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1141622

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of people who appealed benefits decisions in Doncaster in the last 12 months were successful.
	tabling member constituency	Doncaster North
	tabling member printed	Edward Miliband
	uin	281662
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Information about the outcomes of appeals in the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) is published at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</p><p> </p><p>Decisions on benefit, typically on a person’s entitlement to benefit, or its rate of payment, can be overturned on appeal for a variety of reasons. For instance, further evidence, including oral testimony, may be provided at the hearing. HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service cannot comment on decisions made by the independent tribunal judiciary.</p><p> </p><p>Latest figures (to March 2019) indicate that since Personal Independence Payment was introduced, 4.1 million decisions have been made, and of these, 10% have been appealed and 5% have been overturned at Tribunals.</p><p> </p><p>Between April 2014 and December 2018, 4.1 million Employment and Support Allowance (post Work Capability Assessment) decisions have been made. Of these, 8% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 281663 281664 question first answered 09/09/2019 08:45:59 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1510 label Biography information for Edward Miliband

1141623

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of people who appealed benefits decisions were successful in their appeal in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Doncaster North
	tabling member printed	Edward Miliband
	uin	281663
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Information about the outcomes of appeals in the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) is published at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</p><p> </p><p>Decisions on benefit, typically on a person’s entitlement to benefit, or its rate of payment, can be overturned on appeal for a variety of reasons. For instance, further evidence, including oral testimony, may be provided at the hearing. HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service cannot comment on decisions made by the independent tribunal judiciary.</p><p> </p><p>Latest figures (to March 2019) indicate that since Personal Independence Payment was introduced, 4.1 million decisions have been made, and of these, 10% have been appealed and 5% have been overturned at Tribunals.</p><p> </p><p>Between April 2014 and December 2018, 4.1 million Employment and Support Allowance (post Work Capability Assessment) decisions have been made. Of these, 8% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 281662 281664 question first answered 09/09/2019 08:45:59 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1510 label Biography information for Edward Miliband

1141624

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of benefits appeals resulted in a decision being overturned in each Government region in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Doncaster North
	tabling member printed	Edward Miliband
	uin	281664
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Information about the outcomes of appeals in the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) is published at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</p><p> </p><p>Decisions on benefit, typically on a person’s entitlement to benefit, or its rate of payment, can be overturned on appeal for a variety of reasons. For instance, further evidence, including oral testimony, may be provided at the hearing. HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service cannot comment on decisions made by the independent tribunal judiciary.</p><p> </p><p>Latest figures (to March 2019) indicate that since Personal Independence Payment was introduced, 4.1 million decisions have been made, and of these, 10% have been appealed and 5% have been overturned at Tribunals.</p><p> </p><p>Between April 2014 and December 2018, 4.1 million Employment and Support Allowance (post Work Capability Assessment) decisions have been made. Of these, 8% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 281662 281663 question first answered 09/09/2019 08:45:59 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	1510 label Biography information for Edward Miliband

1141637

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Youth Offending Teams: Mental Health Services
	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 a child psychologist is in place in every youth offending team.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	281624
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Local Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) are multi-agency partnerships (which include health services) and they determine which services are needed to address the needs of the children who offend in their area. As of June 2017, there were 127 full time equivalent posts for seconded mental health practitioners working in YOTs in England and Wales. This included 59.7 part time and 68 full time posts.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England, are expected to work with NHS England and local partners across the NHS, public health, children and adult social care, youth justice and the education sectors, to jointly develop and take forward local plans to improve children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing, including children going through the youth justice system. In Wales, Local Health Boards (LHBs) are responsible for planning and delivering medical services, and aim to integrate specialist, secondary, community and primary care and health improvements. Even where there is no child psychologist or mental health professional embedded within the youth offending team, areas should have provision for children to access appropriate mental health support.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 09/09/2019 15:59:26 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1141776

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Officers: Sick Leave
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers were signed off work for mental health reasons in (a) publicly-managed and (b) privately-managed prisons in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Don Valley
	tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
	uin	281606
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>HMPPS is committed to ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of its staff in England and Wales, with all staff having access to a comprehensive occupational health service and employee assistance programme.</p><p> </p><p>The number of prison officers who were signed off work for mental health reasons in publicly-managed prison are shown in the Table 1 below.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: HMPPS band 3-5 prison officers<sup>1</sup> who were signed off sick due to Mental and Behavioural Disorders<sup>2 </sup>in public sector prisons, 2009/10 to 2018/19</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Headcount</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Number of prison officers who had sick leave due to Mental and Behavioural Disorders<sup>2</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 months ending 31 Mar 2010</p></td><td><p>1,484</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 months ending 31 Mar 2011</p></td><td><p>1,415</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 months ending 31 Mar 2012</p></td><td><p>1,456</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 months ending 31 Mar 2013</p></td><td><p>1,414</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 months ending 31 Mar 2014</p></td><td><p>1,602</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 months ending 31 Mar 2015</p></td><td><p>1,422</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 months ending 31 Mar 2016</p></td><td><p>1,405</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 months ending 31 Mar 2017</p></td><td><p>1,465</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 months ending 31 Mar 2018</p></td><td><p>1,357</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 months ending 31 Mar 2019</p></td><td><p>1,939</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><ol><li>Includes Band 3-4 / Prison Officer (incl. specialists), Band 4 / Supervising Officer and Band 5 / Custodial Managers.</li><li>Absences are categorised according to International Classification of Diseases, which is an approach used across the civil service.</li></ol><p> </p><p>While the figures show an increase in the number of individuals, the figures in 2010 represent 5.7% of the workforce and in 2019 it represents 8.5% of the workforce.</p><p> </p><p>We do not collect this information for privately managed prisons, as there is no contractual requirement for us to do so. All staffing matters in privately managed prisons, including the responsibility of ensuring the availability of sufficiently trained and experienced staff to maintain safe and decent prisons, lies with contractors.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 09/09/2019 09:08:35 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

1141777

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Officers: Sick Leave
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers were signed off work with post-traumatic stress disorder in (a) publicly-managed and (b) privately-managed prisons in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Don Valley
	tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
	uin	281607
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Information is not available on the number of prison officers diagnosed with PTSD in relation to their work in the prison service as there is no classification for PTSD available on the centralised recording of sick absence.</p><p> </p><p>We do not collect this information for privately managed prisons, as there is no contractual requirement for us to do so. All staffing matters in privately managed prisons, including the responsibility of ensuring the availability of sufficiently trained and experienced staff to maintain safe and decent prisons, lies with contractors.</p><p> </p><p>HMPPS is committed to ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of its staff in England and Wales, with all staff having access to a comprehensive occupational health service and employee assistance programme.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 09/09/2019 09:11:55 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

1141781

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Officers: Early Retirement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers took early retirement due to ill health in (a) publicly-managed and (b) privately-managed prisons in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Don Valley
	tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
	uin	281608
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>HMPPS is committed to ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of its staff in England and Wales, with all staff having access to a comprehensive occupational health service and employee assistance programme.</p><p> </p><p>The number of prison officers in public sectors prisons who took early retirement due to ill health in each of the last 10 years is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: HMPPS band 3-5 prison officers<sup>1</sup> who retired early due to ill health in public sector prisons, 2009/10 to 2018/19</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Headcount</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Number of prison officers who retired early due to ill health</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 months ending 31 Mar 2010</p></td><td><p>85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 months ending 31 Mar 2011</p></td><td><p>82</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 months ending 31 Mar 2012</p></td><td><p>113</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 months ending 31 Mar 2013</p></td><td><p>129</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 months ending 31 Mar 2014</p></td><td><p>124</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 months ending 31 Mar 2015</p></td><td><p>154</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 months ending 31 Mar 2016</p></td><td><p>150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 months ending 31 Mar 2017</p></td><td><p>142</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 months ending 31 Mar 2018</p></td><td><p>109</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 months ending 31 Mar 2019</p></td><td><p>112</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>1. Includes Band 3-4 / Prison Officer (incl. specialists), Band 4 / Supervising Officer and Band 5 / Custodial Managers</p><p>Although there appears to be a clear upward trend, the figures have remained fairly static, representing only 0.3% of the workforce in 2010 and 0.5% of the workforce in 2019.</p><p> </p><p>We do not collect this information for privately managed prisons, as there is no contractual requirement for us to do so. All staffing matters in privately managed prisons, including the responsibility of ensuring the availability of sufficiently trained and experienced staff to maintain safe and decent prisons, lies with contractors.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 09/09/2019 09:17:50 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

1141821

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time is for a decision in the appeal stage of a personal independence payment application for those transferring from disability living allowance.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	281696
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Waiting times for appeals against decisions made about Personal Independence Payment (PIP) are published at:</p><p>www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</p><p> </p><p>The average time for a decision to be made in the appeal stage of a PIP application for those transferring from disability living allowance in the period April 2018 to March 2019 (the latest period for which data are available) is 35 weeks<sup> 1</sup></p><p> </p><ol><li>Data include cases cleared with and without a Tribunal hearing. An SSCS appeal may be captured more than once as a clearance should the original decision be overturned, set aside or if an Upper Tribunal re-hearing is granted. The data are based on the time from receipt in HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) to the last decision within the input period.</li></ol><p> </p><p>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 that are available. The data are a subset of official statistics extracted from the case management system on a different date.</p><p> </p><p>Waiting times are calculated from receipt of an appeal to its final disposal. An appeal is not necessarily disposed of at its first hearing. The final disposal decision on the appeal may be reached after an earlier hearing had been adjourned (which may be directed by the judge for a variety of reasons, such as to seek further evidence), or after an earlier hearing date had been postponed (again, for a variety of reasons, often at the request of the appellant). An appeal may also have been decided at an earlier date by the First-tier Tribunal, only for the case to have gone on to the Upper Tribunal, to be returned once again to the First-tier, for its final disposal.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 09/09/2019 08:53:46 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1142050

	registered interest
	date	25/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Sentencing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of reviewing the sentence guidelines for conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	282281
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Currently, there is no sentencing guideline for conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm (GBH). This offence is covered by common law and separate to the offences related to causing or inflicting GBH.</p><p> </p><p>It is for the Sentencing Council for England and Wales, which is independent of government, to develop sentencing guidelines and monitor their use. The Sentencing Council are in the process of reviewing the definitive guideline on assault offences, and anticipate issuing a consultation on a revised guideline in early 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The Assault guideline and evaluation are available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/publications/?type=publications&amp;s=&amp;cat=&amp;topic=assault&amp;year" target="_blank">https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/publications/?type=publications&amp;s=&amp;cat=&amp;topic=assault&amp;year</a>=</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 09/09/2019 09:00:04 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1142064

	registered interest
	date	25/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Veterans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July 2019 to Question 276194, how many former armed service personnel who have declared their membership of those services are serving a sentence in each prison in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	282352
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>Since January 2015, Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service has actively been recording service in the Armed Forces as part of the screening process for newly received prisoners into custody.</p><p> </p><p>Recently published Experimental Statistics (October 2018) have indicated that as of 30 June 2018, there were 1,782 prisoners who had declared themselves as ‘ex-service personnel’ serving a sentence in prisons across England and Wales representing 3% of the total prison population for whom we have data on this matter. The attached table shows a breakdown per establishment. The information requested for <em>Northern Ireland</em> and Scotland is not covered by this department.</p><p> </p><p>The department is due to release the next estimate in October 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice remains committed to encouraging individuals to declare service in the Armed Forces, as early as possible or at any point whist serving their sentence. This enables them to access the support available whether in custody or the community.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 09/09/2019 10:45:20 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name Data table - PQ 282352 - Armed Forces in England & Wales prisons (July 2019).doc.xlsx title Data Table
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis