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1686789

registered interest
date	01/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK Visas and Immigration: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of attempts to log into the UK Visas and Immigration portal failed in each of the past six months.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	12578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office only retains the data for 30 days.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 09/02/2024 16:15:55 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1686798

registered interest
date	01/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Social Services
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 is taking to help social care providers to (a) apply for a sponsorship license for social care staff and (b) complete online applications to sponsor a social care worker visa.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	12579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2024 answer text <p>There is a significant amount of information published for sponsors which helps to set out their duties and responsibilities. Further information on the general guidance can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/sponsorship-information-for-employers-and-educators" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/sponsorship-information-for-employers-and-educators</a>.</p><p> </p><p>We have worked with the Department of Health and Social Care and Skills for Care on a range of information to assist those seeking to recruit into adult social care. Information can be found on the Skills for Care website at: <a href="https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/Recruitment-support/International-recruitment/International-recruitment.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/Recruitment-support/International-recruitment/International-recruitment.aspx</a>.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this guidance there is a dedicated team in UKVI who handle most health and care applications who are available to assist with any issues with the sponsorship process.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 09/02/2024 16:15:40 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1686803

registered interest
date	01/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK Visas and Immigration: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the accessibility of the UK Visa and Immigration portal for social care workers visas.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	12580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2024 answer text <p>The accessibility statement for the social care visa online application can be found through the following link: <a href="https://visas-immigration.service.gov.uk/accessibilityStatement" target="_blank">https://visas-immigration.service.gov.uk/accessibilityStatement</a>.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 09/02/2024 16:31:53 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1686808

registered interest
date	01/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance his Department provides social care providers on using the social staff visa application portal.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	12583
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2024 answer text <p>Once licensed, sponsors are given access to the sponsorship management system (SMS). This online function allows them to carry out day-to-day activities and report any changes to UKVI, such as a change of organisation address. Sponsors can also use SMS to create and assign Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) to workers they wish to sponsor and report changes of circumstances of their sponsored workers.</p><p>SMS has help text embedded throughout to aid navigation of the system, however, this is not sector specific. In addition, UKVI publish sponsor guidance and SMS user guides which are available on gov.uk to assist sponsors in understanding their sponsor duties and navigating SMS; however, this is not sector specific.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 09/02/2024 16:16:16 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1679537

registered interest
date	05/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Gaza
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is his Department's policy to waive the visa fee for children leaving Gaza who are non-British citizens with family residing in the UK.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	8033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2024 answer text <p>Applicants outside of the UK wishing to apply to join/accompany a family member who is a British national<strong>;</strong> or a person present and settled in the UK, with a view to residing in the UK, may apply for a fee waiver if they consider they cannot afford the fee.</p><p>There is no fee attached to applications submitted under Appendix Family Reunion to the Immigration Rules.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 15/01/2024 14:03:00 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1654776

registered interest
date	20/07/2023
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	Personal Independent Payment: Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that concerns about (a) pain and (b) fatigue are considered in Personal Independence Payment assessments for claimants with (i) Crohn’s Disease and (ii) ulcerative Colitis.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	195484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>Personal Independence Payment assessment providers are required to ensure that all health professionals (HP) carrying out assessments are experts in disability analysis, focusing on the effects of health conditions and impairments on the individual claimant's daily life.</p><p>Whilst HPs do not receive specific training relating to Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, they have access to a range of resources as well as experienced clinicians to support them in assessing individuals with conditions that they may not be familiar with. Additionally, assessment providers engage with medical experts, charities, and relevant stakeholders to strengthen their training programmes. Capita recently developed a Condition Insight Report for HPs on Ulcerative Colitis in collaboration with Crohn’s and Colitis UK.</p><p>It is stressed in the HP training that, although a claimant may sometimes be able to perform a task, they may not be able to do so safely, to an acceptable standard, repeatedly, or in a reasonable time-period due to pain, fatigue etc. HPs are expected to take into consideration the invisible nature of fatigue and pain, which may be less easy to identify, when assessing the disabling effect of any condition, including Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, on a claimant’s daily life. This is further explained in parts 1.6.29 and 1.6.35 of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-independence-payment-assessment-guide-for-assessment-providers/pip-assessment-guide-part-1-the-assessment-process" target="_blank">PIP Assessment Guide</a> available on GOV.UK.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 07/09/2023 14:12:37 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1654778

registered interest
date	20/07/2023
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	Personal Independent Payment: Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people with (a) Crohn’s Disease and (b) Ulcerative Colitis were awarded zero points on a Personal Independence Payment assessment for the managing toilet needs or incontinence descriptor in 2022.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	195485
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p><strong>Table (a) – Volume and proportion of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants with Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis as a primary condition that scored zero points on Activity 5 (</strong><strong>Managing toilet needs or incontinence) in an assessment during 2022.</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Volume of scoring zero points on activity 5</p></td><td><p>Proportion of total assessments</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Crohn’s Disease</p></td><td><p>2,470</p></td><td><p>54%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ulcerative Colitis</p></td><td><p>1,590</p></td><td><p>53%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Source: PIP Atomic Data Store (ADS)</strong></p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ul><li>Data shows initial assessment point scores for both awarded and disallowed cases and does not include point scores after mandatory reconsideration (MR) or appeal;</li><li>Data is based on primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer systems. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based, but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics;</li><li>Data includes claimants who made new claims to PIP and claimants who underwent Disability Living Allowance (DLA) reassessment to PIP;</li><li>Data includes normal rules and special rules for end-of-life claimants;</li><li>For some cases, point scores are missing from the data and so these have not been counted;</li><li>This is unpublished data. It should be used with caution and may be subject to future revision;</li><li>Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 and percentages to the nearest 1%;</li><li>Data is for England and Wales only.</li></ul> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 07/09/2023 14:07:46 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1601685

registered interest
date	06/03/2023
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: Epilepsy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people with epilepsy in long-term employment.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	158981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2023 answer text <p>Estimates from the Annual Population Survey (APS) show that there were 177,000 individuals of working-age (16 to 64) in the UK who reported epilepsy as their main long-term health condition in 2021/22 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/the-employment-of-disabled-people-2022/employment-of-disabled-people-2022" target="_blank">Employment of disabled people 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) - Table POP003</a>. Of these, approximately 96,000 (55%) were in employment, with 83% (80,000) of those employed for 12 months or more. There is no recognised definition of long-term employment. 12 months or more has been used because this is the length of time used to define long-term unemployment.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 13/03/2023 17:46:38 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1601686

registered interest
date	06/03/2023
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: Epilepsy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he has taken to support people with epilepsy in the workplace.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	158982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2023 answer text <p>A range of Government initiatives are supporting disabled people and people with health conditions, including epilepsy, to start, stay, and succeed in work. These include:</p><ul><li>Increasing Work Coach support in Jobcentres for people with health conditions receiving Universal Credit or Employment and Support Allowance;</li><li>Disability Employment Advisers in Jobcentres offering advice and expertise on how to help disabled people and people with health conditions into work;</li><li>The Work and Health Programme and Intensive Personalised Employment Support, providing tailored and personalised support for participants;</li><li>Access to Work grants towards extra costs of working beyond standard reasonable adjustments;</li><li>Disability Confident encouraging employers to think differently about disability and health, and to take positive action to address the issues employees face in the workplace;</li><li>The Information and Advice Service providing better integrated and tailored guidance on supporting and managing health and disability in the workplace; and</li><li>Support in partnership between the DWP and the health system, including Employment Advice in NHS Talking Therapies, which combines psychological treatment and employment support for people with mental health conditions.</li></ul> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 14/03/2023 11:33:22 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1355468

registered interest
date	14/09/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: LGBT+ People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect of the Nationality and Borders Bill on (a) equality, (b) personal safety and (c) the process of providing evidence of one’s identity in the asylum process for LGBTQ+ people.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	49169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2021 answer text <p>An Equality Impact Assessment has been completed for the policies being delivered through the Nationality and Borders Bill. This includes consideration of possible impacts on people who are LGBTQ+. The Equality Impact Assessment will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 20/09/2021 16:15:29 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald