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1109319

	registered interest
	date	03/04/2019
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Economic Situation: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What recent assessment the Government has made of the strength of the Welsh economy.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford West
	tabling member printed	Naz Shah
	uin	910124
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>The Welsh economy is continuing to thrive. The employment rate in Wales is up 3.4 percentage points over the last year, over twice as high as the increase in any other part of the UK, with an extra 78,000 people in work. Unemployment also continues to fall. The rate of unemployment in Wales is now half the 2010 level, with 57,000 fewer people unemployed.</p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns question first answered 03/04/2019 13:56:03 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
	tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

517052

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Forced Marriage Protection Orders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many forced marriage protection orders were issued in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford West
	tabling member printed	Naz Shah
	uin	36314
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>Statistics on Forced Marriage Protection Orders are published by the Ministry of Justice and are available as part of the Family Courts Statistics Quarterly series at</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly</a>.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 10/05/2016 15:21:13 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

663024

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Marriage: Humanism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to section 14 of the Marriage (Same Sex) Couples Act 2013, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of legalising humanist marriages; and whether the Government has plans to bring forward legislative proposals to legalise such marriages.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford West
	tabling member printed	Naz Shah
	uin	58588
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2017 answer text <p>Assessments of the likely equality impacts and of the potential economic costs and benefits of provision for marriages by non-religious belief organisations, including humanist marriages, were published on gov.uk in June 2014 in the consultation paper on such provision.</p><p> </p><p>The Law Commission has published its report on initial scoping work to identify the issues for potential reform of the law concerning how and where people can get married in England and Wales. The Government is carefully considering the report and will respond in due course.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 31/01/2017 16:21:05 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
	tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

731781

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Road Traffic Offences: Sentencing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to publish feedback from the consultation into driving offences and penalties relating to causing death or serious injury that closed on 1 February 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford West
	tabling member printed	Naz Shah
	uin	683
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>The consultation on driving offences and penalties issued by the previous government closed on 1 February. The government is now considering the consultation responses. Any announcement will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 29/06/2017 10:20:28 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

788620

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Employment: Discrimination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many claims of (a) age, (b) disability, (c) race, (d) religion or belief, (e) sex and (f) sexual orientation discrimination were (i) successful and (ii) unsuccessful at hearing in each year from 2012-13 to 2016-17.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford West
	tabling member printed	Naz Shah
	uin	112556
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>The tables below show the number of Employment Tribunal claims disposed of at hearing, by outcome, for each financial year from April 2012 to March 2017, where the main jurisdiction was a discrimination complaint1.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Financial Year April 2012 - March 2013</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Main Jurisdiction Complaint</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Successful at hearing</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Unsuccessful at hearing <sup>2</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Age discrimination</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>112</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disability discrimination</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>374</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Race discrimination</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>426</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Religion or belief discrimination</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sex discrimination</p></td><td><p>104</p></td><td><p>284</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual orientation discrimination</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Financial Year April 2013 - March 2014</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Main Jurisdiction Complaint</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Successful at hearing</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Unsuccessful at hearing <sup>2</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Age discrimination</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disability discrimination</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>401</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Race discrimination</p></td><td><p>74</p></td><td><p>381</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Religion or belief discrimination</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sex discrimination</p></td><td><p>95</p></td><td><p>248</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual orientation discrimination</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Financial Year April 2014 - March 2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Main Jurisdiction Complaint</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Successful at hearing</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Unsuccessful at hearing <sup>2</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Age discrimination</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>57</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disability discrimination</p></td><td><p>87</p></td><td><p>226</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Race discrimination</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>230</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Religion or belief discrimination</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sex discrimination</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>103</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual orientation discrimination</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Financial Year April 2015 - March 2016</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Main Jurisdiction Complaint</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Successful at hearing</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Unsuccessful at hearing <sup>2</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Age discrimination</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disability discrimination</p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>177</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Race discrimination</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>163</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Religion or belief discrimination</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sex discrimination</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual orientation discrimination</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em> </em></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Financial Year April 2016 - March 2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Main Jurisdiction Complaint</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Successful at hearing</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Unsuccessful at hearing <sup>2</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Age discrimination</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>44</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disability discrimination</p></td><td><p>69</p></td><td><p>179</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Race discrimination</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>133</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Religion or belief discrimination</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sex discrimination</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual orientation discrimination</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>1 A claim can be brought under one or more different jurisdictions, for example under Age discrimination and Equal pay. The table shows the number of claims disposed at hearing where the main jurisdiction is a discrimination jurisdiction.</p><p>2 Includes &quot;Unsuccessful at hearing&quot; formerly &quot;Dismissed at hearing - Otherwise&quot; and &quot;Dismissed at a preliminary hearing&quot; formerly Dismissed at hearing - Out of scope&quot;.</p><p>Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data that are available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 20/11/2017 17:40:45 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
	tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

1052281

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Biometric Residence Permits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of printing IHS numbers on biometric cards for visa applicants.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford West
	tabling member printed	Naz Shah
	uin	215209
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) number is not used by the NHS for administrative purposes and there is no advantage in printing it on the biometric residence permit (BRP).</p><p>Surcharge payers can use their BRP to evidence their status as part of the eligibility checks carried out by the NHS. The Home Office shares data with the NHS in England on those who have paid the surcharge, or who are exempt from doing so and are entitled to free NHS care. It also provides checking services for the NHS in other parts of the UK. These services help the NHS establish whether a patient is chargeable.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/02/2019 16:55:08 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

1054606

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrants: Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the number of visa applicants who have not received an Immigration Surcharge Number as a result of that number being provided to those applicants' legal representatives and not those applicants directly; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford West
	tabling member printed	Naz Shah
	uin	216262
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not routinely record the information requested. The Immigration Health Surcharge number is sent to the email address that is provided during the payment process. Customers should ensure that they are receiving information about their application from anybody acting on their behalf, but any customer who requires details of their IHS number can request it via UKVI contact channels.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 12/02/2019 10:47:34 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

517216

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Forced Marriage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of forced marriage the police investigated in England as that offence in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford West
	tabling member printed	Naz Shah
	uin	36317
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>We made forced marriage a criminal offence in 2014 to better protect victims and send a clear message that this abhorrent practice will not be tolerated in the UK.</p><p>The Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) (a joint FCO and Home Office Unit) leads the Government's forced marriage policy, outreach and casework. It carries out a range of awareness raising work, including a comprehensive programme of outreach, new e-learning for professionals, and the launch of short film aimed at deterring potential perpetrators. For the financial years 2014-16, the Home Office has allocated £200,000 to the FMU.</p><p>Statistics on the number of cases of forced marriage investigated by the police are not collected centrally. The Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) most recent violence against women and girls report shows that the volume of referrals from the police to the CPS with a forced marriage element is going up: from 67 in 2013-14, to 82 in 2014-15. In addition, to date over 1,000 Forced Marriage Protection Orders have been issued to prevent marriages from taking place and to assist in repatriating victims.</p><p>We are encouraged by the first conviction secured in June last year, but there is still work to be done. We want to see more victims having the confidence to come forward and being identified by the police. As part of the wider work to improve the police response to so-called ‘honour’ based violence, we will continue to work with the partners to review the implementation of the new legislation and lead efforts to tackle this barbaric crime.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 36318 36352 question first answered 10/05/2016 12:18:29 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

517220

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Forced Marriage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of criminalising forced marriage.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford West
	tabling member printed	Naz Shah
	uin	36352
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>We made forced marriage a criminal offence in 2014 to better protect victims and send a clear message that this abhorrent practice will not be tolerated in the UK.</p><p>The Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) (a joint FCO and Home Office Unit) leads the Government's forced marriage policy, outreach and casework. It carries out a range of awareness raising work, including a comprehensive programme of outreach, new e-learning for professionals, and the launch of short film aimed at deterring potential perpetrators. For the financial years 2014-16, the Home Office has allocated £200,000 to the FMU.</p><p>Statistics on the number of cases of forced marriage investigated by the police are not collected centrally. The Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) most recent violence against women and girls report shows that the volume of referrals from the police to the CPS with a forced marriage element is going up: from 67 in 2013-14, to 82 in 2014-15. In addition, to date over 1,000 Forced Marriage Protection Orders have been issued to prevent marriages from taking place and to assist in repatriating victims.</p><p>We are encouraged by the first conviction secured in June last year, but there is still work to be done. We want to see more victims having the confidence to come forward and being identified by the police. As part of the wider work to improve the police response to so-called ‘honour’ based violence, we will continue to work with the partners to review the implementation of the new legislation and lead efforts to tackle this barbaric crime.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 36317 36318 question first answered 10/05/2016 12:18:29 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah

517222

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Forced Marriage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on raising the profile of forced marriage as a criminal offence in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford West
	tabling member printed	Naz Shah
	uin	36318
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>We made forced marriage a criminal offence in 2014 to better protect victims and send a clear message that this abhorrent practice will not be tolerated in the UK.</p><p>The Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) (a joint FCO and Home Office Unit) leads the Government's forced marriage policy, outreach and casework. It carries out a range of awareness raising work, including a comprehensive programme of outreach, new e-learning for professionals, and the launch of short film aimed at deterring potential perpetrators. For the financial years 2014-16, the Home Office has allocated £200,000 to the FMU.</p><p>Statistics on the number of cases of forced marriage investigated by the police are not collected centrally. The Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) most recent violence against women and girls report shows that the volume of referrals from the police to the CPS with a forced marriage element is going up: from 67 in 2013-14, to 82 in 2014-15. In addition, to date over 1,000 Forced Marriage Protection Orders have been issued to prevent marriages from taking place and to assist in repatriating victims.</p><p>We are encouraged by the first conviction secured in June last year, but there is still work to be done. We want to see more victims having the confidence to come forward and being identified by the police. As part of the wider work to improve the police response to so-called ‘honour’ based violence, we will continue to work with the partners to review the implementation of the new legislation and lead efforts to tackle this barbaric crime.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 36317 36352 question first answered 10/05/2016 12:18:29 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4409 label Biography information for Naz Shah