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1143604

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Bristol
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what provision is being made for former pupils of St Christopher's residential school for children with special educational needs in Bristol who have not been found an equivalent school place.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	285312
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Mrs Kemi Badenoch grouped question UIN 284653 285062 285311 question first answered 09/09/2019 17:00:11 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1305462

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2021
	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	Additional Restrictions Grant and Local Restrictions Support Grant
	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 the Government's timeframe is for local authorities to issue final payments for the Local Restrictions Grant and the Additional Restriction Grant; and if he will consider extending the final payment date for those schemes.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	174881
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2021 answer text <p>The Government continues to provide financial support via Local Authorities for businesses that are required to close, or which are severely affected by the restrictions put in place to tackle Covid-19 and save lives.</p><p> </p><p>At the Budget, my Rt. Hon. Friend Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer further extended the Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) scheme, providing top-up funding for Local Authorities to distribute to businesses. Final payments of the ARG must be made by 31 March 2022.</p><p> </p><p>Local Authorities were expected to pay eligible businesses the full allocation of the Local Restrictions Support Grant (LRSG) (Closed) as soon as possible after receipt of the funding. They must issue payments for the second round of the 2021 LRSG (Closed) by 30 June 2021. The first round of LRSG (Closed) payments, from 5 January, must be paid out by 30 April 2021.</p><p> </p><p>There are currently no plans to extend these deadlines.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 19/04/2021 16:27:41 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1452733

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adoption
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that (a) administrative and (b) communication support is available to maintain relationships between birth and adoptive families (i) during and (ii) after child adoption processes where safe and appropriate.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	143718
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2022 answer text <p>Local authorities have a legal duty to provide a comprehensive adoption service.</p><p>This specifically includes 'Assistance, including mediation services, in relation to arrangements for contact between an adoptive child and a natural parent, natural sibling, former guardian or a related person of the adoptive child.'</p><p>As set out in our ‘Adoption Strategy: achieving excellence everywhere’, the department will be working with Regional Adoption Agencies to develop and trial what good practice around contact looks like, with a view to setting national standards in this area. This will include working closely with birth parents and those with lived experience.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 25/03/2022 17:53:05 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1417623

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adoption Support Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending access to the Adoption Support Fund to allow foster children who have experienced trauma to apply for funding for therapeutic services.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	113751
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2022 answer text <p>The Adoption Support Fund was developed in recognition that children who have left the care system, through adoption or special guardianship orders, were not getting the therapeutic support necessary for them to attach to their new permanent parents and carers.</p><p>The law is very clear that children in foster care must have a care plan that sets out their needs and how their local authority will meet them. The care plan should include information about the child’s emotional and behavioural development, and how any emotional or behavioural difficulties are to be managed. It must also include what support should be available to the foster carer to meet the needs of the child.</p><p>From 2019 to 2021, the government have invested over £1 million to pilot high quality mental health assessments to maximise learning and inform changes needed to the mental health assessments of looked after children going forward.</p><p>The pilots generated considerable learning and we will be working closely with NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care to ensure learning from the pilots is embedded in service delivery for looked after children moving forward, building on the commitment in the NHS Long-Term plan. The department aims to support pilot sites to embed and sustain the learning and good practice from the pilot within their local areas.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 07/02/2022 17:52:20 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1490524

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2022
	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	Adoption: Self-employed
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the (a) impact of not extending statutory maternity allowance to self-employed adopters on parents' ability to take time off work to bond with their newly adopted child and (b) subsequent impact that has on (i) parents and (ii) children.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	39891
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2022 answer text <p>Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) and Maternity Allowance (MA) are primarily health and safety provisions relating specifically to pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding. They provide a measure of financial security to help women who have worked during or close to their pregnancies to stop working towards the end of their pregnancy and in the months after childbirth, in the interests of their own and their babies' health and wellbeing. As there is no associated period of pregnancy for adopters<em>,</em> it is not appropriate that they are able to make a claim for either SMP or MA regardless of their employment status.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 27/07/2022 12:55:31 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1519230

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2022
	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	Adoption: Self-employed
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 27 July 2022 to Question 39891 on Adoption: Self-employed, and with reference to the Explanatory Notes to the Employment Act 2002, whether it remains his Department's policy that paid adoption leave (a) provides time for the adoptive child and parent to adjust to their new relationships and (b) helps reduce the number of disrupted placements; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending eligibility to statutory maternity allowance to self-employed adopters.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	59861
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government recognises that it is crucial to the success of an adoption placement that an adopter takes time off work to care for and bond with their child. That is why employed adoptive parents have broadly the same rights and protections as birth parents.</p><p> </p><p>We do not have any data on the number of disrupted early placements. Adoption disruption is rare and research in 2014 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beyond-the-adoption-order-challenges-intervention-disruption" target="_blank"><em>Beyond the Adoption Order</em></a><em>)</em> suggested that any disruptions happen at a later stage, years after the adoption order has been made.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Maternity Allowance is primarily a health and safety provision intended to support women who have recently given birth to take time off to recover physically from their pregnancy and childbirth. It would therefore not be appropriate to extend this to self-employed adopters.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Dean Russell question first answered 17/10/2022 10:05:09 answering member 4812 label Biography information for Dean Russell
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1224667

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Affordable Housing: Construction
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the potential effect on the number of affordable homes for rent or sale which will be built as a result of removing planning requirements for some property development applications as set out by the Prime Minister on 30 June 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	73887
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2020 answer text <p>Our proposals to introduce new permitted development rights to create new homes will mean that more homes to buy or rent will be delivered than would otherwise be the case. We have not made any estimates of how many of these extra homes will be affordable homes.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 20/07/2020 16:00:13 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1240089

	registered interest
	date	05/10/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Affordable Housing: Construction
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Government's Affordable Homes programme and his Department's Guidance: Apply for affordable housing funding, published on 10 September 2020, what criteria his Department plans to use to determine whether an area is deemed to be an area of high affordability challenge.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	99004
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to increasing the supply of affordable housing, and we are investing £12.2 billion in affordable housing over 5 years from next year (2021-2026). This represents the highest single funding commitment to affordable housing in a decade.</p><p>My department has not yet finalised the criteria for these areas for the 2021-26 Affordable Homes Programme. We will announce further details shortly.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 13/10/2020 16:03:16 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1243436

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Affordable Housing: Construction
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Government's Affordable Homes programme and his Department's Guidance: Apply for affordable housing funding, published on 10 September 2020, whether affordable rent level grants for social rented homes will apply to (a) all areas or (b) only areas assessed as not having high affordability.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	103555
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2020 answer text <p>The Affordable Homes Programme is delivered through Homes England and the GLA in London. Each bid into the programme is evaluated on its own merits and based on the value for money of the scheme as a whole. The Government does not set grant rates for the programme, however we would expect grant rates to be lower in areas where it is cheaper to build and who face lower affordability challenges.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 19/10/2020 12:34:59 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1541415

	registered interest
	date	11/11/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Afghanistan: Refugees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, under what circumstances his Department would provide an update to (a) a Member of Parliament and (b) an applicant to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy on a live case under that policy.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	84903
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2022 answer text <p>All ARAP applications should be acknowledged at the point of submission. Applicant's may then be contacted to request additional information, before an eligibility decision is made. If found to be eligible, applicants will be asked for further information regarding their family members included in their application, for further required checks to be made. Unfortunately, it is not possible to advise the consistency with which these updates may occur, as the timeframes can vary considerably, due to numerous factors, including the level of complexity of the case.</p><p>Individual updates or responses outside of the above circumstances are not generally provided, in order to focus resource towards our main effort of identifying and relocating the estimated remaining 4,900 individuals eligible for ARAP (including dependents), using HMG employment records to target efforts.</p><p>That said, any enquiries received by the ARAP team will be provided with an automatic reply that should answer the vast majority of questions. All enquiries received are reviewed in order to identify where applicants are providing an update regarding their individual circumstances, including providing additional information, documentation or advising that they are at risk. In instances where a Member of Parliament has submitted an enquiry, this is forwarded on to the Ministerial Correspondence Unit to ensure an appropriate response is sent from the relevant Minister.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 21/11/2022 13:59:18 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire