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1401761

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date	11/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what fiscal steps he is taking to support Welsh students who are attending university in England with costs of renting student accommodation in England.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	101828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2022 answer text <p>Devolution means that there are a range of policies and approaches to higher education (HE) which differ between the four administrations who deal with higher education policy in the United Kingdom. It is for each administration to decide how they deploy their resources and develop their HE system. Devolution allows for the different treatment of UK students in respect of student support within different parts of the UK.</p><p>The government plays no role in the provision of student residential accommodation. Universities and private accommodation providers are autonomous and are responsible for setting their own rent agreements. We encourage universities and private landlords to review their accommodation policies to ensure they are fair, clear and have the interests of students at heart.</p><p>If a student thinks their accommodation provider is treating them unfairly, they can raise a complaint under the accommodation codes of practice as long as the provider is a code member. The codes can be found at: <a href="https://www.thesac.org.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.thesac.org.uk/</a>, <a href="https://www.unipol.org.uk/the-code/how-to-complain" target="_blank">https://www.unipol.org.uk/the-code/how-to-complain</a> and <a href="https://www.nrla.org.uk/about-us/code-of-practice" target="_blank">https://www.nrla.org.uk/about-us/code-of-practice</a>.</p><p>We recognise that in the exceptional circumstances of the COVID-19 outbreak, some students may face financial hardship<strong>. </strong>Our grant funding to the Office for Students (OfS) for the current financial year includes an allocation of £5 million to HE providers in England in order to provide additional support for student hardship. This is to mitigate hardship due to COVID-19 impacts on the labour market which particularly affect, for example, students relying on work to fund their studies. In our guidance to the OfS on funding for the 2021/22 financial year we made clear that the OfS should protect the £256 million allocation for the student premiums to support disadvantaged students and those that need additional help<strong>.</strong></p><p>Many providers have hardship funds that students can apply to for assistance should the COVID-19 outbreak affect individuals’ finances in academic year 2021/22.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan grouped question UIN 101827 question first answered 20/01/2022 15:26:20 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1401852

registered interest
date	11/01/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether regulations to require all new HGVs to emit zero emissions by 2040 will recognise hydrogen internal combustion engines as a compliant zero-emission technology.
tabling member constituency	Bradford South
tabling member printed	Judith Cummins
uin	101764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2022 answer text <p>Following consultation, we announced at COP26 that the UK would become the first country in the world to commit to phasing out new, non-zero emission heavy goods vehicles weighing 26 tonnes and under by 2035, with all new HGVs sold in the UK to be zero emission by 2040. Regulations used to deliver these dates will be technology neutral and the next steps will be set out in Government’s response to the phase out dates consultation which will be published shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 19/01/2022 09:52:48 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4391 label Biography information for Judith Cummins

1401853

registered interest
date	11/01/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Cars and Vans: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether regulations to require all new cars and vans to emit zero emissions by 2035 will recognise hydrogen internal combustion engines as a compliant zero-emission technology.
tabling member constituency	Bradford South
tabling member printed	Judith Cummins
uin	101765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2022 answer text <p>Removing tailpipe emissions from road vehicles is fundamental to decarbonising transport. Regulations that ensure that from 2035 all new cars and vans are fully zero emission at the tailpipe will remain technology neutral. The Government’s response to our recent consultation on the regulatory options for the design of those regulations will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 18/01/2022 10:24:48 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4391 label Biography information for Judith Cummins

1401993

registered interest
date	11/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Unemployment: York
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of people who are classified as not in education, employment or training in (a) York Central constituency and (b) York.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	101773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2022 answer text <p>The department publishes national statistics on those not in education, employment or training (NEET) for England from the labour force survey for young people aged 16-24. However, these are only published at national and regional level due to limitations with sample sizes for lower-level geographies. Therefore, NEET rates for young people aged 16-24 cannot be provided for the areas requested.</p><p>The publication is available to view here: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/neet-statistics-annual-brief" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/neet-statistics-annual-brief</a>.</p><p>Local authorities are required to encourage, enable, or assist young people’s participation in education or training and return management information for those aged 16 and 17. This data is published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/neet-and-participation-local-authority-figures" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/neet-and-participation-local-authority-figures</a>.</p><p>This shows that of the 3,500 16 and 17 year olds who were known to York local authority around the end of 2020 (average of December 2020, January 2021 and February 2021), 110 were NEET or their activity was not known (65 known to be NEET and 45 young people whom the local authority could not confirm their activity). These are not national statistics but published as transparency data so some caution should be taken if using these figures.</p><p>In addition, 16-18 destination measures are published. These official statistics show the percentage of pupils not continuing to a sustained education, apprenticeship, or employment destination in the year after completing 16-18 study, that is 6 months of continual activity. This can be used as a proxy for NEET at age 18.</p><p>The below statistics show that of the cohort of young people leaving state funded mainstream schools and colleges<sup>1</sup> in 2019/20:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>16-18 Destination measures<sup>2,3</sup>, 2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p>Number in cohort</p></td><td><p>Number not in a sustained destination<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>Number activity not captured<sup>5</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York</p></td><td><p>3,510</p></td><td><p>525</p></td><td><p>248</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York Central Constituency</p></td><td><p>353</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><ol><li>Covers all state-funded mainstream schools, academies, free schools, city technology colleges, sixth forms and other and further education sector colleges. Excludes alternative provision, special schools, other government department funded colleges and independent schools.</li><li>Local authority figures are based on the local education authority area responsible for the young person whereas constituency figures are based on the provider location.</li><li>Links to the destination measures statistics quoted in table:<ul><li>York local authority: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/8dacd6e4-a5b1-401c-b834-3fbc62621b0e" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/8dacd6e4-a5b1-401c-b834-3fbc62621b0e</a></li><li>York Central Constituency: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/ebedb6cb-4536-4aa5-aca9-cbad3c42ea9b" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/ebedb6cb-4536-4aa5-aca9-cbad3c42ea9b</a></li></ul></li><li>Students who had participated in education, apprenticeships or employment during the academic year but did not complete the required 6 months participation.</li><li>Student was not found to have any participation in education, apprenticeship, or employment in England.</li></ol><p><strong><br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 19/01/2022 10:40:02 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1401619

registered interest
date	10/01/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cybersecurity: Business
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of cyber attacks there have been in each of the last three years on UK companies by a hostile state; and what is their policy to prevent such attacks.
tabling member printed	Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
uin	HL5253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2022 answer text <p>Our new National Cyber Strategy, launched in December 2021, sets out how we will ensure that the UK continues to be a leading, responsible and democratic cyber power, able to protect and promote our interests in the rapidly evolving online world. This includes our approach to making the UK more resilient to cyber attacks and countering cyber threats. It is supported by £2.6 billion of investment over three years.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Over the past three years, the National Cyber Security Centre has dealt with a total of 2158 significant cyber incidents affecting people and organisations across the UK: 658 in 2019, 723 in 2020 and 777 in 2021. The 2021 Cyber Security Breaches Survey shows that 39% of businesses identified a cyber attack in the last 12 months, 46% in 2020 and 32% in 2019. We are not in a position to be able to identify all cyber attacks against UK companies or attribute responsibility for every attack.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The UK will do what is necessary to protect ourselves through our world leading capability in this area. We are vigilant to cyber threats, wherever they come from, and ready to defend against them. We are continuing to work to make the UK more resilient to cyber threats and raise the cost for those who would do us harm.</p> answering member printed Lord True question first answered 18/01/2022 11:47:27 answering member 4200 label Biography information for Lord True
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

1400712

registered interest
date	07/01/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to use its log of individuals at risk in Afghanistan referred to it by hon. Members; and whether that log will be part of the referral process for the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	99373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2022 answer text <p>The Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) will prioritise those who have assisted UK efforts in Afghanistan and stood up for UK values such as democracy, women’s rights, freedom of speech and rule of law; and vulnerable people such as women and girls at risk, and members of minority groups (including ethnic / religious minorities and LGBT+).</p><p>Those eligible for the scheme include individuals evacuated during Operation Pitting. Due to the success of the evacuation in unprecedented circumstances, there are around 6,500 people in the UK who have been brought to safety during and after the evacuation who are eligible for the ACRS. We’re considering how we use MPs correspondence to inform the referral process, as set out in the Oral statement.</p><p>There will not be an application process for the ACRS. Instead, eligible people will be prioritised and referred for resettlement through one of three ways, more detail can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/afghan-citizens-resettlement-scheme" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/afghan-citizens-resettlement-scheme</a>.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 27/01/2022 12:27:07 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins previous answer version 42775 answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1400775

registered interest
date	07/01/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	National Tutoring Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many hours of tutoring have been provided to pupils under the school-led tutoring grant in (a) England, (b) each local authority, (c) each parliamentary constituency during the 2021-22 academic year.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	99330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2022 answer text <p>The National Tutoring Programme (NTP) is due to reach hundreds of thousands more pupils this year, as part of a significant expansion to give schools more flexibility to deliver tutoring that works for them and ensure that no child is left behind.</p><p>Building on the success of last year, we are confident of reaching our ambitious target to provide up to 6 million tutoring packages over the next 3 years.</p><p>The department continues to collect data from schools for all 3 strands of the NTP (school-led tutoring, tuition partners and academic mentors). As at 1 December 2021, an estimated 230,000 tutoring courses had been started by pupils through school-led tutoring since September; by 12 December an estimated 52,000 tutoring courses had been started by pupils with tuition partners and an estimated 20,000 tutoring courses had been started by pupils with academic mentors in the same period. The department does not collect data on pupils as the programme is focused on tutoring packages and has not committed to publish local level data. Accordingly, it has not published pupil participation by constituency. We will review the collection of data after the end of the current year to determine whether any changes are required.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker grouped question UIN 99325 99328 99329 question first answered 18/01/2022 17:30:24 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1400778

registered interest
date	07/01/2022
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	Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people placed on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme whose income fell below the Lower Earnings Limit and as a result have gaps in their National Insurance contributions that will affect their state pension entitlement.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	99348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>Where the furlough scheme operated, individuals may have also been entitled to claim Universal Credit. Those eligible for Universal Credit will have had a National Insurance credit applied to their record for this period, protecting their future State Pension entitlement. There may also be people whose total income across a tax year meant that they received a National Insurance qualifying year, even if there were periods where their earnings were below the Lower Earnings Limit.</p><p> </p><p>There are a wide range of National Insurance credits available, ensuring people can achieve the best possible State Pension outcome when they reach State Pension age.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 17/01/2022 14:03:18 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1400779

registered interest
date	07/01/2022
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	Tree Planting: 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, if his Department will provide ring-fenced funding to local authorities for the planting of trees.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	99404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>Defra supports local authorities’ tree planting activity through access to several of the Nature for Climate Fund Grant schemes, such as the Local Authorities Treescape Fund (LATF) and the Urban Tree Challenge Fund (UTCF).</p><p> </p><p>The £4.4 million LATF is available for local authorities to plant and encourage natural regeneration of trees to restore neglected green spaces in their communities. This fund is aimed at establishing more trees in locations outside of woodlands including riverbanks, hedgerows, parklands, urban areas, beside roads and footpaths, in copses and shelterbelts, including neglected, disused and vacant community spaces.</p><p> </p><p>The UTCF will provide up to £6 million of funding over the next two years for planting around 44,000 large trees in towns and cities. This fund is targeted at the managers of urban land with a broad applicant base, including local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 17/01/2022 15:03:42 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1400795

registered interest
date	07/01/2022
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	Exhibitions
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 discussions he has had with relevant stakeholders on a potential Great Exhibition project; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	99346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2022 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has had no such meetings. For meetings conducted by the previous Secretary of State please see the answer to Written Parliamentary Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-01-06/98965" target="_blank">98965</a>.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 12/01/2022 17:47:57 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders