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931457

registered interest
date	26/06/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to prevent delays to employment and support allowance hearings.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	157675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2018 answer text <p>In order to respond to a general increase in appeal receipts, HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service has been working with the tribunal’s judiciary both to appoint additional judges and panel members, and take forward initiatives with the potential to increase the capacity and performance of the tribunal. We have recruited extra fee-paid judicial office holders: 250 judges across the First-tier Tribunal, 125 disability-qualified members, and up to 230 medical members. We are also developing a new digital system which enables speedier processing of appeals and a better service for all parties to the proceedings. In addition, we are reviewing current listing practices to increase the number of cases listed on a tribunal session, and introducing case-management “triage” sessions, with the aim of reducing the time taken for appeals to reach final determination. All these measures will increase the capacity of the tribunal, with the aim of reducing waiting times for appellants.</p><p> </p><p>I have met with my counterpart at the Department of Work and Pensions to discuss how our two departments can work together to improve initial decision making and the time it takes for cases to go through the tribunal. Officials from both departments are looking at feedback from the tribunal and at ways in which digitisation might make the system easier to use.</p><p> </p><p>Latest figures indicate that since Personal Independent Payment was introduced, more than 3.1 million decisions have been made, and of these under 9% have been appealed, and 4% have been overturned. For Employment Support Allowance, 8% of all decisions made were appealed, and 4% overturned at tribunals.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 157674 question first answered 04/07/2018 10:07:14 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

874750

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many employment support allowance appeal hearings have been adjourned in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	135051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2018 answer text <p>(i) The table below contains the information requested up to December 2017, the latest period for which figures are available.</p><p>Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number of ESA Adjourned <sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>Adjournments as a proportion of disposals<sup>2</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2015 – 31 March 2016</p></td><td><p>9,553</p></td><td><p>17%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2016 – 31 March 2017</p></td><td><p>11,591</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2017 – 31 December 2017 <sup>P</sup></p></td><td><p>10,001</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1 </sup>The number of ESA appeals adjourned at a hearing.</p><p><sup>2 </sup>Total number of hearing clearances. Cases cleared at tribunal hearing both oral and paper</p><p><sup>P </sup>Provisional data, as they will be reconciled when the annual statistics are published and therefore subject to change. Latest data available in line with published data.</p><p> </p><p>Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data available.</p><p> </p><p>(ii) The decision to adjourn a hearing is a judicial function. There is no prescribed set of criteria in determining whether to adjourn hearings for ESA (or other types of) appeals. Hearings can be adjourned for a variety of reasons including to obtain further medical evidence.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 135053 question first answered 19/04/2018 14:53:08 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

874752

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the criteria are for adjourning employment support allowance hearings.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	135053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2018 answer text <p>(i) The table below contains the information requested up to December 2017, the latest period for which figures are available.</p><p>Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number of ESA Adjourned <sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>Adjournments as a proportion of disposals<sup>2</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2015 – 31 March 2016</p></td><td><p>9,553</p></td><td><p>17%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2016 – 31 March 2017</p></td><td><p>11,591</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2017 – 31 December 2017 <sup>P</sup></p></td><td><p>10,001</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1 </sup>The number of ESA appeals adjourned at a hearing.</p><p><sup>2 </sup>Total number of hearing clearances. Cases cleared at tribunal hearing both oral and paper</p><p><sup>P </sup>Provisional data, as they will be reconciled when the annual statistics are published and therefore subject to change. Latest data available in line with published data.</p><p> </p><p>Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data available.</p><p> </p><p>(ii) The decision to adjourn a hearing is a judicial function. There is no prescribed set of criteria in determining whether to adjourn hearings for ESA (or other types of) appeals. Hearings can be adjourned for a variety of reasons including to obtain further medical evidence.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 135051 question first answered 19/04/2018 14:53:08 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

713053

registered interest
date	21/03/2017
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	Aerospace Industry: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effect on the Welsh aerospace sector of the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	68676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2017 answer text <p>We have engaged with the sector across the breadth of the UK, including through ADS (the national trade association for the sector), representatives of each of the Devolved Administrations, and directly with companies including in Wales. We are aware of the key areas of importance to the aerospace sector ahead of our negotiations to exit the European Union. Our aim is to retain the UK aerospace sector’s leading position in the global market.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 28/03/2017 13:09:02 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

668979

registered interest
date	06/01/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Electronic Government: Welsh Language
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he has taken to improve provision of services available in the Welsh language on the gov.uk website.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	58940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2017 answer text <p>The health and care system in Wales is devolved. The majority of health services information for Wales is published on the Welsh National Health Service website:</p><p><a href="http://www.wales.nhs.uk" target="_blank">www.wales.nhs.uk</a></p><p> </p><p>or the Welsh Government’s website:</p><p><a href="http://gov.wales/topics/health/" target="_blank">http://gov.wales/topics/health/</a></p><p> </p><p>If the Department is responsible for producing any policy content or guidance that directly affects Wales we would commission translation services and provide the content in both Welsh and English on:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a></p><p>For example, the United Kingdom Chief Medical Officers’ recent <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/health-risks-from-alcohol-new-guidelines" target="_blank">alcohol guidance report</a> was published in both languages.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 16/01/2017 17:20:31 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

650280

registered interest
date	02/12/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Emergency Services Network: Telecommunications
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 ensure that proposed new Government funded sites, built as part of the emergency services network, are multi-occupancy sites and not single-occupancy sites.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	55964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>In delivering the Emergency Services Network (ESN), the mobile network operator EE will deliver up to 291 new mast sites. Government will deliver approximately 230 further sites (known as the “Extended Area Services” (EAS) sites) in the most remote and rural areas of Great Britain.</p><p>For EAS sites, the principal objective is to provide coverage to meet the needs of the emergency services, but the Home Office is working with the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and DCMS to identify any proposed mast locations which could improve mobile coverage in future, with a view to ensuring these are built to a specification which could accommodate multiple operators.</p><p>EE has indicated that it is delivering around 200 new sites in Scotland as part of ESN. In addition there are 104 sites in Scotland that are being considered as part of the Extended Area Services (EAS). Delivery of these sites is subject to planning permission and the acquisition of land. There are currently no new sites proposed in the constituency of Inverclyde, either by EE or the EAS as part of ESN.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 55963 question first answered 21/12/2016 10:05:05 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams