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1140358

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Child Tax Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many households with no one in work receive the (a) disabled child element and (b) the disabled child element but not the severely disabled child element in their child tax credit.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	279149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>As at December 2018 there were 176,000 out-of-work families receiving the disabled child element, of which 101,000 were not also receiving the severely disabled child element.</p><p> </p><p>There were 121,000 out-of-work single adult families receiving the disabled child element, of which 71,000 were not also receiving the severely disabled child element.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 279150 question first answered 23/07/2019 10:15:17 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1140359

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Ground Rent
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what impact assessments the Government has undertaken on capping ground rents for existing leaseholders, and what cap values were used in those assessments.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	279126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government understands the difficulties and frustrations of some existing leaseholders who are unhappy about the amount of ground rent they are required to pay and feel their leases should be changed.</p><p>There are many implications to be considered in relation to legislation which would interfere with individual contracts, for instance taking account of Article 1 Protocol 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights and the principle of legal certainty.</p><p>There are no current plans to legislate in this area, and so no impact assessment has been done.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 23/07/2019 11:35:34 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1140360

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps he has taken to widen access to the highest performing schools in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
tabling member printed	Paul Farrelly
uin	278923
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>86% of schools in England are good or outstanding.</p><p>The Department has committed £7 billion to create new school places between 2015 and 2021, the vast majority of which are being created in the best existing schools or through good new schools. The Department is on track to create 1 million places this decade, the largest increase in school capacity in at least two generations.</p><p>Of the mainstream free schools approved between 2014 and 2017, 86% have been in areas where there was a need for more school places. 84% of free schools with inspection reports published by the end of May are rated good or outstanding.</p><p> </p><p>98% of grammar schools are also good or outstanding and the Department wants more disadvantaged pupils to be able to access a place at them. That is why it has made £100 million available through the Selective Schools Expansion Fund to create additional places, where needed, in selective schools that commit to a plan to improve access for disadvantaged children. In 2018 the Department announced 16 selective schools to be funded to expand, and it launched a second bidding round in 2019.</p><p>Education is a devolved matter and it is for the Welsh national assembly to decide on education in Wales.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 23/07/2019 15:45:06 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1436 label Biography information for Paul Farrelly

1140361

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Child Tax Credit: Lone Parents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many single parents who are not in work receive (a) the disabled child element and (b) the disabled child element but not the severely disabled child element in their child tax credit.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	279150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>As at December 2018 there were 176,000 out-of-work families receiving the disabled child element, of which 101,000 were not also receiving the severely disabled child element.</p><p> </p><p>There were 121,000 out-of-work single adult families receiving the disabled child element, of which 71,000 were not also receiving the severely disabled child element.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss grouped question UIN 279149 question first answered 23/07/2019 10:15:17 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1140362

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Private Education: Overseas Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of Official Development Assistance allocated to his Department is spent on independent schools; and what other programmes are funded by that Assistance.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	279002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>The department’s estimated Official Development Assistance (ODA) spend in 2018 was £20 million, which also included a £5 million contribution to the Association of Commonwealth Universities’ scholarship endowment fund. This spend was announced last April and exclusively funds master’s level scholarships for citizens of ODA-eligible Commonwealth countries.</p><p>This estimate of spending on ODA primarily relates to the provision of education of child and unaccompanied child asylum seekers in the 12 months after they make an asylum claim in the UK. The department estimates how much of the wider core schools funding for England is allocated due to having these children on schools’ rolls. The estimate does not include any spending on independent schools.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/07/2019 16:51:50 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1140363

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Universal Credit: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of universal credit mandatory reconsiderations where the claimant was (a) represented and (b) not represented were successful; what proportion of unsuccessful mandatory reconsiderations where the claimant was (a) represented and (b) not represented were appealed; and how many of those appeals were successful.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	279151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/07/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/07/2019 12:39:04 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1140364

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answers of 16 May 2019 to Question 255325 and Question 255326 on mental health in prisons, whether the number of prison officers trained in the new suicide and self-harm reduction training is 14,000 or 24,000.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	279003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>All staff who have contact with prisoners are required to undertake training in suicide and self-harm prevention. This includes key workers, who are uniformed prison officers. The training comprises six modules, one of which focuses on mental health awareness.</p><p> </p><p>At the time of the previous answers, more than 24,000 staff had undertaken at least one module of the training, and of those more than 14,000 had undertaken all six, including the mental health awareness element.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 279004 question first answered 23/07/2019 11:20:06 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1140365

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Death and Self-harm
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 16 May 2019 to Question 255326 on death and self-harm in prisons, whether key workers supporting new prisoners are mandated to undertake suicide and self-harm prevention training.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	279004
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2019 answer text <p>All staff who have contact with prisoners are required to undertake training in suicide and self-harm prevention. This includes key workers, who are uniformed prison officers. The training comprises six modules, one of which focuses on mental health awareness.</p><p> </p><p>At the time of the previous answers, more than 24,000 staff had undertaken at least one module of the training, and of those more than 14,000 had undertaken all six, including the mental health awareness element.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 279003 question first answered 23/07/2019 11:20:06 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1140366

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Breast Cancer: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with Sir Mike Richards on workforce requirements to support the implementation of breast screening recommendations in the Independent Review of National Screening Programmes in England.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	279127
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2019 answer text <p>Professor Sir Mike Richards published his interim findings of his Independent Review of Adult Health Screening in May. The Government is considering Professor Sir Mike’s interim recommendations carefully, alongside the recent report on screening published by the Public Accounts Committee, the recommendations made in the Independent Breast Screening Review and the commitments made in the NHS Long Term Plan.</p><p>Workforce requirements to support delivery of our national screening programmes are included in scope of Professor Sir Mike’s review, with specific reference to diagnostic capacity and the need to improve uptake and address inequalities. Whilst we await publication of Professor Sir Mike’s final report, Ministers and officials in the Department are continuing to engage with Professor Sir Mike on how to improve effective delivery of our national screening programmes, which includes addressing the workforce requirements.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 26/07/2019 11:55:16 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1140367

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Government Finance: Barnsley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the core spending power per dwelling for Barnsley council was in each financial year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	279128
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2019 answer text <p>the Department took the decision not to publish Core Spending Power per dwelling over time because both the amount of funding and the number of dwellings change. This means that year on year comparisons are not a useful measure.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 25/07/2019 10:04:28 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock