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1038423

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Voluntary Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made on the number of (a) parent and (b) non-parent volunteers in schools who have had safeguarding checks in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	206705
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>Volunteers play an important role in supporting children in many of our schools. As decisions whether to engage volunteers are made locally by schools, the department does not collect data on the number of volunteers in schools or data on safeguarding checks carried out for volunteers. There is, therefore, no data held on which to base an estimate of safeguarding checks carried out.</p><p>The department’s statutory safeguarding guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, makes clear that any volunteer should not be deployed to work unsupervised with children without appropriate checks. Where schools decide that a DBS criminal record check is appropriate for a volunteer, these can be obtained free of any charge from DBS. There are no plans currently to change these arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>There is a legal requirement for a DBS criminal record check for school governors, which are predominantly volunteer roles, including any parent governors. School governing boards have a key role in providing clarity of vision, and promoting the ethos and direction of the school and setting the school's aims and policies. DBS and other pre-appointment safeguarding checks, provide reassurance to the governing board that an individual is not disqualified from holding office as a governor and is suitable for the position.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 206706 206707 206709 question first answered 14/01/2019 17:53:14 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1038424

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Voluntary Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to exempt parent volunteers from criminal record checks; and whether he has had any discussions with his Australian counterpart on the effectiveness of introducing such a scheme in that country.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	206706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>Volunteers play an important role in supporting children in many of our schools. As decisions whether to engage volunteers are made locally by schools, the department does not collect data on the number of volunteers in schools or data on safeguarding checks carried out for volunteers. There is, therefore, no data held on which to base an estimate of safeguarding checks carried out.</p><p>The department’s statutory safeguarding guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, makes clear that any volunteer should not be deployed to work unsupervised with children without appropriate checks. Where schools decide that a DBS criminal record check is appropriate for a volunteer, these can be obtained free of any charge from DBS. There are no plans currently to change these arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>There is a legal requirement for a DBS criminal record check for school governors, which are predominantly volunteer roles, including any parent governors. School governing boards have a key role in providing clarity of vision, and promoting the ethos and direction of the school and setting the school's aims and policies. DBS and other pre-appointment safeguarding checks, provide reassurance to the governing board that an individual is not disqualified from holding office as a governor and is suitable for the position.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 206705 206707 206709 question first answered 14/01/2019 17:53:14 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1038427

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Voluntary Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the number of volunteers in schools in each of the last 10 years; and how many of those volunteers are parents.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	206707
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>Volunteers play an important role in supporting children in many of our schools. As decisions whether to engage volunteers are made locally by schools, the department does not collect data on the number of volunteers in schools or data on safeguarding checks carried out for volunteers. There is, therefore, no data held on which to base an estimate of safeguarding checks carried out.</p><p>The department’s statutory safeguarding guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, makes clear that any volunteer should not be deployed to work unsupervised with children without appropriate checks. Where schools decide that a DBS criminal record check is appropriate for a volunteer, these can be obtained free of any charge from DBS. There are no plans currently to change these arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>There is a legal requirement for a DBS criminal record check for school governors, which are predominantly volunteer roles, including any parent governors. School governing boards have a key role in providing clarity of vision, and promoting the ethos and direction of the school and setting the school's aims and policies. DBS and other pre-appointment safeguarding checks, provide reassurance to the governing board that an individual is not disqualified from holding office as a governor and is suitable for the position.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 206705 206706 206709 question first answered 14/01/2019 17:53:14 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1038428

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Schools: Voluntary Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Disclosure and Barring Service holds statistics on the number of volunteers in schools and how many of those volunteers are parents for each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	206708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected on a mandatory basis by the DBS as part of its checks, therefore it is not possible to reliably collate the data requested.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 16/01/2019 16:55:01 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1038429

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Voluntary Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the number of parent volunteers in schools; and whether he plans to reduce obstacles to volunteering in schools.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	206709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>Volunteers play an important role in supporting children in many of our schools. As decisions whether to engage volunteers are made locally by schools, the department does not collect data on the number of volunteers in schools or data on safeguarding checks carried out for volunteers. There is, therefore, no data held on which to base an estimate of safeguarding checks carried out.</p><p>The department’s statutory safeguarding guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’, makes clear that any volunteer should not be deployed to work unsupervised with children without appropriate checks. Where schools decide that a DBS criminal record check is appropriate for a volunteer, these can be obtained free of any charge from DBS. There are no plans currently to change these arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>There is a legal requirement for a DBS criminal record check for school governors, which are predominantly volunteer roles, including any parent governors. School governing boards have a key role in providing clarity of vision, and promoting the ethos and direction of the school and setting the school's aims and policies. DBS and other pre-appointment safeguarding checks, provide reassurance to the governing board that an individual is not disqualified from holding office as a governor and is suitable for the position.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 206705 206706 206707 question first answered 14/01/2019 17:53:14 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1038498

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Traffic Control: West Sussex
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether Highways England carried out a formally authorised Walking, Cycling and Horseriding Assessment and Review of the proposed alternatives to the Sussex Pad road crossing as part of the New Marks Farm Development that was recently approved by the planning committee of Adur Council.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	206710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2019 answer text <p>In accordance with the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges, a Walking, Cycling and Horseriding Review will be carried out before the start of the detailed design of the proposals.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 17/01/2019 15:56:02 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1037256

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Planning Permission: West Sussex
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he plans to announce a decision on calling in the planning application for the New Monks Farm development in Lancing, West Sussex.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	205785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>The Secretary of State is currently considering planning application AWDM/0961/17 regarding land west of New Monks Farm, Marsh Barn Lane, Lancing, and is currently considering all relevant documentation and representations. A decision will be announced as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 10/01/2019 14:53:59 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1037257

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Planning Permission: West Sussex
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many representations he has received to (a) call in and (b) not to call in the New Monks Farm development in Lancing, West Sussex.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	205786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>To date, the Secretary of State has received a total of 225 representations objecting to the application for land west of new Monks Farm, Marsh Barn Lane, Lancing, and to the related application at Shoreham Airport, Lancing and 14 representations in support.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 10/01/2019 14:58:32 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1023077

registered interest
date	10/12/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much money the Government spent on advertising an explanation of its EU withdrawal agreement on social media in 2018.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	200537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>Spend will be published in due course as part of our normal data release.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 17/12/2018 17:10:12 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1023078

registered interest
date	10/12/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which social media platforms the Government has paid to advertise its EU withdrawal agreement; and how much the Government has paid to each of those platforms for that purpose in 2018.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	200538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>EU Withdrawal Agreement public information advertising ran on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.</p><p> </p><p>Available spend data for all government public information advertising on the above platforms to support campaigns including teacher recruitment, blood donation, public health and more, for the period January-October, is as follows:</p><p> </p><p>Facebook: £11,402,996.21</p><p>LinkedIn: £873.593.26</p><p>Twitter: £1,753,100.89</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 19/12/2018 17:10:16 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton