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451210

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Arts: Yorkshire and the Humber
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department spent on access to the arts in Yorkshire and Humber region between (a) May 2015 and February 2016 and (b) May 2010 and April 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford West
	tabling member printed	Naz Shah
	uin	26168
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government continues to support the fantastic range of arts in the culture in Yorkshire and the Humber through its public investment in the arts, distributed by Arts Council England, as well as investment in cultural projects and programmes including £1.5 million for the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull to support its redevelopment and £1 million to support the Yorkshire Festival which will celebrate the region’s culture this summer.</p><p> </p><p>The Arts Council has provided the following funding to Yorkshire during the dates specified:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Funding Year</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/2016: 1st April - 8 Feb 2016</p></td><td><p>£46,399,085</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p /><p /><p /><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Funding Year</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/2011</p></td><td><p>£36,013,760</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/2012</p></td><td><p>£47,661,513</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/2013</p></td><td><p>£64,126,617</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/2014</p></td><td><p>£46,717,549</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/2015</p></td><td><p>£53,628,743</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 15/03/2016 09:01:58 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
	tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

514425

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Breakfast Clubs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how she plans for the £10 million increase in funding to expand breakfast clubs in schools announced in paragraph 1.95 of Budget 2016 to be distributed; and how her Department plans to monitor the spending of that funding.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford West
	tabling member printed	Naz Shah
	uin	34905
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2016 answer text <p>The Chancellor announced in the recent budget that funding from the new sugar levy would be used in part to expand breakfast clubs in up to 1,600 schools from September 2017. We are currently refining the details of how this scheme will operate and further details will be announced in due course.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 34906 question first answered 27/04/2016 15:55:45 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

514427

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Breakfast Clubs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of additional breakfast club places which will be created by the £10 million increase in funding announced in paragraph 1.95 of Budget 2016 in (a) England, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) Bradford.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford West
	tabling member printed	Naz Shah
	uin	34906
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2016 answer text <p>The Chancellor announced in the recent budget that funding from the new sugar levy would be used in part to expand breakfast clubs in up to 1,600 schools from September 2017. We are currently refining the details of how this scheme will operate and further details will be announced in due course.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 34905 question first answered 27/04/2016 15:55:45 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

514422

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Breakfast Clubs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of children attending a breakfast club in primary schools in (a) England, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) Bradford in the last 12 months for which records are available.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford West
	tabling member printed	Naz Shah
	uin	34881
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2016 answer text <p>The most recent results of the Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey suggest that in England in 2013, around 591,200 school-aged children under eight attended before school care in a typical term-time week. However, it is not possible to identify within this total the number of children who attended provision in primary and secondary schools separately. In addition, the survey sample sizes do not allow for an estimate for Yorkshire and the Humber, or LA level estimates, nor does it collect information about secondary age children.</p><p>The findings of the Survey can be found online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2013</a></p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 34889 question first answered 27/04/2016 15:55:25 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

514423

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Breakfast Clubs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of children attending a breakfast club in secondary schools in (a) England, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) Bradford in last 12 months for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford West
	tabling member printed	Naz Shah
	uin	34889
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2016 answer text <p>The most recent results of the Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey suggest that in England in 2013, around 591,200 school-aged children under eight attended before school care in a typical term-time week. However, it is not possible to identify within this total the number of children who attended provision in primary and secondary schools separately. In addition, the survey sample sizes do not allow for an estimate for Yorkshire and the Humber, or LA level estimates, nor does it collect information about secondary age children.</p><p>The findings of the Survey can be found online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/childcare-and-early-years-providers-survey-2013</a></p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 34881 question first answered 27/04/2016 15:55:25 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

1087191

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2019
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	China: Uyghurs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what information his Department holds on whether Uighur Muslims in Chinese camps have been denied their basic human rights.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford West
	tabling member printed	Naz Shah
	uin	231509
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>We have serious concerns about the human rights situation in Xinjiang and the Chinese Government’s deepening crackdown; including credible reports that over 1 million Uyghur Muslims have been held in re-education camps, and reports of widespread surveillance and restrictions targeted at ethnic minorities. Visits to Xinjiang by diplomats from the British Embassy in Beijing have corroborated much of this open source reporting.</p><p>Ministers and senior officials have been raising our concerns directly with the Chinese authorities for some time, and will continue to do so. At the 40<sup>th</sup> session of the UN Human Rights Council which ran from February to March 2019, Lord Ahmad raised our concerns about Xinjiang during his opening address (on 25 February). The UK also raised concerns about Xinjiang during our item 4 statement on 12 March, and we co-sponsored a side event on “Protecting the fundamental freedoms in Xinjiang” on 13 March.</p><p>I raised our concerns about Xinjiang with Vice Minister Guo Yezhou during my visit to China on 22 July 2018. The Foreign Secretary also raised our concerns about the region with Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his visit to China on 30 July 2018.</p><p>During China’s Universal Periodic Review at the UN Human Rights Council on 6 November 2018, the UK made a statement which described our concerns about the treatment of ethnic minorities in China, including Uyghurs.</p><p>Following the Universal Periodic Review, Lord Ahmad issued a statement where he said: “I am very concerned about the human rights situation in Xinjiang, including the re-education camps and the widespread surveillance and restrictions targeted at ethnic minorities, particularly the Uyghurs. The UK and many of our international partners have made clear during China’s UPR that this is a priority issue. We recommended that China should implement CERD recommendations in Xinjiang and allow the UN to monitor implementation.”​</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 15/03/2019 10:46:41 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
	tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

1087198

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2019
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	China: Uyghurs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations his Department has received on the welfare of Uigher Muslims being held in internment camps in China.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford West
	tabling member printed	Naz Shah
	uin	231510
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>We have serious concerns about the human rights situation in Xinjiang and the Chinese Government’s deepening crackdown; including credible reports that over 1 million Uyghur Muslims have been held in re-education camps, and reports of widespread surveillance and restrictions targeted at ethnic minorities. Visits to Xinjiang by diplomats from the British Embassy in Beijing have corroborated much of this open source reporting.</p><p>Ministers and senior officials have been raising our concerns directly with the Chinese authorities for some time, and will continue to do so. At the 40<sup>th</sup> session of the UN Human Rights Council which ran from February to March 2019, Lord Ahmad raised our concerns about Xinjiang during his opening address (on 25 February). The UK also raised concerns about Xinjiang during our item 4 statement on 12 March, and we co-sponsored a side event on “Protecting the fundamental freedoms in Xinjiang” on 13 March.</p><p>I raised our concerns about Xinjiang with Vice Minister Guo Yezhou during my visit to China on 22 July 2018. The Foreign Secretary also raised our concerns about the region with Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his visit to China on 30 July 2018.</p><p>During China’s Universal Periodic Review at the UN Human Rights Council on 6 November 2018, the UK made a statement which described our concerns about the treatment of ethnic minorities in China, including Uyghurs.</p><p>Following the Universal Periodic Review, Lord Ahmad issued a statement where he said: “I am very concerned about the human rights situation in Xinjiang, including the re-education camps and the widespread surveillance and restrictions targeted at ethnic minorities, particularly the Uyghurs. The UK and many of our international partners have made clear during China’s UPR that this is a priority issue. We recommended that China should implement CERD recommendations in Xinjiang and allow the UN to monitor implementation.”</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 15/03/2019 10:48:00 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
	tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

856013

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when (a) Sara Khan and (b) Inspire was made a preferred provider for any (i) counter-terrorism and (ii) counter-extremism​ programmes.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford West
	tabling member printed	Naz Shah
	uin	131179
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>The Research Information Communications Unit does not have preferred providers.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 12/03/2018 17:14:41 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

517336

	registered interest
	date	04/05/2016
	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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Contracts
	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 takes to limit the effect on service users of contracts with sub-contractors being terminated early due to the provider being at risk of failure.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford West
	tabling member printed	Naz Shah
	uin	36558
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>Where a subcontractor is impacted by the Skills Funding Agency’s (SFA) decision to terminate a provider contract, the SFA ensures that the learners can remain in their programme of learning either through the subcontractor or through a transfer to another provider depending on the circumstances of the termination. However, the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) does not terminate contracts on the grounds of a provider being ‘at risk of failure’.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 11/05/2016 16:27:12 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

1109319

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2019
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Economic Situation: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What recent assessment the Government has made of the strength of the Welsh economy.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford West
	tabling member printed	Naz Shah
	uin	910124
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>The Welsh economy is continuing to thrive. The employment rate in Wales is up 3.4 percentage points over the last year, over twice as high as the increase in any other part of the UK, with an extra 78,000 people in work. Unemployment also continues to fall. The rate of unemployment in Wales is now half the 2010 level, with 57,000 fewer people unemployed.</p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns question first answered 03/04/2019 13:56:03 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
	tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah