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1234591

registered interest
date	15/09/2020
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	Kickstart Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications to be a representative of a group of employers from (a) the West Midlands and (b) the UK her Department has received for the Kickstart scheme.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	90038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2020 answer text <p>The Kickstart Scheme only opened to applications on 2 September, and already thousands of employers have expressed interest in providing Kickstart opportunities for young people. We are pleased to confirm that the department is now processing these applications from across the UK, this is currently a clerical process, so reliable management information, particularly on geographical areas, is not yet available.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 21/09/2020 12:34:13 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1232251

registered interest
date	08/09/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what comparative assessment he has made of the average length of waiting time for applicants to receive a grant of probate (a) before and (b) after the introduction of HM Courts & Tribunals Service new case management system.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	86539
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2020 answer text <p>The introduction of a new digital case management system in March 2019 changed the business process for accounting for the receipt date of applications which need to be held due to errors or missing documentation. The change enabled more transparent and accurate reporting of waiting times and these timings are now included in published official statistics.</p><p>It also coincided with legislative change to the probate application process which removed the need for applicants to travel to town centre locations to swear an oath before a court officer or a commissioner for oaths. The receipt date was previously recorded from the date an application had been checked whereas it is now recorded from the date of first receipt by the probate service.</p><p>The figures since the introduction of the new digital case management system are therefore not directly comparable to the old system.</p><p>The current waiting times are published on gov.uk via Family Court Statistics Quarterly (Table 26).</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 14/09/2020 17:01:06 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1232252

registered interest
date	08/09/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate: Birmingham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the effect of the closure of the Birmingham probate registry office on the processing times for probate claims.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	86540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2020 answer text <p>The closure of Birmingham probate registry office in August 2019 coincided with the opening of a Courts and Tribunals Service Centre (CTSC) in Birmingham. The result is a current net increase of 51 full time equivalent staff employed in probate offices and there has been no direct effect from the closure on waiting times.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 14/09/2020 17:01:47 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1232107

registered interest
date	07/09/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate: Solicitors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to help improve communications between (a) probate registry offices and (b) solicitors.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	85935
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2020 answer text <p>As part of the £1bn HMCTS reform programme a new online service has been introduced for use by probate professionals. The service is available 24 hours a day and enables professionals access to real time information about the progress of their digital case without the need to contact HMCTS.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to the online system, as of March 2020, all calls are now answered by the Courts &amp; Tribunals Service Centres which are equipped with modern technology to monitor performance levels and make improvements to the service being offered.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS also regularly meets with a variety of probate legal professional representative bodies to consult and update on forthcoming changes whilst gathering and responding to feedback.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 14/09/2020 16:13:40 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1232250

registered interest
date	07/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Business Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the level of business rates paid by (a) public houses and (b) other businesses with similar turnover.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	86538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2020 answer text <p>In March the Chancellor announced a business rates holiday for the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors, irrespective of rateable value. This means that pubs in England will pay no business rates this year. Combined with Small Business Rates Relief, over 1 million ratepayers will pay no business rates in 2020-21. This is more than half of all properties in England.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 15/09/2020 15:50:43 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1231600

registered interest
date	04/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Newspaper Press: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of whether newspapers with online subscription fees are passing the savings from the removal of VAT onto their consumers.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	84962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2020 answer text <p>The Government looks to businesses to pass on the benefit to customers and has encouraged them to do so. However, this is ultimately a commercial decision for businesses to make.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 10/09/2020 13:26:25 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1230389

registered interest
date	01/09/2020
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	Israel: Palestinians
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 20 July 2020 to Question 73751 on Israel: Palestinians, when the research component will be completed; and whether it will be published.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	83661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2020 answer text <p>The research component for this programme is very important as it seeks to look more broadly at the impact of People-to-People work on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to build the evidence base in this area - something that is presently limited.</p><p>Work on this is currently underway by an internal panel who are reviewing the report. The panel hope to complete their review by Autumn this year. Once the full process of analysing the findings is complete, we will then use this research to inform future programming decisions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. We will seek to publish the research results in due course.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 10/09/2020 16:47:23 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1230390

registered interest
date	01/09/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Islamic Resistance Support Organization
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Islamic Resistance Support Organisation operates in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	83662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office does not keep a central register of all the organisations that operate in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 09/09/2020 13:57:37 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1230392

registered interest
date	01/09/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hezbollah
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the number of UK residents who are members of Hezbollah.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	83663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2020 answer text <p>The Government does not comment on intelligence matters.</p><p>Hizballah is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK and membership is therefore a criminal offence. Decisions to investigate and prosecute for proscription offences are a matter for the police and Crown Prosecution Service. Statistics on prosecutions for proscriptions offences are routinely published in the report on the ‘Operation of Police Powers under the Terrorism Act 2000’. The most recent publication, up to year ending March 2020, was published on 11 June on GOV.UK: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/operation-of-police-powers-under-the-terrorism-act-2000-financial-year-ending-march-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/operation-of-police-powers-under-the-terrorism-act-2000-financial-year-ending-march-2020</a>.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 09/09/2020 14:03:23 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1228829

registered interest
date	28/08/2020
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	Disability: Public Sector
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government has taken to make public services more accessible to people with hidden disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	81512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2020 answer text <p>The Government is ensuring that disabled people, including people with hidden disabilities have access to public services, such as access to Changing Places toilet facilities, the Blue Badge scheme for parking, and accessible communications. The Government, via the Cabinet Office Disability Unit, is supporting the British Standards Institute in its development of a public information symbol to support disabled people with non-visible disabilities.</p><p> </p><p>We will publish a National Strategy for Disabled People to ensure that all disabled people can play a full role in society. The Strategy will focus on the issues that disabled people say affect them the most in all aspects and phases of life, including employment, housing, education and transport.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 07/09/2020 13:19:16 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe