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1732832

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date	09/10/2024
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	Parliamentary Estate: Security
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member representing the House of Commons Commission, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many holders of each pass type have access to the parliamentary estate.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	8180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2024 answer text <p>The number of passes on issue changes constantly, so the following represents a snapshot of data recorded on 10 October 2024:</p><ul><li>MPs: 648</li><li>Peers: 832</li><li>MPs’ staff: 1,589</li><li>Peers’ staff: 333</li><li>Staff of the Administrations - House of Commons, House of Lords, and Parliamentary Digital Service: 4,242</li><li>Metropolitan Police staff including police officers: 565</li><li>Contractors: 3,028 (blue) + 1,170 (yellow) = 4,198</li><li>Former MPs: 419</li><li>Retired Peers: 55</li><li>Political parties and whips: 181</li><li>Partners of MPs/Peers and residents: 680</li><li>Civil servants: 1,515</li><li>Media: 472</li><li>Restoration &amp; Renewal Management: 189</li></ul> answering member constituency Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney answering member printed Nick Smith question first answered 17/10/2024 15:42:27 answering member 3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1732834

registered interest
date	09/10/2024
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	Parliamentary Estate: Security
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many parliamentary passes were not returned following the conclusion of the holder's employment in each of the last five financial years.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	8181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2024 answer text <p>The database is a live pass issuing system and does not retain full historical information as data is only retained for three years or less depending on the pass category, so is continually being deleted in line with our records retention policy.</p><p>The vast majority of passes are returned promptly after they expire or are invalidated. The following figures show the number of expired passes not returned by financial year; however please note all these passes were deactivated and would not allow access to the Parliamentary estate.</p><p>Financial year 2021–2022: 513</p><p>Financial year 2022–2023: 432</p><p>Financial year 2023–2024: 392</p> answering member constituency Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney answering member printed Nick Smith question first answered 17/10/2024 15:46:36 answering member 3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1732835

registered interest
date	09/10/2024
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	Parliamentary Estate: Security
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many parliamentary passes were (a) lost and (b) stolen in each of the last five financial years.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	8182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2024 answer text <p>The database is a live pass issuing system and does not retain full historical information as data is only retained for three years or less depending on the pass category, so is continually being deleted in line with our records retention policy. The following figures show the number of passes reported as lost or stolen by financial year; however please note all these passes were promptly deactivated and would not allow access to the Parliamentary estate.</p><p>Financial year 2021–2022: 43</p><p>Financial year 2022–2023: 76</p><p>Financial year 2023–2024: 62</p> answering member constituency Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney answering member printed Nick Smith question first answered 17/10/2024 15:51:44 answering member 3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1732836

registered interest
date	09/10/2024
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	Parliamentary Estate: Security
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, if the Commission will publish a list of special advisers who have had a parliamentary pass in each of the last five financial years.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	8183
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2024 answer text <p>We are unable to provide this information, as the pass issuing system does not categorise passholders in this way. Special advisers are not a specific category of passholder, and therefore this information could not easily be obtained from the pass data system. In any event, it would be inconsistent with data protection principles to publish such a list.</p><p>It would not be appropriate to publish the personal data collected for the purposes of security pass allocation as this would not be consistent with data protection principles, therefore we are unable to provide a list of civil servants holding passes. As noted above, it would be inconsistent with data protection principles to publish personal data collected for security purposes in this way, and therefore the Commission is unable to provide such a list.</p> answering member constituency Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney answering member printed Nick Smith grouped question UIN 8184 question first answered 17/10/2024 15:54:57 answering member 3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1732837

registered interest
date	09/10/2024
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	Parliamentary Estate: Security
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, if the Commission will publish a list of (a) civil servants and (b) special advisers who have a parliamentary pass.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	8184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2024 answer text <p>We are unable to provide this information, as the pass issuing system does not categorise passholders in this way. Special advisers are not a specific category of passholder, and therefore this information could not easily be obtained from the pass data system. In any event, it would be inconsistent with data protection principles to publish such a list.</p><p>It would not be appropriate to publish the personal data collected for the purposes of security pass allocation as this would not be consistent with data protection principles, therefore we are unable to provide a list of civil servants holding passes. As noted above, it would be inconsistent with data protection principles to publish personal data collected for security purposes in this way, and therefore the Commission is unable to provide such a list.</p> answering member constituency Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney answering member printed Nick Smith grouped question UIN 8183 question first answered 17/10/2024 15:54:57 answering member 3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1732881

registered interest
date	09/10/2024
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	Pension Credit
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 the oral contribution of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 29 July 2024 on Public Spending: Inheritance, Official Report, column 1033, how many people have applied for pension credit since that date.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	8186
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2024 answer text <p>We have recently published <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/weekly-pension-credit-claims-received-from-1-april-2024-to-1-september-2024/weekly-pension-credit-claims-received-from-1-april-2024-to-1-september-2024&amp;data=05|02|SPDPQSANDBRIEFINGS@DWP.GOV.UK|41ca01b5944b4d999e2808dcea09539e|96f1f6e910574117ac2880cdfe86f8c3|0|0|638642572979265834|Unknown|TWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0=|0|||&amp;sdata=lNZJ4RYhpXpPCCvb0Yg1tc5oV/nmcXsxMCPkNZEKUwE=&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Weekly Pension Credit claims received from 1 April 2024 to 22 September 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a> which provides the number of Pension Credit claims received by the department<strong>.</strong><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Emma Reynolds question first answered 16/10/2024 11:22:56 answering member 4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1732882

registered interest
date	09/10/2024
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	Pension Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the average waiting time between a pension credit application and a decision by the Department.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	8187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2024 answer text <p>The most recent information on processing times for Pension Credit was published in the DWP Annual Report and Accounts on 22nd July 2024 (<a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-annual-report-and-accounts-2023-to-2024/dwp-annual-report-and-accounts-2023-to-2024-html&amp;data=05|02|SPDPQSANDBRIEFINGS@DWP.GOV.UK|41ca01b5944b4d999e2808dcea09539e|96f1f6e910574117ac2880cdfe86f8c3|0|0|638642572979243687|Unknown|TWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0=|0|||&amp;sdata=Sqoq7tRJuGGmUS7hDoWiuRnULYzaaFw1w3QBhLnA1Xc=&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-annual-report-and-accounts-2023-to-2024/dwp-annual-report-and-accounts-2023-to-2024-html</a>). This shows that in 2023/24 DWP cleared 192,000 Pension Credit claims within the planned 50 working day timescale, equating to 77.7%.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Emma Reynolds question first answered 16/10/2024 11:19:51 answering member 4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1732883

registered interest
date	09/10/2024
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	Pension Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average wait for a pension credit application to be approved was in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	8188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2024 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on the annual average waiting time for Pension Credit and cannot provide the figures requested.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does publish our annual performance against a 50 working day clearance rate for Pension Credit in the DWP Annual Report and Accounts <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-annual-report-and-accounts-2023-to-2024" target="_blank">DWP annual report and accounts 2023 to 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Of 248,000 Pension Credit claims cleared in performance year 2023/24, 192,000 were cleared within the planned 50-day timescale, equating to 77.7%. 56,000, 22.3% were cleared outside of the of the 10-week planned timescale.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Emma Reynolds question first answered 16/10/2024 16:07:13 answering member 4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1728577

registered interest
date	10/09/2024
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	River Thames: Reading
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of volumetric river flow rates corresponding to the locations of each gauging station on the Thames from Reading to Kingston.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	5076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2024 answer text <p>The Environment Agency operates six river flow gauging stations on the River Thames between Reading and Kingston. These are located at Reading, Maidenhead, Windsor, Staines, Walton and Kingston. The recent daily mean flow at these sites on 11 September 2024 ranged from 12.0 to 28.7 cubic metres per second (m<sup>3</sup>/s).</p><p> </p><p>River level and flow data can be found via the GOV.UK website: <a href="https://environment.data.gov.uk/hydrology/landing" target="_blank">https://environment.data.gov.uk/hydrology</a>.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice answering member printed Emma Hardy question first answered 17/09/2024 11:28:50 answering member 4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney

1728581

registered interest
date	10/09/2024
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	River Thames: Reservoirs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the expected reservoir levels for each Lower Thames reservoir for drought events (a) 1:100 years, (b) 1:200 years and (c) 1:500 years.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
uin	5077
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2024 answer text <p>Public water supply reservoirs are the responsibility of the water companies. The Government has not made such estimates; however we are committed to improving water resilience and we are closely monitoring the delivery of their water resources management plans. Their plans set out how they will continue to provide secure water supplies in the long term.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice answering member printed Emma Hardy question first answered 20/09/2024 13:43:49 answering member 4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy
tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney