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938450

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date	11/07/2018
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	Social Security Benefits: EU Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Work and Pensions, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that safeguards are in place for eligible EU citizens’ to access welfare (a) during the implementation period and (b) after the conclusion of that implementation period of the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	162957
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>The draft Withdrawal Agreement published in March guarantees the rights of EU citizens and their family members living in the UK, and UK nationals living in the EU. As set out, EU citizens living in the UK by 31 December 2020, along with their family members, will be able to stay and continue their lives, with the same access to work, study, benefits and public services that they enjoy now.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 16/07/2018 16:00:22 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

938635

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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	Dalteparin Sodium: Prescriptions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's policy is on prescriptions for dalteparin within primary care.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	162958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not have a specific policy on the prescribing of dalteparin. Clinical commissioning groups hold the budget for primary care prescribing. It is their responsibility to give prescribing guidance to their member general practitioner practices, taking into account best practice, national guidance and the needs of their local populations.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 16/07/2018 16:12:34 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

938636

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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	Dalteparin Sodium: Prescriptions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of referrals to hospital each year for the purpose of obtaining dalteparin on repeat prescription.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	162959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department has made no such estimate.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 16/07/2018 16:13:43 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

938670

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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	Private Rented Housing
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 assessment he has made of potential merits of bringing forward legislative changes to the Equality Act in order to ensure that claimants of housing benefit and universal credit are able to access accommodation in the private rented sector similar to such provisions in the Republic of Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	162961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>We do not have any plans at present to bring forward legislative changes to the Equality Act. The Government appreciates the problems that housing benefit claimants can sometimes face in finding accommodation in the private rented sector. We strongly encourage landlords and agents to look at all potential and existing tenants claiming housing benefit on an individual basis and published a new How to Let guide on 26 June to help landlords better understand their rights and responsibilities. At present, the English Housing Survey Headline Report 2016-17 (published February 2018) shows that 22 per cent of households privately renting are in receipt of housing benefit. This suggests that it is possible for claimants to access the sector.</p><p>A number of other MHCLG policies work to combat discrimination and unfair practices. These include the introduction, in April 2018, of banning orders and a rogue landlord database designed to remove the worst landlords from the sector. On 2 July we launched a consultation seeking views on how to overcome the barriers to longer tenancies to ensure that all tenants have the security that they want and need. Further, since October 2014, all letting and managing agents in England have been required to belong to a Government approved redress scheme, giving tenants access to free dispute resolution where problems, including those related to discrimination, occur in relation to their agent.</p><p>In addition, we are committed to regulating letting agents and requiring them to meet minimum training standards and comply with a code of practice, which will include treating all tenants equally. We will also require all landlords to be members of a redress scheme to ensure that all tenants, not just those who use agents, have access to quick and easy dispute resolution when things go wrong. Our eight week consultation on strengthening redress in housing closed on 16 April. We are analysing responses with a view to publishing a Government response in the Autumn.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 19/07/2018 14:15:30 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

938671

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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	Universal Credit: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 6.14 of Autumn Budget 2017, what progress has been made on making it easier for claimants to have the housing element of their award paid directly to their landlord.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	162962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>In December 2017, and as announced as part of the budget measures, we made changes to the guidance to ensure that when Private Sector Housing Benefit claimants move on to Universal Credit, we know whether they had their rent paid directly to their landlord previously, and why. This allows our work coaches to determine whether a managed payment to the landlord for the Universal Credit claim may need to be applied too, and will prompt a conversation with the claimant.</p><p> </p><p>We changed the process following a request for an Alternative Payment Arrangement (APA) for Managed Payments to Landlords from Private Rented Sector Landlords. This means that following a landlord’s request for a Managed Payment to Landlord, the claimant has seven days to provide proof that the rent arrears do not exist, or give a good reason why the Managed Payment should not be put in place. If the claimant does not take action, then the landlord’s application will be approved and we will inform the landlord of the final decision of the APA request. The change in process has considerably simplified and sped up the APA request for landlords. We have retained a safeguard for the claimant to challenge the APA request e.g. where the claimant is in dispute with the landlord.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/07/2018 16:36:00 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

938672

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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	Universal Credit: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will take steps to notify private landlords, with a tenant’s permission, of the outcome of universal credit award decisions.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	162963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>This functionality already exists in Universal Credit. Because of the new digital approach in Universal Credit, and because communications can be instantaneous, we can, for the first time, offer a system of explicit consent which is easy to use, fast, efficient, and completely secure. Claimants can provide explicit consent by making an entry in their online journal, this includes consent required to provide a landlord with information regarding the outcome of their universal credit award decision.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/07/2018 11:18:31 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

938673

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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	Private Rented Housing: Rents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of enabling arrears in the private rented sector to be deducted from benefits after a tenant moves from one property to another.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	162964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>We have not made any such assessment.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises the importance of safeguarding the welfare of people who are in debt. The aim of the Universal Credit deductions policy is to protect vulnerable claimants by providing a ‘last resort’ repayment method to recover arrears of essential services. The deduction of rent arrears in Universal Credit is intended to protect the current tenancy and prevent vulnerable claimants from being made homeless.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/07/2018 11:12:37 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

938674

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
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	Surrogacy: Parental Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his policy is on the pre-authorisation of parental orders to enable legal parenthood to be conferred on surrogate parents at the point a child is born.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	162965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government has supported a review of all surrogacy legislation by the Law Commission. Issues around the process and rules of applying for parental orders will be considered as part of the review.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 162966 question first answered 19/07/2018 15:02:31 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

938676

registered interest
date	11/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Parental Orders: Surrogacy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what data his Department collects on parental orders and surrogate births; and what assessment he has made of the potential merits of ensuring greater transparency of that data.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	162967
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2018 answer text <p>In surrogacy cases, the family court can be asked to make a parental order to transfer legal parental responsibility from the birth mother, and her legally recognised partner if she has one, to the couple that the child will live with as its parents once it is born.</p><p> </p><p>The Department publishes figures for the number of children involved in parental orders, which are available in Family Courts Statistic Quarterly at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2018</a> under Table 4.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 17/07/2018 16:58:35 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable

934812

registered interest
date	04/07/2018
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	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of individuals detained in hospital under the Mental Health Act identify as BAME.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Sir Vince Cable
uin	160677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The proportion of individuals detained in hospital under the Mental Health Act identifying as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) during 2016-17 was 24.6%. Further information is given in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>This is based on information collected as part of the Mental Health Services Dataset (MHSDS). The data used to produce this analysis are known to be incomplete at national level. Further details are available in the Mental Health Act Statistics, Annual Figures: 2016-17 publication, which is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/mental-health-act-statistics-annual-figures/mental-health-act-statistics-annual-figures-2016-17-experimental-statistics" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/mental-health-act-statistics-annual-figures/mental-health-act-statistics-annual-figures-2016-17-experimental-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of people detained under the Mental Health Act, by ethnicity, 2016/17, England</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Count</p></td><td><p>Proportion</p></td><td><p>Base Population</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All people detained</p></td><td><p>37,367</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>55,268,067</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>All people detained, where ethnicity was recorded</p></td><td><p>34,866</p></td><td><p>100%</p></td><td><p>53,012,456</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>26,276</p></td><td><p>75.4%</p></td><td><p>45,281,142</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BAME</p></td><td><p>8,590</p></td><td><p>24.6%</p></td><td><p>7,731,314</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mixed</p></td><td><p>990</p></td><td><p>2.8%</p></td><td><p>1,192,879</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asian</p></td><td><p>2,525</p></td><td><p>7.2%</p></td><td><p>3,763,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black</p></td><td><p>3,795</p></td><td><p>10.9%</p></td><td><p>1,846,614</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>1,280</p></td><td><p>3.7%</p></td><td><p>927,921</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not Known</p></td><td><p>2,501</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: MHSDS</p><p> </p><p>Notes:<br></p><p>ONS Census 2011 - table reference: DC2101EW - Ethnic group by sex by age, QS211EW - Ethnic group (detailed).Records where ethnicity was not recorded, not stated or not known have been excluded from the total.</p><p> </p><p>Data provided on the Mental Health Act from the MHSDS is likely to be an undercount. This is due to coverage issues meaning the data for 2016/17 are incomplete at England level. Further information about the Data Quality of the Mental Health Act data is available in the Background Data Quality report from the Mental Health Act Statistics 2016/17 publication:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://digital.nhs.uk/pubs/mha1617" target="_blank">http://digital.nhs.uk/pubs/mha1617</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 09/07/2018 14:39:30 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	207 label Biography information for Sir Vince Cable