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732585

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Credit: Interest Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 66 of the report, UK Poverty: Causes and Solutions, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on 6 September 2016, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the recommendation to support a scheme to pilot access to low-interest or no-interest loans for those who cannot access credit through the market.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	1085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to facilitating sustainable financial services that give consumers greater choice in accessing credit. The Government is working to support the credit union sector, which provides an accessible alternative to high cost credit. This includes investing £38m in the sector through the Department of Work and Pensions’ Credit Union Expansion Project. This project is helping the sector modernise and become self-sustainable, and includes the development of a shared IT platform for those credit unions signed up, which will help meet the growing demand for modern banking products for people on low incomes. The project aims to increase credit union membership to 2 million by 2020, and is expected to save consumers up to £1 billion in loan interest repayments by March 2019.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 04/07/2017 16:37:46 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

732589

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
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, with reference to page 130 of the report, UK Poverty: Causes and Solutions, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on 6 September 2016, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of the recommendation to ensure that educational institutions identify children with SEND that are at risk of exclusion and provide additional funding from Government for interventions for those children to reduce that risk.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	1087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>Schools are already funded to support pupils with special education needs (SEN), and we are clear that they should consider whether the needs of pupils with SEN are being met before issuing an exclusion.</p><p>The statutory guidance, which schools must have regard to when issuing exclusions, sets out that head teachers should consider early intervention to address underlying causes of disruptive behaviour, including an assessment of whether appropriate provision is in place to support any SEN or disability that a pupil may have. The guidance also sets out that head teachers should make additional efforts to consider what extra support may be required to avoid excluding pupils with special educational needs, and as far as possible, should avoid permanently excluding pupils with an Education, Health and Care Plan.</p><p>Schools are funded through the formula set by their local authority, and local authorities are required to delegate funds to a level that enables schools to meet the additional cost of supporting pupils with SEN up to £6,000 per annum. The local authority also provides top-up funding for SEN support costs in excess of £6,000.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 04/07/2017 16:52:19 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

732600

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
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	Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 16 of the report, UK Poverty: Causes and Solutions, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on 6 September 2016, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the recommendation to measure and monitor destitution directly through surveys.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	1095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>We are aware of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s September 2016 report ‘UK Poverty, Causes, Costs and Solution’ which aimed to set out a long-term strategy for a UK free of poverty.</p><p> </p><p>The merits of the recommendation in this report to measure and monitor destitution directly through repeated surveys have been considered with the JRF. It is acknowledged that individuals and families living in non-private households, communal establishments and the homeless are not well captured on surveys currently used to measure household income and poverty. The ONS is currently commissioning, jointly with JRF, a research project to investigate the feasibility of including individuals and families not living in private households (who are currently not covered by traditional household surveys) in estimates of personal well-being, poverty and destitution. We will be interested in the results of this report when it is published (due in early 2018).</p><p> </p><p>One of the key benefits of repeating a survey is to build a meaningful time series from the data, with the changes seen over time helping government to understand how policies impact on individuals and families. However, given the difficulty in generating a robust sampling frame for this group, we may not be sure that apparent movements in the destitution measure over time are genuine, rather than driven by random changes in the sample we happen to include between years.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 04/07/2017 11:51:29 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

732601

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
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	Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 15 of the report, UK Poverty: Causes and Solutions, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on 6 September 2016, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the recommendation to extend the measurement of poverty indicators to working-age adults without children, and to pensioners.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	1096
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2017 answer text <p>Estimates of the number and proportion of working-age adults without children and pensioners in relative and absolute low income in the UK are published in the National Statistics Households Below Average Income series.</p><p> </p><p>In 2015/16 on a Before Housing Cost basis (BHC) 14% of working-age adults without children in the UK were in relative low income, and 12% in absolute low income.</p><p> </p><p>In 2015/16 on a After Housing Cost basis (AHC) the proportion of pensioners in relative low income was 16%, with 14% in absolute low income.</p><p> </p><p>In 2015/16, 8% of UK pensioners aged 65 and over were estimated to be in material deprivation.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to publish data on low income through the annual Households Below Average Income statistics.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 30/06/2017 13:34:34 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

732613

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 125 of the report, UK Poverty: Causes and Solutions, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on 6 September 2016; if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of the recommendation to pilot a teacher pay premium to incentivise high-performing teachers to move to challenging schools.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	1078
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>Teachers’ pay and conditions in local authority maintained schools are determined on the basis of recommendations made by the independent body, the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB), who consider a wide range of factors. In academies, we know that the majority also choose to mirror these national arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>The reforms to teachers’ pay introduced in September 2013 give schools the flexibility to exercise their judgement as to how they reward their staff and to more closely align pay and performance. Pay flexibilities, including the use of recruitment and retention allowances, have given schools greater freedom to develop local offers which enable them to attract and retain the good teachers they need, and reflect local circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>We know that while we are recruiting the teachers we need at the national level, despite the challenges caused by an improving economy and rising pupil numbers, some schools are facing significant challenges. We are working with key stakeholders to ensure greater support for pupils in deprived areas, which will include supporting schools to ensure teacher recruitment and retention challenges are addressed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are continuing to allocate additional funding to schools through the pupil premium to help them improve the progress and attainment of their disadvantaged pupils. Schools have flexibility over how they use the funding to benefit those pupils for whom it is intended – and this can include putting financial incentives in place to attract and retain high-performing teachers.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 03/07/2017 15:37:32 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

732639

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pregnancy: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to page 98 of the report, UK Poverty: Causes and Solutions, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on 6 September 2016, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the recommendation to ensure that additional investment of £280 million per annum is made in NHS perinatal mental health services, to bring them up to NICE guidance standards.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	1081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>This Government is committed to improving perinatal mental health services for all women during pregnancy and in the first postnatal year, so that women are able to access the right care at the right time and close to home. The Spring Budget in March 2015 and the Spending Review in November 2015 both recognised perinatal mental health services as a priority area for additional investment, totalling £365 million from 2015/16 to 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is leading the programme of work to transform specialist perinatal mental health services, so that by 2020/21 at least 30,000 more women each year are able to access evidence-based specialist mental health care during the perinatal period. This includes access to psychological therapies and specialist community or inpatient care.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 28/06/2017 09:23:04 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

732640

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Authorities: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to page 85 of the report, UK Poverty: Causes and Solutions, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on 6 September 2016, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the recommendation to devolve decisions about the implementation of selective licensing to local or combined authorities.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	1082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>Since April 2015, government approval is required for selective licensing schemes that encompass more than:</p><ul><li>20 per cent of a local authority’s private rented stock; or</li><li>20 per cent of a local authority’s geographical area.</li></ul><p>At the same time measures were introduced to make targeted licensing schemes easier to introduce by widening the licensing criteria of low housing demand or anti-social behaviour to include: migration, crime, poor property condition and deprivation.</p><p>These changes were introduced to ensure that local authorities apply selective licensing in a targeted way to help address specific problems in the areas concerned.</p><p /><p /> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 04/07/2017 16:35:58 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

732666

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Low Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to page 149 of the report UK Poverty: Causes and Solutions, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on 6 September 2016, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing the Low Pay Commission's compliance and operational proposals in full.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	1120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government carefully considers all Low Pay Commission recommendations. We continue to strengthen our enforcement of the National Minimum Wage, including the three areas identified in the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s report.</p><p>For example, we have increased resources available for enforcement – to £20 million in 2016/17, increasing to £25.3m for 2017/18.</p><p>Last year, HMRC identified a record £10.9 million in arrears for 98,000 workers.</p><p>Tougher penalties for non-compliance were introduced in April 2016 – underpayments occurring since then are subject to a penalty of 200% the value of the arrears, capped at £20,000 per worker.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 03/07/2017 10:44:48 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

731813

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism: Police
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential effect of re-prioritising funding for counter-terror policing on (a) community policing and (b) other policing functions.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The Government is in regular dialogue with the police to ensure that the right powers, capabilities and resources are in place across all areas of policing.</p><p>The 2015 Spending Review protected overall police spending in real terms, and the 2017/18 police funding settlement maintained that protection. Since 2010, police forces have increased the proportion of officers working at the frontline and proven that you can continue to cut crime with a smaller, more agile workforce. Crimes traditionally measured by the independent Crime Survey for England and Wales have fallen by a third since 2010, to a record low.</p><p>Keeping families, communities and our country safe is this Government’s priority, so in addition, we have protected Counter-Terrorism police spend in real terms over the Spending Review period and invested in counter-terrorism policing to grow key capabilities, including providing £144m to increase armed policing capability. We remain committed to increasing cross-government spending on counter-terrorism by 30%, from £11.7 billion to £15.1 billion, including funding an additional 1,900 officers at our security and intelligence agencies.</p><p>We have also continued to protect investment in Regional Organised Crime Units (ROCUs), who deliver specialist capabilities to tackle serious and organised crime on behalf of police forces. The ROCUs play a crucial role in the law enforcement response to SOC, acting as the main interface between the National Crime Agency (NCA) and 43 police forces of England and Wales. Last year saw the largest collective financial investment by Police and Crime Commissioners in ROCUs since they were formed. This should be seen as a strong signal of both the government and policing’s continued commitment to tackling the serious harms caused by SOC to the most vulnerable members of our communities up and down the country.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 27/06/2017 10:14:08 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

723024

registered interest
date	20/04/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Community Policing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will work with (a) HM Inspectorate of Constabulary, (b) the College of Policing, (c) the National Police Chiefs Council and (d) the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners to draw up a national action plan to ensure the protection of community policing functions across the country.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	71465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>Decisions about how policing resources are best deployed are for Chief Constables and democratically accountable Police and Crime Commissioners. They are responsible for ensuring the needs of the local community are met. I welcome the work of the Police Reform and Transformation Board, at a national level, in seeking to establish a local policing sub group which will bring together a variety of stakeholders to help to deliver the Policing Vision 2025.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 25/04/2017 11:54:06 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown