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1020402

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2018
	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	Social Security Benefits and Legal Aid Scheme: EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with reference to Article 10 and Article 18 of the Draft Withdrawal Agreement, published on 14 November 2018, whether the Government plans to confer on EU parents who have lived in the UK for more than 3 months but less than 5 years, the same status as a UK citizen in terms of (a) social security benefits and (b) legal aid after the invocation of Article 50.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	199467
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>We have been clear that, under the Withdrawal Agreement, EU citizens in the UK on a pathway to settled status will continue to be able to access benefits after the end of the implementation period on the same basis that they can access them now. This broadly means equal access for workers and the self-employed and limited access for those not working. If these individuals go on to acquire settled status, they will then be able to access benefits on the same terms as comparable UK nationals.</p><p>Legal aid will continue to be available to all that meet the required criteria under the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) and who require legal services that are within scope of LASPO.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 12/12/2018 16:23:51 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1355536

	registered interest
	date	14/09/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons schools continue to be required to complete the daily Educational Setting Status form; and for what purpose these data collected are used..
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	49230
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2021 answer text <p>Information gathered through the educational setting status form is used by the department to monitor attendance in schools, and across government to model the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak. This allows the department to provide support in developing policies to help schools manage, and ensure our ability to target educational recovery support.</p><p>The department is grateful to schools for providing this information. Following the removal of the advice to teach pupils in bubbles, the department has announced that from the beginning of October 2021 schools will only be asked to complete the educational setting status form once a week. This will be kept under review and, should the national situation require, daily reporting may be reinstated.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 22/09/2021 16:27:47 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1435221

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Education: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding for education the Government has allocated to local authorities in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017, (d) 2018, (e) 2019, (f) 2020 and (g) 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	129211
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2022 answer text <p>The published dedicated schools grant allocation tables contain details of early years entitlement funding distributed to local authorities. This is summarised in the attached table. The table shows final allocations, except for the financial year 2021/22 which shows initial allocations:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Time period (financial year)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Early years block in the DSG (£ million)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2,735</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2,701</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>3,277</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>3,578</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>3,618</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>3,627</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>3,550</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Most of the funding that the department provides for the provision of education, both for schools and high needs provision, is allocated to local authorities in the first instance. Local authorities are allocated most of their funding for schools and high needs through the dedicated schools grant (DSG).</p><p>Funding for academies is paid directly to trusts by the Education and Skills Funding Agency. However, local authorities set the local formulae that determine academies’ allocations. Local authorities’ DSG allocations take account of the funding made available for all schools in their local areas. There are also other grants which the department pays to local authorities in the first instance. The department then asks local authorities to pass those on to the maintained schools in their area. This includes, for example, the pupil premium grant. The pupil premium helps schools improve the academic attainment and wider outcomes of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, and total pupil premium funding will increase to over £2.6 billion in financial year 2022/23, from £2.5 billion this year.</p><p>The table shows funding since the 2015/16 financial year for the education of 5 to 16-year-olds in England, in all state-funded schools. This is based on the annual release of the school funding statistics, which can be accessed at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-funding-statistics" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-funding-statistics</a>.</p><p>The published statistics include the schools block, central school services block and most of the high needs block of the DSG, pupil premium grant funding, the supplementary free school meals grant, the early career framework grant, and the teachers’ pay grant and teachers’ pension employer contribution grant (which have been rolled into the DSG from 2021/22). The coverage has been chosen both to capture core funding for schools and to ensure the series is as comparable over time as possible, despite changes to the specific grants allocated to schools and local authorities over the years shown.</p><p>The figures do not include any funding allocated to support with the response to the COVID-19 outbreak, because the inclusion of this time-limited funding to support schools would cause inconsistencies in the time series. Since June 2020, we have announced nearly £5 billion of investment for education recovery to support children and young people to catch up on missed education, and more information can be found in the annex to the school funding statistics publication above.</p><p>Figures in the funding time series are rounded to the nearest £100 million.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Time period (financial year)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>School funding (£ million) </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>School funding plus post-16 high needs funding (£ million)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>39,600</p></td><td><p>40,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>40,200</p></td><td><p>40,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>40,900</p></td><td><p>41,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>42,500</p></td><td><p>43,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>44,400</p></td><td><p>45,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>47,600</p></td><td><p>48,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>49,600</p></td><td><p>50,300</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The table below provides the amount of 16-19 funding that has been allocated to local authorities in England. This excludes post-16 high needs but includes funding that goes directly to local authorities, and the funding they receive for school sixth forms, as set out in the published 16 to 19 allocations data. This is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/16-to-19-allocation-data-2021-to-2022-academic-year" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/16-to-19-allocation-data-2021-to-2022-academic-year</a>.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Time period (academic year)</p></td><td><p>Total 16-19 programme funding allocated to local authorities (£ million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>589</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>525</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>468</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>407</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>369</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>398</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>411</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Funding allocations for 19 year-olds and beyond, including allocations to local authorities, are published at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/19-funding-allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/19-funding-allocations</a>.</p><p>Since the start of the 2019/20 academic year, a proportion of the adult education budget (AEB) has been devolved to several mayoral combined authorities and the Greater London Authority. Approximately 50% was devolved in the 2019/20 and 2020/21 academic years, and 60% was devolved in the 2021/22 academic year. The mayoral combined authorities and the Greater London Authority are responsible for deciding which providers they contract with the amount of AEB they allocate to them.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 04/03/2022 14:00:04 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1470806

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Faith Schools: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he had made an assessment of the potential impact of religious selection on socioeconomic inclusion in schools.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	18969
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2022 answer text <p>Church and faith schools represent a third of all state-funded schools. The department values the contribution that they make to a diverse school system.</p><p>Faith schools have played a longstanding and important role in our education system. Faith schools are popular with parents, with many being high-performing and are more likely to be rated good or outstanding by Ofsted than non-faith schools. New academies and free schools that have a faith designation must allow for a minimum of 50% of places to be allocated to children without reference to faith where the school is oversubscribed.</p><p>In 2018, the department published ‘Secondary school choice and selection: insights from new national preferences data’. The report found evidence that the smaller proportion of disadvantaged and minority ethnic pupils attending church schools compared to other schools was a result of a range of factors, including admissions oversubscription criteria, as well as parental preference.</p><p>The department expects all schools, including faith schools, to be open and inclusive. All schools, including faith schools, must ensure that their admission arrangements are fair and objective, and that the arrangements will not disadvantage unfairly a child from a particular social or racial group.</p><p>Many faith schools are oversubscribed, showing that parents value and want these schools. The department also understands that the ability to prioritise children of faith when oversubscribed is important to faith schools and we do not intend to change that.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 18970 question first answered 24/06/2022 13:18:26 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1470807

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Faith Schools: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to reduce the number of school places offered on a faith basis.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	18970
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2022 answer text <p>Church and faith schools represent a third of all state-funded schools. The department values the contribution that they make to a diverse school system.</p><p>Faith schools have played a longstanding and important role in our education system. Faith schools are popular with parents, with many being high-performing and are more likely to be rated good or outstanding by Ofsted than non-faith schools. New academies and free schools that have a faith designation must allow for a minimum of 50% of places to be allocated to children without reference to faith where the school is oversubscribed.</p><p>In 2018, the department published ‘Secondary school choice and selection: insights from new national preferences data’. The report found evidence that the smaller proportion of disadvantaged and minority ethnic pupils attending church schools compared to other schools was a result of a range of factors, including admissions oversubscription criteria, as well as parental preference.</p><p>The department expects all schools, including faith schools, to be open and inclusive. All schools, including faith schools, must ensure that their admission arrangements are fair and objective, and that the arrangements will not disadvantage unfairly a child from a particular social or racial group.</p><p>Many faith schools are oversubscribed, showing that parents value and want these schools. The department also understands that the ability to prioritise children of faith when oversubscribed is important to faith schools and we do not intend to change that.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 18969 question first answered 24/06/2022 13:18:26 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

769066

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2017
	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	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, when he plans to publish the impact assessments of the UK leaving the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	107120
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Exiting the European Union, working with officials across Government, are in the process of carrying out a programme of rigorous and extensive analytical work that will contribute to our exit negotiations with the EU, to define our future partnership with the EU, and to inform our understanding of how EU exit will affect the UK’s domestic policies and frameworks.</p><p>The Department will continue to balance our commitment to transparency with the need to protect information which could undermine the UK’s ability to negotiate the best deal for the UK. Parliament has voted and agrees with this, as referenced in the vote of 7 December 2016.</p><p>https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-12-07/debates/CA09D9B2-9634-41C8-8979-8B9CD82DBB8F/TheGovernmentSPlanForBrexit</p><p><strong></strong><br><br></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 24/10/2017 13:28:55 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1233725

	registered interest
	date	11/09/2020
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Aviation: Sweden
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's guidance on travel corridors during the covid-19 outbreak, what plans he has to include Sweden on that list.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	88925
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2020 answer text <p>Sweden was added to the Travel Corridors list on Saturday 12 August.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 21/09/2020 13:44:01 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1420404

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Bristol Airport: Road Traffic
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Government has undertaken an impact assessment of the potential effect of the extra Bristol Airport runway on traffic in Bath and North East Somerset.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	119731
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2022 answer text <p>The Government is supportive of airports across the UK making best use of their existing runways.</p><p> </p><p>The decision on the Bristol Airport planning appeal was made by an independent Planning Inspector following a Public Inquiry which considered the traffic and environmental impacts.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts grouped question UIN 119732 question first answered 14/02/2022 12:19:08 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1420406

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Bristol Airport: Carbon Emissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Government has undertaken an impact assessment on the potential effect of the new Bristol Airport runway on carbon emissions in Bath and North East Somerset.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	119732
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2022 answer text <p>The Government is supportive of airports across the UK making best use of their existing runways.</p><p> </p><p>The decision on the Bristol Airport planning appeal was made by an independent Planning Inspector following a Public Inquiry which considered the traffic and environmental impacts.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts grouped question UIN 119731 question first answered 14/02/2022 12:19:08 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1489002

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Airlines: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the (a) number and (b) dates of meetings between Ministers in his Department with airline operators since 2 May 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	36060
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2022 answer text <p>Ministers regularly meet with airline operators. Details of ministerial meetings with external organisations are published quarterly and can be found on GOV.UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 19/07/2022 13:07:07 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse