Jo White MP: written questions 2024
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Written questions
Discrimination: Social MediaWomen and EqualitiesTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 901928More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government is taking to help tackle misogyny on social media platforms.
Answer: The Online Safety Act requires services to protect all users from illegal misogynistic content, and children from harmful misogynistic content including content which is violent, hateful or abusive.The largest services (category 1) will also need to remov...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordApprenticesDepartment for EducationTabled 28 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16819More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many employers who (a) pay and (b) do not pay the apprenticeship levy started new learners on apprenticeship programmes in the 2023-24 financial year.
Answer: The below table shows the number of apprenticeship service employers accounts with apprenticeship starts in the 2023/24 academic year.Employer Type2023/24Levy13,157Non-levy57,017Total70,174 The figures are for the number of employer accounts instead of em...
Answered 6 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAgricultural ProductsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 20 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15338More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to encourage the public to buy British produce.
Answer: This Government will always back British farmers who produce some of the highest quality food in the world, contribute billions to our economy, and are the custodians of our countryside. We want more people to be able to access nutritious, and locally sou...
Answered 2 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCouncillors: ConductMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 12 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13871More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department provides on the potential sanctions available to local authorities in instances when councillors are found to have breached an authority's code of co
Answer: The Government considers that the current local government standards regime is broadly ineffectual, inconsistently applied, and lacking in adequate powers to effectively sanction members found in serious breach of their codes of conduct.We are actively co...
Answered 20 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDental Services: ContractsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12553More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which integrated care boards have reimbursed dental practices for up to 110% of General Dental Services contracts.
Answer: In the 2023/24 financial year, 37 integrated care boards (ICBs) reimbursed at least one dental practice for over 100%, and up to 110%, of their General Dental Services contract value. These ICBs are as follows:Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB;South Yorksh...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMineworkers' Pension SchemeDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 4 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12551More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many people are in receipt of the Mineworkers Pension Scheme in each constituency.
Answer: Every constituency in the country has at least one person in receipt of the Mineworkers Pension Scheme. The number of scheme members in each constituency is listed in the table below. This information is from the scheme trustees and correct as at 30 Octob...
Answered 12 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordFinancial Services: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 28 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11429More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure all schools teach financial literacy.
Answer: I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Basstettlaw to the answer of 14 October 2024 to question 7255.
Answered 5 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordAdult Education: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 28 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11394More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total underspends for the non-devolved adult education budget were in England in each year since 2018-19.
Answer: The budget and the actual spending of the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) element of the Adult Education Budget from 2018/19 to 2023/24 financial year is set out in the table below. Funding to providers is allocated on an academic year and unde...
Answered 5 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordCompulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Social Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6885More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to review payments of benefits to people serving full life terms in secure psychiatric units.
Answer: Where a court has decided that someone has committed a criminal offence but that they should say be sent to hospital rather than receiving a custodial sentence in prison, the length of their stay is determined by their recovery and the extent to which the...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: Foreign NationalsMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5220More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many of the prisoners released under the early release scheme (a) are foreign nationals and (b) will be deported.
Answer: We are unable to provide the requested prisoner release figures at this time, as they form a subset of prisoner releases data scheduled for future publication. Numbers of custodial releases for the period covering July 2024 to September 2024 will be publi...
Answered 18 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: Foreign NationalsHome OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5200More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of foreign nationals who receive a custodial prison sentence are deported on completion of their sentence.
Answer: The Home Office regularly publishes statistics on the returns of foreign national offenders by nationality and year. These returns are published in the Returns Detailed Datasets, Year Ending June 2024, which are available at: Immigration system statistics...
Answered 17 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordApprenticeship LevyTreasuryTabled 4 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4292More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will raise apprenticeship levy funding.
Answer: The Apprenticeship Levy (AL) is currently paid by large employers, charged at a rate of 0.5% on an employer’s annual pay bill of over £3 million. The annual apprenticeship budget is then set by HMT, which funds training and assessment costs for apprentice...
Answered 10 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordHome EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 900341More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to identify children who are educated outside school.
Answer: The department is committed to giving every child the best start in life, regardless of where and how they are educated. We cannot ignore the rising numbers of home-educated children and official data which shows that growing numbers of children have been...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordTeachers: TrainingDepartment for EducationTabled 25 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1850More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her planned timetable is for issuing contracts to the providers who have been selected to deliver the pilot teacher degree apprenticeships.
Answer: In early 2024, the department invited applications from initial teacher training (ITT) providers and degree-awarding institutions to participate in the Teacher Degree Apprenticeship (TDA) funding pilot in secondary mathematics. The department assessed all...
Answered 1 Aug 2024
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