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923564

registered interest
date	13/06/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Skilled Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that businesses, including those in the manufacturing sector, can secure Certificates of Sponsorship to benefit from the talent of overseas workers.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	153422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>Changes to the Tier 2 visa route to allow more highly skilled doctors and nurses to come to the UK mean that as well as providing a boost to the NHS, it will also free up additional places within the cap for other highly skilled occupations, such as engineers, IT professionals and teachers.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 18/06/2018 17:20:06 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

923567

registered interest
date	13/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Homelessness: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many homeless people have died in each year since 2010; and what steps his Department is taking to ensure the accuracy of the recording of the death of homeless people.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	153423
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>This Department does not collect data on deaths of people sleeping rough.</p><p>We are however currently exploring potential mechanisms for capturing this information alongside other Government departments.</p><p>Local areas and homelessness services often hold detailed information about the people who sleep rough in their area, including information about rough sleepers who have died, where this information is available to them.</p><p>The Rough Sleeping Strategy to be published in July will set out this Government’s plans to halve rough sleeping by 2022, end it by 2027 and shape service provision in the long term.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 18/06/2018 14:40:47 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

923575

registered interest
date	13/06/2018
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	Homelessness: Death
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 official reviews have been launched into the death of a homeless person since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	153425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2018 answer text <p>The information on official reviews into homeless deaths is not held.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/06/2018 14:18:49 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

896424

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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	Personal Independence Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of mandatory reconsiderations have upheld the original decision on personal independence payment in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	140847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The volumes of disposal types at the mandatory reconsideration stage broken down by month for Personal Independence Payment can be found in Table 7b of the quarterly bulletin “Personal Independence Payment: April 2013 to January 2018”.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-january-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-january-2018</a></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 09/05/2018 14:09:28 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

896426

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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	Employment and Support Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of mandatory reconsiderations have upheld the original decision on employment support allowance in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	140848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>The number of Mandatory Reconsiderations for Employment Support Allowance (ESA), by decision type, can be found in the official published statistics: “ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: March 2018”. The relevant data can be found in Table 14.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-march-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-march-2018</a></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 09/05/2018 14:09:26 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

896427

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of personal independence payment appeals have been successful at Tribunal in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	140849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2018 answer text <p>Information about the number and outcomes of Social Security and Child Support appeals by benefit type, including PIP, is published on gov.uk.</p><p> </p><p>The most recent statistics, for the period October to December 2017 (which includes data from the previous three years), published on 8 March, can be viewed at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2017" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2017</a></p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 09/05/2018 17:00:29 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

895487

registered interest
date	01/05/2018
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of (a) incapacity benefit and (b) employment and support allowance have died since May 2014 were found to be fit for work.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	140203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 08/05/2018 16:47:02 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

894747

registered interest
date	30/04/2018
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 8 of the Child Maintenance Service's leaflet entitled Changes you need to tell us about: A guide for paying parents and receiving parents, published in November 2013, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a legal duty on parents who pay child maintenance to report increases in their income when those increases occur rather than on an annual basis.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	139594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2018 answer text <p>Paying parents are already required to provide information needed to make any decision where requested under the Child Support Act 1991. Where a calculation is based on a parent’s historic income, then changes may be reported within the year, however such changes will be picked up from the income data obtained from HMRC at annual review, so additional legal duties are not required. This provides a stable predictable maintenance amount allowing effective budgeting for both parents. There is also an existing duty within the Child Support Information Regulations 2008 which requires parents whose maintenance calculation is based upon their current income to report relevant income changes.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 03/05/2018 11:33:39 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

885321

registered interest
date	17/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Private Rented Housing: Social Security Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what legislation is in place to prevent discrimination against (a) housing benefit and (b) universal credit recipients in the private rented sector; and what assessment has been made of the adequacy of that legislation.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	136185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government appreciates the problems that some housing benefit and universal credit claimants can face in finding accommodation in the private rented sector. We strongly encourage landlords and agents to look at all potential and existing tenants in receipt of housing benefit or universal credit on an individual basis and we will shortly be publishing a new <em>How to Let</em> guide to help landlords better understand their responsibilities. The Government is helping benefit claimants to access the private rented sector through further Targeted Affordability Funding in 2018/19 and 2019/20.</p><p>There is no legislation that prevents private rented sector landlords and agents choosing not to let their property to an individual claiming (a) housing benefit or (b) universal credit. However, the Equalities Act 2010 exists to prohibit acts of discrimination against individuals in terms of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership and pregnancy and maternity.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 23/04/2018 15:35:27 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

885325

registered interest
date	17/04/2018
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Floods: Insurance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment has been made of the equity of the cost to consumers of Flood Re insurance cover.
tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
tabling member printed	Matt Western
uin	136189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>The premiums charged by Flood Re to insurers are capped based on council tax bands. This is in order to target support to low income households and address the issue of affordability of flood insurance. Prices start at £213 per policy, per annum in council tax bands A and B for a combined (buildings and contents) policy, rising to £1,218 for a band H home. During Flood Re’s first 18 months of operation, there has been a fairly even split between council tax bands A to E for the 140,000 policies backed during this time. The exact distribution is set out below.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Council tax band</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% Split between council tax bands</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>A </strong></p></td><td><p>16%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>B</strong></p></td><td><p>19%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>C</strong></p></td><td><p>22%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>D</strong></p></td><td><p>18%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>E</strong></p></td><td><p>12%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>F</strong></p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>G</strong></p></td><td><p>5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>H</strong></p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 23/04/2018 11:40:49 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western