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1127113

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date	16/05/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Chemical Weapons: Salisbury
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what reviews his Department has commissioned into the 2018 Salisbury Novichok nerve agent incident; and what the timeframe is for those reviews to be (a) completed and (b) published.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	255261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2019 answer text <p>We keep the issues raised by the Salisbury nerve agent attack under consideration but currently have no plans to publish any reviews relating to them.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 24/05/2019 11:33:41 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1127123

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Nottinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the funding per pupil at (a) primary and ( b) secondary schools in Nottinghamshire in 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	255387
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2019 answer text <p>Nottinghamshire will receive, in total, £482.1 million through the schools block of the Dedicated Schools Grant in 2019-20, as calculated under the national funding formula. This means that the overall average per pupil funding for mainstream schools in Nottinghamshire this year is £4,442.</p><p>Local authorities are still responsible for designing a local formula to fund schools in their areas. The average per pupil funding allocated under Nottinghamshire’s local formula is £3,990 per pupil in primary schools, and £5,017 per pupil in secondary schools.</p><p>Schools also receive funding from separate funding streams and additional grants, such as the high needs blocks of the DSG and the Pupil Premium.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 24/05/2019 12:38:20 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1127130

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
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	Statutory Sick Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on mandating private healthcare companies to provide statutory sick pay; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	255297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2019 answer text <p>All employers are already required to provide Statutory Sick Pay to an employee on sickness absence who meet certain criteria.</p><ol><li>To qualify for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) an individual must:</li></ol><p>(a) be an “employed earner” working for an employer who has liability to pay secondary Class 1 NI contributions</p><p>(b) have done some work for the employer</p><p>(c) have been ill for at least 4 days in a row (including non-working days)</p><p>(d) earn above the Lower Earnings Limit (currently at £118 per week)</p><p>(e) have given the correct notice to the employer.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 24/05/2019 11:56:23 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1127132

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Ministers of Religion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) prisoners and (b) chaplains employed within prisons there are of each religion or belief.
tabling member constituency	Reigate
tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
uin	255249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2019 answer text <p>The Prison Act 1952 enshrines in law the statutory duties of a prison chaplain. These tasks, which must be undertaken daily, are incorporated into Prison Rules and Young Offender Rules. They are explained in detail in Prison Service Instruction 05/2016 Faith and Pastoral Care for Prisoners.</p><p>We recognise and respect the right of prisoners to register and practice their faith while serving their prison sentence. Chaplaincy plays a critical and unique role in the work of prisons and life of prisoners. It provides not only faith advice but pastoral care in support of HM Prison and Probation Service’s commitments to decency, safety and rehabilitation.</p><p>A breakdown of prisoner population by religion is provided in the quarterly Offender Management statistics publication on GOV.UK. The latest publication can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2018</a>. The relevant extract of those statistics is provided in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="7"><p><strong><em>Table 1.5: Prison population by religion and sex</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>31-Mar-18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>30-Jun-18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>30-Sep-18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>31-Dec-18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>31-Mar-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Percentage change March 2018 to 2019</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Males and Females</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>83,263</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>82,773</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>83,005</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>82,236</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>82,634</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>-1%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All Christian</p></td><td><p>39,839</p></td><td><p>39,541</p></td><td><p>39,784</p></td><td><p>39,293</p></td><td><p>39,515</p></td><td><p>-1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Anglican</em></p></td><td><p><em>13,971</em></p></td><td><p><em>13,808</em></p></td><td><p><em>13,755</em></p></td><td><p><em>13,496</em></p></td><td><p><em>13,480</em></p></td><td><p><em>-4%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Free Church</em></p></td><td><p><em>776</em></p></td><td><p><em>764</em></p></td><td><p><em>782</em></p></td><td><p><em>758</em></p></td><td><p><em>737</em></p></td><td><p><em>-5%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Roman Catholic</em></p></td><td><p><em>14,334</em></p></td><td><p><em>14,277</em></p></td><td><p><em>14,246</em></p></td><td><p><em>14,094</em></p></td><td><p><em>14,160</em></p></td><td><p><em>-1%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Other Christian</em></p></td><td><p><em>10,758</em></p></td><td><p><em>10,692</em></p></td><td><p><em>11,001</em></p></td><td><p><em>10,945</em></p></td><td><p><em>11,138</em></p></td><td><p><em> 4%</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Muslim</p></td><td><p>12,847</p></td><td><p>12,894</p></td><td><p>12,868</p></td><td><p>12,894</p></td><td><p>13,008</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hindu</p></td><td><p>379</p></td><td><p>354</p></td><td><p>350</p></td><td><p>361</p></td><td><p>343</p></td><td><p>-9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sikh</p></td><td><p>625</p></td><td><p>632</p></td><td><p>634</p></td><td><p>638</p></td><td><p>611</p></td><td><p>-2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Buddhist</p></td><td><p>1,517</p></td><td><p>1,518</p></td><td><p>1,569</p></td><td><p>1,575</p></td><td><p>1,619</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jewish</p></td><td><p>480</p></td><td><p>488</p></td><td><p>477</p></td><td><p>482</p></td><td><p>477</p></td><td><p>-1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other religious group</p></td><td><p>1,724</p></td><td><p>1,777</p></td><td><p>1,782</p></td><td><p>1,838</p></td><td><p>1,876</p></td><td><p>9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Non recognised</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>**</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>No religion</p></td><td><p>25,711</p></td><td><p>25,393</p></td><td><p>25,413</p></td><td><p>25,053</p></td><td><p>25,034</p></td><td><p>-3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not recorded</p></td><td><p>131</p></td><td><p>165</p></td><td><p>116</p></td><td><p>96</p></td><td><p>144</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Chaplains may work on a full-time, part-time, sessional or voluntary basis. A breakdown of Chaplains in employed in prisons and by faith, is provided below.</p><p><strong>Number of chaplains (headcount) employed by HM Prison and Probation Service<sup>1</sup>, as at 31 March 2019.</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Headcount</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Prison Service establishments</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Religion</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of chaplains</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Christian</p></td><td><p>242</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Muslim</p></td><td><p>118</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Sikh</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Hindu</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Unknown<strong><sup>2</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>99</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>474</p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Notes to Table</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" rowspan="3"><p><ol><li>A substantial amount of Chaplaincy services within the public sector Prison Service are provided by non-employed staff on a sessional basis, which are not included in the figures presented in this table. Chaplains fill roles in bands 5 and 7 or above under the Fair and Sustainable structures.</li><li>These are mostly managing Chaplains where the religion of the post is not specified.</li><li>Only includes chaplains working in prisons and therefore will not match published data which includes Chaplains who work in other areas of HMPPS, such as at Headquarters.</li></ol></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" rowspan="3"><p>Information on the private estate is not held centrally. The total number of chaplain staff since 2010 can be found in the HMPPS Workforce Statistics Bulletin. The latest publication on the number of Chaplains can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hm-prison-and-probation-service-workforce-quarterly-march-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hm-prison-and-probation-service-workforce-quarterly-march-2019</a> Information on the religious affiliation of chaplains is not published.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 24/05/2019 12:37:29 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt

1127143

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Sentencing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of people convicted in each of the last twelve years who previously had (a) no, (b) between one and four, (c) between five and nine, (d) between 10 and 15, (e) between 16 and 25, (f) between 26 and 50, (g) between 51 and 75, (h) between 76 and 100 and (i) 101 or more convictions received (i) an immediate custodial sentence, (ii) a suspended sentence and (iii) a community sentence.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	255398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2019 answer text <p>Data on the percentage of occasions on which an offender was convicted with a specified number of previous convictions and received a specified sentence, covering the period 2006 – 2018, can be viewed in the attached table.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 24/05/2019 12:34:07 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland attachment 1 file name Copy of PQ255398 Response Table.xlsx title Table
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1127164

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Model Aircraft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of the forthcoming Drone Registration Scheme on aero modellers flying of small air vehicles that are not drones.
tabling member constituency	South Leicestershire
tabling member printed	Alberto Costa
uin	255347
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2019 answer text <p>The Drone Operator Registration Scheme will apply from November 2019 and is one of several new measures to address the safety and security challenges that unmanned aircraft pose. It will help law enforcement agencies to tackle the misuse of such aircraft effectively, alongside new Police powers, which will be introduced in the upcoming Drones Bill.</p><p> </p><p>In response to the Department’s 2018 consultation on unmanned aircraft, the Government stated that any alternative approach for model flyers must be achieved without imposing undue burden on the state and the taxpayer, whilst also being efficient and enforceable, without compromising the integrity of the policy. Any blanket exemption from registration and competency tests for aero modellers, or having the associations register their members into the registration scheme, will not meet these criteria.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 24/05/2019 09:23:16 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4439 label Biography information for Alberto Costa

1127200

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
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	Access to Work Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions she has had with (a) disabled people and (b) disabled people's organisations on the Access to Work scheme.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	255394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2019 answer text <p>I am committed to ensuring that disabled people and disabled people’s organisations are engaged with and listened to. My diary for this year is filling up with meetings with disabled people and stakeholders, ranging from individual Access to Work customers to larger organisations such as Action on Hearing Loss.</p><p> </p><p>Access to Work has a regular stakeholder forum which brings together disabled people and disabled people’s organisations to discuss how the Access to Work offer works for our customers. This group includes representatives from organisations such as the Thomas Pocklington Trust, Versus Arthritis and the National Deaf Children’s Association. The group is due to meet next month and will discuss plans for future improvements for the Access to Work scheme.</p><p> </p><p>DWP also undertakes regular engagement with stakeholders on specific issues. For example, this week officials held a stakeholder workshop on Access to Work’s Tech Fund policy, exploring strategies for encouraging the take-up of assistive technology to meet support needs. Next week, we are hosting the latest in a series of stakeholder workshops to discuss the Access to Work offer for self-employed people.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 24/05/2019 12:10:30 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1127218

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
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	Employment: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on ensuring that workplaces (a) have stand-alone mental health policies for employees and (b) provide mental health training for management and staff to support colleagues.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	255298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2019 answer text <p>The DWP and DHSC Joint Work and Health Unit is overseeing progress across 40 recommendations that were made in <em>Thriving at Work: The Stevenson / Farmer review of mental health and employers</em> published in October 2017 these range from short term deliverables to longer term reform. Government is committed to working with the authors of the review and key stakeholders across the public, private and voluntary sectors to ensure that employers of all sizes act to implement the core and enhanced standards and help them, and their employees, realise the benefits of healthy, inclusive workplaces.</p><p> </p><p>To improve information and advice for employers we are working with Mind and the Royal Foundation to continue developing their Mental Health at Work website (<a href="https://www.mentalhealthatwork.org.uk" target="_blank">https://www.mentalhealthatwork.org.uk</a>) which launched on 11<sup>th</sup> September 2018.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 24/05/2019 11:47:32 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1127237

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
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	International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they took to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia on 17 May and support its theme of "Justice and Protection for All".
tabling member printed	Baroness Anelay of St Johns
uin	HL15790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2019 answer text <p>​To mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) government buildings across the UK and, where locally appropriate, our overseas missions flew the Rainbow flag. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office hosted an in-house panel event including LGBT Rights activists and lawyers that discussed tackling discrimination, advocating for decriminalisation and the issues facing LGBT equality globally. Our overseas missions celebrated in diverse ways including hosting civil society events and roundtables, and using social media to issue messages to mark IDAHOBIT that demonstrate the UK’s ongoing support for the human rights of LGBT people.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 24/05/2019 11:46:25 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns

1127250

registered interest
date	16/05/2019
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	Israeli Settlements
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the amount of UK financial involvement with illegal settlements in the West Bank; and what action they will take to curb it.
tabling member printed	Lord Judd
uin	HL15803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2019 answer text <p>We have not made an assessment of this issue. It has long been our position that Israeli settlement activity is illegal. We do not recognise the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including the settlements in the West Bank, as part of Israel and these settlements are not covered by the current EU-Israel Association Agreement which governs our trade with Israel.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 24/05/2019 11:46:52 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	1660 label Biography information for Lord Judd