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1191689

registered interest
date	29/04/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 29 of his Department's document entitled, Teacher recruitment and retention strategy published on 28 January 2019, what progress his Department has made on establishing pilot schemes for teacher sabbaticals.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	41572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2020 answer text <p>The recruitment and retention of teachers remains a priority for the Government. We want to ensure that all pupils in England are taught by high-quality teachers.</p><p>The Department has a significant programme of work in place to improve recruitment, retention, and the quality of teaching, much of which is set out in our Recruitment and Retention Strategy, published in January 2019. As part of this, we intend to work closely with the sector and potential delivery partners to consider how to design an effective sabbaticals pilot that works for teachers and school leaders. We are not yet at the stage where we can launch the scheme.</p><p>The Department will provide further information on any pilot in due course.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 11/05/2020 15:05:00 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1191816

registered interest
date	29/04/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business Rates: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to allow local authorities to extend covid-19 business rates relief for 2020-21 tax year to English language centres.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	41573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2020 answer text <p>The Government has provided enhanced support to the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors through business rates relief given the direct and acute impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on those sectors.</p><p> </p><p>A range of further measures to support all businesses, including those not eligible for the business rates holiday, such as English language centres, has also been made available. For example, the Government has launched the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to help firms keep people in employment, the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme offering loans of up to £5 million for SMEs, and is deferring VAT payments for this quarter.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will consider any further financial assistance necessary to help businesses get through this period.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 11/05/2020 15:51:50 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1190537

registered interest
date	27/04/2020
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	Landlords: Electrical Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to amend section 122(1) of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 to impose duties on public landlords as well as private landlords of residential premises in England for the purposes of ensuring that electrical safety standards are met during any period when the premises are occupied under a tenancy.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	40730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2020 answer text <p>In the Social Housing Green Paper we asked whether safety standards, including electrical safety, that apply in the private rented sector should also apply to social housing.</p><p>We will bring forward a Social Housing White Paper, which will set out further measures to ensure social homes are safe and decent. This will include measures to provide greater redress, better regulation and improve the quality of social housing. We will publish the White Paper in due course.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 04/05/2020 15:13:39 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1184415

registered interest
date	11/03/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to ensure that vulnerable people, in the event that they are advised to self-isolate are not penalised if they have to remove their dependents from school in order to do so.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	28068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2020 answer text <p>Parents will not be penalised for absence that results from following government guidance on self-isolation.</p><p>Where a pupil is in self-isolation, in accordance with the latest advice from Department of Health and Social Care and Public Health England, schools have been advised to record the pupil as being unable to attend due to exceptional circumstances in the attendance register.</p><p>Schools have also been advised that where a pupil does not attend school and is not self-isolating, the pupil will be recorded as absent but we expect headteachers will authorise absence where a pupil is not able to attend because of an underlying health condition that means they, or a family member in their household, are particularly vulnerable to the virus.</p><p>Recording a pupil as unable to attend due to exceptional circumstances and authorising absence will not lead to enforcement action being taken.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 19/03/2020 17:12:15 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1183044

registered interest
date	05/03/2020
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	Small Businesses: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if the Government will offer financial support to SMEs that become insolvent following payment of statutory sick pay relating to the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	25722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government will support small and medium enterprises and individual employers to cope with the extra costs of paying COVID-19-related Statutory Sick Pay (SSP). Eligible SSP costs will be refunded for two weeks per employee from the day on which regulations extending SSP to self-isolators come into force. This will provide 2 million businesses with support worth up to £2 billion to cover the costs of large-scale sick leave.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 13/03/2020 12:38:25 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1183125

registered interest
date	05/03/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Biometrics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the accuracy of reports that police forces have conducted searches of Clearview AI’s facial recognition database; and what assessment she has made of the legal basis for police forces to conduct such searches in the course of their investigations.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	25723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2020 answer text <p>The use of suppliers and systems by the police to carry out a search of a database is a matter for the relevant police force, operating in accordance with the law.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 13/03/2020 13:00:07 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1182748

registered interest
date	04/03/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Clearview AI
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has (a) live and (b) historic contracts with (i) Clearview AI and (ii) subsidiaries of that company.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	25178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2020 answer text <p>Our records show that the Home Office has no (a) live or (b) historic contracts with (i) Clearview AI or (ii) the 2 identified subsidiaries, Smartcheckr or Insight Camera.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 12/03/2020 17:39:02 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1182394

registered interest
date	03/03/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Fires
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of the ability of fire authorities to respond to fires in (a) electric and (b) hydrogen vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	24412
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2020 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of each fire and rescue authority to determine their operational response based on its analysis of risk and local circumstances, and drawing on national operational guidance provided by the National Fire Chiefs Council.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 06/04/2020 15:06:52 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1180910

registered interest
date	26/02/2020
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	Pet Travel Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will apply to the European Commission for the UK to become a Part 1 listed third country under the EU Pet Travel Regulations.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	21361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2020 answer text <p>The Department has submitted its application to allow the UK to become a Part 1 listed third country under Annex II of the EU Pet Travel Regulations and is currently seeking technical discussions with the European Commission. As we have left the EU, it is now for the Commission to consider our application for listed status.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 03/03/2020 15:58:06 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1180001

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
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	Shipping: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Security, if he will take steps to ensure that UK ports publish regularly updated health information on covid-19 from each docking ship's Maritime Declaration of Health.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	19985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2020 answer text <p>At the point at which a ship's declaration would be received, any report could only be treated as a suspected case, as laboratory testing takes place later in the care pathway. For this reason, the United Kingdom ports do not routinely publish this information on COVID-19.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 05/03/2020 16:46:30 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones