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1691148

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date	22/02/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	New Businesses: Investment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment her Department has made of the equality impact of the increase in the angel investment annual income threshold.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	15338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government is aware of the recent increase in the threshold level for High Net Worth individuals as defined under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. Self-certification under this exemption is one of several ways in which individual investors can make angel investments. Other options include self-certifying as a sophisticated investor through membership of an angel group or syndicate for at least six months, or accessing investments through a firm authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority.</p><p>HM Treasury sponsors the relevant legislation and hence the Department for Business and Trade has not sought to assess the equality impact of this change.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 01/03/2024 14:49:33 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1691157

registered interest
date	22/02/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	New Businesses: Investment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions his Department has had with stakeholders on the decision to increase the angel investment annual income threshold to £170,000.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	15339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department for Business and Trade has received several representations about the recent increase in the threshold level for angel investors wishing to self-certify as High Net Worth individuals under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. These representations have been referred to HM Treasury which is the sponsor of this legislation.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 01/03/2024 09:08:02 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1691166

registered interest
date	22/02/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Personal Income
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what consideration he gave to the potential impact on equalities of increasing to £170,000 the annual income threshold for eligibility for the high net worth individual exemption in the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2023; and whether he had discussions with the Minister for Women and Equalities on the potential impact on equalities of the order.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	15340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2024 answer text <p>The changes to the financial promotion exemptions that came into force on 31 January 2024 were subject to a public consultation which closed in March 2022.</p><p>However, the Government recognises the concerns that have been raised recently about these changes. I met recently with the angel investing sector and listened carefully to the representations made, and the Government is working closely with the sector to address the concerns raised.</p><p>In line with the practice of successive administrations, details of internal discussions are not usually disclosed.</p> answering member constituency Hitchin and Harpenden answering member printed Bim Afolami question first answered 28/02/2024 10:24:51 answering member 4639 label Biography information for Bim Afolami
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1691244

registered interest
date	22/02/2024
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	Mental Health Services: Hospital Wards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of mixed wards for inpatient psychiatric care were in use for each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	15341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2024 answer text <p>Neither the Department nor NHS England hold the data requested.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 01/03/2024 12:44:51 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1691245

registered interest
date	22/02/2024
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	Mental Health Services: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of NHS trusts apply the national sexual safety collaborative.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	15342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2024 answer text <p>We are informed by NHS England that the application of the safety standards from the national Sexual Safety Collaborative, is decided upon and monitored locally.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 08/03/2024 14:14:04 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1691246

registered interest
date	22/02/2024
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	Mental Health Services: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of NHS mental health trusts have an inadequate safety rating.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	15343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2024 answer text <p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) rates health and care providers using five key questions, which are: are services safe; effective; caring; responsive to people’s needs; and well led. CQC has 49 residential and community mental health trusts on its register and of these, one provider, or 2%, is rated as inadequate for CQC’s safety rating.</p><p>Through the NHS Long Term Plan, we are investing at least £2.3 billion of additional funding a year by March 2024, compared to 2018/19, to expand and transform mental health services in England so that two million more people can get the mental health support that they need.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 01/03/2024 12:49:19 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1688159

registered interest
date	07/02/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Mental Health and Neurodiversity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure a knowledge of (a) mental health and (b) neurodiversity among (i) school teachers and (ii) school students.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	13620
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>The department is committed to ensuring that all pupils can reach their potential and receive excellent support from their teachers. The Teachers’ Standards sets clear expectations that teachers must understand the needs of all pupils, including those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). Consideration of SEND underpins both the Initial Teacher Training (ITT) Core Content Framework (CCF) and Early Career Framework (ECF) which were both produced with the support of sector experts. ITT courses and ECF-based programmes must be designed so that new teachers can demonstrate that they meet the Teachers’ Standards at the appropriate level. This includes the requirement in Standard 5, that all teachers must have a clear understanding of the needs of all pupils.</p><p>The department reviewed the CCF alongside the ECF during 2023, in partnership with the Education Endowment Foundation and groups of sector experts, including SEND specialists. This included a public call for evidence. Following this review, the updated and combined Initial Teacher Training and Early Career Framework (ITTECF) was published on 30 January 2024, for delivery from September 2025.</p><p>The department’s review of content for the ITTECF paid particular attention to the needs of trainees and early career teachers (ECTs) when supporting pupils with SEND. There is now significantly more content related to adaptive teaching and supporting pupils with SEND. The department has also made edits to existing statements to improve inclusivity for SEND throughout the framework, including new content for trainees and ECTs on who to contact to provide support with any pupil mental health concerns.</p><p>The department is also offering all state schools and colleges a grant to train a senior mental health lead by 2025, enabling them to introduce effective whole school approaches to mental health and wellbeing. Over 14,400 settings have claimed a grant so far, including more than 7 in 10 state-funded secondary schools, and the department has also recently made available second grants for settings who have lost their trained lead. The department’s quality assured training course provides the practical knowledge and skills to implement a whole school or college approach to promoting mental wellbeing. The course also helps senior mental health leads to facilitate the development of school staff, to ensure that all staff can recognise and understand the process to respond to mental health concerns.</p><p>The department has also recently launched two new resources to help trained mental health leads and wider school and college staff to promote and support pupil mental health, both of which are hosted on the Mentally Healthy Schools site. The resource hub signposts practical resources and tools to embed whole-school or college approaches and the targeted mental wellbeing toolkit gives practical advice and tools to help schools and colleges identify the most effective targeted support options for their setting. They are both available here: <a href="https://mentallyhealthyschools.org.uk/whole-school-or-college-resources/" target="_blank">https://mentallyhealthyschools.org.uk/whole-school-or-college-resources/</a>.</p><p>The department wants to support all young people to be happy, healthy and safe. The department wants to equip them for adult life and to make a positive contribution to society. That is why the department has made Relationships Education compulsory for all primary school pupils, Relationships and Sex Education compulsory for all secondary school pupils from September 2020, and Health Education compulsory for pupils in all state-funded schools. In Health Education, there is a strong focus on mental wellbeing, including a recognition that mental wellbeing and physical health are linked. It is important that pupils understand that good physical health, for both men and women, contributes to good mental wellbeing. The purpose of teaching pupils about mental health is to give them the information they need to make good decisions about their own health and wellbeing, recognise issues in themselves and others and, when issues arise, seek support as early as possible from appropriate sources.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 19/02/2024 12:23:18 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1688160

registered interest
date	07/02/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Autism and Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken to help ensure that new school buildings are designed so as to enable students with (a) physical disabilities, (b) mental disabilities and (c) autism spectrum conditions to be included in the (i) curriculum and (ii) life of the school; and what steps her Department has taken to assist schools to adapt existing buildings.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	13621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>The department’s ambition is for all children and young people, no matter what their special educational needs and disabilities are, to receive the right support to succeed in their education and as they move into adult life.</p><p>All school building projects that are delivered by the department must meet the requirements set out in the department’s school building specification. The department publishes a range of guidance specifically for the construction of special schools, which support the provision of inclusive learning environments including access, acoustics and specialist Special Educational Needs provision. These are available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/school-design-and-construction" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/school-design-and-construction</a>.</p><p>More generally, all new school buildings must meet the requirements of the Building Regulation’s Approved Document: M, which sets out the details on access to and use of buildings. This can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/access-to-and-use-of-buildings-approved-document-m" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/access-to-and-use-of-buildings-approved-document-m</a>.</p><p>The department does not publish specific guidance on how to adapt existing schools. Under the Equality Act 2010, schools must make reasonable adjustments to prevent pupils with special educational needs and disabilities being put at a substantial disadvantage. Additionally, under the Children and Families Act 2014, mainstream schools must use their best endeavours to make sure a child or young person who has special educational needs and disabilities, including those who are autistic, get the special educational provision they need.</p><p>To support the adaptation of existing buildings, the department has allocated over £1.5 billion of High Needs Provision Capital for the 2022/23 and 2023/24 financial years. This funding forms part of the department’s transformational investment of £2.6 billion in new high needs provision between 2022 and 2025. Local authorities can use this funding to deliver new places in mainstream and special schools, as well as other specialist settings, and to improve the suitability and accessibility of existing buildings.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 19/02/2024 17:13:26 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1688255

registered interest
date	07/02/2024
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: Labelling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that information on food packaging is accessible for blind and partially-sighted people.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	13666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>The availability and accessibility of essential food information to all consumers is vitally important. It is already a requirement that food information must be easily visible, clearly legible and where appropriate indelible, in addition to there being a required minimum font size for mandatory information</p><p><br> We are aware of moves by some retailers to provide information on food in braille format, and the government is interested in seeing how this works</p><p><br> We know there are other exciting possibilities, including the use of mobile phone apps and QR codes via which consumers with visual impairments may be able to access not only the basics, but the full range of information available on the label, as well as additional information provided via the App or QR code.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 19/02/2024 08:26:19 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1685145

registered interest
date	25/01/2024
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Caribbean and Latin America
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with reference to the then Secretary of State's tour of the Caribbean and Latin America in May 2023, whether an assessment was made of the feasibility of travelling by commercial airline.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	11528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2024 answer text <p>Travelling commercially would not have achieved this trip within the time allocated. Foreign travel is a vital part of diplomacy. It is in the national interest that the Foreign Secretary and other Ministers travel abroad to pursue UK interests. Value for money is taken into account in all travel decisions.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 01/02/2024 14:51:13 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds