Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the National Association of Official Prison Visitors Infrastructure Support grant.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Shadow Secretary of State for Education
Grant-funded activity across His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) is monitored, quality-assured and measured through the Grants Governance Board, which has oversight of all grants funded by HMPPS, both prior to award and throughout the lifetime of the grant.
HMPPS ensures all grants awarded to voluntary, community, and social enterprise organisations are effective in helping to reduce reoffending, delivered in accordance with the Government Grants Functional Standard.
Grant managers are responsible for monitoring delivery, and agreed outcomes and budgets are defined in quarterly and end of year Reports. A Senior Responsible Officer will have oversight of grants within their specific business area and will be required to provide assurance in relation each grant, including the governance, risk management, and financial aspects.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the HMPPS Innovation Grant Programme grant.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Shadow Secretary of State for Education
Grant-funded activity across His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) is monitored, quality-assured and measured through the Grants Governance Board, which has oversight of all grants funded by HMPPS, both prior to award and throughout the lifetime of the grant.
HMPPS ensures all grants awarded to voluntary, community, and social enterprise organisations are effective in helping to reduce reoffending, delivered in accordance with the Government Grants Functional Standard.
Grant managers are responsible for monitoring delivery, and agreed outcomes and budgets are defined in quarterly and end of year Reports. A Senior Responsible Officer will have oversight of grants within their specific business area and will be required to provide assurance in relation each grant, including the governance, risk management, and financial aspects.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Welfare Support to British Citizens Imprisoned Abroad grant.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Shadow Secretary of State for Education
Grant-funded activity across His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) is monitored, quality-assured and measured through the Grants Governance Board, which has oversight of all grants funded by HMPPS, both prior to award and throughout the lifetime of the grant.
HMPPS ensures all grants awarded to voluntary, community, and social enterprise organisations are effective in helping to reduce reoffending, delivered in accordance with the Government Grants Functional Standard.
Grant managers are responsible for monitoring delivery, and agreed outcomes and budgets are defined in quarterly and end of year Reports. A Senior Responsible Officer will have oversight of grants within their specific business area and will be required to provide assurance in relation each grant, including the governance, risk management, and financial aspects.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Infrastructure Support for Small and Medium Sized VCSE Organisations grant.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Shadow Secretary of State for Education
Grant-funded activity across His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) is monitored, quality-assured and measured through the Grants Governance Board, which has oversight of all grants funded by HMPPS, both prior to award and throughout the lifetime of the grant.
HMPPS ensures all grants awarded to voluntary, community, and social enterprise organisations are effective in helping to reduce reoffending, delivered in accordance with the Government Grants Functional Standard.
Grant managers are responsible for monitoring delivery, and agreed outcomes and budgets are defined in quarterly and end of year Reports. A Senior Responsible Officer will have oversight of grants within their specific business area and will be required to provide assurance in relation each grant, including the governance, risk management, and financial aspects.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Engagement to Motivate Offenders to Participate in the Arts grant.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Shadow Secretary of State for Education
Grant-funded activity across His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) is monitored, quality-assured and measured through the Grants Governance Board, which has oversight of all grants funded by HMPPS, both prior to award and throughout the lifetime of the grant.
HMPPS ensures all grants awarded to voluntary, community, and social enterprise organisations are effective in helping to reduce reoffending, delivered in accordance with the Government Grants Functional Standard.
Grant managers are responsible for monitoring delivery, and agreed outcomes and budgets are defined in quarterly and end of year Reports. A Senior Responsible Officer will have oversight of grants within their specific business area and will be required to provide assurance in relation each grant, including the governance, risk management, and financial aspects.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Steps to Success grants.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Shadow Secretary of State for Education
Grant-funded activity across His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) is monitored, quality-assured and measured through the Grants Governance Board, which has oversight of all grants funded by HMPPS, both prior to award and throughout the lifetime of the grant.
HMPPS ensures all grants awarded to voluntary, community, and social enterprise organisations are effective in helping to reduce reoffending, delivered in accordance with the Government Grants Functional Standard.
Grant managers are responsible for monitoring delivery, and agreed outcomes and budgets are defined in quarterly and end of year Reports. A Senior Responsible Officer will have oversight of grants within their specific business area and will be required to provide assurance in relation each grant, including the governance, risk management, and financial aspects.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the National Prison Radio Service grant.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Shadow Secretary of State for Education
Grant-funded activity across His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) is monitored, quality-assured and measured through the Grants Governance Board, which has oversight of all grants funded by HMPPS, both prior to award and throughout the lifetime of the grant.
HMPPS ensures all grants awarded to voluntary, community, and social enterprise organisations are effective in helping to reduce reoffending, delivered in accordance with the Government Grants Functional Standard.
Grant managers are responsible for monitoring delivery, and agreed outcomes and budgets are defined in quarterly and end of year Reports. A Senior Responsible Officer will have oversight of grants within their specific business area and will be required to provide assurance in relation each grant, including the governance, risk management, and financial aspects.
Asked by: Baroness Whitaker (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask His Majesty's Government when they plan to publish their evaluation of their pilot education funding programme for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children and proposed next steps; and what assessment they have made of the connection between (1) the adequacy of educational provision and funding for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children, and (2) their statistics for children missing education for the academic year 2022─23, which show that 10 per cent of children missing from education are from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller families.
Answered by Baroness Barran
The £1 million Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) Gypsy Roma and Traveller (GRT) Education Areas programme enabled five local authorities and a Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise organisation to deliver tailored support to improve GRT attendance and attainment. Whilst the programme was a one year pilot, the delivery of some of the targeted support carried on beyond that timeline. The close monitoring of the projects helped DLUHC to pick up issues quickly, facilitated the setting up of a buddying system, and improved cross agency relationships and knowledge sharing.
The department has no plans to commission a government evaluation of the programme. The department’s expectation is that participant local authorities will carry out their own evaluation of their projects, build lessons learnt into wider services, and share learning with other local authorities.
The government is committed to ensuring that all children are safe and have access to an excellent education. The department is currently running a call for evidence on ‘Improving support for children missing education’ to seek views on challenges in identifying and supporting children missing from education and how to address those challenges. The call for evidence is open until 20 July and will be used to inform policy future policy thinking. The open consultation is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/improving-support-for-children-missing-education.
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to establish community mental health hubs for children during school holidays.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
This year, the Government is again investing over £200 million in our holiday activities and food programme (HAF), with all local authorities in England delivering in the Easter, summer and Christmas holidays. The programme provides heathy meals, enriching activities and free childcare places to children from low-income families, benefiting their physical and mental health and wellbeing. HAF clubs can also act as a referral point for children and families to the support and services they need. Last summer, our programme reached around 600,000 children across England, including over 475,000 children eligible for free school meals across England.
The Department has been working with other Government Departments, stakeholders and the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise sector to better understand the role that “Early Support Hubs” might play in supporting children and young people’s mental wellbeing. As part of that, we have recently commissioned research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research to establish the effectiveness of the open access “hub” model of early intervention and prevention support for children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing.
Clinical commissioning groups and local authorities work with local partners to understand local needs and commission services on that basis. This means that local areas are able to design and fund a hub model if they think it would meet local need.
Asked by: Karl Turner (Labour - Kingston upon Hull East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will provide funding for the total cost of the 2022 non-consolidated pay award for (a) not-for-profit, (b) social enterprise and (c) other organisations delivering (i) community healthcare and (ii) other NHS-funded services.
Answered by Will Quince
Independent providers, including not-for-profit organisations and social enterprises, are free to develop and adapt their own terms and conditions of employment. This includes the pay scales that they use and any non-consolidated pay awards they choose to make. It is for them to determine what is affordable within the financial model they operate, and how to recoup any additional costs they face if they choose to utilise the terms and conditions of NHS staff on the Agenda for Change contract.