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1725686

	registered interest
	date	30/08/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Redundancy Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to his Department was of ministerial severance payments in each year from 19 December 2019 to 30 May 2024; which Ministers received a severance payment; and how much each Minister received.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	3042
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2024 answer text <p>Ministerial severance payments in each year from December 2019 to May 2024 are published as part of the annual reportand accounts for the Department.</p><p> </p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministry-of-defence-annual-report-and-accounts-2023-to-2024</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Birmingham Selly Oak answering member printed Al Carns question first answered 09/09/2024 15:04:57 answering member 5235
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1603654

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Travel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Government has spent on helicopter travel in each of the last ten years.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	163989
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2023 answer text <p><strong>The requested information is not centrally held, and complying with this request would incur a disproportionate cost to the department. Comprehensive details of Senior Officials’ Business Expenses, encompassing domestic flights are available on<a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/transparency-and-freedom-of-information-releases?keywords=travel&amp;organisations%5B%5D=cabinet-office&amp;order=relevance" target="_blank"> GOV.UK</a>.</strong></p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 21/03/2023 18:31:47 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1603655

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Ministers: Travel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many private flights have been taken by Government Ministers and officials from RAF Northolt in each of the last ten years.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	163990
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2023 answer text <p><strong>The requested information is not centrally held, and complying with this request would incur a disproportionate cost to the department. Comprehensive details of Senior Officials’ Business Expenses, encompassing domestic flights are available on<a href="https://www.gov.uk/search/transparency-and-freedom-of-information-releases?keywords=travel&amp;organisations%5B%5D=cabinet-office&amp;order=relevance" target="_blank"> GOV.UK</a>.</strong></p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 21/03/2023 18:26:44 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1519266

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2022
	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	Local Housing Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the calculation of Local Housing Allowance rates applicable in financial year 2022-23.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	59968
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates are not intended to cover all rents in all areas.<em> </em>For Great Britain in May 2022, 55% of the households on LHA had rents higher than the LHA rates. For these households the average gap was £146 per month.</p><p> </p><p>In April 2020 LHA rates were increased to the 30th percentile of local rents. This significant investment of nearly £1 billion provided 1.5 million claimants with an average £600 more housing support in 2020/21 than they would otherwise have received.</p><p> </p><p>LHA rates have been maintained at their increased levels since then, so that everyone who benefitted from the increase will continue to do so.</p><p> </p><p>For those who require additional support with housing costs, Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) are available. Since 2011 we have provided almost over £1.5 billion in DHPs.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 18/10/2022 13:24:00 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1380228

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Reviews
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, subject to the successful piloting of Access to Work adjustment passports, whether he plans to embed passports for children with special educational needs and disabilities support (SEND) in schools and colleges in an updated Code of Practice following his Department's SEND review.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	78483
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2021 answer text <p>The department is supporting the Department for Work and Pensions to develop an adjustments passport that aims to smooth the transition into employment and support people changing jobs including people with special educational needs and disabilities. Twelve-month pilots of the adjustments passport are now underway in higher education and post-16 provider pilot sites. The adjustments passport will capture the in-work support needs of the individual and includes the aim to empower them in having confident discussions about adjustments with employers.</p><p>Having an adjustments passport is voluntary and the department will continue to monitor take up alongside communications as to how we might increase visibility and awareness to inform a future approach were the pilots to be successful. Following an evaluation, if the pilots prove successful, the adjustments passport will be made available to support all people with disabilities and health conditions providing a transferable record of adjustments and reduce the need for unnecessary assessments.</p><p>The government launched the SEND Review in September 2019, a cross government review being led by the department. The goal of the SEND Review is to substantially improve outcomes for children and young people with SEND, build parental confidence and bring financial sustainability to the system. The government plans to publish proposals for public consultation, in a Green Paper, in the first three months of 2022.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 29/11/2021 11:24:16 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1380229

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	School Leaving: Disability
	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 encourage (a) awareness and (b) uptake of apprenticeships, supported internships and traineeships among young disabled school-leavers.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	78484
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2021 answer text <p>In the ‘Skills for Jobs’ White Paper, published in January 2021, we announced the introduction of a three point plan to enforce provider access legislation (the ‘Baker Clause’, commenced in 2018). This requires that all maintained schools and academies provide opportunities for providers of technical education and apprenticeships to visit schools to talk to all year 8-13 pupils, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). This plan includes creating clear minimum legal requirements, specifying who is to be given access to which pupils and when. This is an important step towards real choice for every pupil.</p><p>Through the Careers &amp; Enterprise Company (CEC) we support careers leaders in schools and colleges to design and deliver careers education programmes tailored to the needs of young people with SEND. As part of this work, the CEC has worked with the Gatsby Foundation and Disability Rights UK to create support material to help schools and colleges use the Gatsby Benchmarks to deliver high-quality career guidance for students with a wide range of needs and disabilities.</p><p>As set out in the National Disability Strategy, we will work to improve supported internships in England, including updating guidance and, through our contract/grant delivery partners in financial year 2020-21, developing a self-assessment quality framework for providers, and helping local authorities to develop local supported employment forums. In addition, the CEC continues to encourage employers to provide work experience and supported internships for young people with SEND.</p><p>We are also encouraging more young people to consider apprenticeships through our Apprenticeship Support &amp; Knowledge (ASK) programme which reached over 600,000 students across England in the last academic year. As part of this, we are working with 40 schools through the ASK Development Schools project to support students who have the potential to progress into a traineeship or apprenticeship but who are facing significant personal barriers, including disabilities.</p><p>In partnership with Disability Rights UK, we have launched a Disabled Apprentice Network to provide valuable insight and evidence on how to attract and retain disabled people into apprenticeships. We have also improved our ‘Find an Apprenticeship’ and ‘Find a Traineeship’ services to allow people to identify Disability Confident employers offering opportunities.</p><p>We are also taking several measures to raise awareness of traineeships and increase uptake. We have created a new online collection of free resources for schools including factsheets, case studies and a guide for teachers. We are also working with the National Careers Service and the Department for Work and Pensions to ensure that young people understand the different options available to them and are supported on the right path.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 29/11/2021 11:55:06 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1380230

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Access to Work Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions his Department is having with the Department of Work and Pensions on the forthcoming trial of Access to Work adjustment passports for students leaving education; and what the planned (a) scale, (b) commencement date and (c) duration is of that pilot.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	78485
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2021 answer text <p>The department is supporting the Department for Work and Pensions to develop an adjustments passport that aims to smooth the transition into employment and support people changing jobs including people with special educational needs and disabilities. Twelve-month pilots of the adjustments passport are now underway in higher education and post-16 provider pilot sites. The adjustments passport will capture the in-work support needs of the individual and includes the aim to empower them in having confident discussions about adjustments with employers.</p><p>Having an adjustments passport is voluntary and the department will continue to monitor take up alongside communications as to how we might increase visibility and awareness to inform a future approach were the pilots to be successful. Following an evaluation, if the pilots prove successful, the adjustments passport will be made available to support all people with disabilities and health conditions providing a transferable record of adjustments and reduce the need for unnecessary assessments.</p><p>The government launched the SEND Review in September 2019, a cross government review being led by the department. The goal of the SEND Review is to substantially improve outcomes for children and young people with SEND, build parental confidence and bring financial sustainability to the system. The government plans to publish proposals for public consultation, in a Green Paper, in the first three months of 2022.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 29/11/2021 11:25:05 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1725688

	registered interest
	date	30/08/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Redundancy Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to her Department was of ministerial severance payments in each year from 19 December 2019 to 30 May 2024; which Ministers received a severance payment; and how much each Minister received.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	3044
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2024 answer text <p>In accordance with the Ministerial and Other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991, paid Ministers below the age of 65 are entitled to a loss of office payment of one quarter of their claimed annual ministerial salary when they cease to hold office.</p><p>Departments are required to publish the detail of any ministerial severance payments made within their Annual Report and Accounts each year.</p><p>Details of such payments are published in departmental annual reports and accounts:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministry-of-justice-annual-report-and-accounts-2022-23" target="_blank">Ministry of Justice Annual Report and Accounts 2022 to 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/moj-annual-report-and-accounts-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">Ministry of Justice Annual Report and Accounts 2021 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministry-of-justice-annual-report-and-accounts-2020-to-2021" target="_blank">Ministry of Justice Annual Report and Accounts 2020 to 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministry-of-justice-annual-report-and-accounts-2019-to-2020" target="_blank">Ministry of Justice Annual Report and Accounts 2019 to 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>The financial accounts for 2023/24 will be released in due course.</p> answering member constituency Pontypridd answering member printed Alex Davies-Jones question first answered 05/09/2024 15:30:41 answering member 4849 label Biography information for Alex Davies-Jones
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

985625

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2018
	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	Hassan Mushaima
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Bahrainan counterpart on the case of the imprisonment of Mr. Hassan Mushiema in that country.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	178363
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2018 answer text <p>I refer the honourable lady to the answer I gave to question 174028 on 11 October and in my response to the Westminster Hall Debate of 11 September.</p><p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the British Embassy in Bahrain continue to monitor the case of Hassan Mushaima closely and should we have concerns we will raise them with the Government of Bahrain as we have already done.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 17/10/2018 16:17:00 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

984874

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2018
	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	Bahrain: Prisons
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the prison conditions experienced in Bahrain.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	177777
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2018 answer text <p>The British Government monitors events in Bahrain closely. Where we have concerns on specific issues, including prison conditions, we raise these with the Bahraini authorities. We encourage those with concerns about treatment in detention to report these to the relevant human rights oversight bodies.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 17/10/2018 16:14:41 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse