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757457

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date	05/09/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Conversion Therapy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will proscribe the practice of conversion therapy in England.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	8646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>This Government does not recognise so-called ‘gay conversion therapy’ as a legitimate treatment. A person's sexual orientation is not an illness to be cured. We have already worked with the main registration and accreditation bodies for psychotherapy and counselling practitioners, including the UK Council for Psychotherapy, to develop a Memorandum of Understanding to put a stop to this practice.</p><p>We are not aware of widespread instances of gay conversion therapy happening in the United Kingdom, but we want to get a better idea of the extent to which it is being practised. That is why we included questions on this topic in our national LGBT survey, which was launched this summer. We will publish the survey results and our response in the new year.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 12/09/2017 14:37:15 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

757505

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	USA: State Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what benefits he anticipates will accrue to the British public from President Trump's forthcoming official visit to the UK.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	8647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>​The United States is one of our closest allies and a Presidential visit is an opportunity to further advance that important relationship. It remains in the UK's public interest to work closely with the US on a range of foreign, security and trade policy issues.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 12/09/2017 15:10:37 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

756211

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	USA: State Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will arrange for President Trump to meet representatives of the Muslim and ethnic minority communities during his forthcoming official visit to the UK.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	8144
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>​A State Visit invitation has been offered and accepted. The precise dates and programme have yet to be confirmed. Once the dates are agreed, Government officials will begin work on the programme.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 12/09/2017 15:14:22 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

756212

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Prime Minister
answering dept id	23
answering dept short name	Prime Minister
answering dept sort name	Prime Minister
hansard heading	Donald Trump
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Prime Minister, how many times since President Trump's inauguration she has made a telephone or other call to the President; and how many times she has received a telephone or other call from President Trump.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	8143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>Dates of the telephone calls between myself and President Trump are available on the gov.uk website.</p> answering member constituency Maidenhead answering member printed Mrs Theresa May question first answered 12/09/2017 14:21:47 answering member 8 label Biography information for Mrs Theresa May
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

750137

registered interest
date	10/07/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Democracy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which countries that are allies of the UK are not governed through some form of parliamentary democracy.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	3844
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>Allies, in a strict legal sense, are those states with whom the UK has a Treaty-based commitment to militarily assist each other in the event of an armed attack. As such I can confirm that all of the UK’s allies are governed by forms of parliamentary or other representative democracy.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 18/07/2017 12:32:39 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

750261

registered interest
date	10/07/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons and Young Offender Institutions: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) psychiatrists and (b) psychologists are employed in prison and young offender institutions.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	3845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>As at 31 March 2017, there were 655 full-time equivalent psychologists working in prison establishments (including young offender institutions) across England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>Psychiatrists are employed as part of the NHS health service provision to prisoners, commissioned by NHS England and by the NHS in Wales. Prisons work closely with NHS services to enable access to high quality care in prisons.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 18/07/2017 16:57:32 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

749674

registered interest
date	07/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Sopra Steria: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints were made about the loss of passport application packs or documents contained within those packs by Sopra Steria in the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	3664
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2017 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Passport Office is unable to specify the number of complaints in relation to losses of passport applications or supporting documents by Sopra Steria, as this level of detail is not recorded.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 12/07/2017 10:22:19 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

720861

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
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, what proportion of personal independence payment cases overturned at reconsideration or appeal stages were initially assessed as scoring zero points by the relevant assessor in 2016.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	70970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>The table below provides the number of mandatory reconsiderations and appeals where the decision was overturned in 2016, and the proportion of these cases where the individual was initially assessed as scoring zero points by the DWP case manager.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Mandatory Reconsiderations</p></td><td><p>Appeals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Overturned cases</p></td><td><p>34,110</p></td><td><p>32,070</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Overturned cases when they initially scored zero points</p></td><td><p>5,030 (15%)</p></td><td><p>8,100 (25%)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>The number of Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) and Appeal overturns includes decisions where a claimant’s monetary award was changed at MR or Appeal.</li><li>Data shows the number of MRs and Appeals where the outcome of this decision was reached during 2016.</li><li>The data currently available on point scores and reported here shows the points awarded by the DWP case manager at initial decision.</li></ol> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 24/04/2017 12:06:52 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

720862

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
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, what proportion of personal independence payment cases were overturned on appeal at (a) mandatory reconsideration and (b) appeal stage in 2016.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	70969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>Statistics on MRs can be found in in tables 7A and 7B of:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-independence-payment-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of PIP appeals is published by the Ministry of Justice. A link to the latest national level statistics published on</p><p>9 March 2017 is here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2016</a>. See table SSCS3</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 24/04/2017 11:44:30 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

715850

registered interest
date	30/03/2017
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	EU Institutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, which EU executive and regulatory agencies the Government plans to replicate in the UK after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	City of Chester
tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
uin	70113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2017 answer text <p>We are doing all necessary preparatory work to make sure that we get the best deal for the UK. The UK's formal and informal relationship with the EU's decentralised bodies will depend on the negotiations in each area. Any analysis of the UK's intended relationship with these bodies would presuppose the UK's preferred outcome and red lines in the negotiation, and Parliament has voted repeatedly not to disclose material that could damage the United Kingdom’s position in its negotiations with the European Union.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 21/04/2017 09:24:40 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson