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1627585

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date	15/05/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Secondary Education: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to increase the number of planning, preparation and assessment periods provided for teachers in secondary schools for (a) updating work schemes and (b) implementing the latest pedagogical thinking.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	184901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p>Head teachers and trust leaders decide how much Planning, Preparation and Assessment (PPA) time they provide for their teachers.</p><p>The School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD), which sets out the statutory framework for teachers’ pay and conditions for maintained schools in England, sets a minimum requirement of 10% of a teacher’s timetabled teaching time as PPA time. There is no upper limit on PPA time.</p><p>While academies are not required to comply with the requirements set out in the STPCD, anecdotal evidence suggests that the vast majority do. The STPCD can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-teachers-pay-and-conditions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-teachers-pay-and-conditions</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 22/05/2023 14:15:04 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1627586

registered interest
date	15/05/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Multi-academy Trusts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to increase the accountability of executive heads of multi-academy trusts.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	184902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p>The Department requires a high level of accountability and transparency from academy trusts. Academy trusts’ status as companies, charities and public sector bodies means they are all subject to rigorous accountability systems. The explicit responsibilities of trust executive leaders as Accounting Officers are set out in the Academy Trust Handbook.</p><p>Where non-financial or financial non-compliance or governance failure is identified, including by trust executive leaders, Regions Group or the Education and Skills Funding Agency respectively will intervene in a way that is proportionate to the risk and preserves education provision. This can include issuing a trust with a Notice to Improve or, in the most serious cases, termination of the Funding Agreement.</p><p>To strengthen the support for executive head teachers and Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), the Department is introducing a new Multi Academy Trust CEO Development programme. The Department has convened an expert panel across school leadership and business to codify the knowledge, skills, and behaviours of a CEO of a large trust into the new ‘Multi Academy Trust Leadership Development: CEO Content Framework’. The document includes the need for robust internal structures for a trust’s board to hold the CEO to account.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 22/05/2023 14:26:47 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1627587

registered interest
date	15/05/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Multi-academy Trusts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an estimate of the potential impact of multi-academy trusts on costs for schools in the 2021-22 financial year; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	184903
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p>The primary responsibility for the oversight of academy trusts, and the schools within them, rests with the trustees of an academy trust. The Department requires a high level of accountability and transparency from academy trusts. Academy trusts’ status as companies, charities, and public sector bodies, means they have a rigorous tri-partite scrutiny framework.</p><p>Academy trusts have the freedom to centralise functions to take advantage of economies of scale and obtain best value for money. Where academy trusts top slice from their academies’ budgets to pay for these services, they must be transparent by disclosing the basis and value in their accounts. They must include additional disclosures in their annual accounts about the services they deliver centrally and the charging policy they apply. They must also identify the share against each academy.</p><p>Academy trusts have delivered strong financial health across the sector. The latest published data shows that in 2020/21, 97.3% of trusts had a cumulative surplus or a zero balance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 22/05/2023 15:32:47 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1627588

registered interest
date	15/05/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers: Retirement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the potential (a) impact of the prison officer retirement age on safety in prisons and (b) merits of aligning the retirement age of prison officers with police officers.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	184904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p>We highly value our hardworking prison officers and take very seriously the safety of all staff working within prisons, whatever their age. The Ministry continues to review and roll out new safety equipment and provide new skills to prison officers to deal with challenging situations and reduce the risk of assault.</p><p>The pension age in all public sector pension schemes is set under legislation by HM Treasury and the merits of any review in pension age would be for them to consider. I am committed to listening to and working with officers, staff and trade unions on a range of issues.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 22/05/2023 15:20:30 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1627589

registered interest
date	15/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Judicial Review: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many judicial review applications were made by foreign national offenders in prisons under the Human Rights Act 1998 in each of the last ten years; and how many and what proportion of these were successful.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	184905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2023 answer text <p>Information on the number of judicial review applications made by foreign national offenders in prisons under the Human Rights Act cannot be accurately extracted from our internal systems and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 23/05/2023 09:21:41 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1627590

registered interest
date	15/05/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Officers: Crimes of Violence
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 help reduce attacks on prison officers.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	184906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p>We will not tolerate any violence against prison officers – staff must be able to expect a safe work environment. Prisoners who are violent towards staff will face the full consequences of their actions and will be dealt with swiftly and effectively. As of 28 June 2022 the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act has doubled the maximum penalty to up to two years’ imprisonment for those who assault emergency workers, including prison officers.</p><p> </p><p>To protect staff and prisoners in very serious assaults, we are rolling out PAVA – a synthetic pepper spray – for use by prison officers in the adult male estate. Staff are able to use the PAVA spray where there is serious violence or an imminent or perceived risk of it.</p><p> </p><p>We have rolled out a next generation Body Worn Video Camera solution which has increased the availability across public sector prisons from 6,000 to over 13,000 cameras, enabling every band 3-5 officer on shift to wear one. The cameras will provide high-quality evidence to support prosecutions against prisoners who commit assaults.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 22/05/2023 15:23:50 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1627591

registered interest
date	15/05/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress he has made on implementing the key findings from the 2016 Farmer Review on cutting the cycle of re-offending.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	184907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p>The report of Lord Farmer’s review, <em>The Importance of Strengthening Prisoners Family Ties to Prevent Reoffending and Reduce Intergenerational Crime,</em> commissioned in 2016, was published on 10 August 2017. It made 19 recommendations designed both to improve and to standardise the provision of family services across the prison estate in England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>All of the recommendations have been actioned and all but one linked to new training already embedded as part of our core business.</p><p> </p><p>The changes we have implemented include the introduction of a secure social video calling service in all prisons; a Families Performance Metric for prisons; and additional HMPPS funding to strengthen prisons’ communication with prisoners’ families</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 22/05/2023 15:26:03 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1627593

registered interest
date	15/05/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Department for Business and Trade: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, which retained EU laws her Department has repealed in the last two years; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of repealing those laws on the international competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises based in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	184908
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2023 answer text <p>The Government is committed to using our new regulatory autonomy to ensure that our regulations are tailored to the needs of the UK economy and businesses based in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has introduced a new subsidy control regime to support British businesses and innovation through greater freedom to design subsidies which deliver both local and national objectives; reforms to EU competition block exemption regulations; and the Professional Qualifications Act which will revoke EU-derived rules on the recognition of professional qualifications in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>An impact assessment for the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill is available on gov.uk. Departments, including the Department for Business and Trade will assess, where required, the impacts of any further changes to EU laws that are made using the powers in the Bill including on small and medium-sized enterprises.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 23/05/2023 14:57:49 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1627594

registered interest
date	15/05/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment his Department has made of the impact of low traffic neighbourhoods on levels of congestion.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	184909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>Responsibility for traffic management on local roads, including the implementation of low-traffic neighbourhoods, rests with local traffic authorities. They have a statutory duty, under the Traffic Management Act 2004, to manage their networks with the aim of ‘securing the expeditious movement of traffic’, including the reduction of congestion and other disruption.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 22/05/2023 13:33:19 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1627647

registered interest
date	15/05/2023
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	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Flags
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 his Department will fly the respective county flags on county days.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	184910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2023 answer text <p>The Government attaches great importance to the history and traditions of this country. We have proudly flown county flags above our Headquarters at 2, Marsham Street on county days for several years and will continue to do so as well as flying all county flags on the annual county flag week in Parliament Square.</p> answering member constituency Bishop Auckland answering member printed Dehenna Davison question first answered 23/05/2023 15:02:21 answering member 4737 label Biography information for Dehenna Davison
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell