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1079408

registered interest
date	28/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he has taken to ensure that (a) people on teacher training courses are trained in dealing with children with additional learning needs and (b) sufficient on-going training is offered to qualified teachers to ensure that an adequate level of training is maintained.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	227052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2019 answer text <p>Initial teacher training (ITT) providers must design their courses to enable trainees to meet The Teachers’ Standards. These Standards set out the key elements of effective teaching and the minimum expectations for professional practice. In order to become a qualified teacher, trainees must satisfy the Standards, which include a requirement that they have a clear understanding of the needs of all pupils, and are able to use and evaluate distinctive teaching approaches to engage and support them.</p><p> </p><p>The Department published the Framework of Core Content for ITT in July 2016 to further support effective training. The Framework advises that, “ITT providers should ensure Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) training is integrated across the ITT programme”. The Department is currently undertaking an audit of SEND provision across ITT providers, which it will use to produce a best practice guide.</p><p> </p><p>On 28 January 2019, the Department published the Recruitment and Retention strategy and the Early Career Framework (ECF). The ECF provides a two-year improved support package for newly qualified teachers, providing them with support they need to help all pupils succeed and widen access for all - including pupils identified within the four areas of need set out in the SEND code of practice.</p><p> </p><p>Schools and headteachers are best placed to make specific decisions about how to support and improve their teachers, but the Department is assisting schools with this through the national network of teaching schools and the Standard for Teachers’ Professional Development.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 06/03/2019 17:12:21 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1078582

registered interest
date	27/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Home Shopping: Taxation
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 potential merits of a online sales tax.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	226576
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>I recently discussed the merits of an online sales tax in evidence to a joint session of the House of Commons Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee and Treasury Select Committee, to inform an inquiry into High streets and town centres in 2030.</p><p>This evidence is available at the following link: <a href="http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/housing-communities-and-local-government-committee/high-streets-and-town-centres-in-2030/oral/94442.pdf" target="_blank">http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/housing-communities-and-local-government-committee/high-streets-and-town-centres-in-2030/oral/94442.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The government keeps all tax policy under review as part of the normal policy making process and will share any relevant announcements at the appropriate fiscal event.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 04/03/2019 17:16:30 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1078627

registered interest
date	27/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Urban Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of a comprehensive review of the town centre first policy.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	226577
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>The town centre first policy approach has been in place for two decades and has helped to give confidence to many town centre regeneration projects across the country.</p><p>The revised National Planning Policy Framework, which was published last year, reaffirms our commitment to the town centre first approach by stating that main town centre uses should, where possible, be located in town centres.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 04/03/2019 17:26:47 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1077596

registered interest
date	26/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Per Capita Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the average of real terms per pupil funding for 5-16 year olds in England in (a) 2000-2010, and (b) 2011-2018.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	226062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2019 answer text <p>School funding for 5-16 year olds is set to be more than 50% higher in 2020 than in 2000, and the core schools budget will be £43.5 billion by 2019/20.</p><p>The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) estimate that between 1999/00 and 2009/10, school spending grew by around 5% each year, in real terms per pupil. Funding was protected in real terms per pupil between 2010/11 and 2015/16. It was protected in real terms overall between 2015/16 and 2017/18. The Department is committed to protecting funding in real terms per pupil between across 2018/19 and 2019/20, following an additional £1.3 billion in July 2017, over and above plans set out at the 2015 Spending Review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 06/03/2019 17:10:30 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb previous answer version 105682 answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1077597

registered interest
date	26/02/2019
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	Social Security Benefits: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2019 to Question 223480 on Social Security Benefits: Fraud, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the public purse of recording that additional data.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	226063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>To provide a costing for adding this functionality the Department would need to analyse this change in more detail, assess the amount of effort required to develop and test it, review the priority against other work that is already committed to, and assess any potential impact it could have on current operational procedures. This assessment process is resource intensive; therefore the Department cannot justify the use of this resource as there is no business reason to add this functionality.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/03/2019 14:36:09 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1077634

registered interest
date	26/02/2019
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	Leisure: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the number of local authorities in England and Wales that have been unable to meet their statutory duty to provide user-led recreational leisure activities for young people in each of the last eight years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	226064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>My department is responsible for Section 507b of the 1996 Education Act that states that: “every local authority in England must, so far as reasonably practicable, secure for qualifying young persons in the authority’s area access to sufficient educational and recreational activities.”</p><p> </p><p>During the last eight years no one has sought to make the case to me or my Department that any local authority is in formal breach of this duty. The guidance, which sets out how this this statutory duty could be discharged, has not been revised since 2012 and in the Civil Society Strategy published last August we committed to review it. We will make a further announcement about our plans to do that in due course.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 04/03/2019 14:58:39 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1077713

registered interest
date	26/02/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Personal Income
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the proportion changes in income for each income quintile from the financial year 2017 to financial year 2018.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	226065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 04/03/2019 10:16:49 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ 226065.pdf title UKSA Response
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1077174

registered interest
date	25/02/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of pending electors in each constituency in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	225412
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2019 answer text <p>There is no single definition of a ‘pending elector’ in legislation or elsewhere. Any data on pending electors would therefore be defined and held at a local level. Given this, the Government is not able to make an estimate of the number of pending electors in each constituency.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 28/02/2019 10:31:50 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1064325

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
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	Microbiology
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 effect of microbiota assessments as an adjunct to (a) physical examinations, and (b) mental health examination on the accuracy of medical diagnoses.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	223799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department funds research through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including on the microbiome/microbota. It is not usual practice to ring-fence funds for particular topics or conditions. Applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality.</p><p> </p><p>The evidence on the use of microbiota to improve diagnosis for a range of conditions is currently the subject of active research. The NIHR has directly funded and supported research studies on the microbiota and microbiome totalling £23.8 million in since 2011/12.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 25/02/2019 14:52:50 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1064445

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
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	Social Security Benefits: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has any (a) formal and (b) informal sharing agreements with police forces in relation to referrals relating to suspected benefit fraud.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	223970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) National Disclosure Unit provides a service for the whole of the UK, handling all requests to disclose information to police forces and other law enforcement agencies. This service is provided under the Data Protection Act, Section 29 (3) for the purposes of preventing and detecting crime, and is done to a standard set out in a Memorandum of Understanding agreed with the Association of Chief Police Officers.</p><p> </p><p>If, during the course of a Police investigation there is a suggestion of a DWP related offence, as with any third party, there is an established gateway in place for the Police to refer this information to DWP.</p><p> </p><p>Evidence received from a 3<sup>rd</sup> party can be used as a starting point for an investigation. However, DWP takes great care to corroborate any information received to substantiate (or otherwise) any allegation to ensure DWP is directing its resources appropriately.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 25/02/2019 15:13:09 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane