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1296779

registered interest
date	02/03/2021
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	Work Capability Assessment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of (a) universal credit and (b) employment support allowance claimants who were not (i) offered and (ii) deemed suitable for a a virtual or telephone Work Capability Assessment during 2020.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	161833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2021 answer text <p>The data you have requested is not available.</p><p> </p><p>Face to face assessments for health and disability benefits are currently suspended in line with public health advice. We continue to complete paper-based assessments and make recommendations based on the written evidence available, as often as we are able to.</p><p> </p><p>Where a case cannot be progressed by a paper-based assessment, a telephone assessment will be conducted, where appropriate to do so. Telephone assessments were introduced during the pandemic, as part of the Covid-19 response and we are working hard to increase the number of people able to participate in these assessments. We also undertake some video assessments, where appropriate.</p><p>The suspension of face to face assessments is regularly reviewed in line with the latest public health guidance and will recommence as soon as it is safe to do so. Claimants who cannot be assessed by telephone or video because of their health condition will be prioritised when we are able to safely resume face to face assessments.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 10/03/2021 13:30:17 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1296780

registered interest
date	02/03/2021
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: Work Capability Assessment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	If she will make it her policy to allow virtual or telephone Work Capability Assessments for (a) universal credit and (b) employment support allowance claimants including those who (i) need an interpreter (including BSL), (ii) have hearing difficulties, (iii) have speech difficulties, (iv) have learning disabilities and (v) suicidal ideation or behaviour and a history of self harm to make the process equivalent to that for personal independence payments.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	161834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2021 answer text <p>The assessment criteria for Personal Independence Payment are very different to those for the Work Capability Assessment (WCA), which assesses whether claimants to Employment and Support Allowance, and Universal Credit have limited capability for work.</p><p> </p><p>We are aware that there are some claimants who are unable to undertake a WCA telephone assessment because of their health condition and we are currently developing ways in which we can support these individuals. We are continuing to assess as many people as we are able to on paper evidence, using this route as often as possible. We are also undertaking some video assessments, where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>Individuals invited for a telephone assessment are encouraged to inform their assessment provider of any additional requirements they may have, and the provider will endeavour to meet any reasonable requests. This is explained to the individual in the initial invitation letter for all telephone assessments. For example, companions are able to join a telephone assessment, as they could for a face to face assessment.</p><p> </p><p>Claimants who we are unable to assess by telephone or video because of their health condition will be prioritised when we are able to safely resume face-to-face assessments.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 160754 question first answered 09/03/2021 15:49:44 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1293718

registered interest
date	01/03/2021
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	Work Capability Assessment
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 people on universal credit and employment and support allowance who have been told that they have to wait for face-to-face work capability assessments to resume before they can be assessed, what additional support is available to help claimants identified as not suitable for a telephone consultation, according to the specifications outlined in the CHDA COVID-19 Filework process document of 15 May 2020, to manage their health condition or disability while they are without additional support from their benefits income.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	160762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2021 answer text <p>The health and safety of our claimants and staff is our key priority. We suspended all face-to-face assessments for sickness and disability benefits in March 2020. This temporary suspension, brought in to protect people from unnecessary risk of coronavirus at the outset of the pandemic, remains in place, and is being kept under review in line with the latest public health guidance.</p><p> </p><p>Throughout the pandemic we have continued to assess people on paper evidence, using this route whenever possible. We are aware there are some claimants who are unable to undertake a telephone assessment because of their health condition and we are currently developing ways in which we can support these individuals. We also continue to undertake some video assessments where appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>Individuals invited for a telephone assessment are encouraged to inform their assessment provider of any additional requirements they may have, and the provider will endeavour to meet any reasonable requests. This is explained to the individual in the initial invitation letter for all telephone assessments. For example, companions are able to join a telephone assessment, as they could for a face to face assessment.</p><p> </p><p>Where a claimant is unable to undertake a telephone assessment because of their health condition, they remain on their current award until we are able to gather the evidence needed for a recommendation to be made or, in contributory ESA, until their benefit is due to end.</p><p> </p><p>As ever, claimants should get in touch if their health condition has worsened or they are experiencing financial hardship.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 160755 question first answered 09/03/2021 13:55:40 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1293719

registered interest
date	01/03/2021
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	Ophthalmic services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people (a) did not attend their outpatient ophthalmology appointment, (b) cancelled that appointment and (c) had that appointment cancelled by a healthcare professional in each month from (a) January 2019 to (b) December 2020.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	160763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2021 answer text <p>This information is not held in the format requested. While data on the number of ophthalmology appointments by attendance type is collected, this is not a count of individuals as a patient may have had more than one appointment.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 26/03/2021 10:22:36 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 87470 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1293720

registered interest
date	01/03/2021
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	Ophthalmic services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people (a) did not attend their outpatient appointment for wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD), (b) cancelled that appointment and (c) had that appointment cancelled by a healthcare professional in each month from (a) January 2019 and (b) December 2020.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	160764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2021 answer text <p>This information is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 26/03/2021 12:08:10 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 87471 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1293724

registered interest
date	01/03/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Community Security Trust: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will renew her Department's funding of the Jewish Community Protective Security Grant for the Community Security Trust.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	160765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2021 answer text <p>The protection of all our faith communities is a priority for Government, delivered in collaboration with the on-going work of the police. Future funding through the Jewish Community Protective Security Grant and the Places of Worship Security funding scheme are currently under consideration.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 04/03/2021 16:48:06 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1289665

registered interest
date	24/02/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Women's Prisons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to his Department's press release, Extra funding for organisations that steer women away from crime, published on 23 January 2021, if will publish the Programme business case for the 500 new prison places to be built in existing women's prisons.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	158155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2021 answer text <p>Our prison population projections published in November last year, show that the female prison population is projected to rise by around two-fifths by 2026 (1,300 women) with most of that rise coming in the next two years. Our projections took in to consideration the impact of the planned recruitment of a further 23,400 police officers – which is likely to increase charge volumes and future prison populations.</p><p>Our projections further assumed the future gender composition of the prison population will be broadly consistent with the pre-COVID 19 composition, although there is a fair degree of uncertainty here however particularly due to the additional police recruitment. As such we modelled a total of four scenarios which included a 20% higher/lower throughput from the Police and a fast court recovery scenario. Table 2.1 and 4.1 taken from our prison population projections, illustrate this below:</p><p>Table 2.1 below shows the two extra scenarios of a lower and a higher impact police scenario for both men and women.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Central Scenario</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Lower Police Scenario</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Higher Police Scenario</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Fast Court Recovery Scenario</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2020</p></td><td><p><strong>79,235</strong></p></td><td><p>79,235</p></td><td><p>79,235</p></td><td><p>79,235</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2021</p></td><td><p><strong>83,200</strong></p></td><td><p>83,000</p></td><td><p>83,500</p></td><td><p>85,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2022</p></td><td><p><strong>88,100</strong></p></td><td><p>87,200</p></td><td><p>89,100</p></td><td><p>88,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2023</p></td><td><p><strong>93,000</strong></p></td><td><p>91,300</p></td><td><p>94,700</p></td><td><p>91,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2024</p></td><td><p><strong>96,000</strong></p></td><td><p>93,800</p></td><td><p>98,300</p></td><td><p>94,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2025</p></td><td><p><strong>97,700</strong></p></td><td><p>95,000</p></td><td><p>100,300</p></td><td><p>97,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2026</p></td><td><p><strong>98,700</strong></p></td><td><p>95,900</p></td><td><p>101,600</p></td><td><p>98,400</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>All figures are rounded to the nearest hundred. Components may not sum due to rounding.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Table 4.1 below shows the projections separately for children, females over 18 years and males over 18 specifically for the central scenario.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Children</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Female 18+</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Male 18+</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2020</p></td><td><p><strong>79,235</strong></p></td><td><p>395</p></td><td><p>3,217</p></td><td><p>75,623</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2021</p></td><td><p><strong>83,200</strong></p></td><td><p>600</p></td><td><p>3,800</p></td><td><p>78,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2022</p></td><td><p><strong>88,100</strong></p></td><td><p>600</p></td><td><p>4,100</p></td><td><p>83,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2023</p></td><td><p><strong>93,000</strong></p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>4,300</p></td><td><p>88,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2024</p></td><td><p><strong>96,000</strong></p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>4,400</p></td><td><p>90,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2025</p></td><td><p><strong>97,700</strong></p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>4,500</p></td><td><p>92,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2026</p></td><td><p><strong>98,700</strong></p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>4,500</p></td><td><p>93,500</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>All figures are rounded to the nearest hundred. Components may not sum due to rounding.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Both tables are available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-population-projections-2020-to-2026" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-population-projections-2020-to-2026</a></p><p>The business case has not yet reached a position where it could be published. We intend to continue dialogue with stakeholders as to how best to meet the needs of those women sentenced to a custodial sentence</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 158156 question first answered 01/03/2021 17:03:15 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1289666

registered interest
date	24/02/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Women's Prisons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the announcement on the 23 January 2021 that up to 500 new prison places will be built in existing women’s prisons, if his Department will publish the modelling used in the programme’s Strategic Case that the recruitment of an extra 20,000 police officers is expected to cause a temporary increase in the female prison population.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	158156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2021 answer text <p>Our prison population projections published in November last year, show that the female prison population is projected to rise by around two-fifths by 2026 (1,300 women) with most of that rise coming in the next two years. Our projections took in to consideration the impact of the planned recruitment of a further 23,400 police officers – which is likely to increase charge volumes and future prison populations.</p><p>Our projections further assumed the future gender composition of the prison population will be broadly consistent with the pre-COVID 19 composition, although there is a fair degree of uncertainty here however particularly due to the additional police recruitment. As such we modelled a total of four scenarios which included a 20% higher/lower throughput from the Police and a fast court recovery scenario. Table 2.1 and 4.1 taken from our prison population projections, illustrate this below:</p><p>Table 2.1 below shows the two extra scenarios of a lower and a higher impact police scenario for both men and women.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Central Scenario</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Lower Police Scenario</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Higher Police Scenario</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Fast Court Recovery Scenario</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2020</p></td><td><p><strong>79,235</strong></p></td><td><p>79,235</p></td><td><p>79,235</p></td><td><p>79,235</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2021</p></td><td><p><strong>83,200</strong></p></td><td><p>83,000</p></td><td><p>83,500</p></td><td><p>85,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2022</p></td><td><p><strong>88,100</strong></p></td><td><p>87,200</p></td><td><p>89,100</p></td><td><p>88,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2023</p></td><td><p><strong>93,000</strong></p></td><td><p>91,300</p></td><td><p>94,700</p></td><td><p>91,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2024</p></td><td><p><strong>96,000</strong></p></td><td><p>93,800</p></td><td><p>98,300</p></td><td><p>94,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2025</p></td><td><p><strong>97,700</strong></p></td><td><p>95,000</p></td><td><p>100,300</p></td><td><p>97,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2026</p></td><td><p><strong>98,700</strong></p></td><td><p>95,900</p></td><td><p>101,600</p></td><td><p>98,400</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>All figures are rounded to the nearest hundred. Components may not sum due to rounding.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Table 4.1 below shows the projections separately for children, females over 18 years and males over 18 specifically for the central scenario.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Children</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Female 18+</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Male 18+</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2020</p></td><td><p><strong>79,235</strong></p></td><td><p>395</p></td><td><p>3,217</p></td><td><p>75,623</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2021</p></td><td><p><strong>83,200</strong></p></td><td><p>600</p></td><td><p>3,800</p></td><td><p>78,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2022</p></td><td><p><strong>88,100</strong></p></td><td><p>600</p></td><td><p>4,100</p></td><td><p>83,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2023</p></td><td><p><strong>93,000</strong></p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>4,300</p></td><td><p>88,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2024</p></td><td><p><strong>96,000</strong></p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>4,400</p></td><td><p>90,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2025</p></td><td><p><strong>97,700</strong></p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>4,500</p></td><td><p>92,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2026</p></td><td><p><strong>98,700</strong></p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>4,500</p></td><td><p>93,500</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>All figures are rounded to the nearest hundred. Components may not sum due to rounding.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Both tables are available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-population-projections-2020-to-2026" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/prison-population-projections-2020-to-2026</a></p><p>The business case has not yet reached a position where it could be published. We intend to continue dialogue with stakeholders as to how best to meet the needs of those women sentenced to a custodial sentence</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 158155 question first answered 01/03/2021 17:03:15 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1288086

registered interest
date	22/02/2021
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	Coronavirus: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Pfizer BioNTech covid-19 vaccine when there is a 12-week gap between the first and second dose for those aged over 80; and what evidence that assessment is based on.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	156504
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2021 answer text <p>Public Health England is monitoring the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines and has published early evidence on the efficacy of both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccines. The evidence suggests that a single dose of either vaccine is around 60 to 70% effective at preventing symptomatic disease in older adults and around 80% effective at preventing hospitalisations. There is also evidence that a single dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is around 85% effective at preventing deaths. Further information is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.01.21252652v1" target="_blank">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.01.21252652v1</a></p><p> </p><p>Effectiveness of two doses with a 12-week gap will be monitored as more individuals start to receive their second dose.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 11/03/2021 12:53:50 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1287142

registered interest
date	19/02/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Judiciary: Retirement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the Government plans to respond to the consultation on the mandatory retirement age for judicial office holders which closed on 16 October 2020.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	155299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2021 answer text <p>The Government’s consultation on proposals to increase the mandatory retirement age for judicial office holders received over 1000 responses from the magistracy, the judiciary and their associated bodies, as well as stakeholders from the legal profession.</p><p>We are currently finalising the consultation response and will publish this shortly, with a view to legislate for any changes we decide to make at the earliest opportunity.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 24/02/2021 17:21:46 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous