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752507

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date	17/07/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what recent progress has been made in increasing the prosecution rate for hate crimes.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5417
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has taken a number of steps to improve its prosecution of all strands of hate crime.</p><p>The CPS is prosecuting and convicting more defendants of hate crime than ever before. In 2015/16, the CPS completed 15,442 hate crime prosecutions, an increase of 704 on the previous year. The conviction rate also improved to 83.2% in 2015/16 an increase from 82.9% the previous year.</p><p>The CPS Annual Report and Accounts 2016/17 shows that the proportion of cases where the CPS was successful in achieving uplifted sentences for hate crime perpetrators has increased dramatically. The proportion rose from 33.8% in 2015/16, to 52.2% in 2016/17 – reaching 58.2% in the final quarter.</p><p>The CPS has delivered mandatory face to face disability hate crime training and racially and religiously aggravated hate crime training and is in the process of developing homophobic, biphobic and transphobic hate crime training to support prosecutors to more effectively deal with hate crime cases.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 20/07/2017 14:45:51 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

752841

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department has taken to improve the accuracy of income data used in calculating awards of universal credit; and what estimate he has made of the improvement obtained by those steps.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The Real Time Information (RTI) system ensures that we get Universal Credit claims right by providing us with accurate and timely details of earnings from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. The HMRC database holding the PAYE data reported in real time receives the data from employers, holds it and passes on relevant data for Universal Credit claimants to DWP. The system is working well with over 99% of individual employment records now being reported in real time. A number of processes are in place to deal with inaccurate data from employers. DWP and HMRC analysts monitor the RTI data received, looking for trends, patterns and causes. Both Departments then work together with employers and partners such as software developers and payroll bureaux to improve the quality of the data. This work supplements the BACS payment validation process.</p><p> </p><p>Universal Credit claimants are required to report all unearned income to DWP and provide the evidence to verify that income where necessary. In replacing existing income replacement benefits and tax credits, Universal Credit has simplified the treatment of unearned income. There are no partial disregards and all unearned income that will be taken into account in the Universal Credit assessment is prescribed in the regulations. Once rolled out, DWP expects the high-level design of Universal Credit to lead to around £1bn in Annually Managed Expenditure savings each year from reduced fraud and error, compared to the benefits and Tax Credits that Universal Credit will replace.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 20/07/2017 16:23:53 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

752849

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	New Businesses: Newham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many new businesses have been set up in the London Borough of Newham in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p><strong><p><p></strong></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 20/07/2017 13:11:14 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ5415 v.02.pdf title UKSA Response to PQ5415
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

752850

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeship providers operate in (a) Greater London and (b) the London Borough of Newham.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>In the 2015 to 2016 academic year, there were 400 apprenticeship providers that trained apprentices for employers in Greater London and 140 apprenticeship providers that trained apprentices for employers in the London Borough of Newham.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 20/07/2017 16:49:09 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

752853

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of apprenticeship starts in (a) Greater London and (b) the London Borough of Newham are with (i) levy-paying and (ii) non-levy-paying businesses.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5418
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The number of apprenticeship starts is published as part of the further education and skills statistical first release. Apprenticeship starts broken down by geographical region and local authority are available in the further education data library:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/624428/apprenticeships-geography-data-tool-starts-v1.xlsm" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/624428/apprenticeships-geography-data-tool-starts-v1.xlsm</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Currently, data on apprenticeship starts is only available reported to the end of April 2017, before the apprenticeship levy was implemented. The statistical first release will publish details of starts, where an apprenticeship service account holder has been able to use funds to support an apprenticeship, when data becomes available.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the number of accounts registered on the apprenticeship service and the number of commitments made have been published as experimental statistics. This is available as part of the statistical first release collection:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/further-education-and-skills-statistical-first-release-sfr" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/further-education-and-skills-statistical-first-release-sfr</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 20/07/2017 16:51:03 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

752108

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
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	Food Banks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with the Trussell Trust on recent trends in demand for foodbanks in areas where universal credit (a) has and (b) has not been rolled out; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5031
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Secretary of State met with the Trussell Trust in Dacorum on 7th of July, a range of topics were discussed including Universal Credit. Universal Credit has been rolled out everywhere and is available in all Jobcentres.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 19/07/2017 16:31:40 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

752109

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
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	Universal Credit
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 universal credit applicants wait more than (a) six and (b) 10 weeks after making their claim before they receive any income.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>We are intending to publish further data on payment timeliness in due course, but based on our latest internal data, for week ending 19 June, we estimate that some 80% of cases were paid in full at the end of the first assessment period.</p><p>For the 20% of cases who were not paid in full we estimate around a third have not signed up to their claimant commitment so cannot be paid until they have. The other two thirds have an outstanding verification issue, such as providing bank statements, evidence of childcare costs, or proof of rent. Many of these claimants receive a part-payment where elements of the claim have been verified.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 19/07/2017 13:10:50 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

752110

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department has taken to improve the accuracy of the real time information it receives from HM Revenue and Customs to calculate awards of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 18 July 2017 to questions 4800 and 4801.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 5055 question first answered 19/07/2017 09:19:01 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

752111

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his Department's policy to make no further cuts to disability benefits in the current Parliament.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>We have no plans to make any further cuts to disability benefits beyond those already legislated for.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 19/07/2017 10:24:59 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

752112

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the accuracy of the income data supplied through real time information by HM Revenue and Customs to calculate awards of universal credit.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave on 18 July 2017 to questions 4800 and 4801.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 5044 question first answered 19/07/2017 09:19:02 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms