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1051422

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date	30/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant the Answer of 14 October 2017 to Question 106132 on Children in Care, what progress his Department has made on the assessment of data on the use of out of area placements.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Ann Coffey
uin	214483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The department continues to collect, review and publish data on local authorities’ use of out-of-area placements. From our latest publication, 19% of all children in care were in a placement more than 20 miles from their home at 31 March 2018.</p><p>The department is currently supporting a number of projects aimed at increasing capacity locally. Through our children’s social care Innovation Programme, we are providing £5 million of funding to 3 projects in London and the South East that will increase the capacity of residential and fostering placements in the area. We are providing 3 local authorities with seed-funding to explore the possibility of setting up new secure provision, where our data shows that out of area placements are particularly common. Later this year we will also be offering all local authorities the opportunity to bid for seed funding to develop new approaches to increasing the sufficiency of foster parents.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 06/02/2019 10:27:28 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	458 label Biography information for Ann Coffey

1051425

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with local authorities on the funding available for supporting unaccompanied asylum seeking children in Portsmouth.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	214649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>As part of our review, all Upper Tier and Unitary local authorities were invited to provide detailed feedback and information about how much it costs them to support UASC. Over 50 local authorities, including Portsmouth, responded. All of the evidence submitted has been taken into consideration. I am grateful for the contribution of local authorities like Portsmouth in supporting UASC and for their contribution to the review.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 07/02/2019 13:30:54 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1051449

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Mobile Phones
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many mobile phones have been seized in prison establishments in (a) 2015-6, (b) 2016-7 and (c) 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	David Hanson
uin	214508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The number of mobiles phones found in prison is published here:<br>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-hm-prison-and-probation-service-digest-2017-to-2018</p><p>Please refer to table 9.6, this covers data from 2016/2017. The number of mobile phones found in an incident was not specifically recorded prior to October 2015 when a new incident type was introduced.</p><p>We are investing £70 million determined to tackle head-on the issues that undermine the safety and security of our prisons. We are taking decisive measures to find and block mobiles, including investing into detection equipment, including hand-held detectors and portable detection devices. These figures highlight the success of these measures, and the determination of prison staff to disrupt this behaviour. Any offender found using a mobile phone could face an extra two years behind bars.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 05/02/2019 18:46:08 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

1051461

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Politicians: Visas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of 4 January 2019 to Questions 205232, 205233 and 205235, if he will take steps to ensure timely visa application processes for invited participants in Parliamentary events.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	214528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>Published data on entry clearance visa processing times, including the percentage of visas processed within published service standards, is published online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration</a></p><p>The vast majority of straightforward visa applications are processed within Service standards.</p><p>Additional services are available to assist with time-critical visits.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 07/02/2019 12:20:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1051469

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
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	Mental Health Inter-ministerial Group
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2019 to Question 212352 on Mental Health Inter-ministerial Group, on what date the inter-ministerial group for mental health will next meet.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	214539
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The Inter-Ministerial Group for mental health is led by my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, and is attended by Secretaries of State and Ministers from a wide range of Government departments, and other Government departments when required.</p><p> </p><p>We are planning to hold the next meeting at the end of April. Invitations to members of the Group will be issued shortly.</p><p> </p><p>Since the last meeting of the Group, the Minister has continued to engage bilaterally with colleagues in other Government departments on specific issues, such as offender health, gambling addiction, physical and mental health of offenders, and in relation to the Online Harms White Paper.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 06/02/2019 16:36:34 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price previous answer version 99587 answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1051495

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Iran
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Iranian citizens able to apply for visas to visit the UK at the Visas and Immigration Centre in Tehran.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	214474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>Yes, Iranian citizens are able to apply for visas to visit the UK at the Visas Application Centre in Tehran.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/02/2019 18:45:55 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1051968

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation: Prosecutions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Manzoor on 29 January (HL12848), how many successful prosecutions there have been in the UK for female genital mutiliation; and how many prosecutions are pending.
tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
uin	HL13299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>Up until 31 December 2017, there have been two prosecutions in England and Wales (one in 2014, and one in 2016) but no convictions for the principal offence of female genital mutilation under the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003. Data for 2018 will be published in May 2019.</p><p>Whilst not yet recorded in the official statistics, a jury convicted the first defendant of an FGM offence on 1 February 2019.</p><p>Information around pending prosecutions is held by the Crown Prosecution Service.</p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 06/02/2019 12:34:27 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

1051989

registered interest
date	30/01/2019
answering body	The Senior Deputy Speaker
answering dept id	204
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Senior Deputy Speaker (HoL)
hansard heading	Parliamentary Estate: Proof of Identity
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what consideration has been given to requiring all visitors to the Parliamentary estate to present photo identification before entry.
tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
uin	HL13316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>There are over one million visitors to Parliament each year. Visitors access the estate for many reasons. These include: to meet with a Member or a member of staff; to attend a Member-sponsored meeting or meetings at official level; to give evidence to a Committee; to lobby; to attend debates in both Houses (in the Chambers and Committees); to attend functions and banqueting events; to take a tour (both paid-for and democratic free tours); or as part of an Education Service visit. Many visits do not need to be pre-booked. In order to promote open access to Parliament controls are kept proportionate to the security risk. Photo identification by visitors is not currently deemed proportionate and if introduced would need to be verified, significantly delaying the admission of visitors to Parliament and resulting in lengthy queues at peak times.</p><p>All non-passholders are subject to search and screening measures before entering the estate. The Parliamentary Security Department do not comment publicly on the details of security measures.</p><p>The Director of Security for Parliament is content to meet with any members who wish to discuss specific concerns.</p> answering member printed Lord McFall of Alcluith question first answered 07/02/2019 12:41:04 answering member 4148 label Biography information for Lord McFall of Alcluith
tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley