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837193

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date	05/02/2018
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	General Practitioners: Lincolnshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to attract GPs to work in Lincolnshire.
tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
uin	903794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>We recognise the acute shortages in general practice, particularly in Lincolnshire. However, we are advised that there has been recent successful international recruitment, with 26 international general practitioners (GPs) now working in the county. Health Education England has offered 85 £20,000 salary supplements in the past two years to GP trainees who have committed to spend their three year specialty training in Lincolnshire. This year, for the first time, Lincolnshire has filled all of its GP trainee positions.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 06/02/2018 15:39:19 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

837231

registered interest
date	05/02/2018
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	Personal Independence Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps her Department is taking to ensure that personal independence payment assessments are undertaken fairly and efficiently.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	903749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring claimants receive high quality, objective assessments. The Department holds regular performance meetings with Assessment Providers at local and senior levels. Assessments are independently audited and Departmental clinicians periodically observe assessments. Both providers have increased personalised clinical support to all Health Professionals. PIP Assessment Providers cost less than 4% of the total annual benefit spend on PIP.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 05/02/2018 17:25:18 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

837232

registered interest
date	05/02/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment she has made of the accuracy and efficiency of contracted-out health assessments for employment and support allowance and personal independence payment.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	903750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring claimants receive high quality, accurate assessments. We monitor assessment quality through independent audit. Decision Makers can return reports for rework/additional advice. A range of measures, including provider improvement plans, address performance falling below expected standards. We continually look to improve the assessment process.The performance expectations for PIP are that 97% of assessment reports are considered acceptable.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 05/02/2018 17:32:43 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

837233

registered interest
date	05/02/2018
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	Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	How many applicants for personal independence payment who appealed the initial assessment died between their initial assessment result and the date of their appeal.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Gareth Snell
uin	903751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not collated centrally. Claims from people who are terminally ill are currently being dealt with in five working days on average and nearly all of them are successful.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 05/02/2018 17:36:44 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4595 label Biography information for Gareth Snell

837234

registered interest
date	05/02/2018
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: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment she has made of the effect of the benefit freeze on trends in the level of child poverty.
tabling member constituency	Dundee West
tabling member printed	Chris Law
uin	903752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>An Impact Assessment of the benefit freeze was published in 2015. Evidence shows that work is the best route out of poverty. Children in workless households are five times more likely to be in poverty than those in households where all adults were working. The Welfare Reforms such as the benefit freeze were designed to incentivise parents to choose to move into and progress in work.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/02/2018 17:43:16 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law

835933

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
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	Charities: Non-domestic Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reasons the Government has not raised to 100 per cent the rate of business rate relief for charities on property with a rateable value of under £12,000; and if he will take steps to ensure that charities have 100 per cent such relief.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	126288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>Properties used for charitable purposes are eligible for 80 per cent mandatory business rates relief, which can be topped up to 100 per cent at the discretion of the relevant local authority. This relief is significantly more generous than small business rate relief would be for most charities, given that the latter can generally only be claimed by ratepayers with just one property.</p><p>Business rate relief for charities was worth nearly £1.9 billion in 2016-17. Overall, the Government’s support for charities and their donors, including through tax reliefs, was worth over £5 billion in 2016-17.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Richmond (Yorks) answering member printed Rishi Sunak question first answered 08/02/2018 17:12:42 answering member 4483 label Biography information for Rishi Sunak
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

835934

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
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	Housing: Broadband
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many representations his Department has received in respect of new-build properties lacking access to superfast broadband during the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	126289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2018 answer text <p>The information requested would require a detailed search of our records and could only be provided at disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 12/02/2018 14:05:27 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

835935

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Victim Personal Statements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in how many qualifying cases of victims eligible for the victims contact scheme was no statement provided by a witness or victim before a sentencing or parole decision.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	126290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2018 answer text <p>The victim personal statement (VPS) provides victims with a valuable opportunity to tell the Court or Parole Board in their own words how the crime has affected them and their family, and in the case of the Parole Board, what the impact of a prisoner’s release or move to open conditions would have on them.</p><p> </p><p>Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service does not hold centrally data on the number of victims who either made a VPS at the point of sentence or who made a VPS to the Parole Board and who qualified for the statutory Victim Contact Scheme. The data could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>On 9 January, the Secretary of State for Justice, the Rt Hon David Gauke MP, announced in a statement to the House that he would review the case for transparency in the process for parole decisions, how victims are communicated with, and how they are appropriately engaged in that process.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 09/02/2018 12:38:15 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

835936

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Amey
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the contribution of Michael Spurr, Chief Executive, HM Prisons and Probation Service to the Justice Select Committee on 24 January 2018, HC 751, whether he plans to increase funding to Amey for maintenance contracts in prisons.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	126291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2018 answer text <p>Our current focus is on securing improvements to the operational delivery of the contracts with Amey, including through strengthened contract management and oversight, to make sure we are obtaining good value for money.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 12/02/2018 15:56:29 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

835937

registered interest
date	02/02/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Amey
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the contribution of Michael Spurr, Chief Executive, HM Prisons and Probation Service to the Justice Select Committee on 24 January 2018, HC 751, whether Amey has produced an improvement plan for its work in the prisons where it manages maintenance.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	126292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2018 answer text <p>Private providers play an important role in maintaining the prison estate. Performance of all providers is closely monitored and we will not hesitate to take action where standards fall short.</p><p> </p><p>Our current focus is on securing improvements to the operational delivery of the contracts with Amey, including through strengthened contract management and oversight. We will therefore be writing to Amey to request performance improvement plans for fails in meeting the agreed performance targets (KPIs) for a period of time. HMPPS and Amey Management have regular Core groups to discuss any missed KPIs and improvement plans.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 12/02/2018 16:00:41 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon