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760738

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date	14/09/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service: Linlithgow and East Falkirk
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many employment tribunal claimants in Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency (a) paid fees and (b) have had fees refunded since 2013; what the total sum of fees still to be so refunded to claimants is; and when he intends that refund process to be completed.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	105112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>We do not collect centrally information on the number of claimants in Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency who paid a fee in the Employment Tribunals.</p><p> </p><p>We confirmed, following the handing down of the Supreme Court’s judgment in the case of R (Unison) v the Lord Chancellor, that we would put in place arrangements to refund those people who had paid fees in the Employment Tribunals as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 27/11/2017 15:47:42 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

760739

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service: Linlithgow and East Falkirk
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many employment tribunal claimants there were in Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency in the year (a) before and (b) after the introduction of tribunal fees.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	105113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2017 answer text <p>Personal data for Employment Tribunal cases are archived 12 months after a case is concluded. Constituency-level data are only available showing claims accepted from October 2016 to June 2017. This is consistent with the published statistics.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the number of accepted claims in the East Falkirk and Linlithgow constituency from October 2016 to June 2017.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Accepted<sup>3 </sup>Claims</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Area</p></td><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p>Singles</p></td><td><p>Multiples</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Falkirk<sup>2 </sup>and Linlithgow<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>October 2016 – June 2017</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>52</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Claims accepted prior to the introduction of fees can be found in a regional breakdown, including Scotland, at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2017-and-2016-to-2017</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes</p><p><sup>1 </sup>Linlithgow Constituency taken as accepted claims submitted within the postcode area EH49</p><p><sup>2 </sup>East Falkirk Constituency taken as accepted claims submitted within the postcode area EH30, EH47 EH2</p><p><sup>3 </sup>Accepted claims by constituency are extracted from the live ETHOS databases. Cases from the live data bases are archived 12 months after they are concluded and as such personalised data (constituency) are no longer available. Anonymised data at venue level are exported to the Central Office of the Industrial Tribunal (COIT) database.</p><p><em>Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data available. </em>The data may differ slightly to that of the published stats as this data was run on a different date.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 23/11/2017 11:04:28 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

760201

registered interest
date	13/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	General Election 2017
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the findings of the report, Turned Out 2017, published by the RNIB on problems experienced by blind and partially sighted voters at the 2017 General Election; and if he will implement that report's recommendations before local authority elections take place in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	105016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2017 answer text <p>I welcome the report by the RNIB on the experiences of blind and partially sighted people<br>at the 2017 General Election. The Government will consider these recommendations as<br>part of our current Call for Evidence on the experience of disabled people in registering to<br>vote and voting and will look at the evidence as a whole in planning how to take forward<br>any changes.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/10/2017 14:52:54 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

760226

registered interest
date	13/09/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, who from his Department will represent the UK at the November meetings of the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in Geneva and Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons; and what the priorities of those attending those meetings will be.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	105018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2017 answer text <p>The UK delegation will include military and Ministry of Defence (MOD) civilian personnel from the Counter-Proliferation and Arms Control Centre, Development Concepts and Doctrine Centre and Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. A priority for the MOD is to support the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in fulfilling our commitments as a proactive State Party to the CCW. MOD participation will allow us to share our thinking on autonomy, notably as set out in the recently published Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) doctrine note. This forms part of our efforts to build improved understanding at the international level in the debate on Armed Forces' use of remote and automated systems.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 10/10/2017 14:53:46 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

760250

registered interest
date	13/09/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	India: Christianity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Indian counterpart on the treatment of Christians in India.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	105045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2017 answer text <p>​​The British Government condemns all instances of discrimination and violence against individuals or groups because of their religion, regardless of the country or faith concerns. The UK engages with India on human rights issues, including religious freedom and minority rights, both bilaterally and through the EU. Our High Commission in New Delhi monitors the human rights situation in India and maintains a dialogue with the Indian National Commission for Minorities often via our Consulate General in the country.</p><p>FCO officials in New Delhi also regularly meet senior faith leaders to discuss issues such as religious tolerance, including most recently with a representative from a Christian organisation in India in June. The British Government also runs an array of projects in India to help promote minority rights and combat discrimination.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 13/10/2017 12:31:11 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day