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595528

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date	07/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Home Education: Nottinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary school aged children in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Rushcliffe and (c) Nottinghamshire have been home educated in each of the last five years for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	47137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>Responsibility for providing a suitable full-time education for children of compulsory school age who are educated at home rests with the parents. Although local authorities do not have a power to monitor such provision on a routine basis, they are under a duty to identify children who are not receiving a suitable full-time education, and as part of that process take appropriate steps to ensure that if a child is not being properly educated at home, a school attendance order is served. There is published departmental guidance to local authorities on this matter at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/288135/guidelines_for_las_on_elective_home_educationsecondrevisev2_0.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/288135/guidelines_for_las_on_elective_home_educationsecondrevisev2_0.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The information requested on numbers of pupils that are home educated is not collected centrally. Although some local authorities operate voluntary registration schemes, there is no legal obligation for the registration of home educated children.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 47136 question first answered 01/11/2016 13:08:39 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

595535

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken to recruit more trainee teachers for secondary school subjects for which recruitment targets have been missed.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	47134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2016 answer text <p>The latest published figures from UCAS show that teaching remains a hugely popular profession. Over 27,000 people have been recruited to postgraduate teacher training courses in England in 2016/17.</p><p> </p><p>To support recruitment in 2017/18, we have announced a new package of financial incentives – including increases to bursaries and scholarships to attract top graduates in priority subjects. We have expanded the scholarship scheme, introducing two new scholarships in languages and geography, in partnership with the British Council and the Royal Geographical Society.</p><p> </p><p>Our 2017/18 teacher recruitment marketing campaign commenced on 4 October and features a new television advert, alongside print, online and social media advertising. Forty Train to Teach recruitment events will take place across the country and further activity will take place on university campuses, including over thirty graduate fairs where our advisors will meet with students, setting out the benefits of a career in teaching.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, we are spending up to £67 million on a programme of measures to upskill the existing maths and physics teaching workforce, and increase the number of new mathematics and physics specialists entering teaching. This package aims to recruit up to 2,500 new teachers and upskill up to 15,000 existing teachers over the term of this parliament. We have increased bursary rates in the subjects that leading universities say are most commonly required at A level for entry onto their degree courses.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 20/10/2016 17:03:35 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

595536

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Home Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what evaluations and inspections are carried out on parents who home school their children to ensure that expected progress is made and the appropriate curriculum covered.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	47136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>Responsibility for providing a suitable full-time education for children of compulsory school age who are educated at home rests with the parents. Although local authorities do not have a power to monitor such provision on a routine basis, they are under a duty to identify children who are not receiving a suitable full-time education, and as part of that process take appropriate steps to ensure that if a child is not being properly educated at home, a school attendance order is served. There is published departmental guidance to local authorities on this matter at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/288135/guidelines_for_las_on_elective_home_educationsecondrevisev2_0.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/288135/guidelines_for_las_on_elective_home_educationsecondrevisev2_0.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The information requested on numbers of pupils that are home educated is not collected centrally. Although some local authorities operate voluntary registration schemes, there is no legal obligation for the registration of home educated children.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 47137 question first answered 01/11/2016 13:08:39 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

595754

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pregnancy: Streptococcus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans routinely to offer screening tests for Group B Strep to pregnant women as part of their antenatal care.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	47405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The United Kingdom National Screening Committee (UK NSC) is in the process of updating its evidence review into antenatal screening for Group B Streptococcus (GBS) in accordance with its published three year review cycle.</p><p>When the update is completed, a public consultation on the evidence review document will begin, and will remain open for a three month period.</p><p>The UK NSC will then review the recommendation for GBS, taking into consideration the outcomes of the public consultation and the evidence review, at the successive meeting.</p><p>More information and how to contribute to the public consultation will be available at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://legacy.screening.nhs.uk/screening-recommendations.php" target="_blank">http://legacy.screening.nhs.uk/screening-recommendations.php</a></p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 17/10/2016 10:20:53 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

595826

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to reply to the letter of 18 July 2016 from the hon. Member for Ashfield on the proposed closure of the children's heart surgery unit at Glenfield Hospital.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	47138
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2016 answer text <p>I responded to the hon. Member’s letter on 11 October.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 12/10/2016 15:39:18 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

596093

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
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	Local Housing Allowance: Social Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many old-age pensioners in Ashfield constituency who live in social housing properties containing two or more bedrooms and who receive housing benefit will be affected by plans to limit housing benefit to the level of the local housing allowance.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	47435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p><p>For general needs accommodation in the social rented sector, the appropriate Local Housing Allowance rate will not come into effect in the social rented sector until April 2018; and then only where a new tenancy has been taken out or an existing tenancy has been renewed on or after 1 April 2016.</p><p>In the previous Parliament, we significantly increased funding for Discretionary Housing Payments to £470 million and we have already committed a further £870 million in the overall Discretionary Housing Payment funding over the next five years.</p><p>Full impact and equality assessments will be undertaken in due course.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 17/10/2016 15:31:30 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

596102

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
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	Local Housing Allowance: Social Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the forthcoming change to limit housing benefit to the level of Local Housing Allowance on old age pensioners living in social housing properties with two or more bedrooms.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	47430
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>This policy does not come into effect until April 2018. It will only apply to people who have taken out or renewed a tenancy on or after 1<sup>st</sup> April 2016; and their rent is higher than the appropriate Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rate. For general needs accommodation social rents are generally lower than the LHA rates.</p><p>We have increased funding for Discretionary Housing Payments by £70million, to help those who are vulnerable to mitigate the impact. In total we have provided DHP funding of £870 million over the next five years to help people adapt to the new reforms announced in the Autumn Statement and Summer Budget 2015.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 17/10/2016 12:19:31 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

596148

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: East Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeships have been taken up in (a) Ashfield constituency and (b) the East Midlands in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	47135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2016 answer text <p>This data is published as part of the Further Education Data Library: Apprenticeships[1] and can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/558301/201516_OCT_Apps_Starts_by_Region_PCON_LEA_LA_E_D_Final_V1.3.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/558301/201516_OCT_Apps_Starts_by_Region_PCON_LEA_LA_E_D_Final_V1.3.xlsx</a></p><p>This covers apprenticeship starts for all regions and all parliamentary constituencies from the 2005/06 to 2014/15 finalised academic year data, and includes provisional data for the 2015/16 academic year. Final full-year data for 2015/16 academic year will be published on 17 November 2016.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships</a></p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 12/10/2016 11:47:57 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero