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1185237

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date	16/03/2020
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	Coronavirus: Intensive Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to ensure the NHS has an adequate number of intensive care beds to respond effectively to the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	29838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2020 answer text <p>It is the Government’s priority that the National Health Service has appropriate equipment to respond to COVID-19. This includes the provision of intensive care beds. The Department is working closely with NHS England and the devolved administrations to ensure this is achieved.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is actively assessing the critical care capacity of NHS organisations and the availability of additional facilities in the independent sector. It is working to ensure that hospitals have as much ventilation equipment as required and, crucially, the skilled and trained people to use it.</p><p> </p><p>Information on critical care bed capacity is published by NHS England and can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/critical-care-capacity/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/critical-care-capacity/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 24/03/2020 15:29:49 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1185360

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date	16/03/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which officials of his Department sit on his Department's Complex Cases Review Team.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	29839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2020 answer text <p>The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), is an independent body, established by the Criminal Appeals Act 1995, to investigate possible miscarriages of justice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>No officials from the Ministry of Justice are members of the CCRC.</p><p> </p><p>All CCRC Commissioners are independent from Government and the Civil Service.</p><p> </p><p>Commissioners are appointed by Her Majesty the Queen on the recommendation of the Prime Minister. Appointments to the CCRC are made in line with the principles of the Cabinet Office’s Governance Code on Public Appointments and are regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 19/03/2020 16:39:54 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1185361

registered interest
date	16/03/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much money has been disbursed from the public public purse in compensation by his Department's Complex Cases Review Team in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	29840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2020 answer text <p>Claims for compensation for a miscarriage of justice under section 133 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 are dealt with by the Ministry of Justice Application Service. In the last 12 months, the department paid out £10,000 in compensation.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 19/03/2020 16:57:35 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1185387

registered interest
date	16/03/2020
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Horizon IT System: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much has been paid from the public purse to individual sub-postmasters since the group litigation settlement on the Horizon IT system on 12 December 2019.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	29841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2020 answer text <p>On 11 December 2019, Post Office Ltd reached a settlement of £57.75m to conclude the Horizon litigation claim. No government money was used to fund the settlement or the related litigation. These were fully funded by Post Office Ltd from its commercial revenues.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 19/03/2020 17:06:48 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1185388

registered interest
date	16/03/2020
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Horizon IT System: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether officials in his Department have been notified of any payments to individual sub-postmasters following the settlement of the group litigation on the Horizon IT system on 12 December 2020.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	29842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2020 answer text <p>It is impossible to ignore the financial and emotional suffering that the Horizon litigation process has caused for affected postmasters and their families. The Post Office has accepted – on the Horizon Accounting System – that it got things wrong in the past in its dealings with a number of postmasters and has apologised. This apology is only the start of a process of real change in the Post Office so that this situation is never repeated again.</p><p> </p><p>The Post Office has notified the Department that they have settled two long-running and complex disputes with sub-postmasters who had declined to join the group litigation. As an operational matter for the Post Office, the Government was not party to the discussions.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 25/03/2020 15:47:57 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones