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1024723

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2018
	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, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to make (a) mobile and (b) landline non-emergency 101 phone calls free of charge.
	tabling member constituency	East Lothian
	tabling member printed	Martin Whitfield
	uin	202157
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>Calls to 101 cost 15p from a mobile device or landline phones, from anywhere in the country and regardless of duration. Calls are free from payphones.</p><p>The public have always paid to contact the police by telephone for non-emergencies and the 15p charge per call is a transparent rate that fully funds the 101 non-emergency service. Police non-emergency numbers (such as 0845 numbers) which were used before 2011 could cost members of the public up to 40p per minute. While it may not be an option for everyone, the public can also report non-emergency crimes online via forces’ websites.</p><p>The Home Office has no plans to bring forward legislation to remove current charges from the 101 non-emergency number.</p><p>The Home Office is supporting the digital transformation of policing through programmes such as the Digital Policing Portfolio (DPP), led by the NPCC. Within the DPP, the Digital Public Contact programme aims to provide appropriate digital channels for the public to report and track crime online, facilitating greater public-police interaction in real time.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 21/12/2018 16:13:26 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4626 label Biography information for Martin Whitfield

1027653

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2018
	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	Accidents: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the amount recovered from third party insurers for NHS treatment under the NHS Injury Recovery Scheme in the last two financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Islwyn
	tabling member printed	Chris Evans
	uin	203376
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>The Injury Cost Recovery scheme is a scheme in place for the recovery of treatment costs that applies to patients who subsequently go on to make a successful claim for personal injury compensation against a third party. Funds recovered come primarily from a third-party compensator or insurer.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested is provided in the following table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>England (£ million)</p></td><td><p>Scotland (£ million)</p></td><td><p>Wales (£ million)</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Ambulance Trusts (£ million)</p></td><td><p>Total (£ million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>166.11</p></td><td><p>14.41</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>10.52</p></td><td><p>8.74</p></td><td><p>199.78</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>165.58</p></td><td><p>14.93</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>10.34</p></td><td><p>8.49</p></td><td><p>199.33</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Department recognises that treatment type and costs change and therefore we do keep the setting of the tariffs under close review. However, we believe the scheme currently strikes the right balance between risk and reward by having a simple to administer, low cost scheme that provides significant benefit for the National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p>Over 90% of cases recovered fall within the current tariff cap. Whilst increasing the level of the cap may lead to increased recoveries, this is likely to be offset by increased administrative efforts and costs, for example with more cases becoming subject to legal challenge.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s most recent assessment of the impact associated with the scheme is available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/141/memorandum/contents" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/141/memorandum/contents</a></p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 203377 203378 question first answered 21/12/2018 13:47:58 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans

1027654

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2018
	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	Accidents: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential financial benefits to the NHS of increasing the NHS Injury Cost Recovery tariff beyond the Hospital and Community Health Services inflation rate.
	tabling member constituency	Islwyn
	tabling member printed	Chris Evans
	uin	203377
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>The Injury Cost Recovery scheme is a scheme in place for the recovery of treatment costs that applies to patients who subsequently go on to make a successful claim for personal injury compensation against a third party. Funds recovered come primarily from a third-party compensator or insurer.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested is provided in the following table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>England (£ million)</p></td><td><p>Scotland (£ million)</p></td><td><p>Wales (£ million)</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Ambulance Trusts (£ million)</p></td><td><p>Total (£ million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>166.11</p></td><td><p>14.41</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>10.52</p></td><td><p>8.74</p></td><td><p>199.78</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>165.58</p></td><td><p>14.93</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>10.34</p></td><td><p>8.49</p></td><td><p>199.33</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Department recognises that treatment type and costs change and therefore we do keep the setting of the tariffs under close review. However, we believe the scheme currently strikes the right balance between risk and reward by having a simple to administer, low cost scheme that provides significant benefit for the National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p>Over 90% of cases recovered fall within the current tariff cap. Whilst increasing the level of the cap may lead to increased recoveries, this is likely to be offset by increased administrative efforts and costs, for example with more cases becoming subject to legal challenge.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s most recent assessment of the impact associated with the scheme is available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/141/memorandum/contents" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/141/memorandum/contents</a></p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 203376 203378 question first answered 21/12/2018 13:47:59 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans

1027655

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2018
	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	Accidents: Fees and Charges
	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 conduct an impact assessment of the NHS Injury Cost Recovery scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Islwyn
	tabling member printed	Chris Evans
	uin	203378
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>The Injury Cost Recovery scheme is a scheme in place for the recovery of treatment costs that applies to patients who subsequently go on to make a successful claim for personal injury compensation against a third party. Funds recovered come primarily from a third-party compensator or insurer.</p><p> </p><p>The information requested is provided in the following table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>England (£ million)</p></td><td><p>Scotland (£ million)</p></td><td><p>Wales (£ million)</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Ambulance Trusts (£ million)</p></td><td><p>Total (£ million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>166.11</p></td><td><p>14.41</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>10.52</p></td><td><p>8.74</p></td><td><p>199.78</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>165.58</p></td><td><p>14.93</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>10.34</p></td><td><p>8.49</p></td><td><p>199.33</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Department recognises that treatment type and costs change and therefore we do keep the setting of the tariffs under close review. However, we believe the scheme currently strikes the right balance between risk and reward by having a simple to administer, low cost scheme that provides significant benefit for the National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p>Over 90% of cases recovered fall within the current tariff cap. Whilst increasing the level of the cap may lead to increased recoveries, this is likely to be offset by increased administrative efforts and costs, for example with more cases becoming subject to legal challenge.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s most recent assessment of the impact associated with the scheme is available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/141/memorandum/contents" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/141/memorandum/contents</a></p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 203376 203377 question first answered 21/12/2018 13:47:59 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans

1027605

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adoption
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were adopted in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	203262
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>The number of adopted children who were formerly looked-after by the local authority in each of the last three years was published in Table E1 in the statistical release ‘Children looked after in England including adoption: 2017 to 2018’ available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018</a>. The department does not estimate the number of adopted children who were not previously looked-after.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 21/12/2018 10:22:32 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

1024721

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Aiding and Abetting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) adequacy of the law of joint enterprise and (b) implications for his policies of the Supreme Court decision in R v Jogee 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	202045
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government does not believe that any changes to the law on joint enterprise are currently needed but intend to keep the matter under review.</p><p> </p><p>The law on joint enterprise is not set out in statute but is a common law doctrine. The Supreme Court judgment in <em>R v Jogee</em> amended a specific narrow element of the law in this area and did not call for Parliament to legislate.</p><p> </p><p>It is for our independent courts to interpret the law, as laid down by the Supreme Court. The Crown Prosecution Service has amended its guidance on secondary liability for prosecutors in line with the <em>Jogee</em> judgment and that guidance, published in May this year, aims to provide a clear direction for prosecutors in this area of law.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 21/12/2018 14:28:52 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1027361

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Accommodation Centres
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were accommodated in each asylum reception centre in the UK at the end of 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	202854
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>Asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute can apply for free accommodation and cash support to cover their essential living needs whilst their cases are considered. If they have an emergency need for ac-commodation they can ask to be put in initial accommodation whilst their support applications are being processed (asylum seekers receive section 98 support while in initial accommodation).</p><p>Quarterly data, correct as to September 2018, regarding the number of resi-dents in initial accommodation is included in the published statistics, which can be found on data table volume 4 at;<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018-data-tables</a></p><p>The Home Office does not publish data for each separate initial accommodation.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 21/12/2018 12:54:33 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1027362

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applicants were granted permission to work in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	202855
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are not allowed to work in the UK unless their claim has been outstanding for at least 12 months through no fault of their own. <br>The data requested on the number of asylum seekers granted permission to work in 2018 is only held on paper case files or within the notes sections of the Home Office's databases. Therefore, the number of asylum seekers granted permission to work is not held in a reportable format</p><p>Those who are granted permission to work are restricted to jobs on the Shortage Occupation List, which can be found in the Immigration Rules Appendix K: shortage occupation list (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-k-shortage-occupation-list" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-k-shortage-occupation-list)</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 21/12/2018 13:01:26 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1027373

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in Scotland have been affected by Serco's decision of 27 July 2018 to issue 7 day lock change eviction notices to asylum seekers that have had their asylum support discontinued.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
	tabling member printed	Mr Paul Sweeney
	uin	202865
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>Asylum seekers who are assessed as being desitute are provided with accommodation until their asylum claim and any appeal is finally determined</p><p>Serco informed 17 people that their accommodation support was ending with 21 days’ notice. These service users were no longer entitled to financial support or accommodation as their claims had been decided.</p><p>We are unable to provide data for people who will be affected as claims are continually progressing and asylum seekers are able to submit further submissions at any time during the process.</p><p>We continue to work closely with Serco and Glasgow City Council to monitor cases that are awaiting a legal decision and Serco have decided to pause the issuance of further lock-change notices whilst this previously untested area of Scottish housing law is clarified through the Courts.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 21/12/2018 12:58:34 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4642 label Biography information for Mr Paul Sweeney

1017452

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Yemen
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps is he taking to enable Yemeni Nationals seek asylum in the UK after the closure of the British Embassy in Yemen.
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	uin	197626
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>We have a proud history of providing protection for those who need it, in accordance with our obligations under the Refugee Convention. All asylum claims lodged in the UK are carefully considered so that we do not return anyone who faces persecution or serious harm in their country.</p><p>However, in line with the approach taken by other signatories to the Refugee Convention, we do not consider asylum claims lodged outside the UK and there is no provision in our Immigration Rules for people to be allowed to travel to the UK to seek asylum. Those who need international protection should claim in the first safe country they reach that is the fastest route to safety.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 21/12/2018 17:26:00 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey