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1077122

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date	25/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to increase the (a) availability and (b) quality of offender learning and skills in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	225506
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>We set out our intentions in the prisoner Education and Employment Strategy, published last year. In April 2019, the new prison education contracts commence. The services these contracts deliver have been chosen by prison governors to ensure that the learning available to prisoners is both relevant for their own development needs and linked to labour market information, supporting employment outcomes. The new contracts, and increased local and national management of the education providers, will provide better and more immediate information on the quality of the service being delivered and provide better levers for governors to manage underperformance.</p><p>In addition to these main contracts, our prison education Dynamic Purchasing System allows prison governors to commission specific, short-term education provision to meet niche and other learning needs their prisoners have, or to commission training to address employers’ bespoke training requirements. This will allow prisoners to take advantage of labour market opportunities on release.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 05/03/2019 17:32:11 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1077128

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date	25/02/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Nepal: Economic Growth and Tourism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterpart in the Nepalese Government on support for (a) economic growth and (b) tourism in that country.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	225512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>​I met Foreign Minister Gyawali twice last year in Kathmandu and at the UN in New York to discuss a range of issues, including economic growth and tourism, which are vital for the Government of Nepal to realise its ambition to become a middle-income country by 2030. My officials supported a visit by the Finance Minister on 20-22 February 2019. The UK and Nepal have a friendly and long-standing relationship, and we have offered support for Nepal's Visit Nepal 2020 campaign, sharing expertise from our own GREAT Britain campaign. We are also in the final stages of negotiating a Double Taxation Agreement with Nepal to promote British investment.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 05/03/2019 17:15:18 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1077131

registered interest
date	25/02/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Saudi Arabia: Political Prisoners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Saudi Arabian counterpart on the indefinite detention of senior political opponents in that country.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	225515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>The Foreign Secretary visited Saudi Arabia last weekend, where he raised a series of human rights issues. We regularly raise our concerns about human rights with Saudi Arabia, which remains a Foreign and Commonwealth Office human rights priority country, particularly because of the use of the death penalty, women’s rights and restrictions on freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and freedom of religion or belief.</p><p>​</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 05/03/2019 17:43:13 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon