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78330

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, if he will estimate the annual cost to the Law Officers' Departments of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	206141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p>The stationery and postage costs incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members are not seperately identifiable from general office stationery and postage costs.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 01/09/2014 13:54:44 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

78331

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, if he will take steps to increase the number of replies within the Law Officers' Departments' working day standard; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	206130
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p>Performance in meeting targets is kept under regular review by Ministers and senior management in the Law Officer’s Departments, and every effort is being made to ensure that levels of performance are maintained or improved upon.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 01/09/2014 14:00:19 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

78332

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to increase the number of replies within his Department's working day standard; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	206131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/08/2014 answer text <p>The handling of correspondence is given the highest priority by the Department and we aim to respond to all correspondence within 15 working days. For the calendar year ending 31 December 2013, the latest period for which figures are available, 93% of responses to MPs and Peers were answered within our target of 15 working days. This represents an increase of 9% over the previous year’s performance.</p><p>Guidance on handling correspondence from Members of Parliament, Peers, MEPs and Members of devolved Administrations will be updated in due course.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/61196/guide-handling-gov-correspondence.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/61196/guide-handling-gov-correspondence.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 28/08/2014 15:06:20 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

77367

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
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	Housing: Brighton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what progress has been made on securing private sector funding for the New England House development in Brighton as part of the Greater Brighton City Deal; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	205280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2014 answer text <p>As agreed in the Greater Brighton City Deal, the Greater Brighton Economic Board is currently working to secure private sector investment in the expansion of New England House.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 02/09/2014 11:39:03 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

77368

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
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 is taking to ensure that skilled mathematics and science graduates are attracted to careers in teaching; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	205284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting schools in recruiting specialist teachers in mathematics and science. Specific support is provided for individuals interested in teaching these subjects through targeted marketing, personal advisors and securing school experience.</p><p>To attract graduates to teaching these subjects, we have significantly increased tax-free bursaries for mathematics, physics, chemistry and computing trainee teachers from £9,000 in 2012/13 to up to £20,000 in 2014/15. In addition, we continue to work jointly with the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institute of Physics and BCS, the chartered institute for IT, to offer scholarship awards of £25,000 in order to attract the most talented graduates into initial teacher training.</p><p>For the academic year 2014/15, we have extended our salaried School Direct training programme to encourage more experienced graduates to enter teacher training across a range of subjects, including mathematics and science. School Direct (salaried) is an employment-based route for high-quality, experienced graduates who earn a salary whilst training.</p><p>We are also continuing to fund subject knowledge enhancement courses, which are an important tool to ensure trainee teachers without a first class degree in the subject they will teach have sufficient specialist subject knowledge.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 16/07/2014 14:50:54 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

77369

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	School Leaving
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that young people leave school with a good level of English and mathematics; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	205285
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>We are reforming the mathematics and English curriculum and qualifications, raising expectations so that they match the best worldwide. The new national curriculum will match those in the highest-performing education jurisdictions in the world, challenging pupils to realise their potential in an increasingly competitive global market.</p><p> </p><p>At primary level, we have published a more rigorous curriculum with a greater level of demand. In mathematics, children will know their times tables by age nine and calculators will be removed from the test for 11 year olds to ensure that children get a rigorous grounding in mental and written arithmetic. To support schools, we will continue to fund the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics. We also recently announced the establishment of 32 new Maths Hubs, supported with £11 million of funding over the next two years, which will drive up the quality of mathematics education from the early years to age 19.</p><p> </p><p>In the new English national curriculum we have placed a greater focus on grammar, spelling and punctuation, with a new test for 11 year olds. We have strengthened the requirements on learning to read through systematic synthetic phonics, and we have introduced a phonics screening check at age six so that teachers can intervene early to help children catch up.</p><p> </p><p>At secondary level, GCSEs in mathematics and English are also being reformed to be more challenging and give stronger guarantees of numeracy and literacy. We expect schools will increase time spent teaching mathematics – bringing us in line with our international competitors. The recently announced “Progress 8” measure gives double weighting to mathematics and English in performance tables for the first time. For year 7 pupils who have not achieved level 4 at key stage 2 in reading and/or mathematics we will continue to fund the catch-up premium worth £500 per pupil. This enables secondary schools to deliver additional support, such as individual tuition or intensive support in small groups, for those pupils that most need it.</p><p> </p><p>We are also reforming post-16 education, including A levels in English and mathematics, and have set out our ambition for the majority of young people in England to study mathematics at least to age 18 by 2020. Students without at least a grade C at GCSE in mathematics or English are now required to continue to study the subject. In addition, new core mathematics qualifications are being developed for those students with GCSE grade C or above who do not go on to study A or AS level mathematics.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, we have invested in and reformed initial teacher training to focus on attracting the very best graduates with the right qualities for teaching into the profession through scholarships and bursaries of up to £25,000 in key subjects such as mathematics, and supporting the expansion of the highly-successful Teach First programme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 16/07/2014 14:41:59 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

77409

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hospitals: WiFi
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to increase and improve the availability of (a) free and (b) chargeable WiFi access for patients in NHS hospitals; and how many NHS hospitals in Sussex provide (i) free and (ii) chargeable WiFi access for patients at the most recent date for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	205279
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>The availability of free and chargeable Wi-Fi access for patients is a matter for local National Health Service organisations. There is no centrally collected information on the number of NHS hospitals in England that provide free and chargeable wireless internet access for patients.</p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 21/07/2014 14:11:19 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

77436

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she has received from Sussex Police on enforcement of laws preventing female genital mutilation; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	205281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2014 answer text <p>Female Genital Mutilation is an extremely harmful practice which the Coalition Government is committed to tackling. Neither the Home Secretary, nor I have received any representations from Sussex Police on enforcement of laws preventing female genital mutilation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 30/07/2014 12:39:32 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

77472

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: South East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will reopen closed railway lines to improve (a) rail capacity between London and the south coast and (b) rail connectivity between towns in Sussex; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	205282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Following work recently undertaken by Network Rail, the emerging strategy for rail capacity on the Sussex route to 2024 envisages focussing investment on existing infrastructure, rather than reopening closed lines. Further detail can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/brighton-main-line-emerging-capacity-strategy-for-control-period-6" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/brighton-main-line-emerging-capacity-strategy-for-control-period-6</a></p><p> </p><p>This strategy will be further refined following the publication of the Sussex Route Study in 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 21/07/2014 15:08:08 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

77033

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Standard of Living
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent fiscal steps he has taken to encourage an improvement in living standards; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	205098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>The IFS state that “there have been very significant falls in real earnings as a direct but delayed result of the 2008 recession, essentially”.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The government has taken continued action to help hardworking families, including raising the personal allowance, which will take over 3.2m individuals out of income tax altogether by 2015/16, as well as freezing fuel duty, council tax and reducing household energy bills. The best way to improve people's living standards is to boost productivity and jobs, and the labour market has continued to strengthen with record numbers of people in work.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 15/07/2014 14:57:14 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby