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1689385

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date	16/02/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Insurance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department will make an assessment of the impact of trends in the level of car insurance premiums on young people.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	14284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>Department for Transport officials regularly liaise with representatives of the motor insurance industry on a variety of issues such as the cost of insurance.</p><p> </p><p>It is the responsibility of individual motor insurers to set their premiums and the terms and conditions of their policies, and the Government does not intervene or seek to control the market.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government is determined that insurers should treat customers fairly and firms are required to do so under the Financial Conduct Authority rules.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 26/02/2024 16:53:11 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1689401

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
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	Rugby: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department has spent on support for (a) Rugby Union and (b) Rugby League clubs in each year since 1 March 2020.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	14300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>Government provides the majority of its support for Rugby Union and Rugby League through its arms-length body Sport England. A breakdown of funding for each year for both sports is outlined below:</p><p>Rugby Union</p><p>2020/21- £26,305,065 (includes £21,565,000 of COVID-19 Sport Winter Survival Package provided to the RFU)</p><p>2021/22 - £1,484,441</p><p>2022/23 - £15,185,674 (This includes £12,505,000 of System partner funding provided to the RFU to grow and develop the sport between the years 2022 and 2027)</p><p>2023/24 - £5,737,648</p><p>Rugby Union also received £160 million through the Sport Survival Package, helping professional and community sport clubs survive the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns and ensure the continuation of sport competitions and events.</p><p>Rugby League</p><p>2020/21 - £7,044,354</p><p>2021/22 - £10,860,922</p><p>2022/23 - £10,849,990</p><p>2023/24 - £886,207 (The Sport England funding register is only updated to December 2023 at this point, so funding awarded since December has not been captured in this sum)</p><p>Rugby League also received £17.1 million through the Sport Survival Package, which included grant funding to support the delivery of the Rugby League World Cup in 2022.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 26/02/2024 16:33:06 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1689383

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
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: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress her Department has made on establishing an independent regulator for football.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	14282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government is on the side of football fans and the local communities that football clubs serve. We have a clear plan to deliver a sustainable future for football, with fans at its heart, and our legislation will deliver this through a new independent regulator as soon as parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 26/02/2024 16:27:41 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1689402

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
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	Rugby: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much her Department has spent on support for grassroots amateur Rugby League clubs since 5 March 2021.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	14301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>Supporting grassroots sport is a key government priority and we recognise the importance that high quality facilities play in encouraging people to take part in sport and ensuring participation rates continue to grow. Our new strategy ‘Get Active’ sets out our unapologetic ambition to build a more active nation, with a target to get 3.5 million more people classed as ‘active’ by 2030.</p><p>Between 2021 and 2025, the UK Government has committed over £400 million to multi-sport grassroots facilities across the UK. This is all part of our mission to ensure every community has the pitches and facilities it needs.</p><p>We provide the majority of support for grassroots sport through our arm’s length body, Sport England - which receives £323m in Exchequer and Lottery funding each year. Since 2021, Sport England has provided over £22.6m of support to programmes which facilitate participation in grassroots rugby league.</p><p>In partnership with the National Lottery, Sport England has also supported the ‘CreatedBy’ capital grants programme. Which delivered £26.4m in legacy funding to celebrate England’s hosting of the 2022 Rugby League World Cup, providing investment in facilities and equipment to encourage participation.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 26/02/2024 16:25:39 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1689403

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
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	Rugby
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support the future sustainability of Rugby League.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	14302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>Government has set out its ambitions for supporting the long-term sustainable growth of the sport sector in the new sport strategy, Get Active.</p><p>This includes supporting sports like Rugby League to access additional, alternative forms of investment to help the sector to continue to grow and thrive, and by highlighting best practice, good governance mechanisms, and opportunities offered by technology and innovation. This will allow sport to thrive for future generations, and support the continuation of our sporting institutions.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 26/02/2024 16:22:36 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1689393

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Cannabis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been prosecuted for possession of cannabis since 1 January 2020.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	14292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes data on prosecutions for possession of cannabis, covering the period requested and this can be viewed in the following data tool:</p><p> </p><ul><li><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65bd0675704282000d752143/outcomes-by-offence-june-2023.xlsx" target="_blank">Outcomes by Offence tool: June 2023</a></li></ul><p> </p><p>Navigate to ‘Prosecutions and Convictions’ tab, and use the ‘Offence’ filter to select ‘92E.01 Possession of a controlled drug - Class B (cannabis)’ and ‘92E.02 Possession of a controlled drug - Class C (cannabis)’.</p><p> </p><p>Within the pivot tool, you can select specific quarters and years to show the period of interest.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Gareth Bacon question first answered 26/02/2024 16:22:06 answering member 4798 label Biography information for Gareth Bacon
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1689404

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
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	Rugby
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has appointed independent advisors to help the Department's work on the future sustainability of Rugby League.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	14303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>To support the Rugby Football Union and Premiership Rugby Limited on their plans for the future of professional Rugby Union, Government appointed Rugby Football League’s former CEO Ralph Rimmer and Chris Pilling of UK Sport to work with the sport’s authorities.</p><p>The independent advisers’ remit only extended to cover issues facing Rugby Union.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 26/02/2024 16:21:20 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1689382

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of the economic benefits of allowing asylum seekers to work if they have been waiting six months or more for an initial decision.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	14281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>Asylum seekers who have had their claim outstanding for 12 months or more, through no fault of their own, are allowed to work. Those permitted to work are restricted to jobs on the Shortage Occupation List. This is based on expert advice from the independent Migration Advisory Committee. It is the Home Office’s assessment that any analysis in this area is dependent on making assumptions from limited evidence and will therefore produce uncertain results.</p><p>Whilst we keep all policies under review, there are no immediate plans to change the existing policy, other than aligning it with the upcoming Immigration Salary List, which replaces the SOL. It is important that we distinguish between individuals who need protection and those seeking to work here who can apply for a work visa under the Immigration Rules. The Government has always been clear that asylum seekers do not need to make perilous journeys in order to seek employment in the UK. Those in need of protection should claim asylum in the first safe country they reach – that is the fastest route to safety.</p><p>Whilst there is mixed evidence that access to work in itself is a pull factor, it is reasonable to assume that this is one element in a range of factors that may drive illegal migration rather than use of legal routes to work in the UK. These routes include Skilled Worker, Global Talent, and Health and Care routes, which are supporting UK businesses to recruit workers with the skills and talent they need from around the world.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 21/02/2024 16:36:41 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1689388

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
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	Health Services: North West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to reduce NHS waiting lists in (a) the North West and (b) Liverpool.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	14287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>Cutting waiting lists is one of this Prime Minister’s top priorities. To reduce the National Health Service waiting list, the Department plans to spend more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25. This funding will expand capacity through creating a new network of community diagnostic centres and maximising all available independent sector capacity.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, we are managing demand through specialised advice in primary care and giving patients more control over where they receive their care. We are also increasing productivity through transforming outpatient services, developing new surgical hubs to increase theatre productivity, and working actively with trusts to support and challenge on their performance.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 21/02/2024 16:15:45 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker

1689387

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Service Industries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many service sector apprenticeships were available in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Paula Barker
uin	14286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>The department is increasing investment in the apprenticeships system in England to £2.7 billion by the 2024/25 financial year to support employers of all sizes and in all sectors, including the service sector, to benefit from the high-quality training that apprenticeships offer.</p><p>The department has removed the limit to the number of apprentices that small and medium sized enterprises can take on and have cut by a third the number of steps needed to register to take on an apprentice.</p><p>The department continues to promote apprenticeships in schools and colleges through the Apprenticeships Support and Knowledge Programme, supported by £3.2 million of investment each year. The Career Starter Apprenticeships campaign is also promoting apprenticeships at Levels 2 and 3, including Level 2 Hospitality Team Member, which offer great opportunities for those leaving full-time education. In addition, students can now see apprenticeship vacancies on their University and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) hub and later this year they will be able to apply for apprenticeships on UCAS.</p><p>Apprenticeship starts by sector are published as part of the department’s apprenticeship statistics releases. The statistics released also show the number of apprenticeship vacancies published on the department’s Find an Apprenticeship service. These statistics are accessible at: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships#explore-data-and-files" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships#explore-data-and-files</a>.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon grouped question UIN 14285 question first answered 21/02/2024 12:49:33 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	4828 label Biography information for Paula Barker