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751742

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people with a (a) learning difficulty and (b) disability completed apprenticeships in 2015-16.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4942
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The department publishes data on the number of apprentices who complete and achieve their apprenticeships by self-declared learning difficulty and/or disability and/or health problem. This can be found in the apprenticeships demographic tool in the apprenticeships FE data library:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/624824/apprenticeships-demographics-data-tool-achievements-v1.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/624824/apprenticeships-demographics-data-tool-achievements-v1.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 19/07/2017 15:35:54 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

751765

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to ensure large employers ring-fence apprenticeship levy funding to be used for apprenticeship starts for 16-to-18 year-olds.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4905
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The apprenticeship levy will enable us to fund the step change needed to achieve 3 million quality apprenticeship starts in England by 2020, providing more opportunities for people of all ages to begin or further develop their careers.</p><p> </p><p>As an employer-led programme, employers must be able to make decisions on recruitment to meet their skills needs.</p><p> </p><p>To ensure young people have access to apprenticeships we are providing £1,000 to both employers and training providers when they take on 16 to 18 year olds or 19 to 24 year olds who were in care or who have an Education and Health Care Plan.</p><p> </p><p>To support and grow apprenticeships amongst smaller employers who do not pay the levy, we are providing generous co-investment support and extending this to 100% support for the smallest employers taking on younger apprentices.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 19/07/2017 16:01:47 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

751767

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Further Education: Lancashire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she expects the recommendations of the Lancashire (Coastal) FE Area Review to be published.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4906
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>As confirmed in the Area Review Guidance published in March 2016, we will publish an overarching report containing a summary of each area review’s findings and agreed recommendations.</p><p> </p><p>The Lancashire Area Review report is due for publication in the near future.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 19/07/2017 16:05:02 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

752137

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Sixth Form Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2017 to Question 1097, how much funding was allocated to 16-to-19 education in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	5005
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to his previous question number 3689, which was answered on 12 July:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-07-07/3689/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-07-07/3689/</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li><p> </p></li></ul> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 19/07/2017 15:54:58 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

748861

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2017
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government whether they are considering a review of Carers Allowance to ensure that it is sufficient to meet the financial support needs of carers.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pendry
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL524
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>This Government recognises and appreciates the valuable support that carers provide to those with care needs.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2010 the rate of Carer’s Allowance has increased from £53.90 to £62.70 a week, meaning an additional £450 a year for carers. Carer’s Allowance is excluded from the benefit freeze and is uprated annually in line with the Consumer Prices Index.</p><p> </p><p>Carers on low incomes can access other financial support through income-related benefits. Income Support, Housing Benefit and Pension Credit include an additional carer’s premium of £34.95 a week. Universal Credit includes a carer’s element of £151.89 per monthly assessment period. People entitled to Carer’s Allowance or the carer’s element in Universal Credit are not subject to the benefit cap.</p><p> </p><p>As society ages and care needs increase, it is important that carers are able to combine caring with paid employment, or return to paid work when their caring duties allow. The Government’s Fuller Working Lives Strategy, published in February 2017, sets out proposals to help carers combine work and care or prepare for returning to the labour market. In addition, earned income up to £116 net a week is ignored for the purposes of Carer’s Allowance. Means-tested benefits and Universal Credit also provide for care to be combined with earnings.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 19/07/2017 10:59:53 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
	tabling member	457 label Biography information for Lord Pendry

749917

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2017
	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	Climate Change Convention
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government whether they continue to collect data against the family stability indicator measures, in particular (1) the percentage of all children who are not living with both their birth parents, broken down by age of child, and (2) the percentage of children in low income households not living with both parents compared to the percentage of such children in middle to higher income households.
	tabling member printed	Lord Farmer
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL602
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pension’s publication <em>Improving lives: Helping Workless Families,</em> presented evidence on the root causes of disadvantage and their impact on the outcomes for children. This included nine national indicators to track progress in tackling the disadvantages that affect families’ and children’s lives and replace all the former <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-justice-outcomes-framework" target="_blank">social justice outcomes framework</a> indicators. A copy of this framework has been attached.</p><p> </p><p>One of the new indicators measures parental conflict to reflect evidence that inter-parental relationship quality is of fundamental importance to children’s outcomes, including their mental health, wellbeing and future employment prospects. On the basis of this evidence and after consulting with academics, a new indicator has been developed. This measures quality of the inter-parental relationship among coupled and separated parents as the proportion of children in couple-parent families experiencing relationship distress. Where parents are separated, research suggests that positive involvement from both parents in the child’s life can help address the potential negative impacts of parental separation therefore as a proxy for the quality of relationship between separated parents the proportion of children in separated families who see their non-resident parents regularly is also being measured.</p><p> </p><p>The Analysis and Research Pack published alongside <em>Improving Lives</em>, presents an update of the proportion of children in couple-parent families living with parents who report relationship distress, broken down by the age of the child. The measure is not broken down by income.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 19/07/2017 11:01:37 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe attachment 1 file name Social justice outcomes framework October 2012.pdf title Social justice outcome framework October 2012
	tabling member	4321 label Biography information for Lord Farmer

750801

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	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	Rivers: Pollution
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many recordable pollution incidents there were for English waterways in each year for which information is available; and what proportion of those offences resulted in (a) successful prosecution and (b) an enforcement undertaking.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4156
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The table below provides details of the numbers of water pollution incidents as well as the numbers of successful prosecutions and accepted Enforcement Undertakings for water pollution offences.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Category 1 &amp; 2 Serious water pollution incidents</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total water pollution incidents - impact levels 1-3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Successful prosecutions in relation to water pollution </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Enforcement Undertakings Accepted</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>444</p></td><td><p>8282</p></td><td><p>145</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>378</p></td><td><p>7770</p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>430</p></td><td><p>8285</p></td><td><p>111</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>336</p></td><td><p>8583</p></td><td><p>113</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>360</p></td><td><p>8504</p></td><td><p>98</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>293</p></td><td><p>8265</p></td><td><p>82</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>376</p></td><td><p>8485</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>361</p></td><td><p>7274</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>326</p></td><td><p>6363</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>314</p></td><td><p>6414</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Prosecutions or enforcement undertakings are normally considered for the more serious Category 1 and 2 incidents. Prosecutions are undertaken where there is a public interest in doing so and where there is a reasonable likelihood of obtaining conviction. Enforcement Undertakings have been available as an enforcement option since 2011.</p><p> </p><p>The prosecution of water pollution offences or decision on enforcement undertakings does not necessarily occur in the same year in which the incidents took place. There are cases for offences which took place in earlier years which are currently still in progress.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 19/07/2017 13:33:12 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Baroness Coffey
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

750894

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	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	Microplastics
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to publish the response to his Department’s consultation Proposals to ban the use of plastic microbeads in cosmetics and personal care products in the UK, issued on 20 December 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Wakefield
	tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4334
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>We ran a consultation between 20 December 2016 and 28 February 2017 on our proposals to ban microbeads in cosmetics and personal care products. We will publish the Government’s response to the consultation shortly.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 19/07/2017 13:56:50 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Baroness Coffey
	tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

750954

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	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	Cuadrilla Resources: Lancashire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment the Environment Agency has made of the environmental effect of Cuadrilla Resources’ shale gas site at Preston New Road.
	tabling member constituency	Fylde
	tabling member printed	Mark Menzies
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4364
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Environment Agency assessed the potential environmental impacts of Cuadrilla’s proposed operations at its Preston New Road site and undertook two public consultations prior to granting environmental permits.</p><p> </p><p>Since the issuing of the permits and during the construction phase of the site the Environment Agency has inspected the Preston New Road site five times. It has also monitored the local watercourses to ensure compliance with the environmental permit. Cuadrilla has recently applied to vary its environmental permit and the Environment Agency is currently consulting on the proposed changes and assessing the potential environmental impacts before deciding whether to grant the variation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 19/07/2017 13:58:27 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Baroness Coffey
	tabling member	3998 label Biography information for Mark Menzies

751319

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2017
	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	Construction: Urban Areas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the level of pollution produced by equipment and vehicles operating on building sites in town and city centres; for what reasons such machinery is not subject to low emission controls; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
	tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4631
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>We have not undertaken a specific assessment of the level of pollution produced by equipment and vehicles operating on building sites in town and city centres. Our annual emission statistics set out pollution by source, including from manufacturing industries and construction. The latest statistics to 2015 are available at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/emissions-of-air-pollutants" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/emissions-of-air-pollutants</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Machinery used on building sites is likely to be classed as non-road mobile machinery (NRMM). The UK Government has been actively involved in developing new legislation for NRMM at a European level. In January this year, new legislation came into force with more stringent emission limits for major air pollutants from engines used in NRMM. This extends the scope of existing legislation to cover all sizes of petrol and diesel engines used in NRMM and improves the legal framework. The new emission standards are mandatory for new engines being sold, for the first tranche of categories, from January 2019.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 19/07/2017 09:51:31 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Baroness Coffey
	tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight