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963997

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Social Media: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department is taking steps to educate young people about the potential dangers of social media outside of formal education.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	169652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The Department wants to support all young people to be happy, healthy and safe. There is a focus on ensuring the curriculum provides children and young people with knowledge on internet safety. The computing curriculum ensures that pupils are responsible and competent users of information and communication technology. This autumn, the National Centre of Computing Education will be launched, which will support the teaching of computing.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is also making Relationships Education compulsory in all primary schools, Relationships and Sex Education compulsory in all secondary schools and Health Education compulsory in all state-funded schools.</p><p>The Department is currently consulting on the draft regulations that will make the subjects compulsory, as well as the accompanying guidance: <a href="https://consult.education.gov.uk/pshe/relationships-education-rse-health-education/" target="_blank">https://consult.education.gov.uk/pshe/relationships-education-rse-health-education/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The draft guidance sets out that teaching about internet safety, including the benefits and risks of social media, should be integrated into these subjects. The draft guidance also provides examples of resources from reputable organisations that can be used by schools and any other organisation working with children and young people. For example, the UK Council for Child Internet Safety recently published “The Education for a Connected World framework” which describes the digital knowledge and skills that children and young people should have the opportunity to develop at different ages and stages of their lives. The framework is designed to support schools, colleges, parents and children’s organisations.</p><p>More information on the framework can be found at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/683895/Education_for_a_connected_world_PDF.PDF" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/683895/Education_for_a_connected_world_PDF.PDF.</a></p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/09/2018 16:08:15 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

964810

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Agreements: Developing Countries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of trade agreements the UK is a party to with developing countries in supporting those countries to (a) reduce poverty and (b) develop their economies.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	169656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>Overall, the evidence is clear that openness to trade stimulates growth and helps to reduce poverty. The number of people living in extreme poverty globally has fallen by around one billion since 1990, and this could not have happened without the participation of developing countries in international trade.</p><p>That is why this department is working closely with the Department for International Development to ensure development and global prosperity are at the heart of UK trade and investment policy and to help shape the UK’s future trade arrangements with developing countries.</p><p>Our first priority is to deliver continuity in our trading arrangements with developing countries, to ensure that their, and our, producers and consumers face no disruption to trade. In the future, we will seek to deepen our trade relationships with developing countries.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Meon Valley answering member printed George Hollingbery question first answered 14/09/2018 09:37:36 answering member 4016 label Biography information for Sir George Hollingbery
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

964811

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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	Health Services: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to Answer of 10 July 2018 to Question 160799 on Health Services: Foreign Nationals, what processes his Department has put in place to monitor the effectiveness of NHS care providers in relation to determining the eligibility of patients; and what steps he has taken to ensure that the eligibilty criteria does not result in discrimination.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	169657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The National Health Service is a residency-based healthcare system, with a requirement to be ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom in order to access NHS-funded healthcare. Providers of relevant NHS services are required to make and recover charges from overseas visitors where relevant services have been provided to them and no exemption applies.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not mandate any specific processes to determine the residence or chargeable status of patients. In order to identify those who may not be entitled to NHS-funded treatment, and to do so in a way that avoids racial profiling and discrimination, all patients need to be asked baseline questions to indicate whether they are ordinarily resident in the UK or if they may be an overseas visitor who should be assessed for charges.</p><p> </p><p>However, it is up to providers of NHS care to assure themselves that they are doing everything reasonable to determine the eligibility of patients who are entitled to receive free NHS care, an entitlement based on residency not nationality.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has published extensive guidance on implementing the overseas visitor charging regulations. This guidance is for use by all frontline staff providing National Health Service funded services, as well as the providers and commissioners of those services. It is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-overseas-visitors-hospital-charging-regulations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-overseas-visitors-hospital-charging-regulations</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The guidance clearly sets out that urgent or immediately necessary care must never be withheld, regardless of an individual’s ability to pay for the treatment. Clinicians are required to make the decision on whether treatment is urgent or immediately necessary for those patients identified as not eligible for NHS-funded care, taking into account a realistic expectation of when the individual is expected to leave the UK. As a result of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 patients are required to pay in advance if treatment is decided by a clinician to not be non-urgent. The Department has been carrying out a review of these Amendment Regulations, with evidence submitted by 31 organisations or individuals representing vulnerable migrants. The evidence is currently being considered and stakeholders will receive an update in due course.</p><p> </p><p>It is also worth noting that that the Charging Regulations already have extensive safeguards in place for the most vulnerable. Refugees, asylum seekers, some state supported failed asylum seekers and victims of modern slavery are all exempt from the Charging Regulations.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 169658 169659 169660 question first answered 11/09/2018 13:35:25 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

964812

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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	Health Services: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to Answer of 10 July 20178 to Question 160799 on Health Services: Foreign Nationals, what steps he has taken to ensure that urgent care is not withheld from patients.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	169658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The National Health Service is a residency-based healthcare system, with a requirement to be ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom in order to access NHS-funded healthcare. Providers of relevant NHS services are required to make and recover charges from overseas visitors where relevant services have been provided to them and no exemption applies.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not mandate any specific processes to determine the residence or chargeable status of patients. In order to identify those who may not be entitled to NHS-funded treatment, and to do so in a way that avoids racial profiling and discrimination, all patients need to be asked baseline questions to indicate whether they are ordinarily resident in the UK or if they may be an overseas visitor who should be assessed for charges.</p><p> </p><p>However, it is up to providers of NHS care to assure themselves that they are doing everything reasonable to determine the eligibility of patients who are entitled to receive free NHS care, an entitlement based on residency not nationality.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has published extensive guidance on implementing the overseas visitor charging regulations. This guidance is for use by all frontline staff providing National Health Service funded services, as well as the providers and commissioners of those services. It is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-overseas-visitors-hospital-charging-regulations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-overseas-visitors-hospital-charging-regulations</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The guidance clearly sets out that urgent or immediately necessary care must never be withheld, regardless of an individual’s ability to pay for the treatment. Clinicians are required to make the decision on whether treatment is urgent or immediately necessary for those patients identified as not eligible for NHS-funded care, taking into account a realistic expectation of when the individual is expected to leave the UK. As a result of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 patients are required to pay in advance if treatment is decided by a clinician to not be non-urgent. The Department has been carrying out a review of these Amendment Regulations, with evidence submitted by 31 organisations or individuals representing vulnerable migrants. The evidence is currently being considered and stakeholders will receive an update in due course.</p><p> </p><p>It is also worth noting that that the Charging Regulations already have extensive safeguards in place for the most vulnerable. Refugees, asylum seekers, some state supported failed asylum seekers and victims of modern slavery are all exempt from the Charging Regulations.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 169657 169659 169660 question first answered 11/09/2018 13:35:25 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

964813

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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	Health Services: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2018 to Question 160799 on Health Services: Foreign Nationals, whether he has received representations from (a) asylum seekers, (b) vulnerable migrants and (c) organisations representing (i) migrants and (ii) asylum seekers on urgent care being withheld from patients.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	169659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The National Health Service is a residency-based healthcare system, with a requirement to be ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom in order to access NHS-funded healthcare. Providers of relevant NHS services are required to make and recover charges from overseas visitors where relevant services have been provided to them and no exemption applies.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not mandate any specific processes to determine the residence or chargeable status of patients. In order to identify those who may not be entitled to NHS-funded treatment, and to do so in a way that avoids racial profiling and discrimination, all patients need to be asked baseline questions to indicate whether they are ordinarily resident in the UK or if they may be an overseas visitor who should be assessed for charges.</p><p> </p><p>However, it is up to providers of NHS care to assure themselves that they are doing everything reasonable to determine the eligibility of patients who are entitled to receive free NHS care, an entitlement based on residency not nationality.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has published extensive guidance on implementing the overseas visitor charging regulations. This guidance is for use by all frontline staff providing National Health Service funded services, as well as the providers and commissioners of those services. It is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-overseas-visitors-hospital-charging-regulations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-overseas-visitors-hospital-charging-regulations</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The guidance clearly sets out that urgent or immediately necessary care must never be withheld, regardless of an individual’s ability to pay for the treatment. Clinicians are required to make the decision on whether treatment is urgent or immediately necessary for those patients identified as not eligible for NHS-funded care, taking into account a realistic expectation of when the individual is expected to leave the UK. As a result of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 patients are required to pay in advance if treatment is decided by a clinician to not be non-urgent. The Department has been carrying out a review of these Amendment Regulations, with evidence submitted by 31 organisations or individuals representing vulnerable migrants. The evidence is currently being considered and stakeholders will receive an update in due course.</p><p> </p><p>It is also worth noting that that the Charging Regulations already have extensive safeguards in place for the most vulnerable. Refugees, asylum seekers, some state supported failed asylum seekers and victims of modern slavery are all exempt from the Charging Regulations.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 169657 169658 169660 question first answered 11/09/2018 13:35:25 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

964814

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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	Health Services: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2018 to Question 160799 on Health Services: Foreign Nationals, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effect of Government policy on deterring vulnerable non-UK citizens from seeking treatment on the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	169660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The National Health Service is a residency-based healthcare system, with a requirement to be ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom in order to access NHS-funded healthcare. Providers of relevant NHS services are required to make and recover charges from overseas visitors where relevant services have been provided to them and no exemption applies.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not mandate any specific processes to determine the residence or chargeable status of patients. In order to identify those who may not be entitled to NHS-funded treatment, and to do so in a way that avoids racial profiling and discrimination, all patients need to be asked baseline questions to indicate whether they are ordinarily resident in the UK or if they may be an overseas visitor who should be assessed for charges.</p><p> </p><p>However, it is up to providers of NHS care to assure themselves that they are doing everything reasonable to determine the eligibility of patients who are entitled to receive free NHS care, an entitlement based on residency not nationality.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has published extensive guidance on implementing the overseas visitor charging regulations. This guidance is for use by all frontline staff providing National Health Service funded services, as well as the providers and commissioners of those services. It is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-overseas-visitors-hospital-charging-regulations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-overseas-visitors-hospital-charging-regulations</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The guidance clearly sets out that urgent or immediately necessary care must never be withheld, regardless of an individual’s ability to pay for the treatment. Clinicians are required to make the decision on whether treatment is urgent or immediately necessary for those patients identified as not eligible for NHS-funded care, taking into account a realistic expectation of when the individual is expected to leave the UK. As a result of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 patients are required to pay in advance if treatment is decided by a clinician to not be non-urgent. The Department has been carrying out a review of these Amendment Regulations, with evidence submitted by 31 organisations or individuals representing vulnerable migrants. The evidence is currently being considered and stakeholders will receive an update in due course.</p><p> </p><p>It is also worth noting that that the Charging Regulations already have extensive safeguards in place for the most vulnerable. Refugees, asylum seekers, some state supported failed asylum seekers and victims of modern slavery are all exempt from the Charging Regulations.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 169657 169658 169659 question first answered 11/09/2018 13:35:25 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

964815

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Females: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2018 to Question 160802 on Females: Equality, what progress her Department has made on meeting Sustainable Development Goal 5 by 2030; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	169661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2018 answer text <p>To date, our progress in implementing policy in line with Goal 5 of the Sustainable Development Goals has led to a higher percentage of women on FTSE boards than ever before, ground-breaking regulations to close the gender pay gap, tax-free childcare entitlements, the introduction of shared parental leave, and an increase in flexible working opportunities. We have also developed a proactive violence against women and girls strategy which protects and supports victims and provided support to enable women from Northern Ireland to access abortion services in England.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 12/09/2018 16:47:48 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

964995

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Visas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with reference to paragraph 46 of Chapter 3 of the White Paper, The future relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union, Cm. 9593, published on 12 July 2018, whether the proposal for a reciprocal exchange of expertise and personnel between UK and EU institutions will include sector specific visas for workers in the foreign, defence and development sectors.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	169672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government believes that it will be beneficial to both the UK and the EU to agree a future programme for the reciprocal exchange of expertise and personnel in areas of mutual interest and collaboration, including in the area of foreign policy, defence and development cooperation.</p><p>On the UK's future immigration policy, we will set out further detail in the Immigration White Paper in due course, taking into account the findings of the Migration Advisory Committee.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 12/09/2018 09:32:21 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

964996

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	UK Relations with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with reference to paragraph 66 of chapter 2 on page 64 of the paper, The future relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union, whether the arrangements with the EU for future development policy cooperation will come into effect during the implementation period.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	169673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The UK welcomes the provision in the Withdrawal Agreement that allows for the future relationship on foreign and defence policy to become effective during the Implementation Period.</p><p>In future, our cooperation with the EU on development will be linked to the external financing instruments established in the next Multiannual Financial Framework, after the Implementation Period has ended. This will determine how the EU will finance international development after 2020.</p><p>The UK remains open to pooling resources with the EU and drawing on our collective expertise to maximise the combined development impact in areas of our mutual interest. This is why we have proposed, in the recent White Paper, a Cooperative Accord on development assistance and international action. Precisely how this relationship will work remains subject to negotiation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 13/09/2018 09:53:16 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill