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1129072

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2019
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: ICT
	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 list the countries hosting cloud-based data as contracted by her Department.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	259455
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>DWP host cloud-based data in the following countries:</p><p> </p><p>United Kingdom</p><p>Eire</p><p>Netherlands</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 06/06/2019 16:51:37 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1148992

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	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	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the number and proportion of universal credit applicants who struggle to regularly access the internet.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	353
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>Our Universal Credit Claimant Survey, found that 98 per cent of claimants have internet access and did claim online, and the majority of those said they found the claim process overall to be straightforward. This can be accessed at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-full-service-claimant-survey" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-full-service-claimant-survey</a></p><p> </p><p>The Department is committed to making the application process for Universal Credit as quick and easy as possible to ensure that claimants receive their award at the earliest opportunity.</p><p> </p><p>Citizen’s Advice and Citizen’s Advice Scotland have been delivering the ‘Help to Claim’ service since April 2019, supporting claimants with making a new claim to Universal Credit. The Citizens Advice Help to Claim service offers tailored, practical support to help people make a Universal Credit claim up to receiving their first full correct payment on time, and is available online, on the phone and face-to-face through local Citizen’s Advice services.</p><p> </p><p>All Jobcentre Plus offices across the country have Wi-Fi and computers available for claimants to access the internet. For those that are still unable to access or use digital services, or are not able to travel, assistance to make and maintain their claim is available via the Freephone Universal Credit helpline. In certain circumstances, a home visit can be arranged to support a claimant in making and maintaining their claim</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 17/10/2019 14:10:54 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1123380

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans his Department has to review the requirement for holographic ID for the purchase of alcohol.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	248072
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office has no plans to review the requirement for a holographic mark or an ultra-violet feature on identification used for the purchase of alcohol. In due course, the mandatory licensing condition that includes this requirement will need to be amended to allow the use of digital forms of identification. However, at present there are no industry standards on which to base such an amendment.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 07/05/2019 16:16:16 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1125645

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 7 May 2019 to Question 248072, whether his Department has a timeframe for the introduction of digital forms of identification for the purchase of alcohol.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	252611
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office has no timeframe for amending the mandatory licensing condition on age verification to enable the use of digital forms of identification.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 07/06/2019 13:45:27 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1127286

	registered interest
	date	17/05/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 7 May 2019 to Question 248072 on Alcoholic Drinks: Sales , and the Answer of 16 May to Question 253725 on Immigration: EU Nationals, for what reason the Government does not use the standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization to amend the mandatory licensing condition to allow the use of digital forms of identification.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	255697
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office will consider whether the standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organisation could be used to amend the mandatory licensing condition on age verification.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 24/05/2019 13:41:17 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1127649

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Mortgages: Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to prevent joint mortgages being used as a method of financial abuse.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	256396
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2019 answer text <p>Following our public consultation last year, on 21 January we published a landmark draft Domestic Abuse Bill, consultation response and research on the societal costs of domestic abuse. This work contains a ground-breaking series of measures to transform our response to all forms of domestic abuse – including economic abuse – by promoting awareness, supporting victims, tackling perpetrators and improving services.</p><p>We are explicitly including economic abuse in the proposed new statutory definition of domestic abuse in the draft Bill to acknowledge the life-changing impact that economic abuse can have on a victim’s life and to raise awareness of this issue amongst criminal justice agencies and frontline professionals.</p><p>In our Government consultation response published alongside the draft Bill we set out our commitment to fund the National Skills Academy £200,000 to develop and deliver financial capability training for frontline workers to support individuals who are experiencing economic abuse. We are also providing approximately £250,000 until 2020 to create a national advice service for banks and building societies, increase the capacity of existing telephone casework services for victims of domestic abuse and develop resources to help people identify if they are experiencing economic abuse.</p><p>In addition, we are working closely with UK Finance to support their work to encourage banks and the wider financial services sector to improve the support they provide to victims of domestic abuse accessing their services, such as the voluntary Code of Conduct for banks to sign up to and a Consumer Information Pack setting out for victims what support they can expect from their bank. We will continue to work with UK Finance to encourage banks and financial authorities to do more to support victims of domestic abuse and help them move forward to escape debt, joint accounts, and mortgages.</p><p>More widely, the Joint Fraud Taskforce is leading an ambitious programme of work to prevent all forms of fraud and protect the most vulnerable in our society who are often targeted by fraudsters.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 07/06/2019 13:40:58 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1128882

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 24 May 2019 to Question 255697, what the timescale is for considering whether the standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organisation could be used to amend the mandatory licensing condition on age verification.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	259453
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>Home Office officials have now considered the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) standards.</p><p>Those standards relate to identity documents such as passports and national identity cards that contain a biometric chip. We are aware that a digital ID is being proposed for use in verifying age during the purchase of alcohol which takes the form of a mobile phone app. It does not incorporate a biometric chip into the mobile device. Therefore, the ICAO standards are not applicable for this purpose.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 06/06/2019 14:59:31 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1132824

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 24 May 2019 to Question 255697 on Alcoholic Drinks: Sales, what assessment he has made of whether the BSI Publicly Available Specification (a) 499: 2019 entitled Code of practice for digital identification and strong customer authentication and (b) 1296:2018 entitled Online age checking: Provision and use of online age check services: Code of Practice could be used to amend the mandatory licensing condition on age verification.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	266155
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2019 answer text <p>The formation of a joint Digital Identity Unit by the Cabinet Office and the Department of Culture Media and Sport was recently announced. My officials will seek to work with that unit to examine the suitability of existing standards for the purpose of amending the mandatory licensing condition.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 26/06/2019 14:44:39 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

839292

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Greater Manchester
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many recorded incidents of domestic violence there were in (a) Leigh constituency and (b) Wigan Borough in each of the last ten years.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	127846
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2018 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics publishes information on the number of incidents of domestic abuse recorded by the police.</p><p>This information is published by police force area in a cross government statistical bulletin ‘Domestic abuse in England and Wales: year ending March 2017’, which can be found at the link below. Data are not available at the constituency or borough level.</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/domesticabuseinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2017" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/domesticabuseinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2017</a></p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 21/02/2018 11:18:15 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1123431

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2019
	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	Parliament: Huawei
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether Huawei equipment is used in the parliamentary (a) telecoms and communications network and (b) security and surveillance network.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	248073
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>No Huawei equipment is used in the parliamentary telecoms, communications, security or surveillance networks.</p><p>The only use of Huawei kit is for mobile cellular enhancement. Firstly, this is in devices (commonly referenced as MiFi devices) that are used to boost access to the parliamentary mobile phone provider’s network (O2) where signal strength is problematic. The MiFi devices do not connect to the Parliamentary network and should be viewed as extensions to the O2 mobile phone network. This equipment is branded O2 rather than Huawei.</p><p>Secondly, there already is, and there will be some additional, Huawei equipment installed by the four Mobile Network Operators to provide cellular signal enhancement in Parliament.</p><p>Huawei components are used by all the major mobile telephony networks in the UK. Parliament has no evidence on which to base a recommendation either in favour of or against the use of Huawei kit on such networks. The risk of mobile phone telecommunications networks use of Huawei kit is managed at a national level by the National Cyber Security Centre, Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure and the private sector, and Parliament takes its lead from the national stance on the risks present from its use.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 07/05/2019 10:34:40 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake previous answer version 116126 answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt