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date	05/03/2024
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 assessment his Department has made of the needs of an unaccompanied minor placed in the care of a local authority; and what assessment his Department has made of the ability of local authorities to meet those needs.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	17195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2024 answer text <p>Local authorities have a statutory duty under S20 of the Children Act 1989 to look after children in need in their area. This includes unaccompanied asylum seeking (UAS) children who either arrive in a local authority area or are transferred there under the mandated National Transfer Scheme. The National Transfer Scheme provides a mechanism for the statutory responsibility for an UAS child to be transferred from an entry local authority to another local authority in the UK for ongoing care and support.</p><p>The decision for any UAS child to be referred to the NTS for transfer lies with the local authorities as the child’s corporate parent. The NTS Protocol sets out the criteria for referring a child to the NTS which can be found here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Funaccompanied-asylum-seeking-children-interim-national-transfer-scheme&amp;data=05%7C02%7CASRA-briefingcorrespondence%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C49fe4aeb9651414d4afa08dc3de1a83c%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638453286591981059%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=%2FD0M2X%2BLgQ6tXtguN%2B%2FsxR3eBL%2BPXSMAS9fs6kRW%2B1w%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Unaccompanied asylum seeking children: national transfer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>When a child is being looked after by a local authority, that local authority is under a duty to safeguard and promote the child’s welfare under the Children Act 1989.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 13/03/2024 17:54:22 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1693844

registered interest
date	05/03/2024
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, how much and what proportion of the cost of caring for an unaccompanied minor asylum seeker with special needs who has been placed in the care of a local authority is paid for by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	17197
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2024 answer text <p>In addition to money for children's social care that local authorities receive through the Local Government Finance Settlement and finance arrangements which apply to the Devolved Administrations, the Home Office provides additional funding contributions to the costs incurred by local government in looking after unaccompanied asylum seeking (UAS) children and former UAS childcare leavers.</p><p>Local authorities supporting the greatest number of UAS children relative to their child population receive the higher rate of £143 per child per night for each UAS child.  This higher rate applies to local authorities supporting UAS children totalling 0.07% or greater of their general child population.  All other local authorities receive £114 per person per night for each UAS child in their care.   In addition, any local authority who accept the responsibility for a UAS child from a higher rate receiving local authority will receive the higher rate of £143 per child per night. This funding is not ring-fenced, and local authorities are free to use this funding as they see fit to support children in their care.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 13/03/2024 17:53:57 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1693845

registered interest
date	05/03/2024
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Food: Waste
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to provide local authorities with details of (a) transitional and (b) operational funding provided by his Department for new food waste requirements.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	17198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>We have brought forward up to £295 million in capital funding to roll out weekly food waste collections across England. This will cover the cost of additional bins and vehicles. Initial grants have now been issued to local authorities for their transitional capital funding allocation for FY 2023/24. We are still calculating resource funding allocations and are therefore unable to share details of funding at this time. We will be in contact with local authorities regarding this funding when we are able to do so.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 12/03/2024 14:23:34 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson