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1121375

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date	11/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ascension Island: Airports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 11 January 2019 to Question 59581 on Ascension Island: Aviation, whether best biosecurity industry standards have now been made a condition of the runway resurfacing project on Ascension Island.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Stephen Gethins
uin	244149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>Yes.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 23/04/2019 15:41:36 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4434 label Biography information for Stephen Gethins

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

1111200

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many non-disclosure agreements his Department has entered into with Departmental staff in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	243413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>The Attorney General’s Office has not entered into any non-disclosure agreements in the last five years.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 23/04/2019 10:10:03 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1111211

registered interest
date	10/04/2019
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	GATT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether he has provided advice to the Prime Minister on whether the Government is able to trigger article 24 of the WTO General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Vauxhall
tabling member printed	Kate Hoey
uin	243322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2019 answer text <p>I regularly meet ministerial colleagues to discuss important issues of common interest, including on matters relating to the UK’s exit from the EU. I am unable to disclose the legal content of those discussions because whether or not the Law Officers have given advice and the content of any such advice is, by convention, not disclosed outside Government. The Convention protects my ability as chief legal adviser to the Government to give full and frank legal advice about some of the most contentious and difficult issues the Government will be considering.</p> answering member constituency Torridge and West Devon answering member printed Mr Geoffrey Cox question first answered 16/04/2019 13:57:32 answering member 1508 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Cox
tabling member	210 label Biography information for Baroness Hoey