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101484

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Intimate Image Abuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to prevent the distribution of revenge porn; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
	uin	212279
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Government is creating, in the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill, a new criminal offence which targets those who disclose private sexual photographs and films without the consent of the person depicted and with intent to cause that person distress.</p><p> </p><p>The provisions to create the new offence were tabled as a Government Amendment at Lords Report stage of the Bill on 20 October and were warmly received and supported across the House.</p><p> </p><p>The offence will cover the disclosure of private and sexual photographs or films of individuals who have not consented to this disclosure, such as those of them engaged in sexual activity, depicted in a sexual way, or with their genitals exposed, where what is shown would not usually be seen in public. It will apply to disclosures taking place online and offline. The offence will attract a two-year maximum prison sentence.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 04/11/2014 17:01:36 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

101507

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	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, what assessment he has made of the effect of changes in employment and support allowance and personal independence payments on people with progressive conditions such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	212345
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p> </p><p>Both Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Personal Independence Payment (PIP) have been designed to take full account of progressive conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s.</p><p> </p><p>Entitlement to both ESA and PIP is based on the impact of the claimant’s disability or health conditions. If a claimant has a progressive health condition, healthcare professionals will take this into consideration when providing advice to the Department.</p><p> </p><p>Both ESA and PIP are kept under constant review: Dr Paul Litchfield is due to publish the fifth and final statutory review of the Work Capability Assessment before the end of the year and Paul Gray will be publishing the first PIP independent review by the end of the year.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 04/11/2014 17:06:52 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper previous answer version 25885 answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

102227

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	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, how many people have received Access to Work support in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	905821
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>35,400 individuals were helped through Access to Work in the 2013/14 financial year.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 03/11/2014 17:26:49 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

101503

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	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: Fraud
	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 uses to distinguish between legitimate and malicious allegations of benefit fraud.
	tabling member constituency	Knowsley
	tabling member printed	Mr George Howarth
	uin	212168
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Claimants are formally interviewed, only if sufficient evidence is obtained. When an investigation concludes the alleged fraud is unsubstantiated the investigation is closed with no further action. This can occur at any stage of the investigation and judgement of this is on a case by case basis and influenced only on the basis of established facts, gathered through these processes. This does not necessarily imply this is a malicious allegation.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 04/11/2014 14:58:37 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

101504

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	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	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many personal independence claims in (a) Hackney North and Stoke Newington constituency, (b) Hackney local authority area, (c) London and (d) England have taken longer than 16 weeks to be awarded or declined.
	tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
	tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
	uin	212176
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Departmental statisticians are continuing to develop measures around clearance times and waiting times to ensure they provide a rounded and representative picture of personal independence payment performance, improvement activity and the claimants’ experience. These statistics will be published when they are ready, with the release pre-announced in line with United Kingdom Statistics Authority release protocols.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 04/11/2014 15:23:51 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

101498

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	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	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether information about how disabled people can make an application to personal independence payment by email or letter is included in all correspondence and publicity about this benefit.
	tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
	tabling member printed	Kate Green
	uin	212162
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Details of how to claim Personal Independence Payment are included in the PIP leaflet and are also published on GOV.UK. There is not yet a secure facility to allow claims to be made by email but this is part of our future plans.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 04/11/2014 15:13:34 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

101510

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	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	Employment and Support Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, by what date (a) new and (b) existing claims for employment and support allowance will end.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	212375
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claims continue to be paid whilst a claimant continues to satisfy the conditions of entitlement. Once the Work Capability Assessment process has been completed claimants will be given a prognosis period which advises when their claim is likely to be reviewed. However, routine repeat reassessments are currently suspended for the time-being to concentrate resources on the processing of new claims.</p><p>Claims to ESA only end when an individual is found to be ineligible for the benefit or there has been a significant improvement in an individual’s functional capability.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 04/11/2014 15:03:43 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

101491

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Security
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been paid in forfeiture because of the Prison Service's use of barbed and razor wire in each of the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	212304
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>No fines have been paid to the EU or any other organisation because of HM Prison Service’s use of barbed and razor wire in the last four years. Furthermore, there have been no infraction proceedings at the European Court of Justice and no findings against the UK in the European Court of Human Rights about this issue in that time period.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) provides razor wire and barbed wire as part of construction and refurbishment projects on its custodial estate. It is deployed most often at the top of perimeter fences and fences which form partitions within the grounds of prisons. It forms one of a number of security measures which prevent prisoners scaling fences either to breach the perimeter or to enter hazardous and prohibited areas of a prison</p><p> </p><p>The MoJ works with the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) to ensure that its proposed use would not present a health or safety hazard to prisoners, members of NOMS staff, visitors to a prison or members of the public.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 03/11/2014 14:48:34 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

101502

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	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: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many allegations of benefit fraud his Department received in (a) 2011, (b) 2012 and (c) 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Knowsley
	tabling member printed	Mr George Howarth
	uin	212166
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Department does not hold official statistics which have been quality checked to an acceptable standard as defined by the UK Statistics Authority.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 04/11/2014 17:51:08 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

101505

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	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: Fraud
	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 is taking to ensure that all allegations of benefit fraud received are investigated properly.
	tabling member constituency	Knowsley
	tabling member printed	Mr George Howarth
	uin	212167
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Department ensures that all allegations of benefit fraud are considered and a decision made on the most appropriate course of action. The referral management and investigation of benefit fraud process is robust and greatest of care is taken to corroborate the information to ensure we are directing our resources appropriately.</p><p> </p><p>Quality checks are undertaken and where appropriate case conferences are undertaken to ensure every case progresses in a timely manner and the correct action is taken. If an investigation concludes the alleged fraud is unsubstantiated the investigation is closed with no further action. This can occur at any stage of the investigation and judgement of this is on a case by case basis and influenced only on the basis of established facts, gathered through these processes. The decision to prosecute is made by the Crown Prosecution Service or Procurator Fiscal in Scotland<em>.</em></p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 04/11/2014 15:09:20 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth