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454781

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2016
	answering body	Church Commissioners
	answering dept id	9
	answering dept short name	Church Commissioners
	answering dept sort name	Church Commissioners
	hansard heading	George Bell
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, how many people involved in investigating allegations of child abuse made against George Bell consulted his papers and diaries in Lambeth Palace Library in the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	28343
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">In 2013 and 2015 three staff members viewed various sections of the bishop's personal papers held at</ins> Lambeth Palace Library <ins class="ministerial">on two separate occasions.</ins> <del class="ministerial">has no record in the last three years of any of the individuals involved in these investigations making an application to view the papers and diaries of George Bell that are held in the Library.</del></p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Mrs Caroline Spelman question first answered 29/02/2016 16:24:51 question first ministerially corrected 06/05/2016 09:26:14 answering member 312 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Spelman previous answer version 47893 answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Mrs Caroline Spelman answering member 312 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Spelman
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1666370

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Driving: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an estimate of the number of assaults recorded by motorists against protestors undertaking non-violent direct action involving the obstruction of public highways since February 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mick Whitley
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	203706
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">It is regrettable that frustrated members of the public have been seen physically confronting protesters. While the government understands the frustration caused by protesters who use highly disruptive tactics to stop hard-working people going about their lives, there is no justification for acts of violence.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The police have comprehensive powers to deal with any individual who exhibits violent or threatening behaviour. The College of Policing is the organisation which sets standards and publishes police guidance and is operationally independent. The College has recently worked with the National Police Chiefs' Council to publish National Protest Operational Advice (<a href="https://www.college.police.uk/app/public-order-public-safety" target="_blank">Public order public safety | College of Policing</a>), which provides operational guidance on dealing with protests, including ensuring the safety of all those present.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">In addition, the College of Policing’s Authorised Professional Practice on Public Order Public Safety (<a href="https://www.college.police.uk/app/public-order-public-safety" target="_blank">Public order public safety | College of Policing</a>) was updated on 8 June 2023 and provides guidance on the policing of major events. The document signposts to the National Protest Operational Advice document.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Government has recently introduced new legislation in the form of the Public Order Act 2023 and amended existing provisions in the Public Order Act 1986 to ensure that the police have the powers they need to deal with highly disruptive protests. By giving the police these new powers, we will reduce the likelihood of frustrated members of the public engaging in violent or threatening behaviour in response to disruptive protests. In some cases, the use of these new powers has enabled police to clear the streets of protesters in as little as three minutes.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Home Office does not hold any data on the number of assaults recorded by motorists against protesters. A review into the recording of NCHI, reporting to the Policing Minister, is underway.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">It is regrettable that frustrated members of the public have been seen physically confronting protesters. While the government understands the frustration caused by protesters who use highly disruptive tactics to stop hard-working people going about their lives, there is no justification for acts of violence.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The police have comprehensive powers to deal with any individual who exhibits violent or threatening behaviour. The College of Policing is the organisation which sets standards and publishes police guidance and is operationally independent. The College has recently worked with the National Police Chiefs' Council to publish National Protest Operational Advice (<a href="https://www.college.police.uk/app/public-order-public-safety" target="_blank">Public order public safety | College of Policing</a>), which provides operational guidance on dealing with protests, including ensuring the safety of all those present.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In addition, the College of Policing’s Authorised Professional Practice on Public Order Public Safety (<a href="https://www.college.police.uk/app/public-order-public-safety" target="_blank">Public order public safety | College of Policing</a>) was updated on 8 June 2023 and provides guidance on the policing of major events. The document signposts to the National Protest Operational Advice document.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government has recently introduced new legislation in the form of the Public Order Act 2023 and amended existing provisions in the Public Order Act 1986 to ensure that the police have the powers they need to deal with highly disruptive protests. By giving the police these new powers, we will reduce the likelihood of frustrated members of the public engaging in violent or threatening behaviour in response to disruptive protests. In some cases, the use of these new powers has enabled police to clear the streets of protesters in as little as three minutes.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Home Office does not hold any data on the number of assaults recorded by motorists against protesters.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 25/10/2023 11:33:20 question first ministerially corrected 26/10/2023 08:30:03 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp previous answer version 103356 answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4755 label Biography information for Mick Whitley

528958

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many decisions taken on claims for (a) employment and support allowance and (b) personal independence payment have been appealed in (i) Birkenhead and (ii) the UK in each of the past five years; and how many of those appeals have been successful.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	41331
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2016 answer text <p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) does not hold accurate information on the volumes of appeals received against claims for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Personal Independence Payment (PIP).</p><p> </p><p>The tables below provide information on the number of appeals against decisions taken on ESA and PIP claims that were found in favour of the appellant in Birkenhead and Great Britain<sub>1</sub>.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>ESA claims (excluding reassessment decisions)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Great Britain<sub>1</sub></strong></p></td><td><p>62,147</p></td><td><p>56,042</p></td><td><p>88,946</p></td><td><p>24,979</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">43,773</del><ins class="ministerial">25,831</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Birkenhead</strong></p></td><td><p>306</p></td><td><p>163</p></td><td><p>664</p></td><td><p>203</p></td><td><p>277</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>PIP<sub>2</sub> claims (excluding reassessment decisions)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Great Britain<sub>1</sub></strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>3,374</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">42,354</del><ins class="ministerial">20,659</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Birkenhead</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>190</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sub>1 </sub>HMCTS administer appeals received from appellants living in England, Scotland and Wales. The Appeals Service, part of the Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service, administers appeals from appellants living in Northern Ireland.</p><p><sub>2 </sub>PIP started to replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for people aged 16 to 64 from 8 April 2013.</p><p> </p><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.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Sir Oliver Heald question first answered 30/06/2016 15:18:00 question first ministerially corrected 27/07/2016 10:00:02 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald previous answer version 5418 answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara answering member 1496
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1467292

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2022
	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	Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how long the average claim to the Vaccine Damages Payment Scheme takes to be (a) investigated and (b) processed.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mick Whitley
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	11866
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The NHS Business Services Authority investigates and processes an average claim in approximately six months from the date of receipt.</del> <ins class="ministerial">The average claim under the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme is investigated and processed in approximately six months from the date of receipt.</ins> Medical assessments for each claim commence once the NHS Business Services Authority receives full medical records from a claimant’s general practitioner, medical providers, local authorities and other relevant healthcare providers. Once sufficient evidence is gathered, claims are assessed by an independent and experienced medical adviser. The NHS Business Services Authority provides updates on progress to the individual claimant.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 13/06/2022 15:17:38 question first ministerially corrected 04/09/2023 11:10:51 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup previous answer version 5792 answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
	tabling member	4755 label Biography information for Mick Whitley

595525

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free Schools
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) business-led, (b) Muslim-led, (c) Church of England-led, (d) Roman Catholic-led schools, (e) other faith schools and (f) other free schools have been announced in each year since the free school programme started.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	47153
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2016 answer text <p>Free school applicants are invited to describe the nature of their group; most will describe the group in terms of the schools they already have, for example, a multi-academy trust or a chain of free schools. Some groups will use terms such as a group of parents or teachers.</p><p>There are a number of free schools that have strong business links but only the Cathedral Free School in Liverpool has described itself as business-led.</p><p>As faith free school applicants may use a variety of terms to describe their group, the table below provides a breakdown of applications approved into the pre-opening phase by the faith designation of the school (b)-(d), with (e) being applications approved into the pre-opening phase with no faith designation. “Other faith designations” includes Christian schools where the denomination has not been specified.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Muslim faith Designation</p></td><td><p>Church of England faith Designation</p></td><td><p>Roman Catholic faith designation</p></td><td><p>Other faith designations</p></td><td><p>Other free schools</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010 (Wave 1)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">3</del> <ins class="ministerial">4</ins></p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011 (Waves 1 and 2)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">7</del> <ins class="ministerial">6</ins></p></td><td><p>61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012 (Wave 3)</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013 (Wave 4)</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>89</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014 (Waves 5, 6 and 7)</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 (Waves 8, 9, and free school presumptions)</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>63</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016 (Waves 10, 11, and free school presumptions)</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>143</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Not all applications approved into the pre-opening phase go on to open as schools. Some projects are deferred, withdrawn or cancelled, and some schools have closed. Deferral or cancellation can be for a variety and sometimes a combination of reasons, but overall it will have been because the department did not believe the free school trust was ready to open a free school offering a good or better education.</p><p>Contributory factors include a lack of site or building, insufficient pupil recruitment, under-developed leadership and/or governance arrangements. In each case, decisions will have been based on the progress of the project or school, and will have balanced the risk of opening on the original date, or remaining open, against all the elements needed to be in place for a successful school.</p><p>In the case of open free schools, they will have closed because they were not delivering a good or better education.</p><p><strong><br /> </strong></p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 01/11/2016 13:38:19 question first ministerially corrected 22/11/2016 10:33:57 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson previous answer version 17529 answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

926575

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of the additional jobs in the UK labour market have been filled by (a) UK nationals and (b) non-UK nationals since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	154608
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p><strong>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</strong></p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 21/06/2018 09:28:06 question first ministerially corrected 25/07/2018 10:43:35 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ154608 PQ154609.pdf title UKSA response previous answer version 64806 answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ154608 PQ154609 Holding Response.pdf title UKSA response
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead