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1020412

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date	05/12/2018
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	Air Pollution: East Midlands
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 steps his Department has taken to improve air quality in the East Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	199478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 answer text <p>We have consulted on our new world-leading Clean <strong>Air</strong> Strategy, which includes new and ambitious goals, legislation, investment and policies to help us to clean up our <strong>air</strong> faster and more effectively. The Government has put in place a £3.5 billion plan to improve <strong>air</strong><strong> quality</strong> and reduce harmful emissions. The £3.5 billion plan to improve air quality does not set allocations by areas and future funding awards cannot be prejudged. But some examples of spending under this plan in the East Midlands are as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>£495m of this funding is focused on supporting local authorities across England with the most significant air quality challenges; including Derby City Council, Bolsover District Council, Nottingham City Council, and Leicester City Council, all of which are developing local plans to ensure compliance with NO<sub>2 </sub>limits in the shortest possible time.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On 20 November, we approved Nottingham’s plan to bring forward compliance with NO<sub>2</sub> concentration limits and issued a Ministerial Direction requiring the council to implement the plan, accompanied by £1 million of funding from the Clean Air Fund. Nottingham City Council has received further funding from the Government to retrofit 171 buses and to convert its own fleet. Derby City Council and Nottingham City Council been awarded grants totalling £3.1 million to support the implementation of early measures to improve air quality.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 14/12/2018 14:33:41 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1022900

registered interest
date	10/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Physical Education and Sports
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 support the least active young people to participate more in PE and school sport.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	200686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>The government firmly believes in the importance of physical education (PE) and sport to develop all children’s physical competency and teach valuable life skills such as character, resilience, communication and team work that can be carried through into adulthood and improve overall wellbeing and employability.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2013, the government has invested over £1 billion through the primary PE and sport premium to improve PE, sport, physical activity and extra-curricular activities for all pupils. We encourage schools to use this funding to support their least active pupils achieve the Chief Medical Officers’ guidelines of 60 minutes of physical activity each day, of which 30 minutes should be during the school day. Schools have the freedom to use the funding to determine which activities will improve participation, especially for their least active pupils and a commitment in the childhood obesity plan to promote a national ambition for every primary school to embrace an active mile, such as the Daily Mile. £100 million from the soft drinks industry levy is being used to provide the healthy pupils capital fund to improve pupils’ access to facilities for physical activity, healthy eating, mental health and wellbeing and medical conditions.</p><p> </p><p>The Equality Act (2010) requires that all schools must implement accessibility plans which include increasing the extent to which disabled pupils can participate in the curriculum, and improve the physical environment of schools to enable disabled pupils to take better advantage of education, benefits, facilities and services provided. Since 2014 the department has funded a grant to ensure pupils with special educational needs and disabilities have improved opportunities to take part in PE and school sport.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 200687 question first answered 18/12/2018 10:11:02 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1022903

registered interest
date	10/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Physical Education: Disability
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 support schools and children’s groups to develop appropriate physical activity facilities and equipment for children with disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	200687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>The government firmly believes in the importance of physical education (PE) and sport to develop all children’s physical competency and teach valuable life skills such as character, resilience, communication and team work that can be carried through into adulthood and improve overall wellbeing and employability.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2013, the government has invested over £1 billion through the primary PE and sport premium to improve PE, sport, physical activity and extra-curricular activities for all pupils. We encourage schools to use this funding to support their least active pupils achieve the Chief Medical Officers’ guidelines of 60 minutes of physical activity each day, of which 30 minutes should be during the school day. Schools have the freedom to use the funding to determine which activities will improve participation, especially for their least active pupils and a commitment in the childhood obesity plan to promote a national ambition for every primary school to embrace an active mile, such as the Daily Mile. £100 million from the soft drinks industry levy is being used to provide the healthy pupils capital fund to improve pupils’ access to facilities for physical activity, healthy eating, mental health and wellbeing and medical conditions.</p><p> </p><p>The Equality Act (2010) requires that all schools must implement accessibility plans which include increasing the extent to which disabled pupils can participate in the curriculum, and improve the physical environment of schools to enable disabled pupils to take better advantage of education, benefits, facilities and services provided. Since 2014 the department has funded a grant to ensure pupils with special educational needs and disabilities have improved opportunities to take part in PE and school sport.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi grouped question UIN 200686 question first answered 18/12/2018 10:11:02 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1023307

registered interest
date	11/12/2018
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	Dementia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to tackle the challenges people with dementia face in obtaining (a) good residential care and (b) access to community support services.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	201261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>Dementia remains a key priority for the Government. We will implement the Government’s Challenge on Dementia 2020 (published in February 2015) in full to make this the best country to live in with dementia by 2020.</p><p> </p><p>Working with our partners, we continue to make progress against the ambitions set out in the March 2016 Implementation Plan which details how the commitments in the Challenge, across the four core themes of risk reduction, health and care, awareness and social action, and research will be met.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Department is working with the adult social care sector to implement Quality Matters – a shared commitment to take action to achieve high quality adult social care for service users, families, carers and everyone working in the sector. Under the Care Act 2014, local authorities are required to shape their whole local markets to ensure that they are sustainable, diverse and offer high quality care and support for people in their local area.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/12/2018 12:09:35 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1023319

registered interest
date	11/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Training: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pots of funding there are in his Department for external bodies to access for training, upskilling and incentivising recruitment; and what the value is of those funds.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	201263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2018 answer text <p>We do not routinely report on funding in the terms requested therefore the information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 19/12/2018 09:51:44 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1027245

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
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	Clinical Commissioning Groups: East Midlands
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 was allocated from the public purse to each clinical commissioning group area in the East Midlands per head of population in (a) 2016-17 and (b) 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	202810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>Clinical commissioning group (CCG) allocations for 2016/17 and 2017/18 are available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-england-allocations-ccg-core-services/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-england-allocations-ccg-core-services/</a></p><p> </p><p>The East Midlands refers to a Government Office Region (GOR), which is not equivalent to Midlands and East National Health Service region. The East Midlands GOR comprises the following CCGs, based on Lower Layer Super Output Area resident populations (Office for National Statistics).</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>NHS Organisational Data Service code</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2016/17 (£)</p></td><td><p>2017/18 (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>02Q</p></td><td><p>NHS Bassetlaw CCG</p></td><td><p>1,335</p></td><td><p>1,356</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>03T</p></td><td><p>NHS Lincolnshire East CCG</p></td><td><p>1,348</p></td><td><p>1,371</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>03V</p></td><td><p>NHS Corby CCG</p></td><td><p>1,231</p></td><td><p>1,251</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>03W</p></td><td><p>NHS East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG</p></td><td><p>1,097</p></td><td><p>1,114</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>03X</p></td><td><p>NHS Erewash CCG</p></td><td><p>1,284</p></td><td><p>1,303</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>03Y</p></td><td><p>NHS Hardwick CCG</p></td><td><p>1,393</p></td><td><p>1,415</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04C</p></td><td><p>NHS Leicester City CCG</p></td><td><p>1,101</p></td><td><p>1,117</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04D</p></td><td><p>NHS Lincolnshire West CCG</p></td><td><p>1,185</p></td><td><p>1,202</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04E</p></td><td><p>NHS Mansfield and Ashfield CCG</p></td><td><p>1,326</p></td><td><p>1,347</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04G</p></td><td><p>NHS Nene CCG</p></td><td><p>1,139</p></td><td><p>1,158</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04H</p></td><td><p>NHS Newark and Sherwood CCG</p></td><td><p>1,243</p></td><td><p>1,263</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04J</p></td><td><p>NHS North Derbyshire CCG</p></td><td><p>1,336</p></td><td><p>1,348</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04K</p></td><td><p>NHS Nottingham City CCG</p></td><td><p>1,176</p></td><td><p>1,193</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04L</p></td><td><p>NHS Nottingham North and East CCG</p></td><td><p>1,206</p></td><td><p>1,226</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04M</p></td><td><p>NHS Nottingham West CCG</p></td><td><p>1,229</p></td><td><p>1,246</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04N</p></td><td><p>NHS Rushcliffe CCG</p></td><td><p>1,093</p></td><td><p>1,111</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04Q</p></td><td><p>NHS South West Lincolnshire CCG</p></td><td><p>1,181</p></td><td><p>1,195</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04R</p></td><td><p>NHS Southern Derbyshire CCG</p></td><td><p>1,213</p></td><td><p>1,229</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>04V</p></td><td><p>NHS West Leicestershire CCG</p></td><td><p>1,082</p></td><td><p>1,099</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>99D</p></td><td><p>NHS South Lincolnshire CCG</p></td><td><p>1,209</p></td><td><p>1,230</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01Y</p></td><td><p>NHS Tameside and Glossop CCG</p></td><td><p>1,374</p></td><td><p>1,393</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06H</p></td><td><p>NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG</p></td><td><p>1,058</p></td><td><p>1,077</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>Note: NHS Tameside and Glossop CCG and NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG partially overlap with this GOR.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 21/12/2018 15:02:23 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1027246

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding his Department has allocated to programmes aimed at tackling domestic violence in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	202811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>The Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy set out an ambitious programme to make tackling VAWG everybody’s business.</p><p>Over this spending review period, we are providing £100 million of dedicated funding to tackle VAWG. VAWG services are mainly commissioned at a local level by Police and Crime Commissioners, local authorities and health commissioners. The Government’s VAWG National Statement of Expectations encourages such decisions to be taken at a local level and driven by local need.</p><p>We created a £17 million 3-year VAWG Service Transformation Fund, which is funding projects across 41 areas in England and Wales to embed local best practice and ensure that early intervention and prevention, not crisis response, is the norm. Details of the funding are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/violence-against-women-and-girls-service-transformation-fund-successful-bids-2017-to-2020</p><p>Through the Police Transformation Fund we are spending £5.8 million to support innovative projects to tackle domestic abuse. More details of the funding are available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-transformation-fund-successful-bids-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-transformation-fund-successful-bids-2017-to-2018</a></p><p>We have also announced an £8 million fund to support children affected by domestic abuse, which gives charities, local authorities and other organisations the chance to bid for money for projects designed to intervene early to help children who have been directly or indirectly affected by domestic abuse. We will announce successful bids shortly.</p><p>The Home Office also supports the national VAWG Helplines and recently committed funding of up to £1.1m per annum for these services until 2021.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 21/12/2018 10:10:49 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1027247

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent steps his Department has taken to promote learning in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	202812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/12/2018 answer text <p>We are making ambitious reforms to education, as set out in the ‘Education and Employment Strategy’ published in May. This means that, from next April, prison governors will have direct control of their education budgets, will decide the curriculum and will have chosen the provider(s) of their education, promoting learning that best meets the needs of their prisoners.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside the Prison Education Framework, we have launched a Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS), with over 170 education providers offering a huge range of learning and skills. It is through the DPS that prisons will secure Information, Advice and Guidance which enables prisoners to make informed choices about their education and future employment options.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 27/12/2018 12:56:09 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1027248

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Distance Learning
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to increase the number of individuals aged 24 and over taking part in distance learning.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	202813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>​Within higher education, we have already made a number of changes to support part-time and mature part-time learners. This academic year, for example, part-time students are, for the first time ever, able to access full-time equivalent maintenance loans.</p><p>As stated in the government response to the consultation on part-time maintenance loans, we would like to extend these new loans to distance learning courses, but we must maintain confidence in the student finance system and ensure that adequate controls are in place to prevent the misuse of public funds. The department will extend these loans to distance learners only if robust controls are put in place to manage the risks associated with that mode of study. The department is currently considering those controls, and a final decision regarding whether it is feasible to extend maintenance loans to distance learners will be made once this scrutiny is completed.</p><p>Beyond student finance, the National Retraining Scheme is an ambitious, far-reaching programme to drive adult learning and retraining, in order to respond to changes in the economy and support people to progress in work, redirect their careers and secure the higher-paid, higher-skilled jobs of the future, focusing on those individuals that need it most.</p><p>To inform the design of the scheme, the Flexible Learning Fund is supporting 31 pilot projects across England with a total value of £11.4 million. The projects are designing and testing innovative, flexible learning that is easy to access. The pilots are aimed at adults who are working, or who are returning to work, with either low or intermediate skills. A range of delivery methods are being tested; most of the projects will make use of on-line technologies to a degree, as well as ‘blended learning’ that combines online and face-to-face learning.</p><p>​We know that technology can play a really important role in making learning more flexible and adaptive, as well as breaking down the barrier of distance. It is important that we take advantage of these developments as part of the scheme.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/12/2018 15:49:05 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1027249

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Nottinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers per head of population there were in Nottinghamshire in each of the last two years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	202814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police officers employed by each police force in England and Wales on a bi-annual basis. These figures present a picture of the workforce as at the 31 March and as at 30 September each year.</p><p>Data on the number of officers per 100,000 of the resident population, by police force area, are published on an annual basis. The latest available data can be found in Table_H4 of the data tables accompanying the main release, the latest of which can be accessed here:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2018</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 21/12/2018 16:11:33 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley