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416326

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Parking: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what powers (a) local authorities and (b) the police have to enforce proper use of designated disabled parking spaces on public highways.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	8762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>Where a parking contravention has occurred in respect of a designated disabled parking space, local authorities that have taken on civil enforcement powers may issue a penalty charge under powers contained in the Traffic Management Act 2004. In areas still subject to police enforcement, traffic wardens may issue fixed penalties.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>If the contravention involves the misuse of a ‘Blue Badge’, which is a criminal offence, either a local authority or the police may prosecute the offender under section 117 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 09/09/2015 15:25:31 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

416327

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
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	Vetting: Costs
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 fund Standard disclosure and barring checks (DBS) for jobseekers' allowance claimants who have received a job offer conditional on obtaining a DBS certificate.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	8763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Jobcentre Plus local offices can already use the Flexible Support Fund for DBS checks if they think this is appropriate on a case by case basis.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 09/09/2015 15:16:42 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

416328

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
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	Access to Work Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria his Department applies to identify those people in receipt of Access to Work support.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	8463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>I am interpreting this question as asking for the definition of people who are helped by Access to Work.</p><p> </p><p>The following definition of the number of people helped in a given year is provided in the published statistics: &quot;individuals who have been assessed within the year or for whom there is an [Access to Work] element where approval has been made (including nil cost) and the element has been made available within the year.&quot;</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2015 12:41:24 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

416329

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
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	Access to Work Programme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria his Department has set for claimants of Access to Work support to qualify for the maximum level of support.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	8461
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The £40,800 per year limit to individual Access to Work grants will be applied to new applicants from October 1st 2015. Individuals with current Access to Work grants will not be subject to the limit until April 2018.</p><p> </p><p>There will be no difference in criteria applied to customers affected by limit compared with those who are not.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2015 13:21:46 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

416330

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Pakistan: Minority Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will make it her policy to make aid to Pakistan contingent on that country making progress on protecting religious and social minorities.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	8462
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>Our aid relationship with any government is based on an assessment of their commitment to our Partnership Principles, which include human rights.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government of Pakistan has publically recognised the problems facing minorities, and the need to bring an end to religious persecution. We remain fully committed to working in partnership with them to achieve this.<br></p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 11/09/2015 13:29:46 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

416331

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, published on 11 December 2014, what additional checks on British citizenship applications have been introduced as a result of the findings of that report; and how much time those checks have added to the time taken to consider cases.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	8777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2015 answer text <p>The additional checks introduced as a result of the findings of the report of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration are as follows:</p><p>• Financial checks</p><p>• Further verification of referee details</p><p>• Relevant information held by other government departments</p><p>• Full review of an applicant’s immigration compliance since arrival in the UK</p><p>Additional checks are carried out on cases assessed as having a medium or high likelihood of failing to satisfy the good character requirement, and the checks conducted depend on the specific circumstances of an individual case and any further investigation deemed necessary when the results of checks are received. No information is aggregated in national reporting systems to enable reporting on the time additional checks have added to the time taken to consider cases.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 10/09/2015 14:06:52 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

416332

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Out of Area Treatment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has issued to clinical commissioning groups on seeking beds for mental health patients outside the immediate area where there is a shortage of beds.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	8925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department has not issued guidance to clinical commissioning groups on out of area mental health beds.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We do not collect the time of discharge data centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Data on the average median length of stay for patients in mental health facilities is provided in the following table:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Median length of stay in days for discharged hospital spells during 2013/14 and those with an open hospital spell on 31 March 2014, by provider type</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Discharges</p></td><td><p>Median LoS*</p></td><td><p>Median LoS minus Leave</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Open hospital spells</p></td><td><p>Median LoS</p></td><td><p>Median LoS minus Leave</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>England total</p></td><td><p>116,988</p></td><td><p>23.0</p></td><td><p>20.0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>23,614</p></td><td><p>117.0</p></td><td><p>112.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS</p></td><td><p>112,422</p></td><td><p>23.0</p></td><td><p>19.0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>21,229</p></td><td><p>102.0</p></td><td><p>96.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Independent</p></td><td><p>4,566</p></td><td><p>23.0</p></td><td><p>22.0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2,385</p></td><td><p>434.0</p></td><td><p>427.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><em>Notes</em>:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>*LoS = Length of Stay</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>1. Leave is defined as a period of time outside of hospital, usually at home, with the intention of returning to the same ward to continue the same consultant episode</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2. The Data Quality report for March 2014 showed that there was potentially a 2.5% level of duplication of open hospital providers episodes at the end of the month. For this reason the count of total hospital episodes open at the end of the month is slightly higher than that reported in the MHMDS Monthly Report for March, where the measure is a count of mental health care spells with an open hospital episode (23,246).</p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><em>Source</em>: Mental Health Minimum Dataset (MHMDS) annual file 2013/14.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 8926 8927 question first answered 14/09/2015 14:58:58 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

416333

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Patients
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average discharge time was for patients in (a) NHS facilities following a first-tier mental health tribunal and (b) private mental health facilities that provide NHS services in the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	8926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department has not issued guidance to clinical commissioning groups on out of area mental health beds.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We do not collect the time of discharge data centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Data on the average median length of stay for patients in mental health facilities is provided in the following table:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Median length of stay in days for discharged hospital spells during 2013/14 and those with an open hospital spell on 31 March 2014, by provider type</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Discharges</p></td><td><p>Median LoS*</p></td><td><p>Median LoS minus Leave</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Open hospital spells</p></td><td><p>Median LoS</p></td><td><p>Median LoS minus Leave</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>England total</p></td><td><p>116,988</p></td><td><p>23.0</p></td><td><p>20.0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>23,614</p></td><td><p>117.0</p></td><td><p>112.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS</p></td><td><p>112,422</p></td><td><p>23.0</p></td><td><p>19.0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>21,229</p></td><td><p>102.0</p></td><td><p>96.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Independent</p></td><td><p>4,566</p></td><td><p>23.0</p></td><td><p>22.0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2,385</p></td><td><p>434.0</p></td><td><p>427.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><em>Notes</em>:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>*LoS = Length of Stay</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>1. Leave is defined as a period of time outside of hospital, usually at home, with the intention of returning to the same ward to continue the same consultant episode</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2. The Data Quality report for March 2014 showed that there was potentially a 2.5% level of duplication of open hospital providers episodes at the end of the month. For this reason the count of total hospital episodes open at the end of the month is slightly higher than that reported in the MHMDS Monthly Report for March, where the measure is a count of mental health care spells with an open hospital episode (23,246).</p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><em>Source</em>: Mental Health Minimum Dataset (MHMDS) annual file 2013/14.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 8925 8927 question first answered 14/09/2015 14:58:58 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

416334

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Patients
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average length of stay was for patients in (a) NHS mental health facilities and (b) private mental health facilities that provide NHS services in the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	8927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department has not issued guidance to clinical commissioning groups on out of area mental health beds.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We do not collect the time of discharge data centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Data on the average median length of stay for patients in mental health facilities is provided in the following table:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Median length of stay in days for discharged hospital spells during 2013/14 and those with an open hospital spell on 31 March 2014, by provider type</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Discharges</p></td><td><p>Median LoS*</p></td><td><p>Median LoS minus Leave</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Open hospital spells</p></td><td><p>Median LoS</p></td><td><p>Median LoS minus Leave</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>England total</p></td><td><p>116,988</p></td><td><p>23.0</p></td><td><p>20.0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>23,614</p></td><td><p>117.0</p></td><td><p>112.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS</p></td><td><p>112,422</p></td><td><p>23.0</p></td><td><p>19.0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>21,229</p></td><td><p>102.0</p></td><td><p>96.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Independent</p></td><td><p>4,566</p></td><td><p>23.0</p></td><td><p>22.0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2,385</p></td><td><p>434.0</p></td><td><p>427.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><em>Notes</em>:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>*LoS = Length of Stay</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>1. Leave is defined as a period of time outside of hospital, usually at home, with the intention of returning to the same ward to continue the same consultant episode</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2. The Data Quality report for March 2014 showed that there was potentially a 2.5% level of duplication of open hospital providers episodes at the end of the month. For this reason the count of total hospital episodes open at the end of the month is slightly higher than that reported in the MHMDS Monthly Report for March, where the measure is a count of mental health care spells with an open hospital episode (23,246).</p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><em>Source</em>: Mental Health Minimum Dataset (MHMDS) annual file 2013/14.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 8925 8926 question first answered 14/09/2015 14:58:58 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

416335

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
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: Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many students diagnosed with cancer have applied for (a) personal independence payments and (b) disability living allowance since April 2014; and how many such applications have been successful.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	8967
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department does not collect information on the occupation of claimants for either Personal Independence Payments or Disability Living Allowance.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 09/09/2015 14:15:45 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe