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1648277

registered interest
date	27/06/2023
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	Working Age Benefits: Chronic Illnesses
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 make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) increasing the rate of statutory sick pay, (b) abolishing the lower earnings limit and (c) extending the 28 weeks cap for people living with (i) cystic fibrosis and (ii) other long term conditions.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	191349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) provides a measure of earnings replacement to employees when they are sick or incapable of work. Employers are required to pay it at the legal minimum rate for up to 28 weeks per period of absence. Many employers decide to pay more, and for longer, through Occupational Sick Pay.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>If an individual who is suffering from a long-term health condition requires further financial support while off work sick, for example, where their income is reduced while on Statutory Sick Pay, they may be able to claim Universal Credit depending on their personal circumstances. Where they are not eligible, for example, because they earn below the Lower Earnings Limit, they may also be able to claim New Style Employment and Support Allowance.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 03/07/2023 10:37:24 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1648278

registered interest
date	27/06/2023
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	Sick Pay: Self-employed
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a sick pay scheme for the self-employed.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	191350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) is paid for by employers and there is no mechanism to include the self-employed in SSP.</p><p> </p><p>The Government does have a wider safety net to ensure self-employed people are supported through the welfare system. Where an individual’s income is reduced while off work sick and they require further financial support, they may be able to claim Universal Credit and new style Employment and Support Allowance, depending on their personal circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 03/07/2023 10:39:21 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1648279

registered interest
date	27/06/2023
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	Statutory Sick Pay: Chronic Illnesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of allowing people in receipt of statutory sick pay living with (a) cystic fibrosis and (b) other long term conditions to have phased returns to work.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	191351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>Health is Everyone’s Business (2019) consulted on a broad package of measures related to the work and health agenda. This included some proposals related to Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) such as making it more flexible to support phased returns to work.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In the response to the consultation (2021), the Government stated this was not the right time to introduce changes to the sick pay system, but that we are continuing to keep the SSP system under review.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 03/07/2023 10:42:48 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1648280

registered interest
date	27/06/2023
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Cystic Fibrosis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether she plans to consult (a) the Cystic Fibrosis Trust and (b) other patient organisations in the implementation update for the O’Shaughnessy review recommendations.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	191352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2023 answer text <p>The Government appointed Lord O’Shaughnessy to carry out an independent review into UK commercial clinical trials. Following publication of Lord O’Shaughnessy’s review on May 26, the Government made five headline commitments to improve the commercial clinical trials system and make it easier for revolutionary healthcare treatments to get to NHS patients, backed by £121 million.</p><p> </p><p>An update on implementation will be provided in Autumn, which will outline progress against these commitments as well as responding in full to the review recommendations. The O’Shaughnessy review was informed by leaders from across the UK clinical trials sector, including medical research charities, regional and national NHS leaders and national delivery partners including regulators. Implementation of the five headline commitments and the full review response will be informed by consultation with the UK clinical trials community including individual medical research charities and the Association of Medical Research Charities, of which the Cystic Fibrosis Trust is a member.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 05/07/2023 11:07:27 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1648281

registered interest
date	27/06/2023
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	NHS Cheshire and Merseyside: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many individual funding application requests made by clinicians were turned down by Cheshire West and Merseyside Integrated Care Board as of June 2023.
tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
tabling member printed	Mike Amesbury
uin	191474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2023 answer text <p>Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board (ICB) validated data is collated for completed (closed) applications each month, as such, the ICB can only provide data up to May 2023. The following tables shows the approved and not approved Individual Funding Request (IFR) applications received between July 2022 and May 2023.</p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>NHS Cheshire &amp; Merseyside ICB IFR applications</p></td><td colspan="6"><p>2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>December</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Approved</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not Approved</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>28</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>NHS Cheshire &amp; Merseyside ICB IFR applications</p></td><td colspan="5"><p>2023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>May</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Approved</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not Approved</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>33</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 04/07/2023 14:11:38 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4667 label Biography information for Mike Amesbury

1648282

registered interest
date	27/06/2023
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	Jobcentres: Artificial Intelligence
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 publish (a) a list of the 20 Jobcentres trialing the use of artificial intelligence and (b) the evaluation of the trial once concluded.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	191353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>(a) The Job Matching Trial began in March 2022 and claimants joined until the end of August 2022 in the following 20 Jobcentre sites:</p><p><br> Blyth</p><p>Blyth 2 (Bridge House)*</p><p>Chester</p><p>Chester Foregate Street*</p><p>Edinburgh North Bridge*</p><p>Edinburgh Waverley Mall*</p><p>Exeter</p><p>Exeter The Depot, Belgrave Road*</p><p>High Riggs</p><p>Huddersfield</p><p>Huddersfield Unit 2, Trinity Street*</p><p>Huntingdon</p><p>Leith</p><p>Maidstone</p><p>Maidstone Lower Boxley Road*</p><p>Newark</p><p>Rusholme</p><p>Manchester Mosley Street*</p><p>Stafford</p><p>Stafford Greengate Street*</p><p> </p><p>Note: * indicates a temporary Jobcentre. In most cases, where there is more than 1 Jobcentre in a town / city, the trial was delivered by both the main Jobcentre offices and the temporary Jobcentres. Temporary Jobcentres opened as part of the department’s direct response to the impacts on the labour market of the covid-19 pandemic, to rapidly introduce additional Jobcentre Capacity.</p><p> </p><p>(b) The department is in the process of evaluating and quality assuring the results from this test.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 03/07/2023 15:31:20 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1648283

registered interest
date	27/06/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the of the Concluding Observations on the combined sixth and seventh periodic reports of the UK to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, published on 22 June 2023, whether the Prime Minister has made an assessment of the potential merits of appointing a Minister for Children to the Cabinet with ministerial responsibility for monitoring and coordinating activities related to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Janet Daby
uin	191475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>As set out in the list of Ministerial Responsibilities, the Department for Education is the lead department responsible for protecting and supporting children, working with other departments on the basis of collective responsibility. The Secretary of State for Education is a member of the Cabinet.</p><p>The government strives to find new ways to promote children’s rights and recognises that strengthening children’s rights is a continuous process. The government welcomes the constructive challenge that was made by the Committee in Geneva and will take into careful consideration the Concluding Observations, including how we further monitor and coordinate Children’s Rights across the UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 03/07/2023 16:47:06 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby

1648284

registered interest
date	27/06/2023
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Artificial Intelligence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department uses natural language processing to analyse communications from claimants.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	191354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>DWP uses natural language processing to analyse communications with our customers via Telephony.</p><p> </p><p>This includes Speech Analytics, Call Routing and Call Transcription. All of this is to improve the customer experience and assist our customers in accessing the services within the department.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 03/07/2023 15:13:30 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1648285

registered interest
date	27/06/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 56 of the Concluding Observations on the combined sixth and seventh periodic reports of the UK to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, published on 22 June 2023, what steps he plans to take in response to each of the recommendations in that paragraph; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Dave Doogan
uin	191476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>The Armed Forces have no plans to raise the minimum age of recruitment. All recruitment into the UK military is voluntary and no young person under the age of 18 years may join our Armed Forces unless their application is accompanied by the formal written consent of their parent or guardian. We take the duty of care towards all recruits seriously, in particular those under 18 years of age. We have robust, effective and independently verified safeguards in place to ensure that under-18s are cared for properly.</p><p>Service personnel aged under 18 are not deployed on hostile operations outside the UK or on any operations where they could be exposed to hostilities. All new recruits, regardless of age, can discharge within their first three to six months of service.</p><p>Our policies on under-18s in Service comply with national and international law. In addition to the comprehensive welfare system that is in place for all Service personnel we remain fully committed to meeting our obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, and have taken steps to bestow special safeguards on young people under the age of 18.</p><p>The provision of education and training for 16-year-old school leavers provides a route into the Armed Forces that complies with Government education policy and offers a significant foundation for emotional, physical and educational development throughout an individual's career. All recruits aged under 18 receive key skills education in literacy and numeracy, should they need it, and all are enrolled in apprenticeships. The Armed Forces remain the UK's largest apprenticeship provider, equipping young people with valuable and transferable skills for life. Over 95% of all recruits, no matter what their age or prior qualifications, enrol in an apprenticeship each year. The Armed Forces offer courses in a wide range of skills, such as engineering, information and communications technology, construction, driving, and animal care. Ofsted regularly inspects our care of newly joined young recruits, and we are very proud of the standards we achieve.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 03/07/2023 13:49:42 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4736 label Biography information for Dave Doogan

1648286

registered interest
date	27/06/2023
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	Social Security Benefits: Applications
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 publish a list of which benefit applications are (a) paper-based and (b) digital.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	191355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>The answer on each DWP benefit is readily available via Gov.uk including advice on eligibility.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/check-benefits-financial-support" target="_blank">Check benefits and financial support you can get - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 03/07/2023 10:47:28 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth