfully implemented Individual Electoral Registration on 10 June 2014 in England and Wales and 19 September 2014 in Scotland. Cabinet Office is in discussions on an ongoing basis with all local authorities and their software suppliers to ensure the new system beds in.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 03/11/2014 16:05:54 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

101091

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Deputy Prime Minister
answering dept id	58
answering dept short name	Deputy Prime Minister
answering dept sort name	Deputy Prime Minister
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2014 to Question 208273, what (a) guidance and (b) sanctions (i) his Department and (ii) the Electoral Commission provides for electoral registration officers who refuse to undertake door to door canvassing.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	212010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission sets standards for Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and monitors performance against these criteria. It will publish its assessments of ERO performance during the course of the transition to Individual Electoral Registration (IER).</p><p>All EROs in Great Britain are expected to meet their obligations to carry out door to door canvassing. If an authority is identified as not implementing its plans for carrying out house-to-house enquiries Ministers are fully prepared to issue a direction under section 52 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 to ensure the ERO complies with their statutory obligations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 03/11/2014 15:56:32 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

101092

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Deputy Prime Minister
answering dept id	58
answering dept short name	Deputy Prime Minister
answering dept sort name	Deputy Prime Minister
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment his Department has made of the appropriateness of the key success measure for completeness of the electoral register contained in the Electoral Commission's Corporate Plan 2014-15 to 2018-19.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	211944
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The Electoral Commission, as an independent body, is overseen by the Speaker’s Committee. The Speaker’s Committee examines and approves the estimates and five year corporate plan of the Electoral Commission. It is for the Committee as a whole to make such an assessment.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 03/11/2014 16:08:27 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

101093

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve access to mindfulness programmes in schools.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	211943
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education is committed to supporting schools and colleges to prepare well-rounded young people who are able to succeed in adult life. Schools must provide a curriculum that promotes pupils’ spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development. All children should engage in a rich provision of classroom and extra-curricular activities that help to develop character and resilience.</p><p> </p><p>Schools and teachers are best placed to understand the needs of their pupils. Schools have the freedom to decide if they want to use external programmes to help deliver their curriculum and to provide effective pastoral support. Many schools offer a range of programmes that support pupils’ resilience, well-being and mental health, and they can use programmes relating to Mindfulness if they consider them to be appropriate for their pupils.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 03/11/2014 10:50:39 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

101094

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Inspections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will reinstate references to child wellbeing in the Ofsted inspection framework.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	211946
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>This is a matter for Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw. A copy of his reply will be placed in the library of the House.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 03/11/2014 13:16:46 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

101100

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that the education system gives due consideration to the promotion of child wellbeing.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	211951
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The school curriculum must be broad and balanced. It must promote pupils’ spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development, and prepare them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.</p><p> </p><p>Personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education supports the teaching of all subjects across the school curriculum. With a new slimmed down curriculum, schools have more freedom and autonomy to integrate activities into the curriculum which can promote pupils’ wellbeing and build character.</p><p> </p><p>We have introduced a new departmental priority with the aim of supporting schools and colleges to prepare well-rounded young people for success in adult life. We are working closely with the Department of Health’s Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Taskforce, which includes school representatives, to look at how we can further improve the prevention and identification of mental health problems and access to mental health services.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 03/11/2014 10:52:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

101145

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve access to NICE-recommended mindfulness-based therapies on the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	211947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>Over the course of the current spending review, we are investing in excess of £400 million in England to give thousands of people access to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence-approved psychological therapies, including Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy.</p><p> </p><p>The 2014-15 Mandate to NHS England makes clear that ‘everyone who needs it should have timely access to evidence based services’. The Mandate sets a clear objective for NHS England to deliver the key objectives of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) programme – providing access to therapies to 15% of those eligible (around 900,000 people) per year by 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are increasing the availability of IAPT services to cover children and young people and exploring extending services to people with long-term physical health problems and those with severe mental illness.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have invested £54 million over the period 2011 – 2015/16 in the Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) programme. The Programme works with services covering up to 60% of England’s 0-19 population, and will cover approximately 68% by the end of 2014-15. This is giving children and young people improved access to the best evidenced mental health care. NHS England is planning for a countrywide extension of the programme with Health Education England.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The IAPT programme is working with a number of the Department’s Strategic Partners to promote wider access of the service to all sections of the community. The partners are working with IAPT service providers to identify and overcome the barriers to people gaining access to IAPT services.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 03/11/2014 16:48:01 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

101204

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
hansard heading	Identity Cards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2014 to Question 206672, what discussions the Commission has had with Liberty on the Electoral Commission's proposals to introduce electoral identity cards.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	212012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>The Commission has not yet had discussions with Liberty on its recommendation that electors in Great Britain should be required in future to present an acceptable form of photographic identification (ID) prior to being issued with a ballot paper at polling stations, as has been the requirement in Northern Ireland since 2003. The Commission has recommended that any voter ID scheme for Great Britain should provide for electors to obtain an alternative form of identification, such as a free electoral ID card, if they do not have access to any other specified form of identification.</p><p>The Commission is consulting a wide range of relevant organisations to develop and test options for suitable forms of identification, and it will consult Liberty as part of this work.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter question first answered 30/10/2014 13:24:04 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

101205

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, which electoral registration officers have failed in their obligation to make household visits when no response was received to either a household enquiry form or an invitation to register; and what steps the Electoral Commission took in response to each individual case in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	211984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>The Commission informs me that the general duty on Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) to take all necessary steps to maintain the electoral register, including making house-to-house enquiries, was introduced in 2006. Specific provisions requiring EROs to follow up any non-responses to household enquiry forms and invitations to register with personal visits came into effect at the beginning of the transition to Individual Electoral Registration, which commenced on 10 June 2014 in England and Wales and from 19 September 2014 in Scotland.</p><p> </p><p>EROs are now in the process of carrying out personal canvassing to follow up non-responses to household enquiry forms and invitations to register. The Commission will continue to monitor the performance of EROs and, if there are any instances where the necessary visits are not being carried out, it will consider the full range of options available, including making a recommendation to the Secretary of State to make a direction.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter grouped question UIN 211983 question first answered 30/10/2014 13:21:18 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

101206

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
answering body	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept id	36
answering dept short name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
answering dept sort name	Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, in which year electoral registration officers were placed under an obligation to make houshold visits where no response was received to either a household enquiry form or an invitation to register.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	211983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>The Commission informs me that the general duty on Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) to take all necessary steps to maintain the electoral register, including making house-to-house enquiries, was introduced in 2006. Specific provisions requiring EROs to follow up any non-responses to household enquiry forms and invitations to register with personal visits came into effect at the beginning of the transition to Individual Electoral Registration, which commenced on 10 June 2014 in England and Wales and from 19 September 2014 in Scotland.</p><p> </p><p>EROs are now in the process of carrying out personal canvassing to follow up non-responses to household enquiry forms and invitations to register. The Commission will continue to monitor the performance of EROs and, if there are any instances where the necessary visits are not being carried out, it will consider the full range of options available, including making a recommendation to the Secretary of State to make a direction.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Devon answering member printed Mr Gary Streeter grouped question UIN 211984 question first answered 30/10/2014 13:21:18 answering member 234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane