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1693138

registered interest
date	27/02/2024
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	Housing: Construction
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 plans his Department has to increase the number of homes built on brownfield land.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Jane Stevenson
uin	901780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2024 answer text <p>We are absolutely committed to building more houses in the right places – that is why we are prioritising brownfield sites in our towns and cities that already have the infrastructure in place to support households.</p><p>We have set out our intention to introduce a ‘presumption in favour of brownfield development’ to make it harder to block building on brownfield sites. We are currently consulting on this and will report back in due course.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 901784 question first answered 04/03/2024 18:24:03 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4750 label Biography information for Jane Stevenson

1503345

registered interest
date	02/09/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Iron and Steel: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Government is taking steps to help support the UK steel industry to decarbonise; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Jane Stevenson
uin	45011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2022 answer text <p>The Net Zero Strategy, published on 19 October 2021, reaffirms the Government’s commitment to work with the steel industry on decarbonisation and to consider the implications of the recommendations of the Climate Change Committee: to ‘set targets for ore-based steelmaking to reach near-zero emissions by 2035’.</p><p> </p><p>BEIS continues to work with companies, who are developing their own decarbonisation strategies, to understand the trajectories of their plans and to support them as they make commercial decisions on the optimum route for their sites.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 20/09/2022 09:29:25 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart previous answer version 17570 answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4750 label Biography information for Jane Stevenson

1465063

registered interest
date	23/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average response time is for correspondence on immigration cases from hon. Members to the Home Office; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Jane Stevenson
uin	6905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2022 answer text <p>The Department works to a target of responding to 95% of Hon. Members written correspondence within 20 working days.</p><p>Performance has been impacted by a significant increase in the volume of correspondence received, including the unprecedented amount of correspondence about the situation in Afghanistan and more recently in Ukraine.</p><p>The Department continues to prioritise enquiries related to Ukraine and recognises it has not been able to meet service standard in other cases. An action plan has been implemented to clear backlogs and drive-up performance. MPs can escalate urgent and compassionate cases via the team at Portcullis House.</p><p>The Department continues to recruit additional resources and has recently been loaned staff from non-operational areas to assist in clearing the backlogs. A detailed recovery plan to support a return to an acceptable service standard is being prepared.</p><p>Data about intake and performance in answering Hon. Members correspondence are published quarterly with the latest Quarter available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/customer-service-operations-data-q1-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/customer-service-operations-data-q1-2022</a></p><p>We do not publish average waiting times for substantive responses to correspondence.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 08/06/2022 17:13:15 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 3404 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4750 label Biography information for Jane Stevenson

1453250

registered interest
date	22/03/2022
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	Care Homes: Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with representatives of the social care sector on testing requirements for visitors to care homes after the ending of free covid-19 tests on 1 April 2022; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Jane Stevenson
uin	145037
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2022 answer text <p>The Department has regular meetings with stakeholders and senior sector representatives to discuss a range of issues related to adult social care, including visitor testing. The testing regimes for adult social care after 1 April 2022 are currently under review. Further details will be provided shortly.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 28/03/2022 09:06:11 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4750 label Biography information for Jane Stevenson

1440212

registered interest
date	11/03/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what statutory responsibilities local authorities have for maintaining grass verges.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Jane Stevenson
uin	138348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2022 answer text <p>Local highway authorities have a duty under Section 41 of the Highways Act 1980, as amended, to maintain the highways network for which they are responsible, including highway grass verges.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 16/03/2022 10:45:16 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4750 label Biography information for Jane Stevenson

1420671

registered interest
date	08/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Reoffenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent progress he has made on reducing rates of reoffending.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Jane Stevenson
uin	905513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2022 answer text <p>This Government is committed to reducing crime and protecting the public by tackling reoffending. Over the last 10 years, there has been a broad decline in overall reoffending rates. We will invest £200 million a year by 2024-25 to further reduce reoffending and cut crime.</p><p>We will improve prison leaver’s access to accommodation by providing temporary accommodation for prison leavers through our new Community Accommodation Service.</p><p>Our Prisoner Education Service will focus on improving numeracy, literacy and the qualifications that increase prisoners’ prospects of finding work on their release. There are now 23 Employment Hubs, ‘job-centres in a prison’, that are directly supporting prisoners into jobs on release.</p><p>We will also introduce new personalised Resettlement Passports, bringing together the key information and services that an individual needs to resettle into society.</p><p>Our reforms to the Probation Service, supported by additional annual funding of £155 million, will help reduce reoffending through robust supervision, tougher community sentences, improved local partnership working and delivery of rehabilitative services.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 08/02/2022 16:22:05 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4750 label Biography information for Jane Stevenson

1387357

registered interest
date	13/12/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to provide financial support for businesses affected by covid-19 restrictions announced by Government on 8 December 2021.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Jane Stevenson
uin	92073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2021 answer text <p>Plan B has been designed to help control the virus’s spread while avoiding unduly damaging economic and social restrictions. Throughout the pandemic, the Government has demonstrated that it can respond proportionately to the changing path of the virus, and will continue to do so. The Government has a strong track record of responding quickly, flexibly and comprehensively in supporting jobs, businesses, individuals and families if needed.</p><p> </p><p>As part of our £400bn package of support, businesses will continue to receive considerable support into the spring of next year. Small and medium-sized businesses can access Government-guaranteed finance through the extended Recovery Loans scheme until next June. Businesses will be protected from eviction if they are behind on rent on their premises, thanks to the moratorium in place until March 2022. Where applicable, businesses can also continue to apply for the Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) scheme through their local authority, which is open until March 2022.</p><p> </p><p>For the sectors who were hardest hit by previous restrictions and may need additional support, there is further support in place. Business rates relief for eligible retail, hospitality and leisure businesses in England is available until March 2022, and hospitality and tourism businesses will continue to benefit from a VAT reduction – paying only 12.5% until March 2022. The arts and culture sector can still access support from the £2 billion Culture Recovery Fund and Sports Recovery Package, and the Film and TV Production Restart Scheme, which is in place until 30 April 2022. While the £800m Live Events Reinsurance Scheme is giving events across the country the confidence needed for organisers to plan for the future.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 16/12/2021 11:19:25 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4750 label Biography information for Jane Stevenson

1384271

registered interest
date	02/12/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support is available for full-time further education students seeking apprenticeship opportunities.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Jane Stevenson
uin	86189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2021 answer text <p>Apprenticeships provide people with the opportunity to earn and learn the skills needed to start an exciting career in a wide range of industries, everything from artificial intelligence, archaeology, data science, business management, and banking. We want more young people to benefit from high-quality apprenticeships.</p><p>To encourage more young people to consider apprenticeships, we are promoting apprenticeships in schools and colleges through our Apprenticeship Support and Knowledge programme. This free service provides resources and interventions to help better educate young people about apprenticeships and has reached over 600,000 students across England in the 2020/21 academic year.</p><p>In the ‘Skills for Jobs’ White Paper, published in January 2021, we announced the introduction of a three-point-plan to enforce provider access legislation. This requires that all maintained schools and academies provide opportunities for providers of technical education and apprenticeships to visit schools to talk to all year 8-13 pupils. This plan includes creating clear minimum legal requirements, specifying who is to be given access to which pupils and when. This is an important step towards real choice for every pupil.</p><p>We are introducing a range of measures to incentivise schools and colleges to prioritise careers guidance and hold them to account for the quality of their careers programmes. In addition to a strong statutory framework, this includes tougher enforcement and an Ofsted review of provision. To build a whole-school or whole-college approach, we will build careers awareness into every stage of teacher professional development and embed careers education into the secondary curriculum.</p><p>The National Careers Service, a free, government-funded careers information, advice and guidance service draws on a range of labour market information to support and guide individuals. The National Careers Service is impartial, and careers guidance is tailored to individual needs. Young people aged 13 to 18 can access ongoing in-depth information, advice and guidance from the service via local telephone-based advisers or the National Careers Service website.</p><p>The department offers guidance and support to young people who are considering applying for apprenticeships through our apprenticeships.gov.uk website, which explains the application stages in a step-by-step process. Students can search for new apprenticeship opportunities on our Find an Apprenticeship (FAA) service; over 15,000 apprenticeship vacancies were advertised on FAA in October 2021.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 08/12/2021 12:15:13 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4750 label Biography information for Jane Stevenson

1361752

registered interest
date	20/10/2021
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	Hospitals: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to ease covid-19 visiting restrictions in NHS hospitals over the Christmas and New Year period.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Jane Stevenson
uin	59964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>We recognise the importance of being able to visit family, friends and loved ones in hospital, including over the Christmas and New Year period. Since the end of the national restrictions, hospital visiting is subject to local discretion by trusts and other National Health Service bodies, taking into account the local prevalence of COVID-19 and the health, safety and wellbeing of patients, communities and staff.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/10/2021 09:55:45 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4750 label Biography information for Jane Stevenson

1360149

registered interest
date	15/10/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Magnesium: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the impact of the rise in the price of magnesium and supply issues on the aluminium extrusion industry in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Jane Stevenson
uin	57345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2021 answer text <p>This is a global issue initiated by a reduction in Chinese magnesium production. The Government is monitoring the situation. At present there are no reported disruptions to the aluminium sector or supply chains.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the work to develop a strategy on Critical Minerals, the Government will establish an Expert Committee on critical minerals. This committee will provide high quality, independent and well-considered advice to the Government on technology-critical minerals and metals priorities, including magnesium.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 21/10/2021 15:47:31 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley previous answer version 25630 answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4750 label Biography information for Jane Stevenson