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1698556

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date	25/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: British National (Overseas)
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make it his policy to expand the British National (Overseas) (BN(O)) passport to include children of BN(O) passport holders.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	20477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office cannot issue a BN(O) passport to someone who does not hold BN(O) status. BN(O) status was only available by registration before 1 July 1997, and people born on or after that date cannot become a BN(O). There are no plans to retrospectively allow BN(O) status to be acquired by descendants of BN(O) status holders.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 15/04/2024 11:44:23 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1338931

registered interest
date	22/06/2021
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	Maternity Services: Birmingham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of new mothers in Birmingham was offered the continuity of care midwifery model in (a) 2019-20 and (b) 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	20477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2021 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 28/06/2021 09:45:08 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1180465

registered interest
date	25/02/2020
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	Flood Control: York
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 steps his Department is taking to allocate additional funding to compensate City of York Council for the emergency expenditure it is incurring on prolonged flood readiness measures.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	20477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2020 answer text <p>In cases of localised flooding, we expect local authorities to have well established contingency measures in place and both the existing budgets and resources to respond and support their local communities.</p><p> </p><p>The emergency Bellwin scheme was activated after Storm Ciara on 10 February and Storm Dennis on 17 February 2020. The scheme was activated for qualifying areas in West Yorkshire, Cumbria and Lancashire which have seen significant impacts following Storm Ciara. It has also been activated for qualifying areas in Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, Worcestershire and Herefordshire which have seen significant impacts following Storm Dennis. Under the scheme, local authorities dealing with the flooding can apply to have 100% of their eligible costs, above a threshold, reimbursed by the government. This could be for items including rest centres, temporary accommodation and staff overtime.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow grouped question UIN 20478 question first answered 04/03/2020 12:36:25 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

439008

registered interest
date	16/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Child Arrangements Orders: Grandparents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications by grandparents for permission to apply for a contact order to see their grandchildren were successful in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Rossendale and Darwen
tabling member printed	Jake Berry
uin	20477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2016 answer text <p>Under the Children Act 1989 the court may make a child arrangements order to determine with whom a child is to live or spend time. Prior to 22nd April 2014 such orders were called contact and residence orders. The Department collates figures on the numbers of applications made by grandparents for child arrangements orders and the figures for such applications since 2010 are shown below.</p><br /><p><strong>Number of child arrangement (contact) order applications made by grandparents in England and Wales </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Applications by grandparents</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2403</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2574</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2755</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1624</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 – 3 quarters only</p></td><td><p>1335</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Unlike parents, grandparents and other family members can only make an application for a child arrangements orders with the permission of the court. The requirement to apply for the court’s permission is not designed to be an obstacle to grandparents, or other close relatives, but to act as a filter to sift out those applications that are clearly not in the child’s best interests. Experience suggests that grandparents (or other interested relatives) would not usually experience difficulty in obtaining permission where their application is motivated by a genuine concern for the child.</p><p>The Department does not collate figures on applications for a child arrangements order where the court’s permission has been sought. This information could only be obtained by manually checking each case file at disproportionate cost. Similarly, the Department does not collate figures centrally on family members named in a child arrangements order. Details of the numbers of child arrangements orders issued specifically for grandparents to see their grandchildren could only be obtained by checking each file at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 20385 20478 20479 question first answered 05/01/2016 11:58:38 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry