Asked by: Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative - Daventry)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to HM Revenue and Custom's publication Statistics on recently arrived non-UK EEA nationals subject to income tax and National Insurance contributions or receiving HMRC administered benefits of May 2016, how many child benefit claims of what amount were made by (a) non-UK EEA nationals and (b) recently arrived non-UK EEA nationals in each of the last three years.
Answered by Damian Hinds
The Government has made it clear that UK rates of Child benefit should not be paid to EU children overseas. The Government paper, “The best of both worlds: the United Kingdom’s special status in a reformed European Union” https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-best-of-both-worlds-the-united-kingdoms-special-status-in-a-reformed-european-union, sets out what was agreed at the February European council.
Asked by: Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative - Daventry)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the HM Revenue and Customs publication, entitled Tax Credits Statistics on non-UK EEA Nationals, of 22 February 2016, how many (a) in-work and (b) out-of-work claims of what amount were made by families with at least one (i) EEA national and (ii) recently arrived EEA national in each of the last three years.
Answered by Damian Hinds
The Government has negotiated a new settlement that will enable the UK to have a new emergency brake to limit full access to in-work benefits by newly arrived EU workers for up to 4 years when they enter our labour market. This will be in force for 7 years. The Government paper “The best of both worlds: the United Kingdom’s special status in a reformed European Union” https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-best-of-both-worlds-the-united-kingdoms-special-status-in-a-reformed-european-union, sets out what was agreed at the February European council.
Asked by: Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative - Daventry)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) press officers and (b) other officials of his Department have been or are undertaking work related to the referendum on UK membership of the EU; for how long each such official has been working on that matter; and what the salary is of each such official.
Answered by David Gauke
Staff within the longstanding International and EU group lead on providing advice to Ministers on EU and EU related issues. Staff within other groups may also provide advice or analysis on EU issues as required.
HM Treasury do not routinely capture information about each employee’s specific work. To provide information capturing the length of time official’s worked specifically on the referendum would incur disproportionate costs. Information on HM Treasury staff salaries is published on this link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-staff-data
Asked by: Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative - Daventry)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Government (a) has spent to date and (b) plans to spend before 23 June 2016 on promoting the Government's policy on the UK's membership of the EU.
Answered by John Penrose
The Government published on 6th April 2016 the total cost of producing, distributing and publicising the Government’s leaflet on the EU Referendum, including digital promotion and the production of eureferndum.gov.uk. Wider costs relating to the Referendum will be accounted for in the usual way in Annual Report and Accounts.
Asked by: Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative - Daventry)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will take steps to ensure that the Education Cannot Wait fund for education in emergencies is monitored to ensure that (a) the funds are used for the purposes for which they are allocated and (b) those funds achieve the expected outcomes.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The UK has played a leading role in the development of Education Cannot Wait – a fund for education in emergencies, with the International Development Secretary announcing a £30million commitment to the fund as a founding donor at its launch at the World Humanitarian Summit on 23 May. The UK will continue to engage closely during Education Cannot Wait’s inception phase to ensure that the final design and results framework are underpinned by a transparent monitoring and evaluation system and robust financial reporting arrangements, to ensure that the UK and other donors have strong oversight of how funds are utilised and results achieved.
Asked by: Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative - Daventry)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure that the Education cannot wait: the fund for education in emergencies focuses on (a) girls, (b) children with disabilities and (c) other marginalised children.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The UK has played a leading role in the development of Education Cannot Wait – a fund for education in emergencies. A key focus for Education Cannot Wait will be on ensuring that marginalised children and young people are able to access a quality education. This includes refugees and internally displaced children, as well as children facing barriers to their education because of their gender, disability or other factors. This focus is reflected in the Fund’s indicative headline results, which commits to providing “Inclusive education [that] reaches the most marginalised children and young people in crises” with a target of “100% of supported education opportunities demonstrate increase in education for girls, disabled and those in remote locations”. The UK will continue to engage closely during Education Cannot Wait’s inception phase, to ensure that this commitment is fully reflected in its final design and results frameworks.
Asked by: Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative - Daventry)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he has taken to ensure that Community Work Placement providers are held to the standards required in their contract.
Answered by Priti Patel - Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
Community Work Placement performance is being actively managed, underpinned by improvement plans and local performance improvement activity, with contracts terminated early where providers have failed to meet their targets.
This action sends a clear message to providers that the Department expects them to deliver the performance they have promised in their bids.
Asked by: Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative - Daventry)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has plans to change the workforce requirements for learning disability nurses.
Answered by Ben Gummer
Health Education England (HEE) was established to deliver a better healthcare workforce for England and using all available data is accountable for ensuring that we have a National Health Service workforce in the right numbers, with the right skills, values and behaviours to respond to the current and future needs of patients.
HEE has been working with Skills for Care, Skills for Health and national transforming care partners to deliver a comprehensive workforce strategy to transform services for people with a learning disability, autism and/or behaviour that challenges to make significant and lasting improvements to their care and lives.
HEE has developed and made available a number of enabling tools and resources that can be utilised throughout Transforming Care Partnership including:
― a Learning Disability Skills and Competency Framework which adopts a competency based approach to workforce planning and development;
― a series of role templates to support the development of community and enhanced community teams; and
― HEE Learning Disability Expert Reference Group Chaired by Baroness Hollins is exploring the career framework opportunities within health and social care for the development of new roles and education and training pathway.
Asked by: Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative - Daventry)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many student training places there were in England for learning disability nursing in each of the last five years.
Answered by Ben Gummer
The following table shows the number of pre-registration learning disability nurse places that were available for each year since 2012/13.
Learning disability nursing | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 |
Planned | 612 | 628 | 653 | 664 | 638 |
Source: multi professional education and training budget monitoring returns
Asked by: Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative - Daventry)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to encourage students to train as learning disability nurses.
Answered by Ben Gummer
In January 2016 the Health Education England Learning Disability Programme supported Health Careers in a two-week Learning Disability Nursing promotion with a significant increase in web page and twitter activity.
In February 2016 a learning disability leadership signposting page was launched and the campaign #inspiringleadersinLD will feature a series of short video clips of inspiring learning disability nurses in a variety of roles. It is anticipated this campaign will raise profile of a career in learning disability nursing amongst the current learning disability workforce.