Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

1088493

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
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	Public Health Funerals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many public health funerals there have been since 2010; and what the cost to the public purse has been of those funerals.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	232037
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 18/03/2019 17:22:11 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1088503

registered interest
date	13/03/2019
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Trade Unions: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many times he has met with trade unions in Wales since July 2016.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	232038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2019 answer text <p>I have held two specific official trade union roundtable meetings since July 2016.</p><p>I have also regularly engaged with the farming unions in Wales including through my Expert Panel, which has met 11 times since it was established in September 2017.</p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns question first answered 18/03/2019 10:21:58 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1086635

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Languages: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to increase modern foreign language provision in schools.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	230799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>The reformed National Curriculum makes it compulsory for pupils in maintained schools to be taught a foreign language in Key Stage 2, and the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) performance measure, which includes languages, has seen the proportion of GCSE entries from pupils in state-funded schools in a modern foreign language (MFL) increase from 40% in 2010 to 46% in 2018.</p><p>Recruiting MFL teachers is also a priority. Generous financial incentives are offered for languages teaching, including scholarships in modern foreign languages worth £28,000, and tax-free bursaries, typically worth up to £26,000. The Department is also working in partnership with Spain’s Ministry of Education and Vocational Training to deliver Spain’s Visiting Teachers Programme to provide schools with access to a pool of qualified teachers from Spain who are able to teach MFL. For the 2019/20 academic year, the programme will be open to secondary schools and also (as a pilot) to primary schools. The Department also has a Teacher Subject Specialism Training programme which aims to improve the subject knowledge of non-specialist teachers and returning teachers in MFL and to increase the number of hours taught.</p><p>The Department has recently launched the new Teacher Recruitment and Retention Strategy, which will attract new teachers to all subjects, including MFLs.</p><p>A £4.8 million MFL Pedagogy Pilot commenced in December 2018. It is managed by the newly appointed MFL Centre for Excellence and is run through nine school-led hubs, to improve uptake and attainment in languages at Key Stages 3 and 4. A pilot project in MFL undergraduate mentoring for secondary school pupils has been launched to drive up participation in the subject, specifically targeting areas of high disadvantage to extend access to languages for all pupils.</p><p>The Department recently published and promoted a guidance leaflet<sup>[1]</sup> for parents, which explains why studying a language, as part of the EBacc, broadens opportunities in both education and employment. In February, attention was drawn to the benefits of studying a language among 13-14 year olds through a social media campaign.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/english-baccalaureate-ebacc" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/english-baccalaureate-ebacc</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/03/2019 17:24:15 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1086636

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
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	Youth Centres: Closures
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 estimate his Department has made of the number of youth centres that have closed in England since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	230800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally, and to obtain it would incur a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 14/03/2019 14:06:45 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1086641

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
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	Youth Services: Finance
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 assessment his Department has made of the total reduction in central Government funding for youth services provided by local authorities in England since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	230801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for allocating public funding to youth services in their area in line with local need. We believe they are best placed to know what is required in their communities.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has made over £200bn available to local authorities to spend on local services over this Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 14/03/2019 14:08:05 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1086643

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Literacy: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of trends in the number of children daily reading unaided in England.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	230802
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold data on the number of children daily reading unaided in England. The Department does, however, hold figures on pupils’ performance in reading assessments. This is an indicator of pupils’ ability to read unaided. A new, more rigorous national curriculum has been taught in primary schools since September 2014 and new tests and assessments based on this curriculum were first taken by pupils in summer 2016. Since 2016, the proportion of pupils reaching the expected standard in the reading test at the end of key stage 2 has risen from 66% to 75% in 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Regarding pupils in the earlier stages of reading, in 2018 there were 163,000 more 6 year olds in England on track to become fluent readers compared to in 2012. This represented 82% of pupils meeting the expected standard in the year 1 phonics screening check, compared to just 58% when the check was introduced in 2012. Regarding pupils who met the expected standard in phonics in year 1 in 2013, 88% went on to meet the expected standard in the key stage 2 reading test in 2018.</p><p> </p><p>England achieved its highest ever score in reading in 2016, moving from joint 10th place to joint 8th place in the most recent Progress in International Reading Literacy Study rankings. This follows a greater focus on reading in the primary curriculum and a particular focus on phonics.</p><p> </p><p>A national network of 32 primary schools across England has been appointed to become English Hubs, backed by £26.3 million funding. In addition to improving the teaching of phonics and early language development, these schools will champion reading for pleasure in the schools that they support.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/03/2019 16:49:56 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1086645

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupil Exclusions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to estimate the number of children in England who were permanently excluded from a school and did not return to full time education in in the academic year 2017-2018.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	230803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>The information requested, regarding statistics showing excluded pupils who did not return to full-time education, is not held centrally. Local authorities are responsible for arranging suitable full-time education for permanently excluded pupils, which must begin no later than the sixth day of the exclusion.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on exclusions in academic year 2017/18 are not yet available. Exclusion statistics covering 2016/17 are available in the National Statistics release 'Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England 2016 to 2017'.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2016-to-2017</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/03/2019 17:27:15 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1082634

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Opening Hours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of schools in England that have reduced their school day opening hours in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	229228
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>All schools in England have the autonomy to decide the structure and duration of their school day, which includes the flexibility to decide when their school day should start and finish. The Department has not made an estimate of these decisions taken by individual schools in England.</p><p>Maintained schools are required to be open to educate their pupils for at least 380 sessions (190 days) each school year. Maintained schools cannot lawfully reduce the length of the school week if this takes the total number of sessions below that.</p><p>In the event that a school decides to make changes to its school day, it is expected that the school should act reasonably when making such decisions; giving parents notices and considering the impacts on those affected.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/03/2019 17:50:30 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1082635

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Charitable Donations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of schools that have asked parents to donate towards activities that are part of the national curriculum in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	229229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>Information regarding how many schools ask parents for donations is not held centrally. Schools’ financial returns show that income from donations and voluntary funds has remained steady at about 0.7% of schools’ overall budgets since 2011/12.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/03/2019 17:52:18 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1082636

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Syria: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) British children and (b) children who are eligible for British citizenship currently with rebel groups in Syria.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	229230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2019 answer text <p>Around 900 people have travelled from the UK to engage with the conflict in Syria and Iraq, against the advice of the Foreign Office. Of these, approximately 20 per cent have been killed in the conflict and around 40 per cent have returned to the UK. They have all been investigated and the majority have been assessed to pose no, or a low security risk. For reasons of national security, it would not be appropriate to breakdown these figures further.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 29/03/2019 16:14:47 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens