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1228839

registered interest
date	28/08/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	T-levels: Student Numbers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the level of student enrolment for T Levels courses starting in September 2020.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	81800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2020 answer text <p>Despite the challenges, 44 high performing colleges, schools and other providers will teach the first T Levels from this September. This is testament to the hard work and dedication of staff in these organisations. We have worked closely with the providers to support them over the summer as recruitment moved online and to monitor predicted student numbers.</p><p>We will receive confirmed enrolment figures once the September recruitment has been formally reported. All indications are that recruitment has progressed well in the circumstances and a viable cohort of young people will benefit from taking these new, high quality qualifications, leaving them in a great position to move into skilled employment or further training.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 08/09/2020 15:13:34 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1228840

registered interest
date	28/08/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment in the autumn term of the effect on children's progress of exposure during the covid-19 lockdown to different types and amounts of education technology and online learning.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	81801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2020 answer text <p>Understanding the effect of time outside of the classroom, what factors have driven lost attainment and how quickly it is being recovered and how it is recovered over the next academic year is a key research priority for the Department to inform strategic policy for supporting the school system.</p><p>To help schools provide effective online teaching, the Department has supported sector led initiatives such as Oak National Academy, which covers curriculum for every year group from reception through to year 11. The Department has also published guidance based on the current experiences and practices of teachers and school leaders so that other teachers can learn from examples of teaching practice during the COVID-19 outbreak as they develop their own approaches to providing remote education. This guidance can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/remote-education-practice-for-schools-during-coronavirus-covid-19" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/remote-education-practice-for-schools-during-coronavirus-covid-19</a>.</p><p>The Department recognises that barriers to online access can make engaging with remote education more difficult, which is why we have committed £100 million to fund devices and 4G connectivity to help pupils overcome them.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/09/2020 16:22:45 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1217934

registered interest
date	25/06/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Relationships and Sex Education
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 level of preparedness of schools for the provision of mandatory relationships, sex and health education from September 2020.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	64889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2020 answer text <p>The Department is committed to supporting schools to deliver high quality teaching of Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education, and Health Education.</p><p> </p><p>In light of the circumstances caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, and following engagement with the sector, the Department is reassuring schools that although the subjects will still be compulsory from 1 September 2020, schools have flexibility over how they discharge their duty within the first year of compulsory teaching. For further information, I refer my right hon. Friend, the Member for East Hampshire to the answer I gave on 5 June to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2020-06-05/55660/" target="_blank">55660</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has worked extensively with schools, teachers and experts throughout the development of these subjects. This has included over 150 interviews and multiple surveys which informed our support programme to help all schools to increase the confidence and quality of their teaching practice in these subjects.</p><p>The support programme will include online training modules to enable subject leads to train non-specialist teachers in their schools, an implementation guide, and case studies from early adopter schools. This support will cover all of the teaching requirements in the statutory guidance and will be inclusive to all pupils. The first training module for teachers, covering mental wellbeing, is now available on GOV.UK, and additional content, including teacher training modules covering online safety, internet harms and media literacy will be added in the coming months.</p><p> </p><p>Regarding the review of the teaching online safety in school guidance, the guidance is framed around current curriculum requirements in a number of subjects, and we have no plans to update it before September 2020. We will keep the guidance under review to make sure it remains relevant to curriculum requirements.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 64890 64891 question first answered 03/07/2020 13:35:52 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1217935

registered interest
date	25/06/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Internet: Safety
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 availability of effective teaching materials to support the guidance entitled, Teaching online safety in school guidance – supporting schools to teach their pupils how to stay safe online, within new and existing school subjects.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	64890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2020 answer text <p>The Department is committed to supporting schools to deliver high quality teaching of Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education, and Health Education.</p><p> </p><p>In light of the circumstances caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, and following engagement with the sector, the Department is reassuring schools that although the subjects will still be compulsory from 1 September 2020, schools have flexibility over how they discharge their duty within the first year of compulsory teaching. For further information, I refer my right hon. Friend, the Member for East Hampshire to the answer I gave on 5 June to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2020-06-05/55660/" target="_blank">55660</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has worked extensively with schools, teachers and experts throughout the development of these subjects. This has included over 150 interviews and multiple surveys which informed our support programme to help all schools to increase the confidence and quality of their teaching practice in these subjects.</p><p>The support programme will include online training modules to enable subject leads to train non-specialist teachers in their schools, an implementation guide, and case studies from early adopter schools. This support will cover all of the teaching requirements in the statutory guidance and will be inclusive to all pupils. The first training module for teachers, covering mental wellbeing, is now available on GOV.UK, and additional content, including teacher training modules covering online safety, internet harms and media literacy will be added in the coming months.</p><p> </p><p>Regarding the review of the teaching online safety in school guidance, the guidance is framed around current curriculum requirements in a number of subjects, and we have no plans to update it before September 2020. We will keep the guidance under review to make sure it remains relevant to curriculum requirements.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 64889 64891 question first answered 03/07/2020 13:35:52 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1217936

registered interest
date	25/06/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Internet: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to review the guidance entitled, Teaching online safety in school Guidance – supporting schools to teach their pupils how to stay safe online, within new and existing school subjects, before September 2020.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	64891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2020 answer text <p>The Department is committed to supporting schools to deliver high quality teaching of Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education, and Health Education.</p><p> </p><p>In light of the circumstances caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, and following engagement with the sector, the Department is reassuring schools that although the subjects will still be compulsory from 1 September 2020, schools have flexibility over how they discharge their duty within the first year of compulsory teaching. For further information, I refer my right hon. Friend, the Member for East Hampshire to the answer I gave on 5 June to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2020-06-05/55660/" target="_blank">55660</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has worked extensively with schools, teachers and experts throughout the development of these subjects. This has included over 150 interviews and multiple surveys which informed our support programme to help all schools to increase the confidence and quality of their teaching practice in these subjects.</p><p>The support programme will include online training modules to enable subject leads to train non-specialist teachers in their schools, an implementation guide, and case studies from early adopter schools. This support will cover all of the teaching requirements in the statutory guidance and will be inclusive to all pupils. The first training module for teachers, covering mental wellbeing, is now available on GOV.UK, and additional content, including teacher training modules covering online safety, internet harms and media literacy will be added in the coming months.</p><p> </p><p>Regarding the review of the teaching online safety in school guidance, the guidance is framed around current curriculum requirements in a number of subjects, and we have no plans to update it before September 2020. We will keep the guidance under review to make sure it remains relevant to curriculum requirements.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 64889 64890 question first answered 03/07/2020 13:35:52 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1217019

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Noise
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the results were from his Department's trials of roadside noise cameras in Hampshire and elsewhere; and what plans he has for the further deployment of such cameras.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	63308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p>The acoustic camera trial is complete and preliminary indications are that the device can identify individual vehicles in certain circumstances and assign noise levels to them, but further development is needed to improve accuracy.</p><p> </p><p>The technology has the potential to identify excessively noisy vehicles; however, there are still difficulties in measuring noise in an uncontrolled environment to be overcome. As a result, further development and testing will be required before it could be recommended for wider scale roll out, especially if the camera is to be deployed in urban environments where complex traffic and environmental scenarios are common.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 01/07/2020 16:27:12 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1192387

registered interest
date	01/05/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Debts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the finding by the Centre for Social Justice in its report entitled Collecting dust, published in April 2020, that the personal debt owed to the Government and public bodies under the remit of his Department is £13.5 billion.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	41976
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2020 answer text <p>We welcome the Centre for Social Justice’s report, which highlights that progress has been made in government debt management and suggests further areas for improvement. The Centre for Social Justice report notes the work of the government Fairness Group, the Breathing Space policy and reduction in the rate of benefit deductions as recent advances.</p><p>The Government Debt Management Function will be launching a Call for Evidence in due course to gather views on the current debt management approach.</p><p>I would encourage the Centre for Social Justice, along with other interested parties to also submit evidence through the Call for Evidence.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 18/05/2020 15:42:10 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1192388

registered interest
date	01/05/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Debt Collection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure that debt collection by public sector organisations meets the standard expected of firms regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	41977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2020 answer text <p>The government recognises the importance of providing the right support for people who are vulnerable or in financial hardship during the debt recovery process. This position was emphasised by the joint public statement, drafted in partnership with the debt advice sector and other consumer groups.</p><p>The government’s Fairness Principles are aligned with the Financial Conduct Authority’s Treating Customers Fairly Principles. These provide a best practice framework that has been embedded into the Government Debt Strategy and the Government Debt Standard.</p><p>Debt management in local government is undertaken in line with specific legislation. When a customer is identified as being vulnerable, there is support available, tailored to individual circumstances. This includes longer repayment terms and consideration of payment holidays. Government has a duty to balance this against the need to recover money owed to taxpayers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 41978 question first answered 18/05/2020 15:42:57 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1192390

registered interest
date	01/05/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Debts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the May 2019 Fairness Group Joint Public Statement, what progress he has made in applying Fairness Principles to government debt management.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	41978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2020 answer text <p>The government recognises the importance of providing the right support for people who are vulnerable or in financial hardship during the debt recovery process. This position was emphasised by the joint public statement, drafted in partnership with the debt advice sector and other consumer groups.</p><p>The government’s Fairness Principles are aligned with the Financial Conduct Authority’s Treating Customers Fairly Principles. These provide a best practice framework that has been embedded into the Government Debt Strategy and the Government Debt Standard.</p><p>Debt management in local government is undertaken in line with specific legislation. When a customer is identified as being vulnerable, there is support available, tailored to individual circumstances. This includes longer repayment terms and consideration of payment holidays. Government has a duty to balance this against the need to recover money owed to taxpayers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 41977 question first answered 18/05/2020 15:42:57 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1183381

registered interest
date	09/03/2020
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: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps she is taking to ensure that universal credit claimants benefit financially from moving into work.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	901405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government has made significant investment to improve work incentives including: the reduction in the Universal Credit taper rate from 65% to 63% in 2017, and an extra £1.7 billion a year put into work allowances for working parents and disabled claimants to increase them by £1,000 a year from April 2019. This is providing a boost to the incomes of the lowest paid and result in 2.4 million families keeping an extra £630 per year of what they earn.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 09/03/2020 18:09:04 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds