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859910

registered interest
date	12/03/2018
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	Social Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment he has made of trends in local authority funding for children's services.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	904289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>Funding for children’s services is made available through the local government finance settlement. Over the Spending Review period, councils will receive more than £200 billion for local services.</p><p>In February, I announced that annual local government funding will rise in real terms to £45.6 billion by 2019-20.</p> answering member constituency Bromsgrove answering member printed Sajid Javid question first answered 12/03/2018 17:51:19 answering member 3945 label Biography information for Sir Sajid Javid
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

857735

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Social Media: Hate Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent progress her Department has made with social media platforms on a voluntary code of practice for online (a) abuse and (b) hate crime.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	131636
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>The Internet Safety Strategy consultation closed on the 7 December and we are currently reviewing responses. We received a wide range of views from industry, charities, academia and others. These will help shape our Government response to the consultation which we will be publishing in the Spring.</p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister confirmed plans to bring forward the code of practice in her speech on the 6 February. The aim of the code of practice is to prevent abusive behaviour online, introduce more effective reporting mechanisms to tackle bullying or harmful content, and give better guidance for users to identify and report illegal content. The Government will be outlining more detail on the code of practice in the spring, as part of the Government response to the strategy.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 131638 131639 question first answered 16/03/2018 10:48:14 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

857736

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
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	Social Media: Hate Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether social media platforms are required to (a) report to the police, (b) cooperate with a police investigation and (c) remove content from their sites that is classified as online (i) abuse and (ii) hate crime.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	131637
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>There are provisions under the Terrorism Acts that require the take-down of terrorist related material. Where material is harmful, but does not fall under this legislation the Social Media Platforms are governed by their own policy.</p><p>We have been working with industry partners, States and civil society under the High-Level Group on Hate Crime lead by the European Commission. This work has led to the agreement of a set of 'standards of response' from the larger platforms and an active monitoring process to measure compliance.</p><p>The agreement, reached in 2016 can be viewed at <a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-1937_en.htm" target="_blank">http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-1937_en.htm</a> and the first annual monitoring report can be viewed at <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/just/item-detail.cfm?item_id=612086" target="_blank">http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/just/item-detail.cfm?item_id=612086</a></p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 16/03/2018 13:17:39 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

857738

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Social Media: Hate Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many responses to his Department's consultation, Internet Safety strategy green paper supported a voluntary code of practice for Social Media Platforms to tackle online (a) abuse and (b) hate crime content.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	131639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>The Internet Safety Strategy consultation closed on the 7 December and we are currently reviewing responses. We received a wide range of views from industry, charities, academia and others. These will help shape our Government response to the consultation which we will be publishing in the Spring.</p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister confirmed plans to bring forward the code of practice in her speech on the 6 February. The aim of the code of practice is to prevent abusive behaviour online, introduce more effective reporting mechanisms to tackle bullying or harmful content, and give better guidance for users to identify and report illegal content. The Government will be outlining more detail on the code of practice in the spring, as part of the Government response to the strategy.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 131636 131638 question first answered 16/03/2018 10:48:14 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

857739

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Online Hate Crime Hub
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of cases that will be submitted to the National Online and Hate Crime Hub in the first year of its operation.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	131640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office has allocated initial funding of £200,000 for this first year of the new national online hate crime hub. The police report that a caseload of around 1,500 incident reports per year, based on a previous pilot, gives an indication of the potential caseload for the new hub, although this figure will vary based on a number of factors including proactive activity by the police to reach out to communities.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 131641 question first answered 16/03/2018 12:39:23 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

857752

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Vocational Guidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	o ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to announce the timetable for arrangements to replace National Careers Service provision in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	131653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>We will establish a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) to operate alongside the main Prison Education Framework contract which will allow governors to commission specialist providers to complement the main educational provision.</p><p> </p><p>From this autumn, governors will be able to commission careers advice through the DPS, and we believe this will allow governors to shape a coherent service, reflecting the particular needs of their establishment.</p><p> </p><p>We carry out financial and commercial due diligence on potential suppliers as part of the procurement process for any new contracts that will be awarded for careers advice. This is part of the standard approach to due diligence as part of government procurement.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 131662 question first answered 16/03/2018 14:42:46 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

857753

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Vocational Guidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department carried out an impact assessment on the decision to end National Careers Service provision in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	131654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>In 2016 a review of prison education by Dame Sally Coates commented on the overlap and duplication within current arrangements for support to prisoners. The Ministry of Justice and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service considered an internal review of National Careers Service (NCS) in custody delivery, which included the views of Governors and learning and skills staff,and identified significant inconsistencies and variations in delivery between prisons making it difficult to be assured that a universal and equitable service was being provided across the estate. The key findings of the review indicated that the National Careers Service in Custody contract was not delivering universal coverage across the estate and there was little time and opportunity to make the contract more responsive if extended for the maximum period of six months.</p><p> </p><p>The current contracts for NCS delivery in custody (which are owned by the Education and Skills Funding Agency) will end on 31st March 2018. The contract could have been extended for a further period of 6 months maximum but such an extension left little time or opportunity to make them more responsive to the needs of people in prison. It may also have led to a further decline in delivery and performance as the contracts wound down and NCS staff sought and secured alternative employment. To avoid this, and to maintain value for money, a decision was taken not to extend the contracts further. The ESFA, under the terms of their contract gave notice to their providers by the end of 2017. Governors were informed via an internal HMPPS communication during the week of 22 January 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Parliamentary interest around this area has been received from Lord Beecham who asked an Urgent Question which was tabled in the Lords on 31 January (asking why the government had cancelled the contract of the National Careers Service) and Lord Bird who is also seeking a meeting with Lord Keen to discuss this issue.</p><p> </p><p>From this autumn, governors will be able to commission Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) through a new Dynamic Purchasing System introduced as part of the education reform arrangements. This will enable governors to shape a coherent service, reflecting the particular needs of their establishment. Until then prison governors will continue to have access to a range of existing providers for IAG advice such as DWP Prison Job Coaches, education staff (under the Offenders’ Learning and Skills Service (OLASS) arrangements) and Community Rehabilitation Company staff. Also, in line with giving greater empowerment to prison governors, they may use their budgets to fill any priority gaps locally. Due to the range of available current (and future) delivery there is no requirement for governors to seek to employ NCS staff.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to work collaboratively with a range of partners to facilitate distance learning courses for prisoners. Opportunities for such study will still be available from the Open University (OU) and from the Prisoners Education Trust ‘Steps to Success Scheme’. Additional learner support is also available under the OLASS arrangements and from the Virtual Campus (VC) e-learning platform that includes a number of career planning tools and OU courses, enabling prisoners to receive a similar learning experience to that of their mainstream peers.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested in relation to the number of FTE NCS staff working in prisons, NCS provider referrals of prisoners during 2017 and colleges and universities that NCS providers have referred prisoners to during 2017 is not collected by the Department.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 131647 131648 131649 131650 131651 131652 131655 131656 131657 131658 131659 131660 131661 question first answered 16/03/2018 14:48:52 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

857754

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Vocational Guidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what representations he has received on the decision to end National Careers Service provision in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	131655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>In 2016 a review of prison education by Dame Sally Coates commented on the overlap and duplication within current arrangements for support to prisoners. The Ministry of Justice and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service considered an internal review of National Careers Service (NCS) in custody delivery, which included the views of Governors and learning and skills staff,and identified significant inconsistencies and variations in delivery between prisons making it difficult to be assured that a universal and equitable service was being provided across the estate. The key findings of the review indicated that the National Careers Service in Custody contract was not delivering universal coverage across the estate and there was little time and opportunity to make the contract more responsive if extended for the maximum period of six months.</p><p> </p><p>The current contracts for NCS delivery in custody (which are owned by the Education and Skills Funding Agency) will end on 31st March 2018. The contract could have been extended for a further period of 6 months maximum but such an extension left little time or opportunity to make them more responsive to the needs of people in prison. It may also have led to a further decline in delivery and performance as the contracts wound down and NCS staff sought and secured alternative employment. To avoid this, and to maintain value for money, a decision was taken not to extend the contracts further. The ESFA, under the terms of their contract gave notice to their providers by the end of 2017. Governors were informed via an internal HMPPS communication during the week of 22 January 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Parliamentary interest around this area has been received from Lord Beecham who asked an Urgent Question which was tabled in the Lords on 31 January (asking why the government had cancelled the contract of the National Careers Service) and Lord Bird who is also seeking a meeting with Lord Keen to discuss this issue.</p><p> </p><p>From this autumn, governors will be able to commission Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) through a new Dynamic Purchasing System introduced as part of the education reform arrangements. This will enable governors to shape a coherent service, reflecting the particular needs of their establishment. Until then prison governors will continue to have access to a range of existing providers for IAG advice such as DWP Prison Job Coaches, education staff (under the Offenders’ Learning and Skills Service (OLASS) arrangements) and Community Rehabilitation Company staff. Also, in line with giving greater empowerment to prison governors, they may use their budgets to fill any priority gaps locally. Due to the range of available current (and future) delivery there is no requirement for governors to seek to employ NCS staff.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to work collaboratively with a range of partners to facilitate distance learning courses for prisoners. Opportunities for such study will still be available from the Open University (OU) and from the Prisoners Education Trust ‘Steps to Success Scheme’. Additional learner support is also available under the OLASS arrangements and from the Virtual Campus (VC) e-learning platform that includes a number of career planning tools and OU courses, enabling prisoners to receive a similar learning experience to that of their mainstream peers.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested in relation to the number of FTE NCS staff working in prisons, NCS provider referrals of prisoners during 2017 and colleges and universities that NCS providers have referred prisoners to during 2017 is not collected by the Department.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 131647 131648 131649 131650 131651 131652 131654 131656 131657 131658 131659 131660 131661 question first answered 16/03/2018 14:48:52 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

857755

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Vocational Guidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the consistency of National Careers Service provision across the prison estate.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	131656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>In 2016 a review of prison education by Dame Sally Coates commented on the overlap and duplication within current arrangements for support to prisoners. The Ministry of Justice and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service considered an internal review of National Careers Service (NCS) in custody delivery, which included the views of Governors and learning and skills staff,and identified significant inconsistencies and variations in delivery between prisons making it difficult to be assured that a universal and equitable service was being provided across the estate. The key findings of the review indicated that the National Careers Service in Custody contract was not delivering universal coverage across the estate and there was little time and opportunity to make the contract more responsive if extended for the maximum period of six months.</p><p> </p><p>The current contracts for NCS delivery in custody (which are owned by the Education and Skills Funding Agency) will end on 31st March 2018. The contract could have been extended for a further period of 6 months maximum but such an extension left little time or opportunity to make them more responsive to the needs of people in prison. It may also have led to a further decline in delivery and performance as the contracts wound down and NCS staff sought and secured alternative employment. To avoid this, and to maintain value for money, a decision was taken not to extend the contracts further. The ESFA, under the terms of their contract gave notice to their providers by the end of 2017. Governors were informed via an internal HMPPS communication during the week of 22 January 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Parliamentary interest around this area has been received from Lord Beecham who asked an Urgent Question which was tabled in the Lords on 31 January (asking why the government had cancelled the contract of the National Careers Service) and Lord Bird who is also seeking a meeting with Lord Keen to discuss this issue.</p><p> </p><p>From this autumn, governors will be able to commission Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) through a new Dynamic Purchasing System introduced as part of the education reform arrangements. This will enable governors to shape a coherent service, reflecting the particular needs of their establishment. Until then prison governors will continue to have access to a range of existing providers for IAG advice such as DWP Prison Job Coaches, education staff (under the Offenders’ Learning and Skills Service (OLASS) arrangements) and Community Rehabilitation Company staff. Also, in line with giving greater empowerment to prison governors, they may use their budgets to fill any priority gaps locally. Due to the range of available current (and future) delivery there is no requirement for governors to seek to employ NCS staff.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to work collaboratively with a range of partners to facilitate distance learning courses for prisoners. Opportunities for such study will still be available from the Open University (OU) and from the Prisoners Education Trust ‘Steps to Success Scheme’. Additional learner support is also available under the OLASS arrangements and from the Virtual Campus (VC) e-learning platform that includes a number of career planning tools and OU courses, enabling prisoners to receive a similar learning experience to that of their mainstream peers.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested in relation to the number of FTE NCS staff working in prisons, NCS provider referrals of prisoners during 2017 and colleges and universities that NCS providers have referred prisoners to during 2017 is not collected by the Department.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 131647 131648 131649 131650 131651 131652 131654 131655 131657 131658 131659 131660 131661 question first answered 16/03/2018 14:48:52 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

857756

registered interest
date	08/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Vocational Guidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what provisions are planned to be in place from 1 April 2018 to provide prisoners with independent careers advice at the start of their sentence.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	131657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>In 2016 a review of prison education by Dame Sally Coates commented on the overlap and duplication within current arrangements for support to prisoners. The Ministry of Justice and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service considered an internal review of National Careers Service (NCS) in custody delivery, which included the views of Governors and learning and skills staff,and identified significant inconsistencies and variations in delivery between prisons making it difficult to be assured that a universal and equitable service was being provided across the estate. The key findings of the review indicated that the National Careers Service in Custody contract was not delivering universal coverage across the estate and there was little time and opportunity to make the contract more responsive if extended for the maximum period of six months.</p><p> </p><p>The current contracts for NCS delivery in custody (which are owned by the Education and Skills Funding Agency) will end on 31st March 2018. The contract could have been extended for a further period of 6 months maximum but such an extension left little time or opportunity to make them more responsive to the needs of people in prison. It may also have led to a further decline in delivery and performance as the contracts wound down and NCS staff sought and secured alternative employment. To avoid this, and to maintain value for money, a decision was taken not to extend the contracts further. The ESFA, under the terms of their contract gave notice to their providers by the end of 2017. Governors were informed via an internal HMPPS communication during the week of 22 January 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Parliamentary interest around this area has been received from Lord Beecham who asked an Urgent Question which was tabled in the Lords on 31 January (asking why the government had cancelled the contract of the National Careers Service) and Lord Bird who is also seeking a meeting with Lord Keen to discuss this issue.</p><p> </p><p>From this autumn, governors will be able to commission Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) through a new Dynamic Purchasing System introduced as part of the education reform arrangements. This will enable governors to shape a coherent service, reflecting the particular needs of their establishment. Until then prison governors will continue to have access to a range of existing providers for IAG advice such as DWP Prison Job Coaches, education staff (under the Offenders’ Learning and Skills Service (OLASS) arrangements) and Community Rehabilitation Company staff. Also, in line with giving greater empowerment to prison governors, they may use their budgets to fill any priority gaps locally. Due to the range of available current (and future) delivery there is no requirement for governors to seek to employ NCS staff.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to work collaboratively with a range of partners to facilitate distance learning courses for prisoners. Opportunities for such study will still be available from the Open University (OU) and from the Prisoners Education Trust ‘Steps to Success Scheme’. Additional learner support is also available under the OLASS arrangements and from the Virtual Campus (VC) e-learning platform that includes a number of career planning tools and OU courses, enabling prisoners to receive a similar learning experience to that of their mainstream peers.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested in relation to the number of FTE NCS staff working in prisons, NCS provider referrals of prisoners during 2017 and colleges and universities that NCS providers have referred prisoners to during 2017 is not collected by the Department.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 131647 131648 131649 131650 131651 131652 131654 131655 131656 131658 131659 131660 131661 question first answered 16/03/2018 14:48:52 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain