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1673035

registered interest
date	27/11/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Literacy: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to help adults with poor literacy skills.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	3688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2023 answer text <p>The department recognises the importance of good literacy skills, both in work and everyday life. That is why the department has taken steps to support adults to have the essential skills they need for life, work and further study, including literacy. Through our legal entitlement, the department provides the opportunity of fully funded study for adults who do not have essential literacy skills up to the equivalent of a GCSE grade 4/C or higher. In the 2021/22 academic year, around 239,000 learners participated in an English course funded through the entitlement. Further details can be found online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/further-education-and-skills-november-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/further-education-and-skills-november-2022</a>.</p><p>The department also supports all adults for whom English is not their first language to secure the English language skills they need. Adults are fully funded or co-funded to study English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) courses and qualifications up to and including GCSE 4/C equivalent. The number of learners participating in ESOL courses and qualifications continues to grow, with around 123,000 learners in the 2021/22 academic year and the department has already seen around 139,000 learners participate in the first three quarters of this academic year. Further information is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/further-education-and-skills-november-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/further-education-and-skills-november-2022</a>.</p><p>The department also recognises that community learning within the adult education budget (AEB) can play a valuable role in helping individuals improve their English, particularly for learners where a qualification is not the most appropriate first step.</p><p>Currently 60% of the AEB has been devolved to nine Mayoral Combined Authorities and delegated to the Mayor of London (working where appropriate through the Greater London Authority). These authorities are responsible for the provision of adult education and allocation of the AEB in their local areas, including funding of English and maths statutory entitlements. The Education and Skills Funding Agency is responsible for the remaining AEB in non-devolved areas where colleges and other training providers have the freedom and flexibility to determine how they use their AEB to best meet the needs of their communities.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 05/12/2023 12:10:24 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1463534

registered interest
date	17/05/2022
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	Leukaemia: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that strategic documents related to cancer are suitable for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia patients on active monitoring, whose needs are different from those undergoing treatment.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	3688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2022 answer text <p>Officials are analysing the responses received to the call for evidence to develop the 10 Year Cancer Plan. The Plan will set out how we will improve cancer services and further details will be available in due course.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan stated that by 2021, where appropriate every person diagnosed with cancer will have access to personalised care, including needs assessment, a care plan and health and wellbeing information and support. NHS England and NHS Improvement are ensuring every patient has access to a clinical nurse specialist (CNS). In 2021/22, Health Education England invested an additional £52 million to develop the cancer and diagnostics workforce, including providing training opportunities to 754 existing and aspiring CNS. The 2019 Cancer Patient Experience Survey found that 89% of approximately 10,000 respondents with haematological cancers reported that they received a named CNS to support them through their treatment.</p><p>Data from Cancer Alliances in March 2021 showed that approximately 83% of all cancer multi-disciplinary teams had implemented personalised care and support planning based on holistic needs assessments. In addition, Cancer Alliances have been asked to review mental health provision as part of the 2022/23 planning guidance. NHS England and NHS Improvement are also supporting adults experiencing cancer through Improving Access to Psychological Therapies mental health services.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 3689 3690 question first answered 26/05/2022 14:15:24 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1171136

registered interest
date	15/01/2020
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Christianity: Oppression
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the persecution of Christians overseas.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	3688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2020 answer text <p>​The persecution of Christians, and indeed individuals of all faiths or beliefs, remains of profound concern to us. The scale of this persecution prompted the former Foreign Secretary to ask the Bishop of Truro to examine how the British Government could better respond to the plight of persecuted Christians around the world. The Bishop of Truro published a hard-hitting report with 22 ambitious recommendations. We have accepted the recommendations in full and work is ongoing to implement them in a way that will bring real improvements in the lives of those persecuted because of their faith or belief, Mr Rehman Chishti MP. This work is being overseen by the Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief.</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 21/01/2020 16:38:19 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1151461

registered interest
date	22/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Alphabet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what Government contracts were awarded to (a) Alphabet Inc. and (b) its subsidiaries in each of the last five years; and what the value was of each contract.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	3688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>Central Government contracts above £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder, including the awarded value of the contract. (https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk)</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart grouped question UIN 3685 3691 question first answered 28/10/2019 17:14:55 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

749652

registered interest
date	07/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Sixth Form Education: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on 16 to 19-year-old education in each financial year since 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	3688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2017 answer text <p>Department for Education expenditure on 16 to 19-year-old education is reported in Education Funding Agency (EFA) accounts. The 2014-15 accounts are published here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/526237/efa_annual_report_and_accounts_final_26_may_2016.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/526237/efa_annual_report_and_accounts_final_26_may_2016.pdf</a>.</p><p>The relevant information is included in the following lines from table 5 (Programme Costs) on page 155:</p><ul><li>Local authority maintained schools with sixth forms;</li><li>Academies with sixth forms; and</li><li>Young people aged 16-19 years in further education.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The 2015-16 accounts are published here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/579174/EFA_annual_report_and_accounts_2015_to_2016__Web_Accessible_.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/579174/EFA_annual_report_and_accounts_2015_to_2016__Web_Accessible_.pdf</a>:</p><p>The relevant information is included in the following lines from table 3 (Grant Expenditure) on page 115:</p><ul><li>Local authority and other maintained schools with sixth forms;</li><li>Academies – Grants to academies with sixth forms; and</li><li>16-19 Further Education.</li></ul><p>The accounts for 2016-17 have not yet been published.</p><p> </p><p>Funding allocations to the sector, are made on an academic year basis rather than by financial year. Allocations are published each year and the data for 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17 is available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-education-funding-allocations#published-allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-education-funding-allocations#published-allocations</a>.</p><p>Funding allocations for 2017/18 have not yet been published. Funding for 16 to 19-year-old education includes Total Programme Funding and High Needs funding in the allocations tables.</p><p> </p><p>As EFA accounts are published by financial year, and funding allocations are made by academic year, the two sets of figures are not directly comparable.</p><p> </p><ul><li></li></ul> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 3689 question first answered 12/07/2017 12:08:18 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

385077

registered interest
date	23/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Open Prisons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what offences were committed by prisoners serving sentences in open prisons on the most recent period for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	3688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p>Prisoners may be categorised and allocated to the open prison estate towards the end of their sentence and as a preparation for release from custody. Public protection is paramount, only those prisoners who are assessed as having reduced their risks of escape or abscond and risk of harm to the public and who are judged to be trustworthy in conditions of very low security will be allocated to open prison. Progression to open prison is never automatic, and prisoners must generally be within two years of release before they can be considered for allocation to an open prison.</p><p> </p><p>The table attached shows the offence for which prisoners (held in open conditions in March 2015) were sentenced.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>March 2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Violence against the person</strong></p></td><td><p>1,099</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Sexual offences</strong></p></td><td><p>341</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Robbery</strong></p></td><td><p>358</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Burglary</strong></p></td><td><p>255</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Drug offences</strong></p></td><td><p>1,126</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Motoring offences</strong></p></td><td><p>35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Other offences</strong></p></td><td><p>433</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Offence not recorded</strong></p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>All</strong></p></td><td><p>4,055</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em> </em>The figures in these tables have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p><p> </p><p>Due to continuing problems with data quality, reporting on the populations in the 'Burglary' and 'Theft and Handling' offence groups has been disrupted between 1 July and 31 December 2014. This is because, for statistical purposes only, some prisoners have been mis-allocated between these two offence groups. The reporting of these figures has therefore been postponed pending further investigation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Caveats</strong></p><p><sup>(1)</sup> Based on predominant function of the prison and therefore excludes prisoners held in open wings of closed establishments.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 02/07/2015 14:30:27 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies