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1011435

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
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	Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure confidentiality of medical information handled by contracted employment support allowance and personal independence payment assessors.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	194249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2018 answer text <p>The contracts for the Departments Health Providers who are assessing the needs of claimants for Employment and Support Allowance and Personal Independence Payment include strict confidentiality clauses for the protection of personal medical information. The highest priority is placed on confidentiality, protecting the information the Health Providers hold about claimants securely. The Health Providers have detailed and strictly enforced policies relating to data protection and records management to ensure that the data they hold is dealt with in accordance with the requirements of the contracts.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 28/11/2018 16:35:35 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1010702

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
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	Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations
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 employment support allowance and personal independence payment assessors are (a) informed of and (b) abide by mandates instructing communications via an agreed advocate rather than directly with the client.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	193580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>Where Employment Support Allowance or Personal Independence Payment claimants have an approved appointee, this will be flagged in the initial referral to the Assessment Provider. If a face-to-face assessment is deemed necessary, the Assessment Provider will send the invite to the appointee only.</p><p> </p><p>In regards to any other ‘advocate’ ie: not an approved benefit appointee, as long as the claimant has made this request clear when claiming PIP or ESA, either by providing a correspondence address, the advocate’s personal details or on their Questionnaire – the PIP2 or the ESA50, then this will be acted upon.</p><p> </p><p>Department works with providers to ensure guidance is understood and applied in line with policy intent.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 27/11/2018 14:38:19 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

993767

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Performing Arts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visitor visas have been refused to international performers sponsored to attend a UK festival in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	182884
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>The UK continues to welcome artists, entertainers and musicians coming to the UK to perform and take part in festivals and events. The Home Office is working with the creative sector to better understand their needs, clarify visa requirements and ensure processes are as smooth as possible.</p><p>Information relating to visitor visas is released quarterly as part of the Home Office’s Immigration Statistics, which are available here - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#visas" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#visas</a>. Standard visitors can undertake all the permitted activities as set out in the Immigration Rues. Data is not available to identify those visitors performing at festivals. To acquire data with that level of detail would require a manual examination of all records.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 31/10/2018 16:58:10 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

993768

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the (a) effectiveness and (b) equity of the UK visit visa application process; and what plans he has to review that application process.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	182885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>The visa system is kept under continuous review. UK Visas and Immigration is delivering a programme of ongoing improvements to the visa customer journey. Changes are being made to the visit visa application process to facilitate increasing demand, and to ensure customers receive a more flexible and efficient service.</p><p>These include; a new online application service, with streamlined and intuitive forms, self-service channels for providing supporting evidence and biometrics, and expanding access to our premium and priority service options.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 31/10/2018 17:13:43 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

993772

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas
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 visitor visas were (a) granted and (b) refused for each nationality in 2017.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	182886
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>The information available relates to total entry clearance visitor visas granted, and refused, and is published in the quarterly Immigration Statistics, Visas volume 1 table vi_01_q, latest edition at</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#visas" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#visas</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 31/10/2018 17:24:56 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

988873

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department has spent on social media advertising in each month since May 2017.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	180222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland’s social media expenditure for the given period is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Twitter</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Facebook/Instagram</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>2017-2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>£468.68</p></td><td><p>£0.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>£0.00</p></td><td><p>£400.29</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>£0.00</p></td><td><p>£499.93</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>£0.00</p></td><td><p>£490.75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>£0.00</p></td><td><p>£499.82</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>£1,460.51</p></td><td><p>£3,436.95</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>£1,812.41</p></td><td><p>£3,090.28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>£590.49</p></td><td><p>£2,435.23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>£16.32</p></td><td><p>£96.39</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>£3,025.32</p></td><td><p>£6,875.66</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>2018-2019</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>£20.00</p></td><td><p>£285.45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>£202.21</p></td><td><p>£736.11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>£32.70</p></td><td><p>£2,944.14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>£0.00</p></td><td><p>£1,105.28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>£667.37</p></td><td><p>£1,068.14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>£1,051.35</p></td><td><p>£214.62</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 24/10/2018 14:51:30 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

988875

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Advertising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how much his Department has spent on non-social media advertising in each month since May 2017.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	180223
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland has spent the following on advertising on Google. We have not purchased advertising on any other non-social media channel.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Google</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>£1,647.38</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2018-2019</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>£0.33</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>£15.48</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 24/10/2018 14:55:28 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

988876

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Public Relations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the cost to the public purse was of his Department's communications team in the most recent financial year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	180224
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>The communications team in the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland is resourced to support the Secretary of State and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Scotland with effective engagement and communication with the public.</p><p> </p><p>This includes supporting communications on: the UK Government’s preparations and plans for EU Exit, the delivery and implementation of significant new powers over tax and welfare to the Scottish Parliament through the Scotland Act 2016, and information on UK Government policies and initiatives including City Deals, the UK Industrial Strategy, UK aid, pensions, security and foreign affairs. The communications team also supports other UK Government departments with providing information to the public in Scotland.</p><p> </p><p>The cost of the communications team in the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland in the financial year 2017-2018 was £713,225.90</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 24/10/2018 14:53:52 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

988877

registered interest
date	16/10/2018
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Facebook
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether it is his policy to place adverts on Facebook after that company introduces its transparency register.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	180225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>Digital advertising is a cost-effective way for the Government to reach audiences with important information on UK Government policies such as pensions, start-up loans, cyber security, minimum and living wage rates, support for childcare costs and other important information the public needs to be aware of.</p><p><br> All of the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland’s Facebook posts are made publicly available to general audiences in Scotland.</p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 24/10/2018 14:52:47 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

943905

registered interest
date	18/07/2018
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Burma: International Criminal Court
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether it is the Government's policy to support the drafting of a resolution at the UN Security Council to refer the situation in Northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, to the International Criminal Court so that allegations of atrocities can be impartially investigated.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	165613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2018 answer text <p>We continue to work in the UN Security Council to ensure it remains strongly focused on the Rohingya crisis, including discussing accountability. While we keep this under constant review, we are not pursuing a referral to the ICC at this time for two reasons. First, we know the Council is divided on the issue of an ICC referral. A vetoed resolution now would do nothing to further the cause of accountability. Second, on 31 May the Burmese Government announced its own Commission of Inquiry to investigate human rights violations in northern Rakhine. The UK has welcomed the Commission while making clear that it needs to be credible, transparent and impartial. The ICC only takes up cases if referred when national authorities prove unable or unwilling to prosecute.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 27/07/2018 13:58:46 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock