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1107763

registered interest
date	29/04/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Regional Assistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total amount of regional aid not subject to the Barnett formula (a) was for each year since 2009 and (b) is projected to be in each year for which information is available for (i) Scotland, (ii) Wales, (iii) Northern Ireland and (iv) each region of England.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	238660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>A detailed breakdown of the block grant funding for each of the devolved administrations is available in the Block Grant Transparency publication which is available on line at:</p><p> </p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/block-grant-transparency-december-2018</p><p> </p><p>This recently developed publication sets out how the block grants for the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and a Northern Ireland Executive have been calculated during the 2015 Spending Review period.</p><p> </p><p>Prior to the publication of the Block Grant Transparency document, the Annual Reports of the Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Offices each contained data relating to the composition of the block grants.</p><p>No funding has been provided to English regions outside the scope of the Barnett Formula.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 03/04/2019 13:21:06 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1105283

registered interest
date	26/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	European Regional Development Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what Department plans he has to replicate the infrastructure investment priorities of the European Regional Development Fund once the UK leaves the EU structural funds.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	237075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government will create the UK Shared Prosperity Fund once we have left the European Union. The UK Shared Prosperity Fund will strengthen the foundations of productivity as set out in our modern Industrial Strategy to support people to benefit from economic prosperity. This new Fund will ensure that investments are targeted effectively to align with the challenges faced by places, creating a fresh opportunity to focus investment according to our own priorities. We are continuing to work on the design and priorities and we will consult widely on the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. This will give all interested parties the chance to contribute their views to Government. Final decisions are due to be made during the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 02/04/2019 14:31:04 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1111146

registered interest
date	23/04/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the effect of the new Outsourcing Playbook on the quality Government outsourcing decisions; and will he make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	243500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>We launched the Outsourcing Playbook in February 2019 and introduced a package of<br>reforms to our approach to outsourcing designed to improve public service outcomes, value<br>for money and how we work in partnership with our suppliers</p><p>Measures include:<br>Guidance for departments to help assess whether services should be delivered, in-house by<br>the public sector or outsourced. This should support more informed decisions on when it is<br>best to deliver public services ourselves and when there is benefit to drawing on the capacity<br>and expertise of the private sector;<br>Introduction of a new presumption in favour of running a pilot where government is<br>outsourcing a service so we learn lessons before contracting for the long term; and<br>A new requirement for government to produce an assessment of how much a service<br>‘should cost’ to deliver when deciding whether to utilise the private sector. This helps to<br>provide a better understanding of the costs associated with the different service delivery<br>models so that we are in a better position to challenge unsustainable bids</p><p>We have put in place an implementation programme to ensure that our departments are<br>aware of these new requirements. Compliance with these reforms will be ensured through<br>the usual Cabinet Office controls process.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 23/04/2019 15:46:42 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1121376

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
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	Social Workers: Agency Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department had made of the trends in the level of agency social workers in English councils.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	244169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>The adult social care workforce is vital and local authorities, like any employer, need to ensure they have the right numbers of staff with the right skills.</p><p>Between 2012/13 and 2017/18, the number of agency social workers increased from 2% to 6.8% (330 – 1,100 jobs)</p><p>Across Government, we are continuing our ambitious programme to deliver improvements to the status and standing of the social work profession and increase numbers, including providing funding for the social work bursary and providing support to social workers who have left the profession and want to return through a Return to Practice programme.</p><p>In the last year for which we have data, the level of agency social workers has fallen by 0.6% (90 jobs). This decrease corresponds with a rise in the number of social workers employed by local authorities, by 800 jobs since September 2017.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/04/2019 08:47:28 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1121377

registered interest
date	11/04/2019
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	Social Workers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to support local councils in the recruitment of permanent social workers.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	244170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>The adult social work workforce is vital and local authorities, like any employer, need to ensure they have the right staff with the right skills. The Government has provided councils with access to up to £3.6 billion more dedicated funding for adult social care in 2018/19 and up to £3.9 billion for this year.</p><p>We have also invested £3 million in a national adult social care recruitment campaign during 2018/19 to raise the profile of the adult social care sector and attract more people to a range of jobs in adult social care.</p><p>Across Government, we are continuing our ambitious programme to improve the status and standing of the social work profession, including:</p><p>- Ensuring we have sufficient supply of social workers, through provision of the £58 million Social Work Bursary and £20 million Education Support Grant to support student placements;</p><p>- Introducing diverse entry routes for people wanting to qualify as social workers, including fast-track graduate programmes such as Think Ahead and Frontline and a new Degree Apprenticeship from 2018/19;</p><p>- Supporting the Assessed Supported Year in Employment for newly qualified social workers, providing them with valuable additional support during their first year in practice. The programme has benefitted over 20,000 child and family and adult social workers since 2012, helping to improve recruitment, retention and performance management;</p><p>- Funding assessment and development programmes for established social workers to enable them to progress into more specialist or senior roles;</p><p>- Supporting a Return to Practice programme for social workers who have left the profession and want to return; and</p><p>- Establishing Social Work England as the new specialist regulator for social workers, ensuring clear standards for the knowledge, skills, values and behaviours required to become and remain a registered social worker.</p><p>Thanks to these actions we have begun to see an impact - local authorities have been able to recruit an additional 3,000 jobs since last year, including 1,000 more professionals such as social workers and occupational therapists.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 23/04/2019 08:42:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1111089

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Fracking: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to his Written Statement of 25 January 2018, if he will publish the outcome and ancillary assessment documentation of all financial resilience tests to confirm an applicant’s ability to fund decommissioning costs pursuant to the process outlined to secure final consent to hydraulically frack.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	243486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government has published the outcome of all financial resilience assessments completed to date as part of the decision document issued when granting Hydraulic Fracturing Consent. These can be accessed at the following links:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/decision-announced-on-the-hydraulic-fracturing-consent-application-by-cuadrilla-bowland-ltd" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/decision-announced-on-the-hydraulic-fracturing-consent-application-by-cuadrilla-bowland-ltd</a>; and</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hydraulic-fracturing-consent-hfc-application-by-cuadrilla-bowland-ltd-preston-new-road-site-pnr-2-decision-notice" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hydraulic-fracturing-consent-hfc-application-by-cuadrilla-bowland-ltd-preston-new-road-site-pnr-2-decision-notice</a>.</p><p>The Government has no plans to release any further ancillary assessment documentation as this contains commercially sensitive information.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 16/04/2019 14:00:47 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1111090

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Third Energy: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Oil and Gas Authority assessed whether the relevant operator required a guarantor when granting Third Energy an extension to its work commitments for AL006, DL005, PL079, PL080, PL081, PEDL177, PL077 published in December 2018.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	243487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answers I gave her on 8 April 2019 to Questions <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2019-03-29/238646/" target="_blank">238646</a> and <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2019-03-29/238647/" target="_blank">238647</a>.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 243488 question first answered 16/04/2019 14:01:20 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1111091

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Third Energy: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Oil and Gas Authority required a guarantor, the details of that guarantor and the terms of the guarantee for the extension of Third Energy's work commitments published by the Authority in its Retention Areas Agreed (Updated December 2018) 2014 Model Clauses.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	243488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answers I gave her on 8 April 2019 to Questions <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2019-03-29/238646/" target="_blank">238646</a> and <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2019-03-29/238647/" target="_blank">238647</a>.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 243487 question first answered 16/04/2019 14:01:20 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1111092

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Abortion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make a commitment to support abortion rights throughout the world.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	243340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>The UK leads the world in our long-term support for comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights, including safe abortion. Research shows that restricting access to abortion services does not make abortions less common – it only serves to make them less safe, risking women’s and girls’ health and lives through dangerous, backstreet abortions. At least 8% of maternal deaths worldwide are caused by unsafe abortions. Millions more women and girls are left with injuries and disabilities as a result.</p><p> </p><p>The UK’s position is that safe abortion reduces recourse to unsafe abortion and thus saves lives, and that women and adolescent girls must have the right to make their own decisions about their sexual and reproductive health and well-being. We will continue to uphold our evidence-based approach to women’s health services, including – as permitted within local laws – supporting safe abortion.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 15/04/2019 16:16:42 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1111120

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
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	Seas and Oceans: Nature Conservation
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 he is taking to improve global ocean conservation.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	243489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2019 answer text <p>The UK is working both domestically and internationally to improve global ocean conservation in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, especially SDG14. Internationally, we are leading calls to protect 30% of the world’s ocean by 2030. We are on track to protect 4 million square kilometres of ocean across our Overseas Territories by 2020, and are backing an Ascension Island bid to protect 100% of its offshore waters. To support achievement of the “30by30” target, the UK is working hard to secure the agreement of a new Implementing Agreement under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction in 2020.</p><p> </p><p>Domestically, 36% of English inshore and offshore waters are protected within Marine Protected Areas. In addition, we have consulted on a further 41 Marine Conservation Zones. Sites to be designated will be in place by 7 June.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are also working to reduce plastic pollution in the ocean and are leading global efforts to tackle the problem through our support of the G7 Oceans Plastics Charter, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy and the Commonwealth Blue Charter. In April 2018, we launched the Commonwealth Clean Ocean Alliance (CCOA), which we co-lead with Vanuatu. The CCOA encourages its 25 member countries to take steps to eliminate avoidable single-use plastics, significantly reduce single use plastic carrier bags by 2021 and implement a ban of microbeads in rinse-off personal care products by 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s forthcoming International Ocean Strategy will set out our plan to work with our international partners to secure a sustainable, prosperous and secure ocean future.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 18/04/2019 10:11:46 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight