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date	24/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Biometric Residence Permits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of (a) system upgrades and (b) maintenance on the time taken to produce biometric residence permits.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	3593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office releases weekly upgrades, including maintenance, to the Atlas caseworking system. Such releases are completed without the Atlas caseworking system, or services like BRP production, being down at all and so there is no impact upon caseworking or BRP production.</p><p>Where a maintenance release requires the system to be taken down temporarily, it is done so in quiet periods and for a very short time period, so that caseworking operations are not adversely affected.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 3592 question first answered 29/11/2023 17:27:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1463490

registered interest
date	17/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Veterans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 11 March 2022 to Question 134358 on Immigration: Veterans, whether non-UK veterans living outside the UK who were discharged more than two years ago will qualify under the policy; and what support her Department plans to provide to help them regularise their immigration status.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	3593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>The fee waiver policy applies to non-UK veterans living outside the UK who apply for settlement in the UK more than two years after discharge where the requirements of Part 3, paragraph 11 of Appendix Armed Forces are met.</p><p> </p><p>Non-UK veterans outside of the UK do not have an immigration status to regularise but, if they meet the requirements of Appendix Armed Forces, they should apply online at <a href="https://visas-immigration.service.gov.uk/apply-visa-type/armed-forces-group" target="_blank">https://visas-immigration.service.gov.uk/apply-visa-type/armed-forces-group</a> if they want to settle in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 24/05/2022 09:23:47 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster previous answer version 2255 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1151335

registered interest
date	22/10/2019
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	NHS: Legal Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of paying NHS lawyers regardless of case outcome on (a) incentivising deny-delay-defend behaviour, (b) prolonging indefensible cases and (c) rewarding poor assessment of case merits prior to litigation.
tabling member constituency	Basildon and Billericay
tabling member printed	Mr John Baron
uin	3593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>If the National Health Service gets something wrong and patients are harmed, it is quite right that the NHS is held to account. However, we are concerned about the rising cost associated with clinical negligence and is something we are taking very seriously.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Resolution has a responsibility to settle justified claims fairly and promptly and defend unjustified claims to secure NHS resources. In doing so, NHS Resolution is committed to the use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), including increasing its use of mediation, and consequently, the percentage of claims moving into formal litigation is the lowest it has ever been. In 2018/19, 70.7% of the 15,655 claims settled, both clinical and non-clinical negligence, were resolved with the use of ADR, without the cases going into formal court proceedings and, in these early stages, more cases are resolved without the payment of damages than with payment of damages.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries grouped question UIN 3594 question first answered 28/10/2019 16:34:29 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	1390 label Biography information for Mr John Baron

749295

registered interest
date	06/07/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Public Sector: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of inflation on public sector workers who have had their pay capped.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
uin	3593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>A range of factors are taken into consideration when formulating the government’s public sector pay policy including the impact on jobs, recruitment and retention, earnings in both the public and private sector and inflation. Government will continually assess that balance when considering public pay policy. The Government has introduced the National Living Wage and committed to raising the personal allowance further, to £12,500, by the end of this Parliament. By 2017-18, 1.3 million people on the lowest incomes will have been taken out of income tax altogether, and a typical taxpayer will pay over £1,000 less income tax, compared to 2010-11.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 11/07/2017 13:20:08 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

384695

registered interest
date	22/06/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Coal: Imports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 1 June 2015 to Question 610, what amount of coal has been imported to the UK from each country in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Harry Harpham
uin	3593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2015 answer text <p>Nearly 90 per cent of all coal imported to the UK is steam coal, therefore figures for this type of coal are provided.</p><p>In the past ten years, over 90 per cent of UK steam coal imports originated from four countries: Russia, Colombia, the USA, and South Africa. Nearly half (49 per cent) of all coal imports in this period came from Russia. The table below gives UK steam coal imports by country from 2005 to 2014 in thousand tonnes:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>Country of Origin</em></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2005</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2006</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2007</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2008</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2009</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2010</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2011</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2012</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2013</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2014</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Russia</em></p></td><td><p>16,888</p></td><td><p>22,543</p></td><td><p>20,185</p></td><td><p>21,193</p></td><td><p>18,414</p></td><td><p>9,166</p></td><td><p>12,093</p></td><td><p>17,459</p></td><td><p>19,177</p></td><td><p>15,831</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Colombia</em></p></td><td><p>3,369</p></td><td><p>3,883</p></td><td><p>3,842</p></td><td><p>5,294</p></td><td><p>5,233</p></td><td><p>6,236</p></td><td><p>8,010</p></td><td><p>11,749</p></td><td><p>11,388</p></td><td><p>9,269</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>USA</em></p></td><td><p>266</p></td><td><p>707</p></td><td><p>1,121</p></td><td><p>2,792</p></td><td><p>3,112</p></td><td><p>2,349</p></td><td><p>4,461</p></td><td><p>8,858</p></td><td><p>9,528</p></td><td><p>7,687</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>EU (1)</em></p></td><td><p>1,001</p></td><td><p>1,584</p></td><td><p>482</p></td><td><p>933</p></td><td><p>1,136</p></td><td><p>881</p></td><td><p>1,056</p></td><td><p>583</p></td><td><p>1,111</p></td><td><p>690</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>South Africa</em></p></td><td><p>12,862</p></td><td><p>12,746</p></td><td><p>7,941</p></td><td><p>4,249</p></td><td><p>3,034</p></td><td><p>763</p></td><td><p>647</p></td><td><p>546</p></td><td><p>478</p></td><td><p>129</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Other Countries</em></p></td><td><p>2,845</p></td><td><p>2,146</p></td><td><p>2,175</p></td><td><p>2,920</p></td><td><p>1,865</p></td><td><p>356</p></td><td><p>205</p></td><td><p>425</p></td><td><p>1,313</p></td><td><p>569</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Total all countries</em></p></td><td><p>37,230</p></td><td><p>43,609</p></td><td><p>35,746</p></td><td><p>37,382</p></td><td><p>32,794</p></td><td><p>19,751</p></td><td><p>26,472</p></td><td><p>39,619</p></td><td><p>42,995</p></td><td><p>34,174</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>(1) </em><em>European Union includes non-EU routed through the Netherlands.</em></p><p><em>Source: Energy Trends table 2.4 available at</em></p><p><em><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/solid-fuels-and-derived-gases-section-2-energy-trends" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/solid-fuels-and-derived-gases-section-2-energy-trends</a>.</em></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 26/06/2015 13:35:22 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4477 label Biography information for Harry Harpham