Laurence Turner MP: written questions 2025
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UnemploymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25525More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2024 to Question 19420 on Unemployment: Young People, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the ongoing data quality problems with the ONS Labour
Answer: The independent Office for National Statistics (ONS) are responsible for the LFS, which is an important source of labour market information for the Department. In order to monitor the department's progress towards an 80% employment rate we need a robust L...
Answered 24 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUK International Consumer CentreDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25524More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of (a) funding and (b) staffing capacity for the UK International Consumer Centre.
Answer: The government funds the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) to deliver the UK International Consumer Centre. The funding agreement for the current financial year is £456,000. This figure is reviewed annually and agreed with the CTSI each year al...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachers: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25523More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 10 January 2025 to Question 23229, on Teachers: Pay, if she will provide the same data for newly qualified teachers.
Answer: Information on the school workforce is published in the ‘School workforce in England’ statistical publication, which is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.The attached table prov...
Answered 24 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordActive Travel: InvestmentDepartment for TransportTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23640More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress her Department has made on the preparation of a third cycling and walking investment strategy.
Answer: The Department’s officials are scoping out options for the third Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy, and the Department will say more on this in due course. The Department will also consult stakeholders before the publication of the Strategy, as requ...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployers' Associations: Political LevyDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23639More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to Section 132 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, whether any employers' associations maintain a political fund.
Answer: Unincorporated employers’ associations are able to maintain a political fund in accordance with the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992. None currently maintain a political fund.
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRenewable Energy: Government AssistanceDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23638More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the Answer of 3 November 2020 to Question 110812 on Renewable Energy: Government Assistance, if he will publish the same information for each year since 2019-20.
Answer: Yes, I will be happy to publish this information. The information will take time to research and collate. I will place the information you have requested in the Libraries of the House as soon as it is available.
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachers: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23229More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average full-time salary was for (a) classroom and (b) all teachers in (i) academies, (ii) free schools, (iii) local authority maintained schools and (iv) all publicly-funded schools in 2023.
Answer: Information on the school workforce is published in the ‘School workforce in England’ statistical publication, which is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.The attached table prov...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFlexible Working TaskforceDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23073More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 8 January 2025 to Question 21859, on Flexible Working Taskforce, on what dates that taskforce met in each year from 2018 to 2022.
Answer: The Flexible Working Taskforce met on fourteen occasions between 2018 and 2022.The dates of these meetings were:29 March 2018; 09 May 2018; 11 July 2018; 12 September 2018; 16 November 2018; 16 January 2019; 27 March 2019; 02 July 2019; 22 September 2020;...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: IsraelHome OfficeTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 902121More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of how her Department processes visa applications submitted by Arab citizens of Israel.
Answer: Mr Speaker, applications submitted by citizens of Israel, Arab or otherwise, are assessed against the requirements of the Immigration Rules on their individual merits.As part of any visa application assessment, consideration is given in cases involving co...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachers: PayDepartment for EducationTabled 7 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22484More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to section 7.2.12 of her Department's publication entitled School workforce census guide 2024: Guide for schools including academies within a Multi Academy Trust, published on 11 October 2024, ho
Answer: Information on the school workforce is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication, which is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.The attached table prov...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: Children and Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22211More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the CQC's publication of 27 November 2024 entitled CQC finds improvement in CAMHS wards at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, when the CQC plans to publish th
Answer: The Care Quality Commission (CQC) carried out an assessment of Child and Adolescent Mental Health wards at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust in September 2024. The report of that assessment was published on the CQC’s website on 28 Nov...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEducational Institutions: Air ConditioningDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22210More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many air cleaning units were provided to education facilities in (a) Birmingham Northfield constituency, (b) Birmingham, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England since 2020.
Answer: Between January 2022 and April 2023, the department provided over 9,000 air cleaning units to over 1,300 education and childcare settings that had been identified with poor ventilation.Four air cleaning units were provided to education settings in the Bir...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCriminal Injuries Compensation: BirminghamMinistry of JusticeTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22209More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average processing time was for applications to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme by people resident in Birmingham in each of the last five years.
Answer: The table below shows the average time for decisions to be made on applications* for criminal injuries compensation by people resident in Birmingham**. Calendar Year of CICA decisionAverage time (days)20203352021440202249020233812024372 * The table does n...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDisadvantagedWomen and EqualitiesTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22208More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent progress she has made on enactment of the socio-economic duty under Section 1 of the Equality Act 2010.
Answer: The Government is committed to commencing the socio-economic duty in the Equality Act 2010. The duty will require public bodies, when making strategic decisions, to consider actively how their decisions might help to reduce the inequalities associated wit...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Curriculum Tests: ScienceDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22207More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Standards and Testing Agency's publication of 20 July 2022, entitled Information: primary assessments in the 2022/23 academic year, for what reason it was decided not to undertake further
Answer: Statutory teacher assessment of science is undertaken annually at the end of key stage 2 for all pupils in the relevant cohort. Between 2014 and 2020, biennial national science sampling tests were used to supplement this teacher assessment data, with a na...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEducational Institutions: Air ConditioningDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21863More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the provision of air cleaning units to education facilities.
Answer: The department regularly reviews its guidance to ensure that it aligns with best practice and industry standards, to deliver high-quality school environments.Between January 2022 and April 2023, the department provided over 9,000 air cleaning units to ove...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: Air PollutionDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21862More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department has made on the guidance for schools on mitigating poor air quality.
Answer: The department regularly reviews its guidance to ensure that it aligns with best practice and industry standards, to deliver high-quality school environments.Between January 2022 and April 2023, the department provided over 9,000 air cleaning units to ove...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCriminal Injuries Compensation: BirminghamMinistry of JusticeTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21861More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in Birmingham received awards under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and what the value of those awards was.
Answer: The table below provides the number of compensation awards paid in each of the last five calendar years to applicants living in Birmingham. Number of compensation awards paid to applicants living in Birmingham* **:Calendar YearNumber of awards paidTotal v...
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachersDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21860More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 11 December 2014 to Question 217660 on Teachers, whether the programme of talks referred to is ongoing.
Answer: Following the 2024 general election, the Programme of Talks forum was stood down to enable the department to develop new and improved ways of working with employer organisations, unions and other key stakeholders. This government is committed to resetting...
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFlexible Working TaskforceDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21859More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2024 to Question 20334 on Flexible Working, on what dates the Flexible Working Taskforce met in 2023.
Answer: The Flexible Working Taskforce met once in 2023, on April 24th. The government has continued to engage with stakeholders on a regular basis to discuss flexible working and related issues.
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordTrain Operating Companies: CompensationDepartment for TransportTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21858More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the net cost to the public purse was of Schedule 4 and Schedule 8 compensation to operators for disruption on the rail network in 2023-24.
Answer: Schedule 4 and Schedule 8 compensation transactions are primarily between bodies whose costs and revenues are included in the Department for Transport’s group budgets, therefore these have no net cost to the exchequer.
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAcademies and Further Education: Fraud and MaladministrationDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21857More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 98 of the Education and Skills Funding Agency's publication entitled Annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024, published on 29 July 2024, if she will break down the tab
Answer: The information requested can be found in the attached table.
Answered 29 Jan 2025
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