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1685790

registered interest
date	30/01/2024
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	Fisheries: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the potential impact of increasing the minimum earnings thresholds for skilled foreign workers on the fisheries sector in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	11990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2024 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has regular discussions with Cabinet colleagues on a wide range of issues, and Cabinet discussions are considered confidential.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 01/02/2024 14:32:34 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1685791

registered interest
date	30/01/2024
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	Food Supply: Inflation
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 he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies on food security of trends in the level of inflation.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	11991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government’s UK Food Security Report (UKFSR) contains an analysis of statistical data relating to food security.</p><p> </p><p>Defra will publish the next version later this year, as required by the 2020 Agriculture Act.</p><p> </p><p>It will include analysis of the trends of price inflation, international commodity prices, energy and fertiliser prices in the context of UK food security.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 06/02/2024 14:32:26 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1685792

registered interest
date	30/01/2024
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Convictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many convictions for paedophilia were referred to her Department under the unduly lenient sentence scheme in 2023.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	11992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2024 answer text <p>The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) receives requests to refer sentences under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme to the Court of Appeal and publishes annual reports on the outcomes of the requests which it refers.</p><p>The annual report for 2023 has not yet been published. The latest annual report, for the year 2022, was published on 17 October 2023 (see <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/unduly-lenient-sentence-annual-case-outcomes-data" target="_blank">Unduly lenient sentence annual case outcomes data - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>).</p><p>The AGO also releases weekly statistics of requests to refer sentences. Weekly statistics for 2023, including requests to refer sentences for offences involving paedophilia (such as indecent images of a child, rape of a child under 13, and sexual assault of a child under 13) can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/outcome-of-unduly-lenient-sentence-referrals" target="_blank">Outcome of unduly lenient sentence referrals - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts question first answered 07/02/2024 15:54:24 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1685793

registered interest
date	30/01/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Convictions and Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were (a) prosecuted for and (b) convicted of child cruelty offences in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	11993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of prosecutions and convictions for a range of child cruelty offences, from the year ending June 2011 to the year ending June 2023, in the <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65a7e44aed27ca001327b161/outcomes-by-offence-june-2023.xlsx" target="_blank">Outcomes by Offence data tool: June 2023</a>.</p><p>This can be accessed by navigating to the ‘Prosecutions and convictions’ tab and using the HO Offence Code filter to select the following offences:</p><ul><li>01103 – Cruelty to or neglect of children</li><li>00407 – Causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable person</li><li>00411 - Causing or allowing child or vulnerable adult to suffer serious physical harm.</li></ul><p>The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 increased the maximum penalties for:</p><ul><li>Causing or allowing a child or vulnerable adult to die from 14 years’ imprisonment to life imprisonment;</li><li>Causing or allowing a child or vulnerable adult to suffer serious physical harm from 10 to 14 years’ imprisonment; and</li><li>Cruelty to a person under 16 from 10 to 14 years’ imprisonment.</li></ul><p>A consequence of increasing the maximum penalty for causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable adult to life imprisonment is that offenders sentenced to 7 years or more for that offence will spend two thirds of their sentence, rather than half, in custody.</p><p>Partly as a result of these measures, average custodial sentence length for child cruelty offences has increased by 79.9% since 2010.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 07/02/2024 17:13:37 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1685794

registered interest
date	30/01/2024
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	Hospitals: Agency Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many agency staff were employed in NHS hospitals on 30 January 2024.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	11994
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>Agency workers are not National Health Service employees, and their services are invoiced upon their delivery. Invoices for these services will confirm the hours billed, and the cost of those hours. Due to the variability and complexity of the invoices, it is not possible to collect reliable statistical data on agency headcount.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 06/02/2024 12:31:04 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1685795

registered interest
date	30/01/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	STEM Subjects: Higher Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of trends in the uptake of STEM subjects studied at universities.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	11995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes data on student enrolments across all UK higher education (HE) providers. This includes data on full person equivalents (FPE) enrolled in different subject areas, categorised using the HE coding of subjects (HECoS) system. Counts of enrolments across all science subjects from 2019/20 to 2021/22 are published in Table 52 of HESA’s Student Data at: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-52" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-52</a>.</p><p> </p><p>HESA developed the HECoS system to replace the Joint Academic Coding System (JACS) from the 2019/20 academic year onwards. Counts of enrolments across all science subjects from 2014/15 to 2018/19 are still available and published in Table 22 of HESA’s Student Data at: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-22" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-22</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Due to the change in subject classification system, figures for 2018/19 and earlier are not directly comparable with more recent years. Caution is therefore advised when interpreting data over a longer time series. For more information on JACS and HECoS see: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/documentation/hecos" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/documentation/hecos</a>.</p><p> </p><p>More recent data on acceptances by subject to full-time undergraduate courses for the 2023 admissions cycle is available from UCAS here: <a href="https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-end-cycle-data-resources-2023" target="_blank">https://www.ucas.com/data-and-analysis/undergraduate-statistics-and-reports/ucas-undergraduate-end-cycle-data-resources-2023</a>.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 06/02/2024 17:15:52 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1685796

registered interest
date	30/01/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Nutrition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help promote healthy eating in schools.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	11996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member for Strangford to the answer of 9 January 2024 to Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-01-09/8739" target="_blank">8739</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 06/02/2024 17:06:39 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1685409

registered interest
date	29/01/2024
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Football: Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Education on encouraging young women to play football in school.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	11780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting women and girls’ sport at every opportunity. In our new Sport Strategy ‘Get Active’, we set an ambitious target of getting 1 million more active children and 1.25 million more active women by 2030.</p><p>We have had discussions with DfE at ministerial level on how we can continue to collectively make good progress on school sport. Our cross-government School Sport and Activity Action Plan provides the blueprint for how school sport should be delivered across the country. This includes over £600 million of investment and a clear ambition that all schools should deliver 2hrs of quality PE and equal access to sport for girls and boys, including football. The Department for Education is currently working to publish new non-statutory guidance on Physical Education before the end of March 2024 to help improve delivery.</p><p>In 2022, the Government commissioned Karen Carney to lead an independent Review of domestic women’s football. Her recommendations set out a bold vision for the women’s game. On 4 December 2023, the Government responded to the Review of Women’s Football, agreeing that all ten major recommendations should be implemented. The recommendations include a commitment to the delivery of equal access to school sport for girls and we will be convening an implementation group, which will be responsible for ensuring mutual accountability for the delivery of each recommendation.</p><p>Outside of school, we are investing over £300 million in grassroots football and multi-sport facilities across the UK by 2025 which will further support women and girls accessing football. The new £30 million Lioness Futures fund will deliver approximately 30 new state of the art 3G pitches at sites supporting women’s and girls’ teams across England.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 05/02/2024 15:15:58 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1685410

registered interest
date	29/01/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Police Service of Northern Ireland: Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has had discussions with the Police Service of Northern Ireland on lessons learned from data breaches.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	11781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is devolved and has operational independence. It is for the Northern Ireland Policing Board (NIPB) to monitor and provide oversight of PSNI performance.</p><p>The PSNI and the NIPB commissioned an independent review into the data breach and a report was published on 11 December 2023.</p><p>The Government’s focus following the data breaches of August 2023 was on providing specialist support and expertise to the PSNI in its handling of this issue. Officials in the Cabinet Office chaired regular operational meetings - initially daily - bringing together the PSNI, Government Departments and the Security Services, to ensure that their collective skills, including cyber-expertise, were brought to bear in supporting the PSNI.</p><p>The Government published on 14 December 2023 technical guidance relating to the approach to be taken by FOI practitioners across central government when a requestor asks for disclosure in a spreadsheet format.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 06/02/2024 14:57:51 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1685411

registered interest
date	29/01/2024
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Energy: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what progress she has made on (a) meeting net zero targets and (b) reducing energy costs.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	11782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>The UK over-achieved against the first and second carbon budgets, and the latest projections show that it is on track to meet the third. The UK has halved its emissions, ahead of every other major economy.</p><p> </p><p>The transitions set out in the Net Zero Strategy for every sector of the UK economy keep it on track for Carbon Budgets 4, 5 and 6, the 2030 Nationally Determined Contribution, and net zero by 2050.</p><p> </p><p>A main driver of energy costs for consumers are movements in international gas prices. Prices have come down continually over the last 12 months, and the Default Tariff Cap is currently £1,928, which is less than half the level of this time last year when it reached £4,279 at the peak of the energy crisis. The Government is developing more home-grown sources of energy supply – including renewables – to reduce exposure to volatile international markets which, along with energy efficiency support for consumers, will help reduce energy costs.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 06/02/2024 13:20:51 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon