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1238327

	registered interest
	date	28/09/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when his Department plans to disburse the additional funding and grants for costs associated with the covid-19 outbreak claimed for by (a) Eversely Primary School and (b) other schools.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	96163
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2020 answer text <p>The Department is providing additional funding to schools, on top of existing budgets, to cover unavoidable costs incurred between March and July due to the COVID-19 outbreak that cannot be met from their existing resources.</p><p>Schools have been eligible to claim for: increased premises related costs associated with keeping schools open over the Easter and summer half term holidays; support for free school meals for eligible children who are not in school, where schools are not using the national voucher scheme; and additional cleaning costs required due to confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases, over and above the cost of existing cleaning arrangements.</p><p>The first claims window for the COVID-19 schools fund closed on 21 July. There will be a further opportunity in the autumn for schools to claim for exceptional costs that fell between March and July. This second claims window will be available for schools who were unable to claim in the summer and will be for the same eligible cost categories.</p><p>Schools have claimed £104 million against the standard expenditure categories in the fund, as set out above. The Department will be making further payments in the autumn term to schools who either claimed outside of the standard categories or whose claims exceeded the cost limit, following an assessment of their claims. Along with other schools who made a claim outside of the standard expenditure categories, Eversley Primary School, Enfield, will receive a payment in the autumn term which will reflect the outcome of that assessment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/10/2020 16:20:17 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1138853

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probation: Death
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department takes to (a) monitor, (b) investigate, (c) learn lessons for prevention from and (d) respond at a (i) local and (ii) national level to deaths of offenders in the community on post custody supervision.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	277251
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>All deaths of offenders under supervision are the subject of an internal review by the relevant probation provider, which must consider from the circumstances whether any areas of probation practice could be improved. This includes the deaths of those being supervised after release from custody. Probation providers report annually to Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service on the numbers of deaths and their causes, and share learning points from the reviews that they have conducted. A small number of deaths under post-release supervision, including those that occur in Approved Premises, are independently investigated by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.</p><p> </p><p>The number of offenders who died under supervision increased from 704 in 2010/11 to 955 in 2017/18. The Offender Rehabilitation Act (ORA) was introduced on 1 February 2015 and resulted in an increase in the number of offenders on post-release supervision. While the total number of deaths under supervision has continued to increase, the number of deaths post-release fell by 8% in the last year, from 401 in 2016/17 to 367 in 2017/18.</p><p> </p><p>The National Suicide Prevention Strategy identifies people in contact with the criminal justice system as a high-risk group, and we recognise that the time following release from prison can be a particularly high-risk period for suicide and for deaths from other causes. The primary role of probation is to protect the public and prevent re-offending, and people under supervision in the community are not in the care of HM Prison and Probation Service in the way that they are when in custody. While probation staff do everything they can to help offenders find access to vital services including healthcare, housing, and treatment for drug and alcohol problems, they do not have sole responsibility for caring for them. We are conducting a review of post-release deaths, which aims to identify what further actions may be appropriate to prevent them, while recognising that a range of other organisations share responsibility for their wellbeing.</p><p> </p><p>We are also investing an extra £22m in ‘through-the-gate’ assistance for offenders, to help them find the support they need on issues such as housing, healthcare and employment, and they have the same access to these services as any other person in the community.</p><p> </p><p>The number of deaths under post-release supervision during 2017/18, broken down by time elapsed since release and by cause of death, is in the attached table. The figures are taken from probation providers’ annual reports. Care is taken when processing and analysing them, but the detail is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 277252 277253 question first answered 31/07/2019 15:14:41 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name PQ 277251-53 Bambos Charalambous MP figures.xlsx title Table
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1138854

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probation: Death
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the rise in deaths of people on post-custody supervision since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	277252
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>All deaths of offenders under supervision are the subject of an internal review by the relevant probation provider, which must consider from the circumstances whether any areas of probation practice could be improved. This includes the deaths of those being supervised after release from custody. Probation providers report annually to Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service on the numbers of deaths and their causes, and share learning points from the reviews that they have conducted. A small number of deaths under post-release supervision, including those that occur in Approved Premises, are independently investigated by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.</p><p> </p><p>The number of offenders who died under supervision increased from 704 in 2010/11 to 955 in 2017/18. The Offender Rehabilitation Act (ORA) was introduced on 1 February 2015 and resulted in an increase in the number of offenders on post-release supervision. While the total number of deaths under supervision has continued to increase, the number of deaths post-release fell by 8% in the last year, from 401 in 2016/17 to 367 in 2017/18.</p><p> </p><p>The National Suicide Prevention Strategy identifies people in contact with the criminal justice system as a high-risk group, and we recognise that the time following release from prison can be a particularly high-risk period for suicide and for deaths from other causes. The primary role of probation is to protect the public and prevent re-offending, and people under supervision in the community are not in the care of HM Prison and Probation Service in the way that they are when in custody. While probation staff do everything they can to help offenders find access to vital services including healthcare, housing, and treatment for drug and alcohol problems, they do not have sole responsibility for caring for them. We are conducting a review of post-release deaths, which aims to identify what further actions may be appropriate to prevent them, while recognising that a range of other organisations share responsibility for their wellbeing.</p><p> </p><p>We are also investing an extra £22m in ‘through-the-gate’ assistance for offenders, to help them find the support they need on issues such as housing, healthcare and employment, and they have the same access to these services as any other person in the community.</p><p> </p><p>The number of deaths under post-release supervision during 2017/18, broken down by time elapsed since release and by cause of death, is in the attached table. The figures are taken from probation providers’ annual reports. Care is taken when processing and analysing them, but the detail is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 277251 277253 question first answered 31/07/2019 15:14:41 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name PQ 277251-53 Bambos Charalambous MP figures.xlsx title Table
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1138855

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Probation: Death
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people died whilst under post-release supervision in 2017-18; and what the (a) number of days between release from prison and date of death and (b) cause of death was in each of those cases.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	277253
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>All deaths of offenders under supervision are the subject of an internal review by the relevant probation provider, which must consider from the circumstances whether any areas of probation practice could be improved. This includes the deaths of those being supervised after release from custody. Probation providers report annually to Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service on the numbers of deaths and their causes, and share learning points from the reviews that they have conducted. A small number of deaths under post-release supervision, including those that occur in Approved Premises, are independently investigated by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.</p><p> </p><p>The number of offenders who died under supervision increased from 704 in 2010/11 to 955 in 2017/18. The Offender Rehabilitation Act (ORA) was introduced on 1 February 2015 and resulted in an increase in the number of offenders on post-release supervision. While the total number of deaths under supervision has continued to increase, the number of deaths post-release fell by 8% in the last year, from 401 in 2016/17 to 367 in 2017/18.</p><p> </p><p>The National Suicide Prevention Strategy identifies people in contact with the criminal justice system as a high-risk group, and we recognise that the time following release from prison can be a particularly high-risk period for suicide and for deaths from other causes. The primary role of probation is to protect the public and prevent re-offending, and people under supervision in the community are not in the care of HM Prison and Probation Service in the way that they are when in custody. While probation staff do everything they can to help offenders find access to vital services including healthcare, housing, and treatment for drug and alcohol problems, they do not have sole responsibility for caring for them. We are conducting a review of post-release deaths, which aims to identify what further actions may be appropriate to prevent them, while recognising that a range of other organisations share responsibility for their wellbeing.</p><p> </p><p>We are also investing an extra £22m in ‘through-the-gate’ assistance for offenders, to help them find the support they need on issues such as housing, healthcare and employment, and they have the same access to these services as any other person in the community.</p><p> </p><p>The number of deaths under post-release supervision during 2017/18, broken down by time elapsed since release and by cause of death, is in the attached table. The figures are taken from probation providers’ annual reports. Care is taken when processing and analysing them, but the detail is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 277251 277252 question first answered 31/07/2019 15:14:41 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer attachment 1 file name PQ 277251-53 Bambos Charalambous MP figures.xlsx title Table
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1348145

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2021
	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	Employment: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support the Government is providing to clinically extremely vulnerable people who have (a) been unable to work from home and consequently have been unable to work as a result of the nature of their employment and (b) amassed debts in covering basic living costs.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	35844
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2021 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><p>The Government has put in place an unprecedented package of support to help people during the COVID-19 pandemic, protecting livelihoods with the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme, and a range of temporary welfare measures. The Government has also worked with mortgage lenders, credit providers and the Financial Conduct Authority to help people manage their finances with payment holidays, and has taken unprecedented action to support renters, ensuring that no-one has been forced from their home during lockdown.</p><p>Although Shielding advice was paused on 1 April 2021, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is still available until 30 September, and clinically extremely vulnerable people may be eligible throughout this period, providing their employer agrees. Clinically extremely vulnerable people may also be eligible for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) if they are sick or incapable of work due to coronavirus or other health reasons, subject to meeting the eligibility conditions. Those who are not receiving any support through the furlough scheme or Employment and Support Allowance may be eligible for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) where they meet the qualifying conditions.</p><p>The Government recognises that the full impact of COVID-19 on people’s personal finances is still unfolding, and that some are struggling at this challenging time. To help people in problem debt get their finances back on track, the Government has agreed to maintain record levels of funding for free-to-consumer debt advice in England for the Money and Pension Service in 2021/22.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this, the Debt Respite Scheme (Breathing Space) has now been launched in England and Wales. A standard breathing space offers people in problem debt a pause of up to 60 days on most enforcement action, interest, fees and charges, and will encourage them to seek professional debt advice. A mental health crisis breathing space, with some stronger protections, is available to people receiving mental health crisis treatment. It lasts as long as the person's mental health crisis treatment, plus a further 30 days.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 22/07/2021 13:20:12 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1223803

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2020
	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, what estimate he has made of the number of people that have not attended their outpatient ophthalmology appointment since the start of 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	73036
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/08/2020 answer text <p>A count of outpatient appointments by ‘attend or did not attend’ type for ophthalmology in England from 1 January 2020 is provided in the following table. Data provided are not a count of individual patients as a patient may have had more than one appointment within the time period. Data for 2020 are provisional and subject to change until the finalised data are published:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Attend or did not attend’ type codes and description</p></td><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>May</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Appointment cancelled by, or on behalf of, the patient</p></td><td><p>83,550</p></td><td><p>78,728</p></td><td><p>115,562</p></td><td><p>52,958</p></td><td><p>25,707</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Did not attend – no advance warning given</p></td><td><p>63,954</p></td><td><p>54,918</p></td><td><p>61,186</p></td><td><p>20,496</p></td><td><p>17,021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Appointment cancelled or postponed by the Health Care Provider</p></td><td><p>74,745</p></td><td><p>71,466</p></td><td><p>140,989</p></td><td><p>203,933</p></td><td><p>112,541</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Seen, having attended on time or, if late, before the relevant care professional was ready to see the patient</p></td><td><p>759,599</p></td><td><p>688,583</p></td><td><p>533,189</p></td><td><p>256,201</p></td><td><p>269,040</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Arrived late, after the relevant care professional was ready to see the patient, but was seen</p></td><td><p>9,549</p></td><td><p>8,543</p></td><td><p>6,121</p></td><td><p>2,092</p></td><td><p>2,421</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Did not attend – patient arrived late and could not be seen</p></td><td><p>522</p></td><td><p>158</p></td><td><p>205</p></td><td><p>148</p></td><td><p>127</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not known</p></td><td><p>5,031</p></td><td><p>5,199</p></td><td><p>7,969</p></td><td><p>8,729</p></td><td><p>6,354</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 03/08/2020 15:16:20 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1283981

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Digital Technology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Digital Evidence Transfer Service (DETS).
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	149315
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2021 answer text <p>A programme to support the development of a Digital Evidence Transfer Service (DETS) was funded through the Police Transformation Fund. The ambition of DETS was to develop a single product which could be used by all forces to share digital evidence with Criminal Justice System. However, a decision was made in September 2019 to discontinue the project. This was following a review of the project and the national landscape for digital evidence sharing capabilities across all forces, which found that the majority of forces had subsequently acquired and implemented their own digital evidence sharing capabilities<em>. </em>Lessons learnt from this project are being taken forward to ensure joined-up approaches on wider programmes within the wider Criminal Justice System.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 11/02/2021 16:19:21 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1311027

	registered interest
	date	21/04/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prison Accommodation: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many temporary accommodation cells were installed in the women's prison estate since April 2020 as part of the Government's plans to limit the spread of covid-19 in prisons.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	185455
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2021 answer text <p>A total of 112 temporary accommodation cells have been installed in the women’s estate at HMP &amp; YOI Drake Hall, HMP &amp; YOI East Sutton Park, HMP Foston Hall and HMP &amp; YOI Askham Grange to limit the spread of covid-19 in the women’s prison estate.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 26/04/2021 14:30:24 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1167200

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were released from prison on each day from 17 December 2018 to 31 December 2018; and how many of those people were recalled to prison within one month of release.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	7196
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2019 answer text <p>A total of 2,853 prisoners were released from prison between 17 December 2018 and 31 December 2018 inclusive. Of these, 325 individuals had a licence recall within one month (31 days) of release although not all would have been apprehended by the Police and returned to prison custody within that timeframe.</p><p> </p><p>Public protection is our priority. Offenders on licence are subject to strict licence conditions and supervision and are liable to be recalled to custody where they breach their licence conditions.</p><p> </p><p>The figures detailed in the answer have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 04/11/2019 16:24:10 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1600231

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2023
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	PAYE
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of HMRC in enforcing the agency regulations when collecting PAYE tax from agencies.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
	uin	156216
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2023 answer text <p>Agencies must deduct Income Tax and National Insurance Contributions (NICs) at source from payments of earnings to agency workers. HMRC’s processes for collecting any Income Tax and NICs due from agencies under Pay As You Earn (PAYE) are the same as those for other employers.</p><p> </p><p>Where HMRC finds that a UK agency has failed to account for Income Tax and NICs in circumstances where the agency rules apply to them, it will usually seek to recover unpaid amounts due from them. Whether the agency rules apply in a particular case is dependent on the facts of that case.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 07/03/2023 14:37:59 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous