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1145680

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time was for personal independence payments claimants awaiting an appeal on their claim to be heard in the Garston and Halewood constituency in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	290677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>Waiting times for appeals against decisions made about Personal Independence Payment (PIP) are published at:</p><p>www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</p><p> </p><p>Average waiting times<sup>1</sup> for PIP<sup>2</sup> appeals in Garston and Halewood<sup>3</sup> between July 2018 to June 2019 (the latest 12 month period for which data are available) are included in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Waiting time (in weeks)<sup>4</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2018</p></td><td><p>34</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2018</p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2018</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2018</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2018</p></td><td><p>38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2018</p></td><td><p>39</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2019</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2019</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2019</p></td><td><p>36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2019<sup> p</sup></p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2019<sup> p</sup></p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2019<sup> p</sup></p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1. </sup>Waiting time is interpreted as average clearance time – time taken from appeal receipt to outcome.</p><p><sup>2. </sup>PIP (New Claim Appeals), which is replacing Disability Living Allowance was introduced on 8 April 2013, and also includes Disability Living Allowance Reassessed cases.</p><p><sup>3. </sup>SSCS data are recorded by the office that dealt with the case, and if the case went to oral hearing, the location of the tribunal hearing, which is normally the hearing venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. Cases relating to the Garston and Halewood constituency are attributed to the Liverpool venue.</p><p><sup>4. </sup>Includes all cases cleared both with and without a tribunal hearing, in line with the published statistics.</p><p><sup>p. </sup>Provisional data which are subject to change.</p><p> </p><p>Waiting times are calculated from receipt of an appeal to its final disposal. An appeal is not necessarily disposed of at its first hearing. The final disposal decision on the appeal may be reached after an earlier hearing had been adjourned (which may be directed by the judge for a variety of reasons, such as to seek further evidence), or after an earlier hearing date had been postponed (again, for a variety of reasons, often at the request of the appellant). An appeal may also have been decided at an earlier date by the First-tier Tribunal, only for the case to have gone on to the Upper Tribunal, to be returned once again to the First-tier, for its final disposal.</p><p> </p><p>It is important that appeals are heard as quickly as possible. HMCTS recognises there are delays in the system and it is in the process of recruiting more judicial office holders in order to increase capacity and help to reduce waiting times for appellants. This includes 250 judges across the First-tier Tribunal, 125 disability qualified members and up to 230 medical members.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, HMCTS has recently launched a new digital service with a view to enabling speedier processing of appeals. Information on the new digital service can be found at: www.gov.uk/appeal-benefit-decision/submit-appeal.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS is also working with the Department for Work and Pensions to understand what could be done to reduce the number of appeals being submitted to the Tribunal, through their focus on improving decision-making and the mandatory reconsideration process.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 30/09/2019 16:48:22 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

1145689

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Sign Language
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to extend the (a) teaching and (b) use of British Sign Language (BSL) in the (i) classroom, (ii) workplace and (iii) wider society.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	290713
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting the education of all children and young people with special educational needs or a disability, including those with a hearing impairment.</p><p>Schools may choose to offer British Sign Language (BSL) in their individual school curriculum or extra-curricular activities, including offering existing accredited BSL qualifications. In addition, the Department is developing draft BSL GCSE subject content, which will be considered against the subject content criteria requirements that apply to all GCSEs.</p><p>The Government has always worked closely with deaf people and their organisations on delivering improvements across a wide range of services including Access to Work, accessing healthcare information, and supporting the funding of BSL interpreters. There is more to be done and the Government is committed to continuing to work in partnership with deaf people, and the organisations that represent deaf people, to improve their lives.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 30/09/2019 16:46:01 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1145690

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Fuel Poverty: North Yorkshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many households in (a) York Central constituency, (b) City of York local authority area and (c) North Yorkshire are living in fuel poverty.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	290714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>The latest sub-regional fuel poverty statistics can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-sub-regional-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-sub-regional-statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 30/09/2019 15:37:55 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1145692

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Class Sizes: York
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average pupil to teacher ratio was in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in York in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	290716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>The table below provides the average pupil to teacher ratio in state funded primary and state funded secondary schools in York and England[1] as reported by schools in each year in November from 2011 to 2018.</p><p>Data from before 2011 was collected every year from January and is not comparable to data collected after 2011 in the School Workforce Census. Data from before 2011 is available here: <a href="https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120531061356/https:/www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/teachersandschoolworkforce/a00196868/pupil-teacher-ratios" target="_blank">https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120531061356/https://www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/statistics/statistics-by-topic/teachersandschoolworkforce/a00196868/pupil-teacher-ratios</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Primary<strong>[2]</strong></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Secondary</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>York</p></td><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>York</p></td><td><p>England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011<strong>[3]</strong></strong></p></td><td><p>21.9</p></td><td><p>20.5</p></td><td><p>16.1</p></td><td><p>14.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>21.2</p></td><td><p>20.5</p></td><td><p>14.4</p></td><td><p>14.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>25.4[4]</p></td><td><p>20.5</p></td><td><p>15.0</p></td><td><p>15.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p>21.6</p></td><td><p>20.4</p></td><td><p>15.3</p></td><td><p>15.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p>25.9</p></td><td><p>20.5</p></td><td><p>17.0</p></td><td><p>15.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p>24.3[5]</p></td><td><p>20.9</p></td><td><p>17.8[6]</p></td><td><p>15.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p>22.1</p></td><td><p>20.9</p></td><td><p>17.3[7]</p></td><td><p>16.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p>21.9</p></td><td><p>20.9</p></td><td><p>17.2[8]</p></td><td><p>16.3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Source: School Workforce Census</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>[1] The England figures are calculated by dividing the total full-time education number of pupils on roll in schools in each year by the total number of teachers in schools each year. Where schools are not open on Census day, for both the School Workforce Census (November), and the school Census (January) they are excluded. Schools that do not provide either pupil or teacher figures are also excluded. The School Workforce Census methodology document provides further information, available here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/811619/SWFC_Methodology.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/811619/SWFC_Methodology.pdf</a>.</p><p>[2] Excludes nursery.</p><p>[3] Figures prior to 2011 are not available in a complete format.</p><p>[4] This figure is based on 50 out of the 52 open primary schools in York in 2013.</p><p>[5] This figure is based on 49 out of the 50 open primary schools in York in 2016.</p><p>[6] This figure is based on 8 out of the 9 open secondary schools in York in 2016.</p><p>[7] This figure is based on 8 out of the 9 open secondary schools in York in 2017.</p><p>[8] This figure is based on 8 out of the 9 open schools in York in 2018. All other figures for York are based on the full set of schools that were open at the time.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 30/09/2019 16:30:23 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1145693

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Per Capita Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the mean funding is per pupil for SEND provision in (a) York, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) England in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	290717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities are required to provide sufficient funds to enable schools to meet the cost of additional support for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), up to the value of £6,000. This funding comes from the schools block of the Dedicated Schools Grant.</p><p>When the costs of additional support required for a pupil with SEND exceed £6,000, the local authority should also allocate additional top-up funding to cover the excess costs. This top-up funding, and funding for special schools comes from the local authority’s high needs budget. In 2020-21, the department will provide more than £700 million, an 11% increase in one year, in additional high needs funding, bringing the national high needs funding total to over £7 billion. Every local authority will receive a minimum increase of 8% per head of their population aged 2-18 years old. The department will provide provisional allocations to local authorities in October.</p><p>Below we have provided the schools and high needs funding allocations for 2015-16 to 2019-20 for Yorkshire and the Humber, York, and England. We have also provided the total number of children with both SEND support and education, health and care plans, although this does not include young people in further education. The department also does not hold specific figures on how much of each local authority’s schools’ budget has been spent on SEND.</p><p>The schools and high needs funding allocations for 2015-16 to 2019-20 are as follows:</p><p>Yorkshire and the Humber:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Schools funding amount</p></td><td><p>High needs funding amount</p></td><td><p>Total SEND numbers</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£3,243.3 million</p></td><td><p>£436.2 million</p></td><td><p>126,544</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£3,278.5 million</p></td><td><p>£442.1 million</p></td><td><p>117,711</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£3,334.7 million</p></td><td><p>£476.3 million</p></td><td><p>119,673</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£3,389.8 million</p></td><td><p>£512.6 million*</p></td><td><p>102,530</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£3,474.6 million</p></td><td><p>£531.9 million*</p></td><td><p>129,674</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>York:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Schools funding amount</p></td><td><p>High needs funding amount</p></td><td><p>Total SEND numbers</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£91.1 million</p></td><td><p>£15.2 million</p></td><td><p>3,150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£92.2 million</p></td><td><p>£15.5 million</p></td><td><p>3,109</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£93.0 million</p></td><td><p>£18.1 million</p></td><td><p>3,178</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£94.1 million</p></td><td><p>£19.1 million*</p></td><td><p>3,367</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£98.2 million</p></td><td><p>£19.5 million*</p></td><td><p>3,409</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>England:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Schools funding amount</p></td><td><p>High needs funding amount</p></td><td><p>Total SEND numbers</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£32,168.1 million</p></td><td><p>£5246.5 million</p></td><td><p>1,301,444</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£32,650.3 million</p></td><td><p>£5300.0 million</p></td><td><p>1,228,787</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£33,093.6 million</p></td><td><p>£5826.8 million</p></td><td><p>1,244,253</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£33,684.0 million</p></td><td><p>£6114.3 million*</p></td><td><p>1,276,216</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£34,502.5 million</p></td><td><p>£6270.6 million*</p></td><td><p>1,318,328</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>* In December 2018, the department allocated an additional £250 million of high needs funding, in recognition of funding pressures. This additional funding is included within the final totals provided.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 03/10/2019 20:10:05 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan previous answer version 136303 answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1145696

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
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	Business: Data Protection
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 her Department has made of the number of data flow contractual clauses which will need to be arranged by businesses in the UK with business in the EU in the event of the UK leaving the EU (a) with and (b) without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	290718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 08/10/2019 16:32:17 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1145698

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Development Aid: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to increase Official Development Assistance spending on education.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	290720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>Between 2009 and 2018 DFID’s spend on education doubled from almost £500 million to nearly £1 billion. The Prime Minister has publicly stated that education, particularly girls’ education, is a priority for the UK. He announced £90 million for education in emergencies and protracted crisis including £85 million to Education Cannot Wait at the G7 Summit, and last week the UK announced a £515 million package of support for education, including a £300 million pledge for the new International Finance Facility for Education. In total, these announcements will support 6.3 million girls. Alongside our commitment to the Global Partnership for Education, the UK is now the leading bilateral donor to all three major multilateral education funds and continues to be one of the leading bilateral donors to basic education. At the UN General Assembly last week, the UK has been calling for others to step up and follow our lead.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 30/09/2019 17:10:23 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1145699

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
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	Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products
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 his Department has made of the suitability of NICE's process of medicines appraisal for new cell and gene therapies.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	290721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2019 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is an independent body and is responsible for the methods it uses in the development of its technology appraisal and highly specialised technologies recommendations. In March 2016, NICE published a summary report of work undertaken in collaboration with the University of York on the assessment and appraisal of regenerative medicines and cell therapy products. This is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/media/default/about/what-we-do/science%20policy%20and%20research/regenerative-medicine-study-march-2016.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.nice.org.uk/media/default/about/what-we-do/science%20policy%20and%20research/regenerative-medicine-study-march-2016.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 01/10/2019 09:50:38 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1145700

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Agriculture: Biofuels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential effect on (a) wheat and (b) dairy farmers of the UK leaving the EU without a deal; and what assessment she has made of the level of the UK's reliance on imported bioethanol.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	290722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2019 answer text <p>We have been meeting regularly with the food and farming sectors across the UK to understand and anticipate the potential impacts of a no deal scenario on our agri-food industry. The UK is a net importer of dairy but there are specific products of which we are net exporters. These may face tariff and non-tariff barriers to future EU export, and this will have a larger impact on Northern Ireland where they are heavily reliant on the Irish market. For wheat, for the last few years the UK has been a net importer, but it’s likely that this harvest will see us becoming a net exporter. MFN tariffs on wheat into the EU are extremely high, however, there is an underutilised tariff rate quota.</p><p> </p><p>We currently import around 2/3rds of our bioethanol, mainly from the EU. The UK alcohol industry, particularly gin and vodka, is reliant on EU bioethanol. Bioethanol is also a vital processing aid in the production of food flavourings and colourings, household and industrial cleaners, toiletries, cosmetics and medicinal agents. Ethanol is a globally traded commodity and we do not anticipate any shortages as a result of our exit from the EU.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 02/10/2019 12:38:54 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1145701

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
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	Nutrition: Health Education
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 potential effect on the Eatwell Guide of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	290723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of the potential effect on the Eatwell Guide if the United Kingdom leaves the European Union without a deal. The Eatwell Guide is based on the best available scientific evidence and would only be reviewed if the evidence underpinning it changed.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 30/09/2019 17:00:43 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson