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989397

registered interest
date	17/10/2018
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Fuels: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment he has made of the effect of the freeze on fuel duty on low income families in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	907027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises that transport is a major cost for households and businesses in Scotland.</p><p>That is why the Prime Minister recently announced that fuel duty will be frozen in 2019/20, a ninth successive freeze. This will benefit all drivers in Scotland and across the UK.</p><p>As a result of the last eight years of freezes, the average car driver has saved a cumulative £850 compared to pre-2010 escalator plans.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 17/10/2018 14:30:23 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

971669

registered interest
date	11/09/2018
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	Hospitals: Vacancies
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 NHS hospitals operate at a staff vacancy rate of 11 per cent or higher in (a) Harlow, (b) Essex, (c) East of England and (d) England.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	173567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>The information is not held in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>Since April 2017, NHS Improvement collects vacancy rates of medical staff from individual National Health Service providers and publishes them as part of its ‘Quarterly performance of the NHS provider sector’ report. This data goes to trust level, but not specifically to hospital level.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 17/09/2018 13:34:32 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

968402

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
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	Hospitals
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 NHS hospitals in England operated consistently at a patient occupancy level of 98 per cent or higher in each year from 2010 to 2017.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	170945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>Information is not available in the format requested as data surrounding National Health Service hospital patient occupancy levels is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>However, NHS England collects quarterly data from all NHS organisations on available overnight and day only beds and the total number of occupied bed days by consultant led specialty, excluding critical care beds.</p><p> </p><p>Average annual bed occupancy for each NHS provider, from 2010/11 to 2017/18, is shown in the attached table.</p><p> </p><p>Hospitals are dealing with patients more efficiently and it is normal for bed availability to fluctuate, but the NHS has practice and experience in managing capacity to cope with both routine and emergency care.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 14/09/2018 10:50:42 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay attachment 1 file name PQ170945 - Robert Halfon - Patient bed occupancy 2010-17 (NHSE data).xlsx title PQ170945 attached document
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

968403

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
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	Princess Alexandra Hospital: Nurses
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 nurses were employed at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow in each year from 2010 to 2017.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	170946
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>The information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics by staff group and trust level, but this data does not go to the level of individual hospital sites, such as the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 14/09/2018 11:08:55 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

968405

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
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	Accident and Emergency Departments
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 A&E Departments in NHS hospitals treated more than 300 patients per day in (a) Harlow, (b) Essex (c) the East of England and (d) England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	170947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>A count of National Health Service hospital provider sites with an average of over 300 accident and emergency (A&amp;E) attendances per day in Harlow, Essex, East of England and England, in the financial years 2012-13 to 2016-17, is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>Due to coding issues within NHS Digital’s Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) dataset, as well as some providers running multiple A&amp;E departments from the same hospital site, there may be undercounts within the data. Figures shown are representative of the number of admissions, not the number of individual patients as a person may have more than one attendance within the time periods shown:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Area</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harlow</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Essex</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>63</p></td><td><p>66</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS Digital</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 14/09/2018 11:24:43 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

968406

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
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	Hospitals: Standards
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 NHS hospitals were classified as being in special measures according to Care Quality Commission guidance in (a) Harlow, (b) Essex, (c) the East of England and (c) England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	170948
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is shown in the following tables:</p><p> </p><p>Numbers of trusts in Special Measures for Quality, per year</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Harlow</p></td><td><p>Essex</p></td><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018 (from January to September)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Numbers of trusts in Special Measures for Finance, per year</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Harlow</p></td><td><p>Essex</p></td><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018 (from January to September)</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Trusts included within ‘East of England’ are those that fall within the East of England Local Digital Roadmap Footprints (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Mid South Essex, Norfolk and Waveney, and Suffolk and North East Essex).</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 13/09/2018 09:38:48 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

964637

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government still has a target of three million apprentices by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	169297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>In 2015 we set an ambitious goal of three million apprenticeship starts by 2020, and that remains our ambition.</p><p>Whilst we want to see an increased number of apprenticeships starts we will not sacrifice quality for quantity. It is important that all apprenticeships are of the highest quality - delivering the skills valued by employers that will increase productivity and help stimulate growth.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 11/09/2018 07:04:38 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

964638

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money the Government has invested in apprenticeships so far; and how much money the Government plans to have invested in apprenticeship by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	169298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The table below sets out participation spending for the apprenticeship programme for the period 2012-2018, the only years for which comparable figures are available. This is the sum spent by providers of training on delivery, and does not include other costs of the programme:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total spend £(millions)</strong></p></td><td><p>1,461</p></td><td><p>1,459</p></td><td><p>1,551</p></td><td><p>1,540</p></td><td><p>1,632</p></td><td><p>1,559</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The total budget for the apprenticeship programme in 2019-20 is £2.45 billion.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 169299 question first answered 11/09/2018 16:47:17 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

964639

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the government still plans to invest £2.5 billion in apprenticeships by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	169299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The table below sets out participation spending for the apprenticeship programme for the period 2012-2018, the only years for which comparable figures are available. This is the sum spent by providers of training on delivery, and does not include other costs of the programme:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total spend £(millions)</strong></p></td><td><p>1,461</p></td><td><p>1,459</p></td><td><p>1,551</p></td><td><p>1,540</p></td><td><p>1,632</p></td><td><p>1,559</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The total budget for the apprenticeship programme in 2019-20 is £2.45 billion.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 169298 question first answered 11/09/2018 16:47:17 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

943956

registered interest
date	18/07/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Arts: GCSE
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to prepare young people for future jobs in the creative industries in the light of the decrease in the number of students taking GCSEs in arts subjects since 2014.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	165538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department is committed to ensuring that young people are prepared for a range of careers including in the digital, engineering and creative industries.</p><p> </p><p>To prepare students for a broad range of careers it is important that they study a broad curriculum including the core academic subjects to the age of 16. Music, art and design, dance, drama, and design and technology are compulsory from the age of 5 to 14, and computing from the age of 5 to 16 in all maintained schools. Academies are also required to provide a broad and balanced curriculum, which Ofsted consider in their inspections.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has reformed GCSEs and A levels, including in arts subjects, design and technology and computer science, to ensure that they provide our students with the knowledge and skills to prepare them for further study, higher education and careers.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is also introducing new T Level programmes, which will give young people a high quality, technical alternative to A levels. They teach students the knowledge and practical skills that employers are looking for. The first T Levels in Education and Childcare, Digital, and Construction will be taught by a small number of providers from September 2020.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 165539 165540 question first answered 25/07/2018 16:49:02 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon