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1403971

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answers of 18 January 2022 and 1 November 2021 to Questions 103509 and 61052 on Ministry of Defence: Stonewall, what steps he is taking to help ensure that figures provided in response to Parliamentary questions are (a) up to date and (b) accurate.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	106612
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>Ministry of Defence (MOD) staff do the best they can within the given time available to supply necessary information for Freedom of Information (FOI) requests and Parliamentary Questions (PQs). Staff strive to ensure the information supplied is as accurate as possible and, where inaccuracies or inconsistencies are later found, the Department will set the record straight at the earliest opportunity. It must be recognised that requests for large data sets, over many years, present a significant challenge to locate, retrieve, and extract information, especially where such data is not collated or held centrally and is dispersed among different branches of Defence. In cases where FOI/PQs are made for historic information before the advent of widespread electronic filing, this task is made yet harder where paper records need to be manually interrogated. This can be further complicated by the time constraints imposed by the nature of such requests. Where time is limited, in the case of Named Day PQs staff typically have around one working day or less, it is not always possible for staff to ensure all records are thoroughly reviewed and the total accuracy of the data supplied. In such cases, estimates may be given. In the case of Question 61052, a Named Day Question, MOD staff produced the best estimate possible within the time constraint the question imposed. Having had the time to conduct a more thorough search and analysis in the time since, MOD staff were able to supply revised and more detailed information in response to Question 103509.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty grouped question UIN 106615 question first answered 21/01/2022 11:22:42 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1403972

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Army: Stonewall
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2022 to Question 103509 on Ministry of Defence: Stonewall, if he will publish a detailed breakdown of the £17,181 that the British Army spent on Stonewall in the 2017-18 financial year.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	106613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>The requested information is set out below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>British Army</strong>:</p><p>Prior to July 2019, records on expenditure on Stonewall were not centrally held. It has not, therefore, been possible to provide a detailed breakdown of the money spent.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Financial Year 2017-18</strong>:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Costs (£)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Purpose</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2,500.00</p></td><td><p>Organisation Membership</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>14,681.00</p></td><td><p>Information not held</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>MOD Centre Diversity and Inclusion Directorate</strong>:</p><p><strong>Financial Year 2018-19:</strong></p><p>Stonewall Membership: £3,000.00</p><p>Stonewall speaker fee: £240.00</p><p>Stonewall Allies Training programme: £6,300.00</p><p>Stonewall Workplace Conference: £1,686.00</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty grouped question UIN 106614 question first answered 21/01/2022 12:03:23 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1403973

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Stonewall
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2022 to Question 103509 on Ministry of Defence: Stonewall, if he will publish a detailed breakdown of the £11,226 that the Ministry of Defence Centre D&I spent on Stonewall in the 2018-19 financial year.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	106614
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>The requested information is set out below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>British Army</strong>:</p><p>Prior to July 2019, records on expenditure on Stonewall were not centrally held. It has not, therefore, been possible to provide a detailed breakdown of the money spent.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Financial Year 2017-18</strong>:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Costs (£)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Purpose</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2,500.00</p></td><td><p>Organisation Membership</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>14,681.00</p></td><td><p>Information not held</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>MOD Centre Diversity and Inclusion Directorate</strong>:</p><p><strong>Financial Year 2018-19:</strong></p><p>Stonewall Membership: £3,000.00</p><p>Stonewall speaker fee: £240.00</p><p>Stonewall Allies Training programme: £6,300.00</p><p>Stonewall Workplace Conference: £1,686.00</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty grouped question UIN 106613 question first answered 21/01/2022 12:03:23 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1403974

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2022 to Question 103509 on Ministry of Defence: Stonewall, and with reference to his Department's responses to Freedom of Information requests reference FOI2021/02580 and FOI2021/02402 in April 2021, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure (a) accuracy of and (b) consistency between (i) answers to Parliamentary questions and (ii) responses to Freedom of Information requests.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	106615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2022 answer text <p>Ministry of Defence (MOD) staff do the best they can within the given time available to supply necessary information for Freedom of Information (FOI) requests and Parliamentary Questions (PQs). Staff strive to ensure the information supplied is as accurate as possible and, where inaccuracies or inconsistencies are later found, the Department will set the record straight at the earliest opportunity. It must be recognised that requests for large data sets, over many years, present a significant challenge to locate, retrieve, and extract information, especially where such data is not collated or held centrally and is dispersed among different branches of Defence. In cases where FOI/PQs are made for historic information before the advent of widespread electronic filing, this task is made yet harder where paper records need to be manually interrogated. This can be further complicated by the time constraints imposed by the nature of such requests. Where time is limited, in the case of Named Day PQs staff typically have around one working day or less, it is not always possible for staff to ensure all records are thoroughly reviewed and the total accuracy of the data supplied. In such cases, estimates may be given. In the case of Question 61052, a Named Day Question, MOD staff produced the best estimate possible within the time constraint the question imposed. Having had the time to conduct a more thorough search and analysis in the time since, MOD staff were able to supply revised and more detailed information in response to Question 103509.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty grouped question UIN 106612 question first answered 21/01/2022 11:22:42 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1403553

registered interest
date	17/01/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Regulation: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of establishing a ring-fenced fund for regulatory compliance apprenticeships.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	105329
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2022 answer text <p>Regulatory services are not the responsibility of a single department. While no DLUHC funding is currently available we will keep this under review and maintain a dialogue with other departments and local government regarding this matter.</p><p>My Department is committed to addressing capacity and capability issues affecting regulatory services in general, and the regulation of the construction products sector in particular. The Government has supported the sector through the National Regulator for Construction Products within the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) to oversee a stronger regulatory regime. Up to £10 million has been set aside for this work in 2021/22. My Department remains committed to making sure that OPSS have the necessary resources at its disposal, and we expect that OPSS will continue to work with and support Local Authority Trading Standards teams to implement the regime.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 20/01/2022 17:13:23 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1403070

registered interest
date	14/01/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Ethiopia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he has plans to alter the vaccine recognition approval status for Ethiopia.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	104293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2022 answer text <p>The Government is taking a phased approach to the rollout of our inbound vaccination programme and will continue to work with international partners to expand the policy to more countries and territories where it is safe to do so. Vaccine certification between countries and territories varies considerably and the government has published minimum criteria on gov.uk that both digital and paper certificates must meet.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 19/01/2022 09:54:41 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1402854

registered interest
date	13/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 22 November to Question 76548, he plans to respond to Question 76548 on Ministry of Defence: Stonewall, tabled by the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	103509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2022 answer text <p>You will recall that I responded to your Question 76548 of 17 November 2021 on 22 November 2021 to advise that it would take time to collate the information required for a detailed breakdown and, in response to your further Question 84298 of 30 November, I reiterated that position. I am now able to respond substantively to your Question.</p><p>As you will know from my answer of 1 November 2021 to Question 61052, no donations are made to Stonewall. However, the Ministry of Defence (MOD), the three Services, and the MOD Police, are all members of Stonewall's 'Diversity Champions programme' for which membership costs an annual fee. In addition, a number of courses and professional development sessions are purchased on an ad-hoc basis, primarily by the LGBT+ networks.</p><p> </p><p>I can confirm that all MOD Memberships are reviewed regularly, to ensure that they deliver value for money and continue to meet our Diversity and Inclusion ambitions and strategic direction, as set out in the Defence Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, A Force for Inclusion.</p><p> </p><p>Information held by the MOD is provided in the table below. You will wish to note that further investigation of expenditure means that in many cases the estimated figures provided in answer to Question 61052 have now been revised upwards.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Royal Navy</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> British Army</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Royal Air Force</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> MOD Centre D&amp;I</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> MOD Police</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£1,050</p></td><td><p>£3,000</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£3,696</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£9,045</p></td><td><p>£17,181</p></td><td><p>£3,000</p></td><td><p>£3,000</p></td><td><p>£3,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£8,084</p></td><td><p>£9,150</p></td><td><p>£3,000</p></td><td><p>£11,226</p></td><td><p>£3,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£6,155</p></td><td><p>£5,104</p></td><td><p>£6,708</p></td><td><p>£4,854</p></td><td><p>£9,326</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>£2,500</p></td><td><p>£6,000</p></td><td><p>£3,000</p></td><td><p>£3,000</p></td><td><p>£3,209</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>The Royal Navy has no payments recorded to Stonewall prior to financial year 2017-18</li><li>MOD Centre Diversity and Inclusion has no payments recorded to Stonewall prior to financial year 2017-18</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 18/01/2022 11:33:57 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1400325

registered interest
date	06/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Transgender People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many transwomen are currently held in (a) female prisons and (b) all prisons; and how many of those offenders have previous convictions for sexual offences.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	98878
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2022 answer text <p>As of our latest data collection on 31 March 2021, there were 146 transgender women (that is, prisoners who were legally male and identified as female) in all prisons across England and Wales.</p><p>Of these, fewer than five transgender prisoners were housed in the women’s estate. These figures do not include transgender prisoners with gender recognition certificates, although information on these individuals will be published early this year.</p><p> </p><p>On the offences committed by individuals, we are only able to provide figures for the offence or offences that have led to an individual’s current imprisonment. To provide offence information for previous convictions would involve a complex data matching exercise which would exceed the prohibitive cost threshold for responding to a Parliamentary Question. Previous convictions, along with other relevant information, are considered, however, as part of the risk assessment set out in the Care and Management of Individuals who are Transgender Policy 2019.</p><p> </p><p>On current offences, in the men’s estate, there were 87 transgender women with a conviction for at least one sexual offence. In the women’s estate, the number of transgender women with a conviction for at least one sexual offence was fewer than 5. This includes prisoners with a GRC.</p><p> </p><p>Where transgender prisoners with GRCs are deemed too high risk to be held in the general women's estate, they can be held on E Wing, part of HMP Downview. This allows them to be held separately with only supervised contact with other women.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 14/01/2022 14:51:36 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1400326

registered interest
date	06/01/2022
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	Coroners: Perinatal Mortality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the findings of the consultation on amending the Coroners Act 2009 to permit coroners to investigate stillbirths as specified in the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc) Act 2019.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	98879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2022 answer text <p>The Government’s response to the consultation on coronial investigations of stillbirths has been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We are working to publish the response as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 14/01/2022 12:13:33 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1400328

registered interest
date	06/01/2022
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	Health Visitors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) full time equivalent and (b) actual health visitors have been employed in England in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	98880
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>The following table shows the number of full time equivalent (FTE) and actual headcount of health visitors employed by the National Health Service in England.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Date</p></td><td><p>FTE</p></td><td><p>Headcount</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2012</p></td><td><p>7,687</p></td><td><p>9,337</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2013</p></td><td><p>8,304</p></td><td><p>9,983</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2014</p></td><td><p>9,162</p></td><td><p>10,877</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2015</p></td><td><p>10,236</p></td><td><p>12,105</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2016</p></td><td><p>9,521</p></td><td><p>11,310</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2017</p></td><td><p>8,497</p></td><td><p>10,171</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2018</p></td><td><p>7,884</p></td><td><p>9,509</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2019</p></td><td><p>6,981</p></td><td><p>8,445</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2020</p></td><td><p>6,677</p></td><td><p>8,098</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2021</p></td><td><p>6,279</p></td><td><p>7,593</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: NHS Digital <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdigital.nhs.uk%2Fdata-and-information%2Fpublications%2Fstatistical%2Fnhs-workforce-statistics%2Fseptember-2021&amp;data=04%7C01%7CCherelle.Guthrie%40dhsc.gov.uk%7Ccb3518680c234567d5c908d9d1df7896%7C61278c3091a84c318c1fef4de8973a1c%7C1%7C0%7C637771579996374044%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=UsdyXyR2EAgoS6To7tgmoNwd8zO27Tx6t2q%2FaW%2Bi%2BtY%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics/september-2021</a></p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><ol><li>These figures do not include health visitors employed by independent healthcare providers.</li><li>Data on health visitors employed directly by local authorities is not collected or reported nationally</li></ol> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 11/01/2022 17:29:01 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton