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1639838

	registered interest
	date	23/05/2023
	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	Nurses: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Prime Minister's oral contribution of 26 October 2022, Official Report, column 295, what the evidential basis is for his statement that the Government has reintroduced the nurses' bursary.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	186517
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>In September 2020, the Government introduced an enhanced Learning Support Funding (LSF). Under the LSF, all eligible nursing students in England now receive non-income assessed and non-repayable grants of at least £5,000 per year, with additional funding for those studying certain subjects and those with child dependants. Students eligible for the LSF can also access maintenance and tuition fee loans provided by the Student Loans Company.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 05/06/2023 16:56:48 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 79049 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1488301

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children's Commissioner for England
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the agreement which his Department has made with the Children's Commissioner for England allowing her to take up a director position on the School-Led Development Trust, which is funded by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the arrangements in place to ensure that the Children's Commissioner for England maintains independence from (a) Government and (b) organisations outside Government.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	34942
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2022 answer text <p>The Children’s Commissioner’s role, functions, powers, and independence are set out in the Children Act 2004. Pursuant to Schedule 1 of the Children Act 2004, the Children’s Commissioner for England is a Corporate Sole and, therefore, independent from government and not to be regarded as the servant or agent of the Crown.</p><p> </p><p>The School-Led Development Trust (SLDT) is running the National Institute of Teaching under contract to the department. SLDT is currently a private limited company seeking independent charitable status and, as such, it is responsible for their own recruitment processes for staff and trustees.</p><p> </p><p>The Children’s Commissioner has declared her role as Trustee of SLDT on the Office of Children’s Commissioner website under its register of interests.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 25/07/2022 13:57:10 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1485436

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free School Meals: Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to help ensure that children from families in receipt of Universal Credit receive free school meals.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	900849
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2022 answer text <p>Under the benefits-related criteria the department provides a free healthy meal to around 1.9 million children, ensuring they are well nourished and can concentrate, learn and achieve. We also spend around £600 million per year ensuring around 1.25 million infants enjoy a free, healthy and nutritious meal at lunchtime following the introduction of the Universal Infant Free School Meal policy in 2014.</p><p>Schools fund benefit-related free school meals (FSM) from their core funding which they receive through the schools block of the dedicated schools grant and is derived from the national funding formula. For 2022-23, the funding schools attract through the 'FSM factor' in the national funding formula (NFF) is increasing to £470 per eligible pupil. The per meal rate for Universal Infant Free School Meals was increased in 2022-2023 to £2.41.</p><p>Under this government, eligibility has been extended several times and to more groups of children than any other government over the past half a century, including the introduction of universal infant free school meals and further education FSM. The department has permanently extended eligibility to children from all groups with no recourse to public funds.</p><p>The number of pupils eligible for FSM has been increasing since 2018, when we introduced new eligibility criteria for Universal Credit families that was estimated to increase the number of free school meal pupils by 2022. Alongside this, we also introduced generous protections that meant no child would lose their free school meal eligibility as a result of this criteria change and throughout the rollout of Universal Credit.</p><p>We want to make sure as many eligible pupils as possible are claiming their FSM, and to make it as simple as possible for schools and local authorities to determine eligibility. To support this:</p><ul><li>We provide an Eligibility Checking System (ECS) to make the checking process as quick and straightforward as possible for schools and local authorities.</li><li>We have developed a model registration form to help schools encourage parents to sign up for free school meals.</li><li>We also provide guidance to Jobcentre Plus advisers so that they can make Universal Credit recipients aware that they may also be entitled to wider benefits, including free school meals.</li></ul> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 04/07/2022 16:24:03 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1473174

	registered interest
	date	24/06/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Asylum
	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 23 June 2022 to Question 18916 on Children: Asylum, if he will ask the Children's Commissioner to provide a written update on that issue; and if he will make it his policy to place a copy of the response in the Library of both Houses.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	24601
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2022 answer text <p>This is a matter for the Children’s Commissioner. Given her independence, the hon. Member for South Shields will need to contact her directly.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 29/06/2022 16:30:27 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1520634

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2022
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Sewage: Waste Disposal
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the statement to the House by his predecessor on 6 September 2022 that removing storm overflows altogether from the sewage system would cost up to £600 billion, Official Report, Column 118, if he will publish a breakdown of those costs.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	61141
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2022 answer text <p>The Storm Overflows Evidence Project (SOEP) published in November 2021 shows that eliminating all discharges could cost up to £600 billion. This could increase household bills between £569 and £999 per year and is also highly disruptive and complex to deliver nationwide. This is also referenced in the storm overflows discharge reduction plan impact assessment.</p><p> </p><p>A breakdown of these costs can be found in SOEP here: <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fstorm-overflows-discharge-reduction-plan&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7Cb10544d69a7a4112f54108daad05f341%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638012538304635046%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=SRNKHydqRtS1rrg5pCGvQ0J3rU64qDeAPvTaTbFbssE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Storm overflows discharge reduction plan - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 17/10/2022 15:18:30 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1507685

	registered interest
	date	22/09/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Social Media: Privacy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of social media regulations on images being shared online of vulnerable individuals following a major incident such as a terrorist attack.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	54536
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2022 answer text <p>The Online Safety Bill will give the power to Ofcom to hold social media companies to account and ensure they abide by their own terms of service to keep users safe, including any policies relating to images shared after a major incident such as a terrorist attack. This will mean companies must be clear about the legal content that they allow on their platforms and apply this rigorously and consistently.</p><p>However, when a terrorist attack occurs in the UK with an online element, the Home Office will enact its crisis response protocols. This involves working with the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit, affected tech companies, and the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism to ensure appropriate action is taken on content related to the attack, including removal of illegal content and moderation of bystander content if it is likely to breach a company’s terms of service. The Home Office’s crisis response protocol was enacted in response to the terrorist attacks in Streatham and Reading in 2020.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 11/10/2022 11:13:35 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1623749

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2023
	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	Personal Independence Payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average decision wait time was for new Personal Independence Payment applications over the last year; and how many applications were awaiting a decision on 25 April 2023.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	182594
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2023 answer text <p>The average decision wait times for new Personal Independence Payment (PIP) applications can be found in the latest published release: <a href="https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1141841%2Ftables-pip-statistics-to-january-2023-eng-wales.xlsx&amp;wdOrigin=BROWSELINK" target="_blank">“Personal Independence Payment statistics to January 2023”.</a> Particularly, table 1A shows PIP average actual clearance times (median number of weeks) for normal rules, new claims in England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ul><li>Clearance time measures do not include claims that were withdrawn by the claimant or claims that were disallowed by the DWP prior to referral to the assessment providers (e.g. for failure to meet basic eligibility criteria).</li></ul><p> </p><p>The number of PIP applicants awaiting a decision has been interpreted as those who had registered a claim, but which had not been cleared. This includes some who may eventually be disallowed pre-assessment, those awaiting an assessment, and those awaiting a decision following an assessment. On 31 January 2023 this stood at 207,000 claims.<strong><br> </strong><br> Source: PIP Atomic Data Store (ADS).</p><p><br> Notes:</p><ul><li>Data excludes Scotland, in line with the latest published figures on PIP;</li><li>Figure is for new claims normal rules only; and</li><li>Figure is rounded to the nearest 1,000.</li></ul> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 02/05/2023 10:22:28 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1697797

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Community Wealth Funds
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when her Department will publish a response to the Technical consultation on a Community Wealth Fund in England, which closed on 19 October 2023.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	19879
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>The government is grateful to all those who took the time to respond to the technical consultation. Officials from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities are carefully considering all of the responses received. The government response will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 26/03/2024 10:01:59 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1579880

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2023
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: South Tyneside
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much South Tyneside Council has returned to her Department from grants allocated in the last two years.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	129841
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>South Tyneside Council has not returned anything to Defra from grants allocated in the last two years.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 30/01/2023 13:05:29 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1639204

	registered interest
	date	22/05/2023
	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	Mobile Phones: Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will make a comparative assessment of the affordability of mobile phone contracts based on the (a) Retail Price Index and (b) Consumer Price Index.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	186070
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2023 answer text <p>We recognise that this is a difficult time for families across the country who are struggling with their bills due to the rise in the cost of living.</p><p>A number of operators choose to link their annual price rises to either the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) and Retail Price Index (RPI). Due to the differences in the way they are calculated, RPI is traditionally higher than CPI. Whether CPI or RPI-linked, it is important that clauses within mobile contracts - such as price rises - are clear and transparent so consumers know what they are signing up to.</p><p>Ofcom, as the independent regulator, has a statutory duty to monitor ongoing household affordability in the sector, and Part C of their General Conditions require telecoms companies to provide clear information about their services.</p><p>On 9 February 2023, Ofcom announced a <a href="https://www.ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/2023/review-of-inflation-linked-telecoms-price-rises" target="_blank">review</a> into the transparency of in-contract price rises including those linked to CPI and RPI. Ofcom expects their review to conclude by the end of the year. We look forward to reading their findings.</p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Sir John Whittingdale question first answered 25/05/2023 09:41:31 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck