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1536834

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2022
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	10 Downing Street: Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse was of the move-in operation of the former Prime Minister into Number 10 Downing Street.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	73115
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2022 answer text <p>As with previous administrations, the cost of moving-in or removing personal property from a Ministerial residence is funded by the incoming or departing Minister.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 03/11/2022 17:23:03 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1536835

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2022
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	10 Downing Street: Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether there was a cost to the public purse of new (a) furniture and (b) furnishings for the former Prime Minister from 6 September 2022 to 25 October 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	73116
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2022 answer text <p>Details of expenditure on the Downing Street estate, including spending under the annual allowance for the official residence, will be published in the Cabinet Office’s annual report and audited accounts in due course.<strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 01/11/2022 15:18:43 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1387883

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academic Freedom
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate his Department has made of the total cost of the delivery of the functions of the office of the Director of Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom proposed in the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	93017
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2022 answer text <p>The Office for Students (OfS) will publish guidance to support the new regulatory framework and complaints scheme, following completion of the Bill’s passage. I anticipate that they will consult widely, including with sector representatives and student bodies, as appropriate in due course.</p><p>Guidance for higher education providers in England and students’ unions of Approved (fee cap) providers in England on the strengthened and additional duties imposed by the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill will be published by the OfS.</p><p>The OfS is accountable to the Department for Education and to Parliament. They can also be asked to appear in front of the Education Select Committee.</p><p>The Department for Education published an Impact Assessment on 12 May 2021. This sets out the expected costs and benefits of the Bill, including the office of the Director for Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom. This is publicly available here: <a href="https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/2862/publications" target="_blank">https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/2862/publications</a>.</p><p>Data on the number of events cancelled on higher education campuses since the introduction of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill to Parliament is not available. According to Prevent monitoring data, 0.24% of events were cancelled during academic year 2018/19, not necessarily due to freedom of speech concerns. This Bill is not only about event cancellations – it will underpin a culture change across campuses where students, staff and visiting speakers feel able to express lawful views without fear of negative repercussions.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 93016 93018 93019 93020 question first answered 06/01/2022 16:32:51 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1387884

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academic Freedom
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has collected data on the number of events cancelled on higher education campuses since the introduction of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill to Parliament.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	93018
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2022 answer text <p>The Office for Students (OfS) will publish guidance to support the new regulatory framework and complaints scheme, following completion of the Bill’s passage. I anticipate that they will consult widely, including with sector representatives and student bodies, as appropriate in due course.</p><p>Guidance for higher education providers in England and students’ unions of Approved (fee cap) providers in England on the strengthened and additional duties imposed by the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill will be published by the OfS.</p><p>The OfS is accountable to the Department for Education and to Parliament. They can also be asked to appear in front of the Education Select Committee.</p><p>The Department for Education published an Impact Assessment on 12 May 2021. This sets out the expected costs and benefits of the Bill, including the office of the Director for Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom. This is publicly available here: <a href="https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/2862/publications" target="_blank">https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/2862/publications</a>.</p><p>Data on the number of events cancelled on higher education campuses since the introduction of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill to Parliament is not available. According to Prevent monitoring data, 0.24% of events were cancelled during academic year 2018/19, not necessarily due to freedom of speech concerns. This Bill is not only about event cancellations – it will underpin a culture change across campuses where students, staff and visiting speakers feel able to express lawful views without fear of negative repercussions.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 93016 93017 93019 93020 question first answered 06/01/2022 16:32:51 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1388043

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academic Freedom
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of provisions in the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill on the protection by higher education providers of academics' freedom of speech.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	93854
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2022 answer text <p>This Bill includes a range of measures aimed at strengthening existing legislation on freedom of speech and academic freedom for academic staff in higher education in England.</p><p>The Bill is also clear that the job security of university staff should not be undermined by the expression of lawful speech, including where they may question and test received wisdom, and put forward new ideas and controversial or unpopular opinions.</p><p>The Bill does not amend existing employment law. However, it does provide a route to redress where an individual may not have clear contractual protections in place in respect of freedom of speech and academic freedom. Rather than having to rely on contractual protections in an employment tribunal, an academic member of staff will now have access to the Office for Students (OfS) complaints scheme, as well as the right to bring a claim in the courts via the new statutory tort.</p><p>The new complaints scheme will be overseen by a Director of Free Speech and Academic Freedom, who will also be responsible for overseeing the performance of all the OfS’s new functions. This includes promoting the importance of freedom of speech within the law and academic freedom for academic staff, as well as the monitoring and enforcement of freedom of speech registration conditions and the new duties on students’ unions of Approved (fee cap) providers.</p><p>The OfS will also issue guidance for providers and students’ unions to as they develop the new regulatory framework and complaints scheme, thereby helping them to comply with their duties.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 07/01/2022 12:22:45 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1456427

	registered interest
	date	31/03/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academic Freedom
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with how many Vice Chancellors he had had discussions on the matter of freedom of speech as of February 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	151235
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2022 answer text <p>Since coming into post in 2021, my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education has had wide ranging discussions with individual and groups of Vice-Chancellors, representatives from higher education representative groups, leading academics, and others. It is not possible to enumerate those discussions which covered freedom of speech.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 22/04/2022 15:21:02 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1581797

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2023
	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	Access to Work Programme: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time was for Access to Work funding applications to be considered in (a) Warwick and Leamington constituency and (b) the UK in the latest period for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	135404
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>The information requested about Access to Work applications wait times for the Warwick and Leamington constituency is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 06/02/2023 11:44:51 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1579567

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2023
	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	Access to Work Programme: Warwick and Leamington
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Warwick and Leamington are entitled to Access to Work funding; and what is the average waiting time for receipt of that funding.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	129996
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2023 answer text <p>Access to Work is a demand led programme which provides help to disabled people to start or stay in work. The programme provides support to individuals that goes beyond reasonable adjustments; as such, any disabled person in or about to start work, who needs support beyond reasonable adjustments, is eligible to apply for Access to Work. We do not hold information on if a population is entitled to Access to Work, we only have data on who has applied.</p><p> </p><p>We do not hold information on waiting times for receipt of funding by geographical area.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 26/01/2023 13:47:26 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1666678

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Advanced British Standard
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to provide additional support to that state schools during the implementation of the Advance British Standard.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	203909
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2023 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 26/10/2023 11:34:42 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1587362

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2023
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Agriculture: Seasonal Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number of non-UK passport holder seasonal workers employed in fruit picking in the UK in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021 and (d) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	148694
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs does not hold information on the passports held by individuals.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 148695 question first answered 27/02/2023 15:47:56 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western