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1584647

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date	17/02/2023
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	Conditions of Employment: Enforcement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when she expects the labour market enforcement strategy for 2023-2024 to be (a) completed and (b) published.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	140255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2023 answer text <p>The Director of Labour Market Enforcement’s 2023-24 Strategy is due to be presented to Secretaries of State in Spring. Following this, it will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 20/02/2023 13:52:46 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

1586115

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Apprentices: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what plans has he to review how funds from the Apprenticeship levy are distributed in the absence of a Northern Ireland Executive.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	146815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2023 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland Executive receives additional funding as a result of the UK-wide Apprenticeship Levy, which it can choose to use in its devolved areas of responsibility, including apprenticeships policy. Apprenticeships policy is the responsibility of the Northern Ireland Executive Department for the Economy.</p><p> </p><p>That is why the restoration of the Northern Ireland Executive, and a fully functioning Northern Ireland Assembly, is a key priority for the UK Government.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 22/02/2023 10:53:20 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1586116

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Tax: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has had recent discussions with his counterpart in the Scottish Government on income tax rates.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	146967
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2023 answer text <p>HM Treasury Ministers and officials regularly engage with their Scottish Government counterparts on a range of issues, including tax matters.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 23/02/2023 15:46:21 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1586117

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Elections: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of voter ID measures on the levels of voter ID fraud in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	146968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2023 answer text <p>The Elections Act 2022 makes no changes to the voter ID measures in Northern Ireland with the exception of the addition of two new documents to the existing list of acceptable evidence that may be produced at the polling station. The two new documents are the Half Fare SmartPass and the biometric immigration document.</p><p> </p><p>The Electoral Commission will continue to report on their assessment of any electoral fraud following elections in Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 23/02/2023 10:06:17 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1586118

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Gender Based Violence: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much and what proportion of funding through the What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls Fund was allocated to organisations in the West Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	147028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) is a government priority. VAWG is an unacceptable, preventable issue which blights the lives of millions.</p><p>In the Tackling VAWG Strategy, the government committed to invest £3 million to better understand what works to prevent VAWG – to invest in high quality, evidence-informed prevention projects, including in schools, aiming to educate and inform children and young people about VAWG, healthy relationships and the consequences of abuse.</p><p> </p><p>In 2022, we ran an open competition through which five organisations secured multi-year funding to deliver this work.</p><p>Four of these organisations will deliver their work nationally. As these projects cover all of England and Wales, it is not possible to provide a precise figure for the value and proportion of funding that benefits the West Midlands.</p><p>However, the University of Birmingham was successful in its bid for funding through the ‘What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls Fund’ and will receive £1,078,373 million across a three-year period.</p><p>The University of Birmingham project focuses on research into the WE PROTECT app, to assess whether remote services providing free and immediate legal assistance to domestic abuse victims (from across England and Wales) reduce victimisation rates and improve their physical and mental health.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 27/02/2023 15:52:44 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1586119

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Espionage: Airspace
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to counter the potential threat from surveillance balloons over (a) the UK and (b) UK military bases.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	146852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2023 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the right hon. Member for Wentworth and Deane to Questions 140020 and 140021 on 14 February 2023.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 23/02/2023 12:49:35 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey attachment 1 file name 140020 - Airspace Defence.docx title Airspace Defence
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

1586120

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services: Public Consultation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the consultation on the White Paper on Reforming Our Fire and Rescue Service, which closed on 26 July 2022.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	147029
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government is clear that further reform of fire and rescue services is necessary and is committed to delivering reform across key areas of focus within the White Paper.</p><p>The consultation response will be published as soon as possible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 27/02/2023 15:57:21 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1586121

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Food
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to The National Food Strategy: The Plan, Appendices 3 and 14, published in July 2021, whether her Department has taken steps to implement the Eat and Learn initiative for schools in that Plan; and whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of removing the requirement to serve meat three times a week from the mandatory School Food Standards in the context of developing a sustainability and health-driven national reference diet.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	147016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2023 answer text <p>The Department believes it is vital that pupils are taught about food and nutrition. Making healthy choices is relevant at all Key Stages, which is why these principles are taught and applied throughout school. Early Years practitioners encourage children to learn the importance of healthy eating using both narrative and visual resources. Pupils are then taught to understand healthy eating and lifestyle, including cooking, through science, design and technology and health education curricula at both primary and secondary level. Since autumn 2022, pupils have had the opportunity to be taught about food through the Climate Leaders’ Award.</p><p>Older pupils can understand the employment opportunities and the pathways leading to careers in the food sector. Ten high quality apprenticeships are available across a range of catering and hospitality professions and a T Level in Catering will teach the core knowledge and skills needed to enter such occupations, from September 2023.</p><p>Regarding the School Food Standards, the Department believes the standards provide a robust yet flexible framework to ensure that pupils in England continue to receive high quality and nutritious food that builds healthy eating habits for life. The standards are being kept under review.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 24/02/2023 15:08:05 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1586122

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	High Income Child Benefit Tax Charge
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make a comparative assessment of the equity of the application of the High Income Child Benefit Charge on total family incomes for families where (a) one partner earns above the threshold and the other does not work and (b) two partners each earn below the threshold but whose joint income would be above the threshold if it had been earned by a single person.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Nick Fletcher
uin	147070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government introduced the High Income Child Benefit Charge (HICBC) from January 2013 to ensure that support for families is targeted at those who need it most. The tax charge applies to anyone with an individual income over £50,000 who claims Child Benefit, or whose partner claims it, regardless of family make-up.</p><p> </p><p>HICBC is calculated on an individual rather than a household basis, in line with other income tax policy. Basing HICBC on household income would effectively introduce a new means test, which would be costly to administer and create burdens on the majority of families who receive Child Benefit.</p><p> </p><p>The current approach only requires a small number of Child Benefit claimants to complete a self assessment tax return to report and pay HICBC, while leaving the vast majority of claimants unaffected.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 23/02/2023 14:21:27 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4832 label Biography information for Nick Fletcher

1586123

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Freeports: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of each Welsh freeport bid on retaining Welsh language speakers within each prospective freeport's region.
tabling member constituency	Ynys Môn
tabling member printed	Virginia Crosbie
uin	147071
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2023 answer text <p>The UK Government (UKG) is wholly supportive of the ambition to reach 1 million Welsh speakers by 2050.</p><p> </p><p>The Wales Freeport bidding prospectus asks bidders to set out how their proposals contribute to a vibrant culture and thriving Welsh language.</p><p> </p><p>The Wales Freeport assessment process is still ongoing. The bids are being jointly assessed by officials from the UK and Welsh governments, with results to come out in due course.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Monmouth answering member printed David T C Davies question first answered 22/02/2023 17:51:06 answering member 1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies
tabling member	4859 label Biography information for Virginia Crosbie