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1607748

registered interest
date	28/03/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Children: Custody
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he plans to take to support parents who do not live with their children to maintain contact where that contact is hindered by the resident parent or guardian.
tabling member constituency	Halifax
tabling member printed	Holly Lynch
uin	174368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>The Government is aware of the difficulties that parents can face in continuing a relationship with their child following parental separation or divorce.</p><p> </p><p>Under the current legal framework, a parent can apply for a child arrangements order for the child to live with or spend time with them. The welfare of the child is paramount in any decision regarding child arrangements, including decisions about the nature and extent of parental involvement.</p><p>We are committed to supporting families to resolve private family law matters outside of court where appropriate to ensure that matters are resolved earlier, before conflict becomes entrenched.</p><p> </p><p>The Family Mediation Voucher Scheme provides families with up to £500 towards mediation with a trained, authorised professional to help resolve child arrangement issues in a less adversarial way. As of 26 March 2023, over 16,100 families have now benefitted from the scheme. Analysis of the first 7,200 users shows 69% wholly or partially resolve their issues and don’t need to go on to court, other than for a consent order to formalise their agreement. The government announced on 23 March that an additional £15m would be provided to continue the scheme for up to a further two years. This will allow it to help around a further 28,500 families over the period.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 03/04/2023 09:42:59 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4472 label Biography information for Holly Lynch

1608107

registered interest
date	28/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time equivalent asylum casework staff there were in her Department as of 1 March 2023.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	175532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2023 answer text <p>The number of asylum casework staff who have been paid a retention allowance in each month since December 2022 is not information which is held in a reportable format, or routinely published and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The number of FTE asylum caseworkers employed per month until December 2022 is in the ASY_05(M) tab of the published immigration statistics is located here: Immigration and protection data: Q4 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</p><p> </p><p>Information regarding the number of full-time equivalent asylum caseworkers from January to March 2023 has yet to be published, therefore we are currently unable to provide the information for this quarter.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 175533 175534 question first answered 17/04/2023 16:45:17 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1608108

registered interest
date	28/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum casework staff in her Department have (a) started and (b) ceased working in those roles since 1 January 2023.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	175533
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2023 answer text <p>The number of asylum casework staff who have been paid a retention allowance in each month since December 2022 is not information which is held in a reportable format, or routinely published and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The number of FTE asylum caseworkers employed per month until December 2022 is in the ASY_05(M) tab of the published immigration statistics is located here: Immigration and protection data: Q4 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</p><p> </p><p>Information regarding the number of full-time equivalent asylum caseworkers from January to March 2023 has yet to be published, therefore we are currently unable to provide the information for this quarter.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 175532 175534 question first answered 17/04/2023 16:45:17 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1608109

registered interest
date	28/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum casework staff in her Department have been paid a retention allowance for continuous service of (a) one year and (b) two years in each month since December 2022.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	175534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2023 answer text <p>The number of asylum casework staff who have been paid a retention allowance in each month since December 2022 is not information which is held in a reportable format, or routinely published and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The number of FTE asylum caseworkers employed per month until December 2022 is in the ASY_05(M) tab of the published immigration statistics is located here: Immigration and protection data: Q4 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</p><p> </p><p>Information regarding the number of full-time equivalent asylum caseworkers from January to March 2023 has yet to be published, therefore we are currently unable to provide the information for this quarter.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 175532 175533 question first answered 17/04/2023 16:45:17 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1608110

registered interest
date	28/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of her Department's sites operate the Prioritising Asylum Customer Experience programme.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	175535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>Currently, the Prioritising Asylum Customer Experience Programme, commonly known as PACE, is active (with different levels of intensity and work, due to phased plans) in all 14 Asylum decision making locations. This varies from intensive work with the operation teams, to planning and early case allocation.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/04/2023 14:22:31 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1608111

registered interest
date	28/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Questionnaires
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many questionnaires have been (a) sent by and (b) returned to her Department in relation to asylum claims within the scope of the new guidance on streamlined asylum processing since the publication of that guidance on 23 February 2023.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	175536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2023 answer text <p>We need to make sure asylum seekers do not spend months or years, living in the UK at vast expense to the taxpayer, waiting for a decision. As part of these efforts to speed up the asylum process for high-grant nationalities, 12,000 asylum seekers who made legacy asylum claims, those made before 28 June 2022, are being asked to provide all necessary information in a new Home Office questionnaire to help determine their case.</p><p> </p><p>The exact number of asylum questionnaires which have been sent and returned under this streamlined process is not information currently held in a reportable format.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 17/04/2023 17:02:43 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1608112

registered interest
date	28/03/2023
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	NHS: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the merger of NHS England and Health Education England on the NHS neurology workforce; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	175658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>No assessment of the impact of the merger of Health Education England with NHS England on the National Health Service neurology workforce has been undertaken.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 04/04/2023 11:06:55 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1608113

registered interest
date	28/03/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make a comparative assessment of the percentage increases in the (a) pay for MoD staff and (b) national living wage since 2016; what assessment he has made of the impact of the levels of pay for staff in his Department on the (i) recruitment and (ii) retention of staff in his Department; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Patricia Gibson
uin	175537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2023 answer text <p>The increase, as a percentage, for the national living wage (NLW) rate, the amount the Civil Service (CS) pay remit permitted, and the overall award which the Ministry of Defence (MOD) implemented in each year since 2016 is presented in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2023</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>NLW Increase</strong></p></td><td><p>7.45%</p></td><td><p>4.17%</p></td><td><p>4.4%</p></td><td><p>4.85%</p></td><td><p>6.21%</p></td><td><p>2.18%</p></td><td><p>6.62%</p></td><td><p>9.68%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>CS Remit guidance</strong></p></td><td><p>1%</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td><td><p>1-1.5%</p></td><td><p>1-2%</p></td><td><p>1.5-2.5%</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td><td><p>2-3%</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>MOD pay award</strong></p></td><td><p>1%</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td><td><p>1.5%</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td><td><p>2.5%</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes to table:<br> - The MOD has implemented an award at the maximum of the permitted ranges allowed under the Cabinet Office/Treasury guidance in each year. This represents the overall MOD change in pay and not necessarily what every individual received.</p><p>- For 2023 the CS guidance, and therefore MOD’s award, are yet to be published/determined and, therefore, their respective cells are blank.</p><p> </p><p>No assessment has been made on the impact of the NLW rise on recruitment and retention. This will be closely monitored from April 2023 when the new NLW rate comes into effect. A multi-disciplinary project team has been created to steer the Defence response to the NLW and any necessary changes in our operating model.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 17/04/2023 12:36:31 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4435 label Biography information for Patricia Gibson

1608114

registered interest
date	28/03/2023
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	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Development Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make it his policy to spend at least 50 per cent of his Department's budget in fragile and conflict-affected states and regions.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	175538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2023 answer text <p>Fragile and Conflict Affected States are central in the International Development Strategy (IDS), which aims to tackle the causes of crises and build the long-term foundations for lasting development. We cannot end extreme poverty in low- and middle-income countries without tackling conflict and fragility.</p><p>Official Development Assistance (ODA) allocations are being directed towards the strategic priorities of the IDS. The World Bank publishes an annual list of Fragile and Conflict Affected Situations. Eight of the top 10 country recipients of UK bilateral ODA in 2021 are on the World Bank list.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 04/04/2023 15:41:17 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

1608115

registered interest
date	28/03/2023
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	Gender: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make it his policy to increase the proportion of Overseas Development Assistance spent on peacebuilding that focuses on gender equality from 7 to 15 per cent.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	175539
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>In February 2023, the UK Government launched its fifth National Action Plan on Women Peace and Security, highlighting how we will utilise our diplomatic, defence and development levers to support women's full, equal and meaningful participation in peace building, peace processes and mediation. Further, the FCDO has committed, in our March 2023 International Women and Girls Strategy, that 80 per cent of all the FCDO's bilateral aid programmes will have a focus on gender equality by 2030. FCDO Official Development Assistance allocations are guided by the priorities set out in the International Development Strategy, the aims of which include empowering and protecting women and girls.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 03/04/2023 15:12:16 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry