Written questions by O'Brien.

Communities and Local Government, when her Department plans to publish the Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Bill; and what discussions she has had with the Leader of the House on making parliamentary time for that Bill.

I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave to Question UIN 7625, on the 14 October 2024. We will announce further details in due course.

What guidance his Department provides to integrated care boards on the use of funding for dentistry; and whether such funding is required to be ring-fenced for the provision of dentistry services.

NHS England has issued guidance on the ringfencing of dental budgets between 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025, which is available at the following link:https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/revenue-finance-and-contracting-guidance-for-2024-25/To ensure compliance against this requirement, and to strengthen oversight of funding that is used to deliver access to National Health Service dental care, NHS England will meet with and collect monthly returns from all integrated care boards to establish current and planned spend against the ringfenced dental allocations budget.

How many people living with diagnosed HIV infection there are whose country of birth was (a) in the UK and (b) not in the UK by region.

The following table shows the number of people diagnosed and seen for care in 2023 presented by region and by whether country of birth was the United Kingdom: Region of residenceUK bornBorn outside the UK East Midlands2,3923,876 East of England3,2425,325 London11,02526,035 North East1,480817 North West6,5904,305 Scotland3,1121,820 South East5,8736,321 South West3,4202,359 Wales723241 West Midlands3,6664,683 Yorkshire and Humber2,8833,208 Source: UK Health Security AgencyNote: this excludes 4% people for whom we did not hold data for country of birth. Data for Northern Ireland was not reported in 2023. People born outside the UK includes people who acquired HIV after arriving in the UK.HIV surveillance data in the UK by demographic characteristics and geographical region is available at the following link:https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hiv-annual-data-tablesThe latest update was published on 1 October 2024.

What the cost to the public purse will be per local authority to fund (a) the teachers' pay additional grant, (b) the teachers' pension employer contribution grant and (c) the core schools budget grant for financial year 2024-25.

In 2024/25, the department is providing schools and high needs settings with £900 million through the teachers’ pay additional grant (TPAG), £1.1 billion through the teachers’ pension employer contribution grant (TPECG) to support them with the increased teachers’ pension scheme employer contribution rates from April 2024, and almost £1.1 billion through the core school budget grant (CSBG) to support schools with overall costs.Guidance for schools and local authorities on the TPAG allocations for 2024/25, can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pay-additional-grant-2024-to-2025.Guidance for schools and local authorities on the TPECG 2024 for March 2024 to April 2025 can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pension-employer-contribution-grant-2024-for-schools-high-needs-settings-and-local-authorities-2024-to-2025.Allocations and guidance for schools and local authorities for the CSBG for September 2024 to March 2025 can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/core-schools-budget-grant-csbg-2024-to-2025.

If she will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure decisions of the First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber are published on the same basis as decisions of the Upper Tribunal.

I refer the honourable Member to the answer I gave on 10 October 2024 to Question 7538: Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament.Decisions on publishing judgments, including those judgments of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal, are a judicial function.We have no plans to legislate to change the current arrangements.

How many and what proportion of people in leaving care services were former unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in each local authority in each month since January 2017.

Information on the number of looked after children, including unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, is submitted to the department on an annual basis and is published at local authority level in the department’s statistical release, which can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions. Information on the numbers and proportion of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children at 31 March in the years 2017 to 2023 is attached. Figures are produced on an annual rather than monthly basis. Information on the number of care leavers who were former unaccompanied asylum-seeking children is submitted to the department on an annual basis and is routinely published at national level in the department’s statistical release, which can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions. Information on the numbers and proportion of care leavers who were former unaccompanied asylum-seeking children at 31 March by local authority for the years 2017 to 2023 is attached. Information on a monthly basis is not held centrally by the department.

If she will publish decisions of the First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber on the same basis that decisions of the Upper Tribunal are currently published.

The decision whether to publish a judgment is a judicial one.Currently, judgments of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal are not routinely published. However, members of the public and the media can apply to the tribunal for a copy of the judgment in a specific case.

How many and what proportion of looked after children were unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in each local authority in each month since January 2017.

Information on the number of looked after children, including unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, is submitted to the department on an annual basis and is published at local authority level in the department’s statistical release, which can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions. Information on the numbers and proportion of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children at 31 March in the years 2017 to 2023 is attached. Figures are produced on an annual rather than monthly basis. Information on the number of care leavers who were former unaccompanied asylum-seeking children is submitted to the department on an annual basis and is routinely published at national level in the department’s statistical release, which can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions. Information on the numbers and proportion of care leavers who were former unaccompanied asylum-seeking children at 31 March by local authority for the years 2017 to 2023 is attached. Information on a monthly basis is not held centrally by the department.

How many people living with diagnosed HIV infection there were in (a) the period to 2014 from the earliest date for which data are available and (b) each year since 2014, by UK statistical region for people whose country of birth was (i) in the UK, (ii) in Europe, (iii) in Northern Africa, (iii) in Eastern Africa, (iv) in Middle Africa, (v) in Southern Africa, (vi) in Western Africa, (vii) in Africa, (viii) in Asia, (ix) in Oceania, (x) in Northern America, (xi) in Latin America and the Caribbean and (xii) unknown.

The information requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

How many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men who received care for a diagnosed HIV infection were born in (i) the UK, (ii) Europe, (iii) Northern Africa, (iii) Eastern Africa, (iv) Middle Africa, (v) Southern Africa, (vi) Western Africa, (vii) Africa, (viii) Asia, (ix) Oceania, (x) Northern America, (xi) Latin America and the Caribbean and (xii) an unknown location, in each year since 2014.

The information requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

How many people were waiting more than 24 weeks for a driving test in each driving test area in each month since January 2015.

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) main priority is to reduce car practical driving test waiting times, whilst upholding road safety standards.Measures in place to reduce waiting times for customers at driving test centres, include the recruitment of driving examiners, conducting tests outside of regular hours, including at weekends and on public holidays, and buying back annual leave from driving examiners.As of 7 October 2024, there were 571,047 car practical driving tests booked, and 89,349 driving tests available within the 24-week booking window. All available driving test appointments are shown on the live booking system, so the availability of test appointments continually changes. Test appointments are released on a rolling 24-week basis, and additional appointments are added as soon as they become available. Other candidates cancelling or rescheduling their test also free up appointments for others to book. Normal booking behaviour sees candidates move test appointments around routinely in line with their preferences. It is not therefore possible to give a meaningful assessment of the number of people waiting longer than 24 weeks for a test or how long a person waited between booking and taking a test.DVSA continues to see high demand for driving tests, owing in part to a major shift in customer booking behaviour. Customers now book their car practical test far earlier in their learning journey, sometimes before they have even had a practical driving lesson.The attached spreadsheet, WPQ00023819-00023823, shows the monthly average waiting time for a car practical driving test at each driving test centre and zone for each month since April 2015.

What estimate she has made of the number of additional driving tests that will be needed to reduce the average wait time for a test to the seven-week service standard.

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) main priority is to reduce car practical driving test waiting times, whilst upholding road safety standards.Measures in place to reduce waiting times for customers at driving test centres, include the recruitment of driving examiners, conducting tests outside of regular hours, including at weekends and on public holidays, and buying back annual leave from driving examiners.As of 7 October 2024, there were 571,047 car practical driving tests booked, and 89,349 driving tests available within the 24-week booking window. All available driving test appointments are shown on the live booking system, so the availability of test appointments continually changes. Test appointments are released on a rolling 24-week basis, and additional appointments are added as soon as they become available. Other candidates cancelling or rescheduling their test also free up appointments for others to book. Normal booking behaviour sees candidates move test appointments around routinely in line with their preferences. It is not therefore possible to give a meaningful assessment of the number of people waiting longer than 24 weeks for a test or how long a person waited between booking and taking a test.DVSA continues to see high demand for driving tests, owing in part to a major shift in customer booking behaviour. Customers now book their car practical test far earlier in their learning journey, sometimes before they have even had a practical driving lesson.The attached spreadsheet, WPQ00023819-00023823, shows the monthly average waiting time for a car practical driving test at each driving test centre and zone for each month since April 2015.

What steps her Department is taking to increase the availability of driving tests.

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) main priority is to reduce car practical driving test waiting times, whilst upholding road safety standards.Measures in place to reduce waiting times for customers at driving test centres, include the recruitment of driving examiners, conducting tests outside of regular hours, including at weekends and on public holidays, and buying back annual leave from driving examiners.As of 7 October 2024, there were 571,047 car practical driving tests booked, and 89,349 driving tests available within the 24-week booking window. All available driving test appointments are shown on the live booking system, so the availability of test appointments continually changes. Test appointments are released on a rolling 24-week basis, and additional appointments are added as soon as they become available. Other candidates cancelling or rescheduling their test also free up appointments for others to book. Normal booking behaviour sees candidates move test appointments around routinely in line with their preferences. It is not therefore possible to give a meaningful assessment of the number of people waiting longer than 24 weeks for a test or how long a person waited between booking and taking a test.DVSA continues to see high demand for driving tests, owing in part to a major shift in customer booking behaviour. Customers now book their car practical test far earlier in their learning journey, sometimes before they have even had a practical driving lesson.The attached spreadsheet, WPQ00023819-00023823, shows the monthly average waiting time for a car practical driving test at each driving test centre and zone for each month since April 2015.

What the average wait time was in each driving test area in each month since January 2015.

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) main priority is to reduce car practical driving test waiting times, whilst upholding road safety standards.Measures in place to reduce waiting times for customers at driving test centres, include the recruitment of driving examiners, conducting tests outside of regular hours, including at weekends and on public holidays, and buying back annual leave from driving examiners.As of 7 October 2024, there were 571,047 car practical driving tests booked, and 89,349 driving tests available within the 24-week booking window. All available driving test appointments are shown on the live booking system, so the availability of test appointments continually changes. Test appointments are released on a rolling 24-week basis, and additional appointments are added as soon as they become available. Other candidates cancelling or rescheduling their test also free up appointments for others to book. Normal booking behaviour sees candidates move test appointments around routinely in line with their preferences. It is not therefore possible to give a meaningful assessment of the number of people waiting longer than 24 weeks for a test or how long a person waited between booking and taking a test.DVSA continues to see high demand for driving tests, owing in part to a major shift in customer booking behaviour. Customers now book their car practical test far earlier in their learning journey, sometimes before they have even had a practical driving lesson.The attached spreadsheet, WPQ00023819-00023823, shows the monthly average waiting time for a car practical driving test at each driving test centre and zone for each month since April 2015.

What the average wait time for a car driving test was at each driving test centre in each month since January 2015.

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) main priority is to reduce car practical driving test waiting times, whilst upholding road safety standards.Measures in place to reduce waiting times for customers at driving test centres, include the recruitment of driving examiners, conducting tests outside of regular hours, including at weekends and on public holidays, and buying back annual leave from driving examiners.As of 7 October 2024, there were 571,047 car practical driving tests booked, and 89,349 driving tests available within the 24-week booking window. All available driving test appointments are shown on the live booking system, so the availability of test appointments continually changes. Test appointments are released on a rolling 24-week basis, and additional appointments are added as soon as they become available. Other candidates cancelling or rescheduling their test also free up appointments for others to book. Normal booking behaviour sees candidates move test appointments around routinely in line with their preferences. It is not therefore possible to give a meaningful assessment of the number of people waiting longer than 24 weeks for a test or how long a person waited between booking and taking a test.DVSA continues to see high demand for driving tests, owing in part to a major shift in customer booking behaviour. Customers now book their car practical test far earlier in their learning journey, sometimes before they have even had a practical driving lesson.The attached spreadsheet, WPQ00023819-00023823, shows the monthly average waiting time for a car practical driving test at each driving test centre and zone for each month since April 2015.

What the average duration of phone calls to report hospital stays for claimants of (a) disability benefits, (b) low or no income benefits and (c) universal credit, including time spent on hold, was in each month since January 2010.

We do not hold the information requested.

Whether there are circumstances where a victim cannot call for a foreign national offender to be deported in a victim impact statement.

Whether a deportation order for a foreign national offender is made is ultimately a decision for the Home Secretary. Any foreign national offender convicted of a crime who receives a custodial sentence in the UK is referred to the Home Office at the earliest opportunity for deportation consideration following sentencing. There is no formal mechanism to seek Victim Personal Statements to support deportation decisions. However, decision makers may take account of evidence such as the judge’s sentencing remarks, to consider the impact on the victim. Judges may recommend deportation when passing a sentence, and will take into account, so far as they consider appropriate, a Victim Personal Statement when determining a sentence. Victim Personal Statements allow victims to explain in their own words how a crime has affected them. However, they should not include opinions on how offenders should be sentenced, including calling for a foreign national offender to be deported, as the appropriate sentence is rightly a matter for the court to determine.

Pursuant to the Answer of of 13 September 2024 to Question 4411 on Pupils: Per Capita Costs, what the funding per pupil was in state schools for (a) Dedicated Schools Grant block funding, (b) pay and pensions, (c) pupil premium, (d) growth and premises and (e) other funding in each (i) region and (ii) local authority in each year since 2018/19

Schools core funding is allocated through the dedicated schools grant (DSG), which includes growth and premises funding. These can be found as separate funding lines in the published DSG tables. DSG allocations are available at a regional and local authority level at the following links:www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2018-to-2019.www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2019-to-2020.www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2020-to-2021.www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2021-to-2022.www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2022-to-2023.www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2023-to-2024.www.gov.uk/government/publications/dedicated-schools-grant-dsg-2024-to-2025.The department also provides pupil premium funding to support disadvantaged pupils. These allocations are also available at regional and local authority level using the published tables, which can be accessed at:www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-conditions-of-grant-2018-to-2019.www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2019-to-2020.www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2020-to-2021.www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2021-to-2022.www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2022-to-2023.www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2023-to-2024.www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2024-to-2025.The department has also provided supplementary grants for schools to support them with the costs associated with teacher pay and pensions awards, as well as overall pressures. Information on the additional grants provided since 2018, such as the teachers’ pay additional grant (TPAG), the teachers’ pension employer contribution grant (TPECG) and the core schools’ budget grant (CSBG), can be found here:www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pay-grant-methodology/teachers-pay-grant-methodology.www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pension-employer-contribution-grant-tpecg/pension-grant-methodology.www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-supplementary-grant-2022-to-2023.www.gov.uk/government/publications/mainstream-schools-additional-grant-2023-to-2024.www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pay-additional-grant-2023-to-2024.www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pay-additional-grant-2024-to-2025.www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pension-employer-contribution-grant-2024-for-schools-high-needs-settings-and-local-authorities-2024-to-2025.www.gov.uk/government/publications/core-schools-budget-grant-csbg-2024-to-2025.Most of these grants have since been rolled into DSG allocations. The only exceptions are the TPAG 2024/25, the TPECG 2024/25 and the CSBG 2024/25, which will all be rolled into the DSG allocations from 2025/26 onwards.Outside core funding, schools have received a wide variety of further grants and programme funding since 2018/19. These are typically considerably smaller than the core funding streams set out above. This includes both funding provided nationally, and funding provided to particular areas and/or particular schools.

Whether claimants of (a) disability benefits and (b) low or no income benefits can report a hospital stay via a phone call; and if her Department will take steps to introduce a tell me once system.

For Disability Benefits, the usual route for the customer to notify us of a hospital admission is either via phone or in writing. Universal Credit customers can report a hospital stay via a phone call, they can also report it digitally via a journal message on their Universal Credit account or via a third party or supporter if consent has been given. The Department is working on a digital channel for customers which will allow them to tell us about changes in one place. We do have plans to enable this going forward, but the work is not expected to be complete for at least another 12 months. Disability Benefits, other low-income benefits and later life services are in-scope for this work, but, at present, Universal Credit is not.

How many phone calls to report hospital stays for claimants of (a) disability benefits, (b) low or no income benefits and (c) universal credit there were in each month since January 2010.

We do not hold the information requested.