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1579575

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Out-of-School Education: East Sussex
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she has had with East Sussex County Council on the Hope Sussex Community Hub.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	129753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>It is an offence, under Section 96 of the Education and Skills Act 2008, for a person to conduct an independent school unless it is registered with the Department. Under Section 97 of the 2008 Act, Ofsted may inspect, without notice, any establishment suspected of operating as an unregistered independent school.<em> </em></p><p>Ofsted have made an attempt to inspect Hope Sussex Community Hub, based on a reasonable cause to believe that a suspected unregistered school was operating on the premises. Ofsted and the Department continue to monitor this case and will take further action as and when justified by available evidence. If evidence is found that shows an unregistered school is operating, the Department, Ofsted and the Crown Prosecution Service will consider whether prosecution is in the public interest.</p><p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, remains committed to legislate in order to strengthen Ofsted’s powers with regard to its investigation of unregistered independent schools.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 129756 question first answered 06/02/2023 14:19:50 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1579578

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Out-of-School Education: East Sussex
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for how long Ofsted has been investigating the Hope Sussex school.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	129756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>It is an offence, under Section 96 of the Education and Skills Act 2008, for a person to conduct an independent school unless it is registered with the Department. Under Section 97 of the 2008 Act, Ofsted may inspect, without notice, any establishment suspected of operating as an unregistered independent school.<em> </em></p><p>Ofsted have made an attempt to inspect Hope Sussex Community Hub, based on a reasonable cause to believe that a suspected unregistered school was operating on the premises. Ofsted and the Department continue to monitor this case and will take further action as and when justified by available evidence. If evidence is found that shows an unregistered school is operating, the Department, Ofsted and the Crown Prosecution Service will consider whether prosecution is in the public interest.</p><p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, remains committed to legislate in order to strengthen Ofsted’s powers with regard to its investigation of unregistered independent schools.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 129753 question first answered 06/02/2023 14:19:50 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1579647

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many migrant children have been reported missing from Home Office hotels in each of the last twelve months.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	129761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office has no power to hold under-18s in hotels or any temporary accommodation if they wish to leave.</p><p>We have robust safeguarding procedures in place to ensure all unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in hotels are as safe and supported as possible as we seek urgent placements with a local authority.</p><p>Young people are supported by team leaders and support workers who are on site 24 hours a day.</p><p>Records are kept and monitored of children leaving and returning to the hotel. Support workers will accompany children off site on activities and social excursions, or where specific vulnerabilities are identified. All sites have security staff to ensure the safety and welfare of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.</p><p>Local authorities have a statutory duty to protect all children, regardless of where they go missing from. In the concerning occasion when any child goes missing, regardless of their status, they work closely with other local agencies, including the police, to urgently establish their whereabouts and ensure they are safe.</p><p>Since July 2021, when UASC were first accommodated in hotels, there have been 440 missing episodes (the term episode used as some children have gone missing been located and subsequently gone missing again). As of 26 January 2023, 199 remain missing.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 129762 129763 question first answered 08/02/2023 14:59:23 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1579648

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the age range of migrant children reported missing from Home Office hotels in the last twelve months.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	129762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office has no power to hold under-18s in hotels or any temporary accommodation if they wish to leave.</p><p>We have robust safeguarding procedures in place to ensure all unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in hotels are as safe and supported as possible as we seek urgent placements with a local authority.</p><p>Young people are supported by team leaders and support workers who are on site 24 hours a day.</p><p>Records are kept and monitored of children leaving and returning to the hotel. Support workers will accompany children off site on activities and social excursions, or where specific vulnerabilities are identified. All sites have security staff to ensure the safety and welfare of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.</p><p>Local authorities have a statutory duty to protect all children, regardless of where they go missing from. In the concerning occasion when any child goes missing, regardless of their status, they work closely with other local agencies, including the police, to urgently establish their whereabouts and ensure they are safe.</p><p>Since July 2021, when UASC were first accommodated in hotels, there have been 440 missing episodes (the term episode used as some children have gone missing been located and subsequently gone missing again). As of 26 January 2023, 199 remain missing.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 129761 129763 question first answered 08/02/2023 14:59:23 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1579649

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government taking steps to ensure the safety of unaccompanied migrant children who go missing from Home Office hotels.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	129763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office has no power to hold under-18s in hotels or any temporary accommodation if they wish to leave.</p><p>We have robust safeguarding procedures in place to ensure all unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in hotels are as safe and supported as possible as we seek urgent placements with a local authority.</p><p>Young people are supported by team leaders and support workers who are on site 24 hours a day.</p><p>Records are kept and monitored of children leaving and returning to the hotel. Support workers will accompany children off site on activities and social excursions, or where specific vulnerabilities are identified. All sites have security staff to ensure the safety and welfare of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.</p><p>Local authorities have a statutory duty to protect all children, regardless of where they go missing from. In the concerning occasion when any child goes missing, regardless of their status, they work closely with other local agencies, including the police, to urgently establish their whereabouts and ensure they are safe.</p><p>Since July 2021, when UASC were first accommodated in hotels, there have been 440 missing episodes (the term episode used as some children have gone missing been located and subsequently gone missing again). As of 26 January 2023, 199 remain missing.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 129761 129762 question first answered 08/02/2023 14:59:23 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1579747

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Missing Persons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) adult and (b) children asylum seekers that were accommodated via the Home Office are missing.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	130063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>The safety and wellbeing of asylum seekers in our care is of paramount importance to the Home Office. We expect high standards from all of our providers, and we have a robust governance framework in place to manage service delivery of the Asylum Accommodation Support Contracts (AASC). Details of the AASC can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fnews%2Fnew-asylum-accommodation-contracts-awarded&amp;data=05%7C01%7CJordan.Kelly27%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C935dbaf5b55f41dceb5608da22bd67c4%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637860494119143762%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=WluEj72k%2F6SzJiik%2BuvC3nZT6amXX7KspxfefWLcJpk%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">New asylum accommodation contracts awarded - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)(opens in a new tab)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Robust compliance and governance protocols exist to ensure daily engagement is undertaken with our service providers by Home Office officials to ensure and assure that the providers’ operational delivery and overall performance consistently meet the required standards. If any issues are identified providers are required to take immediate action to address and recover accordingly.</p><p> </p><p>We have robust safeguarding procedures in place to ensure all unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in hotels are as safe and supported as possible as we seek urgent placements with a local authority.</p><p> </p><p>Young people are supported by team leaders and support workers who are on site 24 hours a day. Young people are supported by team leaders and support workers who are on site 24 hours a day. Further care is provided in hotels by teams of social workers and nurses.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities have a statutory duty to protect all children, regardless of where they go missing from. In the concerning occasion when any child goes missing, regardless of their status, they work closely with other local agencies, including the police, to urgently establish their whereabouts and ensure they are safe.</p><p /><p>The Home Office does not hold data for the number of adult and children asylum seekers <strong>that were accommodated via the Home Office that are missing in a reportable format and it would require a manual search of records which would incur a disproportionate cost. </strong>As of 26 January 2023, there are 199 young people missing from Home Office UASC hotels. Please be advised that some of these people are now over 18, but they are included in the figures as they were a child when they went missing. Of the 199 young people that are currently missing, 185 of them were 16 or older at the time they went missing.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 130064 question first answered 06/02/2023 16:30:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1579748

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Temporary Accommodation
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 plans to take to improve safeguarding at Home Office-run accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	130064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>The safety and wellbeing of asylum seekers in our care is of paramount importance to the Home Office. We expect high standards from all of our providers, and we have a robust governance framework in place to manage service delivery of the Asylum Accommodation Support Contracts (AASC). Details of the AASC can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fnews%2Fnew-asylum-accommodation-contracts-awarded&amp;data=05%7C01%7CJordan.Kelly27%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C935dbaf5b55f41dceb5608da22bd67c4%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637860494119143762%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=WluEj72k%2F6SzJiik%2BuvC3nZT6amXX7KspxfefWLcJpk%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">New asylum accommodation contracts awarded - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)(opens in a new tab)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Robust compliance and governance protocols exist to ensure daily engagement is undertaken with our service providers by Home Office officials to ensure and assure that the providers’ operational delivery and overall performance consistently meet the required standards. If any issues are identified providers are required to take immediate action to address and recover accordingly.</p><p> </p><p>We have robust safeguarding procedures in place to ensure all unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in hotels are as safe and supported as possible as we seek urgent placements with a local authority.</p><p> </p><p>Young people are supported by team leaders and support workers who are on site 24 hours a day. Young people are supported by team leaders and support workers who are on site 24 hours a day. Further care is provided in hotels by teams of social workers and nurses.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities have a statutory duty to protect all children, regardless of where they go missing from. In the concerning occasion when any child goes missing, regardless of their status, they work closely with other local agencies, including the police, to urgently establish their whereabouts and ensure they are safe.</p><p /><p>The Home Office does not hold data for the number of adult and children asylum seekers <strong>that were accommodated via the Home Office that are missing in a reportable format and it would require a manual search of records which would incur a disproportionate cost. </strong>As of 26 January 2023, there are 199 young people missing from Home Office UASC hotels. Please be advised that some of these people are now over 18, but they are included in the figures as they were a child when they went missing. Of the 199 young people that are currently missing, 185 of them were 16 or older at the time they went missing.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 130063 question first answered 06/02/2023 16:30:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1569013

registered interest
date	20/01/2023
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	Department of Health and Social Care: Equality
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 he is taking to ensure his Department complies with section 2.1.6 of the Civil Service Management Code; and whether that monitoring data gathered is shared with union representatives.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	128659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2023 answer text <p>The Department collects data to enable monitoring of our policies and action plans in compliance with 2.1.6 of the Civil Service Management Code. The Department holds regular meetings with the trade unions on a monthly basis where routine information is shared. In addition, trade unions can access a range of Human Resources information published on the Department's intranet.</p><p> </p><p>The Department also publishes detailed workforce data covering age, gender, ethnic origin, disability, and other protected characteristics as part of the Department’s Public Sector Equality Duty Report that is publicly available on the GOV.UK website.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 10/02/2023 12:49:42 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1569092

registered interest
date	20/01/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have made an assessment of the effects of (1) vehicle speeds, and (2) journey times, on emissions in urban areas; and if so, whether higher (a) vehicle speeds, or (b) journey times, have a greater effect on emissions levels.
tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
uin	HL4932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government has commissioned studies to assess the impact of vehicle speed on emissions, for example undertaking a high-resolution emission modelling approach to understand changes in vehicle speeds and how it relates to emissions. The Department uses the best available evidence to model emissions in urban areas, including evidence linking vehicle speeds with emissions based on international guidelines. The evidence is that the factors influencing emissions are complex and the relative impact of vehicle speed, acceleration/deceleration and distance travelled (which are all related to journey times), will vary depending on the local situation.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government’s Joint Air Quality Unit helps local authorities to calculate NOx emissions in their local areas using outputs from traffic models, which use a range of parameters including speed and distance travelled (which influence journey time) and the number of vehicles. The results of these parameters are contained in their Full Business Cases which are all published documents.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 03/02/2023 15:03:29 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

1569100

registered interest
date	20/01/2023
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	Coronavirus: Medical Treatments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how they will (1) assess, and (2) report on, the effectiveness of COVID-19 Medicine Delivery Units (CMDUs) in providing treatments for COVID-19 to vulnerable patients; and whether they have any plans (a) to disband CMDUs and devolve this responsibility to a primary care model, or (b) implement any other change of process.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL4940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2023 answer text <p>NHS England regularly meets with patient groups and charities, such as Blood Cancer UK, to hear feedback on the experience of individuals who have sought and/or received treatment via a COVID-19 Medicine Delivery Unit (CMDU), and with representatives of the care home sector to identify ways to facilitate timely contact and clinical assessment for potentially eligible individuals in their care. Publications reporting on treatment via CMDUs are available in an online-only format on the National Health Service website.</p><p>In the future, access to COVID-19 treatments will be determined by the guidance of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, which is currently undertaking a multiple technology appraisal covering a range of potential COVID-19 treatments. Once its final determination has been made and published, setting out which COVID-19 treatments should be made routinely available by the NHS, it will be for local integrated care boards to determine access pathways for these medicines within their local communities. The expectation is for treatment to be deployed through more routine access routes, including through GPs and other forms of primary care.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 07/02/2023 16:48:11 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn