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532891

registered interest
date	05/07/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Special Forces: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will assess the potential merits of appointing a committee of parliamentarians to oversee the operations and budget of special forces, similar to the functions of the Intelligence and Security Committee in respect of the intelligence services.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	41980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2016 answer text <p>No.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 11/07/2016 15:30:50 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

528936

registered interest
date	27/06/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many adults convicted of child sexual offences under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 were placed on a rehabilitation programme as part of (a) custodial and (b) non-custodial sentences in each of the last five years; and what proportion of those rehabilitation programmes were completed by such adults in those years.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	41338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2016 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost because it is not possible, without incurring disproportionate cost, to link offenders undergoing Sex Offender Treatment Programmes (SOTPs) to their particular offence.</p><p> </p><p>The number of accredited programmes started and completed by all sex-offenders, not specifically child sex offenders, is reported in the Accredited Programmes Annual Bulletin 2014/15, England and Wales, which is available at the link below. The report covers programmes delivered both in custody and the community.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/accredited-programmes-bulletin-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/accredited-programmes-bulletin-2014-to-2015</a></p><p> </p><p>For those SOTPs delivered in the community, completion rates for all offenders are included in the Management Information Addendum to the Annual Report and Accounts 2014/15, which is available at the link below. Completion rates have remained relatively stable at just over 80 per cent since 2010/11.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-performance-statistics-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-and-probation-performance-statistics-2014-to-2015</a></p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 05/07/2016 15:38:56 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

528937

registered interest
date	27/06/2016
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, with reference to the press release of the Department for Education of 4 January 2016, entitled Parents to get greater say in the school admissions process, what assessment she has made of the potential effect that ensuring only local parents and councils can object to school admissions arrangements will have on overall levels of compliance with the School Admissions Code.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	41339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2016 answer text <p>Our proposed changes are intended to ensure that the Adjudicator is able to focus on the concerns parents may have about the fairness of the admission arrangements of their local school, and is not held up by the need to consider objections referred by interest groups from outside the area.</p><p>We do not believe that limiting who is able to refer objections to the Adjudicator will have a detrimental impact.</p><p>Any changes will be subject to parliamentary scrutiny.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 05/07/2016 16:05:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

523018

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Pre-school Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of qualified early years teachers in nurseries.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	39347
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The department delivers early years initial teacher training places through the National College for Teaching and Leadership. There are four training routes available: undergraduate, assessment only, graduate entry and graduate employment based. To encourage take up, the Department funds course fees, pays bursaries to eligible trainees on the graduate entry route and provides financial support to employers for those trainees on the graduate employment based route.</p><p> </p><p>As part of our thinking on the early years workforce strategy we will be considering how best to continue to grow the graduate workforce, including supporting improved career progression.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 09/06/2016 15:27:10 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

523019

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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 recent assessment she has made of the level of affordability of childcare.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	39348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government uses a range of information from a number of different sources to consider the affordability of childcare, including: our ‘Childcare and early years survey of parents’ (<a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-survey-of-parents-2012-to-2013" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-survey-of-parents-2012-to-2013</a>), independent surveys, such as the Family and Childcare Trust Annual Childcare Cost Surveys (<a href="http://www.familyandchildcaretrust.org/childcare-cost-survey-2015" target="_blank">www.familyandchildcaretrust.org/childcare-cost-survey-2015</a>), and the recent House of Lords Select Committee’s report on affordable childcare – to which we responded on 17 December 2015 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/affordable-childcare-response-to-the-select-committee-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/affordable-childcare-response-to-the-select-committee-report</a>).</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to supporting hard-working parents with the costs of childcare and to make it more affordable. That is why we will be investing an extra £1 billion per annum by 2019-20 to help hardworking families with the cost of childcare. Since 2008 nursery costs have been increasing well above inflation, but the latest survey from the Family and Childcare Trust suggests that the nursery costs of childcare in England for both under and over two-year-olds have remained largely flat across all settings in the last year.</p><p> </p><p>We are already funding 15 hours a week of free early education for all three- and four-year-olds and for disadvantaged two-year-olds – this saves families around £2,500 per child per year. From September 2017, we will go further, delivering an additional 15 hours of free childcare for the working parents of three- and four-year olds (with early implementation in some areas from September 2016) – worth around another £2,500 per child per year. We also continue to invest in the Early Years Pupil Premium.</p><p> </p><p>We are also introducing Tax-Free Childcare from early 2017, under which around 2 million families could benefit by up to £2,000 per child per year or £4,000 per child per year if a child is disabled.</p><p> </p><p>For working parents on low and middle incomes, working tax credit pays up to 70% of their childcare costs and, as of April 2016, this has increased to 85% under Universal Credit. This support will be available, for the first time, to those working fewer than 16 hours per week.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 09/06/2016 15:29:42 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

523020

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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 steps she has taken to implement the provision of 15 additional hours of free childcare for working parents provided for under the Childcare Act 2016.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	39349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>At the 2015 Spending Review, the Government announced that we would provide £300 million for a significant uplift to the rate paid for the free childcare entitlements for two-, three- and four-year-olds from 2017-18. Together with the funding announced at last summer’s Budget, we will be investing over £1 billion more per year by 2019-20 to fund our commitments on the entitlements.</p><p> </p><p>The Childcare Act, which provides the legal framework for the extended entitlement, received Royal Assent in March. We also announced in February the eight early implementer local authorities which will offer the extended free childcare entitlement from September 2016. This means around 5,000 children will be able to benefit from 30 hours of high-quality free childcare places a year earlier than planned.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is also consulting on key elements of the operation and delivery of the extended free entitlement. This includes how the entitlement will be delivered, and how it will meet and be responsive to the needs of working parents. To date we have received over 1000 responses from a wide range of childcare providers, local authorities and provider organisations. We will use these views to inform our thinking as we move to delivering the 30 hours policy. The consultation is available at: <a href="https://consult.education.gov.uk/early-years-funding/childcare-free-entitlement" target="_blank">https://consult.education.gov.uk/early-years-funding/childcare-free-entitlement</a></p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 09/06/2016 15:26:18 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

523172

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Broadband: Bolton South East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many premises in Bolton South East constituency do not have access to superfast broadband.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	39547
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>The Honourable member will be pleased to hear that 98% of premises in her constituency will have access to superfast broadband by Spring 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Current estimates suggest that almost 95% of premises in the Bolton South East constituency are subject to commercial rollout, and based on DCMS modelled estimates and current delivery plans, a further 3% of premises will have access to superfast broadband by Spring 2017, thanks to the Government's rollout. Early gainshare funding that BT will return in response to the high levels of take-up being achieved, could help extend coverage further. It is estimated only 784 premises will be without superfast broadband by spring 2017.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government's intention to implement a new broadband Universal Service Obligation will give people the legal right to request a broadband connection, no matter where they live.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 13/06/2016 15:59:06 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

457541

registered interest
date	03/03/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Burma: Military Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether soldiers from Burma Army military operations command 2 (MOC-2) light infantry battalion (LIB) 9 or Burma Army Battalion 330 have received any form of training funded by the UK Government.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	29618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 11 January 2016 to Question 21564, which stated that we do not provide combat training to the Burmese Army. We do however provide educational training, as well as English Language Training. We have no information to indicate that participants on these educational courses were Burmese Army soldiers from Burma Army military operations command 2 (MOC-2) light infantry battalion (LIB) 9 or Burma Army Battalion 330.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 08/03/2016 16:47:06 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt attachment 1 file name Hansard_Extract_14_January_2016[1].docx title 21564 - QnA extract on Burma Armed Forces
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

449491

registered interest
date	01/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when his Department plans to commence section 67 of the Serious Crime Act 2015.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	25179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to commencing section 67 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 and will do so as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 04/02/2016 15:12:02 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

445912

registered interest
date	19/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to ensure that the Caroline principles are applied to any further targeted killing carried out in self-defence of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	23236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2016 answer text <br /><p>In taking any action in self-defence of the UK, we will take account of well-established principles of self-defence. As the Attorney General pointed out to the Justice Select Committee on 15 September 2015, the Caroline case goes back to the 19th century and was concerned with very different circumstances to those facing us now. However as the Attorney General also made clear, the principles still apply and action in self-defence may be lawful in relation to an attack which has not yet materialised but is imminent. In addition any such action must, like all other action in self-defence, comply with the requirements of necessity and proportionality.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 22/01/2016 13:34:09 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi