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1642507

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date	07/06/2023
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	HIV Infection
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 people have been diagnosed with HIV in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	188271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>The following table shows the number of people diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus in England and the United Kingdom in the past five years including those previously diagnosed abroad.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>4,301</p></td><td><p>4,221</p></td><td><p>4,017</p></td><td><p>2,673</p></td><td><p>2,692</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Kingdom</p></td><td><p>4,791</p></td><td><p>4,684</p></td><td><p>4,408</p></td><td><p>2,961</p></td><td><p>2,955</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Among the people diagnosed in England in 2021, 25% were previously diagnosed abroad.</p><p>This data is available at the following links:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hiv-annual-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hiv-annual-data-tables</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hiv-monitoring-and-evaluation-framework/hiv-action-plan-monitoring-and-evaluation-framework#main-messages" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hiv-monitoring-and-evaluation-framework/hiv-action-plan-monitoring-and-evaluation-framework#main-messages</a>.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 19/06/2023 09:57:29 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1642508

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
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	Multiple Sclerosis: Diagnosis
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 people have been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the last five years; and if he will provide a breakdown of those figures by age and gender.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	188272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2023 answer text <p>The information is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 15/06/2023 13:13:37 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1642509

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Mortgages: Interest Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has held recent discussions with banks on fixed rate mortgages for first time buyers.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	188273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>HM Treasury is regularly in contact with mortgage lenders on all aspects of their mortgage business to understand their position and current lending conditions. There is a wide choice of fixed-rate mortgage products available in the market for all prospective buyers. However, the pricing and availability of mortgages is ultimately a commercial decision for lenders in which the Government does not intervene.</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 12/06/2023 14:40:44 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1642510

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Organised Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to prevent grooming by gangs.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	188274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text <p>In April the Prime Minister and Home Secretary announced a package of measures to improve our response to child sexual exploitation, including a new Child Sexual Exploitation Police Taskforce. The Police Taskforce will help improve how the police investigate child sexual exploitation, providing practical, expert, on the ground support for forces on all forms of child sexual abuse, with a particular focus on complex and organised child sexual exploitation, including grooming gangs.</p><p>Through the Government’s Drug Strategy, we are bolstering our flagship County Lines Programme, investing up to £145m over three years to tackle the most violent and exploitive distribution model yet seen.</p><p>To strengthen the policing response and prevent grooming by gangs, we fund several national programmes to develop and deliver an effective and victim-focused response to these crimes. This includes the Prevention Programme, delivered by The Children’s Society, which works with a range of partners across the statutory, charitable and private sectors, to tackle and prevent child sexual exploitation, child criminal exploitation, child financial exploitation and modern slavery, both nationally and regionally.</p><p>The Government also funds the Vulnerability Knowledge and Practice Programme which identifies and shares best practice across police forces, the Tackling Organised Exploitation Programme which helps police to uncover more of this offending, as well as a range of officer training programmes across all ranks to improve their confidence and capability to investigate these crimes. The Government’s Child Exploitation Disruption Toolkit was also re-developed and updated in September 2022 to provide frontline agencies and all those who engage with children further knowledge on how these abhorrent crimes can be disrupted.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 14/06/2023 16:14:51 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1642511

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Drugs: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted of drug-dealing offences in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	188275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice holds data on individuals convicted of drug offences on a principal offence, principal disposal basis, covering the period requested. This is publicly available and can be viewed in <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1158218/outcomes-by-offence-2022.xlsx" target="_blank">Outcomes by Offence tool: 2022</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of individuals convicted of drug offences at all courts can be found in the above tool by navigating to the ‘Prosecutions and convictions’ tab. In the ‘Offence’ filter, select the below offences for the main four offences related to drug dealing:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>‘92A.09 Production, supply and possession with intent to supply a controlled drug - Class A'</p></li><li><p>'92A.10 Production, supply and possession with intent to supply a controlled drug - Class B'</p></li><li><p>'92A.11 Production, supply and possession with intent to supply a controlled drug - Class C'</p></li><li><p>'92A.12 Production, supply and possession with intent to supply a controlled drug - unknown class'</p></li></ul> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 15/06/2023 15:54:41 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1642512

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons any military service undertaken before the age of 18 is not counted towards veterans' overall pension value.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	188371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text <p>The only Armed Forces' pension scheme in which service before the age of 18 is not taken into account when calculating the value of the pension is the Armed Forces Pension Scheme 1975 (AFPS 75) for Regulars, which has existed in various forms since 1914, and which was closed to new entrants on 5 April 2005, on the introduction of the modernised AFPS 2005. The age requirements for the AFPS 75 scheme have been in place since at least 1940 and its pension structure is based on the 'band of brothers' principle under which all members who retire at the same rank with the same years of reckonable service receive the same pension.</p><p>The AFPS 75 rules do not specify a normal pension age, but the benefit structure assumes a pension age of 55. Reckonable service is defined as paid service after the age of 21 for Officers and 18 for Other Ranks, and the maximum which can be accrued by an Officer is 34 years, and by Other Ranks is 37 years. Under the terms of AFPS 75, Officers may retire with an immediate pension after sixteen years of service and Other Ranks may do the same after 22 years. However, the maximum (full) career pension is only payable where a member begins service at either 18 (Other Ranks) or 21 (Officers) and serves the relevant maximum years, retiring at 55.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 14/06/2023 12:28:05 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1642513

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of 16 to 19 education funding.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	188304
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2023 answer text <p>The department is committed to investing in 16 to 19 education, and to ensuring that further education is financially sustainable.</p><p>Throughout this Parliament, we have increased overall funding for the sector. An extra £1.6 billion was allocated for 16 to 19 education in 2024/25 compared with 2021/22, which is the largest increase in 16 to 19 funding in a decade.</p><p>In the 2023/24 financial year, the department will invest a further £125 million in increasing funding rates for 16 to 19 education, including a 2.2% increase in the national funding rate for the 2023/24 academic year to £4,642, and an increase in funding for specific high value subject areas in engineering, construction and digital, to help institutions with the additional costs of recruiting and retaining teachers in these vocational areas.</p><p>In addition, in February 2023, we announced a 10% increase to the national funding rates for T Levels (bands 6 to 9) specifically for the 2023/24 academic year. This is to recognise the extra cost for providers transitioning from study programmes to T Levels, and to support providers with growing their T Level offer.</p><p>To simplify funding arrangements, a national funding formula to calculate an allocation of funding to each institution for each academic year was put in place from 2013/14. Revisions have been made to the formula, but the core elements have been consistent.</p><p>While there are performance measures for 16 to 19 education and Ofsted judgements on its quality, no specific evaluation of overall 16 to 19 funding has been commissioned or is planned<strong>.</strong></p><p>More information about funding arrangements for 16 to 19-year-olds can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/funding-education-for-16-to-19-year-olds" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/funding-education-for-16-to-19-year-olds</a>.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 15/06/2023 13:30:51 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1642514

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of financial transparency arrangements for academy trusts and local authority maintained schools.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	188305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2023 answer text <p>The Department requires a high level of accountability and transparency of academy trusts. Academy trusts’ status as companies, charities, and public sector bodies means they have a rigorous tri-partite framework. Individual trusts must publish their annual audited accounts online, including details of their objectives, achievements and future plans, and also set out what they have done to promote value for money in support of those objectives, as part of their annual report and accounts.</p><p>The primary responsibility for the oversight of academy trusts rests with the trustees themselves, supported by clear financial management and governance requirements set by the Department in Academy Trusts’ Funding Agreements, the Academy Trust Handbook and Academies Accounts Direction. The Department expects academy trustees to deliver strong governance and monitor the financial health of their trust or school and ensure it remains a going concern. The transparency of finances in academy trusts enables the Department to identify problems quickly and intervene where required.</p><p>Local Authorities are the accountable body for maintained schools and, in line with national frameworks and guidance set by the Department, they monitor and intervene in these schools to reduce the risk of financial failure or misuse of funds. Each Local Authority has a scheme for financing schools which sets out the financial relationship between it and its maintained schools, and the Department publishes guidance setting out what is required or permitted in schemes. Since 2019, the Department has implemented transparency measures across the maintained school sector similar to those in academies, in order to strengthen the arrangements for maintained schools.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 16/06/2023 12:07:02 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1642515

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
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	Food: Labelling
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 has made of the effectiveness of the Natasha's Law costs of enforcement grant.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	188306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2023 answer text <p>The New Burdens grant for the enforcement of Natasha’s Law is a non-ring-fenced revenue grant which has been provided to local authorities in England since the implementation of the legislation on 1 October 2021. The grant is jointly funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and was administered in 2021/22 and 2022/23 through a Section 31 grant. For 2023/24 onwards, funding has been rolled into the Local Government Finance Settlement.</p><p>The funding for each local authority was calculated to take into account the additional time required during, and the frequency of, routine inspection visits, based on the number of relevant officers and affected businesses within a local authority.</p><p>The FSA have recently undertaken an evaluation of the implementation of Natasha’s Law in the United Kingdom which included speaking to local authorities who are responsible for monitoring food business compliance with the new rules. The findings are being assessed and the report will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 13/06/2023 14:24:27 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1642516

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
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	Coastal Erosion and Flood Control: Finance
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 assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the six year flood and coastal erosion risk management investment programme.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	188307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2023 answer text <p>The Government announced in March 2020 that the amount invested in flood and coastal erosion schemes would be doubled £5.2 billion, to build around 2,000 flood defences to better protect communities across England.</p><p> </p><p>At the end of the 2022/23 financial year, nearly 60,000 properties have been better protected from flooding through over 200 completed schemes, and around £1.5 billion of funding has been invested.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 13/06/2023 14:09:59 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight