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1611358

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date	17/04/2023
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Conversion Therapy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2023 to Question 161400 on Conversion Therapy, whether she plans to complete pre-legislative scrutiny of the draft Bill before 20 July 2023.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	180986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>The Government will publish a draft Bill setting out our approach to banning conversion practices. This will go for pre-legislative scrutiny by joint committee. It is the Government's intention to complete pre-legislative scrutiny in the current parliamentary session.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 24/04/2023 10:35:04 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1611425

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
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	Community Housing Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to use any in-year underspend in his Department's revenue budget to re-open the Community Housing Fund; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	181053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2023 answer text <p>Details of departmental underspends are published annually as part of HM Treasury’s <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fmain-supply-estimates-2022-to-23&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Cec78810570fa45da20f708db459a9be5%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638180302561544503%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=OxewpauM3sgPoYhwJNO1%2BwvxVdElql2MEu31sWi0YN4%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Main Supply Estimates</a>.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 25/04/2023 16:37:50 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1611426

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
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	Community Housing: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will take steps to allow the Affordable Homes programme to offer a pre-development grant to smaller community housing providers that lack the working capital to bring forward schemes for capital funding bids; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	181054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>The Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) provides capital grants for new homes.</p><p>The Government values the role of smaller housing providers in delivering housing supply where it is most needed. The AHP enables smaller providers to access grant funding through a Continuous Market Engagement (CME) function, which is designed to support individual schemes. Providers can be paid on a cashflow basis, which supports them to make initial investment in developing new sites before they start building work.</p><p>Since the most recent round of the Community Housing Fund closed in March 2022, the Government has been considering what support it may provide to the community-led housing sector and we will make a decision in due course.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 24/04/2023 15:22:24 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1611427

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Community Housing: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reasons no funding was included in the Spring Budget for the community housing sector; if he will define Community Housing Fund funding as capital funding; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	181055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>The government recognises the benefits of community-led housing. The sector receives support through the £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) 2021-26, through which groups - or their partner organisations - registered as providers of social housing may apply for capital grants to support affordable housing. This is the largest investment in affordable housing in a decade.</p><p> </p><p>This is in addition to the £227 million which was made available through the Community Housing Fund, which was launched in 2016 and comprised capital and revenue grants.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 24/04/2023 17:21:42 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1610011

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
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	Private Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 28 June 2023 to Question 21263 on Private Rented Housing, for what reasons he has maintained the requirement for Secretary of State approval for larger local authority selective licencing schemes.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	180144
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>All tenants should have access to a good quality and safe homes. Selective licensing is a targeted tool to improve standards and safety in the private rented sector in areas suffering from issues such as poor housing quality, levels of deprivation and anti-social behaviour. In the White Paper: A Fairer Private Rented Sector, we set out how we are going to reform the private rented sector to level up housing quality and increase the tools available to local authorities to crack down on poor quality, building on the powers already available, including selective licensing.</p><p>We continue to review the use of selective licensing via our approval process and engagement with local authorities. We will consider throughout the development of the private rented sector reforms how selective licensing will work with the new system. In the meantime, selective licensing remains an effective tool for local authorities to tackle issues in their local private rented sector.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 24/04/2023 15:19:19 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1610276

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Adoption: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons adopted people aged between 21 and 25 who do not have an Education and Health Care Plan are ineligible for Adoption Support Funding for therapy; what assessment she has made of the impact of that rule on the mental health of those people; if she will make it her policy to increase that funding so that all adopted young people can get access to therapy; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	180409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2023 answer text <p>The role of the Adoption Support Fund (ASF) is to provide funding for trauma and attachment therapy, as well as specialist assessments related to trauma and attachment, to children and young people who have been adopted or are under special guardianship orders after previously being in care.</p><p>The department recognises that some of these young adults with special educational needs and disabilities also have access to an education, health and care plan up to age 25 because of their particular needs. We have, therefore, said these young people can also access the ASF up until age 25, to ensure they receive consistency of support for all their needs. These young people often have the highest potential for family breakdown due to the complexities of overcoming the trauma they may have experienced in their early years on top of their other special educational or health needs.</p><p>Other young people aged over 21, who had previously been accessing ASF support, can access NHS adult mental health services, including therapeutic support. The government is investing at least £2.3 billion of additional funding a year by April 2024 to expand and transform mental health services in England so that 2 million more people will be able to get the mental health support they need. The government also announced in January 2023 a £150 million investment up to April 2025 to better support people experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, mental health crises to receive care and support in more appropriate settings outside of A&amp;E.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 25/04/2023 15:03:18 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1610395

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Abduction: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the oral contribution made by the Minister of State for the FCDO, the hon. Member for Berwick-Upon-Tweed during the debate on International Child Abduction on 22 March 2023 (Official Report, vol 730, col 148WH) whether the hon. Member for Macclesfield has invited Members with concerns to discuss them with his Department at a policy level; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	180528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2023 answer text <p>The Government takes International parental child abduction very seriously. When a child has been abducted, our consular staff provide empathetic consular support to those affected, including to signpost them to relevant partner organisations. Following the issues raised in the debate on 22 March, consular staff are exploring with stakeholders what more we may be able to do. We will then seek to follow up with interested members in due course.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 19/04/2023 16:18:31 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1610417

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
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	Environment Protection: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has taken steps to seek external peer review of her Department’s proposals for retaining, revoking or replacing retained EU law on nature protection and air and water quality to help inform the development of the associated statutory instruments.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	180550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>Defra is in the process of analysing its retained EU law (REUL) stock - including that relating to nature protection, air and water quality - and determining what should be preserved as part of domestic law, as well as REUL that should be repealed, or amended.</p><p> </p><p>Defra’s default approach will be to retain REUL unless there is a good reason to either repeal or reform it. This allows us to uphold environmental protections, provide certainty to businesses and stakeholders, and to apply targeted reforms tailored to meeting our needs as an independent nation outside the EU.</p><p> </p><p>We are working closely with other Government Departments, our Arm’s Length Bodies and the Devolved Administrations. We have not undertaken an external peer review process to date. Defra will follow the usual consultation processes adhered to by all Government Departments for statutory instruments and underpinning policy development. We also continue to welcome stakeholders’ views on Defra’s REUL available on the public dashboard.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 24/04/2023 14:11:26 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1610418

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
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	Pesticides
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 her Department is taking to ensure that the development of a national action plan for the sustainable use of pesticides will take account of the environmental principles policy statement, published by her Department on 12 May 2022.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	180551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>The Environment Act 2021 created a duty for ministers to have due regard to the environmental principles policy statement when developing policy. The statement was published on 31 January 2023 and the duty will come into force on 1 November 2023. We are currently working to effectively implement the new duty, in order to put environmental considerations at the heart of policy making.</p><p> </p><p>We will publish the updated UK National Action Plan on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides (NAP) this year. The NAP will set out Defra’s ambition to minimise the risks and impacts of pesticides to human health and the environment, including how we intend to increase the uptake of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) across all sectors. We will have due regard to the environmental principles policy statement as we implement the new NAP.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 24/04/2023 12:10:36 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1610454

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Hydrogen: Heating
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, by what process the Government plans to decide on whether to allow blending of up to 20 per cent hydrogen by volume into gas distribution networks; and what criteria will inform that decision.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	180587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>The Government is planning to take a strategic policy decision in 2023 on whether to seek to enable the blending of hydrogen in the existing gas distribution network. Further details will be provided this year including through the Government’s response to its consultation on hydrogen transport and storage infrastructure, which the Government aims to publish in Q2 2023.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 24/04/2023 15:27:01 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas