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1719819

registered interest
date	21/05/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons the discount rate used to calculate the Resource Accounting and Budgeting charge on student loans is different to the rate used for general policy appraisal.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	27501
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>The Resource Accounting Budget charge, which is the government subsidy anticipated on student loans issued in any particular financial year, is calculated as the present value of student loan outlay less expected future repayments, in accordance with relevant International Financial Reporting Standards and guidance from HMT’s Government Financial Reporting Manual (FReM).</p><p> </p><p>The FReM requires future repayments of student loans to be discounted at the higher of the intrinsic rate of the financial instrument and the real financial instrument discount rate set by HMT, based on analysis of real yields on UK index linked gilts and are specifically appropriate to central government.</p><p> </p><p>The FReM is kept under constant review. It is updated to reflect developments in relevant standards and best practice.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 24/05/2024 10:39:37 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1718070

registered interest
date	14/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) work and (b) family visas were issued to people aged (i) between (A) 18 and 24, (B) 25 and 34, (C) 35 and 44, (D) 45 and 54 and (E) 55 and 64 and (ii) 65 and over in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	26253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2024 answer text <p>The number of work or family applications for entry clearance to the UK that are broken down by age group does not form part of any current transparency data or migration statistics and is not published.</p><p>The transparency data does, however, include a range of processing data and the latest data can be found at:</p><p>www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 22/05/2024 13:20:27 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1718071

registered interest
date	14/05/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to respond to Questions 3012, 3013, 3020, 3022, 3028, 3030, 3032, 3033, 3034, 3035, 3036, 3037, 3038, 3040, 3041 and 3043, tabled on 21 November 2023.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	26254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Gareth Bacon question first answered 24/05/2024 11:35:59 answering member 4798 label Biography information for Gareth Bacon
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1717680

registered interest
date	13/05/2024
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	China: India
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, what diplomatic steps he is taking to help counter Chinese aggression against India.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	25953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>Relations between these two countries are a matter for their governments to progress and manage through peaceful means.</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan question first answered 21/05/2024 10:28:37 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1717681

registered interest
date	13/05/2024
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	Accident and Emergency Departments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress she has made on (a) implementing the actions in the urgent and emergency care plan and (b) preventing ambulances queuing at hospitals.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	25954
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>We have made significant progress in implementing the Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services since it was published in January 2023. A summary is set out in the document, Urgent and emergency care recovery plan Year 2: Building on learning from 2023/24, which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/urgent-and-emergency-care-recovery-plan-year-2-building-on-learning-from-2023-24/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/urgent-and-emergency-care-recovery-plan-year-2-building-on-learning-from-2023-24/</a></p><p>Progress includes delivering 5,000 additional core hospital beds, exceeding our virtual ward bed capacity ambition, with over 12,000 now available, and increasing same day emergency care services across the country. These measures are helping to improve patient flow through accident and emergency (A&amp;E) and reduce the ambulance capacity lost to handover delays.</p><p>Since the publication of the plan, both A&amp;E and ambulance performance has improved during 2023/24, compared to the previous year. In addition, average ambulance patient handover times have fallen to 32 minutes 42 seconds in April 2024, from 37 minutes 33 seconds in October 2023, when the publication of this data began.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 20/05/2024 16:37:00 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1717689

registered interest
date	13/05/2024
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Research: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to page 173 of the Levelling Up the United Kingdom White Paper, published the Government on 2 February 2022, what recent progress she has made on targeting at least 55% of domestic R&D funding outside the greater south east by 2024-25.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	25955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>Following the establishment of DSIT, the department set the aim to invest, over the Spending Review period, a cumulative £1.3 billion more in R&amp;D funding outside the Greater South East than in 2021-2022, superseding the referenced BEIS target.</p><p> </p><p>DSIT and UKRI are working together to achieve this target, delivering the Innovation Accelerators programme to accelerate innovation clusters, investing £200 million in 12 projects across the UK through the Strength in Places Fund, by 2025, and in Autumn 2023 DSIT announced funding for a next-gen Exascale supercomputing facility in Edinburgh, and a new AI supercomputer for the national AI Research Resource in Bristol.</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 21/05/2024 11:37:44 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1717690

registered interest
date	13/05/2024
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Research: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what information her Department holds on the amount of R&D spend by the (a) Government, (b) higher education sector, (b) charity sector and (c) private sector in each region in each year since 1997.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	25956
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The amount of R&amp;D spend by sector and region is published annually by the Office for National Statistics.</p><p> </p><p>The most recent release of these R&amp;D spending breakdowns can be downloaded from: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/researchanddevelopmentexpenditure/bulletins/ukgrossdomesticexpenditureonresearchanddevelopment/2021" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/researchanddevelopmentexpenditure/bulletins/ukgrossdomesticexpenditureonresearchanddevelopment/2021</a></p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 21/05/2024 11:40:04 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1717736

registered interest
date	13/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Naturalisation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were (a) naturalised and (b) registered who were (i) under 18, (ii) 19 to 24, (iii) 25 to 29, (iv) 30 to 34, (v) 35 to 39, (vi) 40 to 44, (vii) 45 to 49, (viii) 50 to 54, (ix) 55 to 59, (x) 60 to 64, (xi) 65 to 69 and (xii) 70 or above in each quarter since Q1 2023.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	25957
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on citizenship in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on naturalisations and registrations broken down by age group are published in table Cit_D02 of the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#citizenship" target="_blank">Citizenship detailed datasets</a>’. Age breakdowns from 2021 onwards cannot currently be provided due to ongoing work to transition underlying systems that are used to produce the data.</p><p> </p><p>Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the year ending December 2023.</p><p> </p><p>Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=immigration&amp;content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&amp;organisations%5B%5D=home-office&amp;order=relevance" target="_blank">Research and statistics calendar</a>’.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 21/05/2024 14:37:25 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1714913

registered interest
date	30/04/2024
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	Social Security Benefits: Depressive Illnesses and Neurodiversity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data his Department holds on the number of people who were claiming (a) Employment Support Allowance and (b) out of work Universal Credit where their main disabling condition was (i) attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, (ii) anxiety and depression and (iii) autistic spectrum disorders, in each month since November 2008.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	24294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p>On Employment Support Allowance and out of work Universal Credit, the information requested is not readily available due to how the medical condition is recorded so to collate and provide it would incur disproportionate cost. However, Monthly statistics on the outcomes of Employment and Support Allowance work capability assessments are available by primary high-level medical condition on <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Stat-Xplore</a>. The latest statistics are available by <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/opendatabase?id=ESA_WCA_JR" target="_blank">date of decision</a> from November 2008 to September 2023, or <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/opendatabase?id=ESA_WCA_CS" target="_blank">date of claim start</a> from October 2008 to June 2023. Statistics on the outcomes of Universal Credit work capability assessments (UC WCA) are available by high-level medical condition for the period from January 2022 to November 2023 in Table 7 of the latest <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/universal-credit-work-capability-assessment-statistics-april-2019-to-december-2023" target="_blank">UC WCA data tables</a>.</p><p> </p><p>On Disability Living Allowance (DLA), the information requested is in the attached document.</p><p> </p><p>Points to note:</p><ul><li>Figures are only readily available on a quarterly basis, to provide the requested information per month would incur a disproportionate cost.</li><li>Figures cover both DLA Adult and DLA Child on the caseload at a given month.</li><li>Figures are rounded to the nearest 1,000.</li><li>Figures are for England and Wales only.</li><li>Figures follow Personal Independence Payment’s (PIP) definition of main disabling conditions, and therefore, can be compared to PIP figures.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The latest available data on Personal Independence Payment claims can be found at <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>. The volume of PIP claimants with certain conditions can be found in the ‘PIP Cases with Entitlement’ dataset by going to ‘Disability’ and selecting the relevant conditions. To show the data since April 2013, select all months and then ‘Add to Column/Row’.</p><p> </p><p>The data is based on primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer systems. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics. PIP was first introduced in April 2013, so there is no data available before this point.</p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">here.</a> An account is not required to use Stat- Xplore, the ‘Guest Login’ feature gives instant access to the main functions.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 24295 question first answered 09/05/2024 17:00:05 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies attachment 1 file name PQs 24294 24295.xlsx title Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1714914

registered interest
date	30/04/2024
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	Social Security Benefits: Depressive Illnesses and Neurodiversity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data his Department holds on the number of people who were claiming (a) Disability Living Allowance and (b) Personal Independence Payment where their main disabling condition was (i) attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, (ii) anxiety and depression and (iii) autistic spectrum disorders, in each month since November 2008.
tabling member constituency	Harborough
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	24295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p>On Employment Support Allowance and out of work Universal Credit, the information requested is not readily available due to how the medical condition is recorded so to collate and provide it would incur disproportionate cost. However, Monthly statistics on the outcomes of Employment and Support Allowance work capability assessments are available by primary high-level medical condition on <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Stat-Xplore</a>. The latest statistics are available by <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/opendatabase?id=ESA_WCA_JR" target="_blank">date of decision</a> from November 2008 to September 2023, or <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/opendatabase?id=ESA_WCA_CS" target="_blank">date of claim start</a> from October 2008 to June 2023. Statistics on the outcomes of Universal Credit work capability assessments (UC WCA) are available by high-level medical condition for the period from January 2022 to November 2023 in Table 7 of the latest <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/universal-credit-work-capability-assessment-statistics-april-2019-to-december-2023" target="_blank">UC WCA data tables</a>.</p><p> </p><p>On Disability Living Allowance (DLA), the information requested is in the attached document.</p><p> </p><p>Points to note:</p><ul><li>Figures are only readily available on a quarterly basis, to provide the requested information per month would incur a disproportionate cost.</li><li>Figures cover both DLA Adult and DLA Child on the caseload at a given month.</li><li>Figures are rounded to the nearest 1,000.</li><li>Figures are for England and Wales only.</li><li>Figures follow Personal Independence Payment’s (PIP) definition of main disabling conditions, and therefore, can be compared to PIP figures.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The latest available data on Personal Independence Payment claims can be found at <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>. The volume of PIP claimants with certain conditions can be found in the ‘PIP Cases with Entitlement’ dataset by going to ‘Disability’ and selecting the relevant conditions. To show the data since April 2013, select all months and then ‘Add to Column/Row’.</p><p> </p><p>The data is based on primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer systems. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics. PIP was first introduced in April 2013, so there is no data available before this point.</p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">here.</a> An account is not required to use Stat- Xplore, the ‘Guest Login’ feature gives instant access to the main functions.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 24294 question first answered 09/05/2024 17:00:05 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies attachment 1 file name PQs 24294 24295.xlsx title Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien