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1019453

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Department for Education: Recruitment
	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 training, upskilling and incentivising recruitment; and what the value is of those funds.
	tabling member constituency	Mansfield
	tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	198338
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The department has allocated a central budget for this financial year of £2.28 million to support the training and upskilling of Department for Education (DfE) staff (£521,000) and apprenticeship programmes (£1.759 million) for DfE staff.</p><p>The department’s central recruitment budget for this financial year is £602,000 to cover Government Recruitment Services for all grades, attraction spend, senior civil service (SCS) Individual Leadership Assessments and other SCS recruitment costs.</p><p>The central allocations above support departmental priorities. DfE teams hold local budgets to support team related priorities.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 11/12/2018 16:16:02 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
	tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1020406

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2018
	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	General Practitioners: Nottinghamshire
	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 GP trainees began training in Nottinghamshire in 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Mansfield
	tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	199477
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>There were 71 general practitioner (GP) trainees that began training in Nottinghamshire in 2017.</p><p> </p><p>The Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme is a national incentive scheme which funds a £20,000 salary supplement to attract GP trainees to work in areas of the country where GP training places have been unfilled for a number of years. 144 places were available on the scheme in England in 2017, 11 of which were in Nottinghamshire.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/12/2018 14:56:49 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1020412

	registered interest
	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
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	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

1020457

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Social Media
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much has been spent from the public purse on promoting social media posts on (a) Twitter, (b) Facebook and (c) other social media relating to the UK's exit from the EU by (i) 10 Downing Street, (ii) HM Treasury, (iii) the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, (iv) the Department for Exiting the European Union and (v) his Department (A) between 12 July 2018 and 15 November 2018 and (B) since 16 November 2018; and what proportion of the annual Government communications expenditure those figures represent in each of those periods.
	tabling member constituency	Mansfield
	tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	199479
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>This answer relates to spend from the Prime Minister’s Office and Cabinet Office only.</p><p> </p><p>Between 12 July 2018 and 15 November 2018, the Cabinet Office and Prime Minister’s Office spent £32,512.98 on social media posts related to the UK’s exit from the EU. Spend for November will be published in due course as part of our normal data release.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, the Cabinet Office and Prime Minister’s Office did not spend any money with Google or other media on promoting adverts related to the UK’s exit from the EU. Spend for November will be published in due course as part of our normal data release.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 199480 question first answered 11/12/2018 09:50:05 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1020458

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Advertising
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much has been spent from the public purse on promoting adverts on (a) Google and (b) other media relating to the UK's exit from the EU by (i) 10 Downing Street, (ii) HM Treasury, (iii) the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, (iv) the Department for Exiting the European Union and (v) his Department (A) between 12 July 2018 and 15 November 2018 and (B) since 16 November 2018; and what proportion of the annual Government communications expenditure those figures represent in each of those periods.
	tabling member constituency	Mansfield
	tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	199480
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>This answer relates to spend from the Prime Minister’s Office and Cabinet Office only.</p><p> </p><p>Between 12 July 2018 and 15 November 2018, the Cabinet Office and Prime Minister’s Office spent £32,512.98 on social media posts related to the UK’s exit from the EU. Spend for November will be published in due course as part of our normal data release.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, the Cabinet Office and Prime Minister’s Office did not spend any money with Google or other media on promoting adverts related to the UK’s exit from the EU. Spend for November will be published in due course as part of our normal data release.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 199479 question first answered 11/12/2018 09:50:06 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	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
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	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
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	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
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	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
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	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
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	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