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1139715

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	101 Calls: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 13 May 2019 to Question 251240 on 101 Calls: Fees and Charges, whether (a) that review has concluded and (b) he plans to place a copy of that review in the Library.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	278582
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>Following an announcement by the Home Secretary on 28 May, the Home Office is making 101 calls free of charge to the public from 1 April 2020.</p><p>The decision has been published on the Home Office website and can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-office-to-scrap-101-non-emergency-number-charges" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-office-to-scrap-101-non-emergency-number-charges</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 22/07/2019 16:05:51 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1254462

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2020
	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	Abortion: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a response to EDM 521 on UK law on disability-selective abortion tabled by the hon. Member for Upper Bann.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	119342
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2020 answer text <p>Parliament decided the circumstances under which abortion can legally be undertaken. It would be for Parliament to decide whether to make any changes to the law on abortion. As with other matters of conscience, abortion is an issue on which the Government adopts a neutral stance and allows hon. Members to vote according to their moral, ethical or religious beliefs.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 30/11/2020 14:40:54 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1604518

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2023
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Access to Work Programme: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time was for access to work funding applications to be considered in the latest period for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	166318
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2023 answer text <p>The Access to Work average wait times, from application to a decision being made, for February 2023, was 58 working days.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Please note that the data supplied is derived from unpublished management information, which was collected for internal departmental use only, and have not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard. They should therefore be treated with caution. </em></p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 20/03/2023 13:46:32 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1604519

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2023
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Access to Work Programme: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what date the longest outstanding access to work funding application was submitted to his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	166319
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2023 answer text <p>The longest outstanding Access to Work application was received on 19<sup>h</sup> January 2022. This application is currently on hold at the request of the customer to allow them time to gather information to support the application.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 20/03/2023 13:48:56 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1605903

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2023
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Access to Work Programme: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2023 to Question 166319 on Access to Work Programme: Finance, when the earliest outstanding access to work funding application which has not been placed on hold at the request of the customer was received by his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	170704
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2023 answer text <p>In addition to the response to question 166319 on 20<sup>th</sup> March, we have also looked at the second and third oldest application, and both are also awaiting information from the customer, employer, and/or outcome of workplace assessment, for the case manager to proceed with the application.</p><p> </p><p>We currently have 7282 applications with case managers. It would be considerably resource intensive to look through all of these to identify the oldest that is not awaiting information from an external source. I can confirm that we do conduct internal checks on the older cases to ensure they are not unnecessarily delayed and that the average clearance time in February for all applications was 58 working days, with 42% of applications having a decision in 25 days.</p><p> </p><p><em>Please note that the data supplied is derived from unpublished management information, which was collected for internal departmental use only, and have not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard. They should therefore be treated with caution. </em></p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 24/03/2023 12:07:59 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1461489

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Afghanistan: Refugees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy scheme are awaiting decision.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	414
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2022 answer text <p>As of 13 May 2022, there are 15,177 applicants to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) Scheme awaiting an initial decision.</p><p> </p><p>Large volumes of applicants continue to be reviewed, many from applicants with no connection to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and thus any realistic chance of being eligible for ARAP. The MOD continues to resource the process for ARAP but the process is slowed by the volume of ineligible applicants.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 18/05/2022 16:50:15 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1461490

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Afghanistan: Refugees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy scheme received a decision in each month since August 2020; and what proportion of those decisions were approvals.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	415
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2022 answer text <p>The Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) scheme was launched on 1 April 2021 and has been one of the most generous relocation programmes in the world.</p><p> </p><p>Due to constraints on accessible data, the information requested is only available from October 2021 onwards and can be found in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Decisions Made </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2021</p></td><td><p>706</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2021</p></td><td><p>1,450</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2021</p></td><td><p>803</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2022</p></td><td><p>477</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2022</p></td><td><p>409</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2022</p></td><td><p>451</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2022</p></td><td><p>799</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2022 (up to 12 May)</p></td><td><p>234</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Of all the decisions made over this period, 8.4% were approved.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 18/05/2022 16:50:43 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1464221

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Afghanistan: Refugees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications to the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy scheme received a decision in each month since August 2020; and what proportion of those decisions were approvals.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	4668
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him to Question 415 on 18 May 2022.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 24/05/2022 13:00:43 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey attachment 1 file name UIN 415.docx title Afghanistan: Refugees
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1149420

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	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	Agomelatine
	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 supply of Agomelatine.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	711
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department fully understands that maintaining access to agomelatine for the management of major depression is vitally important to many people in this country.</p><p>We are aware that Teva a supplier of generic agomelatine 25mg tablets discontinued supplies in July 2019. However, we can confirm that supplies of agomelatine 25mg tablets are currently available from several other suppliers in volumes that are sufficient to meet normal United Kingdom demand. All patients who require agomelatine should be able to obtain a supply from their pharmacy.</p><p>We continue to work closely with industry and partners in the health system to help prevent shortages and to ensure that the risks to patients are minimised when supply issues do arise.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 21/10/2019 16:57:20 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1149421

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	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	Agomelatine
	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 ensure the adequacy of the supply of Agomelatine in the event that the UK leaves the EU on 31 October 2019 without a deal.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	712
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department is doing everything appropriate to prepare for leaving the European Union. We want to reassure patients that our plans should ensure the uninterrupted supply of medicines and medical products, including those for use in the treatment of depression, once we have left the EU.</p><p>The Department, as part of our EU exit preparations, is implementing a multi-layered approach to mitigate potential disruption to supply, which consists of stockpiling where possible, securing freight capacity, changing or clarifying regulatory requirements, procuring additional warehousing, working closely with industry to improve trader readiness and putting in place the National Supply Disruption Response to manage potential shortages. Further details can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/medicines-and-medical-products-supply-government-updates-no-deal-brexit-plans" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/medicines-and-medical-products-supply-government-updates-no-deal-brexit-plans</a></p><p>There is no evidence of any supply shortages being related to leaving the European Union. We are aware that one supplier of generic agomelatine 25mg tablets discontinued supplies in July 2019. However, we can confirm that supplies of agomelatine 25mg tablets are currently available from several other suppliers in volumes that are sufficient to meet normal United Kingdom demand. All patients who require agomelatine should be able to obtain a supply from their pharmacy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 23/10/2019 11:51:13 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden