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1567858

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2023
	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	Cinemas: Edinburgh
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they are having discussions with the Scottish Government, Creative Scotland, and other partners regarding (1) cultural cinema programme activity in Edinburgh, and (2) the 2023 Edinburgh International Film Festival, following the closure of the Edinburgh Film House.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL4835
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2023 answer text <p>Cultural cinema programme activity in Edinburgh is a matter for the Scottish Government, since this is a devolved policy area. Following the Centre for the Moving Image (CMI) going into administration in October 2022, Screen Scotland purchased the intellectual property for the Edinburgh International Film Festival.</p><p>DCMS officials have spoken to the British Film Institute (BFI) about this issue. The BFI operates UK-wide and has a close working relationship with Creative Scotland and its dedicated screen agency, Screen Scotland. Throughout the period covered by the British Film Institute’s previous corporate strategy, British Film Institute 2022, Screen Scotland has been its delivery partner for the National Lottery-backed British Film Institute NETWORK programme, Short Circuit. The British Film Institute’s new strategy, Screen Culture 2033, is UK-wide and Scotland-based applicants are able to apply for applicable National Lottery funds.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 03/02/2023 14:26:07 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
	tabling member	4175 label Biography information for Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

1582330

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Energy: Meters
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2023 to Question 131105 on Energy: Meters, how many court orders were granted allowing energy companies to forcibly install prepayment meters in homes in the week commencing 23 January 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
	tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	136484
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2023 answer text <p>For the week commencing 23 January 2023, 6,360 warrants requested by energy suppliers were granted, uncontested by customers/occupiers.</p><p>These figures represent all warrants to enforce rights of entry, including those relating to safety, as warrants specifically for the purpose of installing a prepayment meter cannot be isolated from the data. The figures do not distinguish between residential or business premises either.</p><p>In granting any one or more application(s), the Justice of the Peace must be satisfied by evidence given on oath by the energy supplier or their representative that the statutory requirements have been met, that the supplier and the agent comply with the requirements of Ofgem, and occupiers have been informed of their right to a hearing.</p><p>These data are management information and are not subject to the same level of checks as official statistics. The data provided is the most recent available and for that reason might differ slightly from any previously published information. Recent data are especially vulnerable to quality checking and so may be subject to change.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 03/02/2023 14:26:00 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

1580749

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Speech and Language Disorders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the effect of the proposed SEND and Alternative Provision Green Papers on support for children with speech and language difficulties.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	132486
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2023 answer text <p>The Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Green Paper set out a whole system review, looking at how the department can improve the SEND system for every child and young person, no matter their specific need or condition.</p><p>The department’s vision for children and young people with SEND, including those with speech, language, and communication needs (SLCN), is the same as it is for all children and young people. The department wants children with SEND to achieve well in their early years, at school, and in further education. Early this year, we will publish a SEND and AP Improvement Plan, confirming plans over the proposals contained in the Green Paper. This will include details on new SEND and AP National Standards, which aim to set clear and ambitious expectations about identifying and meeting needs, including for SLCN.</p><p>In addition, the department is investing £17 million to deliver the Nuffield Early Language Intervention programme. The programme supports children in reception with their language skills. In total, over 11,100 schools, or two thirds of all primary schools, are taking part in this proven, evidence-based programme, benefitting around 90,000 children most in need of language support. Registered schools are eligible to continue to receive the funded programme during the 2022/23 academic year.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 03/02/2023 14:25:42 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1580872

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2023
	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	Building Safety Fund: Battersea
	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 buildings in Battersea were eligible for the Building Safety Fund as of 25 January 2023; and how much of that fund has been allocated for remediation works in Battersea.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	132621
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2023 answer text <p>As at 31 December 2022 there are 11 eligible buildings in Battersea in the Building Safety Fund and a total of £14,790,860 of funding has so far been approved.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 03/02/2023 14:25:36 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1568848

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2023
	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	Clinical Trials
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the decline in the number of clinical trials, and (2) its impact on patient outcomes.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL4905
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2023 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN) supports study sites to deliver research across England. In 2021/22 there were 6,383 studies on the NIHR CRN portfolio which has seen year-on-year growth in study numbers, recruiting more than one million participants. Overall, this suggests there are greater opportunities for people to participate in clinical trials that could benefit patient outcomes. The Department, in partnership with NHS England, is taking action to recover the United Kingdom’s (UK’s) capacity to deliver clinical research through the Research Reset programme to ensure new studies can open and be delivered within planned timescales, while addressing the backlog caused by the pandemic to ensure the UK remains an attractive global destination for new research.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 03/02/2023 14:25:11 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1568868

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2023
	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	Digital Technology: Disadvantaged
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of digital poverty on young people and their households.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL4925
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2023 answer text <p>HM Government recognises that digital skills and digital access are increasingly required to participate in many aspects of society.</p><p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport works with third-sector organisations across the UK to understand the challenges facing people in digital poverty. The Digital Poverty Alliance, one of our partners, has recently published an evidence review which made an assessment of the impact of digital poverty on young people and their households. This has found that 30 per cent of young people aged 8–25 (2.1 million people) are at risk of becoming ‘digital castaways’ and that 42 per cent of young people (6 million people) do not have either home broadband or a laptop/desktop computer. Young people who are digitally excluded are less likely to be in well-paying jobs, have worse health outcomes, and have an overall lower quality of life.</p><p>We also work across Government and with the private sector to ensure that the needs of digitally excluded people are considered. For example, DCMS has negotiated a range of high-quality, low-cost social tariffs for households in receipt of Universal Credit and other means-tested benefits, including Pension Credit. These are available across 99 per cent of the UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 03/02/2023 14:24:35 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1580778

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2023
	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	Members: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities when he will reply to the letters from the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare dated 10th November and 14th December 2022 on behalf of his constituent, Nigel Campkin about building cladding.
	tabling member constituency	Weston-super-Mare
	tabling member printed	John Penrose
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	132318
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2023 answer text <p>A response was issued to my Hon. Friend's correspondence on 3 February 2023, following an internal review. I apologise for the delay and hope he finds the response helpful.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 03/02/2023 14:24:34 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
	tabling member	1584 label Biography information for John Penrose

1581129

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2023
	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	Buildings: Insurance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Financial Conduct Authority's report entitled Report on insurance for multi‑occupancy buildings, published in September 2022, if he will take steps to implement that report's recommendations; and what steps he plans to take to reduce insurance premium costs for leaseholders in multi-occupancy buildings.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	133603
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2023 answer text <p>On the 30 January 2023, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities announced that we will take action to ban property managing agents, landlords and freeholders from receiving commissions and other payments from insurance firms, replacing such payments with more transparent fees. <br> <br>Leaseholders will also have more information to enable them to better scrutinise their insurance costs, while also ensuring that leaseholders are not subject to unjustified legal costs and that they can claim their legal costs back from their landlord. <br> <br> The FCA are currently undertaking their own review of high broker commission identified in their 21 September report which will be published in March 2023. I intend to meet the FCA again to discuss their work.</p><p>On 1 December, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) confirmed they are working to launch a scheme to reduce high premiums for those in buildings with significant fire safety issues. Ministers will continue to monitor the progress of the scheme and have made clear that they expect the scheme to be delivered as soon as is feasible to provide urgent assistance to affected buildings.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 03/02/2023 14:23:44 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

1568849

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2023
	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	Clinical Trials
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the finding by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) that there has been a 41 per cent decline in clinical trial numbers since 2017, what assessment they have made of the reasons why the recovery in the number of clinical trials is slow; and what additional steps they are taking to address this.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL4906
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2023 answer text <p>Data published by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry highlights a decline in the number of commercial contract clinical trials initiated in the United Kingdom (UK), primarily in 2020 and 2021. This was the result of the pandemic when many studies were paused to focus on nationally prioritised COVID-19 studies. There has, however, been a year-on-year growth in the number of studies overall and by December 2021, the number of studies on the National Institute for Health and Care Research Clinical Research Network portfolio was higher than ever before. Increased workload pressure on the National Health Service (NHS) research &amp; development workforce, in the context of the recovery of wider NHS services and changes to care pathways, means the UK has seen a growing backlog of studies waiting to start or taking longer to complete. The Department, in partnership with NHS England, is taking action to recover the UK’s capacity to deliver commercial research through the Research Reset programme to ensure new studies can open and be delivered within planned timescales, while addressing the backlog to ensure the UK remains an attractive global destination for new research.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 03/02/2023 14:22:21 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1581218

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Foster Care: Stockport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many foster carers there are in Stockport (a) constituency and (b) borough.
	tabling member constituency	Stockport
	tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	133790
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2023 answer text <p>The department does not hold the information on numbers of foster carers per constituency and borough. This is a matter for Ofsted, or Stockport Children’s Social Service’s department, who are responsible for collecting and presenting this information.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 03/02/2023 14:21:44 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
	tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra