Neil O'Brien MP: written questions
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Breakfast ClubsDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24931More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether teachers staffing free school breakfast clubs will count as directed time.
Answer: From April 2025, up to 750 early adopter schools will be funded to provide access to a free, universal breakfast club lasting at least 30 minutes that includes food. The government has published guidance explaining the role of schools taking part in the b...
Answered 24 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren's Wellbeing and Schools BillDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24930More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the cost to local government of implementing the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
Answer: The department has conducted initial new burdens impact assessments, in line with normal practice, for measures in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Once the new burdens assessments have been finalised, where it is assessed there is a new burden ...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBreakfast ClubsDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24929More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether schools delivering free school breakfasts will be allowed to charge for provision outside the free 30 minute entitlement.
Answer: This government is committed, through the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, to delivering a free breakfast club of at least 30 minutes in every state-funded school with primary-aged pupils in England.Breakfast clubs boost attainment and attendance, a...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffenders: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24928More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of foreign national offenders who left prison following a sentence of 12 months or more were deported in each (a) quarter and (b) year for which data is available.
Answer: Available statistics on the returns of FNOs by nationality and year are published on a quarterly basis. These returns are published in the Returns Detailed Datasets, Year Ending September 2024, which are available at: Immigration system statistics data ta...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRemittancesTreasuryTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24927More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of personal remittances from the United Kingdom in each of the last five years, broken down by region.
Answer: Remittances from the United Kingdom to other countries are not taxable, as such HMRC does not hold this data.
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Workers: FinesHome OfficeTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24684More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the value of illegal working civil penalties was in the last five years; and how many and what proportion of those penalties have been paid.
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to my response to his previous question UIN 21664.
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordListed Places of Worship Grant SchemeDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24475More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department plans to set out the future of the Listed Places of Worship Grants Scheme before its current funding ends on 31 March 2025.
Answer: On the 22nd of January, I was pleased to announce that the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme would continue from March 2025 to March 2026. Further details can be found here in the Written Statement.
Answered 24 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23840More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how (a) many people were in receipt of and (b) much was spent on support under section (i) four, (ii) 95 and (iii) 98 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 in each year since 2015.
Answer: The Home Office publishes information on asylum expenditure in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts at Home Office annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK.Prior to 2023/24 asylum support costs were not published separately.The government is determined ...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23839More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on local authority spending on successful asylum claimants in (a) 2023 and (b) 2024.
Answer: The information requested is not held by the Home Office.
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Social Rented HousingHome OfficeTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23838More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an estimate of the number of successful asylum claimants who have moved into social housing since 2018 by local authority.
Answer: The information requested is not held by the Home Office.
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23837More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of asylum claims in each local authority were (a) successful, (b) ongoing and (c) rejected since 2018.
Answer: The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the initial decision of asylum claims (including grants and refusals), and data on asylum claims awaiting initial decision, is published in tables A...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChoir Schools Association: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23836More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department granted to the Choir Schools Association through the Music and Dance Scheme in each year since 2010.
Answer: The department will announce future funding for the Music and Dance Scheme for the 2025/26 academic year following the conclusion of the Spending Review in the spring. This includes consideration of the grant to the Choir Schools Association for the Choir...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordChoir Schools Association: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23835More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to continue the grant to the Choir Schools Association in the next academic year.
Answer: The department will announce future funding for the Music and Dance Scheme for the 2025/26 academic year following the conclusion of the Spending Review in the spring. This includes consideration of the grant to the Choir Schools Association for the Choir...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffenders: Foreign NationalsHome OfficeTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23834More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders of each nationality were living in the community in the most recent year for which data is available.
Answer: Any foreign national offender (FNO) convicted of a crime who receives a custodial sentence in the UK is considered for deportation consideration following sentencing. The latest published information shows that at the end of Q3 2024 there were 18,069 FNOs...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOffenders: Foreign NationalsHome OfficeTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23833More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders are living in the community.
Answer: Any foreign national offender (FNO) convicted of a crime who receives a custodial sentence in the UK is considered for deportation consideration following sentencing. The latest published information shows that at the end of Q3 2024 there were 18,069 FNOs...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEnglish Language and Mathematics: GCSEDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23832More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average (a) progress 8 score, (b) attainment 8 score and (c) share of pupils getting grade 5 or above in English and maths was for each ethnic group in each region of England in each of the last eight
Answer: The average Progress 8 and Attainment 8 overall and for boys and girls by ethnic group are published at the following links:2018/19 to 2023/24: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/cb96bc10-b240-4f42-5969-08dd3479441b....
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: StandardsDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23831More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average attainment 8 score (a) overall, (b) for girls and (c) for boys was in each year for which data is available by ethnic group.
Answer: The average Progress 8 and Attainment 8 overall and for boys and girls by ethnic group are published at the following links:2018/19 to 2023/24: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/cb96bc10-b240-4f42-5969-08dd3479441b....
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: StandardsDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23830More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average progress 8 score (a) overall, (b) for girls and (c) for boys was in each year for which data is available by ethnic group.
Answer: The average Progress 8 and Attainment 8 overall and for boys and girls by ethnic group are published at the following links:2018/19 to 2023/24: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/cb96bc10-b240-4f42-5969-08dd3479441b....
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrant Workers: SponsorshipHome OfficeTabled 10 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23166More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) workers and (b) temporary workers each of the sponsors on the register of licensed sponsors sponsored in each year for which data is available.
Answer: The Home Office does not routinely publish data on sponsorship numbers broken down by each individual sponsor.
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMulti-academy Trusts: ManagersDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22071More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether there will be future intakes for the development programme for CEOs of multi-academy trusts run with the National Institute of Teaching.
Answer: The department has a contract in place with the National Institute of Teaching to deliver the multi-academy trusts CEO development programme to two cohorts of leaders that started their training in February and September 2024 respectively. The current con...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22070More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 December 2024 to Question 20254 on Asylum: Housing, what difference each of the Contract Change Notices made to the contract.
Answer: The information sought on costs and changes related to the Contract Change Notices referenced in Question 20254 has been identified as being of operational and commercial sensitivity and cannot therefore be disclosed.
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 6 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22069More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 December 2024 to Question 20254 on Asylum: Housing, what the cost was of each of the Contract Change Notices.
Answer: The information sought on costs and changes related to the Contract Change Notices referenced in Question 20254 has been identified as being of operational and commercial sensitivity and cannot therefore be disclosed.
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAcademies: CurriculumDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21666More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of academy schools that do not currently comply with the duty in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to follow the national curriculum.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston to the answer of 29 July 2024 to Question 1038.
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAcademies: FacilitiesDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21665More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of academy schools' facilities to comply with the duty in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to follow the national curriculum.
Answer: Every child deserves a cutting-edge curriculum taught by expert, qualified teachers, which sets them up with the knowledge and skills they need to achieve throughout life. The Bill will require all state schools to teach the reformed national curriculum, ...
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Workers: FinesHome OfficeTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21664More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the value of penalties issued in illegal working civil penalties was in each quarter for which data is available; and how many and what proportion of the penalties issued in each quarter have bee
Answer: Information on illegal working civil penalty statistics has been published since 2016 as part of the Home Office Immigration Transparency Data and can be found at Immigration Enforcement data: Q3 2024 - GOV.UK on tab CPO2.Please note the figures are for p...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
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