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1045952

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date	23/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Social Services: North West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the amount local authorities in (a) Greater Manchester and (b) the North West overspent on children’s services in 2017-18; and whether he plans to provide additional funding for local authority run children's services.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	211365
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities are required under Section 251 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act (2009) to submit education and children’s social care budget and expenditure statements. This data is published in statistical releases annually:</p><ul><li>Budget is from Table 3 of: ‘Planned local authority and school expenditure: 2018 to 2019 financial year’: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/planned-la-and-school-expenditure-2018-to-2019-financial-year" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/planned-la-and-school-expenditure-2018-to-2019-financial-year</a>.</li><li>Outturn is from Table 7 of ‘Local authority and school expenditure: 2017 to 2018 financial year’: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/la-and-school-expenditure-2017-to-2018-financial-year" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/la-and-school-expenditure-2017-to-2018-financial-year</a>.</li></ul><p> </p><p>This data is published for all local authorities in statistical releases annually.</p><p>At Autumn Budget, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced an extra £410 million next year for social care, including children’s services, along with £84 million over 5 years to support up to 20 local authorities to improve their social work practice. This builds on the £200 billion government has already made available to councils up to 2020 to provide services in the best interests of local residents, including those for children and young people.</p><p>The government will continue to work closely with the sector to consider long-term children’s services funding as part of the 2019 Spending Review, when the government will set out its long-term spending approach.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 30/01/2019 13:25:21 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1046124

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Public Houses: Codes of Practice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will carry out a review of the Pubs Code including the attractiveness to tenants of the Market Rent Only option.
tabling member constituency	Bolton West
tabling member printed	Chris Green
uin	211305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>As required by the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015, my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State will review the operation of the Pubs Code for the period of 20 July 2016 to 31 March 2019. The review will be informed by responses to the Pubs Code Adjudicator’s Market Rent Only (MRO) questionnaire and the 2019 Tenants Survey which asks tenants about MRO offers they have received.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 29/01/2019 15:56:30 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4398 label Biography information for Chris Green

1045499

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Maternity and Paternity Leave: Childbirth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans the Government has to bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that parents whose babies are born prematurely are allowed an extra week of statutory maternity or paternity leave for every week their child spends in hospital before they are allowed to go home.
tabling member constituency	Leeds West
tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
uin	210560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department is conducting a short, focussed internal review of the provisions for parents of premature babies and sick babies and those that experience multiple births. The purpose of this work is to obtain a high-level understanding of the barriers to participating in the labour market that these parents can face. It would not be appropriate to announce future policy without first establishing an appropriate evidence base.</p><p>BEIS officials are working with organisations who represent the interests of these parents (The Smallest Things, Bliss, and TAMBA) to better understand the issues that parents can face and have also held focus groups with a small number of parents themselves.This will inform our policy consideration.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 24/01/2019 16:29:45 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

1045500

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Exclusive Economic Zone
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the requirements of Article 75 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, on what date the United Kingdom registered its declaration of the UK Exclusive Economic Zone with the UN Secretary General.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	210682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the United Nations deposited the declaration of a United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone pursuant to article 75, paragraph 2, and article 84, paragraph 2, of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, at the United Nations on 27 January 2014. The United Nations acknowledged receipt of this declaration in their diplomatic Note dated 4 February 2014 and informed Member States in a Maritime Zone Notification of the same date.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 29/01/2019 15:30:59 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1045686

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Technicians: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to increase the supply of laboratory scientist technicians.
tabling member constituency	South Basildon and East Thurrock
tabling member printed	Stephen Metcalfe
uin	210634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The government wants to encourage more students into science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and training at all stages from primary school to higher education, which will equip people with the skills needed for such roles. We are investing an additional £406 million in skills, including maths and digital. This includes the Advanced Maths Premium and an £84 million programme to improve the teaching of computing.</p><p>It is crucial we encourage more young people to consider STEM careers, including careers such as laboratory scientist technicians. We have committed to improving STEM careers advice in schools in the government’s careers strategy which ensures that STEM encounters, such as with employers and apprenticeships, are built into school career programmes by updating school and college statutory guidance.</p><p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy also funds a number of programmes that aim to inspire more young people to study science subjects, such as the STEM Ambassadors programme, and the CREST awards, which engage students in STEM-related projects.</p><p>T levels will also provide alternative routes into laboratory and science technical careers. T levels will be a new gold-standard in technical education, providing a distinctive and rigorous alternative to A levels and apprenticeships. T level panels of employers are defining the outline content for the new programmes and we recently announced that T levels in the Health and Science route, which includes Laboratory Sciences, will be taught by selected providers from 2021.</p><p>Apprenticeships are available in the sector across a range of levels including Laboratory scientist (degree); Laboratory scientist Level 5; and Laboratory technician Level 3. These standards are being developed by employer groups, including groups in the health and science sector such as Pfizer, GSK, Astra Zeneca, Sterling Pharma Solutions, 3M. A full list of standards is available on the Institute for Apprenticeships’ website at <a href="https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/" target="_blank">https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/</a>.</p><p>To stimulate apprenticeships growth across all sectors, we are first and foremost ensuring that apprenticeships are a quality product recognised by individuals and employers – setting individuals on a path to a to great career and providing employers with the home-grown skills they need to grow their businesses and increase productivity.</p><p>We are also currently carrying out a review of higher technical education, looking at how level 4 and 5 classroom based technical education meets the needs of learners and employers. This forms part of our commitment to support routes to higher-earning technical roles and address the skills needs of the economy. Our ambition is to reform higher level technical education so that it delivers the skills employers and the economy need and offers attractive routes to higher earning technical roles. We also intend to establish a system of employer-led national standards for higher technical education.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 29/01/2019 16:21:02 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4092 label Biography information for Stephen Metcalfe

1045814

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
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	Common Agricultural Policy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on agricultural policy after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Taunton Deane
tabling member printed	Rebecca Pow
uin	908766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2019 answer text <p>We continue to have regular conversations with ministerial colleagues across Government on all aspects of exiting the EU, including agricultural policy.</p><p>The Agriculture Bill is part of the Government’s programme of critical legislation to deliver a smooth Exit from the European Union and seize the opportunities of a green Brexit. It will allow us to break from the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy and free farmers to continue producing world-class produce.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 24/01/2019 16:49:49 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow

1045887

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Building Regulations: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking in response to the recommendations of the ninth report of the Women and Equalities Committee on Building for Equality, published on 25 April 2017, HC 631, on increasing and enforcing minimum accessibility standards; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
uin	211196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>The Building Regulations Advisory Committee is currently defining the scope of a review into the Building Regulations’ requirements for access in Approved Document M (Access to and Use of Buildings), including the effectiveness of current standards both in relation to housing and other buildings.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 30/01/2019 11:01:31 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1045894

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
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	Bees and Nuts: Allergies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his is taking to raise public awareness of the risk of (a) peanut and (b) bee sting allergies in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	211199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>The Food Standards Agency (FSA) works closely with allergy patient groups and the media to raise public awareness of the risk of peanut and other food allergies. In September 2018 the FSA ran a month-long awareness campaign targeted at 16-24-year-old consumers to encourage more dialogue between consumers and food businesses. This campaign used a variety of communication channels, including social media. Another awareness raising campaign is planned for February 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The FSA also publishes a range of guidance, information and learning packs on food allergy issues for both those with food allergies and food businesses. FSA funded research is also made available to the public via the FSA website and scientific literature. This includes the highly-cited Learning Early About Peanut allergy study that looked at the introduction of peanut into the infant diet.</p><p> </p><p>Raising awareness of bee sting allergies is led by health visitors and school nurses who can sign post to appropriate resources.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 30/01/2019 17:14:21 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1045897

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	City Region Deals: Tayside
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent discussions his Department has had with stakeholders on the Tay Cities Deal.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Kirstene Hair
uin	211333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>Since the Tay Cities Heads of Terms were signed on 22 November my officials have met with local partners on a number of occasions to progress the Tay Cites Deal. My officials will continue to engage at a pace set by the local partners.</p><p> </p><p>A further meeting is planned for 5 February with Angus Council to hold further detailed discussions on the conditions of the ring-fenced fund for Angus.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 29/01/2019 17:19:12 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4675 label Biography information for Kirstene Hair

1045898

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Zimbabwe
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with (a) Cabinet colleagues and (b) the Government of Zimbabwe on linking trade and aid agreements with decreasing immigration from Zimbabwe to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
uin	211334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>The Home Secretary has not had discussions with Cabinet colleagues or the Government of Zimbabwe to the effect of this question.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 28/01/2019 11:32:24 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney