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1503472

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date	02/09/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that service personnel are able to access wraparound childcare.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	45070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2022 answer text <p>On 1 September 2022, the Ministry of Defence rolled out a Wraparound Childcare scheme (WAC) across the UK to provide greater flexibility to Service personnel with children, following a successful pilot program. From the start of the 2022 Autumn term, WAC funding will be available to all eligible Service families with children aged 4 to 11 years, who are in school or being home schooled in the UK. If eligible, personnel can claim up to 20 hours per week of funding for each child that is attending before and after school care during term time. WAC is known as 'Out of School care' in Wales and 'School Aged Childcare' in Scotland.</p><p>Defence continues to work closely with the Department for Education, the Devolved Administrations and Local Authorities to ensure there are sufficient spaces and that where this might not be the case that this is highlighted appropriately.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 07/09/2022 15:20:48 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1503473

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Hubs: Birmingham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many jobs have been created in the West Midlands as a result of the establishment of the cross-Government hub at 23 Stephenson Street in Birmingham.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	45073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2022 answer text <p>23 Stephenson Street, Birmingham, opened in October 2021 housing 1,700 staff across 20 different Government departments. The vast majority of these civil servants were brought together through consolidation of existing roles in Birmingham but additional capacity for 30 new roles has been created.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 13/09/2022 15:47:29 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1503711

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Voluntary Work: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that young people can access volunteering opportunities and activities.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	45386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2022 answer text <p>DCMS jointly funds the #iwill Fund together with The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF) to provide youth social action opportunities for young people aged 10-20. Over £54m has been jointly invested into the Fund since 2016, which has been matched on at least a 1:1 basis by the delivery organisations, doubling the initial investment. A further £12m of DCMS and TNLCF funding was announced in July 2022.</p><p>The #iwill Fund contributes to the delivery of the National Youth Guarantee, which will also offer The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award to all mainstream secondary schools in England, tackle non-military Uniformed Youth Group waiting lists and continue delivering the National Citizen Service (NCS) programme. All of these programmes provide volunteering opportunities for young people.</p><p><strong><br></strong>In addition, through the £7.4m Volunteering Futures Fund, DCMS is creating more volunteering opportunities to improve the accessibility of volunteering in arts, culture, sports, civil society, youth and heritage sectors. Young people, people with disabilities, those experiencing loneliness and other barriers to access, will get the opportunity to volunteer and help others.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 07/09/2022 13:24:36 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1503713

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Gender Based Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken towards implementation of the Government's Tackling violence against women and girls strategy.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	45380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2022 answer text <p>Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) is a government priority. VAWG is an unacceptable, preventable issue which blights the lives of millions.</p><p>One year on from the publication of the Tackling VAWG Strategy, we have made significant progress and delivered a number of key commitments to help ensure that women and girls are safe everywhere - at home, online, at work and in public spaces. This includes action to tackle the causes of these crimes. We have:</p><p>o supported the introduction of a new full-time National Policing Lead for VAWG, DCC Maggie Blyth, to help strengthen the police response;</p><p>o ratified the Istanbul Convention on 21 July 2022, demonstrating to women in the UK and to our partners overseas our commitment to tackling VAWG;</p><p>o launched the first phase of our national communications campaign, ‘Enough’, to challenge the harmful behaviours that exist within wider society, educate young people about healthy relationships and consent, and ensure victims can recognise abuse and receive support;</p><p>o announced that we will add VAWG to the Strategic Policing Requirement meaning it will be set out as a national threat for forces to respond to alongside other threats such as terrorism, serious and organised crime and child sexual abuse;</p><p>o allocated £55 million to communities through the Safer Streets Fund and Safety of Women at Night Fund, including for extra CCTV, streetlighting and work to change attitudes and work to preventing VAWG in public spaces at night;</p><p>o published a refreshed National Statement of Expectations and accompanying VAWG Commissioning Toolkit to outline the activity that local areas should undertake to ensure victims and survivors of VAWG get the help and support they need;</p><p>o criminalised virginity testing, to send a clear message that this practice is wholly unacceptable in our society;</p><p>o appointed joint Transport Champions to help make public transport safer for women and girls; and</p><p>o piloted a tool, StreetSafe, which enables the public to anonymously report areas where they feel unsafe.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, in May 2022, the Home Office launched a competition on What Works to prevent violence against women and girls. This will provide multi-year funding to providers and be accompanied by extensive evaluation to increase our understanding of what works.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 06/09/2022 15:39:48 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1503715

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Administration of Justice: Digital Technology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to support the digital transformation of the legal sector.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	45387
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2022 answer text <p>Since November 2019 the government has funded the LawtechUK programme, established to support the digital transformation of the UK legal sector. The programme is delivered by Tech Nation and brings together industry, regulators, the judiciary, academia and government to break down barriers to innovation and improve legal professionals’ awareness and understanding of technology. It has delivered 15 projects to date, including a sandbox to help innovators fast track transformative ideas into products, educational resources, and a ground-breaking feasibility study for how technology can help small businesses resolve disputes.</p><p>In August 2022 the government announced a further £4 million of funding for a second phase of support for lawtech. This funding will be used to build on the work delivered so far to increase innovation and adoption of lawtech in the delivery of legal services, support the growth of the lawtech sector in the UK, and enable English and Welsh law and the UK’s jurisdictions to become the foundation for emerging technologies.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 13/09/2022 15:48:02 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1503842

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
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	Livestock: Animal Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Government's Action Plan for Animal Welfare published in May 2021, when the Government plans to publish its consultation on cage keeping of farmed animals.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	45590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government are committed to phasing out confinement systems and supporting the industry to do so, not least to underpin UK food security. However, as reiterated by the Minister for Farming, Fisheries and Food at the ‘End the Cage Age’ debate held in June, we do need to work carefully and sensitively with the pig and poultry sectors as any transition must be done with, rather than against, these industries.</p><p> </p><p>This is an extremely challenging time for Britain’s farmers, with enormously increased input costs — of food, fuel and fertiliser — affecting almost all production systems to a greater or lesser extent, and of course for the general public who are faced with significant challenges around the cost of living.</p><p> </p><p>So, any decisions by Government on this issue, including timing of consultations, must be carefully considered in light of these wider, and clearly highly important, priorities. We have a course of action in play and will progress with our plans to transition away from use of cages in farming systems as soon as the time is right.</p> answering member constituency St Austell and Newquay answering member printed Steve Double grouped question UIN 45341 45458 45484 45512 45655 45974 question first answered 07/09/2022 14:03:16 answering member 4452 label Biography information for Steve Double
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1504400

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Commonwealth Games 2022: Charitable Donations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has made an estimate of the amount of sports equipment that will be given to sporting groups in the West Midlands following the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	45861
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2022 answer text <p>Based on discussions between the Birmingham 2022 Organising Committee and Sport England, my department estimates that over 16,000 items of sports equipment will be given to community organisations in the West Midlands following the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. This includes items such as boxing gloves, martial arts mats, netball bibs, basketballs and T20 cricket equipment as well as a number of items of general non-sport specific equipment. A full list of the equipment on offer is available via Sport England’s <a href="https://sportengland-production-files.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2022-08/Community%20lots..xlsx?VersionId=lYuCREZiRxm4_t53FJ9pmrKijTcYQ2.4" target="_blank">sports equipment gifting legacy catalogue</a>.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 07/09/2022 17:04:05 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1491008

registered interest
date	20/07/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department made an assessment of the potential merits of issuing passport holders whose passports were near to expiry with renewal reminder letters during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	40822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>Since November 2020, Her Majesty’s Passport Office has sent over 5 million reminder text messages to customers with passports nearing expiry.</p><p>In February 2021, 6,000 customers were sent reminder letters in a small pilot to test the merits of this approach. Response rates were found to be considerably lower than for text messages, and due to the higher costs (over £0.39 per unit) this option has not been pursued.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 05/09/2022 09:34:10 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1490549

registered interest
date	19/07/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Playgrounds: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department is taking to encourage local authorities to provide playgrounds that are accessible for children with disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	39886
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2022 answer text <p>Through our national design guidance we encourage public spaces, including play areas, to be designed in an accessible and inclusive way.</p><p>The Local Government Finance Settlement makes available £54.1 billion in 2022/23 for local government in England, an increase of up to £3.7 billion on 2021/22. The majority of this funding is un-ringfenced in recognition of local authorities being best placed to understand local priorities, such as local playgrounds.</p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 26/07/2022 12:14:20 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1487888

registered interest
date	11/07/2022
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	Genetics: Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his Department's policies of the AARS2 genetic disorder; and whether his Department has made funding available for research into that disorder.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	33812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>We have no plans to make a specific assessment. However, following the publication of the ‘England Rare Diseases Action Plan 2022’ in February 2022, the Department continues to monitor progress on its actions and resolve any barriers to implementation. The second England Rare Diseases Action Plan will be published at the start of 2023 and will report on progress and propose updated and new actions.</p><p>The Department funds the majority of research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). In the last five years, the NIHR has not funded specific research into AARS2 disorder.</p> answering member constituency Halesowen and Rowley Regis answering member printed James Morris question first answered 19/07/2022 09:42:02 answering member 3992 label Biography information for James Morris
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight