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1714477

registered interest
date	23/04/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the apprenticeship system in increasing the number of high quality apprenticeship starts.
tabling member constituency	Waveney
tabling member printed	Peter Aldous
uin	902534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>High-quality apprenticeships reach nearly 700 occupations and deliver for individuals and businesses, with apprenticeship starts up 2% so far this year.</p><p>Over 80% of employers are satisfied with their apprenticeships and 92% of apprentices that achieve go into sustained employment.</p><p>The department is injecting an additional £60 million this year to support even more apprenticeships, including for young people and small and medium-sized enterprises, and £50 million over two years to boost starts in growth sectors like engineering and manufacturing.</p><p>The department has also increased the apprentice minimum wage by 21% to £6.40 per hour which will benefit an estimated 40,000 apprentices.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 29/04/2024 16:17:47 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4069 label Biography information for Peter Aldous

1697050

registered interest
date	19/03/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Shared Ownership Schemes: Older People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many homes have been delivered through the Homes England Older People’s Shared Ownership scheme in each of the last ten years.
tabling member constituency	Waveney
tabling member printed	Peter Aldous
uin	19337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>The figures in the table below represent the number of shared ownership homes aimed at older persons by shared ownership providers, the majority of which, but not all, will be provided through the Older Persons Shared Ownership (OPSO) scheme.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Actual Completions</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>235</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>253</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>214</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>170</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>316</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>224</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>314</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>270</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022/23</p></td><td><p>176</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 27/03/2024 12:40:51 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4069 label Biography information for Peter Aldous

1692114

registered interest
date	27/02/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals: Eligibility
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of permitting the proactive use of data by local authorities to identify and register children eligible for free school meals.
tabling member constituency	Waveney
tabling member printed	Peter Aldous
uin	15876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2024 answer text <p>Maximising the take up of free school meals is important in ensuring that as many eligible children as possible benefit from a healthy and nutritious meal. The department aims to make it as simple as possible for schools and local authorities to determine eligibility.</p><p>To support this, an Eligibility Checking System has been provided to make the checking process as quick and straightforward as possible for schools and local authorities.</p><p>The department has looked at this issue and considers there to be merit in local authorities exploring initiatives to maximise take up and to better understand the barriers that prevent such take up, whilst ensuring adherence to legal and data protection constraints.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 04/03/2024 12:24:41 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4069 label Biography information for Peter Aldous

1689992

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Electronic Funds Transfer: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of authorised push payment scam cases that have originated online in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Waveney
tabling member printed	Peter Aldous
uin	14556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>UK Finance analysis of nearly seven thousand authorised push payment (APP) scam cases shows that 70 per cent of scams originated on an online platform - highlighting the internet's significant role in enabling fraud. This includes data from UK Finance members only, for the whole of the UK. More details on this can be found here: <em><a href="https://www.ukfinance.org.uk/press/press-releases/over-two-thirds-of-all-app-scams-start-online-new-uk-finance-analysis" target="_blank">https://www.ukfinance.org.uk/press/press-releases/over-two-thirds-of-all-app-scams-start-online-new-uk-finance-analysis</a></em></p><p>To protect victims against APP scams, ten of the UK’s largest banks are currently signed up to the voluntary Contingent Reimbursement Model (CRM) Code. In 2022, £248m of losses to APP scams were reimbursed to victims under the commitments of this code.</p><p>Recognising that more needed to be done to protect people from this devastating crime, through the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023, the government legislated to require the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) to introduce mandatory reimbursement for APP scams within the Faster Payment System, where 98% of APP fraud takes place. This will come into force in October 2024.</p><p>The retail banking sector’s primary fraud concern was the rise of Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud (where someone is tricked into sending money to a criminal). The sector therefore committed to the following key deliverables in the charter:</p><p>o Better utilise technology to share data to detect potential frauds.</p><p>o Capture and analyse data reported to them from victims of APP fraud.</p><p>o Provide customers with greater control over account features</p><p>The Online Safety Act (OSA) will mean that companies are held to account by an independent regulator if they fail to remove illegal content on their platforms.</p><p>Alongside the OSA, the Government has created the Online Fraud Charter: a voluntary agreement bringing together the largest companies in the tech sector, who have committed to a series of actions aimed at reducing fraud on their platforms and services. The Charter was signed on 30th November and will deliver a much quicker and more targeted response than regulation.</p><p>The OSA is an ambitious and forward-looking piece of legislation that will tackle online harms including fraud and fraudulent advertising.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 27/02/2024 16:24:26 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4069 label Biography information for Peter Aldous

1689993

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Economic Crime: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to mandate information sharing between (a) payment service providers, (b) social media platforms and (c) telecommunications companies for the purposes of (i) investigating, (ii) detecting and (iii) preventing economic crime.
tabling member constituency	Waveney
tabling member printed	Peter Aldous
uin	14557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government strongly supports the sharing of information across sectors to tackle economic crime and has legislated to make this easier.</p><p>The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act contains new measures to provide greater comfort for firms working in the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulated sector to share relevant information for the purposes of tackling economic crime. Further information on these measures cane be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/economic-crime-and-corporate-transparency-bill-2022-factsheets/fact-sheet-information-sharing-measures" target="_blank">Factsheet: information sharing measures - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>The Act also includes the power for the Secretary of State to amend the offences covered, so that law enforcement and businesses can be responsive to future changes in the patterns of economic crime.</p><p>The Government is leading an ambitious Public-Private Economic Crime Data Strategy. This will build on the commitments in the Economic Crime Plan 2, Fraud Strategy, and from industry in the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fonline-fraud-charter-2023&amp;data=05%7C02%7CWilliam.Hebblethwaite%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C2048c2619b7e45687afa08dc320edeba%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638440286641481286%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=bmT2V77TGjmLAgP5k%2B2mXI4piiAcNIJTaH7gyAzuf84%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Online Fraud</a> and <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fjoint-fraud-taskforce-telecommunications-charter&amp;data=05%7C02%7CWilliam.Hebblethwaite%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C2048c2619b7e45687afa08dc320edeba%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638440286641492144%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=JtIxdA3imSE4UDF2iMLg22ThBh4A1GC8j8zwe75fHh0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Telecoms Charters</a> to improve information sharing.</p><p>We are not currently considering further legislation.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 27/02/2024 16:26:06 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4069 label Biography information for Peter Aldous

1689994

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Fraud: Social Media
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 (a) merits of requiring social media platforms to contribute to the costs of reimbursing victims of fraud and (b) impact of such a requirement on tackling fraud.
tabling member constituency	Waveney
tabling member printed	Peter Aldous
uin	14558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>The government recognises that protecting the UK population from fraud, including is incredibly important. That is why we have agreed the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-fraud-charter-2023" target="_blank">Online Fraud Charter</a> with the technology sector. Signatories, including some of the largest global tech companies, have committed to a number of actions to reduce fraud on their platforms and services including: blocking and reporting fraudulent activity, taking down fraudulent posts, and engaging with law enforcement.</p><p> </p><p>More broadly, under the Online Safety Act, social media platforms will be required to establish systems and processes to remove both user generated fraudulent content and fraudulent advertising. If platforms do not comply, they may face fines of up to £18 million or 10% of their annual turnover, whichever is higher.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hitchin and Harpenden answering member printed Bim Afolami question first answered 27/02/2024 11:33:22 answering member 4639 label Biography information for Bim Afolami
tabling member	4069 label Biography information for Peter Aldous

1683660

registered interest
date	19/01/2024
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent steps her Department has taken to help increase the take-up of smart meters.
tabling member constituency	Waveney
tabling member printed	Peter Aldous
uin	10615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to enabling as many households and small businesses to benefit from smart meters as soon as possible. This is why we’ve set energy suppliers ambitious, but realistic minimum installation targets to deliver the rollout.</p><p> </p><p>Energy suppliers are responsible for engaging their customers and encouraging them to upgrade to smart metering. Smart Energy GB, an independent not for profit organisation is responsible for national consumer engagement on the rollout in Great Britain.</p><p> </p><p>Ofgem is responsible for regulating both energy suppliers and Smart Energy GB against their statutory obligations.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 26/01/2024 06:40:39 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
tabling member	4069 label Biography information for Peter Aldous

1683661

registered interest
date	19/01/2024
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Boilers: Public Consultation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what her Department's expected timeline is to publish its response to the Improving boiler standards and efficiency consultation, published on 13 December 2022.
tabling member constituency	Waveney
tabling member printed	Peter Aldous
uin	10616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2024 answer text <p>The consultation on Improving Boiler Standards and Efficiency launched on 13 December 2022 and closed on 22 March 2023. We have been analysing responses and plan to publish a government response in due course.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 26/01/2024 06:40:46 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
tabling member	4069 label Biography information for Peter Aldous

1683662

registered interest
date	19/01/2024
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Energy: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to case study six of research commissioned by her Department entitled Defining and identifying complex-to-decarbonise homes and retrofit solutions Annex C case studies, published on 3 January 2024, what steps her Department plans to take to help consumers with Victorian 'Eco Home' whole house retrofit work.
tabling member constituency	Waveney
tabling member printed	Peter Aldous
uin	10617
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government published the research report <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fdefining-and-identifying-complex-to-decarbonise-homes&amp;data=05%7C02%7CParliamentary.PQ%40energysecurity.gov.uk%7C06ddb60bfc974c1caf5008dc1e54c4a3%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C638418596630388250%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=oa7cqjYLSwnB1QJdG9P0xQvFNnVmuw8wZrX1lS%2F1hpg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">‘Defining and identifying complex-to-decarbonise homes’</a> alongside the cross-Government review <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fadapting-historic-homes-for-energy-efficiency-a-review-of-the-barriers%2Fadapting-historic-homes-for-energy-efficiency-a-review-of-the-barriers&amp;data=05%7C02%7CParliamentary.PQ%40energysecurity.gov.uk%7C06ddb60bfc974c1caf5008dc1e54c4a3%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C638418596630395652%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=jpNDfm8s74%2BwrcV9duLfNq7cGMqWtXbsynmB5efBd2k%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">‘Adapting historic homes for energy efficiency: a review of the barriers’</a> in January 2024. The review looks at the practical barriers to energy efficiency and low carbon heating measures in historic homes, and sets out the actions the Government is taking to overcome these barriers.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is investing £6.6 billion over this Parliament on clean heat and improving energy efficiency in buildings, reducing our reliance on fossil fuel heating. In addition, £6 billion of new Government funding will be made available from 2025 to 2028.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 26/01/2024 10:09:26 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
tabling member	4069 label Biography information for Peter Aldous

1679444

registered interest
date	05/01/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Sign Language
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of education health and care plans included funding for courses in British Sign Language in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Waveney
tabling member printed	Peter Aldous
uin	7898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>The department does not hold the data requested.</p><p>The department collects data from local authorities on the number of children and young people with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan, but this does not include information on any specific education courses that are included in EHC plans.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 15/01/2024 15:49:11 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
tabling member	4069 label Biography information for Peter Aldous