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1038329

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect on benefit recipients of missed Child Maintenance Service payments where the level of benefit has been reduced due those payments being awarded.
tabling member constituency	Ipswich
tabling member printed	Sandy Martin
uin	206834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>Child Maintenance payments are fully disregarded when assessing entitlement to benefits, as such there is no effect on a person’s benefit payments when Child Maintenance payments are not made.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/01/2019 10:27:59 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4678 label Biography information for Sandy Martin

1038344

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Disadvantaged
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 (a) how widespread social exclusion is in rural areas and (b) the effect of his Department’s policies on social exclusion in rural areas.
tabling member constituency	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
tabling member printed	John Lamont
uin	206843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>The department aims to provide every child and young person with world-class education, training and care regardless of their background or where they come from.</p><p>Opportunity Areas (OAs) in England are at the heart of our work to learn what works best in areas with entrenched social mobility barriers so that we can roll out successful approaches across the country. We chose these 12 areas to make sure that there was a geographical spread, allowing us to test approaches in a rural context as well as in urban and coastal locations.</p><p>Outside of the work undertaken in OAs, the department has made no assessment of social exclusion in rural areas. However, we are aware of the contribution that schools make to rural communities, which is why we support the presumption against the closure of rural schools in England.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 14/01/2019 16:54:39 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4608 label Biography information for John Lamont

1038365

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Committee on the Grant of Honours, Decorations and Medals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to publish the independent membership and terms of reference of the Advisory Military Sub-Committee of the Honours and Decorations Committee.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	206850
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>The membership of and terms of reference for the Advisory Military Sub-Committee will be published on gov.uk when they have been finalised, and agreed by incoming members.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 14/01/2019 17:05:28 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1038367

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the amount of debt to be written-off from arrears accrued under the Child Support Agency because parents had not responded to (a) letters and (b) telephone calls within 60 days.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	206851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The estimate can be found on page 24 of the Child Maintenance Compliance and Arrears Strategy consultation document which was published in December 2017</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/667033/child-maintenance-compliance-arrears-consultation.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/667033/child-maintenance-compliance-arrears-consultation.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/01/2019 10:40:36 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1038397

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of planned funding for children's services in meeting future demand.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	206737
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>All future funding for local government will be agreed in the Spending Review that my right hon. Friend, the Prime Minister and my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer have announced will take place this year. For the financial year 2019 to 2020, the local government finance settlement that was published in December provides local government with core spending power of £46.4 billion. The Autumn Budget also gave an additional £410 million for local authorities to spend on adult and children’s services.</p><p><strong><br> <br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 14/01/2019 17:37:03 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1038408

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
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	Beverage Containers: Deposit Return Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on a deposit return scheme.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	206865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>Policy officials continue to engage regularly with the Scottish Government. Ministers met in July 2018 and are due to meet again in February 2019.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 14/01/2019 11:53:24 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally

1038509

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Development Aid: Job Creation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to measure and monitor (a) the number and (b) standard and quality of the jobs created by UK development assistance.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	206881
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>Creating more and better jobs is fundamental to reducing poverty, enhancing global prosperity and helping countries overcome the need for aid. As developing countries generate better quality jobs, opportunities for UK trade and investment increase.</p><p> </p><p>DFID’s Economic Development Strategy commits the UK to supporting more and better jobs as a means of delivering the Sustainable Development Goals. As published in DFID’s annual report, DFID is developing its monitoring of numbers of people supported to have raised incomes or obtain or maintain better jobs or livelihoods.</p><p> </p><p>DFID encourages suppliers and their supply chains to comply with ILO standards on Decent Work and it supports a number of initiatives that raise job quality and standards by firms that invest in low income countries. The UK has made expertise from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) available to partner Governments to support better quality labour market monitoring.</p><p> </p><p>DFID is continually looking at how best to measure and monitor both the number and quality of jobs that our initiatives support. DFID is working closely on this with partners including CDC, the World Bank, the ILO and the UK Office of National Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 14/01/2019 17:36:18 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1038510

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Department for International Development: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many staff from her Department will be relocated to other government departments in 2019.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	206882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>DFID is currently working with the Cabinet Office to understand the needs of other government departments for short term support and, if required, will seek to match these to the resource identified as being available for redeployment. DFID have already deployed 12 staff members on short-term loan to DEFRA with a further 13 identified to deploy before the end of January 2019.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 14/01/2019 17:36:48 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1038562

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Disabled Students' Allowances: Part-time Education
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 19 December to Question 203781 on Disabled Students Allowances: Part-time Education, from which budget was the additional funding for the Disabled Students Allowances in 2017-18 allocated.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	206734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>Each year, as part of the Main and Supplementary Estimates process, Parliament approves the total spend against specific objectives (within agreed budgetary limits). It is against these limits that the departmental group, as guided by HM Treasury’s spending control framework, is held accountable for its performance and the use of taxpayers’ funds.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 14/01/2019 16:58:15 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1037801

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children and Young People: Supported Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the availability of appropriate placements for 16 and 17 year olds requiring independent living accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	206405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. The department collects annual data from local authorities on looked-after children who are in independent living accommodation, however, no information on the availability of these placements is provided in the data.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 14/01/2019 13:37:38 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh