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1544176

registered interest
date	21/11/2022
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	Postal Services: Standards
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 his Department has had recent discussions with Royal Mail on Saturday letter deliveries.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	92300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2022 answer text <p>The Department has regular discussions with Royal Mail on a wide range of issues.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s objective continues to be ensuring the provision of a sustainable, accessible, and affordable universal postal service. The Government has no current plans to change the statutory minimum requirements of the universal postal service which are set out in the Postal Services Act 2011.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 29/11/2022 17:19:47 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1544177

registered interest
date	21/11/2022
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	Postal Services: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the 4-week suspension of Royal Mail’s quality of service targets over Christmas 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	92301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2022 answer text <p>Royal Mail’s quality of service targets for the delivery of universal postal services are set by Ofcom under its regulatory framework which includes an exemption from meeting performance targets during the Christmas period (defined as the first Monday of December until the first working day after the following New Year public holiday). It requires Royal Mail to notify Ofcom and the consumer advocacy bodies and publish, no later than two months from the end of each Christmas period, its performance during that period.</p><p> </p><p>In its recent review of postal regulation, Ofcom decided to retain the exemption as it considered that its current approach remained appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 29/11/2022 17:19:54 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1544178

registered interest
date	21/11/2022
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	Postal Services: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to Ofcom's Residential Postal Tracker Q3 2021 - Q2 2022 published September 2022, what assessment he has made of that report's findings that 25 per cent of consumers have cut back on sending post to be able to afford essentials; and whether he has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of the price of sending post.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	92302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2022 answer text <p>As a private business, Royal Mail’s management sets the prices for its services. The Government does not have a role in Royal Mail’s commercial decisions.</p><p> </p><p>In setting prices Royal Mail must observe the regulatory framework set by Ofcom, the independent regulator. This framework imposes price caps, ‘safeguard caps’, on certain second-class products to ensure a basic universal service is available to all at affordable prices and users of postal services, especially vulnerable consumers, are protected from on-going price rises.</p><p> </p><p>Ofcom will include consideration of the findings of its Residential Postal Tracker Q3 2021 - Q2 2022 in its upcoming review of safeguard caps including a consultation and statement during 2023/24.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 29/11/2022 17:20:08 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1542832

registered interest
date	16/11/2022
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Household Support Fund: Hornsey and Wood Green
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the Household Support Fund for supporting households in Hornsey and Wood Green constituency.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	88975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2022 answer text <p>Since October 2021, the London Borough of Haringey has been allocated over £7m through the Household Support Fund. As announced at Autumn Statement, the Household Support Fund will be extended until 31 March 2024. Haringey’s share of this further funding will be announced in due course.</p><p> </p><p>Local Authorities have the ties and local knowledge to best determine how support through the Household Support Fund should be provided to their communities, and they have the discretion to design their own local schemes, within the parameters of the grant determination and guidance for the fund.</p><p> </p><p>The Household Support Fund forms part of the £37 billion of support government is providing with the cost of living during 2022/23 and the extension forms part of £26bn of support for 2023/24.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 24/11/2022 16:49:03 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1542833

registered interest
date	16/11/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Hornsey and Wood Green
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the funding provided by her Department to schools for children with SEND who (a) have and (b) do not have an education, health and care plan in Hornsey and Wood Green constituency.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	88976
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2022 answer text <p>The majority of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) do not have an education, health and care (EHC) plan, and are supported by their schools from the allocations of funding they receive for all their pupils.</p><p>For those children with the most complex needs, the department announced in July 2022 that we would be increasing high needs funding, within the core schools budget, by £1.65 billion over two years, between the 2021/22 and 2023/24 financial years. This is an increase of 21% and will bring total high needs funding to £9.7 billion by 2023/24. The provisional high needs funding allocation for Haringey in the 2023/24 financial year is £54 million. This represents an increase of 20% per pupil on the amount of high needs funding allocated over two years to 2023/24 compared to 2021/22. Overall, the high needs budget has risen by more than 40% over three years.</p><p>Funding provided through the schools National Funding Formula (NFF) should be used by schools to support pupils with low to mid-level SEND, who are educated in mainstream schools, and may not have an EHC plan. Schools in Hornsey and Wood Green are attracting £123.3 million in 2023/24, based on the schools NFF. This represents an increase of 5.2% per pupil for their pupil-led funding across two years to 2023/24 compared to 2021/22. Constituency figures are based on an aggregate of school allocations.</p><p>In addition to the figures above, the department will allocate more funding in 2023/24 following the £2 billion funding increases announced in the 2022 Autumn Statement. This additional funding will be used to support both mainstream schools, including those in Hornsey and Wood Green, and local authorities, including Haringey, with the costs of supporting children and young people with SEND. The department will set out our plans for allocation shortly.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 24/11/2022 17:31:43 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1542922

registered interest
date	16/11/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Blood: Contamination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of to UIN 64378, whether all interim payments to infected individuals and bereaved partners of those affected by contaminated blood were made by the end of October 2022.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	88977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2022 answer text <p>I refer to the Minister for the Cabinet Office’s previous answer <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l36pny4uNPK0kiQmqFbhWkTjp5eQmhAE7QX4k-0yiFI/edit" target="_blank">PQ72224</a> on 2 November 2022.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 24/11/2022 14:10:08 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1542924

registered interest
date	16/11/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the number of learners waiting for a practical driving test; and whether he has made an assessment of the effectiveness of measures taken to reduce the driving test backlog over the past 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	88978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2022 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has a 24 week forward booking window and driving tests are not available to book beyond this.</p><p>As of 17 November 2022, there were 550,331 car practical tests booked.</p><p>Since April 2021, the DVSA has created 595,000 extra car practical driving tests appointments, to help reduce waiting times, by:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Measure introduced</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of car practical driving slots created</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Recruiting new driving examiners</p></td><td><p>245,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Conducting out of normal hours testing through overtime, including at weekends and on public holidays</p></td><td><p>165,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asking colleagues who are qualified to carry out driving tests, but do not do so as part of their normal duties, to do so</p></td><td><p>105,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Converting any unsold motorcycle tests and vocational tests to car tests 7 days before the test appointment</p></td><td><p>55,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Buying back annual leave from driving examiners</p></td><td><p>20,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Inviting recently retired driving examiners to return to work</p></td><td><p>6,500</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The cumulative total of the measures introduced (in the table above) has reduced the length of time forecasted for the DVSA to recover its driving test service by 20 months.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 21/11/2022 13:57:32 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1542925

registered interest
date	16/11/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Young People: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the report by the Commission on Young Lives entitled Hidden in Plain Sight published in November 2022, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the recommendations in that report.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	88979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2022 answer text <p>Departmental officials regularly met with Anne Longfield during the development of the Commission’s report, and are considering their findings. The department is clear that safety from abuse, neglect and exploitation is a fundamental right for every child. We have made an additional £4.8 billion available up to 2025 for local authorities, who are responsible for protecting vulnerable children, to deliver key services.</p><p>The department is investing more than £1 billion to improve early help services, through a network of Family Hubs, programmes supporting thousands of families to stay together safely, and to provide support with their mental health and healthy food and activities during the school holidays. We are also strengthening the links between social care and education and providing targeted support to keep the children most at risk of exploitation engaged in their education.</p><p>To support long term change, the department is rapidly working up an ambitious and detailed implementation strategy in response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, including in relation to children who face harm outside the home.</p><p>The department is also providing targeted support through Alternative Provision and Support, Attend, Fulfil, Succeed (SAFE) taskforces, to keep vulnerable young people at risk of exploitation, serious violence and crime engaged in their education and on the right track. The Tackling Child Exploitation Support Programme (2019-2023) continues to work with local areas to improve responses to safeguarding young people from exploitation and extra familial risk.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 23/11/2022 17:11:48 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1542926

registered interest
date	16/11/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Local Government Association: Local Government Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of the Local Government Association on local authority budgets.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	88980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2022 answer text <p>Ministers and officials from the Department regularly meet with the Local Government Association and other sector representatives to discuss local authority budgets. Details of external ministerial meetings are published on GOV.UK.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 24/11/2022 13:59:15 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1542269

registered interest
date	15/11/2022
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Universal Credit: Overpayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has taken recent steps to improve the detection of Universal Credit overpayments.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	87927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2022 answer text <p>The Government is investing £1.4billion of funding over the next three years in order to combat fraud and error, which includes a further £613 million to facilitate a number of new initiatives, which collectively will stop an estimated £2.0 billion of loss in fraud and error over the next three years.</p><p> </p><p>Our Fraud Plan, Fighting Fraud in the Welfare System, published on 19 May 2022, sets out our approach and explains how the additional investment is allowing us to recruit 1,400 more staff into our counter-fraud teams; establish a new 2,000-strong team dedicated to reviewing 2 million existing Universal Credit claims and develop enhanced data analytics as a means of preventing and detecting fraud and error.</p><p> </p><p>More information on our Fraud Plan, can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fighting-fraud-in-the-welfare-system/fighting-fraud-in-the-welfare-system--2" target="_blank">Fighting Fraud in the Welfare System - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p /><p>This builds on the existing work DWP has done to address overpayments, with savings from the correction and prevention of fraud and error totalling £2 billion last year.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 18/11/2022 11:11:12 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West