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809660

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will take steps to ensure that future asylum accommodation contracts work to ensure the long-term sustainability of the dispersal system through co-operative working with local authorities and communities.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	120280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office is committed to working co-operatively with local authorities and communities to ensure the sustainability of asylum accommodation contracts.</p><p>Since September 2016 the Home Office has actively engaged with local authorities with a wide range of stakeholders across local government, statutory and third sector as part of the development of the new asylum accommodation contracts and the information obtained through this process has influenced the design of the future service provision. We will continue to engage with local authorities and the wider community throughout the procurement and implementation of the new contracts.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 21/12/2017 16:40:27 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

808795

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
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	Planning Permission: Environment Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how his Department is incorporating the effect that engagement with nature has on well-being in the planning system.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	119904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2018 answer text <p>The link between access to nature and health has been long established, as both the built and natural environments are major determinants of health and wellbeing. <br> <br> This is already recognised in the Planning Practice Guidance and as part of the core planning principles in the National Planning Policy Framework. <br> <br> Local planning authorities should ensure that health and wellbeing are considered in local and neighbourhood plans and in their consideration of applications, including the provision of high quality open spaces and green infrastructure. Further to this, officials have worked closely with colleagues in DEFRA in the formation of the 25 Year Environment Plan, which was published on 11 January 2018.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 16/01/2018 10:40:26 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

806071

registered interest
date	13/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Miscarriages of Justice: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many successful applications for compensation following a conviction being quashed there were in (a) 2014, (b) 2015, (c) 2016 and (d) 2017; and what the average compensation award was for those claims in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	119274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>In the table below, the second column gives the number of applications received in the financial years 2013/14 to 2016/17 and the number received so far in the financial year 2017/18. The third column gives the number of applications made in a particular year that were awarded compensation, though the decision to award compensation may not have been made in the year in which the application was made.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year ending </strong> <strong>31 March</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of applications received</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Of which, the number of successful applications</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The average award among the five successful applications was £73,629.68. It would be inappropriate to provide figures for awards by year because recipients would be potentially identifiable.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 21/12/2017 15:32:00 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

806074

registered interest
date	13/12/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS: Negligence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many clinical negligence claims relating to a stroke have been made against NHS trusts due to (a) a misdiagnosis and (b) mistreatment of atrial fibrillation in the last twelve months.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	119277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>NHS Resolution has supplied the following information:</p><p> </p><p>NHS Resolution holds information relating to claims notified to it against pre-defined injury, cause and specialty codes. NHS Resolution has used the following search terms:</p><p> </p><p>The total number of clinical claims where one of the injuries was ‘stroke’ and one of the causes was ‘Failure/Delay Diagnosis’ or ‘Wrong Diagnosis’, received 1 December 2016 to 30 November 2017 was 35.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Resolution does not have a code for mistreatment of atrial fibrillation so it has undertaken a search of the number of clinical claims where one of the injuries was ‘stroke’ and ‘atrial fibrillation’ was mentioned in the incident details reported, received 1 December 2016 to 30 November 2017.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Resolution has advised that it cannot provide the number of claims because to do so might lead to the identification of an individual.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 21/12/2017 15:41:10 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

801066

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Aden: Military Decorations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to commemorate those who gave their lives in Aden.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	117625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>The Armed Forces Memorial, at the National Memorial Arboretum in Shropshire, is a nationally significant focus for Remembrance. It honours those members of the Armed Forces (Regular and Reserve) who were killed on duty while performing functions attributable to the special circumstances and requirements of the Armed Forces, or as a result of terrorist action, and those who died while deployed on designated operations. This includes those who lost their lives in the Aden Emergency.</p><p>All those brave Service personnel who gave their lives in conflict were commemorated by the Ministry of Defence on Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph; the Department has no current plans to specifically commemorate those who gave their lives during the Aden Emergency of 1963-67.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 13/12/2017 15:31:47 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

801155

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
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	Rivers: Sewage and Water Abstraction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to tackle sewage pollution and over-abstraction in rivers.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	117714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>Pollution caused by sewage is mainly addressed through the implementation of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations, which have set standards for the collection and treatment of sewage since 1994. Since privatisation, around £25 billion has been invested to reduce pollution from sewage, covering improvements in sewage treatment and in sewer overflows. In England, between 2015 and 2020 water companies are investing over £3 billion to improve their sewerage infrastructure, guided by the requirements of the Environment Agency. We have also indicated in the Strategic Policy Statement to Ofwat (the economic regulator), that as part of the Price Review 2019, we expect them to challenge companies to improve planning and investment to meet the wastewater needs of current and future customers, while protecting the environment.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2008, the Environment Agency has made changes to over 270 abstraction licences to prevent over 30 billion litres of water per year being removed from the environment. This is enough water to supply half a million people, with water for one year.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is updating its plan for managing abstraction and will publish it shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 12/12/2017 12:54:37 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

801159

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: English Language
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking (a) nationally and (b) within communities to support refugees to learn English.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	117718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>All refugees have access to English language training as part of their access to the labour market. We support English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) courses as part of our wider effort to improve adult literacy in England.</p><p>We provide full funding for ESOL courses for unemployed adults, including refugees, on work-related benefits, such as Job Seekers Allowance or Employment Support Allowance. All other learners are supported by the government with 50% of the course costs.</p><p>Additionally, the Home Office provides funding for English language as part of its commitment to resettling vulnerable people through the Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme to the UK and helping them integrate into their local communities. This funding includes a tariff for each person resettled, a proportion of which can be allocated to ESOL provision.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 11/12/2017 11:41:57 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

801160

registered interest
date	05/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Refugees: English Language
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what funding the Government provides to support refugees to learn English.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	117719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government provides funding to support refugees to learn English in a number of ways:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>Adults with refugee status are eligible for funding for English courses from the Adult Education Budget, and the Government covers full costs if they are unemployed and looking for work.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>The Home Office and the Department for Education have created a joint fund that will allocate up to £10 million across five years for additional English language training and support for people resettled under the Vulnerable Resettlement Scheme and Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement Scheme. English language tuition also forms part of the support package provided to refugees arriving in the UK under the Gateway Protection Programme.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>Refugees may access the English Language Programme funded by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), and money from the Controlling Migration Fund can be used to support refugees to learn English.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>For schools, local authorities currently have discretion to allocate funding within local formulas based on the number of pupils who have English as an additional language (EAL), and have recently entered the school system.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 13/12/2017 16:43:20 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

797360

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
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	Pensioners: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that UK pensioners in other countries are subject to the same UK pension regulations and UK pension increases irrespective of country of residence.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	116323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>UK State Pensions are payable worldwide to those who are eligible, without regard to nationality. They are up-rated where there is a legal requirement to do so, for example in EEA countries and countries where there is a reciprocal agreement in place that allows for up-rating. This has been the policy of successive Governments for around 70 years and the Government has no plans to change this policy.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 04/12/2017 14:43:40 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

797428

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to widen the Apprenticeship Levy to include money for wider skills traineeships and other forms of high-quality training.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	116391
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>The apprenticeship levy is set at a level to fund the training and assessment costs of all new apprentices. We will continue to work with employers so that the levy works effectively and flexibly for industry and business. We will keep use of the levy under constant review.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 07/12/2017 16:50:28 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman