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443165

registered interest
date	07/01/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	UK Commission for Employment and Skills
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his plans are for the future of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	21583
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2016 answer text <br /><p>As announced in the 2015 Spending Review, in order to prioritise funding to allow the core adult skills participation budgets to be protected in cash terms, savings are being made from the supporting budgets including the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES).</p><br /><p>Whitehall Departments will be withdrawing their funding for UKCES during the 2016-17 financial year. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is working with UKCES to manage the implications of this decision.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 12/01/2016 16:34:10 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

443168

registered interest
date	07/01/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Apprentices: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the risk of employers waiting until the new digital voucher funding mechanism is in place before taking on new apprentices.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	21461
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2016 answer text <br /><p>The current apprenticeships funding mechanism is being reformed to deliver a high-quality, employer-led system. In the transition period, we will be continuing to use the current system (which has delivered strong apprenticeships growth) and work with employers to help them take on apprentices. We will monitor take-up prior to the levy introduction.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 12/01/2016 16:32:09 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

442312

registered interest
date	04/01/2016
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	National Wildlife Crime Unit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answers of 19 November 2015 to Question 16305 and 26 November 2015 to Question 18647, if her Department will provide a date by which a decision will be made on funding for the National Wildlife Crime Unit beyond March 2016.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	20868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Bristol East, Kerry McCarthy, on 7 December 2015, PQ18534.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 07/01/2016 11:45:34 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

442350

registered interest
date	04/01/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Care Homes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure the long-term viability of the care home sector; and if he will reassess the contribution that could be made to that viability of the care practitioner role.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	20727
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2016 answer text <p>Through November’s comprehensive Spending Review, the Government announced that it was giving local authorities access to £3.5 billion of new support for social care by 2019/20.</p><br /><p>Councils will be able to introduce a new Social Care Precept, allowing them to increase council tax by 2% above the existing threshold. This could raise nearly £2 billion a year for social care by 2019/20.</p><br /><p>From April 2017, the Spending Review makes available social care funds for local government, rising to £1.5 billion by 2019/20, to be included in the Better Care Fund.</p><br /><p>Taken together, the new precept and additional Better Care Fund contribution mean local government has access to the funding it needs to increase social care spending in real terms by the end of the Parliament.</p><br /><p>Under the Care Act (2014), local authorities have legal duties to shape a sustainable and diverse market of care providers capable of delivering a choice of quality services to their local population. These duties apply in respect of all care services, including care home services. The Government published statutory guidance to support local authorities discharge their market shaping duties effectively, which includes guidance around adult social care commissioning.</p><br /><p>The care practitioner scheme was withdrawn by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, a non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. The Department of Health was not involved in the assessment of the contribution that the care practitioner role could make to the care home sector.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 07/01/2016 11:56:14 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

438954

registered interest
date	16/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hospital Beds
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many clinical commissioning groups have put in place plans for delayed discharges in co-operation with their local independent sector partners.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	20397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>This would be a matter for individual clinical commissioning groups, who are responsible for commissioning care that is underpinned by knowledge of local health care needs. As such we do not hold this information centrally.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 05/01/2016 15:32:38 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

438956

registered interest
date	16/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Health Services: Weather
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance he has issued to clinical commissioning groups on cataloguing vacant beds within (a) the community, (b) respite care, (c) care homes and (d) nursing homes in order to cope with additional demand over the winter period.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	20396
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>Although there has been no formal guidance issued specifically regarding cataloguing vacant beds within the community, respite care, care homes and nursing homes in order to cope with additional demand over the winter period, there have however been a number of related communications issued, set out below:</p><br /><p>- The ‘Quick Guide: Identifying local care home placements’ (<a href="http://www.nhs.uk/quickguides" target="_blank">www.nhs.uk/quickguides</a>) was published in October 2015. This provides some guidance and a possible template that local health and care systems could use to better understand the services which the care home providers offer, to enable better and more effective placements. It covers both residential and nursing care homes.</p><br /><p>- Safer Faster Better (published in August 2015), which is designed to help frontline providers and commissioners deliver safer, faster and better urgent and emergency care, includes material on managing flow within Urgent Emergency Care (EAC). This does not provide guidance on ‘cataloguing beds’, but bed management forms part of the guidance.</p><br /><p>- A ‘bed census’ was conducted in June 2015 across all staffed beds available in NHS and associated providers in order to better understand total capacity available. This included bed definitions, but did not provide guidance to clinical commissioning groups on ‘cataloguing beds’.</p><br /><p>- There have been a number of ad hoc data collections conducted throughout the year on capacity information across local health economies, which captured numbers of nursing, residential dementia, and Specialist EMI (Elderly Mentally Infirm) beds. But these were collections of management information, and did not provide guidance on ‘cataloguing beds’.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 05/01/2016 15:31:00 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

437059

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Apprentices: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what modelling his Department conducted on the effect of the Apprenticeship Levy prior to its announcement.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	19529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>HM Treasury and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, conducted internal modelling on which rate and scope would result in sufficient levels of income to fund growth in high-quality apprenticeships up until 2020. It will continue to conduct analysis and have an open dialogue with employers to understand the cost and benefits of the apprenticeship levy.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 15/12/2015 17:07:16 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

437068

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether the apprenticeship targets for public sector organisations announced in the report, English Apprenticeships: Our 2020 Vision, published on 7 December 2015, will include targets for the creation of apprenticeships at Level 3 and above.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	19685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>We do not intend to set any targets for the creation of apprenticeships at specific levels.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 15/12/2015 16:18:22 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

437079

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Self-employed: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make representations to the Office for National Statistics to include earnings from self-employment in its weekly earnings series.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	19698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office will be working with the Office for National Statistics to consider ways to improve data collection capability, including potential legislative options.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 15/12/2015 17:35:30 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

437180

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the performance of Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust services.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	19639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The Chief Inspector of Hospitals Inspection within the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in May 2014 rated the Brighton and Sussex University Hospital Trust as “Requires Improvement”. In 2015 the CQC rated the Trust as ‘Inadequate’. The Trust is urgently implementing the action recommended.</p><p /> <p>In addition, the Trust is actively engaged with the Emergency Care Improvement Programme to ensure that the Trust can deliver the accident and emergency standard by March 2016.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 15/12/2015 17:39:17 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle