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	registered interest
	date	24/05/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Young Offenders: Digital Technology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that education and training is available to young offenders to help them access the digital economy.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	38296
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2016 answer text <p>Equipping young offenders with the skills to access the digital economy supports their rehabilitation, and computing forms a core part of the education and training provided to young people in custody.</p><p>The Justice Secretary has asked Charlie Taylor to conduct a review of youth justice. His report of emerging findings published in February underlined the importance of education to an effective youth justice system. He will report back this summer with recommendations on how to improve the treatment of young people in our care.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 02/06/2016 15:00:47 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

521150

	registered interest
	date	24/05/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Bullying
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding her Department has allocated to schools in England to tackle bullying in the last (a) 12 months and (b) five years.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	38302
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2016 answer text <p>It is unacceptable for any child to be victimised, harmed or bullied. All schools are required by law to have a behaviour policy which includes measures to prevent and tackle all forms of bullying. They should exercise their own judgment and develop a consistent approach to monitoring bullying incidents in their school. There is no requirement on schools to record and report incidents of bullying, so the Department does not hold national information on the number of incidents of bullying that take place in schools or online.</p><p> </p><p>The Department provided £1.3 million of funding over twelve months from spring 2015 to three anti-bullying organisations which worked with schools and young people to prevent and tackle all forms of bullying, including cyberbullying; and £2 million to organisations to specifically prevent and tackle homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (HBT) bullying in schools. This was on top of the £4 million provided for similar projects over the period 2013-15. In March the Government Equalities Office announced that £1 million will be made available to tackle HBT bullying this year.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 38293 38294 question first answered 02/06/2016 11:48:44 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

521159

	registered interest
	date	24/05/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Bullying
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department collects on incidents of peer-to-peer bullying (a) in schools and (b) online.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	38293
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2016 answer text <p>It is unacceptable for any child to be victimised, harmed or bullied. All schools are required by law to have a behaviour policy which includes measures to prevent and tackle all forms of bullying. They should exercise their own judgment and develop a consistent approach to monitoring bullying incidents in their school. There is no requirement on schools to record and report incidents of bullying, so the Department does not hold national information on the number of incidents of bullying that take place in schools or online.</p><p> </p><p>The Department provided £1.3 million of funding over twelve months from spring 2015 to three anti-bullying organisations which worked with schools and young people to prevent and tackle all forms of bullying, including cyberbullying; and £2 million to organisations to specifically prevent and tackle homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (HBT) bullying in schools. This was on top of the £4 million provided for similar projects over the period 2013-15. In March the Government Equalities Office announced that £1 million will be made available to tackle HBT bullying this year.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 38294 38302 question first answered 02/06/2016 11:48:44 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

521160

	registered interest
	date	24/05/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Bullying
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data for recording peer-to-peer bullying by schoolchildren (a) in schools and (b) online exist (i) nationally and (ii) locally.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	38294
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2016 answer text <p>It is unacceptable for any child to be victimised, harmed or bullied. All schools are required by law to have a behaviour policy which includes measures to prevent and tackle all forms of bullying. They should exercise their own judgment and develop a consistent approach to monitoring bullying incidents in their school. There is no requirement on schools to record and report incidents of bullying, so the Department does not hold national information on the number of incidents of bullying that take place in schools or online.</p><p> </p><p>The Department provided £1.3 million of funding over twelve months from spring 2015 to three anti-bullying organisations which worked with schools and young people to prevent and tackle all forms of bullying, including cyberbullying; and £2 million to organisations to specifically prevent and tackle homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (HBT) bullying in schools. This was on top of the £4 million provided for similar projects over the period 2013-15. In March the Government Equalities Office announced that £1 million will be made available to tackle HBT bullying this year.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson grouped question UIN 38293 38302 question first answered 02/06/2016 11:48:44 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman