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1562807

registered interest
date	19/12/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fraud: Victims
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 support victims of fraud.
tabling member constituency	Wimbledon
tabling member printed	Stephen Hammond
uin	902866
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Home Secretary is clear that standards in the Metropolitan Police Service and London Fire Brigade must improve.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire &amp; Rescue Services has found that both organisations are under-performing and placed them into the ‘engage’ process to ensure targeted support.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Mayor of London is responsible for setting priorities and holding Commissioners to account.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">This Government takes the issue of fraud very seriously and is dedicated to protecting the public from this devastating crime. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We are working to improve the victim support system to ensure everyone receives the support and advice they need to feel safe again and to prevent revictimisation. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Raising awareness and safeguarding victims will form a key pillar of the Government’s forthcoming fraud strategy.  </ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 19/12/2022 16:08:47 question first ministerially corrected 19/12/2022 18:42:32 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat previous answer version 43167 answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp answering member 4503
tabling member	1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond

1550004

registered interest
date	08/12/2022
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	Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of staffing levels within Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	106487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2022 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">While Structured Medication Reviews (SMRs) are not commissioned from pharmacies, from November 2021 to October 2022, 2,221,117 SMR appointments were booked in general practice.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">No specific assessment has been made. Staffing levels are determined locally and are informed by national guidance for safe staffing.</ins></p><p><del class="ministerial">SMRs optimise patient care in a number of ways, including by reducing medicine wastage. However, no specific assessment has been made of this impact, as it is among a number of benefits. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has assessed the evidence for interventions to optimise the use of medicines in developing its guideline ‘Medicines optimisation: the safe and effective use of medicines to enable the best possible outcomes’, which has informed NHS England’s commissioning policy.</del></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 14/12/2022 16:19:48 question first ministerially corrected 15/12/2022 09:17:48 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 42107 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1548356

registered interest
date	05/12/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Crimes against the Person
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an estimate of the number of staff who have been victims of (a) sexual harassment and (b) bullying in his Department in its Westminster premises each year since 2018.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	102864
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2022 answer text <p>There is zero tolerance for bullying across the civil service. The MoJ also has policies in place to support staff facing any form of bullying, harassment or victimisation while at work.</p><p>The table below shows the number of grievances raised by MoJ staff where the grievance reason includes &quot;Bullying&quot; or &quot;Harassment - sex&quot;, and the outcome is either &quot;Upheld&quot; or &quot;Partially Upheld&quot;, and the member of staff’s office location is either 102 Petty France or Clive House, by year.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grievances where the reason includes &quot;Harassment - sex&quot; and the outcome is either &quot;Upheld&quot; or &quot;Partially Upheld&quot;</strong> <strong>and the member of staff’s office location is either 102 Petty France or Clive House</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grievances where the reason includes &quot;Bullying&quot; and the outcome is either &quot;Upheld&quot; or &quot;Partially Upheld&quot;</strong> <strong>and the member of staff’s office location is either 102 Petty France or Clive House</strong></p></td><td><p>Less than 5</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Less than 5</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>Notes and caveats:</strong></p><ul><li>Please note: grievance data only accounts for staff grievances raised about other members of staff. <del class="ministerial">Any complaints against Ministers or Special Advisers are registered in a separate system run by the Cabinet Office.</del></li><li>Data suppression is applied where the number of cases is less than 5.</li><li>Grievances can be raised for multiple reasons; cases are selected where the relevant reason is cited.</li><li>Year is based on year the grievance was opened on the case management system.</li><li>Grievances are included where the outcome was &quot;Upheld&quot; or &quot;Partially Upheld&quot;.</li><li>If an appeal on the original case outcome has been made, the appeal outcome is used rather than the original case outcome.</li><li>In a small number of cases multiple outcomes are recorded, these have been included if &quot;Upheld&quot; or &quot;Partially Upheld&quot; is one of the outcomes.</li><li>Data covers employees in Ministry of Justice Head Quarters, His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal Service, His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service, Legal Aid Agency, Office of the Public Guardian and Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority.</li><li>Cases are selected if the member of staff’s HR database Employee Location field is either 102 Petty France or Clive House.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 12/12/2022 17:48:38 question first ministerially corrected 19/12/2022 16:41:19 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer previous answer version 41407 answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1548365

registered interest
date	05/12/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Temporary Accommodation
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 is required to provide accommodation to asylum seekers who have made an appointment at an asylum intake unit and are waiting for that appointment to take place.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	102988
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office has a legal obligation to provide support to asylum-seekers who would otherwise be destitute.</p><p>Those wishing to claim asylum are expected to do so on arrival at the port of entry or, if already in the UK, and their circumstances change, as soon as possible at the Asylum Intake Unit (AIU) in Croydon. The AIU operates an appointment process for those who have accommodation, but a walk-in service is available for those who are destitute and need immediate accommodation.</p><p>Destitute asylum seekers can access initial support under section 98 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 which is offered as initial or contingency accommodation <del class="ministerial">(usually full board)</del> when they make an appointment to attend an asylum screening interview at the AIU and until the appointment time.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 13/12/2022 16:59:52 question first ministerially corrected 13/12/2022 17:28:18 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick previous answer version 41775 answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1548435

registered interest
date	05/12/2022
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: Accountancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) nature and (b) value was of all (i) contracts, (ii) consultancies and (iii) other services placed with the accountancy firms (A) Deloitte & Touche, (B) Ernst & Young, (C) KPMG and (D) PricewaterhouseCoopers in each year since 2010-11 by (1) their Department, (2) any predecessor Departments and (3) departmental agencies.
tabling member constituency	Leyton and Wanstead
tabling member printed	John Cryer
uin	102743
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2022 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Between 1 December 2021 and 31 August 2022, the Department’s Chief Scientific Adviser met with a) the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in a total of 4 meetings and with b) other Ministers in the Department for Work and Pensions in a total of 7 meetings. This included:</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">(i) Between 1 December 2021 – 28 February 2022 – a) 1 meeting, b) 3 meetings</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">(ii) Between 1 March to 31 May 2022 – a) 1 meeting, b) 2 meetings</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">(iii) Between 1 June to 31 August 2022 - a) 2 meetings, b) 2 meetings</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Please see the attachment provided for a comprehensive list for each of the organisations requested covering the data sets requested in the PQ.</ins></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">Further Information regarding the contracts can be found on gov.uk’s Contract Finder Service located <a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search" target="_blank">here.</a></ins></p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 09/12/2022 12:33:37 question first ministerially corrected 09/12/2022 14:30:20 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies attachment 1 file name Attachment.xlsx title PQ 102743 previous answer version 40903 answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	181 label Biography information for Lord Cryer

1547351

registered interest
date	01/12/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Television Licences: Non-payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many pensioners have been prosecuted for non-payment of the TV Licence fee in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Lee Anderson
uin	101060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>The requirement to hold, and pay for, a TV Licence is set out in the Communications Act 2003 and the Communications (Television Licensing) Regulations 2004.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice currently publishes the number of prosecutions, convictions and sentencing outcomes for the non-payment of TV licence fees annually as part of their criminal justice statistics quarterly publications, which can be viewed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly</a></p><p>Figures for each year since 2005 up to 2022 are available in the Outcomes by Offence data tool, and can be found in the following dataset:</p><ul><li><p>2018-2022: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1118314/outcomes-by-offence-june-2022.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1118314/outcomes-by-offence-june-2022.xlsx</a></p></li></ul><p>To view the relevant figures in these tables, select ‘191A Television licence evasion’ in the Offence filter. These figures can be refined further by age to identify an age range of 70+, it is impossible to provide the data for 'pensioners' as that is a diverse group that cannot be filtered purely by age.</p><p>The data for individuals aged 70+ are the following:</p><ul><li><p>​2022 - 260 proceeded against &amp; 217 sentenced</p></li><li><p>2021 - 238 proceeded against &amp; 207 sentenced</p></li><li><p><del class="ministerial">2022</del> <ins class="ministerial">2020 </ins>- 329 proceeded against &amp; 288 sentenced</p></li></ul><p>Alternative data does also show no Over 75s have been prosecuted and that none of the prosecutions have resulted in custodial sentences.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 07/12/2022 16:17:04 question first ministerially corrected 15/12/2022 09:17:36 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez previous answer version 40369 answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4743 label Biography information for Lee Anderson

1546865

registered interest
date	30/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Manston Asylum Processing Centre: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2022 to Question 87792 on Detention Centres: Manston, what her planned timetable is for providing information on the cost to the public purse of operating the Manston immigration facility in each month in 2022.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
uin	99773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2022 answer text <p><em>In light of the requests from HASC, a costing exercise to encompass the whole of Government cost, <del class="ministerial">including opportunity costs of deploying Home Office staff,</del> for the operation of Manston has been commissioned. This is a complex process and a timetable to deliver this exercise will be provided once essential planning has been completed</em>.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 05/12/2022 17:19:53 question first ministerially corrected 05/12/2022 17:30:50 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick previous answer version 39718 answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1545860

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Lotteries: Prizes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee report on What next for the National Lottery?, published on 22 November 2022, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of that report's recommendation that individual society lotteries should be able to set their own prizes, up to a limit of £500,000.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	97652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2022 answer text <p>The maximum prize for a society lottery draw was increased in July 2020 from £400,000 to £500,000 as part of a wider package of changes to society lottery limits. <ins class="ministerial">We are carefully considering the Committee's recommendations and will respond in due course.</ins> <del class="ministerial">We are carefully considering the Committee’s recommendation that the maximum allowable sizable prize per draw should be £25,000 or 10% of the draw’s proceeds and will respond in due course. </del></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 01/12/2022 15:42:01 question first ministerially corrected 12/12/2022 15:58:42 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully previous answer version 38878 answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1546075

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Afghanistan: Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 22 September 2022 to Question 49057 on Afghanistan: Refugees, how many Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy applications were awaiting an initial decision by his Department as of 28 November 2022.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	97488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2022 answer text <p>To date, we have relocated over 12,000 ARAP principals and their dependants to the UK, including over 5,000 since Op PITTING concluded at the end of August 2021.</p><p>As of 29 November 2022, there are approximately 74,135 ARAP applicants awaiting a decision on their application. However, it is important to note that this includes applicants who did not provide valid contact details when submitting their application. Furthermore, based on employment records we estimate that the vast majority of the outstanding 74,135 applicants are ineligible under the ARAP Scheme.</p><p><del class="ministerial">We are focussing our efforts on identifying those eligible individuals who are still awaiting a decision and relocating all those eligible to the UK. The ARAP team continue to focus on indentifying and relocating the estimated remaining 795 ARAP eligible individuals, with an estimated 3,180 dependants, assesed to be In Afghanistan-using HMG emplyomnet records to target efforts.</del></p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 05/12/2022 13:33:56 question first ministerially corrected 08/12/2022 08:07:03 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey previous answer version 39486 answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1543872

registered interest
date	21/11/2022
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Dominic Raab
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department received any complaints regarding the former Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union's conduct between July and November 2018.
tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
uin	92230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2022 answer text <p>The Prime Minister has appointed Adam Tolley KC to conduct an independent investigation into formal complaints which have been made about the conduct of the Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP, the Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice.</p><p>The Terms of Reference for the investigation have been published on gov.uk. [<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/terms-of-reference-investigation-into-formal-complaints/terms-of-reference-for-the-investigation-into-formal-complaints-about-the-conduct-of-the-deputy-prime-minister-html" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/terms-of-reference-investigation-into-formal-complaints/terms-of-reference-for-the-investigation-into-formal-complaints-about-the-conduct-of-the-deputy-prime-minister-html</a>]</p><p><ins class="ministerial">Following the establishment of the independent investigation, and the Cabinet Office receiving a further formal complaint relating to Mr Raab's conduct at the Department for Exiting the European Union, the Prime Minister has additionally asked the investigator to establish the specific facts surrounding this complaint, in line with the Terms of Reference for the existing investigation. </ins></p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 29/11/2022 08:58:40 question first ministerially corrected 01/12/2022 10:43:09 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin previous answer version 37839 answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner