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1035134

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Special Forces: Death
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Service Inquires after a death during a (a) training exercise and (b) selection event involved Special Forces in (i) 2012, (ii) 2013, (iii) 2014, (iv) 2015, (v) 2016 and (vi) 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	uin	205220
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>It is long standing policy of this Government and of previous Governments, not to comment on UK special forces.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 14/01/2019 17:04:19 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

1028532

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Russia: Air Force
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence on how many occasions Russian aircraft not using an on-board transponder have been detected in (a) approaches to and (b) inside UK airspace in each of the last five years; and if he will make statement.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	uin	203811
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>I am withholding details of the number of occasions Russian military aircraft were detected approaching UK airspace. The disclosure of this information would reveal details of the air defence of the UK which would be likely to prejudice the capability, effectiveness or security of the Armed Forces. There have been no unauthorised incursions by Russian military aircraft into UK sovereign airspace.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 10/01/2019 15:55:45 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

1028534

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2018
	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 people have died while waiting for their personal independence payment assessment to be completed; and what conditions those people died from.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	uin	203812
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is claimed by people with a range of health conditions and disabilities, many of which are degenerative or life limiting.</p><p> </p><p>All benefit claims can be made under the special rules for people who are terminally ill which will mean that they are fast tracked. These are currently being cleared within 6 working days for new claimants to PIP. The Department would encourage all claimants with a terminal illness to let the department know and to apply using the special rules.</p><p> </p><p>The cause of death of PIP claimants is not collated centrally by the Department.</p><p> </p><p>Over 3.6 million applications to PIP were made between April 2013 and 30th April 2018. Of these:</p><ul><li>4,760 claimants<sup>1</sup> died between their case being referred to, and returned from, an assessment provider;</li><li>73,800 claimants died within 6 months of their claim being registered; and</li><li>17,070 claimants died after registering but prior to the DWP making a decision on their claim. Details of the claimant’s primary medical condition, where recorded, are in the accompanying spreadsheet.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ul><li>These figures include claims made under both Normal Rules and Special Rules for the Terminally Ill and include new claims and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to PIP reassessment claims.</li><li><sup>1</sup>These figures only include claimants whose case has been referred to an assessment provider and who died before their case was returned from an assessment provider to DWP. All new claims and DLA to PIP reassessment claims which reach the assessment stage are referred to an assessment provider.</li><li>The point of application is taken as the day the claimant registered a claim to PIP as recorded on the PIP computer system.</li><li>This is unpublished data from the PIP computer system’s (PIP CS) management information. It should be used with caution and it may be subject to future revision.</li><li>Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.</li><li>Figures cover claims made up to and including 30<sup>th</sup> April 2018.</li><li>GB only.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Under the Social Security (Notification of Deaths) Regulations 2012 and s125 of Social Security Administration Act 1992 date of death is provided to the Department for all registered deaths. Additionally next of kin also provide information on the date of death of an individual and this information is used appropriately in the administration of Departmental benefits.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 203813 203817 question first answered 11/01/2019 15:05:26 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton attachment 1 file name Primary conditions spreadsheet.xlsx title Primary conditions spreadsheet
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

1028535

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2018
	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 people who applied for personal independence payment died within six months of making their application.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	uin	203813
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is claimed by people with a range of health conditions and disabilities, many of which are degenerative or life limiting.</p><p> </p><p>All benefit claims can be made under the special rules for people who are terminally ill which will mean that they are fast tracked. These are currently being cleared within 6 working days for new claimants to PIP. The Department would encourage all claimants with a terminal illness to let the department know and to apply using the special rules.</p><p> </p><p>The cause of death of PIP claimants is not collated centrally by the Department.</p><p> </p><p>Over 3.6 million applications to PIP were made between April 2013 and 30th April 2018. Of these:</p><ul><li>4,760 claimants<sup>1</sup> died between their case being referred to, and returned from, an assessment provider;</li><li>73,800 claimants died within 6 months of their claim being registered; and</li><li>17,070 claimants died after registering but prior to the DWP making a decision on their claim. Details of the claimant’s primary medical condition, where recorded, are in the accompanying spreadsheet.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ul><li>These figures include claims made under both Normal Rules and Special Rules for the Terminally Ill and include new claims and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to PIP reassessment claims.</li><li><sup>1</sup>These figures only include claimants whose case has been referred to an assessment provider and who died before their case was returned from an assessment provider to DWP. All new claims and DLA to PIP reassessment claims which reach the assessment stage are referred to an assessment provider.</li><li>The point of application is taken as the day the claimant registered a claim to PIP as recorded on the PIP computer system.</li><li>This is unpublished data from the PIP computer system’s (PIP CS) management information. It should be used with caution and it may be subject to future revision.</li><li>Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.</li><li>Figures cover claims made up to and including 30<sup>th</sup> April 2018.</li><li>GB only.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Under the Social Security (Notification of Deaths) Regulations 2012 and s125 of Social Security Administration Act 1992 date of death is provided to the Department for all registered deaths. Additionally next of kin also provide information on the date of death of an individual and this information is used appropriately in the administration of Departmental benefits.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 203812 203817 question first answered 11/01/2019 15:05:26 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton attachment 1 file name Primary conditions spreadsheet.xlsx title Primary conditions spreadsheet
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

1028536

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2018
	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: Medical Examinations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions she has had with the Scottish Government on enabling registered medical practitioners to make clinical judgments about whether illnesses are terminal.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	uin	203814
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>It is for the Scottish Government to decide their policies on the devolved matters under the Scotland Act 2016, my Department is working closely with them. The Joint Ministerial Working Group on Welfare is the forum in which exchanges take place at Ministerial level and officials from the two governments work closely together, including on matters which have an effect on reserved benefits. This includes assessments relevant to disability and carer benefits.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 203815 question first answered 08/01/2019 17:30:27 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

1028537

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2018
	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: Medical Examinations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she will ask the Scottish Government for advanced sight of the guidance being developed to enable registered medical practitioners to make a clinical judgement on whether an illness is regarded as terminal.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	uin	203815
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>It is for the Scottish Government to decide their policies on the devolved matters under the Scotland Act 2016, my Department is working closely with them. The Joint Ministerial Working Group on Welfare is the forum in which exchanges take place at Ministerial level and officials from the two governments work closely together, including on matters which have an effect on reserved benefits. This includes assessments relevant to disability and carer benefits.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 203814 question first answered 08/01/2019 17:30:27 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

1028539

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2018
	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: Medical Examinations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the financial effect of enabling registered healthcare professionals to make clinical judgments about whether illnesses are terminal without using the six-month time limit.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	uin	203816
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made. However, the Department has recently engaged with leading clinicians to discuss the current wording and guidance used in the benefit system around terminal illness, with the aim of improving understanding of the Special Rules process and to consider proposed suggestions for improvement. We will also shortly be engaging with disability charities, such as the Motor Neurone Disease Association and others to help inform this work.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 11/01/2019 14:54:28 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

1028579

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2018
	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 people have died while waiting for their eligibility for personal independence payment to be determined, and what the main disabling condition was of those people.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	uin	203817
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is claimed by people with a range of health conditions and disabilities, many of which are degenerative or life limiting.</p><p> </p><p>All benefit claims can be made under the special rules for people who are terminally ill which will mean that they are fast tracked. These are currently being cleared within 6 working days for new claimants to PIP. The Department would encourage all claimants with a terminal illness to let the department know and to apply using the special rules.</p><p> </p><p>The cause of death of PIP claimants is not collated centrally by the Department.</p><p> </p><p>Over 3.6 million applications to PIP were made between April 2013 and 30th April 2018. Of these:</p><ul><li>4,760 claimants<sup>1</sup> died between their case being referred to, and returned from, an assessment provider;</li><li>73,800 claimants died within 6 months of their claim being registered; and</li><li>17,070 claimants died after registering but prior to the DWP making a decision on their claim. Details of the claimant’s primary medical condition, where recorded, are in the accompanying spreadsheet.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ul><li>These figures include claims made under both Normal Rules and Special Rules for the Terminally Ill and include new claims and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to PIP reassessment claims.</li><li><sup>1</sup>These figures only include claimants whose case has been referred to an assessment provider and who died before their case was returned from an assessment provider to DWP. All new claims and DLA to PIP reassessment claims which reach the assessment stage are referred to an assessment provider.</li><li>The point of application is taken as the day the claimant registered a claim to PIP as recorded on the PIP computer system.</li><li>This is unpublished data from the PIP computer system’s (PIP CS) management information. It should be used with caution and it may be subject to future revision.</li><li>Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.</li><li>Figures cover claims made up to and including 30<sup>th</sup> April 2018.</li><li>GB only.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Under the Social Security (Notification of Deaths) Regulations 2012 and s125 of Social Security Administration Act 1992 date of death is provided to the Department for all registered deaths. Additionally next of kin also provide information on the date of death of an individual and this information is used appropriately in the administration of Departmental benefits.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 203812 203813 question first answered 11/01/2019 15:05:26 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton attachment 1 file name Primary conditions spreadsheet.xlsx title Primary conditions spreadsheet
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

1024683

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2018
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Ukraine: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2018 to Question 194629, whether his Department plans to award a civilian service medal to UK citizens to the OSCE mission to Ukraine.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	uin	202055
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office highly values the work of all UK citizens serving in the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in Ukraine. There are no plans to introduce a specific OSCE SMM civilian service medal. We will continue to support our secondees with a package of benefits and remuneration that recognises their work for this important Mission.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 21/12/2018 13:21:58 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

1024796

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2018
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	China: Uyghurs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Chinese counterpart on upholding the human rights of Uighur Muslims in China; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	uin	202084
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>We have serious concerns about the human rights situation in Xinjiang and the Chinese Government’s deepening crackdown; including credible reports of re-education camps and widespread surveillance and restrictions targeted at ethnic minorities.</p><p>During China’s Universal Periodic Review at the UN Human Rights Council on 6 November, the UK made a statement which described our concern about the treatment of ethnic minorities in China, including Uyghurs. We issued a specific recommendation, calling on China to implement the recommendations by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Xinjiang, and to allow the UN to monitor the implementation. We also raised our concerns about Xinjiang in our Item 4 statement at the September UN Human Rights Council, and we supported the statement of 26 October by the European External Action Service highlighting concerns about Xinjiang.</p><p>I raised our concerns about Xinjiang with Vice Minister Guo Yezhou during my visit to China on 22 July 2018. The Foreign Secretary, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, also raised our concerns about the region with Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his visit to China on 30 July 2018.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 20/12/2018 10:35:04 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon