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1052160

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date	31/01/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Department for International Trade: Redundancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many redundancies there have been from his Department's trade promotion offices since April 2018.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	215089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>There have been no UK civil servants from DIT or UKEF who have been made redundant since April 2018, as per the provisions of the Civil Service Compensation Scheme, a statutory scheme made under the Superannuation Act 1972.</p><p> </p><p>This does not include locally engaged staff employed by the FCO overseas who work on DIT's objectives.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 07/02/2019 13:28:29 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1052162

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	English Language and History: Curriculum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) English and (b) History on the national curriculum is (i) relevant, (ii) modern and (iii) interesting for students.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	215212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The new national curriculum, first taught in maintained schools from September 2014, was developed in consultation with subject experts, teachers and with regard to international best practice comparisons. These new programmes of study are more rigorous in preparing pupils for the high expectations of working life.</p><p>The history curriculum sets out core knowledge within a clear chronological framework, ensuring pupils are taught history in a way that helps them understand the development of the modern world in reference to key historical events.</p><p>The English national curriculum and GCSE syllabuses aims to teach pupils to develop a love of reading. Pupils study our rich literary heritage, from Shakespeare through to modern authors, and also read a range of works from the 19<sup>th</sup>, 20<sup>th</sup> and 21<sup>st</sup> centuries.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 06/02/2019 17:40:13 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1052165

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the Corrected Answer of 22 January 2019 to Question 206251 on Government Departments: Staff, how many civil servants in his department were working (a) part and (b) full time on projects in the Government Major Projects Portfolio in (i) June 2016 and (ii) December 2018.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	215092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>None. The GMPP is a continually evolving portfolio of the government’s most complex and high risk projects in which the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland has a facilitating role.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 07/02/2019 14:55:08 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1052166

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to the Corrected Answer of 22 January 2019 to Question 206251 on Government Departments: Staff, how many civil servants in his Department were working (a) part and (b) full time on projects in the Government Major Projects Portfolio in (i) June 2016 and (ii) December 2018.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	215093
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>The GMPP is a continually evolving portfolio of the government’s most complex and high-risk projects. Direct comparisons of the GMPP across years should therefore be treated with caution. Projects join and leave the GMPP throughout the year and it is therefore likely that a simple comparison across two-time points will refer to different sets of projects.</p><p> </p><p>My Office works with lead Government departments on a range of major project investments in Wales in non-devolved sectors. The Office has no civil servants working full-time on the GMPP and does not record the number of staff engaged part-time on supporting these projects.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns question first answered 04/02/2019 11:56:04 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1052167

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with reference to the oral contribution of the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of 10 January 2019, Official Report, column 575, whether (a) he and (b) Cabinet colleagues have held meetings with representatives of parties or campaign organisations in other member states that advocate the withdrawal of their countries from the European Union.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	215220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK Government is committed to leaving the European Union with a deal. Government Ministers engage with European Union member states on a regular basis to discuss the Withdrawal Agreement and the UK’s future relationship with the European Union.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 07/02/2019 08:54:56 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1052173

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
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	Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) holdings were tested for bovine tuberculosis, (b) animals were tested in each of those holdings and (c) of those animals tested positive using the interferon gamma test in each county of England in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	215074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>Data on tuberculin skin testing for parts (a) and (b) is not held in the form requested. Published statistical data sets show that there were 67,137 tests on herds in the 10 months to October 2018. Total cattle tests in the same period amounted to 8,278,885. The full year figures for 2018 will not be available until March 2019, because the data has to meet the Code of Practice for Statistics. The data sets, which include county level data, and explanatory notes can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/tuberculosis-tb-in-cattle-in-great-britain" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/tuberculosis-tb-in-cattle-in-great-britain</a></p><p> </p><p>The numbers of cattle that tested positive to the interferon gamma test in each county of England in 2018 is set out in the attached table.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 06/02/2019 16:49:16 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice attachment 1 file name Gamma testing - all counties.docx title Gamma testing data for England
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1052174

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for his policies of the conclusions in relation to (a) children living in poverty, (b) the provision of childcare available to low-income families and (c) the level of early years teachers of the Report entitled, It All Starts Here, published by Save the Children in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	215174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring that all children have access to a high quality of early education and can achieve their full potential. The latest Ofsted data confirms that 95% of providers are now rated good and outstanding, up from 68% in 2010.</p><p> </p><p>Evidence tells us that children from disadvantaged backgrounds can be up to 19 months behind their better off peers in their learning by the time they start school. High-quality early learning from the age of two can help to narrow that gap. That is why we require local authorities to fund places for disadvantaged two-year-old children at providers judged ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted. Since its introduction in 2013, nearly three quarters of a million of the country’s most disadvantaged two-year-olds have benefitted from the entitlement to 15 hours of free early education a week.</p><p> </p><p>We do not require graduates in the private, voluntary and independent sector but remain committed to ensuring that there are training routes for those that wish to pursue graduate qualifications. For example, we continue to fund early years initial teacher training (EYITT). We are also investing £20 million in professional development and training for early years practitioners in disadvantaged areas.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 05/02/2019 16:05:58 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1052177

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
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, what assessment he has made of the reasons why the number of looked after children aged over 16 has increased; and what plans he has to manage that increase.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	215197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>Factors leading to there being more older than younger looked-after children include an increase in the number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (who are mainly 15 to 17 year olds); increasing efforts to protect children from criminal activity such as child sexual exploitation and gang and drug culture; and a recent court judgement which means 16 to 17 year olds are taken into care when they present as homeless.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education is launching a new national Tackling Child Exploitation support service, backed by up to £2 million, which will operate up until 2022, to address child sexual exploitation together with other forms of child criminal exploitation. The department has also made a £1.3 million contribution to the controlling migration fund over two years to fund 8 local authorities to provide better access to initial assessment and education for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.</p><p> </p><p>The department remains committed to ensuring that local authorities only seek to take children into care where they must do so, including through the reform programme outlined in ‘Putting children first’. We are working across government and with local family justice boards to better understand the challenges in the family justice system and to consider what else can be done to address these. In addition at Autumn Budget, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced £84 million for ‘Strengthening families, protecting children’<em>,</em> a programme which will support a number of local authorities to improve their social work practice and decision-making, to support their most vulnerable children to stay safely at home, thriving in stable family circumstances - where that is in their best interests.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 05/02/2019 16:37:55 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1052178

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
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	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Cleaning Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2019 to Question 211155 on Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Contracts, for what reason cleaning staff (a) outside London are paid the statutory National Living Wage and (b) inside London are paid the London Living Wage as defined by the Living Wage Foundation.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	215101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>In line with the practice of previous Administrations, we do not require companies contracted to the Department to pay Living Wage Foundation’s living wage to the staff that they employ.</p><p>Specific rates of pay are a matter for each individual contractor, as the employer, but assurances are provided to ensure full compliance with the requirements of the National Minimum Wage and the National Living Wage.​</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 05/02/2019 16:48:08 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1052179

registered interest
date	31/01/2019
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	Sudan: Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans he has to raise the matter of human rights of protesters and medical staff in Sudan at the next UK-Sudan Strategic Dialogue.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	215064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>In our Troika (UK, USA and Norway) statement of the 8 January we made clear that the Government of Sudan's response to ongoing protests will impact our approach to engagement. No date has been set for the next round of the UK-Sudan Strategic Dialogue, but we continue to raise our human rights concerns at the highest levels, I did so most recently with the Sudanese Foreign Minister on 22 January.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 05/02/2019 16:02:44 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms