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712384

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Charities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Civil Society plans to amend section 10 of the Charities Act 2011 to define ecclesiastical corporations as charities.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Mr Graham Allen
uin	68476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2017 answer text <p>There are no plans to amend section 10 of the Charities Act 2011 to apply charity law to ecclesiastical corporations. Ecclesiastical corporations are regulated under Canon law of the Church of England.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 28/03/2017 10:52:36 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	364 label Biography information for Mr Graham Allen

709620

registered interest
date	09/03/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Voting Behaviour
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answers of 2 March 2017 to Questions 65453, 65456 and 65480, what criteria the Government uses to determine which factors to test for their effects on voter turn out.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Mr Graham Allen
uin	67334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2017 answer text <p>In our response to <em>Securing the Ballot</em>, the Government agreed with Sir Eric that voter identification measures should be explored further, as a means of addressing some existing vulnerabilities in the electoral system.</p><p>The Government’s view is that, before any decisions can be taken about the suitability of voter identification to elections in Britain, such measures should first be subject to thorough and rigorous testing in a number of pilot schemes. This will enable us to accurately determine the impact of asking voters to present identification on all aspects of the electoral process, including on such important factors as an elector’s likelihood of turning out.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 16/03/2017 16:00:41 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	364 label Biography information for Mr Graham Allen

708511

registered interest
date	06/03/2017
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	School Milk: East Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of children aged over five in (i) the Nottingham North constituency, (ii) Nottingham city and (iii) the East Midlands received milk through the European School Milk Scheme in the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Mr Graham Allen
uin	66646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2017 answer text <p>Information by Westminster Constituency or English region on the number of children aged over five receiving subsidised milk under the scheme is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 13/03/2017 14:46:26 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	364 label Biography information for Mr Graham Allen

708573

registered interest
date	06/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	School Milk: East Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of children aged under five in (i) the Nottingham North constituency, (ii) Nottingham city and (iii) the East Midlands received milk through the Nursery Milk Scheme in the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Mr Graham Allen
uin	66645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2017 answer text <p>These figures are not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood question first answered 09/03/2017 15:14:01 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	364 label Biography information for Mr Graham Allen

693876

registered interest
date	23/02/2017
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	Agriculture and Hospitality Industry: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with reference to his speech in Tallinn of 21 February 2017, what steps the Government plans to take to promote jobs in the hospitality and agricultural industries to British citizens for fill potential vacancies after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Mr Graham Allen
uin	65366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2017 answer text <p>Supporting our food and farming industries and protecting the environment will form an important part of our exit from the EU. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs will be engaging with industry to inform their initial thinking as part of the wider stakeholder engagement to help shape future agriculture and land use policy, as well as our 25 year Food and Farming Plan.</p><p>In addition, tourism and hospitality are a vital part of our economy. In 2015 foreign visitors contributed £22bn to our economy and the industry as a whole supports some 1.6 million jobs. Since the referendum result, Government has met a range of representatives from the hospitality industry. We are confident our exit presents opportunities for growth in hospitality and we will work closely with the industry to realise these.</p><p>As we conduct our negotiations, it must be a priority to regain more control of the numbers of people who come here from Europe. We are considering very carefully the options that are open to us for our future immigration system. As part of that it is important that we understand the impacts on the different sectors of the economy and the labour market from any changes that we make.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 02/03/2017 16:30:44 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	364 label Biography information for Mr Graham Allen

693230

registered interest
date	22/02/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education: Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the results of polling commissioned by Save the Children, published in February 2017, on the majority of parents wanting the Government to ensure that every nursery in England has a qualified early years teacher.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Mr Graham Allen
uin	64949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Education will be publishing an early years workforce strategy in due course, which will seek to remove the barriers to attracting, retaining and developing staff. The strategy will include a focus on what government can do to help grow the graduate workforce.</p><p>We make early years initial teacher training places available to meet the demand from the market. Funding is available for training course fees, with additional funding for nursery employers to help them support graduates in their setting to become early years teachers. To encourage the best graduates into the early years workforce we provide bursaries to eligible trainees.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 01/03/2017 17:10:36 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	364 label Biography information for Mr Graham Allen

693231

registered interest
date	22/02/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Basic Skills: Primary Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of data published by Save the Children in February 2017 on the number of children at risk of finishing primary school without important skills in English by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Mr Graham Allen
uin	64950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2017 answer text <p>Reaching a high level of fluency in reading and writing by the end of primary school is fundamental to achievement in education and critical for everyday life. We want all children, regardless of their background, to leave primary school able to read and write to a high standard.</p><p>The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) sets the standards for the provision of development and care from birth to age five. This includes a focus on literacy, communication and language. The EYFS Profile results have shown an increase in the percentage of children achieving a good level of development – from 51.7% in 2013 to 69% in 2016.</p><p>The results from the 2016 EYFS Profile show that 72.1% of children achieved at least the expected level in all early learning goals in literacy in 2016 compared with 60.7% in 2013. For communication and language 81.6% of children achieved at least the expected level in all learning goals in communication and language compared to 72.2% in 2013.</p><p>The English curriculum introduced in 2014 places a renewed focus on phonics, as evidence shows that systematic synthetic phonics is the most effective approach to teaching young children to read.</p><p> </p><p>To boost the quality of phonics teaching, we provided £23.7 million in match funding to over 14,000 primary schools, enabling them to buy systematic synthetic phonics products and training. The results from this year’s phonics screening check show that, since the introduction of the phonics check in 2012, over 147,000 more six year olds are now on track to become excellent readers. Almost 9 in 10 pupils (89%) who met the expected standard of phonic decoding in year 1 went on to reach the expected standard in reading at the end of Key Stage 1.</p><p> </p><p>The Year 7 Catch-up Premium provides additional funding for secondary schools to support pupils who did not reach the expected level in reading and/or mathematics by the end of primary school.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/03/2017 15:46:11 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	364 label Biography information for Mr Graham Allen

693241

registered interest
date	22/02/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Communication Skills
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the results of polling commissioned by Save the Children, published in February 2017, on the proportion of children in Nottingham North constituency on free school meals who did not reach the expected level of speech and language skills by age five in 2015.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Mr Graham Allen
uin	64959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2017 answer text <p>The Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework (EYFS) sets out the key areas of learning which every provider must follow. This includes a focus on literacy and communication and language. We are seeing year on year improvements in the communications and language area of learning. In 2013, 59.9% of children eligible for FSM achieved at least the expected level in the communication and language area of Learning, compared to 75.0% of all other children. In 2016, 71.2% of children eligible for FSM achieved at least the expected level in the communication and language area of learning, compared to 83.3% of all other children.</p><p>For Nottingham North, in 2015, 75.1% of children eligible for FSM achieved at least the expected level in the communication and language area of learning, compared to 79.8% of all other children. In 2016, 74.9% of children eligible for FSM achieved at least the expected level in the communication and language area of learning, compared to 81.2% of all other children</p><p>Social mobility is at the heart of the Government’s agenda, and that is why we are increasing spending on childcare to over £6 billion per year by 2019-20 – more than any other government.</p><p>We are working hard to ensure parents and children - wherever they live in England - have access to high quality early years education places through the funded 15 hour entitlement for disadvantaged two-year-olds and for all three- and four-year-olds. The Early Years Pupil Premium also provides over £300 per eligible child to improve outcomes for disadvantaged three- and four-year-olds.</p><p>We know that the quality of the workforce has the biggest impact on the children’s outcomes, and over recent years, we have taken steps to improve the quality of the workforce. We are currently developing a workforce strategy to remove the barriers to attracting, retaining and developing staff in the early years workforce.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 01/03/2017 17:05:06 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	364 label Biography information for Mr Graham Allen

693300

registered interest
date	22/02/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cardiovascular Diseases: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 14 November 2016 to Question 52787, when the Cardiovascular Disease collaborative group commenced its work; and if he will set out is plan of work.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Mr Graham Allen
uin	65068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2017 answer text <p>The Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Collaborative was established in 2013, when NHS England took up its statutory roles. Initially its purpose was to monitor progress following the Department’s publication of the CVD Outcomes Strategy (2013).</p><p> </p><p>Subsequently, NHS England's priorities, and those of other arm’s length bodies such as Public Health England, were focused around the Five Year Forward View, and so in 2016 they discussed with stakeholders how the Collaborative could be reconfigured to reflect this shift in focus. The Five Year Forward View has many objectives which are relevant to CVD and the CVD Collaborative is intended to support these.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 01/03/2017 11:01:42 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	364 label Biography information for Mr Graham Allen

671817

registered interest
date	11/01/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Courts: Privacy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has assessed the potential merits of prohibiting defendants, witnesses and others participating in court proceedings from obscuring their faces, except on medical grounds, or in circumstances where a trial anonymity order has been granted.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Mr Graham Allen
uin	59623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2017 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>Prohibiting those participating in court proceedings from obscuring their faces is a matter for the judiciary to decide upon on a case-by-case basis. The Government is satisfied with the operation of the current practice.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 19/01/2017 14:06:42 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	364 label Biography information for Mr Graham Allen