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43461

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the punctuality levels of train services between Harlow Town train station and London Liverpool Street station have been over the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	192246
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2014 answer text The Department does not hold such information to the level required. We do not routinely measure punctuality (or any other performance measure) by individual line or route; it is the franchise as a whole we measure. answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 24/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1123059

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2019
	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	Diplomatic Service: Public Appointments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what role the Government has in the appointment of ambassadors to the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	247663
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>​The appointment of Heads of Mission, both Ambassadors and High Commissioners, to the Court of St. James's is governed in international law by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (VCDR) 1961. Article 4(1) of the VCDR requires that the sending State must ensure that agrément for the person it proposes to accredit as Head of Mission has been granted by the receiving State, before that person may be permitted by the receiving State to undertake the role. Under the VCDR a receiving State is not obliged to give reasons to the sending State for refusal of agrément.</p><p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office reviews all requests for agrément from sending States. On the recommendation of the Secretary of State, Her Majesty The Queen gives formal approval of appointments and grants their credentials in a formal ceremony.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 02/05/2019 15:16:19 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

987902

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2018
	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	British Nationals Abroad: Prisoners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, in which countries UK citizens are incarcerated in prisons.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	179187
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>​As of May 2018, we are aware of 2,325 British nationals in detention in 114 countries abroad. This can include British nationals in immigration detention, in police custody, on remand awaiting trial, and sentenced prisoners. The length of custodial sentence being served by individuals ranges widely, from very short periods up to life imprisonment.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 22/10/2018 16:12:57 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

177185

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Death Certificates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reason doctors receive extra payments for signing death certificates.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	222854
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>When a patient dies it is the statutory duty of the doctor who has attended the patient in the last illness to issue a Medical Certificate of Cause of Death (MCCD). There is no fee payable for completing the MCCD.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 222855 question first answered 09/02/2015 17:15:23 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

177187

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Death Certificates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average payment to a doctor for signing a death certificate was in the most recent year for which figures are available; and how many doctors received payments for signing death certificates in that year.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	222855
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>When a patient dies it is the statutory duty of the doctor who has attended the patient in the last illness to issue a Medical Certificate of Cause of Death (MCCD). There is no fee payable for completing the MCCD.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 222854 question first answered 09/02/2015 17:15:23 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

155925

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Accident and Emergency Departments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time in A&E departments has been (a) nationwide, (b) in the East of England and (c) in the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	214728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>Weekly situation reports collected by NHS England are the official source of information about accident and emergency waiting times. These measure the number of patients admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours of arrival at an accident and emergency department, but do not provide information on average waiting times.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information is available in hospital episode statistics from 2007-08 on average waiting times to assessment, treatment and departure in accident and emergency departments, and is shown in the following tables. The duration to departure times are most closely aligned to the official information.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Mean and median duration to assessment in minutes for attendances at accident and emergency departments, 2007-08 to 2012-13 <em> </em></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>England</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>East of England Strategic Health Authority</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>Median</p></td><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>Median</p></td><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>Median</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>77</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>64</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 2: Mean and median duration to treatment in minutes for attendances at accident and emergency departments, 2007-08 to 2012-13 <em> </em></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>England</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>East of England Strategic Health Authority</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>Median</p></td><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>Median</p></td><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>Median</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>74</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>76</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>116</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>93</p></td><td><p>78</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>102</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>74</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>86</p></td><td><p>73</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>98</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>82</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>74</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>75</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>75</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>74</p></td><td><p>53</p></td><td><p>75</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>61</p></td><td><p>48</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 3: Mean and median duration to departure in minutes for attendances at accident and emergency departments, 2007-08 to 2012-13 <em> </em></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>England</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>East of England Strategic Health Authority</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>Median</p></td><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>Median</p></td><td><p>Mean</p></td><td><p>Median</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>112</p></td><td><p>126</p></td><td><p>115</p></td><td><p>126</p></td><td><p>117</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>136</p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>133</p></td><td><p>123</p></td><td><p>134</p></td><td><p>135</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>135</p></td><td><p>122</p></td><td><p>137</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>142</p></td><td><p>145</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>146</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>145</p></td><td><p>137</p></td><td><p>148</p></td><td><p>150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>138</p></td><td><p>125</p></td><td><p>145</p></td><td><p>138</p></td><td><p>166</p></td><td><p>161</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>141</p></td><td><p>128</p></td><td><p>146</p></td><td><p>138</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>143</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Source</em>: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p> </p><p>1. HES for accident and emergency (A&amp;E) were first collected for 2007-08.</p><p> </p><p>2. The recording of duration in HES A&amp;E is not mandatory, and this may have particularly affected the quality of recorded durations to assessment and treatment.</p><p> </p><p>3. Information relates to all types of accident and emergency departments.</p><p> </p><p>4. Duration to assessment is the total amount of time in minutes between the patients’ arrival and their initial assessment in the A&amp;E department. This is calculated as the difference in time from arrival at A&amp;E to the time when the patient is initially assessed.</p><p> </p><p>5. Duration to treatment is the total amount of time in minutes between the patients’ arrival and the start of their treatment. This is calculated as the difference in time from arrival at A&amp;E to the time when the patient began treatment.</p><p> </p><p>6. Duration to departure is total amount of time spent in minutes in an A&amp;E department. This is calculated as the difference in time from arrival at A&amp;E to the time when the patient is discharged from A&amp;E care. This includes being admitted to hospital, dying in the department, discharged with no follow up or discharged and referred to another specialist department.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 24/11/2014 17:38:27 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

786194

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Grammar Schools
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what day she plans to respond to the Fourth Report of the Education Committee, Evidence check: Grammar Schools, Session 2016-17, HC 780.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	111925
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>We will provide a response to the Education Committee’s report in due course.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 13/11/2017 17:15:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

1023198

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Healthy Schools Rating Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the finding of Ofsted's 2018 thematic review that 26 per cent of primary schools are implementing the requirements of the national curriculum to deliver practical cookery education, when the Government plans to implement a healthy schools rating scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	201162
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>We remain committed to delivering the healthy schools rating scheme in a way that makes the most of existing resources available to schools. We have met with a wide range of stakeholders, as well as a number of interested suppliers, to discuss the best way to deliver the scheme. We are preparing our scheme based on testing and stakeholder feedback and will continue to work with stakeholders across government, the food sector and charitable organisations. We will share more information shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 18/12/2018 11:11:07 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

890396

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	STEM Subjects: Free Schools
	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 pupils at free schools studied STEM subjects in each of last three years; what steps he is taking to encourage free schools to promote the study of STEM subjects in advance of the roll-out of T levels; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	137529
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2018 answer text <p>We publish GCSE entries[1] in each subject of pupils at the end of key stage 4[2], by school type[3]. Entries in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects for 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17 in free schools are provided in the table (attached).</p><p> </p><p>The number of students[4], who completed their 16-18 study in either a mainstream free school, or 16 to 19 free school, in 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17 and entered[5] a STEM subject[6] during their 16-18 study are provided in the table[7] (attached):</p><p> </p><p>We do not hold data broken down as vocational STEM qualifications. We publish exam entries by Ofqual sector subject area at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/types-of-regulated-qualifications/qualification-descriptions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/types-of-regulated-qualifications/qualification-descriptions</a>, and in the Statistical Release “ Revised A level and other 16-18 results” at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/types-of-regulated-qualifications/qualification-descriptions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/types-of-regulated-qualifications/qualification-descriptions</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Free schools, as academies, have the freedom to choose their own curriculum, providing that it meets the requirements of its funding agreement – for example that it is broad and balanced and includes English, maths and science. It is ultimately for schools to decide whether to offer particular qualifications.</p><p> </p><p>We are working to further increase the take-up of STEM subjects which are vital to the future economic health of the UK and can help boost earnings. This is why at Budget 2017 we announced an additional £406 million in education and skills, including maths, digital and technical education.</p><p>We have a number of programmes to improve the quality of STEM teaching in schools and to encourage increased engagement in STEM subjects at GCSE and A level. This includes a new £84 million programme to improve computing teaching, the national network of Science Learning Partnerships which provide training for science teachers, the Teaching for Mastery programme to improve the teaching of mathematics, and a new advanced maths premium to encourage more schools and colleges to teach pupils maths post-16. We are also investing in initiatives to recruit more high quality maths and physics teachers, including bursaries of up to £26,000 and scholarships of up to £28,000 to attract top graduates into teaching.</p><p>We are inviting our most selective maths universities to apply to open new specialist maths schools, to help more of our most mathematically able students to succeed in maths at top universities and pursue mathematically intensive careers. We are also encouraging the take up of STEM subjects through the University Technical College programme, which has an important role to play in our reforms to technical education.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Only a pupil’s first attempt at a qualification is counted in performance measures in line with early entry policy (<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/676213/SFR01_2018_QualityandMethodology.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/676213/SFR01_2018_QualityandMethodology.pdf</a>).</p><p>[2] Pupils are identified as being at the end of key stage 4 if they were on roll at the school and in year 11 at the time of the January school census for that year. Age is calculated as at 31 August for that year, and the majority of pupils at the end of key stage 4 were age 15 at the start of the academic year. Some pupils may complete this key stage in an earlier or later year group.</p><p>[3] Tables available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4</a> in the subject tables for the revised publication in each year (‘S7a’ for 2015/16 and 2016/17 and ‘S4a’ for 2014/15).</p><p>[4] Covers students at the end of advanced level study who were aged 16, 17 or 18 at the start of the academic year, i.e. 31 August.</p><p>[5] Where a student has made more than one entry in the same subject only one entry is counted: for example, if a student entered for two physics A levels in a reporting period only one of these entries is counted in the figures shown in this table.</p><p>[6] Figures for 2015/16 and 2016/17 cover maths, further maths, biological sciences, chemistry, physics and computer science A level entries during all years of 16-18 study (up to three years). Figures for earlier years cover maths and science A level entries in the final two years of advanced level study.</p><p>[7] It is not possible to directly compare figures across different years because of changes in discounting, the inclusion/exclusion of different qualifications, and changes to individual subjects.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton attachment 1 file name Entries in science, technology, engineering and maths subjects for 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17 in free schools.docx title Entries_in_GCSE_STEM)subjects_in_free_schools 2 file name Students who entered a STEM subject during their 16-18 study.docx title Entries_in_A-level_STEM)subjects_in_free_schools question first answered 04/05/2018 13:49:05 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton previous answer version 55735 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

852658

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Maplin and Toys R Us: Insolvency
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to support employees of ToysRUs and Maplin.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	130654
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>We have mobilised the Department for Work and Pensions and Jobcentre Plus to work with the companies to understand the level of employee support required. This service is tailored to individuals’ needs to help these workers get back into employment as soon as possible.</p><p>If redundancies are deemed necessary by the administrators, the Insolvency Service’s Redundancy Payments Service will pay statutory redundancy pay to eligible employees, subject to statutory limits.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 06/03/2018 15:39:34 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon