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date	18/01/2018
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	Children: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what research his Department has conducted on the effect of social media on anxiety among under-16s.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	123720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department has not conducted research on the effect of social media on anxiety among under 16s.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 23/01/2018 14:27:42 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

825593

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Plastics: Pollution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the level of plastic pollution in rivers and canals.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	123722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Environment Agency (EA) regulates the management of waste plastics, including waste treatment, exports and recovery. The producer responsibility regime requires producers of plastic packaging to ensure it is recovered.</p><p> </p><p>The EA is currently working with the water industry through the price review process to investigate the sources and types of microplastics entering the environment via sewage and sewage sludge. This will feed into future planning and the potential for plastic capture technology at water company assets.</p><p> </p><p>The EA is investigating additional regulation of plastics from production to disposal, and enhanced monitoring and analysis to provide better evidence on how plastics enter and affect the land and water environment.</p><p> </p><p>The EA recently announced £750,000 for a new, dedicated team to tackle plastics pollution in the South West of England. The team aims to reduce plastic pollution across land, rivers and the coastline. It will promote better environmental practices across industry, including a reduction in plastic waste from manufacturing and community campaigns to clean up pollution locally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 23/01/2018 14:03:02 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

825599

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Ombudsman: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what training staff of the Legal Ombudsman are required to complete.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	123727
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>All operational Legal Ombudsman staff complete a comprehensive induction. This includes training on:</p><ul><li>The business process;</li><li>scheme rules;</li><li>service principles and values;</li><li>the legal process of the scheme;</li><li>jurisdiction of the scheme;</li><li>investigation planning;</li><li>evidence collection;</li><li>quality assurance; and</li><li>case decisions.</li></ul><p> </p><p>In addition, all staff receive IT, health and safety, equality and diversity and protecting information training annually.</p><p> </p><p>There is also a wide range of additional training and professional development available. For example, the Dispute Resolution qualification from Queen Margaret University. Year one is at Post-Graduate Certificate level; year two at Post-Graduate Diploma level and then a further year converts it to an MSc.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/01/2018 17:38:57 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

825600

registered interest
date	18/01/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Ombudsman: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many complaints the Legal Ombudsman has received about its service in the year 2016-2017.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	123728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Legal Ombudsman received 87,193 contacts (calls, letters and e-mails), and accepted 7,223 legal services jurisdiction cases and 2,290 claims management jurisdiction cases for investigation in 2016-2017. In the same period it received 118 complaints about its service. This represents about 1% of its caseload.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 23/01/2018 17:39:24 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel