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1506509

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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	Hospitals: York
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of the potential timeframe for establishing a new teaching hospital in York.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	51781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2022 answer text <p>A process to select the next eight hospitals for the New Hospital Programme was launched in summer 2021, where all interested trusts could submit an expression of interest. No expression of interest was received for a new teaching hospital in York.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 29/09/2022 14:23:34 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1506513

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Food Banks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure that foodbanks have access to sufficient food to meet demand.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	51785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>While foodbanks are independent, charitable organisations and the Government does not have any role in their operation, we are in regular contact with major foodbank networks to better understand their needs and asks of Government.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is committed to a sustainable, long-term approach to tackling poverty and supporting people on lower incomes. In addition to the energy support announced by the Government this month, we have committed £37 billion to tackle the increased cost of living this year. This includes: cutting the Universal Credit taper and increasing work allowances giving 1.7 million families an extra £1,000 a year (on average); raising the National Insurance threshold resulting in a saving of over £330 a year for a typical employee; and £1.5 billion to help households with the cost of essentials, including food.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 28/09/2022 15:38:50 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1506525

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Wind Power: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an estimate of the amount of electricity generated in GW by (a) onshore and (b) offshore wind projects in Scotland that will be subject to price controls for gas distribution and electricity transmission under RIIO-2 in each of the next seven years.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	51766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2022 answer text <p>Ofgem regulates gas and electricity distribution and transmission network companies through the RIIO price control framework. The current price control RIIO-T2 provides up to £40bn for investment in the network between now and 2026 that will support our net zero and energy security ambitions while protecting consumers. Electricity generation is not subject to the price control process.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 10/10/2022 08:56:10 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1506529

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Nursultan Nazarbayev
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effect on UK media freedom policy of the use by Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan of libel actions against UK journalists in English courts.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	51724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>The government is committed to a free and independent media. The Ministry of Justice is currently developing reforms regarding the challenges which Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) present to journalists and others involved in freedom of expression relating to the public interest. Our recent Call for Evidence response, published on 20 July, sets out the Government’s intention to tackle SLAPPs.</p> answering member constituency Dartford answering member printed Gareth Johnson question first answered 28/09/2022 15:23:00 answering member 3970 label Biography information for Gareth Johnson
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

1506541

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Oak National Academy: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what budget his Department has allocated to Oak National Academy in the financial year 2022-2023; how that money will be spent in the remainder of the financial year; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	51615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>A total of £9.8 million has been budgeted for Oak National Academy in the financial year 2022/2023.</p><p>Oak National Academy will continue to work with teachers across the country, giving them and their pupils access to high-quality digital curriculum resources which are free, optional, and adaptable. These optional resources will be available across the UK, helping teachers deliver a high-quality curriculum.</p><p>Oak will begin a procurement of full curriculum packages this autumn. Based on sector feedback and in line with the government’s strategic priorities, the first group of six subjects will be: English, maths, science, history, geography and music. Oak’s intention is to have some limited, new resources available in September 2023, with most of Oak’s existing resources maintained on the platform in the interim. Full curriculum packages in the first group of subjects will be available by September 2024.</p><p>A portion of the £9.8 million of funding was allocated through the Grant Funding Agreement which enabled Oak National Academy to maintain its activity prior to becoming a non-departmental public body.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 28/09/2022 16:43:16 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1506542

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with school leaders on the adequacy of levels of school budgets in autumn 2022.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	51616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2022 answer text <p>The Department continues to speak to a range of organisations representing Head Teachers and directly to Head Teachers themselves. Discussions have included school funding and build on the regular engagement the Department has already had.</p><p>Overall, core schools funding, including funding for both mainstream and high needs schools, is increasing by £4 billion in 2022/23 financial year compared to 2021/22. This brings the total core schools budget to £53.8 billion. This means the total funding allocated to schools and high needs seeing a 7% cash terms per pupil increase in the 2022/23 financial year compared to the previous financial year.</p><p>On 21 September 2022, the Government set out how businesses and public sector organisations, including schools, will be supported by the Energy Bill Relief Scheme. This will reduce how much schools need to spend on their energy, and give schools greater certainty over their budgets over the winter months.</p><p>Any school which has signed a fixed energy contract since April 2022 will be eligible for support if, at the time they signed their contact, wholesale prices for the next six months were expected to be higher than the Government-supported price of £211/MWh for electricity, and £75/MWh for gas.</p><p>For example, a school which uses 10 MWh of electricity and 22 MWh of gas a month and signed a fixed contract giving them a current monthly energy bill of about £10,000, would receive support based on the difference between expected wholesale prices when they signed their contract and the Government-supported price. For a contract signed in July 2022, this could be worth £240/MWh for electricity and £70/MWh for gas, meaning the school receives a discount of £4,000 per month, reducing their original bill by 40%.</p><p>Support will also be available to schools on variable, deemed and other contracts.</p><p>The details of the scheme can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/energy-bill-relief-scheme-help-for-businesses-and-other-non-domestic-customers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/energy-bill-relief-scheme-help-for-businesses-and-other-non-domestic-customers</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stoke-on-Trent North answering member printed Jonathan Gullis question first answered 17/10/2022 16:35:34 answering member 4814 label Biography information for Jonathan Gullis
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1506543

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of childcare support for families in receipt of Universal Credit.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	51617
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made.</p><p> </p><p>In Universal Credit, working families can claim up to 85%, increased from 70% in legacy benefits, of their eligible registered childcare costs each month regardless of the hours worked. This equates to a maximum support of £646.35 per month for one child and £1,108.04 per month for two or more children.</p><p> </p><p>The current childcare offer is comprehensive, broad ranging and reflects different family circumstances, covering children over a range of ages. We believe that helping parents with their childcare costs is one of the best ways to help people into work, support families with the cost of living, and ensure every child has the opportunity of a high-quality early education.</p><p> </p><p>The UC childcare policy aligns with the wider government childcare offer, which includes 15 hours per week free childcare for disadvantaged 2-year-olds and 3- &amp; 4-year-olds. This doubles to 30 hours per week free childcare for working parents of 3- &amp; 4-year-olds. The UC childcare element can be used to top up a claimant’s eligible free childcare hours if more hours are worked and childcare required. This offer means that for some claimants’ childcare costs should not present any barriers to entering work.</p><p> </p><p>Eligible claimants who need help to enter employment can apply for help from the Flexible Support Fund (locally managed by Jobcentres to remove challenges to entering employment) with initial up-front childcare costs. This is a non-repayable payment that will pay upfront childcare costs directly to the provider up to the first salary received.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 28/09/2022 17:00:42 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1506545

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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	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 families are making a claim for childcare support under universal credit in (a) England and (b) the UK as on 8 September 2022; and what the average value of those claims is.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	51619
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>In May 2022 there were 111,100 households receiving the childcare element of Universal Credit in England, with an average childcare element value of £326. In the UK, in May 2022 there were 133,000 families with an average childcare element value of £323.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p>1. Figures rounded to the nearest 100 and £1</p><p>2. Average is calculated using the mean value of the amount of childcare element provided</p><p>3. Universal Credit figures are for GB only, as DWP do not administer Universal Credit in Northern Ireland</p><p>4. In line with published official stats data is only available to May 22</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 28/09/2022 17:07:12 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1506546

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Air Conditioning
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 assessment of the (a) effectiveness and (b) efficiency of the roll out of air purification equipment in English schools in winter 2021.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	51620
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>The Department has not made an assessment on the effectiveness and efficiency on the rollout of air purification devices.</p><p>The Department has delivered over 386,000 CO<sub>2</sub> monitors to state-funded education settings, including early years, schools, and further education providers, to help manage ventilation needs against thermal comfort.</p><p>Where areas of poor ventilation were identified that could not be quickly fixed, the Department provided over 8,000 air cleaning units with HEPA filters as a temporary measure while any identified, underlying ventilation issues were addressed.</p><p>More information can be found at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/delivery-of-air-cleaning-units" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/delivery-of-air-cleaning-units</a>.</p><p>On 11 March 2022, the Department invited 1,299 education providers which had received Department-funded air cleaning units to participate in a survey to evaluate how the units were being used.</p><p>More information about the evaluation and its findings can be found at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1086631/FINAL_ACU_CO2_Evaluation_30_June_2022.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1086631/FINAL_ACU_CO2_Evaluation_30_June_2022.pdf</a>.</p><p>The Department will continue to work closely with the Department of Health and Social Care on outcomes from trials to assess the impact of air purification devices.</p> answering member constituency Stoke-on-Trent North answering member printed Jonathan Gullis question first answered 28/09/2022 15:55:26 answering member 4814 label Biography information for Jonathan Gullis
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1506547

registered interest
date	20/09/2022
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	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 families in England are claiming the maximum childcare support of (a) £646 for one child or (b) £1,108 for two or more children.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	51621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>In May 2022 there were 7,200 families in England claiming the maximum childcare support for one child and 2,800 families in England claiming the maximum childcare support for two or more children.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p>1. Figures rounded to the nearest 100</p><p>2. In line with published official stats data is only available to May 22</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 28/09/2022 17:04:05 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson