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1242497

registered interest
date	12/10/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Respite Care: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will allocate additional resources to local authorities in the Comprehensive Spending Review to enable them to fund short respite breaks for children who need palliative care.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	101952
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2020 answer text <p>The Chancellor has announced that the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) will be published this Autumn. Funding for local authorities for children’s care and other services will be set out as part of CSR. The Government recognises the importance of providing support for children and families undergoing palliative care and will continue to engage with Councils to understand their pressures and assess the need for further support.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 15/10/2020 10:40:54 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1241330

registered interest
date	07/10/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Marriage: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he enable local registry offices to permit wedding ceremonies to be held outdoors in the grounds of approved premises if covid-19 social distancing regulations cannot be complied with inside the premises.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	100283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2020 answer text <p>The Government announced in June 2019 that the Law Commission will conduct a fundamental review of the law on how and where people can legally marry in England and Wales. This is an important and complex social policy reform and requires careful thought and consideration.</p><p>The Law Commission published its consultation paper on 3 September 2020 and the Government, following the final report, will decide on provision on the basis of the Law Commission’s recommendations.</p><p>In parallel, the Government made clear when it announced the Law Commission project that it would also, as an interim measure, undertake work to allow more civil weddings and civil partnerships to take place outdoors through secondary legislation. This work is ongoing.</p><p>The Government has published guidance on planning COVID-19 secure marriages and civil partnerships at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-guidance-for-small-marriages-and-civil-partnerships/covid-19-guidance-for-small-marriages-and-civil-partnerships" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-guidance-for-small-marriages-and-civil-partnerships/covid-19-guidance-for-small-marriages-and-civil-partnerships</a>.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 16/10/2020 11:23:54 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1240839

registered interest
date	06/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what powers police officers have relating to right of entry to private property in order to enforce covid-19 rules in the event that there are grounds to believe that those rules are being broken.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	99515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2020 answer text <p>The police are satisfied that they have the necessary powers of enforcement in place.</p><p>Although there is no specific power of entry for the police under the coronavirus rules, there are circumstances where other powers of entry may apply. For example if a serious crime is taking place inside a property or the police need to enter to arrest someone.</p><p><em> </em>The police will continue to engage, explain and encourage compliance and will also issue fixed penalty notices for breaches of Covid regulations.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/10/2020 15:07:12 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1240391

registered interest
date	05/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to convene the next meeting of the vehicle theft taskforce.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	98872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2020 answer text <p>In May I convened a meeting with industry leaders and the police to start working through what more can be done collectively to tackle vehicle crime.</p><p>We are working closely with the National Police Chiefs’ Council Lead for Vehicle Crime, through a National Vehicle Crime Working Group, to take forward a programme of work to tackle vehicle crime, overseen by the Government’s Crime and Justice Taskforce. This governance structure has superseded the vehicle theft taskforce.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 08/10/2020 14:44:02 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1238383

registered interest
date	28/09/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Birmingham Selly Oak
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many families with children received the £20 per week uplift in universal credit standard allowance payments, announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 20 March 2020, in Birmingham, Selly Oak constituency, in each month since its introduction.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	95980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/10/2020 answer text <p>The available information on the number of households with children with Universal Credit in payment, by parliamentary constituency, is published and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 02/10/2020 12:24:53 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1238384

registered interest
date	28/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Working Tax Credit: Birmingham Selly Oak
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many families with children received the £20 per week uplift in working tax credit basic element payments, announced on 20 March 2020, in Birmingham, Selly Oak constituency in each month since its introduction.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	95981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/10/2020 answer text <p>The latest available information on the number of families with children receiving Working Tax Credit at the parliamentary constituency level is for April 2020. In April 2020, the number of families with children receiving Working Tax Credit in Birmingham, Selly Oak constituency was 1,700.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-provisional-awards-geographical-analyses-december-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-provisional-awards-geographical-analyses-december-2013</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Information on following months is not readily available. The next update to this publication will provide statistics relating to December 2020 and will be available in January 2021.</p><p> </p><p>Final annual information on families with children receiving Working Tax Credits is published once a year and updated each July</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-finalised-annual-awards-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-and-working-tax-credits-statistics-finalised-annual-awards-2018-to-2019</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 06/10/2020 14:06:52 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1236652

registered interest
date	22/09/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Retail Crime Steering Group
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the national retail crime steering group is next due to meet.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	93518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2020 answer text <p>No date has yet been set but the next National Retail Crime Steering Group meeting is likely to take place in early 2021.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 25/09/2020 14:11:48 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1234590

registered interest
date	15/09/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Kickstart Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many representatives are required from a group of employers to form an application for the Kickstart scheme.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	90037
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2020 answer text <p>Employers looking to offer roles to fewer than 30 Kickstart applicants over the life of the scheme are able to bid for Kickstart funding via an intermediary, or representative, organisation. Intermediaries can gather employers keen to offer Kickstart jobs to make a collective bid to fund 30 or more vacancies.</p><p> </p><p>Smaller employers will have support from their intermediary to create high quality roles and additional support so that young people get the most out of their placement, this also reduces the administrative burden falling on the small employer.</p><p> </p><p>The department has received significant interest from a wide range of bodies including local authorities, charities and trade/industry bodies looking to help small organisations deliver Kickstart jobs for young people at risk of long term unemployment. There is no limit to the number of employers one intermediary can work with, so long as they are capable of supporting them all through the process.</p><p> </p><p>Intermediaries can also apply to add additional Kickstart jobs and new employers to their portfolio after they have had an initial bid approved to fund 30 or more Kickstart jobs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 21/09/2020 13:57:26 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1234591

registered interest
date	15/09/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Kickstart Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications to be a representative of a group of employers from (a) the West Midlands and (b) the UK her Department has received for the Kickstart scheme.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	90038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2020 answer text <p>The Kickstart Scheme only opened to applications on 2 September, and already thousands of employers have expressed interest in providing Kickstart opportunities for young people. We are pleased to confirm that the department is now processing these applications from across the UK, this is currently a clerical process, so reliable management information, particularly on geographical areas, is not yet available.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 21/09/2020 12:34:13 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1234593

registered interest
date	15/09/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Kickstart Scheme: Birmingham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many work coaches in Birmingham will be assigned to the Kickstart scheme.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	90039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2020 answer text <p>All Work Coaches across the Jobcentre network, including those based in Birmingham, will be able to make referrals to the Kickstart scheme.</p><p> </p><p>DWP are recruiting additional Work Coaches nationally including in Birmingham, the first wave of which are starting to arrive now and will be fully in place by the end of October with further planned recruitment later in the year which will grow capacity even further.</p><p> </p><p>Additional employment support will also be available to young people in Birmingham via the Birmingham Youth Hub, due to open on 30 September 2020. Working in partnership with key local partners, including the Princes Trust and the Local Authority Care Leaver Team, the Hub will provide young people with support to access employment and training opportunities</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 21/09/2020 16:50:17 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe