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1415952

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2022
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Public Appointments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department seeks references for candidates appointed to public positions which fall under the remit of the Commissioner for Public Appointments.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	110261
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2022 answer text <p>The Governance Code on Public Appointments sets out that the Advisory Assessment Panel must satisfy itself that all candidates for appointment can meet the Seven Principles of Public Life and adhere to the Code of Conduct for board members of public bodies.</p><p>The Governance Code requires that candidates are asked to declare relevant interests and these are discussed at interview. The FCDO may also provide the panel with other information, for example, open source material that they may wish to consider in reaching a judgement in a fair and open way.</p><p>Whilst the FCDO will usually seek references for candidates appointed to public positions which fall under the remit of the Commissioner for Public Appointments, it is noted that references may not always be an appropriate, fair or open way of reaching such an assessment due to the limitations on what might be provided and the lack of transparency as to their contents.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 27/01/2022 17:29:59 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1490389

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2022
	answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept id	208
	answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
	hansard heading	Nigeria: Economic Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with her Nigerian counterpart on tackling financial crime in Nigeria.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	38528
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>Tackling financial crime in Nigeria is the responsibility of the Nigerian Government. It is a priority for Nigeria, and the UK is committed to helping them. In February we refreshed these commitments at a National Security Advisor led dialogue in London on our joint Security and Defence Partnership. The National Crime Agency is helping to strengthen the capacity of anti-corruption agencies in Nigeria to investigate and prosecute corruption cases including illicit financial flows. In July, the #ProtectWhatsYours campaign was launched in Nigeria, supported by UK funding. The campaign aims to highlight the direct harms and costs of illicit finance and financial crime to the people of Nigeria and to encourage increased reporting on those involved in these crimes.</p> answering member constituency Chelmsford answering member printed Vicky Ford question first answered 21/07/2022 15:22:12 answering member 4674 label Biography information for Vicky Ford
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1355694

	registered interest
	date	15/09/2021
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Unicycles
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of legalising the use of electric unicycles.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	49961
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2021 answer text <p>In the UK, powered transporters, also known as micromobility devices, are treated like any other motor vehicle under the Road Traffic Act, and this includes electric unicycles.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the Governments Future of Transport regulatory review the Department is running trials of rental e-scooters which will decide whether micromobility devices should be allowed on the road and, if so, what rules should apply to them. We have put in place a national monitoring and evaluation programme and data continues to be collected from the e-scooter trials. An interim report summarizing findings from the data collected so far will be published in autumn 2021, with a final report due in spring 2022.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 20/09/2021 16:21:46 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1462012

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Underground Railways: Noise
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the level of noise exposure for passengers travelling on the London Underground.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	627
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2022 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this information as transport in London is devolved and is the responsibility of the Mayor of London and Transport for London.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 16/05/2022 11:07:36 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1504401

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Applications
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to introduce service standards for the processing of asylum applications.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	45731
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office does not currently have a target time for processing applications for asylum, but are committed to ensuring asylum claims are considered without unnecessary delay. We have already made progress in prioritising claims with acute vulnerability and those in receipt of the greatest level of support, including Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children. Additionally, we are prioritising older claims and those where an individual has already received a decision, but a reconsideration is required.</p><p>Asylum Operations are working to reintroduce a service standard for the processing of asylum applications. It is our intention to reintroduce a service standard aligning with the recommendation from the recent Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration’s (ICIBI) published report - An inspection of asylum casework (November 2021).</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 07/09/2022 16:58:39 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove previous answer version 17538 answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1506537

	registered interest
	date	20/09/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: 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, how decisions on fee waiver applications are communicated to applicants.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	51456
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2022 answer text <p>Applicants wishing to apply for an entry clearance fee waiver must do so by submitting an online application form. Once assessed, a decision on the fee waiver application is sent by email to the email address specified on the application form by either the applicant or their representative.</p><p> </p><p>Applications for Leave to Remain fee waivers are mandated to be completed online, to receive a decision by email. However, in exceptional circumstances leave to remain fee waiver applications can be submitted on a paper form, in which case we will offer the applicant the choice of a paper or electronic decision.</p><p> </p><p>Child Citizenship fee waiver applications can also be submitted on paper or online. These decisions may be despatched by email or post accordingly.</p><p> </p><p>It is the applicant’s (or their representative’s) responsibility to monitor their email inbox and ‘spam’ folder in anticipation of our decision email.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of applicants whose leave to remain expired following the issue of a fee waiver decision of which the applicant was not aware, is not captured. To recover this information would require a manual examination of each individual case and would thus incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 51457 question first answered 23/09/2022 13:14:00 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1506538

	registered interest
	date	20/09/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: 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, how many and what proportion of applications for leave to remain expired because applicants had not responded to decisions sent by email relating to fee waiver requests in the latest period for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	51457
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2022 answer text <p>Applicants wishing to apply for an entry clearance fee waiver must do so by submitting an online application form. Once assessed, a decision on the fee waiver application is sent by email to the email address specified on the application form by either the applicant or their representative.</p><p> </p><p>Applications for Leave to Remain fee waivers are mandated to be completed online, to receive a decision by email. However, in exceptional circumstances leave to remain fee waiver applications can be submitted on a paper form, in which case we will offer the applicant the choice of a paper or electronic decision.</p><p> </p><p>Child Citizenship fee waiver applications can also be submitted on paper or online. These decisions may be despatched by email or post accordingly.</p><p> </p><p>It is the applicant’s (or their representative’s) responsibility to monitor their email inbox and ‘spam’ folder in anticipation of our decision email.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of applicants whose leave to remain expired following the issue of a fee waiver decision of which the applicant was not aware, is not captured. To recover this information would require a manual examination of each individual case and would thus incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove grouped question UIN 51456 question first answered 23/09/2022 13:14:00 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1521178

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of applications to the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme have been granted.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	61771
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2022 answer text <p>We are continuing the process to grant Indefinite Leave to Remain to all eligible individuals who arrived during the evacuation: officials have already registered over 13,000 (and counting) applications for resettlement from Afghans in the UK, with biometric residence permits being issued accordingly. In the meantime, applicants remain eligible to work and access services under their continuing leave.</p><p>At 12 August 2022, we have granted Indefinite Leave to Remain to 11,303 individuals across the ARAP and ACRS, since they opened in April 2021 and Jan 2022, respectively. We are unable, at this time, to provide a breakdown of whether a grant of leave was made under the ARAP or the ACRS Pathway 1. Work is underway to assure information relating to all the individuals relocated under the ARAP and ACRS on case working systems. Once this work concludes, statistics on both schemes - including the number of people resettled under each - will be included in future editions of the Immigration Statistics. <br> <br> More information on the number of grants of Indefinite Leave to Remain issued to Afghans resettling under the ARAP or ACRS can be viewed at: <br> <br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/afghan-resettlement-programme-operational-data/afghan-resettlement-programme-operational-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/afghan-resettlement-programme-operational-data/afghan-resettlement-programme-operational-data</a>.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 17/10/2022 16:19:48 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1611725

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2023
	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	Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of applications for Personal Independence Payments were initially denied and subsequently granted following a successful appeal in each month since April 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	181269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p><strong>Number and proportion of PIP initial decisions that are initially disallowed and are successful following an appeal</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Date of initial PIP decision</p></td><td><p>Number of PIP initial decisions, initially disallowed that are successful following an appeal</p></td><td><p>Proportion of initial decisions, that were initially disallowed that were successful following an appeal</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-22</p></td><td><p>1,180</p></td><td><p>2.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-22</p></td><td><p>850</p></td><td><p>1.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-22</p></td><td><p>630</p></td><td><p>1.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-22</p></td><td><p>560</p></td><td><p>0.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-22</p></td><td><p>410</p></td><td><p>0.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-22</p></td><td><p>220</p></td><td><p>0.3%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>These figures include appeal decisions at tribunal hearing up to 31<sup>st</sup> December 2022, the latest date for which published data is available. Note that more appeals could be made and completed after December 2022, so numbers could go up as it can take some time for an appeal to be lodged and then cleared after the initial decision.</p><p> </p><p><br> Please note:</p><ul><li>Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10 and percentages to 1 decimal place.</li><li>Data for England and Wales (excluding Scotland) has been provided in line with the latest published figures on PIP.</li><li>These figures include initial decisions following assessment for PIP New Claims and Reassessments from 1<sup>st</sup> April 2022 – 30<sup>th</sup> September 2022, the latest data for which published data is available.</li><li>“Successful following an appeal” includes claims that had an appeal lapsed or overturned at tribunal.</li></ul><ul><li>The proportion figure uses the total PIP initial decisions for the relevant month as the denominator.</li></ul><ul><li>Prior to tribunal, appeal claimants must have requested a Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) from DWP. Some of those disallowed following assessment will have their decision changed at this stage and take the dispute no further. In some cases, a claimant who has their Disallowed decision changed at MR will continue to appeal for a higher PIP award, and these cases could be included in the figures reported.</li></ul><ul><li>A lapsed appeal is where DWP changed the decision in the customer’s favour after an appeal was lodged, but before it was heard at a tribunal hearing.</li></ul> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 24/04/2023 16:32:41 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1639597

	registered interest
	date	23/05/2023
	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	Personal Independence Payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people who were in receipt of the Disability Living Allowance for children have had their applications to transfer to Personal Independence Payments on turning 16 refused since April 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	186297
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>The number of people who were in receipt of Child Disability Living Allowance (DLA) that had their application to transfer to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) refused on turning 16, from April 2013 to October 2022, can be found on <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Stat-Xplore</a>.  In particular, the requested data can be found by applying the following filters to the ‘Child DLA to PIP reassessments’ dataset:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Select the following dataset ‘Child DLA to PIP reassessment outcomes by month’; and</li><li>Filter for all ‘Disallowed’ outcomes in ‘PIP reassessment Outcomes’.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/dataCatalogueExplorer.xhtml" target="_blank">here</a>. An account is not required to use Stat- Xplore; the ‘Guest Login’ feature gives instant access to the main functions.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 05/06/2023 11:14:28 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan