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	registered interest
	date	27/11/2017
	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: Learning Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, to where his Department has reallocated funding from the previous Work Programme and Work Choice to increase the employment opportunities of people with learning disability; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	115857
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The Work and Health Programme, a new contracted provision that will build on lessons learnt from the Work Programme and Work Choice, will start in England and Wales between November 2017 and March 2018. Disabled people, who will be the majority of referrals, can volunteer for the programme at any time.</p><p> </p><p>On Thursday 30 November 2017 we published ‘Improving Lives the Future of Work, Health and Disability’, which sets out details of a lifecourse approach to improving employment opportunities for people with a Learning Disability</p><p> </p><p>In addition:</p><p> </p><ul><li>We are introducing 200 Community Partners into Jobcentres - these are external appointments with experience of disability who will engage with disabled people, Jobcentre Plus staff and local employers to strengthen the support we offer disabled people seeking work, including those with learning disabilities.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Supported Employment “place and train” will be delivered through the Local Supported Employment initiative. A key element of this is the use of Job Carving, which involves working with an employer to create a job which meets the employer’s needs and can be done by a person with a learning disability.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>The Supported Work Experience proof of concepts will offer young disabled people, including young people with learning disabilities, the opportunity to take part in short work experience placements.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Access to Work has put in place a Hidden Impairment Support Team that aims to give advice and guidance to help employers understand how they can support employees with conditions like a Learning Disability.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>DWP’s Disability Confident campaign has achieved commitments from over 5000 employers. DWP is requiring all its large contractors to be Disability Confident Leaders within 12 months from Jan 2017 and all main Government departments are now signed up to Disability Confident, ensuring that Government’s contracted services become better employers of people with disabilities, including learning disabilities.</li></ul> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 05/12/2017 12:46:00 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

828016

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2018
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Inflammatory Bowel Disease
	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 with inflammatory bowel disease applied for mandatory reconsideration of their claim for employment support allowance in each of the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	123976
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The information is not readily available and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 123977 question first answered 29/01/2018 12:34:29 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

828017

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2018
	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	Employment and Support Allowance: Inflammatory Bowel Disease
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on the number of people with inflammatory bowel disease who have submitted an appeal for their claim for employment support allowance during the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	123977
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The information is not readily available and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 123976 question first answered 29/01/2018 12:34:29 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

800691

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability and Sexuality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to combat hate crime motivated by a victim’s sexuality or disability.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	117312
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>This Government abhors all forms of hate crime, including hate crimes motivated by a victim’s actual or perceived sexuality or disability. That is why we are taking a cross-Government approach to tackling the issues through the Hate Crime Action Plan published in July 2016.</p><p>The Government will continue to deliver against the commitments under the action plan which includes recently announced funding for seven new community-led projects, three of which focus specifically on tackling disability hate crime and one which focuses specifically on LGBT hate crime. The Home Secretary has also recently announced funding for the creation of a national online hate crime hub, improving the response to all forms of hate crime.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/12/2017 17:04:07 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

800692

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability and Homosexuality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents have been recorded for hate crime against (a) gay and (b) disabled people in each of the last five years for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	117313
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office collects information on the number of hate crimes recorded by the police, by monitored strand - including sexual orientation and disability. The latest statistics are published in the ‘Hate crime, England and Wales, 2016 to 2017’ statistical bulletin, available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2016-to-2017</a></p><p> </p><p>This Government is committed to tackling hate crime. The UK has a strong legislative framework to tackle hate crime. We are working across Government with police, (including National Community Tensions Team), the Crown Prosecution Service and community partners to send out a clear message that hate crime will not be tolerated and we will vigorously pursue and prosecute those who commit these crimes.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/12/2017 17:05:03 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

790871

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the equity for workers of the outcomes achieved by the pay review bodies that determine public sector pay.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	113465
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The remit of the Pay Review Bodies continues to be to provide evidence based advice on pay. We will consider their recommendations when they report from Spring 2018. Our assessment of public sector pay shows that wages in the public sector are roughly equivalent to those in the private sector, and, in addition, public sector workers benefit from more generous pensions.</p><p><br> In line with their duties under equalities legislation, Ministers fully consider equalities impacts and implications when setting the Government’s pay policy. It is for Departments to consider the equalities impacts of their proposals on workforce strategy and pay.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 21/12/2017 16:21:48 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

800693

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability and Homosexuality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that the Crown Prosecution Service has adequate resources to tackle crimes against gay and disabled people.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	117314
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>Tackling hate crime is a priority for the CPS and for wider government and the CPS is committed to allocating sufficient resource to tackle hate crime across all monitored strands. The CPS has resourced a network of Hate Crime Coordinators in each of its Areas, acting as a central point of contact for specialist advice and providing oversight of hate crime cases.</p><p>In 2016-17, disability hate crime performance included the highest ever volume of completed prosecutions at 1,009, with a conviction rate of 79.3%. There were also 1,375 completed prosecutions for homophobic hate crime, with a conviction rate of 83.2%.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 19/12/2017 13:27:41 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

800694

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Convictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many incidents of hate crime resulted in convictions in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Torfaen
	tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
	uin	117315
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a central record of the number of defendants flagged as committing hate crime offences that were prosecuted and convicted through its Case Management System.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the volume and proportion of hate crime prosecutions and convictions during each of the last three years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>-</p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2014 - 15</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2015 - 16</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2016 - 17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>-</p></td><td><p><strong>Volume</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Volume</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Volume</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Convictions</p></td><td><p>12,220</p></td><td><p>82.9%</p></td><td><p>12,846</p></td><td><p>83.2%</p></td><td><p>12,072</p></td><td><p>83.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unsuccessful</p></td><td><p>2,518</p></td><td><p>17.1%</p></td><td><p>2,596</p></td><td><p>16.8%</p></td><td><p>2,408</p></td><td><p>16.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>14,738</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>15,442</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>14,480</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><em>Data Source: Case Management Information System</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The CPS does not hold a record of the number of reported incidents of hate crimes. Such information is recorded by the 43 police forces. The data reported in the table above shows prosecutions completed by the CPS after receipt of the case papers from the police.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 19/12/2017 13:45:31 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds