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1172547

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date	22/01/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Conditions of Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will consult on establishing a military federation to represent serving armed forces personnel on pay, pension and conditions similar to the Police Federation.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	6643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence has no plans for a consultation on the creation of a military federation. I am satisfied that the interests of members of the Armed Forces as employees are suitably represented by the Chain of Command, the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association (SSAFA), the Royal Naval Association, the Royal Air Force Association, the Veterans Association and a great many more Regimental Associations and groups around the country. Many of these associations also represent the veterans' community. Along with the various Service-facing charities, the above-mentioned associations will all have regular access to the Chain of Command and Ministers to represent their members' interests.</p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 27/01/2020 17:44:22 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1172548

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to (a) identify and (b) support police officers with post-traumatic stress disorder.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	6644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government takes the issue of police wellbeing very seriously and has invested in programmes which offer help directly to officers. This includes £7.5 million to fund the development of the National Police Wellbeing Service, which was launched in April 2019.</p><p>The NPWS has developed evidence-based guidance, advice, tools and resources which can be accessed by forces, as well as individual officers and staff. There is an emphasis on prevention, for example by helping forces to identify mental health issues early through psychological screening, helping officers to access support earlier. This helps Chief Constables in their duty to ensure the wellbeing of all officers and staff, which includes supporting officers with specific welfare needs by signposting to relevant services and additional support.</p><p>We have also set out a vision for a new Police Covenant, recognising the bravery and commitment of officers who work night and day to keep us safe. We plan to focus on physical protection for officers, their health and wellbeing and support for their families.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 07/02/2020 13:30:32 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1172550

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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	Fuel Poverty: Easington
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps she is taking to reduce the number of households in fuel poverty in Easington constituency.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	6645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>Improving energy efficiency is the best long-term solution to tackle fuel poverty and the Energy Company Obligation Scheme provides such support for low income and vulnerable households. Since ECO launched it has delivered energy efficiency measures to more than 2 million households.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>ECO has delivered improvements to more than 4000 homes in Easington, representing 11% of households in the area.</p><p> </p><p>Tenants living in energy inefficient properties are some of the most at risk of fuel poverty. The Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards now require landlords spend up to £3500 improving their properties to energy efficiency Band E before renting them out.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to support to improve energy efficiency the Warm Home Discount provides support to more than 2 million low income and vulnerable households each year through a £140 rebate. Over £2.7 billion has been provided by the scheme over the last nine years.</p><p> </p><p>Our 2020 Fuel Poverty Strategy will set out further detail around our future plans to tackle fuel poverty.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 27/01/2020 14:32:23 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1172552

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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	Poverty: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will bring forward legislative proposals for the introduction of statutory targets to (a) reduce and (b) end child poverty.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	6646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to action that delivers a sustainable long-term solution to child poverty, including reforming the benefits system so that it supports employment and higher pay. Universal Credit is designed to help people move into work faster, stay in work longer and spend more time looking to increase their earnings and, when fully rolled out, we expect Universal Credit will boost employment by 200,000, lifting people out of poverty and generating £8 billion in economic benefits every year.</p><p>The child poverty targets introduced in 2010 were replaced with two statutory measures of parental employment and children’s educational attainment, the two areas which can make the biggest difference to children’s long-term outcomes. We have no current plans to reintroduce a target-based approach that focuses on income alone.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 27/01/2020 17:56:53 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1172291

registered interest
date	21/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Holiday Activities and Food Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which Parliamentary constituencies were allocated funding for the free holiday activities and meals for disadvantaged families scheme; and how much funding was allocated to each project.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	6080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>In December 2018, we announced £9 million for the Holiday Activities and Food Programme 2019 and invited organisations to bid to coordinate free holiday provision for disadvantaged children in a local authority area during the 2019 summer holidays.</p><p>92 bids were received and each bid was assessed against the criteria published in our “Invitation to Bid”, which has been attached.</p><p>Each bid was then ranked according to their score and we selected the highest scoring bid from each of the nine English regions for funding, along with two further high scoring bids. The level of funding allocated to each successful bid was in line with the scale and nature of their proposed programme, as detailed in their respective bids.</p><p>For the North East region, the StreetGames programme in Newcastle was selected as the highest scoring bid, with an allocation of £1,028,000. Our allocations to the other successful areas were as follows:</p><ul><li>Gateshead - £204,000</li><li>Leeds - £507,000</li><li>Bradford - £799,000</li><li>Cheshire West and Chester - £555,000</li><li>Leicestershire - £799,000</li><li>Birmingham - £1,999,000</li><li>Suffolk - £999,000</li><li>Croydon - £657,000</li><li>Hampshire - £766,000</li><li>Plymouth - £604,000</li></ul><p>We received a bid from Durham County Council which included coverage of the Easington and County Durham constituencies but the bid was unsuccessful as it scored lower than a number of other bids in the North East region, including those in Newcastle and Gateshead. Officials provided feedback to Durham County Council in May 2019.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 6081 6082 question first answered 27/01/2020 17:32:37 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan attachment 1 file name 6080_6081_6082_Holiday_Activities_and_Food_2019_Invitation_to_Bid.doc title 6080_6081_6082_Invitation_To_Bid
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1172293

registered interest
date	21/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Holiday Activities and Food Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria his Department used to determine which regions received funding from the free holiday activities and meals for disadvantaged families scheme.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	6081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>In December 2018, we announced £9 million for the Holiday Activities and Food Programme 2019 and invited organisations to bid to coordinate free holiday provision for disadvantaged children in a local authority area during the 2019 summer holidays.</p><p>92 bids were received and each bid was assessed against the criteria published in our “Invitation to Bid”, which has been attached.</p><p>Each bid was then ranked according to their score and we selected the highest scoring bid from each of the nine English regions for funding, along with two further high scoring bids. The level of funding allocated to each successful bid was in line with the scale and nature of their proposed programme, as detailed in their respective bids.</p><p>For the North East region, the StreetGames programme in Newcastle was selected as the highest scoring bid, with an allocation of £1,028,000. Our allocations to the other successful areas were as follows:</p><ul><li>Gateshead - £204,000</li><li>Leeds - £507,000</li><li>Bradford - £799,000</li><li>Cheshire West and Chester - £555,000</li><li>Leicestershire - £799,000</li><li>Birmingham - £1,999,000</li><li>Suffolk - £999,000</li><li>Croydon - £657,000</li><li>Hampshire - £766,000</li><li>Plymouth - £604,000</li></ul><p>We received a bid from Durham County Council which included coverage of the Easington and County Durham constituencies but the bid was unsuccessful as it scored lower than a number of other bids in the North East region, including those in Newcastle and Gateshead. Officials provided feedback to Durham County Council in May 2019.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 6080 6082 question first answered 27/01/2020 17:32:37 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan attachment 1 file name 6080_6081_6082_Holiday_Activities_and_Food_2019_Invitation_to_Bid.doc title 6080_6081_6082_Invitation_To_Bid
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1172294

registered interest
date	21/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Holiday Activities and Food Programme: County Durham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons his Department decided not to allocate funding from the free holiday activities and meals for disadvantaged families scheme to (a) Easington constituency and (b) County Durham.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	6082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>In December 2018, we announced £9 million for the Holiday Activities and Food Programme 2019 and invited organisations to bid to coordinate free holiday provision for disadvantaged children in a local authority area during the 2019 summer holidays.</p><p>92 bids were received and each bid was assessed against the criteria published in our “Invitation to Bid”, which has been attached.</p><p>Each bid was then ranked according to their score and we selected the highest scoring bid from each of the nine English regions for funding, along with two further high scoring bids. The level of funding allocated to each successful bid was in line with the scale and nature of their proposed programme, as detailed in their respective bids.</p><p>For the North East region, the StreetGames programme in Newcastle was selected as the highest scoring bid, with an allocation of £1,028,000. Our allocations to the other successful areas were as follows:</p><ul><li>Gateshead - £204,000</li><li>Leeds - £507,000</li><li>Bradford - £799,000</li><li>Cheshire West and Chester - £555,000</li><li>Leicestershire - £799,000</li><li>Birmingham - £1,999,000</li><li>Suffolk - £999,000</li><li>Croydon - £657,000</li><li>Hampshire - £766,000</li><li>Plymouth - £604,000</li></ul><p>We received a bid from Durham County Council which included coverage of the Easington and County Durham constituencies but the bid was unsuccessful as it scored lower than a number of other bids in the North East region, including those in Newcastle and Gateshead. Officials provided feedback to Durham County Council in May 2019.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 6080 6081 question first answered 27/01/2020 17:32:37 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan attachment 1 file name 6080_6081_6082_Holiday_Activities_and_Food_2019_Invitation_to_Bid.doc title 6080_6081_6082_Invitation_To_Bid
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1172298

registered interest
date	21/01/2020
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	Poverty: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children in poverty lived in working households in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	6083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>National statistics of the number of children in low income households are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics for the number of children in working households in absolute low income, in each of the last five years, are available by combining tables 4.21ts and 4.2ts in the file “children-hbai-timeseries-1994-95-2017-18-tables” available in the link below.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/789816/hbai-2017-2018-tables-ods-files.zip" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/789816/hbai-2017-2018-tables-ods-files.zip</a></p><p> </p><p>Statistics for the number of children in working households in relative low income, in each of the last five years, are available by combining tables 4.15ts and 4.2ts in the same file.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 29/01/2020 17:55:18 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1172299

registered interest
date	21/01/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Easington
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding in real terms has been allocated to schools in Easington constituency in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	6084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>Funding for schools is given to local authorities through the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG), which in turn distribute this money to schools in their area through their own local formulae. The following table outlines the schools block DSG allocations for Durham County Council since 2015-16 in cash terms. Prior to the introduction of the National Funding Formula (NFF), schools block allocations were only calculated at local authority level.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Schools block DSG allocations for Durham</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Funding per pupil (£)<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total schools block (£)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£4,641</p></td><td><p>£287.1 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£4,649</p></td><td><p>£288.8 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£4,674</p></td><td><p>£293.0 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>£4,694</p></td><td><p>£298.6 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>£4,758</p></td><td><p>£306.1 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>£4,937</p></td><td><p>£319.5 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Since 2018-19, schools block allocations have been calculated through the NFF, based on individual schools’ characteristics. The following table outlines in cash terms notional NFF allocations for schools in Easington in 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>NFF allocations for Easington</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Funding per pupil (£)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total cash funding (£)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NFF 2018-19<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>£4,817</p></td><td><p>£51.6 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NFF 2019-20<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>£4,862</p></td><td><p>£52.8 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NFF 2020-21<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>£5,012</p></td><td><p>£54.7 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>To smooth the transition to the NFF, local authorities have continued to be responsible for designing the distribution of funding in their areas in 2018-19 through to 2020-21. The actual amount that schools receive may be different from the amount they are attracting through the NFF. Local authorities set their local formula in consultation with local schools. The Department will now move to a single national formula as soon as possible to complete our reforms to make the funding system fair and equitable for every school in the country.</p><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup> The schools block unit of funding has been calculated by dividing the local authority’s total schools block allocation.</p><p><sup>2</sup> Notional NFF allocations for individual schools were calculated based on available pupil data at the time, which was pupil data from the previous year. Final allocations given to local authorities were calculated based on updated pupil data. The figures in these tables are therefore not directly comparable.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 29/01/2020 17:45:43 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris