Tag: Jenny Chapman

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jenny Chapman on 2016-04-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department has provided to schools on their compliance with the milk requirements of her Department’s school food standards.

Mr Sam Gyimah

We have had one piece of correspondence on milk from a school in recent months. The Department does not collect data on the consumption of milk. The revised School Food Standards are effective from 1 January 2015 and designed to be easier to read and implement. A full public consultation on the School Food Standards regulations was held between 6 March and 16 April 2014. All schools were subsequently notified of the guidance through our termly communications with schools. The standards and guidance are available on gov.uk at:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1603/contents/made

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/standards-for-school-food-in-england

http://www.schoolfoodplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/School-Food-Standards-Guidance-FINAL-140911-V2C.pdf

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jenny Chapman on 2016-04-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent representations her Department has received from primary schools on the requirement to make milk available during the school day.

Mr Sam Gyimah

We have had one piece of correspondence on milk from a school in recent months. The Department does not collect data on the consumption of milk. The revised School Food Standards are effective from 1 January 2015 and designed to be easier to read and implement. A full public consultation on the School Food Standards regulations was held between 6 March and 16 April 2014. All schools were subsequently notified of the guidance through our termly communications with schools. The standards and guidance are available on gov.uk at:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1603/contents/made

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/standards-for-school-food-in-england

http://www.schoolfoodplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/School-Food-Standards-Guidance-FINAL-140911-V2C.pdf

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jenny Chapman on 2016-04-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Sure Start centres were in operation on 1 March 2016.

Mr Sam Gyimah

On 1 March 2016 local authorities listed as being in operation 3,331 main children’s centres and sites open to families and children providing children’s centre services as part of a network.

Children’s centre records are maintained by local authorities and are made publicly available via the department’s “EduBase portal” at: http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/home.xhtml

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jenny Chapman on 2016-04-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress has been made on the provision of universal infant free school meals.

Mr Sam Gyimah

Universal infant free school meals (UIFSM) have been a great success, with over 1.3m additional infants enjoying a nutritious, free meal at lunchtime and parents saving hundreds of pounds a year.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jenny Chapman on 2016-04-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effect of her Department’s school food standards on milk consumption in primary schools.

Mr Sam Gyimah

We have had one piece of correspondence on milk from a school in recent months. The Department does not collect data on the consumption of milk. The revised School Food Standards are effective from 1 January 2015 and designed to be easier to read and implement. A full public consultation on the School Food Standards regulations was held between 6 March and 16 April 2014. All schools were subsequently notified of the guidance through our termly communications with schools. The standards and guidance are available on gov.uk at:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1603/contents/made

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/standards-for-school-food-in-england

http://www.schoolfoodplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/School-Food-Standards-Guidance-FINAL-140911-V2C.pdf

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jenny Chapman on 2016-09-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been spent on the Better Health Programme and predecessor programmes examining the future configuration at Darlington Memorial Hospital to date.

Mr Philip Dunne

Funding for this programme is the responsibility of local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs).

The Better Health Programme, previously Securing Quality in Hospital Services, has been funded by five CCGs (Darlington; North Durham; Durham Dales, Easington and Sedgefield; Hartlepool and Stockton; South Tees). Final annual costs for each year are in the table.

Table: Final annual costs for the Better Health Programme

Year	Final costs (£)
2013/14 (Securing Quality in Hospital Services)	555,875
2014/15 (Securing Quality in Hospital Services)	425,748
2015/16 (Better Health Programme)	580,000
2016/17 (Better Health Programme) 1	3,100,000

¹ Planned cost for the full year. The increase is primarily due to additional costs for financial modelling of options, stakeholder communications and engagement and overall programme management.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jenny Chapman on 2015-10-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many under-18 year olds in prison have been starred up in each prison in each month during each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Andrew Selous

Starring up is the term used to define the process whereby young people under the age of 18 can be moved into the young adult estate prior to their eighteenth birthday. The starring up process can be used for a range of reasons, but past usage has mainly been in relating to the management of disruptive or violent behaviour or transfers to Mother and Baby Units.

In practice, the starring up process is rarely used and then only in exceptional circumstances.

No young person has been starred-up into the young adult estate since January 2014. Data in relation to the number of young people who were starred-up into the young adult estate in the three years prior to that, broken down by the establishment they were starred-up from and the month in which the decision was made is provided in the tables below.

2011

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Ashfield

1

1

Hindley

1

Wetherby

1

1

2012

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Feltham

1

Eastwood Park

1

Warren Hill

1

2013

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Warren Hill

1

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jenny Chapman on 2014-04-30.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many members of staff in each prison in England and Wales were serving on detached duty in (a) January, (b) February and (c) March 2014.

Jeremy Wright

A nationally co-ordinated detached duty scheme has been operating since 21 October 2013. Information on the number of officers serving on detached duty before the introduction of the national scheme is not available. The full-time equivalent of officers provided on detached duty from the beginning of the nationally co-ordinated scheme until the 31 December 2013 is contained in the table below. Some allocations outside of the national scheme continued after October 2013 but is not included in the information provided. London region particularly allocated staff within their own region. Information collected on the staffing allocated. On occasions the resource is not actually deployed due to changes in local circumstances.

The deployment of staff between prisons on detached duty is a regular and normal part of prison resourcing. It allows staff to be allocated from prisons with the capacity to provide them, to those where additional staffing is required. On average over the three month period (October to December 2013), less than 1% of staff were provided on detached duty. A large proportion of the capacity was available from prisons that were in the process of closure or going through a re-role. This process temporarily releases a number of officers who are not supplied for specific occasions but are sent and received on a shift pattern throughout the week.

Full Time Equivalent of Officers Working on Detached Duty ¹

– 21 October 2013 to 31 December 2013

	Full Time Equivalent Officers Provided on Detached Duty
Scheme started in October so no data available for earlier period
October 2013 (Data relates to part month from 21 October)	46
Nov-13	107
Dec-13	205

¹ Detached duty figures are not published but other staffing data is published up to 31 December 2013 and therefore information is only presented up until that date.