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1733689

registered interest
date	11/10/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Immigration: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure decisions of the First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber are published on the same basis as decisions of the Upper Tribunal.
tabling member constituency	Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	8672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2024 answer text <p>I refer the honourable Member to the answer I gave on 10 October 2024 to Question 7538: <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-10-07/7538" target="_blank">Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament.</a></p><p>Decisions on publishing judgments, including those judgments of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal, are a judicial function.</p><p>We have no plans to legislate to change the current arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Swindon South answering member printed Heidi Alexander question first answered 16/10/2024 18:43:12 answering member 4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1731959

registered interest
date	07/10/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children in Care: Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of looked after children were unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in each local authority in each month since January 2017.
tabling member constituency	Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	7534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2024 answer text <p>Information on the number of looked after children, including unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, is submitted to the department on an annual basis and is published at local authority level in the department’s statistical release, which can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions</a>. Information on the numbers and proportion of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children at 31 March in the years 2017 to 2023 is attached. Figures are produced on an annual rather than monthly basis.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of care leavers who were former unaccompanied asylum-seeking children is submitted to the department on an annual basis and is routinely published at national level in the department’s statistical release, which can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions</a>. Information on the numbers and proportion of care leavers who were former unaccompanied asylum-seeking children at 31 March by local authority for the years 2017 to 2023 is attached.</p><p> </p><p>Information on a monthly basis is not held centrally by the department.</p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby attachment 1 file name 7534_7535_attachment_number_and_proportion_care_leavers_previous_unaccompanied_asylum_seeking_children_status_since_2017_by_local_authority.xls title Care leavers, Unaccompanied Asylum-seeker Status 2 file name 7534_7535_attachment_number_and_proportion_looked_after_children_previous_unaccompanied_asylum_seeking_children_status_since_2017_by_local_authority.xls title Children. Unaccompanied Asylum-seeker Status grouped question UIN 7535 question first answered 10/10/2024 16:13:28 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1731960

registered interest
date	07/10/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Care Leavers: Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of people in leaving care services were former unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in each local authority in each month since January 2017.
tabling member constituency	Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	7535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2024 answer text <p>Information on the number of looked after children, including unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, is submitted to the department on an annual basis and is published at local authority level in the department’s statistical release, which can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions</a>. Information on the numbers and proportion of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children at 31 March in the years 2017 to 2023 is attached. Figures are produced on an annual rather than monthly basis.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of care leavers who were former unaccompanied asylum-seeking children is submitted to the department on an annual basis and is routinely published at national level in the department’s statistical release, which can be found here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions</a>. Information on the numbers and proportion of care leavers who were former unaccompanied asylum-seeking children at 31 March by local authority for the years 2017 to 2023 is attached.</p><p> </p><p>Information on a monthly basis is not held centrally by the department.</p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby attachment 1 file name 7534_7535_attachment_number_and_proportion_care_leavers_previous_unaccompanied_asylum_seeking_children_status_since_2017_by_local_authority.xls title Care leavers, Unaccompanied Asylum-seeker Status 2 file name 7534_7535_attachment_number_and_proportion_looked_after_children_previous_unaccompanied_asylum_seeking_children_status_since_2017_by_local_authority.xls title Children. Unaccompanied Asylum-seeker Status grouped question UIN 7534 question first answered 10/10/2024 16:13:28 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1732013

registered interest
date	07/10/2024
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	HIV Infection: Diagnosis
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 people living with diagnosed HIV infection there were in (a) the period to 2014 from the earliest date for which data are available and (b) each year since 2014, by UK statistical region for people whose country of birth was (i) in the UK, (ii) in Europe, (iii) in Northern Africa, (iii) in Eastern Africa, (iv) in Middle Africa, (v) in Southern Africa, (vi) in Western Africa, (vii) in Africa, (viii) in Asia, (ix) in Oceania, (x) in Northern America, (xi) in Latin America and the Caribbean and (xii) unknown.
tabling member constituency	Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	7536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2024 answer text <p>The information requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne question first answered 15/10/2024 13:00:44 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1732023

registered interest
date	07/10/2024
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	HIV Infection: Diagnosis
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 and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men who received care for a diagnosed HIV infection were born in (i) the UK, (ii) Europe, (iii) Northern Africa, (iii) Eastern Africa, (iv) Middle Africa, (v) Southern Africa, (vi) Western Africa, (vii) Africa, (viii) Asia, (ix) Oceania, (x) Northern America, (xi) Latin America and the Caribbean and (xii) an unknown location, in each year since 2014.
tabling member constituency	Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	7537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2024 answer text <p>The information requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne question first answered 16/10/2024 10:57:27 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne previous answer version 8100 answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1732024

registered interest
date	07/10/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Immigration: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will publish decisions of the First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber on the same basis that decisions of the Upper Tribunal are currently published.
tabling member constituency	Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	7538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2024 answer text <p>The decision whether to publish a judgment is a judicial one.</p><p>Currently, judgments of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal are not routinely published. However, members of the public and the media can apply to the tribunal for a copy of the judgment in a specific case.</p> answering member constituency Swindon South answering member printed Heidi Alexander question first answered 10/10/2024 15:53:07 answering member 4038 label Biography information for Heidi Alexander
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1730655

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Per Capita Costs
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 of 13 September 2024 to Question 4411 on Pupils: Per Capita Costs, what the funding per pupil was in state schools for (a) Dedicated Schools Grant block funding, (b) pay and pensions, (c) pupil premium, (d) growth and premises and (e) other funding in each (i) region and (ii) local authority in each year since 2018/19
tabling member constituency	Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	6454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>Schools core funding is allocated through the dedicated schools grant (DSG), which includes growth and premises funding. These can be found as separate funding lines in the published DSG tables. DSG allocations are available at a regional and local authority level at the following links:</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2019-to-2020" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2019-to-2020</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2020-to-2021" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2020-to-2021</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2021-to-2022</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2022-to-2023" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2022-to-2023</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2023-to-2024" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2023-to-2024</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2024-to-2025" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2024-to-2025</a>.</li></ul><p>The department also provides pupil premium funding to support disadvantaged pupils. These allocations are also available at regional and local authority level using the published tables, which can be accessed at:</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-conditions-of-grant-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-conditions-of-grant-2018-to-2019</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2019-to-2020" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2019-to-2020</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2020-to-2021" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2020-to-2021</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2021-to-2022</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2022-to-2023" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2022-to-2023</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2023-to-2024" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2023-to-2024</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2024-to-2025" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2024-to-2025</a>.</li></ul><p>The department has also provided supplementary grants for schools to support them with the costs associated with teacher pay and pensions awards, as well as overall pressures. Information on the additional grants provided since 2018, such as the teachers’ pay additional grant (TPAG), the teachers’ pension employer contribution grant (TPECG) and the core schools’ budget grant (CSBG), can be found here:</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pay-grant-methodology/teachers-pay-grant-methodology" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pay-grant-methodology/teachers-pay-grant-methodology</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pension-employer-contribution-grant-tpecg/pension-grant-methodology" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pension-employer-contribution-grant-tpecg/pension-grant-methodology</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-supplementary-grant-2022-to-2023" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-supplementary-grant-2022-to-2023</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mainstream-schools-additional-grant-2023-to-2024" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/mainstream-schools-additional-grant-2023-to-2024</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pay-additional-grant-2023-to-2024" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pay-additional-grant-2023-to-2024</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pay-additional-grant-2024-to-2025" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pay-additional-grant-2024-to-2025</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pension-employer-contribution-grant-2024-for-schools-high-needs-settings-and-local-authorities-2024-to-2025" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pension-employer-contribution-grant-2024-for-schools-high-needs-settings-and-local-authorities-2024-to-2025</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/core-schools-budget-grant-csbg-2024-to-2025" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/core-schools-budget-grant-csbg-2024-to-2025</a>.</li></ul><p>Most of these grants have since been rolled into DSG allocations. The only exceptions are the TPAG 2024/25, the TPECG 2024/25 and the CSBG 2024/25, which will all be rolled into the DSG allocations from 2025/26 onwards.</p><p>Outside core funding, schools have received a wide variety of further grants and programme funding since 2018/19. These are typically considerably smaller than the core funding streams set out above. This includes both funding provided nationally, and funding provided to particular areas and/or particular schools.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 14/10/2024 13:48:38 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1730665

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offenders: Deportation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether there are circumstances where a victim cannot call for a foreign national offender to be deported in a victim impact statement.
tabling member constituency	Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	6455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2024 answer text <p>Whether a deportation order for a foreign national offender is made is ultimately a decision for the Home Secretary. Any foreign national offender convicted of a crime who receives a custodial sentence in the UK is referred to the Home Office at the earliest opportunity for deportation consideration following sentencing. There is no formal mechanism to seek Victim Personal Statements to support deportation decisions. However, decision makers may take account of evidence such as the judge’s sentencing remarks, to consider the impact on the victim.</p><p> </p><p>Judges may recommend deportation when passing a sentence, and will take into account, so far as they consider appropriate, a Victim Personal Statement when determining a sentence.</p><p> </p><p>Victim Personal Statements allow victims to explain in their own words how a crime has affected them. However, they should not include opinions on how offenders should be sentenced, including calling for a foreign national offender to be deported, as the appropriate sentence is rightly a matter for the court to determine.</p> answering member constituency Pontypridd answering member printed Alex Davies-Jones question first answered 14/10/2024 14:05:09 answering member 4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1730793

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests: Waiting Lists
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the number of additional driving tests that will be needed to reduce the average wait time for a test to the seven-week service standard.
tabling member constituency	Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	6458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2024 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) main priority is to reduce car practical driving test waiting times, whilst upholding road safety standards.</p><p>Measures in place to reduce waiting times for customers at driving test centres, include the recruitment of driving examiners, conducting tests outside of regular hours, including at weekends and on public holidays, and buying back annual leave from driving examiners.</p><p>As of 7 October 2024, there were 571,047 car practical driving tests booked, and 89,349 driving tests available within the 24-week booking window. All available driving test appointments are shown on the live booking system, so the availability of test appointments continually changes. Test appointments are released on a rolling 24-week basis, and additional appointments are added as soon as they become available. Other candidates cancelling or rescheduling their test also free up appointments for others to book. Normal booking behaviour sees candidates move test appointments around routinely in line with their preferences. It is not therefore possible to give a meaningful assessment of the number of people waiting longer than 24 weeks for a test or how long a person waited between booking and taking a test.</p><p>DVSA continues to see high demand for driving tests, owing in part to a major shift in customer booking behaviour. Customers now book their car practical test far earlier in their learning journey, sometimes before they have even had a practical driving lesson.</p><p>The attached spreadsheet, WPQ00023819-00023823, shows the monthly average waiting time for a car practical driving test at each driving test centre and zone for each month since April 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nottingham South answering member printed Lilian Greenwood grouped question UIN 6459 6460 6461 6462 question first answered 09/10/2024 14:36:06 answering member 4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood attachment 1 file name Driving Tests waiting times - Test centres.xlsx title Driving tests - waiting times - test centres
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1730794

registered interest
date	04/10/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to increase the availability of driving tests.
tabling member constituency	Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	6459
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2024 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) main priority is to reduce car practical driving test waiting times, whilst upholding road safety standards.</p><p>Measures in place to reduce waiting times for customers at driving test centres, include the recruitment of driving examiners, conducting tests outside of regular hours, including at weekends and on public holidays, and buying back annual leave from driving examiners.</p><p>As of 7 October 2024, there were 571,047 car practical driving tests booked, and 89,349 driving tests available within the 24-week booking window. All available driving test appointments are shown on the live booking system, so the availability of test appointments continually changes. Test appointments are released on a rolling 24-week basis, and additional appointments are added as soon as they become available. Other candidates cancelling or rescheduling their test also free up appointments for others to book. Normal booking behaviour sees candidates move test appointments around routinely in line with their preferences. It is not therefore possible to give a meaningful assessment of the number of people waiting longer than 24 weeks for a test or how long a person waited between booking and taking a test.</p><p>DVSA continues to see high demand for driving tests, owing in part to a major shift in customer booking behaviour. Customers now book their car practical test far earlier in their learning journey, sometimes before they have even had a practical driving lesson.</p><p>The attached spreadsheet, WPQ00023819-00023823, shows the monthly average waiting time for a car practical driving test at each driving test centre and zone for each month since April 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nottingham South answering member printed Lilian Greenwood grouped question UIN 6458 6460 6461 6462 question first answered 09/10/2024 14:36:06 answering member 4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood attachment 1 file name Driving Tests waiting times - Test centres.xlsx title Driving tests - waiting times - test centres
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien