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1464548

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date	19/05/2022
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Criminal Liability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many people the CPS has acquitted on the defence of automatism in England and Wales as of 19th May 2022.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	5345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2022 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of any defence employed by defendants in criminal proceedings. This information could only be obtained by an examination of CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 23/05/2022 09:17:48 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1464550

registered interest
date	19/05/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Roads: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will take steps to ensure that road crash victims and their families receive adequate compensation and support following a successful defence of automatism.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	5346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2022 answer text <p>Automatism is a lawful defence in both civil and criminal cases and, where no agreement on liability and compensation for those injured in a road crash can be reached between a claimant and defendant, the courts will decide each case on its merits. Therefore, the Government currently has no plans to make changes in this area.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 26/05/2022 13:18:36 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1464551

registered interest
date	19/05/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Roads: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans he has to improve access to justice for road crash victims and their families.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	5347
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2022 answer text <p>In relation to a civil claim for personal injury, Official Injury Claim (OIC), an accessible self-service, online service, was launched in May 2021 in partnership with the Motor Insurers Bureau. This service enables those who suffer injury as a result of a road traffic accident to claim up to £5000 in damages, with or without the need for legal representation.</p><p> </p><p>The service and its accompanying guidance have been carefully designed with the claimant firmly at their heart. A dedicated telephone customer support centre is also available, with trained assistants to guide users through any questions or issues they may have about the process of completing a claim. Since May 2021, around 240,000 claims have been made on the OIC service.</p><p> </p><p>For claims above £5000 the existing Claims Portal should be used. Information about these reforms and the OIC service can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/whiplash-reform-programme-information-and-faq" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/whiplash-reform-programme-information-and-faq</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 27/05/2022 13:13:17 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1464552

registered interest
date	19/05/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Liability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has plans to reform the use of automatism as a legal defence.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	5348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2022 answer text <p>The Government has no current plans to bring forward legislative proposals in relation to this defence but it will be kept under review.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 27/05/2022 13:16:11 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1464555

registered interest
date	19/05/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Internet: Self-harm and Suicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take the steps to restrict online content that promotes suicide and self-harm to (a) children under 18, and (b) people of all ages, through the provisions of the Online Safety Bill.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	5349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2022 answer text <p>The Online Safety Bill will offer strong protections for users of all ages from content promoting suicide and self-harm. Encouraging or assisting the suicide of another person is named as a priority offence in the Bill. All services in scope of the bill will need to take proportionate steps to prevent users from being exposed to this content.</p><p>The strongest protections in the Bill are for children, and providers of services which are likely to be accessed by children will need to protect them from harmful suicide and self-harm content, even if it is not illegal. Category 1 services (high risk, high reach services) will also need to set out in terms and conditions their policies for addressing harmful content to adults.</p><p>Search services play a key role in enabling users to encounter harmful content, such as content promoting self-harm and suicide. These services also have duties under the Bill to minimise all users’ exposure to illegal content, and minimise children’s exposure to harmful content in search results.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 25/05/2022 13:39:48 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1464557

registered interest
date	19/05/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Internet: Self-harm
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she is taking steps to ensure that the Online Safety Bill includes a new offence of encouraging serious self-harm with malicious intent.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	5350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2022 answer text <p>Under the Online Safety Bill, all in-scope services will need to remove and limit the spread of illegal content and activity online. Companies that are likely to be accessed by children will also need to protect them from harmful content, such as self-harm content. The largest sites will also be required to set out in terms of service their approach to addressing harmful content to adults and enforce these consistently.</p><p>The Government asked the Law Commission to review the criminal law for harmful communications. Following the Law Commission’s final report, the government accepted the recommended communications offences and the cyberflashing offence, which are being brought into law through the Online Safety Bill. The Government is considering the remaining recommendations, including a new offence to address the encouragement and assistance of self-harm. We will issue a full response to the Law Commission in due course.</p><p>The Government introduced the Online Safety Bill to Parliament on 17 March 2022.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 27/05/2022 11:20:44 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1464560

registered interest
date	19/05/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Media: Self-harm and Suicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to ensure that small and medium media platforms restrict content that promote suicide and self-harm.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	5351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2022 answer text <p>All companies in scope of the Online Safety Bill will have duties to proactively prevent the spread of content encouraging or assisting suicide. They will also have to protect children from harmful suicide and self-harm content, even if it is not illegal. While duties are proportionate to the risk of harm and a service’s capacity, these duties apply regardless of the size of the service.</p><p>The largest and highest risk services will also need to set out in terms and conditions their policies for addressing harmful content to adults. This will likely include types of legal content promoting self-harm.</p><p>This approach reflects the fact that this type of content is likely to cause the most harm on services with the largest audiences and a range of high-risk features, where it can spread quickly and reach large numbers of people.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 27/05/2022 11:22:37 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1464561

registered interest
date	19/05/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the availability of psychological services within a reasonable time frame.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	5352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2022 answer text <p>No formal assessment has been made. However, we have introduced waiting time standards for children and young people’s eating disorder services, early intervention in psychosis services and the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme.</p><p>In February, NHS England and NHS Improvement published the outcomes of the consultation on five new access and waiting time standards for mental health services. We are now working with NHS England and NHS Improvement on further actions. In addition, we are investing £2.3 billion a year by 2023/24 to enable an extra two million people in England to access National Health Service-funded mental health support.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 27/05/2022 10:15:43 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1464564

registered interest
date	19/05/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the impact the waiting period to see a therapist in the NHS has on the likelihood of patients seriously harming (a) themselves and (b) others.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	5353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2022 answer text <p>No recent assessment has been made. However, all National Health Service mental health providers have established 24 hours a day, seven days a week urgent mental health helplines. We will also publish a new long-term plan for suicide prevention later this year. We are investing at least £2.3 a year by 2023/24 to supporting an additional two million people in England to access NHS-funded mental health services.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 27/05/2022 09:56:34 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1464565

registered interest
date	19/05/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to address the shortage of psychologists in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	5354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2022 answer text <p>Health Education England has expanded the clinical psychology training intake by 85% in the last three years. This is expected to deliver an additional 2,520 psychologists in the National Health Service workforce by 2025.</p><p> </p><p>The Mental Health Recovery Action Plan also includes a £111 million investment in the training and education of the NHS mental health workforce. This aims to provide an additional 27,000 mental health professionals in England by 2023/24. Of these, 30% are expected to be psychology professionals.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 07/06/2022 14:22:19 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman