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1606378

registered interest
date	22/03/2023
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	Mental Health Services: Veterans
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 the Government has had had with Northern Ireland Health and Social Care on the potential introduction of Op COURAGE in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	South Antrim
tabling member printed	Paul Girvan
uin	171511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2023 answer text <p>Health is a devolved matter. The United Kingdom Government has not had any discussions with the Northern Ireland Health and Social Care department on the potential introduction of Op COURAGE in Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 27/03/2023 16:31:50 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4633 label Biography information for Paul Girvan

1605921

registered interest
date	21/03/2023
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	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when his Department plans to respond to email correspondence of 20 February 2023 from the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	170705
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2023 answer text <p>A reply to the correspondence from the hon. Member was sent on 23<sup>rd</sup> March 2023.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 24/03/2023 14:43:45 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1606072

registered interest
date	21/03/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Research: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 4.52 of the Spring Budget Report 2023, HC1183, published on 15 March 2023, what estimate his Department has made of the potential impact of the postponement of restrictions on overseas R&D tax reliefs expenditure on R&D investment in the financial years (a) 2022-23 and (b) 2023-24.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	170595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2023 answer text <p>The previously announced restriction on some overseas expenditure will now come into effect from 1 April 2024 instead of 1 April 2023. This will allow the Government to consider the interaction between this restriction and the design of a potential merged R&amp;D relief.</p><p>Overall, R&amp;D reliefs will support an estimated £60 billion of business R&amp;D expenditure in 2027-2028, a 50 per cent increase from £40 billion in 2020-21. Expenditure on R&amp;D reliefs is forecast to increase in every year of the scorecard period.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 24/03/2023 14:52:15 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1605407

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Social Media: Artificial Intelligence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2023 to Question 125342, whether the Online Safety Bill includes measures to help prevent the use of coding algorithms that may lead to increased racial stereotyping.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	169275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2023 answer text <p>Under the Online Safety Bill, all platforms will need to undertake risk assessments for illegal content, and services likely to be accessed by children will need to undertake a children’s risk assessment. This will ensure they understand the risks associated with their services, including in relation to their algorithms. They will then need to put in place proportionate systems and processes to mitigate these risks.</p><p>When deciding whether it is appropriate to recommend proactive technology, the regulator must have regard to the degree of accuracy, effectiveness and lack of bias achieved by the technology in question. This will help ensure that companies do not use algorithms that may lead to increased racial stereotyping when using proactive technologies to fulfil their safety duties.</p><p>More broadly, the Office for AI is working at pace to develop a White Paper setting out our position on governing and regulating AI to ensure the UK is seizing the opportunity presented by AI whilst addressing the potential risks the technology presents. This approach will establish a framework based on a set of cross-cutting principles to inform how regulators should tackle risks arising from issues such as racial bias in AI decision making. We will work with regulators such as EHRC to explore the practical implementation of our proposed AI regulatory framework alongside regulators’ existing duties.</p><p>The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation’s work programme on Responsible Data Access includes a focus on helping organisations to obtain appropriate access to demographic data to assess potential risks of bias related to ethnicity and other demographic traits. This work follows the CDEI’s 2020 review into bias in algorithmic decision-making, which highlighted a range of legal, reputational, and practical barriers to accessing this data.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 24/03/2023 11:10:06 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1605555

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department holds a list of competent professionals qualified to conduct Fire Risk Appraisals of External Wall construction following the methodology set out in PAS 9980:2022 for existing multi-storey, multi-occupied residential buildings.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	169373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2023 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally by the Department.</p><p>Homes England holds information relating to those that have registered with its panel of qualified assessors. This is not a complete list, due to the range of professional accrediting bodies of which qualified assessors may be members.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 23/03/2023 16:25:21 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

1605677

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
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	Public Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the progress made by local authorities on the provision of public health since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
uin	169503
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2023 answer text <p>Since 2013, local authorities have had a statutory duty on improving the health of their local population, along with responsibility for commissioning a range of public health services. Each local authority Director of Public Health must prepare an annual report on the health of the local population.</p><p>In addition, the Public Health Outcomes Framework comprises a range of indicators that can be used to assess progress on public health outcomes, including on issues that are specifically impacted by the work of local authorities. A summary assessment of overall performance against the Public Health Outcomes Framework is included in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2021/22.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 23/03/2023 17:49:08 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4777 label Biography information for Sarah Owen

1605160

registered interest
date	17/03/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Electricity Generation: Business
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero about the potential for businesses to feed into the energy grid through the installation of micro-renewable energy generation systems.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	168080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2023 answer text <p>My Rt Hon. Friend the Secretary of State has regular discussions with ministerial colleagues on a number of issues.</p><p> </p><p>Business can already export low-carbon electricity back to the grid. Additionally, the Smart Export Guarantee, launched in January 2020, enables small-scale generators to receive payments from electricity suppliers for electricity which they export back to the grid, providing certain criteria are met.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 27/03/2023 13:22:38 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1604780

registered interest
date	16/03/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Performing Arts: Education
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 adequacy of the number of (a) performing arts teachers and (b) associated curriculum hours in schools and further and higher education institutions.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff North
tabling member printed	Anna McMorrin
uin	167209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2023 answer text <p>Information relating to ITT recruitment performance in England is published annually in the ITT census, available at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/initial-teacher-training-census/2022-23" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/initial-teacher-training-census/2022-23</a>. In 2022/23, there were 329 postgraduate trainees who started an ITT course in drama, 301 in music, and 1,405 in physical education. Performance versus target in 2022/23 for drama was 113%, for music was 64%, and for physical education was 143%.</p><p>Information on the school workforce in England, including the number of subject teachers in state funded secondary schools, is collected each November as part of the annual school workforce census. Information is published in the ‘school workforce in England’ statistical publication, available at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england</a>. Those who are designated as teachers of dance are included within the total for physical education/sports teachers.</p><p>As of November 2021, there were 8,976 teachers of drama, 7,003 teachers of music, and 23,708 teachers of physical education/sport at Key Stages 3, 4, and 5 in state funded secondary schools in England. In a typical week, they taught 85,003 hours of drama, 86,480 hours of music, and 290,033 hours of physical education/sport. Drama, music and physical education/sport teachers designate any teacher timetabled to teach the subject for any period in a typical week in November. These teachers do not necessarily have a specific post-A level qualification. This timetabling does not cover an entire year of teaching. If there are variations in timetabling across the year, this is not covered in the data available to the Department.</p><p>The Department does not hold data on the number of teachers who teach performing arts in further education institutions.</p><p>For 2022/23, the Department increased funding for world-leading specialist HE providers by an additional £5 million, from £53 million in 2021/22 to £58 million in 2022/23. This is on top of the increase of £10 million the Department provided in 2021/22. The Department wants to ensure that specialist institutions, many of which specialise in arts provision, receive additional support, and that grant funding is used to effectively support students.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/03/2023 17:51:40 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4632 label Biography information for Anna McMorrin

1604781

registered interest
date	16/03/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Performing Arts: Extracurricular Activities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of rises in the cost of living on the uptake of extracurricular performing arts classes in (a) primary, (b) secondary, (c) further and (d) higher education; and whether she is taking steps to increase engagement in the performing arts in (i) schools and (ii) other educational establishments.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff North
tabling member printed	Anna McMorrin
uin	167210
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2023 answer text <p>All state funded schools are required to teach a broad and balanced curriculum, and this includes promoting pupils' cultural development. The performing arts are a core part of the school curriculum and also supported through extracurricular activities to children and young people.</p><p>The Department regularly asks about pupil participation in extracurricular performing arts activities in ‘parent, pupil and learner panel’ surveys. In the most recent published wave in which the questions were asked (the November wave from the 2022/23 academic year), 19% of pupils reported that they had participated in extracurricular performing arts activities in that term. The Department will continue to monitor the uptake of performing arts and other extracurricular activities, and investigate reasons for any significant changes or trends.</p><p>An additional £1.6 billion in funding has been made available for 16-19 education between the 2021/22 and 2024/25 academic years. This includes an up-front cash boost which will see the rate of funding per student increase by over 8% in 2022/23.</p><p>The Department recognises the additional cost of living pressures that have arisen this year which have affected university students. In addition to the cost of living measures already announced, the Department discusses cost of living pressures that are affecting students in its regular meetings with stakeholders, including the Office for Students (OfS), Universities UK and other HE representative groups. The Department also consulted with the National Association of Student Money Advisers to understand the ongoing situation in relation to increased requests from students for hardship awards from their universities.</p><p>The Department will continue to spend around £115 million per annum on cultural education over three years, through its music, arts and heritage programmes. With the real terms per pupil increases to core school funding and the nearly £5 billion that has been announced for education recovery, schools will continue to have the flexibility to deliver a broad and ambitious curriculum and enrichment activities, including in arts and creative subjects.</p><p>The Department will be publishing a Cultural Education Plan in 2023, working with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and Arts Council England. The Chair of the Expert Advisory Panel was announced last year, and other panel members will be announced in due course. The Plan will focus on how the Government can support access and participation in a wide range of arts subjects and activities, particularly for children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and in underrepresented groups. It will also further support young people who wish to pursue careers in the creative, cultural, and heritage industries.</p><p>In addition, the Department wants to ensure that HE specialist providers, many of which specialise in arts provision, receive additional support, and that grant funding is used to effectively support students.</p><p>On 8 December 2022, the OfS published the list of successful HE providers who have been identified as world-leading specialists by the Specialist Provider Panel. The current list of world-leading specialist providers includes 13 providers specialising in the arts. This funding will help improve the diversity and quality of creative education provision available to students.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/03/2023 17:54:38 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4632 label Biography information for Anna McMorrin

1604886

registered interest
date	16/03/2023
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	Floods: Insurance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the Flood Re scheme for ensuring that residents in areas of flooding risk have access to insurance.
tabling member constituency	Foyle
tabling member printed	Colum Eastwood
uin	167264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2023 answer text <p>Prior to Flood Re, research found that 9% of policy holders with a prior flood claim could obtain flood insurance quotes from two or more insurers and 0% could get quotes from five or more. Following the Scheme’s launch, around 96% of households with prior flood claims can now receive quotes from five or more insurers, with most customers getting more than ten quotes. Flood Re is available via more than 85 insurance brands representing 94% of the home insurance market. More than 450,000 properties have benefitted since the scheme’s launch.</p><p> </p><p>The Flood Re scheme is reviewed every five years to ensure that it is efficient and effective. The first Quinquennial Review (QQR) was published by Flood Re in July 2019 and made recommendations to the Government. The next QQR is due in 2024.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 23/03/2023 11:13:56 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4846 label Biography information for Colum Eastwood