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1380879

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date	22/11/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Automatic Number Plate Recognition: Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals on the use of automatic number-plate recognition cameras in school streets,.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	79409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2021 answer text <p>A set of regulations is due to be laid in December. This will allow English local authorities outside London, with civil parking enforcement powers, to apply for a Designation Order granting powers to enforce moving traffic contraventions, based on evidence obtained from CCTV camera equipment that has been certified by the Secretary of State. Local authorities so designated, will then be able to enforce access restrictions for school streets. Local authorities in London have these enforcement powers already. Automatic number-plate recognition technology is not certified for the purpose of moving traffic enforcement.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 25/11/2021 11:50:55 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1380888

registered interest
date	22/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pre-school Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 29 September 2021 to Question 62680, on Pre-school Education, what assessment he has made of the consistency of early years services that are specifically non-childcare for children up to five years old across the UK.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	79313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2021 answer text <p>The government is committed to championing family hubs. Local service delivery will vary from place to place, reflecting the needs of the local population. Family hubs bring together a wide range of services, including non-childcare services, for families with children of all ages (0-19) or up to 25 with special educational needs and disabilities, and contain a great Start for Life offer (for children aged 0-2) at their core.</p><p>The department has announced a £300 million package to transform services for parents and babies, carers, and children in half of local authorities across England. This will provide thousands of families access to support when they need it, ensuring that babies have the best start in life, as set out in ‘Best Start for Life: a vision for the critical 1,001 days’, the Early Years Review led by my right hon. Friend, the Member for South Northamptonshire, and delivering on our manifesto commitment to champion family hubs.</p><p>We are determined to ensure that family hubs are consistently applying the best evidence on what works in delivering family services. That is why we have established:</p><ul><li>a new National Centre for Family Hubs, run by the Anna Freud Centre, which will support councils with best practice, including how to effectively incorporate a range of 0-5 services into a family hub network;</li><li>an evaluation innovation fund through which we are working with Ecorys UK, Sheffield Hallam University and 6 local authorities to build the evidence base.</li></ul> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 25/11/2021 16:29:48 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1380889

registered interest
date	22/11/2021
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	State Retirement Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the constituent of the hon. Member for Glasgow Central will receive payment of her State Pension as was confirmed via email on 6 October 2021 by DWP Visiting, Central Team 1, reference ZA24802.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	79405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2021 answer text <p>DWP provided an email response to the office of Alison Thewliss MP on 22 November 2021.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 25/11/2021 14:20:57 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1380891

registered interest
date	22/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Overseas Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an estimate of the number of overseas students in the UK, broken down by (a) nationality and (b) university.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	79360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2021 answer text <p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes data about students enrolled at UK higher education (HE) providers.</p><p>Statistics on the total number of overseas students at each HE provider in the UK can be found in Table 1 of HESA’s Open Data tables. This data is available here: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-1" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-1</a>.</p><p>Further detail, which includes the country of domicile prior to study, is available in Table 28. This data is available here: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-28" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-28</a>.</p><p>The statistics available in HESA’s Open Data tables refer to the academic years 2014/15 to 2019/20. Figures for the academic year 2020/21 will be published by HESA in February 2022.</p><p>The government fully recognises the important contribution that international students make to the UK’s HE sector, both economically and culturally. International students enrich the university experience for all students, including those from the UK themselves. They bring greater diversity to university and college campuses adding an international dimension to the experience of all students. We are proud that so many international students choose to study here each year and look forward to welcoming many more in the future.</p><p>The International Education Strategy update published in February 2021, reaffirms the government’s commitment to the two key ambitions of the International Education Strategy to increase the value of our education exports to £35 billion per year, and to sustainably increase the number of international HE students hosted in the UK to at least 600,000 per year, both by 2030.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 25/11/2021 16:38:36 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

1380892

registered interest
date	22/11/2021
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Cyprus: Travel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of the 17 November 2021 to Question 73901, on Travel; Cyprus, whether her Department has considered putting in place interim measures to enable travellers from Northern Cyprus who are not able to access the EU Digital COVID Certificate (EUDCC) to travel to the UK during the 2021-22 winter holiday period.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	79413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2021 answer text <p>Whilst we are looking at whether there are ways to address the issue of access to UK-accepted certificates for certain people vaccinated in the north of Cyprus, people in this group can still travel to England, but will have to take a pre-departure test, a day 2 and day 8 PCR test and self-isolate for 10 days. Under the Test to Release scheme they can choose to pay for a private COVID-19 test on day 5. If the result is negative (and the result of the day 2 test was negative or inconclusive), they can end their quarantine.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 25/11/2021 17:43:01 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

1380893

registered interest
date	22/11/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Music: Production
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a further assessment of the potential merits of a tax incentive to encourage music production in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	79361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2021 answer text <p>The Government keeps all tax policy under review and regularly receives proposals for sector-specific tax reliefs. When considering a new tax relief, the Government must ensure it supports businesses in a fair way and that taxpayer money is effectively targeted. A tax relief to encourage music production is not currently under consideration.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/11/2021 15:36:26 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

1380894

registered interest
date	22/11/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Music: Freight
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department has had with representatives of the music industry on the availability of HGVs and specialist concert hauliers in 2022.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	79362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2021 answer text <p>The Department for Transport has been engaging regularly, through meetings and working groups, with representatives of the specialist haulage industry that provides logistics services for the creative sectors. The Department continues to explore ways to support the industry as it adapts to the requirements of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 25/11/2021 11:56:17 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

1380895

registered interest
date	22/11/2021
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	General Practitioners: Walsall
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GPs are registered in the (a) Walsall Commissioning Group and (b) Walsall South constituency.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	79363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2021 answer text <p>The latest available data shows that as at 30 September 2021, there were 847 full time equivalent doctors in general practice working in the Black Country and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). This CCG was established on 1 April 2021 following the merger of Dudley CCG, Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG, Walsall CCG and Wolverhampton CCG. The data is not held for Walsall South as general practice workforce figures are not collected by constituency.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 25/11/2021 11:14:31 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

1380896

registered interest
date	22/11/2021
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	Dentistry: Walsall
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dentists there are in the (a) Walsall Commissioning group and (b) Walsall South constituency.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	79364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2021 answer text <p>The Department does not hold data in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 25/11/2021 09:56:56 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

1380899

registered interest
date	22/11/2021
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	Towns Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many projects allocated funding under the Towns Fund have been completed.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	79389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2021 answer text <p>Towns are in the process of completing their business cases and supplying the department with Summary Documents which, once approved, will allow DLUHC to release funding for projects.</p><p>The Town Deal programme is scheduled to run until financial year 25/26 with projects set to be delivered by that deadline. Some projects will also be delivered before then according to the timelines established by the towns.</p><p>It is expected that all funding provided from the Levelling Up Fund will be spent by 31 March 2024, and, exceptionally, into 2024-25 for larger schemes.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien grouped question UIN 79392 question first answered 01/12/2021 13:30:47 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien previous answer version 34898 answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed