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969150

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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	Children: Maintenance
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 effectiveness of the 2012 Child Maintenance Scheme computer system to process in a timely manner service requests for (a) a new child maintenance scheme claim, (b) a change of circumstances, (c) a variation request, (d) chasing arrears, and (e) enforcement action.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	171425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The 2012 Child Maintenance System (CMS2012) provides support for the full range of child maintenance administrative processes including new applications, case maintenance and enforcement.</p><p> </p><p>A Service Improvement Programme was established in April 2018, to optimise the performance and stability of the system. Significant improvements have already been implemented through both hardware and software upgrades. These changes have already resulted in quicker response times for users and compared with the period June 2017 to September 2017, the average response time of the core case management system has reduced by over 50%. We are continually working with the system’s users to make further improvements.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2018 12:13:43 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

969152

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many hours the Child Maintenance System has been (a) unavailable to staff and (b) working with reduced performance in the last six months.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	171427
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>We record all incidents where the 2012 Child Maintenance Service has not been available for staff. Over the last six months, this has been:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Minutes lost</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Hours Lost</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% Availability</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>1230</p></td><td><p>20.5</p></td><td><p>97.73%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>100.00%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>103</p></td><td><p>1.72</p></td><td><p>99.70%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>0.5</p></td><td><p>99.93%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>0.5</p></td><td><p>99.91%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug</p></td><td><p>180</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>99.62%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Although we manage periods of reduced performance as incidents, there is no formal measure for degraded service as these may impact sub-sets of system users differently.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 14/09/2018 11:55:38 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

969153

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many processing hours for Child Maintenance service requests were lost as a result of (a) technical and (b) IT faults in the last six months.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	171428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>We record all incidents where the 2012 Child Maintenance System has not been available to staff but we are unable to analyse this data by technical and IT faults. On average over the last six months, the hours lost have been 4.37 hours per month.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 14/09/2018 12:06:12 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

969154

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has plans to undertake an assessment of the effectiveness of the Child Maintenance Scheme computer system; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	171429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>The effectiveness of the Department’s systems including the 2012 Child Maintenance System is continuously reviewed. A service improvement programme was established in April 2018 and has resulted in better performance, more stability, fewer incidents and a reduction in known problems.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 14/09/2018 12:11:38 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

969155

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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	Children: Maintenance
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 adequacy of staffing levels working on the Child Maintenance system.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	171430
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The numbers of people working within the Child Maintenance Service is reviewed regularly to ensure we have sufficient resources to answer customer calls and progress cases. So far in 2018, we have recruited 510 people into the Child Maintenance Service, with these people joining us between February 2018 and August 2018. We will continue to review the volumes of work against our forecasting model to ensure that we adjust staffing levels as required.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 10/09/2018 15:52:38 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

944741

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Decommissioning
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions he has had with (a) trades unions and (b) the oil and gas authority on employment standards in the offshore decommissioning industry.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	166173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>The majority of companies and people undertaking work on offshore decommissioning are those who also work in the new build and ongoing production phases of the oil and gas industry and as such there are well established employment standards and conditions.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 25/07/2018 15:15:47 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

944742

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Offshore Industry: Continental Shelf
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the UKCS Decommissioning 2018 Cost Estimate Report by the Oil and Gas Authority, what assessment he has made of trends in the cost of labour associated with decommissioning projects.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	166174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not have details on the cost of labour associated with decommissioning projects nor trends in the cost. However, the recent report by the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) indicates that operators are making progress to reduce costs, with some reporting significant cost reductions in platform running costs, platform well plugging and abandonment costs and removal costs. The OGA is working with industry to support further cost reductions to achieve delivery of the £39bn target cost for decommissioning and is developing cost benchmarks that will enable trend analysis of decommissioning costs over time.</p><p><a href="https://www.ogauthority.co.uk/media/4925/decommissioning-cost-report-2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ogauthority.co.uk/media/4925/decommissioning-cost-report-2018.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 24/07/2018 15:51:54 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

943032

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 16 July 2018 to Question 163103 on Prisoners, whether he has made an assessment of the possible effect on levels of poverty on projected prison population numbers; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	165017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>I have made no such assessment.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 23/07/2018 15:13:35 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

939957

registered interest
date	12/07/2018
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	Drugs: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to reduce the cost to the NHS of reimbursement prices for special medicinal products; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	163554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2018 answer text <p>Since 2011 for the most commonly prescribed special medicinal products, known as “specials”, a reimbursement price is listed in the Drug Tariff. We have continued to expand the number of products for which there is a reimbursement price listed in the Drug Tariff, thus reducing the cost and the variation in what the National Health Service pays. Since these reimbursement arrangements were introduced in 2011 we have observed that in England the average cost for specials listed in the Drug Tariff decreased by 58% between 2011 and first quarter of 2018.</p><p> </p><p>We have taken powers in the Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Act 2017, which enable the Government to reimburse for specials dispensed in primary care in different ways such as considering quotes of suppliers and not reimbursing pharmacies at all if, for example, they have been provided the medicine by a central service. We are developing proposals, which will be subject to consultation with relevant stakeholders.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 17/07/2018 15:07:24 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

938470

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	Prisoners
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 possible effect of levels of austerity on projected prison population numbers; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	163103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>I have made no such assessment.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 16/07/2018 15:30:57 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon