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714049

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Department for Communities and Local Government: Official Hospitality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department has spent on (a) hotels, (b) hospitality, (c) food and drink and (d) transport in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	69215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <p>My Department gave an answer to Question UIN 194474 on catering and hospitality on 9 April 2014 which included expenditure for financial years 2011-12 to 2013-14 and to Question UIN 176826 on hotels and travel on 7 April 2014 for expenditure relating to 2011-12 and 2012-13.</p><p>For 2014-15 and 2015-16, total spend on catering and hospitality (including food, and drink) was £22,934 and £15,681. <br> <br> In 2009-10, the spend on hospitality and catering was £456,142. <br> <br> Providing accurate spend on transport and hotels would be at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 25/04/2017 09:55:01 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

714057

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Nuisance Calls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many complaints concerning (a) automated and (b) live telesales calls were received by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in 2016-17; how many fines were issued by the ICO against such offending companies in 2016-17; and how many of those fines were for the maximum possible amount.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	69166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2017 answer text <p>In the period from January 2016 to December 2016, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) received (a) 71,192 complaints concerning automated calls and (b) 63,636 complaints concerning live telesales calls.</p><p>In the same period, 22 monetary penalties were issued by the ICO against organisations for breaches of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. No organisation was fined the maximum monetary penalty of £500,000 by the ICO.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 12/04/2017 14:36:05 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

714062

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	EU Exit and Trade Committee
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, for what reasons she is not a member of the European Union Exit and Trade Committee.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	69253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2017 answer text <p>The list of Cabinet Committees and Implementation Taskforces, and their membership, is published here; https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-cabinet-committees-system-and-list-of-cabinet-committees. Other Ministers attend the European Union Exit and Trade Committee where the agenda item concerns their portfolio.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock grouped question UIN 69660 question first answered 18/04/2017 12:31:37 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

714085

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Official Hospitality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department has spent on (a) hotels, (b) hospitality, (c) food and drink and (d) transport in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	69217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2017 answer text <p>Spend on Travel, Subsistence and Hospitality can be found in the Department for Education’s annual report and accounts. The annual report and accounts for financial years 2010-11 to 2015-16 are accessible from the gov.uk website via the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/04/2017 13:40:30 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

714088

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidelines her Department provides on the steps for admissions authorities to take to accommodate disabled parents' requests when engaging with the school admissions decision-making process.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	69160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2017 answer text <p>The Department’s guidance for schools on the Equality Act 2010 makes it clear that it is unlawful to discriminate against a pupil due to the disability of another person with whom the pupil is associated, such as a parent.</p><p>It is for individual admission authorities to decide which admissions oversubscription criteria to specify within the parameters of the School Admissions Code (The Code). The Code allows admission authorities to prioritise applications based on medical and/or social need. It does not specify that this must include a parent’s medical needs or disability. Schools can, however, lawfully adopt admissions criteria that consider the disability of parents.</p><p>The Department is aware of case law which states that appeals about admissions will be successful if inflexible application of the published admission arrangements to the circumstances of a particular child results in an admission decision which is perverse. We are currently considering how to ensure that admission authorities and independent appeal panels are aware of the relevant case law.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 07/04/2017 13:08:02 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

714093

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Design and Technology: GCSE
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to promote take-up of GCSE design and technology in schools.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	69276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2017 answer text <p>The new design and technology GCSEs will be taught from September 2017, and will provide pupils with the knowledge required to progress to further study and employment.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to supporting the recruitment of design and technology teachers through bursaries of up to £12,000. In addition, subject knowledge enhancement courses are available for those candidates prior to commencing teacher training.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 07/04/2017 13:46:08 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

714096

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the value to the public purse of the sale of the student loans book.
tabling member constituency	Heywood and Middleton
tabling member printed	Liz McInnes
uin	69307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>The decision to start the sale process for part of the student loan book (set out in Written Statement HCWS458) is based on a robust and comprehensive assessment of the market which showed that it has a good prospect of achieving value for money.</p><p>As part of assessing value for money, the Government compares the value of keeping the student loan book and receiving uncertain and fluctuating repayments over time, and selling the rights to the remaining future repayments made on the student loan book and receiving a fixed sum of money for them now.</p><p>The sale process itself is also designed to achieve the best possible price for the taxpayer.</p><p>A further assessment will be made before the sale is completed (and before any further sales).</p><p>As required by the Sale of Student Loans Act 2008, the Government will provide a report to Parliament on the sale arrangements within three months of sale completion. As required by the Act this report will make reference to value for money.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 27/04/2017 08:03:45 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4342 label Biography information for Liz McInnes

714171

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Emergency Services: Gloucestershire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Gloucestershire County Council review of police and fire governance arrangements that concluded that a merger of the fire authority with the police and crime commissioner for the area would not be cost-effective, for what reason she has decided to allocate £100,000 from her Department's budget to the Police and Crime Commissioner for Gloucestershire for the commissioning of a second review on such a proposed merger.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	69243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>The Policing and Crime Act (2017) provides for PCCs to take on responsibility for the governance of fire and rescue services in their area, where a local case is made and it appears to the Secretary of State to be in the interests of economy, efficiency and effectiveness or public safety to give effect to the proposal.</p><p>The Home Secretary will respond shortly to a recommendation from the Police Reform and Transformation Board that grant funding be provided to up to 10 PCCs, including Gloucestershire, to support the development of proposals relating to future fire and rescue governance.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 26/04/2017 10:59:32 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

714179

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the proportion of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children accepted under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 that would otherwise have been eligible for transfer to the UK under the family-reunification provisions of the Dublin III Regulation.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	69288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>The Government has confirmed that the specified number under section 67(1) of the Immigration Act 2016 will not include cases transferred to the UK under the Dublin III Regulation.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 27/04/2017 08:20:49 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

714188

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Official Hospitality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much her Department has spent on (a) hotels, (b) hospitality, (c) food and drink and (d) transport in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	69225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>The consolidated departmental accounts give a figure for spend on the combined categories of travel, subsistence and hospitality. This is in the table below for the last five audited years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2011-12 £000</p></td><td><p>2012-13 £000</p></td><td><p>2013-14 £000</p></td><td><p>2014-15 £000</p></td><td><p>2015-16 £000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£42,009</p></td><td><p>£46,729</p></td><td><p>£45,214</p></td><td><p>£47,403</p></td><td><p>£47,313</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 24/04/2017 14:53:17 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders