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1543785

registered interest
date	21/11/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Social Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What progress his Department has made on increasing the supply of social housing.
tabling member constituency	Chelmsford
tabling member printed	Vicky Ford
uin	902308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2022 answer text <p>This Government understands the importance of social housing and are clear that more homes must be built.</p><p>Our £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme will deliver tens of thousands of high-quality social homes right across the country, ensuring that hard working families and individuals can live in safety and security in the communities they call home.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 21/11/2022 16:17:19 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford

1140094

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railway Stations: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What progress he has made on opening new stations on the rail network.
tabling member constituency	Chelmsford
tabling member printed	Vicky Ford
uin	912048
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2019 answer text <p>Since 2010, some 42 new stations have been opened across the rail network.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government supports proposals for new stations that help provide a solution to local traffic congestion or fulfill a new opportunity such as a housing development, business/retail park or airport.</p><p> </p><p>Good progress is made on proposals that provide a robust business case, a sponsor and funding.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 18/07/2019 15:57:32 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford

1144916

registered interest
date	05/09/2019
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What outcome he is seeking in his negotiations with the EU.
tabling member constituency	Chelmsford
tabling member printed	Vicky Ford
uin	912291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>Any deal must abolish the backstop. Our future ambition is for a best in class FTA and wider provisions covering economic, security and cross-cutting cooperation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochford and Southend East answering member printed James Duddridge question first answered 05/09/2019 12:15:11 answering member 1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge
tabling member	4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford

1651943

registered interest
date	11/07/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Chevening Scholarships Programme: Sudan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Sudanese applicants who were notified that they had been selected for Chevening scholarships will be granted visas to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Chelmsford
tabling member printed	Vicky Ford
uin	193452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2023 answer text <p>Student visa applications for Chevening scholars will be considered on their individual merits and in line with immigration rules.</p><p>The Foreign, Commonwealth &amp; Development Office have confirmed that Sudanese nationals who have been offered a Chevening award for the 2023-24 academic year and are unable to take up the scholarship due to the conflict and travel restrictions are able to defer their award to the 2024-25 academic year.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 19/07/2023 15:44:34 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford

1562803

registered interest
date	19/12/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Gender Based Violence: Crime Prevention
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 street crime against women and girls.
tabling member constituency	Chelmsford
tabling member printed	Vicky Ford
uin	902860
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>We remain committed to delivering our Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy.</p><p>We have allocated £125 million across England and Wales through the Safer Streets Fund and the Safety of Women at Night Fund, including £550,000 investment into the constituency of My Right Honourable Friend, the Member for Chelmsford.</p><p>The Government is supporting my Right Honourable Friend the Member for Tunbridge Wells’s ‘Protection from Sex-Based Harassment in Public Bill’, which would make public sexual harassment a specific offence.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 19/12/2022 16:00:47 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford

1690068

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Internet: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help prevent young people being groomed via the internet to commit crime.
tabling member constituency	Chelmsford
tabling member printed	Vicky Ford
uin	14700
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>We are committed to keeping children safe online and are delivering a number of initiatives that support that objective. For example, we are investing up to £145m over three years in our County Lines Programme to crack down on the county lines gangs exploiting our children and young people. Through this Programme we are developing a better understanding of how to disrupt online activity that is aimed at recruiting and exploiting children and young people.</p><p>The Online Safety Act 2023 is a key piece of legislation to keep children safe. There are a number of priority offences in the Act which relate to child criminal exploitation such as drug related offences, sexual exploitation and weapons and firearms supply offences. Technology companies must take proactive measures and use systems and processes to remove and limit people’s exposure to related content.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 27/02/2024 15:30:00 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford

1176168

registered interest
date	04/02/2020
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claimants have moved into employment since the roll out-of universal credit in each year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Chelmsford
tabling member printed	Vicky Ford
uin	12440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>The latest caseload data shows Universal Credit is supporting 2.8 million claimants across the country to more easily start work and access smoother incentives, such as the work allowance and taper, to increase hours. We have scrapped the cliff edges and complicated hours’ rules of the legacy benefit system to ensure claimants have flexibility to access the opportunities offered in the labour market.</p><p> </p><p>There are a record number of people in work at 32.9 million – up by over 3.8 million since 2010. During August 2019 and September 2019, the latest information available, just over 200,000 Universal Credit claimants have succeeded in getting into jobs.</p><p> </p><p>Monthly information surrounding the volumes of Universal Credit claimants who have moved into work is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>-</p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>April</strong></p></td><td><p>320</p></td><td><p>5,150</p></td><td><p>25,000</p></td><td><p>79,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>May</strong></p></td><td><p>550</p></td><td><p>5,900</p></td><td><p>26,800</p></td><td><p>87,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>June</strong></p></td><td><p>650</p></td><td><p>6,310</p></td><td><p>29,200</p></td><td><p>81,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>July</strong></p></td><td><p>1,010</p></td><td><p>6,500</p></td><td><p>31,600</p></td><td><p>87,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>August</strong></p></td><td><p>1,290</p></td><td><p>7,630</p></td><td><p>38,900</p></td><td><p>94,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>September</strong></p></td><td><p>1,890</p></td><td><p>10,100</p></td><td><p>47,300</p></td><td><p>106,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>October</strong></p></td><td><p>2,150</p></td><td><p>10,800</p></td><td><p>52,600</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>November</strong></p></td><td><p>2,600</p></td><td><p>11,700</p></td><td><p>59,900</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>December</strong></p></td><td><p>2,320</p></td><td><p>9,600</p></td><td><p>44,300</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>January</strong></p></td><td><p>3,230</p></td><td><p>14,700</p></td><td><p>61,400</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>February</strong></p></td><td><p>3,940</p></td><td><p>16,600</p></td><td><p>68,800</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>March</strong></p></td><td><p>5,070</p></td><td><p>22,100</p></td><td><p>84,200</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p>1. Figures are for Universal Credit Full Service only</p><p>2. Figures are at household level. In some cases both members of a household may have entered work in the same month, but only one job entry would be counted in our response.</p><p>3. Figures are based upon situations when a household reports no earnings in one Assessment Period but then has earnings in the next.</p><p>4. Self-employed jobs are not included in the table.</p><p>5. Figures also include instances of a household moving out of work and at a later date moving back into work.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 10/02/2020 11:53:21 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford

1692438

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish (a) available data from the Government-sponsored e-scooter trials on the (i) number and (ii) number per million kilometers travelled of people killed or seriously injured in e-scooter incidents and (b) equivalent figures for (A) bicycles, (B) legally registered powered two wheel motorbikes, (C) passenger cars and (D) commercial vehicles; and whether he holds such data for incidents involving e-scooters not included in the trials.
tabling member constituency	Chelmsford
tabling member printed	Vicky Ford
uin	16209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>Out of millions of trips completed since e-scooter trials began, the vast majority of journeys have been completed safely.</p><p>From 2020, DfT has been monitoring the frequency of casualties involving e-scooters. The majority of DfT reported road casualty statistics are based on STATS19 data, the system through which the police report road casualties. STATS19 collects data on e-scooter casualties, including those using private scooters, with data published regularly in e-scooter casualty factsheets. The most recent e-scooter factsheet can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-e-scooter-factsheet-year-ending-june-2023/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-e-scooter-factsheet-year-ending-june-2023" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-e-scooter-factsheet-year-ending-june-2023/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-e-scooter-factsheet-year-ending-june-2023</a>.</p><p>In addition, the Department routinely publishes data on casualties in reported road collisions using all other modes of road transport based upon data provided by police forces via the STATS19 system, including figures for bicycles, motorcycles, cars, HGVs and LGVs. A comparison of the casualty rates for different modes of travel can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/657c4a0983ba380013e1b610/ras0203.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/657c4a0983ba380013e1b610/ras0203.ods</a>. Data from STATS19 (2022) found the severity of injuries for e-scooters and pedal cycles to be broadly similar. The most common injuries across both modes were abrasions, sprains, and bruising.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Cambridgeshire answering member printed Anthony Browne question first answered 12/03/2024 12:48:47 answering member 4801 label Biography information for Anthony Browne previous answer version 22161 answering member constituency South Cambridgeshire answering member printed Anthony Browne answering member 4801 label Biography information for Anthony Browne
tabling member	4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford

1719945

registered interest
date	16/05/2024
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	Internet: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to help protect children online.
tabling member constituency	Chelmsford
tabling member printed	Vicky Ford
uin	903028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>Last year the government passed the groundbreaking Online Safety Act which will place much needed duties on tech companies to protect their users, especially children. We are focused on implementing the act as quickly as possible.</p><p> </p><p>In January, the government introduced new offences to criminalise cyberflashing, fake news intended to cause non-trivial harm and other online abuse. The Crown Prosecution Service has already delivered the first conviction for cyberflashing, and it will not be the last.</p><p> </p><p>On 8 May, Ofcom published its draft child safety codes. Once in force, these protections will significantly improve child online safety, ensuring companies shield children from harmful content, and stop their algorithms pushing inappropriate content at children.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Saqib Bhatti question first answered 23/05/2024 14:06:34 answering member 4818 label Biography information for Saqib Bhatti
tabling member	4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford

1642155

registered interest
date	06/06/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Building Regulations: Letter Boxes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the oral contribution on Amendment 476 of 22 May 2023 by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Faith and Communities and Lords Minister) in Lords Committee Stage of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill, Lords Official Report column 710, what progress his Department has made on including the recommended height for letter boxes into statutory guidance; and when he plans to (a) introduce and (b) implement that guidance.
tabling member constituency	Chelmsford
tabling member printed	Vicky Ford
uin	188122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text <p>We will give an update on this important matter in due course.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 14/06/2023 12:13:23 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford