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1020658

registered interest
date	06/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with directors of children’s services on their ability to deliver their statutory duties to children and families.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	199764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>Ministers and officials regularly meet key stakeholders, including Directors of Children’s Services (DCSs), to discuss policy issues relating to the department’s agenda. For example, I recently met with DCSs and Local Authority Chief Executives at the National Children and Adult Services Conference, held recent roundtables in the department with groups of both DCSs and Chief Executives, and have attended induction events for new DCSs, the last one being in October 2019. In addition, my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of the State and I have very recently met with a number of children in care to hear their views and experiences. The department recognises how important it is to speak directly with those who are on the front line, delivering services for children and families.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 12/12/2018 17:56:09 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

1020660

registered interest
date	06/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the link between deprivation and demand for children’s services.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	199765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>Demand for children’s services is associated with a number of factors including deprivation. The most deprived local authorities (LAs) have more looked-after children (per 10,000 0-17 year olds), and these rates have grown faster than the least deprived LAs.</p><p>In preparation for the Spending Review, to help ensure decisions are based on the best available evidence, the government is working with the sector to develop a sharper and more granular picture of demand for children’s services.</p><p>We are also working with Ministry of Housing, Communities &amp; Local Government as part of the Government’s Fair Funding Review of relative needs and resources, where new, up-to-date formulas are being developed to ensure funding distribution to councils is based on the best available evidence.</p><p>We welcome the contributions from the sector in this area, including Newton Europe’s Making Sense (2018) report and the Association of Directors of Children’s Services continuing research reports, Safeguarding Pressures (2018)<em>.</em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 12/12/2018 17:58:51 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

1020662

registered interest
date	06/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding local government receives to deliver children’s services.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	199766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>Funding for local government services, including children’s services, is set initially in the Spending Review. My right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has announced that the next Spending Review will be in 2019 and that decisions about the future funding of children’s services will be taken in the round.</p><p>We are working with the sector both to develop a thorough understanding of children’s services costs and pressures and to help local authorities to innovate and reform services to achieve better quality and efficiency.</p><p>The government has listened to the sector, which requested additional funding for social care. That is why we have provided flexibility for £410 million in grant funding for social care in the period of 2019 to 2020 to be directed according to what local authorities consider to be their top social care priorities, including children’s social care.</p><p>In preparation for the Spending Review, and as part of the government’s review of relative needs and resources, new up-to-date formulas are being developed to ensure that funding distribution to councils is based on the best available evidence. The department and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government have commissioned an ambitious data research project from independent contractors to inform this work.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 199768 question first answered 13/12/2018 12:13:39 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

1020663

registered interest
date	06/12/2018
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	Social Services: Children
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 discussions he has had with local authorities on the delivery of children’s services.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	199767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State and the Minister for Local Government regularly hear from Councils across the country to discuss the delivery of services, including Children’s Social Care.</p><p>The Department leads on the national Troubled Families Programme, which aims to find better ways of working with complex families with multiple high-cost problems. Ministers regularly visit participating authorities and hear from the families and children who are supported by the Programme, in which we have committed £920 million from 2015-2020.</p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 14/12/2018 14:35:10 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

1020664

registered interest
date	06/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that local authorities have sufficient resources to deliver services to children and families.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	199768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>Funding for local government services, including children’s services, is set initially in the Spending Review. My right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has announced that the next Spending Review will be in 2019 and that decisions about the future funding of children’s services will be taken in the round.</p><p>We are working with the sector both to develop a thorough understanding of children’s services costs and pressures and to help local authorities to innovate and reform services to achieve better quality and efficiency.</p><p>The government has listened to the sector, which requested additional funding for social care. That is why we have provided flexibility for £410 million in grant funding for social care in the period of 2019 to 2020 to be directed according to what local authorities consider to be their top social care priorities, including children’s social care.</p><p>In preparation for the Spending Review, and as part of the government’s review of relative needs and resources, new up-to-date formulas are being developed to ensure that funding distribution to councils is based on the best available evidence. The department and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government have commissioned an ambitious data research project from independent contractors to inform this work.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 199766 question first answered 13/12/2018 12:13:39 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

1020666

registered interest
date	06/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on how much local authorities overspent on children’s services last year; and how much additional investment for children’s services was announced in Budget 2018.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	199769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>Local authorities are required under Section 251 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 to submit education and children’s social care budget and expenditure statements. This data is published in statistical releases annually. The most recent release shows a difference of approximately £1 billion in 2017-18 when their planned spend is compared to their actual spend.</p><p>At Autumn Budget, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced an extra £410 million to address pressures on adult and children social care services, along with £84 million over five years to support up to 20 local authorities to improve their social work practice and decision-making, enabling them to work more effectively with the most vulnerable children and their families. This builds on the £200 billion the government has already made available to councils up to 2020 to provide services in the best interests of local residents, including those for children and young people.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 13/12/2018 13:13:11 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

1017198

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
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	Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency: Finance
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 for contingency planning for the UK leaving the EU without a deal will be made available to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency for the development of new processes or systems including software.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	197320
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department continues to work with partners across Government, industry and its arm’s-length bodies (ALBs), including the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), to ensure that required systems and processes, including software, will be available on Exit Day. Support is being provided including European Union exit funding for contingency preparations where it is necessary and the Department is engaging with its ALBs including MHRA to ensure their needs are met.</p><p> </p><p>The Autumn Budget 2018 confirmed an additional £500 million of cross-Government EU exit funding for 2019/20, meaning the Government will have invested over £4 billion in preparing for EU exit since 2016.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/12/2018 12:53:00 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

1016456

registered interest
date	28/11/2018
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	European Medicines Agency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether contingency planning and expenditure by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) on any systems or processes, including software is being incurred on systems or processes which will be redundant in the event that an agreement is reached that includes continued full co-operation, based on regulatory alignment, with the European Medicines Agency after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	196702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has undertaken contingency planning in the event the United Kingdom leaves the European Union with no deal. MHRA currently interacts with 40 systems and processes. The total estimated cost to replace them is expected to be £9.3 million on completion.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/12/2018 12:49:41 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

1016457

registered interest
date	28/11/2018
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	NHS: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what other aspects of medicines regulation including regulation related to patient safety is postponed due to contingency planning for the UK leaving the EU without a deal; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	196703
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to making sure that patients continue to access safe and innovative medicines and devices, and regulation related to medicines and patient safety have therefore not been postponed because of contingency planning.</p><p> </p><p>For example, we have continued with the implementation of the Falsified Medicines Directive, which is designed to help identify and remove falsified medicines from the supply chain, ahead of coming into force in February 2019, and continued to make the necessary preparations to implement the new Clinical Trials Regulation and Medical Devices Regulation, both due to be implemented before the end of 2020.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 07/12/2018 12:40:50 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

1012410

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Matthew Hedges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations the Government has made to the authorities in the United Arab Emirates as a result of the sentencing of UK student Matthew Hedges.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	194586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2018 answer text <p>​​Following the court hearing on Wednesday 21 November, the Foreign Secretary released a statement and discussed Matthew Hedges' case with Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed and the United Arab Emirates Ambassador to the UK. I have also spoken to Deputy Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash, most recently on 23 November. We welcome the news of Mr Hedges' pardon. He has now returned to the UK and has reunited with his wife</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 30/11/2018 13:09:52 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw