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897181

registered interest
date	03/05/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Family Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the extent to which family court judges are identifying families who have not attended a mediation information and assessment meeting prior to coming to court as part of the post-implementation review of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (2012).
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	141047
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government is currently undertaking a post-implementation review of the impact of the legal aid changes made under the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012. An assessment of the impact of recent changes to the provision of legal aid for mediation and private family law cases will be made as part of the review process.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 14/05/2018 16:50:00 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

895486

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Family Courts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he last met the President of the Family Division; and whether they discussed the level of take-up of mediation by people attending the family court.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	140213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2018 answer text <p>I am clear that the Government remains committed to supporting mediation for separating couples. It is an effective way of resolving disputes about finances and children, when it is safe and appropriate to do so. Mediation can be less stressful than going to court. It can help reduce conflict, by avoiding potentially contentious court proceedings which can be harmful to children. We are working to improve information and signposting to raise awareness of mediation and to encourage more separating couples to try it.</p><p> </p><p>I hold regular meetings with senior judges-, that are held in confidence and it would therefore not be appropriate to disclose their content.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 10/05/2018 10:42:51 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

895557

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Billing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many complaints from sub-contractors in respect of slow and poor payment practices have been (a) received since the Mystery Shopper service was established by year and (b) followed up by visits by year; and whether any such complaints were received from a company linked by contract to Carillion.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	140214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2018 answer text <p>The Mystery Shopper Service publishes results of the investigations into the cases received on a quarterly basis:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mystery-shopper-results" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mystery-shopper-results</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 17/05/2018 16:06:15 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

892215

registered interest
date	26/04/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Windrush Generation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department undertook an Equality Impact Assessment in advance of the decision to destroy documentation relating to the Windrush generation.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	138533
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2018 answer text <p>There was no obligation to complete an Equality Impact Assessment for the destruction of the documentation. Section 149(9) of the 2010 Equality Act provides Schedule 18 exceptions to the need to comply with the public sector equality duty in the Act; one of the exceptions is immigration.</p><p> </p><p>In regards to landing cards specifically, although there was provision in the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962 to make a requirement for Commonwealth citizens to complete landing cards, this was never implemented. Landing cards were not required for the vast majority of nationals of Independent Commonwealth Countries until the implementation of the Immigration Act 1971. A very small number of cards were completed by Immigration officers for small cohorts of these nationals.</p><p> </p><p>Landing cards do not confirm a person’s residency and, therefore, are of limited use to a decision which is reliant on ongoing residency (such as the Windrush cohort). The key pieces of evidence to the Windrush cohort is evidence to show a person’s residency here, but we will consider any evidence provided in order to build a picture of a person’s residency here.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 01/05/2018 10:21:44 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

890294

registered interest
date	24/04/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to make changes to the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document to permit salary sacrifice for the purchase of a car.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	137649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>There is a statutory process for revising the pay and conditions of teachers. Any change must first be referred by the Secretary of State to the independent School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB). The demands on the STRB’s time and resources mean that the Government has to make decisions on prioritising the issues it refers.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to making the teaching profession an attractive and competitive career but is not currently considering proposing an extension to the current salary sacrifice schemes for teachers to cover cars.</p><p> </p><p>Academies and free schools are not required to follow the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document and could choose to offer their teachers access to car schemes as part of salary sacrifice arrangements should they wish to do so.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 02/05/2018 15:55:25 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

890032

registered interest
date	23/04/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Vocational Guidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the provision of careers information, advice and guidance in schools accommodates the needs of young people with special educational needs and disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	137084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s careers strategy, published in December 2017, contains a number of proposals to improve careers advice for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), including:</p><ul><li>Funding for the Education and Training Foundation to provide professional development for practitioners working with these young people;</li><li>Funding for training and materials for post-16 providers to help them design and tailor study programmes which offer a pathway to employment for these students;</li><li>A toolkit for schools and colleges by The Careers &amp; Enterprise Company and the Gatsby Foundation; and</li><li>Training for Enterprise Advisers (senior volunteers from business who support schools with their careers programme) so young people with special educational needs and disabilities have the advice they need.</li></ul><p>We will also be funding grants later this year to establish good practice in ways of working with young people with SEND and their parents.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/05/2018 10:52:39 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

890033

registered interest
date	23/04/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Vocational Guidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the careers strategy, what plans his Department has to extend the provision of qualified careers guidance counsellors.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	137085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/05/2018 answer text <p>The careers strategy makes clear that personal guidance from a qualified practitioner is important to help people make choices about their education, training and careers.</p><p>Secondary schools and colleges are responsible for making sure their students receive independent careers guidance. Every pupil should have opportunities for personal guidance interviews with a qualified careers adviser whenever significant study or career choices are being made. The Government’s expectation is that every pupil should have at least one such interview by the age of 16, and the opportunity for a further interview by the age of 18. Schools are encouraged to search for qualified careers practitioners in their area on the UK Register of Career Development Professionals.</p><p>The National Careers Service continues to provide impartial, high quality information, advice and guidance so that adults both in and out of work have tailored careers support. Nearly 1,300 careers advisers deliver the service, the majority of whom are qualified at Level 4 or above in careers information, advice and guidance.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/05/2018 09:23:20 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

887152

registered interest
date	19/04/2018
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	Pregnancy: Sodium Valproate
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of funding required to raise awareness of the potential health risks for women of child-bearing age of taking Sodium Valproate.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	136717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has been working in partnership with the Department, professional bodies and the healthcare system to bring together a package of measures to raise awareness of the significant risks associated with sodium valproate in pregnancy and to support healthcare professionals in changing prescribing behaviour and therefore reducing the harms from valproate in women of child-bearing age. All parties involved are fully committed to the implementation of the new regulatory position using the existing funds of each relevant organisation.</p><p> </p><p>The new measures include updated educational materials for healthcare professionals and patients and will be communicated through the MHRA bulletin and letters to healthcare professionals through the National Health Service Central Alerting System. The information cascade will be supported by messages from professional bodies, charities and patient groups to their constituents and reinforced through changes to clinical guidelines and improved alerts on General Practitioner prescribing systems.</p><p> </p><p>The effectiveness of the new measures in changing prescribing of valproate will be closely monitored. Relevant data will be published and there will be ongoing follow up to ensure that the harms to the child from valproate in pregnancy are minimised.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 27/04/2018 12:52:30 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

887158

registered interest
date	19/04/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April 2018 to Question 135389 on Motor Vehicles: Excise Duties, how much Vehicle Excise Duty was collected, in each vehicle class, from vehicles registered in (a) Bury North constituency (b) Bury and (c) North West in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	136722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2018 answer text <p>Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) is collected nationwide. There is no official methodology to identify the VED collected in specific areas.</p><p> </p><p>The government publishes data on vehicle registrations by postcode and region. The latest vehicle licensing statistics were published on 12 April 2018 and are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/vehicle-licensing-statistics-july-to-september-2017.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 26/04/2018 09:03:28 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

882320

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
answering body	Prime Minister
answering dept id	23
answering dept short name	Prime Minister
answering dept sort name	Prime Minister
hansard heading	Older People: Departmental Responsibilities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Prime Minister, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of creating at Cabinet level a Minister for older citizens .
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	135419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the right hon. Member for Tatton (Esther McVey) and the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the right hon. Member for South West Surrey (Jeremy Hunt), are responsible for a wide range of issues affecting older people.</p> answering member constituency Maidenhead answering member printed Mrs Theresa May question first answered 23/04/2018 16:03:22 answering member 8 label Biography information for Mrs Theresa May
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith