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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

1141735

	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	Prosecutions: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions under the Malicious Communications Act 1988 were made in Scotland in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bowie
	uin	281799
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>The Malicious Communications Act 1988 only extends to England and Wales. Data collected by the Ministry of Justice is only available, therefore, for prosecutions that occur in England and Wales.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 05/09/2019 16:38:28 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4601 label Biography information for Andrew Bowie

1141772

	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	Ministry of Justice: Overtime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of overtime for staff responding to IT problems in January 2019; and whether his Department has changed IT suppliers as a result of those problems.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	281689
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>The MoJ has considered the cost to the public purse for overtime for staff responding to the IT problems in January 2019, but we are discussing these costs with the IT providers and are unable to release the information until those discussions have concluded.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The IT supplier for MOJ (including HMCTS) has not been changed.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 03/09/2019 15:20:51 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1141774

	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	Ministry of Justice: Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what mental health support his Department provides to people employed in the justice and custodial sector.
	tabling member constituency	Don Valley
	tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
	uin	281604
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) recognises the importance of mental wellbeing and offers a wide range of mental health support to employees working in all its executive agencies and arm’s length bodies, which includes HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) and HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS). This is captured in our Mental Health Strategy. MoJ has a network of Mental Health Allies, trained staff volunteers, working across MoJ to support staff.</p><p>MoJ offers all staff access to an Occupational Health (OH) service. For staff working in HMPPS this includes additional access to specialist Mental Health Advisers. All MoJ staff have access to our Employee Assistance Provider (EAP). The service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. It includes:</p><ul><li>six free counselling sessions per year (these can be extended in certain circumstances)</li><li>Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) where recommended by our OH providers.</li><li>trauma and critical incident support.</li><li>a range of workshops covering mental health for staff and line managers.</li></ul><p>We have dedicated mental wellbeing intranet pages that all staff can access. Content includes, stress support tools and stress risk assessment forms, guidance for managers on how to support employees with mental ill health and links to external organisations. HMPPS offer staff “Live learning” programmes aimed at supporting the mental health of new Prison Officer recruits. Prison Officers are also supported by a variety of peer support groups such as Wellbeing Champions, the Chaplaincy Team, and Care teams.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 05/09/2019 16:29:31 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

1141775

	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	Ministry of Justice: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what support his Department provides to people employed in the justice and custodial sector who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
	tabling member constituency	Don Valley
	tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
	uin	281605
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>At the Ministry of Justice, all staff in all its executive agencies and arm’s length bodies, which includes HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) and HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) have access to our Occupational Health provision and our Employee Assistance Provider (EAP) services.</p><p> </p><p>Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can be identified through an Occupational Health referral. In addition, within HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) Mental Health Advisers, specialist advisers, provided by our OH supplier can identify treatment for PTSD, following a work related traumatic incident. Where PTSD is diagnosed MoJ employees will be referred for bespoke support provided by our EAP in the form of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR). These treatments have been identified as best practice in NICE (National Institute of Clinical Excellence) guidelines.</p><p> </p><p>In HMPPS we plan to implement TRiM (Trauma Management) training for prison based staff. This will take place in ten prisons with imminent roll out across the estate. TRiM is a mental health assessment approach used by the military to detect PTSD and will provide an additional method of recognising the condition which will allow employees to be fast tracked to the appropriate therapy.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 05/09/2019 16:33:29 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	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

1142136

	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	Dangerous Driving: Sentencing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the oral contribution of the Leader of the House of Commons of 25 July 2019, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to increase the maximum penalty for causing death by dangerous driving.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	282465
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>We are focused on getting the law right, to ensure the changes we make are comprehensive, proportionate and, crucially, practical.</p><p> </p><p>We will bring forward proposals for changes in the law to increase the maximum penalties for causing death by dangerous driving and careless driving under the influence of drink or drugs to life imprisonment, and create a new offence of causing serious injury by careless driving as soon as possible. These proposals will take account of other government proposals for safer roads.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 03/09/2019 15:15:15 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock