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1701655

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
	answering dept id	216
	answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
	answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
	hansard heading	Research: Foreign Investment in UK
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what recent discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on encouraging Qatari investment in UK research and development.
	tabling member constituency	Broadland
	tabling member printed	Jerome Mayhew
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	902266
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2024 answer text <p>Through all our global partnerships, including those in the Gulf, government is delivering on the UK’s Science and Technology Framework and strengthening UK R&amp;D.</p><p>Qatar is an important friend to the UK and our bilateral relationship includes cooperation across many areas. The UK-Qatar Strategic Investment Partnership, signed in May 2022, signalled Qatar’s intention to deploy a further £10bn investment in key UK sectors, such as life science, zero-emissions vehicles and fintech over the next 5 years.</p><p>The UK’s new research MoU with Saudi Arabia, which I signed last month, is another example of where we are driving forward partnerships in the region to support UK R&amp;D.</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 17/04/2024 16:50:39 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
	tabling member	4739 label Biography information for Jerome Mayhew

1697732

	registered interest
	date	20/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the backlog in the courts.
	tabling member constituency	Broadland
	tabling member printed	Jerome Mayhew
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	902212
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2024 answer text <p>We remain committed to tackling the outstanding caseloads across our courts and tribunals and have introduced a range of measures to achieve this aim.</p><p> </p><p>Over 90% of all criminal cases are heard at the magistrates’ court, where we heard 100,000 cases a month on average across 2023. While the outstanding caseload in the magistrates’ courts has slightly increased in recent months due to an increase in the number of cases coming to court, the caseload remains well below its pandemic peak and stood at 353,900 at the end of September 2023, and cases continue to be progressed quickly. To aid our efforts in the magistrates’ courts, we invested £1 million in a programme of work to support the recruitment of more magistrates. We aim to recruit 2,000 new magistrates this year, and similar numbers for each of the next couple of years.</p><p> </p><p>At the Crown Court, we remain committed to reducing the outstanding caseload. Last financial year we sat over 100,000 days and this financial year, we plan to deliver around 107,000 sitting days and recruit more than 1,000 judges across all jurisdictions. Judges have worked tirelessly to complete more cases, with disposals up by 9% during Q3 in 2023 compared to Q4 in 2022 (25,700 compared to 23,700).</p><p>We are also investing in our criminal courts. In August 2023, we announced we are investing £220 million for essential modernisation and repair work of our court buildings across the next two years, up to March 2025. We have also continued the use of 20 Nightingale courtrooms into the 2024/25 financial year, to allow courts to work at full capacity.</p><p> </p><p>In the Family Court, we are working with the Department for Education and other partners on the Family Justice Board to tackle the longest running cases and increase the proportion of public law cases that conclude within the 26-week timeline. The Department for Education are also investing an extra £10m to develop new initiatives to address the longest delays in public law proceedings.</p><p>We announced in the Spring Budget an additional £55m to improve productivity, support earlier resolution of family disputes and reduce the number of cases coming to court. This includes creating a digital advice tool for separating couples, piloting early legal advice and supporting the expansion of the private law Pathfinder model. We are also investing up to £23.6m in the family mediation voucher scheme, which we intend will allow for its continuation up to March 2025. As of March 2024, over 26,000 families have successfully used the scheme to attempt to resolve their private law disputes outside of court.</p><p> </p><p>With regards to civil cases, we are taking action to ensure those that do need to go to trial are dealt with quickly. We have launched the biggest ever judicial recruitment drive for District Judges, are digitising court processes and holding more remote hearings, and are increasing the use of mediation. The requirement for small claims in the county court to attend a mediation session with the Small Claims Mediation Service will start this spring and is expected to help parties resolve their dispute swiftly and consensually without the need for a judicial hearing.</p><p>With regards to tribunals, we continue to work with the Department for Business and Trade on further measures to address caseloads in the Employment Tribunal, where the deployment of legal officers, recruitment of additional judges and a new electronic case management system have helped the Tribunal to manage its caseload which remains below its pandemic peak.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 26/03/2024 17:15:12 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	4739 label Biography information for Jerome Mayhew

1686136

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2024
	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	Jobcentres: Broadland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to expand the support available through Jobcentres in Broadland constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Broadland
	tabling member printed	Jerome Mayhew
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	901338
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2024 answer text <p>The local Jobcentre team are collaborating with a range of partners to support people into work and help employers fill vacancies. In addition to hosting jobs fairs and delivering sector-based work academy programmes (SWAPs), they are working with Breckland, Kings Lynn &amp; West Norfolk and North Norfolk District Councils, Duke of Lancaster Academy and Fakenham Academy to provide an employment and skills offer to help meet the recruitment needs of local employers.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 05/02/2024 16:06:22 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4739 label Biography information for Jerome Mayhew

1682623

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2024
	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	Employment and Unemployment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total rate of (a) employment and (b) unemployment was of people aged 16 to 64 between February and April 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Broadland
	tabling member printed	Jerome Mayhew
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	9938
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2024 answer text <ul><li>The ONS headline measure of the UK employment rate is for people aged 16-64.</li><li>The ONS headline measure of the UK unemployment rate is for people aged 16+.</li></ul><p /><p>The 16-64 UK employment rate was 70.2% between February and April 2010. The 16-64 UK unemployment rate between February and April 2010 was 8.1%.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Employment and unemployment data is published and available at: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/datasets/summaryoflabourmarketstatistics" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/datasets/summaryoflabourmarketstatistics</a></p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 18/01/2024 12:43:32 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4739 label Biography information for Jerome Mayhew

1672084

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2023
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent discussions he has had with the Irish Government on the establishment of the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery.
	tabling member constituency	Broadland
	tabling member printed	Jerome Mayhew
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	900195
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2023 answer text <p>The Government engages regularly with the Irish Government on a range of matters that benefit from partnership between our two countries.</p><p>Most recently, I met with the Tánaiste, Micheál Martin, on 12 October. A range of issues were discussed, including the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act. I encouraged the Irish Government to engage with the ICRIR in the coming months to understand its plans for implementation of the Act.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 22/11/2023 13:49:53 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
	tabling member	4739 label Biography information for Jerome Mayhew

1665627

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Financial Services: Secondary Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve financial education in secondary schools.
	tabling member constituency	Broadland
	tabling member printed	Jerome Mayhew
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	906622
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>Financial education forms a compulsory part of the National Curriculum for mathematics (at Key Stages 1 to 4) and citizenship (at Key stages 3 and 4), which together cover important financial topics including personal budgeting, saving for the future, managing credit and debt, and calculating interest. The National Curriculum is compulsory for maintained schools but academies must teach a broad and balanced curriculum, including mathematics. The National Curriculum can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum</a>.</p><p>The Prime Minister recently announced more investment in secondary mathematics, and that mathematics will be studied by all 16 to 18 year olds as part of the new Advanced British Standard qualification.</p><p>As with all aspects of the curriculum, schools have flexibility over how they deliver financial education, so they can develop an approach that is sensitive to the needs and background of their pupils.</p><p>There is a wide range of support for financial education. For example, the Money and Pensions Service has published guidance, setting out how schools can improve the financial education they deliver, and signposting to services and resources that can help. The guidance can be found here: <a href="https://maps.org.uk/en/publications/research/2021/financial-education-guidance-for-primary-and-secondary-schools-in-england" target="_blank">https://maps.org.uk/en/publications/research/2021/financial-education-guidance-for-primary-and-secondary-schools-in-england</a>.</p><p>The Department’s national network of 40 Maths Hubs also supports schools to improve their mathematics teaching, including financial content in the mathematics curriculum, based on best practice from East Asia.</p><p>The Oak National Academy, which became an independent Arm’s Length Body in September 2022, will provide adaptable, optional and free support for schools, reducing teacher workload and enabling pupils to access a high quality curriculum. New Oak curriculum materials, including for mathematics, will start be available from autumn 2023, with full curriculum packages available by summer 2024. Oak’s next phase of procurement of curriculum resources is expected to launch in late 2023 and will include citizenship.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 23/10/2023 12:18:40 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4739 label Biography information for Jerome Mayhew

1653934

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2023
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	A47
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the costs to the dualling of the A47 between Blofield and North Burlingham and Easton to North Tuddenham of the judicial review process.
	tabling member constituency	Broadland
	tabling member printed	Jerome Mayhew
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	194900
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2023 answer text <p>National Highways’ estimated legal costs associated with the judicial review process for the A47 Blofield to North Burlingham and A47 Easton to North Tuddenham schemes is £50,000 to £75,000. The judicial review process has not yet completed, so further legal costs could be incurred.</p><p>It is not yet possible to assess the full impact of the legal action on the project itself. However, it has meant that the schemes have missed their scheduled start of works dates of March 2023 and their construction costs will face additional inflationary pressures, potentially into the millions of pounds.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 04/09/2023 16:28:03 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
	tabling member	4739 label Biography information for Jerome Mayhew