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347342

registered interest
date	28/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Mott MacDonald
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on how many occasions her Department has hired Mott Macdonald in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education has let the following number of contracts to Mott MacDonald in these years:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of contracts</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 04/06/2015 14:40:27 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

347096

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department provides to local education authorities (LEAs) on school choices where parents are applying to local grammar and LEA schools.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	18
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education provides a national framework for school choice through the statutory School Admissions Code and related admissions law. It is for local authorities and other admission authorities (including grammar schools) to set their admission arrangements within the parameters of this framework.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The School Admissions Code requires local authorities to publish a composite prospectus for parents which contains the admission arrangements for each of the state funded schools in their area. Parents can then express a preference for at least three schools when applying for a school place as part of the normal admissions round.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The School Admissions Code is published online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-admissions-code--2" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-admissions-code--2</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/06/2015 16:30:01 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

229336

registered interest
date	24/03/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Working Tax Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average length of time was for a decision to be made on a working tax credit claim in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	228908
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>HMRC do not hold the requested data.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 26/03/2015 09:59:11 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

229337

registered interest
date	24/03/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Working Tax Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of his Department's performance against targets on the length of time for a decision to be made on a working tax credit claim.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	228909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>HMRC do not hold the requested data.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 26/03/2015 09:57:27 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

229341

registered interest
date	24/03/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Help to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average length of time was that an applicant waited for a decision on a Help to Buy application in each quarter since the launch of that scheme.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	228905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>The length of mortgage application data is not collected therefore the Treasury does not hold the information to provide an answer to this question.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 26/03/2015 13:25:59 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

229343

registered interest
date	24/03/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average length of time was for a decision to be made by HM Revenue and Customs related to a business VAT return in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	228906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>HM Revenue &amp; Customs receive over 99% of VAT returns from business electronically. These are processed automatically. We commit to processing all VAT Returns within 8 days of receipt.</p><p> </p><p>All returns where a repayment is claimed are subject to an automated risk process, following which HMRC either makes the repayment or carries out further checks. HMRC has a statutory responsibility to take decisions on repayments within 30 days. In cases where HMRC does not achieve this, it is required to pay a repayment supplement. In 2013/14, HMRC met its statutory responsibility in over 99% of cases.</p><p> </p><p>Returns where a payment is due are not subject to the same automated risk assessment. Cases are selected for compliance checks on the basis of a range of risk factors not necessarily triggered by individual VAT returns. We therefore do not have information on the average length of time for a decision to be made related to a business VAT return in each year since 2010.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 26/03/2015 13:23:34 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

229344

registered interest
date	24/03/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the performance of HM Revenue and Customs against its targets on the processing and completion of corporate VAT returns.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	228907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>HM Revenue &amp; Customs receive over 99% of VAT returns from business electronically. These are processed automatically. We commit to processing all VAT Returns within 8 days of receipt.</p><p> </p><p>All returns where a repayment is claimed are subject to an automated risk process, following which HMRC either makes the repayment or carries out further checks. HMRC has a statutory responsibility to take decisions on repayments within 30 days. In cases where HMRC does not achieve this, it is required to pay a repayment supplement. In 2013/14, HMRC met its statutory responsibility in over 99% of cases.</p><p> </p><p>Returns where a payment is due are not subject to the same automated risk assessment. Cases are selected for compliance checks on the basis of a range of risk factors not necessarily triggered by individual VAT returns.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 26/03/2015 13:21:20 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

229346

registered interest
date	24/03/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Planning Permission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the performance of his Department against targets for the processing of new planning applications.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	228910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>Planning law sets out the statutory time period for determining a planning application as 13 weeks for a major application and 8 weeks for a minor application (unless an Environmental Impact Assessment is required, in which case the statutory period is 16 weeks) – unless a longer period has been agreed in writing with the applicant.</p><p> </p><p>The Government's live tables p151 and p152 set out local planning authorities' speed and quality of decision-taking against these statutory timeframes, for major applications. The Government has also recently published data on local planning authorities' timeliness in determining minor applications in live tables p153 and p154. The live tables are available at <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-planning-application-statistics" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-planning-application-statistics</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Our reforms to simplify and speed-up the application process, and to deal with the few cases where planning authorities are under-performing, are having a positive effect on decision times. For example 77% of major applications were determined on time in October to December 2014, compared with 57% in July to September 2012.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 26/03/2015 15:56:31 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

229347

registered interest
date	24/03/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Planning Permission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average length of time was for a decision to be made on a planning application in each quarter since 2013.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	228939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government collects quarterly data on planning application decision times by local planning authorities, broken down by six time bands. This information is accessible at live table P120.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has radically reformed the planning system to ensure that it operates efficiently in delivering badly needed sustainable development. Decision taking times have substantially improved: in the final quarter of 2012, 56% of major applications were determined on time, and following our changes to speed up and simplify processes by the final quarter of 2014 this had risen to 77%.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 26/03/2015 14:18:30 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

229362

registered interest
date	24/03/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2015 to Question 222713, what appropriate external support is available to a local area to improve the quality of special educational needs and disability services and their delivery.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	228859
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education has provided funding of £45.2 million in 2014-15 and £31.7 million in 2015-16 to meet the additional costs to local authorities in England of implementing Part 3 of the Children and Families Act 2014. Additionally, a £70 million SEN Reform Grant was made to local authorities in 2014-15. For 2015-16 further support with implementation of the reforms will be made available to parents, local authorities and other organisations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is up to local areas to decide what external support to commission and deploy to help them improve the quality of special educational needs (SEN) and disability services and their delivery.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For parents, there is continuing investment in Independent Supporters, worth £15 million per year 2014-15 and 2015-16. A strategic grant with the National Network of Parent Carer Forums and Contact a Family will ensure that parents can help shape local provision and get the help they need. It will include a free, national helpline for parents and ongoing support through e-mail and websites.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Local authorities and their partners will be supported by a network of SEN and Disability Regional Lead authorities, who will facilitate peer support and coordinate activity at a regional level. This will include funding to support the regional supported internships offer. Local authorities will also get help from a new consortium made up of Mott MacDonald, The Council for Disabled Children and the National Development Team for Inclusion. The Consortium will be called Delivering Better Outcomes Together and will manage the SEN and disabilities adviser service, provide specialist advice and support to local authorities and their partners and deliver a pilot training and development programme for senior SEN and disability managers in local authorities. The nine areas are: the London Borough of Bromley; Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council; Coventry City Council; Dorset County Council; Durham County Council; Hertfordshire County Council; Leicester City Council; Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council; and Portsmouth City Council.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A range of grants are also being made across the voluntary and community sector to support their children. These grants will offer specialist advice on specific SEN and disabilities, including mental health. They provide advice to local authorities and their partners across education, health and social care in delivering the SEN and disability reforms, including support to parents and young people.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 26/03/2015 11:40:05 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe