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1584873

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2023
	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	NHS: Labour Turnover
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help improve staff retention in the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	141411
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2023 answer text <p>Retention within the National Health Service is a complex issue and decisions to leave are taken for a multitude of factors.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS People Plan and the People Promise focus on improving the retention of NHS staff by prioritising staff health and wellbeing. We have set out a comprehensive range of actions to improve staff retention which focuses on creating a more modern, compassionate and inclusive NHS culture by strengthening health and wellbeing, equality and diversity, culture and leadership and flexible working.</p><p>Building on this work, the NHS Retention Programme seeks to understand why staff leave, resulting in targeted interventions to support staff to stay whilst keeping them well. To bolster current support, each NHS organisation is prioritising the delivery of five high impact actions that will impact on early career, experience at work, and late career staff, improving the experience and retention of nursing and midwifery staff.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 15/02/2023 10:40:42 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1584874

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2023
	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	NHS: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to encourage young adults to work for the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	141412
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2023 answer text <p>The National Health Service has launched its fifth consecutive national recruitment campaign ‘We are the NHS’ to inspire people to consider a career in healthcare and increase applications for healthcare courses. Healthcare students are able to apply for a range of financial support to help them through their studies. For example, eligible nursing, midwifery and allied health professional students can access a non-repayable training grant of at least £5,000 per academic year.</p><p> </p><p>The Government continues to widen access to NHS careers through blended learning and apprenticeship routes, including the recently announced Medical Doctor Apprenticeship.</p><p> </p><p>There were around 20,900 new NHS apprenticeships starts in 2021/22, this makes the NHS the largest employer of apprentices in the public sector by number of starts.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 15/02/2023 10:47:21 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1584878

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2023
	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	Broadband
	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 an assessment of whether her Department's broadband connectivity targets will be met by 2025.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	141416
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2023 answer text <p>Project Gigabit is the government’s £5 billion mission to deliver lightning-fast, reliable broadband across the UK. Its objective is to level up the UK by giving hard-to-reach areas access to gigabit-capable internet speeds and, coupled with broadband suppliers’ commercial delivery, support the government’s target of nationwide gigabit-capable broadband by 2030.</p><p>Today, more than 73% of UK premises have access to gigabit-capable broadband, up from just 6% in January 2019. We are on track to achieve our milestone target of 85% by the end of 2025.</p><p>Building Digital UK has set out the baseline trajectory to meet this target, and publishes quarterly updates on the progress of Project Gigabit.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 15/02/2023 12:02:39 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1584885

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Education and Extracurricular Activities
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to promote the uptake of (a) extracurricular activities and (b) education for children.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	141421
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2023 answer text <p>The Schools White Paper, published in March 2022, sets out the Department’s long-term vision for a school system that helps every child to fulfil their potential by ensuring that they receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.</p><p>The White Paper is clear that sport, music and cultural opportunities are an essential part of a broad and balanced curriculum. The Department is committed to ensuring young people have opportunities to participate in high quality enrichment activities. The Department supports a range of initiatives to increase these opportunities.</p><p>The Department’s national plan for music education sets out the vision for music education and details how it can be achieved through partnerships with schools, music hubs, the music and creative sector, and others. The plan can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-power-of-music-to-change-lives-a-national-plan-for-music-education" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-power-of-music-to-change-lives-a-national-plan-for-music-education</a>.</p><p>The Department is also updating the cross-Government school sport and activity action plan, setting out actions to help all pupils take part in sport and keep fit.</p><p>The Department is supporting the National Youth Guarantee by providing £3.4 million between 2021 and 2024 to support the Duke of Edinburgh Award to expand into more schools in the most disadvantaged areas of the country. The Department is also supporting schools to increase participation in cadet schemes.</p><p>Beyond the school day, the Department is providing over £200 million each year to Local Authorities across England for the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme. HAF provides free holiday club places with enriching activities and healthy food for children from low income families during the summer, Easter and Christmas school holidays.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 15/02/2023 12:56:33 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1584886

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Politics: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government are taking to encourage younger people to get involved with politics.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	141422
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2023 answer text <p>Teaching on political issues, different viewpoints and the way in which pupils can engage in our democratic society is an essential part of a broad and balanced curriculum.</p><p>Citizenship forms a compulsory part of the National Curriculum at Key Stages 3 and 4. Maintained primary schools and all academies are encouraged to teach citizenship as part of their duty to deliver a broad and balanced curriculum. Citizenship teaching should equip pupils to explore political and social issues, to weigh evidence, to debate, and to make reasoned arguments.</p><p>Secondary school pupils are taught about Parliament and the importance of voting and elections. Pupils are also taught the actions that citizens can take in democratic and electoral processes to influence decisions locally, nationally and beyond.</p><p>The Department has published Political Impartiality in Schools guidance to support teachers in tackling sensitive issues in the classroom in a politically impartial way. This guidance can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/political-impartiality-in-schools/political-impartiality-in-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/political-impartiality-in-schools/political-impartiality-in-schools</a>. The guidance is clear that legal duties on political impartiality do not limit the range of political issues and viewpoints schools can and do teach.</p><p>A number of organisations provide teaching materials to support schools to engage their pupils with politics. UK Parliament offers resources through their website, visits to Parliament, outreach sessions and workshops. Schools can also help pupils to set up their own networks or clubs to focus on political issues.</p><p>The Department for Culture, Media and Sport provides funding for the UK Youth Parliament programme, which offers 11 to 18-year-olds across the UK the opportunity to debate on issues that matter to them. Young people are elected by other young people in their local areas, on the basis of their manifestos, to represent their local young people nationally. This supports young people to engage in the democratic process and decision making at all levels.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 15/02/2023 13:01:57 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1584883

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Organised Crime: Smuggling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle criminal smuggler gangs.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	141419
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling the ruthless criminal gangs who facilitate illegal immigration, risk lives and damage communities by smuggling people, firearms and drugs into the UK.</p><p>We are working to end small boat crossings and disrupt the organised crime groups behind this activity. Through Project INVIGOR, a multi-agency taskforce, the Home Office is leading efforts to tackle organised immigration crime and the National Crime Agency is responding to and dismantling the business model used by organised criminals to enable illegal entry into the UK.</p><p>We are strengthening the security of the UK border against drug trafficking, increasing disruptions and seizures and dismantling supply chains.</p><p>As part of the Government’s ten-year Drugs Strategy, the Home Office is investing £300m over three years to deliver an end-to-end plan attacking every phase of the supply chain, making the UK a significantly harder place for organised crime groups involved in drugs supply to operate.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 15/02/2023 15:23:23 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1584875

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2023
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Conditions of Employment: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps her Department has taken to help improve workers’ rights in the period since the UK's departure from the EU.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	141413
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2023 answer text <p>Protecting and enhancing workers’ rights whilst supporting business to grow remains a priority for this Government.</p><p>The Government is backing six Private Members’ Bills helping new parents, unpaid carers, hospitality workers, giving all employees easier access to flexible working, and giving workers’ a right to request a more predictable contract.</p><p>This is in addition to previous reforms we have delivered since leaving the EU including; increasing pay for around 2.5 million workers, extending the ban on exclusivity clauses, quadrupling the maximum fine for employers who treat their workers badly, and creating a new statutory leave for parents who suffer the loss of a child.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 15/02/2023 14:47:02 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1584876

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Rehabilitation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent steps his Department has taken to help support prisoners reintegrate into society.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	141414
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2023 answer text <p>Effective resettlement of prison leavers is a core part of our efforts to reduce re-offending. This includes making sure someone has a home, family links where appropriate, access to healthcare, a job or further education, and/or access to benefits.</p><p>We know that employment reduces the chance of reoffending significantly, by up to nine percentage points. The proportion of prisoners released from custody employed at six months rose by almost two thirds between April 2021 and March 2022. That is an increase of nine percentage points, from 14% to 23%.</p><p>We also know that supporting prisoners to tackle addictions is important to reduce reoffending. MoJ is investing up to £120m to support more offenders into treatment – including increasing the number of Incentivised Substance Free Living units to up to 100, and establishing up to 18 new, abstinence-only Drug Recovery Wings.</p><p>Our temporary accommodation service is designed to ensure that prison leavers at risk of homelessness have a stable base on release, improving their opportunities for employment.</p><p>The introduction of Resettlement Passports will bring together the key information and services that are needed to resettle in the community, such as bank accounts, CVs and identity documents to prove the right to work and rent.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 15/02/2023 16:38:53 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy