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1111217

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Discrimination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he has taken to ensure the protection of teachers with disabilities from discrimination.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	243476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>The Equality Act (2010) provides a single, consolidated source of anti-discrimination law, covering all the types of discrimination that are unlawful. In England and Wales, the Act applies to all maintained and independent schools, including academies, and non-maintained special schools. To support schools in ensuring they comply with the provisions of the Act, we published ‘The Equality Act (2010): advice for schools’ in February 2013.</p><p> </p><p>Teach First is committed to ensuring that all candidates and participants are treated fairly - irrespective of disability, gender, sexual orientation, age, race, religion or any other factor.</p><p> </p><p>Teach First looks for teaching potential in all candidates. Identifying information of candidates is removed from the screening process and recruiters are trained to avoid unconscious bias. Teach First encourages applications from candidates with disabilities and provides any additional support needed during training alongside their placement school and university partners.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 243477 243478 question first answered 15/04/2019 15:37:31 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1111218

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Discrimination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what safeguards are in place in the Teach First programme to protect teachers with disabilities from discrimination.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	243477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>The Equality Act (2010) provides a single, consolidated source of anti-discrimination law, covering all the types of discrimination that are unlawful. In England and Wales, the Act applies to all maintained and independent schools, including academies, and non-maintained special schools. To support schools in ensuring they comply with the provisions of the Act, we published ‘The Equality Act (2010): advice for schools’ in February 2013.</p><p> </p><p>Teach First is committed to ensuring that all candidates and participants are treated fairly - irrespective of disability, gender, sexual orientation, age, race, religion or any other factor.</p><p> </p><p>Teach First looks for teaching potential in all candidates. Identifying information of candidates is removed from the screening process and recruiters are trained to avoid unconscious bias. Teach First encourages applications from candidates with disabilities and provides any additional support needed during training alongside their placement school and university partners.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 243476 243478 question first answered 15/04/2019 15:37:31 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1111219

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Dyspraxia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the support provided to teachers with Dyspraxia.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	243478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>The Equality Act (2010) provides a single, consolidated source of anti-discrimination law, covering all the types of discrimination that are unlawful. In England and Wales, the Act applies to all maintained and independent schools, including academies, and non-maintained special schools. To support schools in ensuring they comply with the provisions of the Act, we published ‘The Equality Act (2010): advice for schools’ in February 2013.</p><p> </p><p>Teach First is committed to ensuring that all candidates and participants are treated fairly - irrespective of disability, gender, sexual orientation, age, race, religion or any other factor.</p><p> </p><p>Teach First looks for teaching potential in all candidates. Identifying information of candidates is removed from the screening process and recruiters are trained to avoid unconscious bias. Teach First encourages applications from candidates with disabilities and provides any additional support needed during training alongside their placement school and university partners.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 243476 243477 question first answered 15/04/2019 15:37:31 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1110169

registered interest
date	08/04/2019
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	Food Banks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 2 April 2019 to Question 238363 on Food Banks, what her timescale is for publication of the final report.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	242147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department is currently working on the literature review and a release date is yet to be determined.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 11/04/2019 12:55:18 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1108655

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Dyspraxia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential effect on the (a) time taken to receive and (b) quality of assessments for dyspraxia of CCGs opting not to fund dyspraxia assessments with Dyspraxia UK; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	239251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>We have made no such assessment. Commissioning decisions are made locally by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). CCGs are best placed to do this as they are clinically led organisations that have both the local knowledge and local accountability to make commissioning decisions in the best interests of their populations.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 04/04/2019 11:14:39 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1105911

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Dyspraxia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were referred by their GP for a Dyspraxia assessment in each of the last ten years; how many of those assessments resulted in a diagnosis of Dyspraxia; and the average length of time between GP referral and diagnosis was in that same time period.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	238359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The information requested on referrals for a dyspraxia assessment is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>We have made no assessment of the efficacy of the route to diagnosis for dyspraxia in adults. Arrangements for referrals for diagnosis of dyspraxia are a matter for local determination with services commissioned by clinical commissioning groups to meet local need.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 238360 238361 question first answered 02/04/2019 11:45:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1105912

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Dyspraxia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were referred by their GP to (a) a private occupational therapist, (b) an occupational therapist on the NHS, (c) a private physio-therapist, and (b) a physio-therapist on the NHS for a Dyspraxia assessment in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	238360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The information requested on referrals for a dyspraxia assessment is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>We have made no assessment of the efficacy of the route to diagnosis for dyspraxia in adults. Arrangements for referrals for diagnosis of dyspraxia are a matter for local determination with services commissioned by clinical commissioning groups to meet local need.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 238359 238361 question first answered 02/04/2019 11:45:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1105914

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Dyspraxia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the efficacy of the route to diagnosis for dyspraxia for adults.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	238361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The information requested on referrals for a dyspraxia assessment is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>We have made no assessment of the efficacy of the route to diagnosis for dyspraxia in adults. Arrangements for referrals for diagnosis of dyspraxia are a matter for local determination with services commissioned by clinical commissioning groups to meet local need.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 238359 238360 question first answered 02/04/2019 11:45:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1105915

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
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	Electronic Government: Dyspraxia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has received feedback from Dyspraxics on the accessibility of its online platforms.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	238362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>Universal Credit has been designed with accessibility in mind and we are committed to providing personalised support for all claimants. The Department commissioned an independent accessibility audit of our Universal Credit online service in September 2018 and will receive the final report and accessibility statement this Summer. We continue to provide training and process improvements so that we can maintain an excellent level of accessibility.</p><p> </p><p>Where claimants may struggle to access the Universal Credit online system, face-to-face support in Jobcentres is available to assist them in making and accessing their claim and claimants can also make a claim via the Freephone Universal Credit helpline.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 02/04/2019 14:08:12 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1105985

registered interest
date	28/03/2019
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	Food Banks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish the interim findings of her Department's study entitled Factors driving the use of food banks.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	238363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department is carrying out a literature review on the factors driving the use of food banks. There is no plan to publish an interim report. A final report will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/04/2019 15:06:35 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck