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1195460

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date	13/05/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	English Language: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Office, what support her Department is providing to local authorities to deliver English for Speakers of Other Languages (EWOL) courses in local authority areas with high levels of resettled individuals and families seeking asylum relative to other local authority areas.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	46595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2020 answer text <ul><li><p>The Department for Education funds English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) through the Adult Education Budget (AEB).</p></li><li><p>Individuals aged 19 and over, including refugees, those granted humanitarian protection and asylum seekers, can be fully funded or co-funded depending on their age, prior educational attainment, employment status, and provided they meet the residency criteria set out in the AEB Funding and Performance Management Rules.</p></li><li><p>Approximately half the AEB is devolved to six Mayoral Combined Authorities and the Greater London Authority, and they are responsible for commissioning and funding provision, including ESOL provision, for learners resident in their areas.</p></li><li><p>As well as access to mainstream services, additional funding is provided to Local Authorities (of £850 per adult refugee) for refugees resettled through the UK’s resettlement scheme. This is intended to boost local capacity so that refugees on the scheme can receive additional hours of ESOL tuition.</p></li><li><p>We are also investing around £600,000 this year (2020/21) so that refugees on the UK Resettlement Scheme can benefit from additional childcare provision to support access to ESOL classes; and £360,000 to improve regional coordination of ESOL for refugees.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 18/05/2020 17:01:24 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1195461

registered interest
date	13/05/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the equity of distribution of the resettling of individuals and families seeking asylum throughout the UK by (a) geographical region and (b) in terms of the regional public service provision capacity.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	46596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office is working in partnership with Local Authority Chief Executives  through the Home Office Local Government Chief Executive group’s, who have agreed a change plan, that seeks to achieve a more equitable dispersal of asylum seekers across the UK and seeks to overcome barriers to ensure availability of service provision.</p><p>The plan has been paused in light of the current covid-19 crisis but will resume once restrictions on accommodation moves have been lifted.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 18/05/2020 16:56:35 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1194169

registered interest
date	11/05/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Museums and Galleries: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps the Government is taking to help ensure the long-term financial sustainability of museums and art galleries in Birmingham as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	45083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2020 answer text <p>The Government has announced unprecedented support for business and workers to protect them against the current economic emergency including almost £300 billion of guarantees – equivalent to 15% of UK GDP. Museums, galleries and other entities in the arts and heritage sector, can benefit from a range of support measures including:</p><p> </p><p>· A 12-month business rates holiday for all eligible retail, leisure and hospitality businesses in England</p><p>· The retail, hospitality and leisure grant fund (RHLGF)</p><p>· Small business grant funding (SBGF) of £10,000 for all business in receipt of small business rate relief or rural rate relief</p><p>· The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS)</p><p>· The Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS)</p><p>· The Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBL) for small and micro enterprises</p><p>· VAT deferral for up to 12 months</p><p>· The Time To Pay scheme, through which businesses in financial distress, and with outstanding tax liabilities, can receive support with their tax affairs</p><p>· Protection for commercial leaseholders against automatic forfeiture for non-payment until June 30, 2020</p><p>The Business Support website provides further information about how businesses can access the support that has been made available, who is eligible, when the schemes open and how to apply - <a href="https://www.businesssupport.gov.uk/coronavirus-business-support" target="_blank">https://www.businesssupport.gov.uk/coronavirus-business-support</a>.</p><p> </p><p><strong>S</strong>eparately, the Arts Council England has made £160 million of emergency funding available, and the National Lottery Heritage Fund £50million, with grants of between £3000 and £50,000 available through the latter.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 18/05/2020 09:16:06 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1194202

registered interest
date	11/05/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the dispersal of individuals and families seeking asylum has been, by local authority area, over the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
uin	45084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes quarterly figures on the number of asylum seekers housed in dispersed accommodation, by local authority in the Immigration Statistics release, <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#asylum-support" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#asylum-support</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 18/05/2020 16:46:25 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood