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442828

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Transport: Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to paragraph 3.22 of English Apprenticeships: Our 2020 Vision, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of the planned 30,000 transport-related apprenticeships which will be taken up by apprentices with special educational needs or disabilities.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	21246
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2016 answer text <br /><p>Apprenticeships are full time jobs with training. We do not interfere in employers’ recruitment decisions or set specific quotas for the number of apprenticeships to be taken up by people with special educational needs or disabilities.</p><br /><p>All employers must fulfil their duties as set out in the Equality Act 2010 for apprentices as they would for other employees. We believe that the overwhelming majority of young people with special educational needs and disabilities are capable of sustainable, paid employment with the right preparation and support. For many, apprenticeships are the best route into paid employment. To support this, people aged 16 and over can apply for Access to Work funding for adjustments to the workplace. In addition, reasonable adjustments are available for any qualifications within apprenticeships to ensure the apprentice has every opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge and skills.</p><br /> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 15/01/2016 14:52:27 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

442829

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to paragraph 3.28 of English Apprenticeships: Our 2020 Vision, what information his Department holds on the proportion of planned apprenticeships provided by the five per cent club which are expected to be taken up by apprentices with special educational needs or disabilities.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	21247
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2016 answer text <br /><p>The Five Per Cent Club has been developed and is run by businesses themselves who commit to making a public declaration to achieve five per cent of their company’s overall UK headcount being an apprentice, a sponsored student or on a graduate programme. We do not hold any information on the proportion of planned apprenticeships provided by employers in the Five Per Cent Club which are expected to be taken up by apprentices with special educational needs or disabilities.</p><br /><p>Thousands of disabled people have benefitted from apprenticeships. Of the 499,900 starting an apprenticeship in the 2014/15 academic year, 44,090 of those declared a disability or learning difficulty (LDD).</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 13/01/2016 17:50:01 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

349178

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2015
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of the reduction of the benefit cap to £23,000 per annum on the number of children living in a household with an income below 60 per cent of median household income if no additional households move into work.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	1561
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We will publish a full Impact Assessment in due course.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 1552 1624 1625 question first answered 16/06/2015 11:58:21 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

518422

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Ambulance Services: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the current average response times are for ambulances responding to C1 and C2 incidents.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	37014
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>Category C1 and category C2 are terms used by London Ambulance Service to describe the first two categories of green calls.</p><p> </p><p>Green calls are lower acuity calls where there is still a need for an ambulance, but in slower time scales than life-threatening or more urgent calls. They are usually split into four categories and the response times for these are agreed and set locally.</p><p> </p><p>Data on green call performance is not centrally held.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 37015 question first answered 12/05/2016 08:18:33 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

518431

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Ambulance Services: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the target response times are for ambulances responding to C1 and C2 incidents.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	37015
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>Category C1 and category C2 are terms used by London Ambulance Service to describe the first two categories of green calls.</p><p> </p><p>Green calls are lower acuity calls where there is still a need for an ambulance, but in slower time scales than life-threatening or more urgent calls. They are usually split into four categories and the response times for these are agreed and set locally.</p><p> </p><p>Data on green call performance is not centrally held.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 37014 question first answered 12/05/2016 08:18:33 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

442830

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	NHS: Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to paragraph 3.22 of English Apprenticeships: Our 2020 Vision, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of the planned 17,000 NHS apprenticeship starts which will be taken up by apprentices with special educational needs or disabilities.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	21248
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2016 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><br /><p>The NHS has committed to creating 100,000 apprenticeships by 2020, offering opportunities to thousands of people who wish to pursue a career in the health sector. This is part of a wider, cross-government commitment to reaching three million apprenticeship starts in England across all sectors in 2020.</p><br /><p>Apprenticeships are full time jobs with training. We do not interfere in employers’ recruitment decisions or set specific quotas for the number of apprenticeships to be taken up by people with special educational needs or disabilities. All employers must fulfil their duties as set out in the Equality Act 2010 for apprentices as they would for other employees. We believe that the overwhelming majority of young people with special educational needs or disabilities are capable of sustainable, paid employment with the right preparation and support. For many, apprenticeships are the best route into paid employment. To support this, people aged 16 and over can apply for Access to Work funding for adjustments to the workplace. In addition, reasonable adjustments are available for any qualifications within apprenticeships to ensure the apprentice has every opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge and skills.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 13/01/2016 17:01:07 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

517934

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2016
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Cornish Language: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2016 to Question 35516, how much funding was allocated to programmes to support the learning of the Cornish language in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	36737
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p><strong>DCLG Cornish language funding to Cornwall Council since 2010.</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Year Annual funding </strong></p><p>2010/11 £150,000</p><p>2011/12 £140,000</p><p>2012/13 £120,000</p><p>2013/14 £100,000</p><p>2014/15 £120,000</p><p>2015/16 £150,000</p><p><br>Cornwall Council has a core spending power of £1.7 billion over the next four years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stockton South answering member printed James Wharton question first answered 12/05/2016 10:07:02 answering member 4123 label Biography information for Lord Wharton of Yarm
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

516702

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	HIV Infection: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the purpose was of the HIV pre-exposure prophylaxsis stakeholder consultation in January 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	35974
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>All specialised commissioning policy propositions go through a short period of stakeholder testing to check, amongst other things, whether all relevant evidence has been considered.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 09/05/2016 14:10:11 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

455204

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Prime Minister: Cleaning Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the rate of pay is for cleaners in 10 Downing Street.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	28562
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2016 answer text <p>All staff and contractors based in Downing Street are paid at least the London Living Wage.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 07/03/2016 13:08:08 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

437073

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to increase inclusivity for disabled people of the Approved Apprenticeship programmes.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	19608
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2015 answer text <p>Apprenticeships are paid jobs, and whilst we would not want to interfere in employers’ recruitment decisions, we believe there is more that can be done to ensure that people from a diverse range of backgrounds are in the best possible place to apply for and secure an apprenticeship. For instance, the availability of reasonable adjustments for disabled learners (who can apply for Access to Work funding) and the accessibility of online tests. Employers must fulfil their duties as set out in the Equality Act 2010 for apprentices as they would for other employees.</p><p>Government also fully funds apprentices aged 19 to 24 who have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHC Plan). Apprentices aged 19 to 24 without an EHC Plan, who have a learning difficulty and/or disability can benefit from additional funding through Learning Support.</p><p>Advice is also available to help employers and training providers understand disabilities and how to better support disabled apprentices. We have funded NIACE to produce an employer toolkit <a href="http://www.employer-toolkit.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.employer-toolkit.org.uk/</a> for employers that want to develop a more inclusive and accessible apprenticeship offer.</p><p>An Apprenticeships Equality and Diversity Advisory group helps government understand and address any apprenticeship equality and diversity issues in order to reduce barriers and make apprenticeships as inclusive as possible.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 18/12/2015 14:49:06 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West