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1401761

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date	11/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what fiscal steps he is taking to support Welsh students who are attending university in England with costs of renting student accommodation in England.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	101828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2022 answer text <p>Devolution means that there are a range of policies and approaches to higher education (HE) which differ between the four administrations who deal with higher education policy in the United Kingdom. It is for each administration to decide how they deploy their resources and develop their HE system. Devolution allows for the different treatment of UK students in respect of student support within different parts of the UK.</p><p>The government plays no role in the provision of student residential accommodation. Universities and private accommodation providers are autonomous and are responsible for setting their own rent agreements. We encourage universities and private landlords to review their accommodation policies to ensure they are fair, clear and have the interests of students at heart.</p><p>If a student thinks their accommodation provider is treating them unfairly, they can raise a complaint under the accommodation codes of practice as long as the provider is a code member. The codes can be found at: <a href="https://www.thesac.org.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.thesac.org.uk/</a>, <a href="https://www.unipol.org.uk/the-code/how-to-complain" target="_blank">https://www.unipol.org.uk/the-code/how-to-complain</a> and <a href="https://www.nrla.org.uk/about-us/code-of-practice" target="_blank">https://www.nrla.org.uk/about-us/code-of-practice</a>.</p><p>We recognise that in the exceptional circumstances of the COVID-19 outbreak, some students may face financial hardship<strong>. </strong>Our grant funding to the Office for Students (OfS) for the current financial year includes an allocation of £5 million to HE providers in England in order to provide additional support for student hardship. This is to mitigate hardship due to COVID-19 impacts on the labour market which particularly affect, for example, students relying on work to fund their studies. In our guidance to the OfS on funding for the 2021/22 financial year we made clear that the OfS should protect the £256 million allocation for the student premiums to support disadvantaged students and those that need additional help<strong>.</strong></p><p>Many providers have hardship funds that students can apply to for assistance should the COVID-19 outbreak affect individuals’ finances in academic year 2021/22.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 101827 question first answered 20/01/2022 15:26:20 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1401852

registered interest
date	11/01/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether regulations to require all new HGVs to emit zero emissions by 2040 will recognise hydrogen internal combustion engines as a compliant zero-emission technology.
tabling member constituency	Bradford South
tabling member printed	Judith Cummins
uin	101764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2022 answer text <p>Following consultation, we announced at COP26 that the UK would become the first country in the world to commit to phasing out new, non-zero emission heavy goods vehicles weighing 26 tonnes and under by 2035, with all new HGVs sold in the UK to be zero emission by 2040. Regulations used to deliver these dates will be technology neutral and the next steps will be set out in Government’s response to the phase out dates consultation which will be published shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 19/01/2022 09:52:48 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4391 label Biography information for Judith Cummins

1401853

registered interest
date	11/01/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cars and Vans: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether regulations to require all new cars and vans to emit zero emissions by 2035 will recognise hydrogen internal combustion engines as a compliant zero-emission technology.
tabling member constituency	Bradford South
tabling member printed	Judith Cummins
uin	101765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2022 answer text <p>Removing tailpipe emissions from road vehicles is fundamental to decarbonising transport. Regulations that ensure that from 2035 all new cars and vans are fully zero emission at the tailpipe will remain technology neutral. The Government’s response to our recent consultation on the regulatory options for the design of those regulations will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 18/01/2022 10:24:48 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4391 label Biography information for Judith Cummins

1401993

registered interest
date	11/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Unemployment: York
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of people who are classified as not in education, employment or training in (a) York Central constituency and (b) York.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	101773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2022 answer text <p>The department publishes national statistics on those not in education, employment or training (NEET) for England from the labour force survey for young people aged 16-24. However, these are only published at national and regional level due to limitations with sample sizes for lower-level geographies. Therefore, NEET rates for young people aged 16-24 cannot be provided for the areas requested.</p><p>The publication is available to view here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/neet-statistics-annual-brief" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/neet-statistics-annual-brief</a>.</p><p>Local authorities are required to encourage, enable, or assist young people’s participation in education or training and return management information for those aged 16 and 17. This data is published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/neet-and-participation-local-authority-figures" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/neet-and-participation-local-authority-figures</a>.</p><p>This shows that of the 3,500 16 and 17 year olds who were known to York local authority around the end of 2020 (average of December 2020, January 2021 and February 2021), 110 were NEET or their activity was not known (65 known to be NEET and 45 young people whom the local authority could not confirm their activity). These are not national statistics but published as transparency data so some caution should be taken if using these figures.</p><p>In addition, 16-18 destination measures are published. These official statistics show the percentage of pupils not continuing to a sustained education, apprenticeship, or employment destination in the year after completing 16-18 study, that is 6 months of continual activity. This can be used as a proxy for NEET at age 18.</p><p>The below statistics show that of the cohort of young people leaving state funded mainstream schools and colleges<sup>1</sup> in 2019/20:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>16-18 Destination measures<sup>2,3</sup>, 2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p>Number in cohort</p></td><td><p>Number not in a sustained destination<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>Number activity not captured<sup>5</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York</p></td><td><p>3,510</p></td><td><p>525</p></td><td><p>248</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York Central Constituency</p></td><td><p>353</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><ol><li>Covers all state-funded mainstream schools, academies, free schools, city technology colleges, sixth forms and other and further education sector colleges. Excludes alternative provision, special schools, other government department funded colleges and independent schools.</li><li>Local authority figures are based on the local education authority area responsible for the young person whereas constituency figures are based on the provider location.</li><li>Links to the destination measures statistics quoted in table:<ul><li>York local authority: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/8dacd6e4-a5b1-401c-b834-3fbc62621b0e" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/8dacd6e4-a5b1-401c-b834-3fbc62621b0e</a></li><li>York Central Constituency: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/ebedb6cb-4536-4aa5-aca9-cbad3c42ea9b" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/ebedb6cb-4536-4aa5-aca9-cbad3c42ea9b</a></li></ul></li><li>Students who had participated in education, apprenticeships or employment during the academic year but did not complete the required 6 months participation.</li><li>Student was not found to have any participation in education, apprenticeship, or employment in England.</li></ol><p><strong><br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 19/01/2022 10:40:02 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1402010

registered interest
date	11/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pregnancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the pause programme on preventing successive pregnancies in vulnerable women.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	101783
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2022 answer text <p>The November 2020 independent evaluation of the Department for Education funded Pause programme, reported a statistically significant reduction in rates of infants (under 12 months) entering care in local authorities with a Pause practice, compared to an increase in comparator sites over the same period. There were an estimated 215, or 30%, fewer children over 3 years and 5 sites compared to the comparator local authorities.</p><p>The estimated benefit to cost ratios associated with these effects are £4.50 per £1 spent on Pause over 4 years and £7.61 per £1 spent over 18 years. Wider observed impacts for female participants include:</p><p> </p><ul><li>improved emotional wellbeing and reductions in psychological distress;</li><li>housing and financial security, with significant reductions in rent arrears, and the number of women who were homeless or in unstable accommodation almost halved;</li><li>increased engagement in education, employment, and specialist services, including a 60% increase in the proportion of women in paid employment;</li><li>improvements in key relationships in women’s lives, including relationships with existing children and their carers, with a 25% increase in the proportion of women reporting face-to-face contact with children.</li></ul><p> </p><p>There are currently 17 local authorities delivering Pause projects with £3.6 million of funding from the department’s innovation fund. In 2021, we provided additional funding for 3 regions to scale and spread Pause projects under strand 3 of the Recovery and Build Back Better Fund.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 101784 question first answered 18/01/2022 18:14:32 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell