Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

1046035

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Productivity and Skilled Workers: Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of his Department's progress in tackling the skills and productivity gap in the Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	211345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>We are working closing with the West Midlands Combined Authority on the implementation of the Skills Deal, which is designed to help tackle the skills and productivity gap in the region. This includes supporting them to maximise the opportunities of the Apprenticeship Levy; and to drive adult learning and retraining in digital skills via a pilot that will inform the National Retraining Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>From the 2019/20 academic year, the adult education budget will be devolved to the West Midlands Combined Authority. Once devolved, the combined authority will decide how best to use this funding, to meet the needs of their residents and the local economy. The department has worked very closely with officials in the combined authority to support their preparations, and a strong relationship has been established. A Memorandum of Understanding between the department and the combined authority establishes a collaborative way of working at all levels to maximise the potential of adult education devolution.</p><p> </p><p>We are also establishing Skills Advisory Panels, which bring together local employers and skills providers to pool knowledge on skills and labour market needs, and to work together to understand and address key local challenges. Both the West Midlands Mayoral Combined Authority and Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership were in the first phase of local areas, working with the department to develop the policy. The West Midlands Combined Authority has already held its inaugural meeting of its Skills Advisory Panel in November 2018. The department is working with all panels across England, including in the Midlands, to establish their Skills Advisory Panels by October 2019, in line with the guidance[1] the department published in December 2018.</p><p> </p><p>We are also supporting, alongside other government departments, the Midlands Engine’s Vision for Growth, which includes tackling the mismatch between business skills needs and the skill levels of residents in the region.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] Department for Education (DfE) (December 2018) Skills Advisory Panels: Guidance on the Role and Governance, available at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/762629/Skills_Advisory_Panels-Guidance_on_the_Role_and_Governance.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/762629/Skills_Advisory_Panels-Guidance_on_the_Role_and_Governance.pdf</a> and DfE (December 2018) Skills Advisory Panels Analytical Toolkit, avaialbe at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skills-advisory-panels-analytical-toolkit" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skills-advisory-panels-analytical-toolkit</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 30/01/2019 13:23:23 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1043085

registered interest
date	17/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners: Nottinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of prisoners given custodial sentences who were homeless before sentencing in Nottinghamshire in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	209862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2019 answer text <p>We are unable to provide data based on the total number of prisoners who were given custodial sentences in Nottinghamshire and were homeless before sentencing as this data isn’t held. Instead the following table sets out the number of people of no fixed abode serving sentences who had an origin address link to Nottinghamshire and who were held in prisons at intervals since 2015. It does not include those held on remand, who are held on a non-criminal basis or those held in immigration removal centres.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>March</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>June</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>September</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>December</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p>125</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>151</p></td><td><p>147</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p>159</p></td><td><p>146</p></td><td><p>135</p></td><td><p>131</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p>141</p></td><td><p>142</p></td><td><p>161</p></td><td><p>149</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p>132</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>139</p></td><td><p>147</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) works to ensure that prisoners due to be released from prison have accommodation arranged for them upon release. It is recognised that securing suitable accommodation is a vital part of an offender's resettlement, and we are working collaboratively with other government departments and interested parties to ensure that we meet the accommodation needs for prisoners on their release. There are currently 100 Approved Premises (AP), providing over 2,200 bed spaces nationally. The recent introduction of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 will also help facilitate resettlement for the prisoners back into areas without APs.</p><p> </p><p>The Government published its Rough Sleeping Strategy in August 2018, launching a £100 million initiative to reduce and ultimately eliminate rough sleeping across England. As part of this strategy, Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), will be investing approximately £6m in a pilot scheme to support ex-offenders secure suitable accommodation upon release; the pilots will operate in HMPs Pentonville, Bristol and Leeds.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/01/2019 16:12:59 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1043086

registered interest
date	17/01/2019
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	Homelessness: Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what schemes that tackle homelessness in the Midlands receive government funding.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	209863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2019 answer text <p>This Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one should ever have to sleep rough. That is why last summer we published the cross-government Rough Sleeping Strategy which sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping once and for all. The Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the spending review period.</p><p>Local authorities in the Midlands are receiving funding from the following government programmes:</p><ul><li>Homelessness Prevention Trailblazers</li><li>Rough Sleeping Initiative</li><li>Housing First Pilots</li><li>Rapid Rehousing Programme</li></ul> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 25/01/2019 14:06:17 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1042298

registered interest
date	16/01/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Arts: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to support young people from deprived backgrounds to progress in the creative industries.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	209404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2019 answer text <p>We recognise that more needs to be done to ensure that the workforce of the Creative Industries better reflects the diversity of UK society. The need to broaden access was highlighted in the 2018 Creative Industries sector deal.</p><p>Amongst other measures, we are providing £2 million seed funding for an industry-led Creative Careers Programme over the next 4 years to improve the supply of talent and open up opportunities to a broader audience.</p><p>Additionally, the British Film Institute (BFI) leads on a number of initiatives to encourage people from all backgrounds to pursue careers in the screen sector, from the BFI diversity standards to the BFI Film Academy. We will also continue to work with industry through the joint government-industry Creative Industry Council to open up employment opportunities in the sector. The CIC have identified this issue as a priority, setting out a set of actions to improve diversity across the industry in its “Create Together” growth strategy.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 25/01/2019 09:44:23 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1042299

registered interest
date	16/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Drugs: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of prosecutions for psychoactive substances dealing.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	209405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2019 answer text <p>The number of prosecutions for offences relating to supply of psychoactive substances for the last 5 years are published and can be found in the ‘Experimental statistics: Principal offence proceedings and outcomes by Home Office offence code data tool’ at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2017</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The relevant offences can be found by searching the ‘Detailed offence’ filter for psychoactive substances.</p><p> </p><p>Home Office are responsible for policy relating to the Psychoactive Substances Act.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 25/01/2019 11:34:31 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1037831

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
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	Public Houses: Closures
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 steps his Department is taking to help prevent pub closures.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	206458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>Several measures have been introduced across Government to support pubs, including a freeze on beer duty announced at Budget 2018. This means that the price of a typical pint of beer in 2019 will be 2p lower than it would have been had duty increased with inflation and 14p lower than it otherwise would have been since ending the beer duty escalator in 2013.</p><p> </p><p>Many small pubs will benefit from the business rates retail discount announced at Budget 2018, which cuts bills by one third from April 2019 for two years. It is available to pubs with a rateable value below £51,000 and is worth almost £900 million to businesses over two years. The Government estimates up to 75% of pubs in England could be eligible for the discount, subject to state aid limits and eligibility for other reliefs.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 15/01/2019 17:14:28 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1037833

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
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	Housing Infrastructure Fund: Nottinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding had been allocated to Nottinghamshire from the Housing Infrastructure Fund.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	206459
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2019 answer text <p>The South of Clifton Housing Infrastructure Scheme in Rushcliffe, for which the local authority requested £10 million of Marginal Viability Funding, has completed funding clarification. My Department will be notifying the local authority of the outcome very shortly. Nottinghamshire is also one of the 45 areas across England with whom we are working to co-develop Forward Funding projects with up to £4.6 billion of funding available to unlock a potential 450,000 homes in areas where housing need is greatest. For Forward Funding schemes in co-development, there is no guarantee of funding. It is still a competitive process, and following co-development, these areas will be required to submit business cases prior to final funding decisions being made.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 16/01/2019 16:33:02 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1035197

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
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	Health Services: East Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the resilience of healthcare providers in the East Midlands during the winter period.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	205421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department is supporting the National Health Service to prepare as robustly as possible for the coming winter and has been working closely with NHS England and NHS Improvement to ensure all trusts have plans in place. Providers and commissioners across the East Midlands have been working closely together to prepare for the winter period, supported by regional teams in NHS Improvement and NHS England. The Department has invested an additional £420 million this winter aimed at increasing the resilience and capacity of healthcare providers, including in the East Midlands. Moreover, the region is also benefiting from extended general practitioner hours to give patients more choice and take pressure off emergency departments, as well as the extensive national campaigns undertaken to make people aware of NHS 111 services and pharmacy services and encouraging the public to use the most appropriate NHS service for their needs.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 11/01/2019 12:16:14 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1027245

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
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	Clinical Commissioning Groups: East Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding was allocated from the public purse to each clinical commissioning group area in the East Midlands per head of population in (a) 2016-17 and (b) 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	202810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>Clinical commissioning group (CCG) allocations for 2016/17 and 2017/18 are available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-england-allocations-ccg-core-services/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-england-allocations-ccg-core-services/</a></p><p> </p><p>The East Midlands refers to a Government Office Region (GOR), which is not equivalent to Midlands and East National Health Service region. The East Midlands GOR comprises the following CCGs, based on Lower Layer Super Output Area resident populations (Office for National Statistics).</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>NHS Organisational Data Service code</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2016/17 (£)</p></td><td><p>2017/18 (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>02Q</p></td><td><p>NHS Bassetlaw CCG</p></td><td><p>1,335</p></td><td><p>1,356</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>03T</p></td><td><p>NHS Lincolnshire East CCG</p></td><td><p>1,348</p></td><td><p>1,371</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>03V</p></td><td><p>NHS Corby CCG</p></td><td><p>1,231</p></td><td><p>1,251</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>03W</p></td><td><p>NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG</p></td><td><p>1,097</p></td><td><p>1,114</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>03X</p></td><td><p>NHS Erewash CCG</p></td><td><p>1,284</p></td><td><p>1,303</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>03Y</p></td><td><p>NHS Hardwick CCG</p></td><td><p>1,393</p></td><td><p>1,415</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04C</p></td><td><p>NHS Leicester City CCG</p></td><td><p>1,101</p></td><td><p>1,117</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04D</p></td><td><p>NHS Lincolnshire West CCG</p></td><td><p>1,185</p></td><td><p>1,202</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04E</p></td><td><p>NHS Mansfield and Ashfield CCG</p></td><td><p>1,326</p></td><td><p>1,347</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04G</p></td><td><p>NHS Nene CCG</p></td><td><p>1,139</p></td><td><p>1,158</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04H</p></td><td><p>NHS Newark and Sherwood CCG</p></td><td><p>1,243</p></td><td><p>1,263</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04J</p></td><td><p>NHS North Derbyshire CCG</p></td><td><p>1,336</p></td><td><p>1,348</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04K</p></td><td><p>NHS Nottingham City CCG</p></td><td><p>1,176</p></td><td><p>1,193</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04L</p></td><td><p>NHS Nottingham North and East CCG</p></td><td><p>1,206</p></td><td><p>1,226</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04M</p></td><td><p>NHS Nottingham West CCG</p></td><td><p>1,229</p></td><td><p>1,246</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04N</p></td><td><p>NHS Rushcliffe CCG</p></td><td><p>1,093</p></td><td><p>1,111</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04Q</p></td><td><p>NHS South West Lincolnshire CCG</p></td><td><p>1,181</p></td><td><p>1,195</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04R</p></td><td><p>NHS Southern Derbyshire CCG</p></td><td><p>1,213</p></td><td><p>1,229</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04V</p></td><td><p>NHS West Leicestershire CCG</p></td><td><p>1,082</p></td><td><p>1,099</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>99D</p></td><td><p>NHS South Lincolnshire CCG</p></td><td><p>1,209</p></td><td><p>1,230</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01Y</p></td><td><p>NHS Tameside and Glossop CCG</p></td><td><p>1,374</p></td><td><p>1,393</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06H</p></td><td><p>NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG</p></td><td><p>1,058</p></td><td><p>1,077</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>Note: NHS Tameside and Glossop CCG and NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG partially overlap with this GOR.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 21/12/2018 15:02:23 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1027246

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding his Department has allocated to programmes aimed at tackling domestic violence in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	202811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>The Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy set out an ambitious programme to make tackling VAWG everybody’s business.</p><p>Over this spending review period, we are providing £100 million of dedicated funding to tackle VAWG. VAWG services are mainly commissioned at a local level by Police and Crime Commissioners, local authorities and health commissioners. The Government’s VAWG National Statement of Expectations encourages such decisions to be taken at a local level and driven by local need.</p><p>We created a £17 million 3-year VAWG Service Transformation Fund, which is funding projects across 41 areas in England and Wales to embed local best practice and ensure that early intervention and prevention, not crisis response, is the norm. Details of the funding are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/violence-against-women-and-girls-service-transformation-fund-successful-bids-2017-to-2020</p><p>Through the Police Transformation Fund we are spending £5.8 million to support innovative projects to tackle domestic abuse. More details of the funding are available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-transformation-fund-successful-bids-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-transformation-fund-successful-bids-2017-to-2018</a></p><p>We have also announced an £8 million fund to support children affected by domestic abuse, which gives charities, local authorities and other organisations the chance to bid for money for projects designed to intervene early to help children who have been directly or indirectly affected by domestic abuse. We will announce successful bids shortly.</p><p>The Home Office also supports the national VAWG Helplines and recently committed funding of up to £1.1m per annum for these services until 2021.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 21/12/2018 10:10:49 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley