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1129419

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Civil Proceedings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to improve access to the judicial system for litigants bringing civil money claims.
	tabling member constituency	Stevenage
	tabling member printed	Stephen McPartland
	uin	911119
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>This Government is investing over £1bn to modernise our courts and tribunals, including investment to improve the civil justice system.</p><p> </p><p>The Online Civil Money Claims pilot, is a new service which went live in March 2018, and allows people to resolve money disputes online, for claims of up to £10,000. The digital service allows the public to simply and swiftly make their claim and the system is designed to be clear and easy to use. To date, the overall user satisfaction rate is 87% with over 68,000 claims made.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 04/06/2019 16:25:56 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland

1127933

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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 (a) average waiting time is and (b) range of waiting times are for a tribunal hearing for personal independence payment from the date of the case being received by the tribunal service until the date of the hearing in each year since 2014 in (i) St Helens, (ii) Merseyside and (iii) nationally.
	tabling member constituency	St Helens North
	tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
	uin	257128
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) statistics are not calculated from receipt of the appeal to the hearing, but from receipt of the appeal to the disposal of the case. 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><p> </p><p>Information about waiting times for PIP appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at:</p><p>www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</p><p> </p><p>Latest figures for PIP (to December 2018) indicate that since it was introduced, 3.9 million decisions have been made. Of these, 10% have been appealed and 5% have been overturned at Tribunals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 04/06/2019 16:39:06 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1127935

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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 proportion of tribunal hearings that challenge a personal independence payment decision have been awarded in favour of the claimant in each year since 2014 in (a) St Helens (b) Merseyside (c) nationally.
	tabling member constituency	St Helens North
	tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
	uin	257130
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>Latest figures for PIP (to December 2018) indicate that since it was introduced, 3.9 million decisions have been made. Of these, 10% have been appealed and 5% have been overturned at Tribunals.</p><p> </p><p>Information about outcomes to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at:</p><p>www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</p><p> </p><p>SSCS appeals are listed into the hearing venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. The published data (which can be viewed at the link above) provide information about outcomes to PIP appeals in (a) St Helens (b) Merseyside and (c) nationally from 2015/16; data for the preceding year are provided below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Proportion of Personal Independence Payment <sup>1 </sup>hearings in favour of the appellant</strong> <strong>(National data can be found in the main tables of the published stats. Venue data can be found in the published stats from 2015/2016)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>St Helens <sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>Merseyside<sup>3</sup></p></td><td><p>National</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial Year<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-2015</p></td><td><p>42%</p></td><td><p>44%</p></td><td><p>50%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>1 Personal Independence Payment (New Claim Appeals) which replaces Disability Living Allowance was introduced on 8 April 2013, also includes Personal Independence Claims (Reassessments).</p><p>2 Data includes data for the St Helens venue. The Warrington &amp; Runcorn venues closed in 2016 when the majority of postcodes for these areas were assigned to the St Helens venue.</p><p>3 Data includes data for Liverpool, Birkenhead, St Helens venue. The Warrington &amp; Runcorn venues closed in 2016 when the majority of postcodes for these areas were assigned to the St Helens venue.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 04/06/2019 16:52:12 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1127952

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Private Rented Housing: Evictions
	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 14 May 2019 to Question 252630 on Landlord and Tenant; whether the Government plans to make an estimate of the number of annual evictions using Section 21 of the Housing Act 1988; and what statistics the Government holds on the number of evictions in the private rented sector in a given year and the reasons for those evictions.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	uin	257138
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government recently announced that it will put an end to ‘no-fault’ evictions by repealing section 21 of the Housing Act 1988. MHCLG Ministers will launch a consultation on the details of a better system that will work for landlords and tenants. The Government will collaborate with and listen to landlords, tenants and others in the private rented sector to develop a new deal for renting.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst we hold data on the number of evictions in the private rented sector using section 21 of the Housing Act 1988, we do not have the reasons for those evictions.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Number of private landlord repossessions by county court bailiffs in England and wales, 2005-2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Private landlord repossessions</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>3,979</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>4,101</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>4,342</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>4,435</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>4,618</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>5,279</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>5,852</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>6,097</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>6,049</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>6,321</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>6,061</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>6,011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>6,260</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>6,913</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Source: Mortgage and Landlord Possession Statistics Quarterly</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 04/06/2019 16:46:31 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

1127953

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Debt Collection
	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 13 May 2019 to Question 252114, how many bailiffs have been removed from the certificated bailiff register following a judgment that they are not a fit and proper person to hold a certificate in each year since 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	uin	257139
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>The Certificated Bailiff Register held centrally by Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service does not record the reasons for why a certified enforcement agent has been removed from the register. Pursuant to the answer to Question 252114, reasons for cancelling a certificate include an agent leaving his or her employer, ceasing to work as an enforcement agent or a judicial order that they were not a fit and proper person to hold a certificate.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 04/06/2019 16:49:40 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

1127960

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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, how many claimants (a) nationally, (b) in Leeds and (c) in Leeds West who are appealing against the refusal of their personal independence payment application have been waiting more than (i) three, (ii) six and (iii) 12 months for a tribunal hearing.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds West
	tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
	uin	257030
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) records numbers, waiting times and outcomes of appeals by benefit type, but will not necessarily identify Personal Independence Payment (PIP) appeals made specifically because the application for that benefit was refused. PIP consists of a daily living and a mobility component, both or either of which can be paid at standard or enhanced rate. Therefore, claimants for PIP may have claimed for both components, and only been awarded one, or sought the enhanced rate and only been awarded the standard rate. A claim may be successful, but may not have been at the level sought. HMCTS is unable to isolate such appeals.</p><p> </p><p>Information about the volumes and clearance times of PIP appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at:</p><p>www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</p><p> </p><p>Latest figures for PIP (to December 2018) indicate that since it was introduced, 3.9 million decisions have been made. Of these, 10% have been appealed and 5% have been overturned at Tribunals.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 04/06/2019 16:51:53 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

1127787

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	answering body	Department for International Development
	answering dept id	20
	answering dept short name	International Development
	answering dept sort name	International Development
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Water
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the publication entitled, Tackling antimicrobial resistance 2019–2024: The UK’s five-year national action plan, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the implementation of the Government’s commitment to support greater access to water and sanitation; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
	tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
	uin	257066
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>The UK’s national action plan on tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR) sets out challenging five-year ambitions that begin to fulfil the UK’s vision for a world in which AMR is contained and controlled by 2040. DFID and the Department for Health and Social Care are working closely together on tackling AMR and senior officials have met on this issue.</p><p> </p><p>As part of tackling AMR, DFID continues to support health and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programmes which emphasise the importance of improving infection control, and WASH in health facilities, which is key for the prevention of infections and antimicrobial resistance. The UK is committed to supporting countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 6 target of universal access to water and sanitation by 2030.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 04/06/2019 16:33:15 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1127963

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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	Dental Services: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department measures public satisfaction with NHS dental care.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	257031
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department measures public satisfaction of National Health Service dental services through National Health Service Outcomes Framework. The NHS Outcomes Framework is also used to monitor the health outcomes of adults and children in England. For NHS dentistry this is captured through 4.4.iii Access to NHS dental services. The indicator uses data collected in the GP Patient Survey to ask whether patients were successful in getting an NHS dental appointment if they tried in the last two years.</p><p>Latest data shows that of the respondents that tried to get NHS dental care in the last two years, 85.2% of respondents rated their NHS dental experience as positive.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 04/06/2019 16:29:14 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1127885

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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	Dental Services: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he last made an assessment of the effectiveness of key performance indicators for NHS dental practices.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	257007
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>NHS England is responsible for the commissioning of dental services and performance management of contracts held. NHS England looks at and update key dental performance indicators as a continuous improvement process. They are prepared by the NHS Business Services Agency and have a formal review annually. The indicators are shared with National Health Service dental providers to assist them in delivering a high quality service to patients. Examples of the information provided can be found on the NHS Business Services Agency website at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/dental-data" target="_blank">https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/dental-data</a></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 04/06/2019 16:28:20 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1127796

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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	General Practitioners
	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 his Department has taken to tackle falling numbers of GPs in England.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	256914
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan made a clear commitment to the future of general practice, with primary and community care set to receive at least £4.5 billion more in real terms a year by 2023/24. Spend on these services will grow faster than the rising National Health Service budget. Since the launch of the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England and the British Medical Association’s General Practitioners (GP) Committee have agreed a five-year GP (General Medical Services) contract framework from 2019/20. The new contract framework will be essential to deliver the ambitions set out in the NHS Long Term Plan through strong general practice services. The contract confirmed that NHS England will now extend a number of general practice programmes until 2023/24 to help deliver against the commitment to 5,000 additional doctors in general practice.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and Health Education England (HEE) are working together with the profession to increase the GP workforce. This includes measures to boost recruitment, address the reasons why GPs are leaving the profession, and encourage GPs to return to practice.</p><p> </p><p>Further plans to support delivery will be set out in the final NHS workforce implementation plan due to be published later this year.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 04/06/2019 16:30:03 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham