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760066

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date	13/09/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Horse Racing: Betting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a statutory levy on bookmakers to fund the work of GambleAware.
tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
uin	10477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>As I made clear at Departmental Oral Questions on 18 September, I am determined that the gambling industry acknowledges its social responsibilities, including properly funding the work undertaken by GambleAware, and other organisations, on research, education and treatment for gambling-related harm.</p><p> </p><p>The industry currently contributes over £8 million per year to GambleAware. GambleAware is seeking to increase this to £10 million per year in line with work that has been done by the Responsible Gambling Strategy Board (RGSB) to cost the short term work of delivering the National Responsible Gambling Strategy.</p><p>The industry must step up and fulfill their obligations under these new targets.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 09/10/2017 11:14:30 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan

760108

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date	13/09/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Drugs: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions his Department has had with the Ministry of Justice on making drugs policy a responsibility of his Department.
tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
uin	10383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2017 answer text <p>As set out in the 2017 Drugs Strategy, the complexity and pervasiveness of drug misuse and the harms it causes means that no one department can tackle it alone. The Home Office remains the lead department for policy on drugs and implementation of the Strategy working closely with the Department of Health, Ministry of Justice and other interested Government Departments and agencies, and there are no plans to change this.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 10/10/2017 12:51:26 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan

760141

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date	13/09/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time is for an appeal against a mandatory reconsideration of a decision on personal independence payments in (a) Inverclyde and (b) Scotland for the last four periods for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
uin	10426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is set out in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>The average time (weeks) from receipt in HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service to outcome for Personal Independence Payment (PIP)<sup>1 </sup>Appeals<sup>2</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong><strong><sup>3</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Greenock venue<sup>4</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Scotland</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Qtr 1 2017/18</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes</p><p><sup>1 </sup>PIP (New Claim Appeals), which replaced Disability Living Allowance (DLA), from 8 April 2013, also includes Personal Independence Claims (Reassessments).</p><p><sup>2 </sup>Appeals includes those cleared with and without a tribunal hearing. They may include time spent at the Upper Tribunal.</p><p><sup>3</sup> Full financial years April to March; Quarter 1 April to June 2017.</p><p><sup>4</sup> Data on SSCS cases are attributed to the hearing venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. For those living in Inverclyde this is the Greenock Venue</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data that are available.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 09/10/2017 15:14:07 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan

760175

registered interest
date	13/09/2017
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	Universal Credit: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will meet representatives of the Scottish third sector to discuss the roll-out of universal credit in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
uin	10387
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2017 answer text <p>Invitations to meet with third sector organisations are routinely considered by Ministers on a case by case basis.</p><p> </p><p>At departmental level officials from the DWP have regular meetings with Scottish stakeholders, including representatives from third sector organisations, to discuss matters including the roll out of Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the formal implementation planning for Universal Credit there are a range of external engagement activities for each Local Authority area tailored to the individual locality.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 11/10/2017 15:38:47 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan