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1683090

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date	17/01/2024
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: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has conducted an equality impact assessment of the use of machine learning in benefit fraud investigations.
tabling member constituency	City of Durham
tabling member printed	Mary Kelly Foy
uin	10282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <p>The Department has robust processes to ensure ethical use and impact of data is considered which includes Equality Impact Assessments for transformative initiatives that involve personal data, aligned with data-ethics frameworks, codes of practice, and working principles for analytical communities within the department that work with personal data.</p><p> </p><p>We do not use algorithms to make decisions regarding fraudulent claims, these are always made by humans.</p><p> </p><p>We will be providing further information in our 2023-24 Report and Accounts - <a href="https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/42012/documents/208912/default/" target="_blank">committees.parliament.uk/publications/42012/documents/208912/default/</a></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 23/01/2024 15:01:38 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4753 label Biography information for Mary Kelly Foy

1329706

registered interest
date	04/06/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bicycles: Parking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had recent discussions with the Royal National Institute of Blind People and The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association on ensuring that bikes are parked in docking stations to prevent them being parked at random on pavements and in pedestrian areas.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	10282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2021 answer text <p>The Department has regular discussions with its statutory advisors, the Disabled Person’s Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC), on the transport needs of disabled people. I last met with the organisations mentioned in the question on 18th March 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has previously discussed this matter with stakeholders including local authorities and representatives from groups representing visually impaired people. Local authorities already have powers to deal with hire bicycles if they are causing an obstruction or nuisance.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 14/06/2021 12:55:07 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

759748

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	General Practitioners: Attendance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to review the sanctions available to GP practices against patients who repeatedly do not attend appointments.
tabling member constituency	Milton Keynes South
tabling member printed	Iain Stewart
uin	10282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>The National Health Service Constitution states that patients are responsible for keeping appointments or cancelling them within a reasonable time. At present there are no sanctions available for general practitioner practices to manage repeated failure to attend appointments. There are no plans at present to review this.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/09/2017 13:38:21 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4015 label Biography information for Iain Stewart

418990

registered interest
date	15/09/2015
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department takes to ensure that absentee fathers are financially responsible for their dependent children.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	10282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2015 answer text <p>The new statutory child maintenance scheme (“the 2012 Scheme” - administered by the Child Maintenance Service) has a number of key features designed to ensure that non-resident parents meet their financial responsibilities to their children. <br></p><p>For example, the 2012 Scheme uses tax data taken directly from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, addressing challenges around ensuring that the child maintenance calculation is based on accurate earnings information. The scheme also enables swifter identification and follow-up of those non-resident parents who fail to pay their child maintenance. <br></p><p>Where non-resident parents fail to meet their liabilities, there are a range of enforcement powers; for example, child maintenance can be taken directly from bank accounts and wages; non-resident parents are subject to charges for any enforcement action taken against them; and the Government has also introduced a new power to disclose non-compliance to credit reference agencies.</p><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions is responsible for the Child Maintenance Service in Great Britain, in Northern Ireland Child Maintenance is administered by the Department for Social Development.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 23/09/2015 12:25:34 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon