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724551

registered interest
date	26/04/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Whisky: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2017 to Question 69989, on whisky: excise duties, for what reasons his Answer does not refer to representations received from the Scottish whisky industry on excise duties on spirits.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	71998
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2017 answer text <p><B>The House of Commons was prorogued before the earliest date of answer for this Question.</B></p> answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered 02/05/2017 10:00:00 answering member 0
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1713589

registered interest
date	24/04/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	International Law: Israel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether her Department has shared legal advice from the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs on Israel's compliance with international humanitarian law with representatives of her workforce within (a) the Public and Commercial Services Union and (b) other unions.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	23535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>FCDO advice informs decisions made by the Department for Business and Trade Secretary of State as the decision-making authority. The content of this advice is confidential. Union membership is a matter for individual staff members and does not alter the manner in which teams work in the Civil Service.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Alan Mak question first answered 29/04/2024 16:34:47 answering member 4484 label Biography information for Alan Mak
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

1401993

registered interest
date	11/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Unemployment: York
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of people who are classified as not in education, employment or training in (a) York Central constituency and (b) York.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	101773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2022 answer text <p>The department publishes national statistics on those not in education, employment or training (NEET) for England from the labour force survey for young people aged 16-24. However, these are only published at national and regional level due to limitations with sample sizes for lower-level geographies. Therefore, NEET rates for young people aged 16-24 cannot be provided for the areas requested.</p><p>The publication is available to view here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/neet-statistics-annual-brief" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/neet-statistics-annual-brief</a>.</p><p>Local authorities are required to encourage, enable, or assist young people’s participation in education or training and return management information for those aged 16 and 17. This data is published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/neet-and-participation-local-authority-figures" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/neet-and-participation-local-authority-figures</a>.</p><p>This shows that of the 3,500 16 and 17 year olds who were known to York local authority around the end of 2020 (average of December 2020, January 2021 and February 2021), 110 were NEET or their activity was not known (65 known to be NEET and 45 young people whom the local authority could not confirm their activity). These are not national statistics but published as transparency data so some caution should be taken if using these figures.</p><p>In addition, 16-18 destination measures are published. These official statistics show the percentage of pupils not continuing to a sustained education, apprenticeship, or employment destination in the year after completing 16-18 study, that is 6 months of continual activity. This can be used as a proxy for NEET at age 18.</p><p>The below statistics show that of the cohort of young people leaving state funded mainstream schools and colleges<sup>1</sup> in 2019/20:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>16-18 Destination measures<sup>2,3</sup>, 2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p>Number in cohort</p></td><td><p>Number not in a sustained destination<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>Number activity not captured<sup>5</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York</p></td><td><p>3,510</p></td><td><p>525</p></td><td><p>248</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York Central Constituency</p></td><td><p>353</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><ol><li>Covers all state-funded mainstream schools, academies, free schools, city technology colleges, sixth forms and other and further education sector colleges. Excludes alternative provision, special schools, other government department funded colleges and independent schools.</li><li>Local authority figures are based on the local education authority area responsible for the young person whereas constituency figures are based on the provider location.</li><li>Links to the destination measures statistics quoted in table:<ul><li>York local authority: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/8dacd6e4-a5b1-401c-b834-3fbc62621b0e" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/8dacd6e4-a5b1-401c-b834-3fbc62621b0e</a></li><li>York Central Constituency: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/ebedb6cb-4536-4aa5-aca9-cbad3c42ea9b" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/ebedb6cb-4536-4aa5-aca9-cbad3c42ea9b</a></li></ul></li><li>Students who had participated in education, apprenticeships or employment during the academic year but did not complete the required 6 months participation.</li><li>Student was not found to have any participation in education, apprenticeship, or employment in England.</li></ol><p><strong><br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 19/01/2022 10:40:02 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1436817

registered interest
date	28/02/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	T-levels: Small Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to help ensure that all SMEs are able to offer T-Level placements across the UK.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	131173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2022 answer text <p>Small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are key to ensuring that industry placements are a successful component of T Levels, as they make up a large proportion of the employer landscape. Through the department’s employer engagement teams, we are engaging directly with employers of all sizes, including SMEs, to explain the benefits of T Levels and of industry hosting placements, and to help provide a strong pipeline of employers, across all sectors, that are ready to offer placements.</p><p>We are providing an extensive programme of support to help ensure employers of all sizes can deliver placements. This includes a comprehensive employer support package, offering guidance, workshops, webinars, tailored advice, and hands-on support to help build employer confidence and capability in delivering high quality industry placements. We have also implemented several different delivery models to ensure placements can be delivered by employers of different sizes, across all industries and locations, and our T Level Ambassador Network is enabling employers, including SMEs, to engage with others in their industries on T Levels and placements. Finally, we have put in place a short-term incentive fund, offering employers £1,000 per industry placement, to encourage employer engagement during the COVID-19 outbreak. This has been warmly welcomed by SMEs.</p><p>We will continue to monitor the delivery of placements and work closely with employers, including SMEs, to identify what support they will need going forward to deliver high-quality placements.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 08/03/2022 17:02:43 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1437445

registered interest
date	02/03/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Local Skills Improvement Plans: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on ensuring that local skills improvement plans contribute to the UK's net zero targets.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	133258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text <p>The government introduced an amendment to the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill which ensures that skills required in relation to jobs that support compliance with the UK net zero emissions target are considered in the development of Local Skills Improvement Plans. The Department for Education will work closely with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy as we develop statutory guidance on this to ensure we have the right skills to meet the requirements of the net zero transition.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 07/03/2022 14:46:33 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1438986

registered interest
date	08/03/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Training: Regional Planning and Development
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many of the 200,000 additional people targeted to complete high-quality skills training as set out in the Levelling Up in the United Kingdom White Paper are planned to be on (a) on STEM courses, (b) apprenticeships and (c) young people up to the age of 25.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	136551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2022 answer text <p>The mission of 200,000 additional people completing high-quality skills training will focus on increasing the number of adults (those aged 19 and over) completing high-quality skills training, including science, technology, engineering, and mathematics courses and apprenticeships.</p><p> </p><p>The department knows that successfully completing these courses improves people’s earnings and life chances and helps them get good jobs.</p><p> </p><p>The department already has a range of high-quality training offers available to adults across every region of the country, including Skills Bootcamps, the free courses for jobs offer, as well as access to free courses in English, mathematics, and basic digital skills. Reforms to the skills and further education system are improving quality and driving up access further.</p><p> </p><p>Meeting the mission will depend on the national government, mayoral combined authorities, local authorities, employers and skills providers working together.</p><p> </p><p>The missions are rolling decade-long endeavours and will be reviewed periodically by the UK government.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 136550 question first answered 14/03/2022 11:01:51 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1455289

registered interest
date	29/03/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	T-levels: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding he (a) has made available in (i) each of the last five financial years and (ii) the 2021-22 financial year and (b) plans to make available in the (A) next financial year and (B) subsequent three financial years for the purpose of ensuring a successful transition between BTECs and T-Levels.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	149232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2022 answer text <p>The department recognises that significant additional funding will be needed for the successful introduction and delivery of T Levels. We announced in 2017 that T Level programmes would be backed by up to an additional £500 million of investment every year when fully rolled out. Some of this additional £500 million is included in the £1.6 billion extra announced for 16-19 funding by the 2024/25 financial year, compared with the 2021/22 financial year, in the recent Spending Review.</p><p>We have made available £268 million in capital funding for the first three waves of T Level delivery, starting in September 2020, 2021, and 2022. This funding is being used to improve the quality of facilities and equipment that will be used to deliver T Levels. Eligible providers will also be able to access training to help prepare their teachers and leaders.</p><p>As set out in the table below, we have also allocated £207.6 million to help the sector build capacity for T Level industry placements and deliver placements to students on existing programmes. From the 2020/21 academic year, we have allocated £3.2 million in industry placement funding for those on T Level programmes. In addition, T Levels include more teaching hours and are more prescriptive in the content than general 16-19 study programmes. Therefore, four larger bands have been added to the 16-19 funding bands to ensure T level providers receive the additional funding required.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Academic Years</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Funding stream</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021/22</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Totals to date</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Capacity and delivery funding</strong></p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£57.4m</p></td><td><p>£53.6m</p></td><td><p>£52.2m</p></td><td><p>£44.4m</p></td><td><p>£207.6m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Industry placement funding</strong></p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£0.5m</p></td><td><p>£2.7m</p></td><td><p>£3.2m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The funding data for the financial years 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25 is not yet available.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 19/04/2022 11:07:03 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1455369

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Skilled Workers: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the change in the level of funding spent on skills, across all sectors of the economy, since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	149239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2022 answer text <p>Spend by the Department for Education (and previously the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) on skills is reported through publication of the Annual Report and Accounts. These are available for each financial year since 2010/11.</p><p>The Department for Education (DfE) reports are available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-annual-reports" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-annual-reports</a>.</p><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) reports are available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bis-annual-reports-and-accounts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bis-annual-reports-and-accounts</a>.</p><p>Responsibility for higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and skills moved from BIS to DfE in 2016.</p><p>In the 2021 Spending Review, the government set out its plan to invest £3.8 billion more in skills over the Parliament as a whole, equivalent to a cash increase of 42% compared to the 2019/20 financial year. This will ensure people can access high-quality training and education that leads to good jobs, addresses skills gaps, boosts productivity, and supports levelling up. This will support the sector to reform and deliver the technical, skilled education employers want and our economy needs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 06/04/2022 15:50:16 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1507466

registered interest
date	21/09/2022
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	Welfare State: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the devolution of welfare powers to Wales to permit the Welsh Government to provide additional support for households amid the cost of living crisis.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	53462
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2022 answer text <p>The Wales Act 2017 sets a reserved powers model, making clear that social security, pensions and child maintenance remain reserved to UK Parliament. This position is unchanged since devolution began. The UK Government does not intend to devolve reserved social security powers to the Welsh Government. It has, however, used them to make provision for the £650 Cost of Living Payment (paid in 2 lump sums of £326 and £324) for around 8 million low-income households on means-tested benefits; the one-off disability Cost of Living Payment of £150 currently being paid to 6 million eligible people; and the extra one-off £300 Winter Fuel Payment this year to be paid to over 8 million pensioner households across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Government has taken further decisive action to support people with their energy bills through the new “Energy Price Guarantee”, which will mean a typical UK household will now pay up to an average £2,500 a year on their energy bill for the next two years from 1 October. This will save the average household in Great Britain at least £1,000 a year based on current energy prices from October. This is in addition to the over £37bn of cost of living support announced earlier this year which includes the £400 non-repayable discount to eligible households provided through the Energy Bills Support Scheme and the cost of living payments. It also includes an additional £500 million from October to help households across the UK with the cost of essentials. In England, £421 million is being provided to extend the Household Support Fund, a discretionary scheme run by Upper Tier Local Authorities, from October 2022 – March 2023. The Welsh Government has been allocated its share of this funding through the Barnett Formula.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 27/09/2022 15:11:47 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1519163

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	Right to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Prime Minister announcement on Right to buy scheme extension on 9 June, what assessments he has made of the potential merits of allowing Housing Benefit to be counted towards mortgage costs.
tabling member constituency	Falkirk
tabling member printed	John McNally
uin	59139
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>Since the announcement on the 9 June, the department has begun looking at changing welfare rules so that people who receive housing support can use their benefit towards mortgage payments for a new mortgage instead of on rent.</p><p> </p><p>Further consideration of the merits of changing welfare rules to support homeownership will be completed as the policy is developed in line with steers from the new administration.</p><p> </p><p>A full equalities impact assessment will also be carried out in due course, and before any legislation is laid with the House.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 18/10/2022 13:12:16 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4424 label Biography information for John McNally