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168847

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Mortgages
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will instruct the Financial Conduct Authority to take further steps to encourage mortgage providers to make mortgage cost information provided to customers more transparent.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	217793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government has asked the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) to work with Which? to improve the transparency of mortgage fees, including switching costs, and make it easier for borrowers to choose the best mortgage deals.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is also considering whether there is more that can be done in this area to support good decision-making by consumers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 217794 question first answered 16/12/2014 15:57:22 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

168848

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Mortgages
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the Financial Conduct Authority on banks' policies of transferring the costs incurred when switching mortgages to the customer.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	217794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government has asked the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) to work with Which? to improve the transparency of mortgage fees, including switching costs, and make it easier for borrowers to choose the best mortgage deals.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is also considering whether there is more that can be done in this area to support good decision-making by consumers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 217793 question first answered 16/12/2014 15:57:22 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

168910

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 24 October 2014 to Question 211317, what the non-compliance rate was of the scholarship for special educational needs in round (a) two, (b) three and (c) four.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	217924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>In Round Two of the National Scholarship Fund, there were 210 unsuccessful special educational needs (SEN) support staff applicants out of 493 applications.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In Round Three of the National Scholarship Fund, there were 23 unsuccessful SEN support staff applicants out of 225 applications.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In Round Four of the National Scholarship Fund, there were 102 unsuccessful SEN support staff applicants out of 188 applications. In addition, there was 21 unsuccessful support staff in Round Four who were members of unsuccessful collaborative groups out of a total of 27 members of collaborative SEN Support Staff groups.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The training included in a special educational needs-related course or activity which has been funded through the National Scholarship Fund is dependent on the course or activity chosen by the scholar.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the National Scholarship Fund for teachers’ handbook for Round Four, the following criteria are given for eligible activities:</p><p> </p><p>Responsibility lies with the Teacher/s to choose the courses or activities that are most suited to their needs; they are responsible for choosing a provider and enrolling with their chosen provider (once notified that their application has been successful).</p><p> </p><p>In the case of a lead school on behalf of a collaborative group, every course or activity must be stated.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The only restrictions are that the activity should be related to improving specialist knowledge in the designated priority area of SEND, and that the programme of study will be intellectually rigorous and challenging. In many cases this will be demonstrated by the fact that the activity is at Master’s level or beyond. Some courses and seminars which do not lead to Master’s level credits are also eligible if the applicant provides a robust argument that they provide sufficient intellectual challenge.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the National Scholarship Fund for SEN support staff handbook for Round Three, the following criteria were given for eligible activities:</p><p> </p><p>Support staffs working with children with SEN or a disability are free to choose the course or activity that is most suited to their needs. Similarly, they are free to choose a provider. There are some restrictions, however:</p><p> </p><p>1) The activity should deepen your knowledge of SEN/D and enhance your ability to provide effective support to the teaching and learning of pupils with SEN/D.</p><p> </p><p>2) The programme of study must be at Level 4 or above.</p><p> </p><p>3) An approved non-accredited specialist training course</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 217925 question first answered 16/12/2014 16:32:29 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

168911

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 24 October 2014 to Question 211317, what training is included in a special educational needs-related course or activity.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	217925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>In Round Two of the National Scholarship Fund, there were 210 unsuccessful special educational needs (SEN) support staff applicants out of 493 applications.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In Round Three of the National Scholarship Fund, there were 23 unsuccessful SEN support staff applicants out of 225 applications.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In Round Four of the National Scholarship Fund, there were 102 unsuccessful SEN support staff applicants out of 188 applications. In addition, there was 21 unsuccessful support staff in Round Four who were members of unsuccessful collaborative groups out of a total of 27 members of collaborative SEN Support Staff groups.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The training included in a special educational needs-related course or activity which has been funded through the National Scholarship Fund is dependent on the course or activity chosen by the scholar.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the National Scholarship Fund for teachers’ handbook for Round Four, the following criteria are given for eligible activities:</p><p> </p><p>Responsibility lies with the Teacher/s to choose the courses or activities that are most suited to their needs; they are responsible for choosing a provider and enrolling with their chosen provider (once notified that their application has been successful).</p><p> </p><p>In the case of a lead school on behalf of a collaborative group, every course or activity must be stated.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The only restrictions are that the activity should be related to improving specialist knowledge in the designated priority area of SEND, and that the programme of study will be intellectually rigorous and challenging. In many cases this will be demonstrated by the fact that the activity is at Master’s level or beyond. Some courses and seminars which do not lead to Master’s level credits are also eligible if the applicant provides a robust argument that they provide sufficient intellectual challenge.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the National Scholarship Fund for SEN support staff handbook for Round Three, the following criteria were given for eligible activities:</p><p> </p><p>Support staffs working with children with SEN or a disability are free to choose the course or activity that is most suited to their needs. Similarly, they are free to choose a provider. There are some restrictions, however:</p><p> </p><p>1) The activity should deepen your knowledge of SEN/D and enhance your ability to provide effective support to the teaching and learning of pupils with SEN/D.</p><p> </p><p>2) The programme of study must be at Level 4 or above.</p><p> </p><p>3) An approved non-accredited specialist training course</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 217924 question first answered 16/12/2014 16:32:29 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

169024

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Transport: Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what support his Department offers to children who wish to walk, cycle or use a scooter to travel to school.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	217923
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department would like to see more children using sustainable ways to travel to school. To encourage more children to cycle we have extended our commitment to Bikeability cycle training to 2015/16 and have recently announced a new pilot scheme to enhance the Bikeability cycle training programme to provide additional training activities to schools and parents. As of March 2013, more than 1 million children have had Bikeability training, and in addition, between April 2013 and March 2015 we expect more than 616,000 further training places to be delivered.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is also providing £184,000 for the expansion of the Modeshift STARS school award scheme. The scheme supports increases in sustainable travel to school through a variety of different initiatives ultimately leading to the development of a sustainable school travel plan. In addition, almost two thirds of the projects featured in the Government’s £600m Local Sustainable Transport Fund programme feature the promotion of walking, cycling and / or scooting to schools. One scheme in particular is dedicated to walking to school. The scheme is led by Durham County Council in partnership with Living Streets, and received £4.791m to encourage an increase in walking in eleven local authorities across England.</p><p> </p><p>To help make our roads safer around schools we have made it easier for local authorities to implement 20 mile per hour zones and limits, and have provided around £15 million through the Community Linking Places Fund for traffic free and traffic calmed links in communities, including around schools.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, the Department’s draft Cycling Delivery Plan, published on 16 October, proposes an ambition to increase the percentage of school children aged 5-10 years walking to school to 55% by 2025.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 17/12/2014 14:05:50 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill previous answer version 34155 answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

168011

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Care Leavers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the variation between England's local authorities in the amount spent per person on the leaving care grant.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	217229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not undertake an annual data collection exercise on local authority spend on the leaving care grant.</p><p> </p><p>Based on informal feedback, the number of local authorities paying at least £2,000 leaving care grant to their care leavers has risen from 32 in 2012 to 97 at October 2013.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 217236 question first answered 10/12/2014 16:51:49 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

168012

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Care Leavers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what provisions are in place to help care leavers find accommodation when entering university.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	217235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>The statutory guidance, ‘Planning Transition to Adulthood for Care Leavers’, clearly sets out the responsibilities of local authorities to support their care leavers who are about to, or are attending university, including during vacations. In addition to the higher education bursary of £2,000 which local authorities have a duty to pay their care leavers who pursue a higher education course, individual packages of support are expected to be put in place in line with the needs identified within a care leaver’s pathway plan.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education has worked closely with Ofsted on their revised inspection framework, which now has a specific judgement on the quality of support provided to care leavers. Local authorities will be judged on the accommodation they provide to all care leavers, including those attending university, and will only receive a ‘good’ judgement if they can demonstrate they provide accommodation that “<em>is appropriate for each young person to safely develop their independence skills” </em>and where they “are safe and feel safe.”</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 10/12/2014 16:50:33 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

168013

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Care Leavers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish a breakdown of local authorities' spend of the leaving care grant.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	217236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not undertake an annual data collection exercise on local authority spend on the leaving care grant.</p><p> </p><p>Based on informal feedback, the number of local authorities paying at least £2,000 leaving care grant to their care leavers has risen from 32 in 2012 to 97 at October 2013.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 217229 question first answered 10/12/2014 16:51:49 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

168014

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Care Leavers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department issues to local authorities on administering the leaving care grant.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	217237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education has strengthened the ‘Transition to Adulthood’ statutory guidance to say that the Department expects local authorities to consult with their children in care council on the level of the setting up home allowance. The guidance refers to a survey by the Care Leavers Foundation which showed that, in order to buy the minimum amount of furnishings and equipment which would be needed, the allowance should be at least £2,000. The guidance encourages all local authorities to aim for payments at this level as a minimum, to review their payments annually, and to publicise the arrangements so that their young people are fully aware of them.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 10/12/2014 16:43:48 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

167721

registered interest
date	03/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Social Workers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many social workers her Department estimates will be trained through (a) Frontline and (b) Step-Up in (i) 2015-16 and (ii) 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	217124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education estimates that 103 participants are set to qualify as social workers in 2015-16 and up to 132 participants in 2016-17 through Frontline.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education estimates that up to 303 participants are set to qualify as social workers in 2015-16 and up to 400 participants in 2016- through Step Up to Social Work.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This Government have recently announced an expansion of schemes like Frontline and Step Up to Social Work as part of a wider drive to improve the quality of social work.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 08/12/2014 17:23:25 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe