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1169966

registered interest
date	10/01/2020
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	Employment and Support Allowance
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 length of time is for claimants in the (a) support and (b) work-related activity groups to be awarded employment support allowance.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	1884
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2020 answer text <p>As of May 2019, the latest point at which this information is available, the mean duration of a claim for Employment and Support Allowance claimants currently in the (a) support group is 5.15 years and (b) work-related activity group is 4.60 years.</p><p> </p><p>Alternatively, the median duration of a claim for Employment and Support Allowance claimants currently in the (a) support group is 5.49 years and (b) work-related activity group is 4.76 years.</p><p> </p><p>Source: DWP 100% Employment Support Allowance data source</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ul><li>Figures are rounded to the nearest 2 decimal places.</li></ul> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 15/01/2020 11:42:24 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1169967

registered interest
date	10/01/2020
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	Work Capability Assessment
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 cost to her Department is of undertaking a work capability assessment.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	1885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2020 answer text <p>The Health and Disability Assessment Services (HDAS) Contract is let on a target cost of service basis alongside performance incentives and remedies rather than on an output cost per assessment or administrative task basis. Therefore we are unable to provide an average cost per assessment undertaken.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/01/2020 14:45:28 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1167470

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: France
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking ensure that her Department's technology used in the EU settlement scheme application process accurately reads female French biometric passports that place their holder’s maiden name first.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	7635
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>I am aware of instances where EU citizens who were granted leave under the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) had their maiden names recorded on their digital status instead of their married names. Some EU countries, including France, issue passports that record a spouse’s family name alongside the person’s maiden name. The spouse’s name is not included in the passport’s Machine-Readable Zone, which means it is not automatically recorded and the passport does not indicate which name the applicant is using for all official purposes.</p><p>Home Office policy on names requires individuals to use one name for all official purposes. This is to prevent identity-enabled criminality, such as fraud, terrorism and sexual offences.</p><p>We are currently exploring options to enable applicants granted leave under the EUSS to be able to have their married name displayed on their digital status.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 04/11/2019 17:23:02 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1167475

registered interest
date	30/10/2019
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	Bereavement Benefits: Cohabitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the amount of money bereaved partners potentially missed by not being eligible to receive bereavement benefits reserved for married couples in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	7636
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>We are still refining our methodology in our assessment of cohabitees that have not received bereavement benefits, and therefore cannot provide a final estimate of expenditure.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 05/11/2019 16:20:48 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1166764

registered interest
date	28/10/2019
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, on how many occasions health professionals requested specific training, resources or the support of an experienced clinician when assessing a personal independence payment claim for someone suffering with post-polio syndrome.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	6184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 01/11/2019 10:30:53 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1156221

registered interest
date	24/10/2019
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	Hormone Replacement Therapy
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 his taking to ensure the adequacy of availability of hormone replacement therapy medicines.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	4918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department fully understands that maintaining access to hormone replacement therapy (HRT) medications is vitally important to many people in this country.</p><p>We are aware of ongoing supply issues with some HRT preparations due to manufacturing issues. We have been working closely with all suppliers of HRT preparations to maintain overall supply to patients.</p><p>We continue to work with all stakeholders to ensure relevant information about the HRT products affected by supply issues and the products that remain available is shared across the National Health Service on a regular basis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 29/10/2019 17:42:24 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1151878

registered interest
date	23/10/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Smuggling: Bulgaria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether enhanced security checks are applied to vehicles entering the UK from Bulgaria for the detection of illegal immigrants and contraband.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	4251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>Border Force search lorries, trailers and containers entering the UK on a targeted or intelligence-led basis. Border Force have also invested tens of millions of pounds in new infrastructure to enhance border security, with all freight vehicles entering the UK screened using a range of techniques. These include the use of carbon dioxide detectors, motion sensors and sniffer dogs to detect clandestine on-board lorries.</p><p>Border Force work closely with the Road Hauliers Association to prevent opportunist attacks on individual lorries, which can be frustrated by operators taking relatively simple measures to secure their vehicles.</p><p>Hauliers travelling to the UK are expected to operate effective security measures to prevent illegal migrants entering their vehicles. Border Force fine drivers and operators who have failed to implement such measures and migrants have been discovered in their vehicles.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 28/10/2019 17:39:58 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1151936

registered interest
date	23/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	High Rise Flats: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding from the affordable homes budget has been allocated to tower block safety measures since the Grenfell fire.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	4253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>The government have committed £600 million for the remediation of buildings with unsafe Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding. Of this, £400 million has been allocated from the current Affordable Housing Programme to fund Social Sector Cladding Remediation, and will be returned to the Affordable Housing Programme in 2021/22.</p> answering member constituency Tatton answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 04/11/2019 11:13:26 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey previous answer version 2251 answering member constituency Tatton answering member printed Esther McVey answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1151937

registered interest
date	23/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent estimate he has made of the number of (a) tower blocks and (b) other residential dwellings with dangerous cladding; and how many of those properties have completed remedial work on that cladding.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	4254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Dissolution.</p> answering member constituency Tatton answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 05/11/2019 16:09:06 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1151938

registered interest
date	23/10/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Racial Discrimination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to protect university staff from racial abuse.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	4255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2019 answer text <p>Racial harassment is unacceptable, and we cannot tolerate staff and students being victims of it at our world-leading universities. There is no place in our society - including within higher education – for hatred or any form of harassment, discrimination or racism. Universities have clear responsibilities in this regard.</p><p>Higher education providers are independent and autonomous organisations. Like all employers, higher education providers have responsibilities under the Equality Act (2010) in relation to their staff. We expect them discharge their responsibilities fully and have robust policies and procedures in place to comply with the law, and to investigate and swiftly address all hate crime.</p><p>We encourage providers to make use of tools such as the Race Equality Charter and the Race at Work Charter to identify and address institutional and cultural barriers that affect minority ethnic staff and students.</p><p> </p><p>The Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers recognises the need to create and develop positive environments and cultures in which all researchers can flourish and achieve their full potential. This includes having effective policies and practice for tackling discrimination, bullying and harassment and providing appropriate support for those reporting issues.</p><p>By improving the representation, progression and success of minority ethnic staff within higher education we can ensure that everyone who has the potential to thrive at university, both as a student and as a member of staff, does so.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 29/10/2019 17:47:08 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe