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100023

registered interest
date	15/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Ovarian Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to increase early identification of ovarian cancer.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	905561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>We are investing £450 million in earlier diagnosis of cancer, including improving direct general practitioner access to non-obstetric ultrasound to support earlier diagnosis of ovarian cancer.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Public Health England ran a regional Be Clear on Cancer campaign early in 2014 to raise awareness of the symptoms of ovarian cancer. The findings of the pilot will be evaluated in 2015, and this evidence would inform any decision to move from a regional to national campaign.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 21/10/2014 15:46:38 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

39431

registered interest
date	24/02/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many workplace nurseries (a) directly operated by his Department and (b) operated by a third party on his Department's property there were at (a) 5 May 2010 and (b) 5 February 2014; and how many such nurseries are expected to cease operating in (i) 2014-15 and (ii) 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	189096
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2014 answer text <p>Cabinet Office employees have access to a subsidised workplace nursery which is run by a third party provider. There are no current plans to change its operation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 03/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

44555

registered interest
date	21/03/2014
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of female-headed households which have had to relocate as a result of the benefit cap.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	193250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested on what estimate has been made of the number of female-headed households that have had to relocate as a result of the benefit cap is not available. </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

44556

registered interest
date	21/03/2014
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of female-headed households which have had to relocate as a result of the under-occupancy penalty.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	193236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information requested is not available.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>A consortium has been commissioned to carry out a two year monitoring of the effects of the removal of the spare room subsidy measure across Great Britain. This consortium is led by Ipsos-MORI and includes the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research. </p><p> </p><p>The evaluation is taking place over a two year period, starting from April 2013 with a final report published in late 2015. The evaluation includes research with claimants, social landlords, Local Authority staff and voluntary organisations.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 27/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

46246

registered interest
date	31/03/2014
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he is taking to help households improve their energy efficiency.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	903482
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2014 answer text <p>Over 600,000 homes have received energy efficiency improvements so far as a result of the Coalition's Energy Company Obligation and Green Deal initiatives. Green Deal assessments are stimulating interest and there had been over 160,000 by the end of February. Yesterday we announced additional £88 million from the Government to drive street by street roll out under the Green Deal Communities scheme.</p><p> </p><p>We expect the Green Deal market to continue to expand in 2014 and beyond.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Gregory Barker question first answered 03/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1389 label Biography information for Lord Barker of Battle
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

49556

registered interest
date	02/05/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of levels of satisfaction with Cafcass among younger children who do not complete formal feedback forms.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	197639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>While complaints made to Cafcass by children and young people are monitored nationally, it collects, monitors and acts on feedback at a local level. Cafcass has commissioned the Family Justice Young People's Board to review how children and young people provide feedback to Cafcass and advise on ways to encourage more feedback both via formal and informal routes. Cafcass now has various methods of obtaining feedback from the children and young people it works with which include more formal methods such as feedback forms and more informal and child-friendly methods such as ‘feedback trees'. Feedback trees encourage children to write out or draw their feelings on how Cafcass has worked with them, allowing Cafcass practitioners to build on this feedback. There is no central or national monitoring of this informal feedback.</p> answering member constituency Bermondsey and Old Southwark answering member printed Simon Hughes question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 194 label Biography information for Simon Hughes
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

60874

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Equal Opportunities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what targets the Law Officers' Departments have for increasing diversity; and what progress has been made on meeting those targets in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	199919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given to her by the Minister for the Cabinet Office on 16th June (Official Report, Col 434W).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 17/06/2014 12:55:15 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

60875

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Equal Opportunities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what consideration the Law Officers' Departments' give to the diversity policies and records of businesses or other organisations when considering their bid for commercial contracts or grants.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	199940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given to her by the Minister for the Cabinet Office on 16th June (Official Report, Col 434W).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 17/06/2014 12:53:07 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

60878

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of those (a) starting and (b) completing an apprenticeship in England since May 2010 were (i) female, (ii) registered disabled and (iii) from an ethnic minority background.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	199999
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>Information on apprenticeship starts and achievements by gender, ethnicity and learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities (LLDD) is published by academic year in supplementary tables to a Statistical First Release (SFR).</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships--2</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/298401/apprenticeships-starts-by-geography-learner-demographics-and-sector-subject-area.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/298401/apprenticeships-starts-by-geography-learner-demographics-and-sector-subject-area.xls</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/296345/apprenticeship-achievements-by-geography-learner-demographics-and-sector-subject-area.xlsm" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/296345/apprenticeship-achievements-by-geography-learner-demographics-and-sector-subject-area.xlsm</a></p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 17/06/2014 13:05:43 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

60879

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Minimum Wage: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the ethnic breakdown of workers earning between the National Minimum Wage and the Living Wage.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	199996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government supports a living wage and encourages businesses to pay it when it is affordable and not at the expense of jobs. However, decisions on what wages to set, above the national minimum wage, are for employers and workers.</p><p>The Government has not estimated the breakdown of workers earning between the National Minimum Wage and the Living Wage by ethnicity.</p><p>The Government's main policy lever in addressing low pay is the National Minimum Wage (NMW). Using the Labour Force Survey, in 2013, 8.3% of the ‘ethnic minority' group (see footnote) were in jobs that paid at or below the NMW while overall 7.8% of the jobs in the economy paid at or below the NMW. This is as set out in the Low Pay Commission's 2014 Report, Figure 2.6.</p><p>We are absolutely clear that anyone from whatever background who is entitled to be paid the minimum wage should receive it. HMRC investigates every complaint made through the free and confidential Pay and Work Rights Helpline. Since 1 October 2013, employers who fail to pay the National Minimum Wage (NMW) will be publicly named and shamed under revamped criteria announced in August 2013 to make it easier to clamp down on rogue businesses. This is on top of financial penalties which employers already face if they fail to pay NMW.</p><p>Footnote:</p><p>The definition of ‘ethnic-minority' group is as defined in the Labour Force Survey (LFS)</p><p>Also please note that the LFS overstates the number of Minimum Wage jobs and workers when compared to the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) dataset.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 17/06/2014 16:54:07 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson