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576888

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Community Relations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect on community cohesion of the presence of (a) Mufti Hanif Qureshi, (b) Muhammad Naquib ur Rehman and (c) Hassan Haseeb ur Rehman in the UK in 2016.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	45264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office does not routinely comment on assessments of foreign visitors to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 08/09/2016 16:10:07 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

573480

registered interest
date	02/09/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances
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 takes to prevent people using a false identity being granted entry clearance to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	44145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the specific information in relation to people from Pakistan using false identity, in the format requested. To obtain it would involve interrogating individual case records, at disproportionate cost.</p><p>All out of country entry clearance applications are subject to an extensive range of mandatory and discretionary checks.</p><p>These include, but are not limited to, identity, travel document verification, searches against national and international police records and against previous Immigration history.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 44146 question first answered 12/09/2016 15:53:05 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

573481

registered interest
date	02/09/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hanif Qureshi
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 took to assess the grounds for granting a visa to Mufti Hanif Qureshi.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	44144
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2016 answer text <p>All visa applications are considered on their individual merits and in line with the Immigration Rules.</p><p>In order to safeguard an individual’s personal information and comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 the Home Office is limited in what information it can provide when the request is made by someone who is not the applicant. The Home Office is therefore unable to provide the information requested.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 15/09/2016 14:40:36 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

573483

registered interest
date	02/09/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: Pakistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times her Department has been made aware of people from Pakistan using a false identity to obtain entry clearance to the UK in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	44146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the specific information in relation to people from Pakistan using false identity, in the format requested. To obtain it would involve interrogating individual case records, at disproportionate cost.</p><p>All out of country entry clearance applications are subject to an extensive range of mandatory and discretionary checks.</p><p>These include, but are not limited to, identity, travel document verification, searches against national and international police records and against previous Immigration history.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 44145 question first answered 12/09/2016 15:53:05 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

573492

registered interest
date	02/09/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Urdu speakers are employed at the (a) Home Office in Marsham Street, London and (b) British High Commission in Islamabad to investigate the background of people applying for entry clearance.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	44164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>There are no Urdu speakers employed by the Home Office in Marsham Street involved in processing Entry Clearance, as entry clearance applications are not considered at that location. There are 11 Urdu speaking staff employed at the British High Commission in Islamabad and seven at the British embassy in Abu Dhabi involved in the processing of visa applications, including investigating the background of people applying for entry clearance.</p><p>Under our ‘hub and spoke’ arrangements, applications lodged in Pakistan for settlement, applications under the Points Based System, and EEA applications are processed at the Visa section in Sheffield. Applications lodged in Pakistan for visits are processed in Abu Dhabi. The British High Commission in Islamabad processes Official applications made in-house.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 12/09/2016 16:14:40 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

457766

registered interest
date	04/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Out-patients: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many outpatient (a) medical ophthalmology, (b) optometry and (c) orthotics appointments for children under 19 years of age were (i) cancelled and (ii) missed because the patient did not attend in 2014-15; and what the median waiting time for an (A) outpatient ophthalmology (B) medical ophthalmology (C) outpatient optometry, and (D) outpatient orthoptics appointment was in 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	29822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text <p>The information is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>Information on outpatient ophthalmology,<ins class="ministerial"> medical ophthalmology,</ins> optometry, orthotics and orthoptics appointments for patients under 19 years of age in 2014-15</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial"> </del></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><del class="ministerial">Outpatient appointments<sup>1</sup> for patients under 19 years of age</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">All patients</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Treatment specialty</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">Cancelled (by hospital or by patient)</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">Patient did not attend</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">Median wait time (days)<sup>2</sup></del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Ophthamology<sup>3</sup></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">98,774</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">93,099</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">35</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Optometry</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1,884</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1,028</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">33</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Orthotics</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">6,519</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">5,162</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">40</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Orthoptics</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">70,327</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">54,062</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">35</del></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><ins class="ministerial"><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><ins class="ministerial">Outpatient appointments<sup>1</sup> for patients under 19 years of age</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">All patients</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Treatment specialty</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Cancelled (by hospital or by patient)</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Patient did not attend</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Median wait time (days)<sup>2</sup></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Ophthalmology</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">98,774</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">93,099</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">35</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Medical ophthalmology</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">565</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">5,448</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">28</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Optometry</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">1,884</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">1,028</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">33</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Orthotics</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">6,519</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">5,162</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">40</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">Orthoptics</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">70,327</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">54,062</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">35</ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table></ins></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Sources:</em></p><p>Hospital episode statistics, Health and Social Care Information Centre</p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><ol><li>These are not counts of people as the same person may have had more than one appointment within the same time period.</li><li>Waiting time is defined as the time in days between the date the referral request was received and the date of the first appointment, whether it was attended or not.</li><li><del class="ministerial">Within the Hospital Episode Statistics database it is not possible to distinguish between &quot;ophthamology&quot; and &quot;medical ophthamology&quot; treatment specialties.</del></li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 14/03/2016 11:31:27 question first ministerially corrected 25/04/2016 17:06:31 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt previous answer version 50914 answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

453763

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Ophthalmic Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time for an outpatient paediatric ophthalmology appointment was in 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	27793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2016 answer text <p>The information is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>Information on outpatient paediatric ophthalmology appointments in 2014-15</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Median waiting time in days for a first appointment<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>53 days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of appointments that were cancelled by the hospital</p></td><td><p>36,533</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of appointments that were cancelled by the patient</p></td><td><p>33,448</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of appointments that the patient did not attend</p></td><td><p>65,436</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National average unit cost of a first appointment<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>£118</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Sources:</em></p><p>Hospital episode statistics, Health and Social Care Information Centre</p><p>Reference costs, Department of Health</p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p><sup>1</sup>Waiting time is defined as the time in days between the date the referral request was received and the date of the first appointment, whether it was attended or not.</p><p><sup>2</sup>Defined as a consultant-led single-professional first appointment. Separate data are collected are collected on non-consultant-led, multi-professional, and follow-up appointments.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 27593 27616 question first answered 26/02/2016 15:49:21 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

453771

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Ophthalmic Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many outpatient paediatric ophthalmology appointments were (a) cancelled and (b) missed because the patient did not attend in 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	27616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2016 answer text <p>The information is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>Information on outpatient paediatric ophthalmology appointments in 2014-15</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Median waiting time in days for a first appointment<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>53 days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of appointments that were cancelled by the hospital</p></td><td><p>36,533</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of appointments that were cancelled by the patient</p></td><td><p>33,448</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of appointments that the patient did not attend</p></td><td><p>65,436</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National average unit cost of a first appointment<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>£118</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Sources:</em></p><p>Hospital episode statistics, Health and Social Care Information Centre</p><p>Reference costs, Department of Health</p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p><sup>1</sup>Waiting time is defined as the time in days between the date the referral request was received and the date of the first appointment, whether it was attended or not.</p><p><sup>2</sup>Defined as a consultant-led single-professional first appointment. Separate data are collected are collected on non-consultant-led, multi-professional, and follow-up appointments.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 27593 27793 question first answered 26/02/2016 15:49:21 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

453778

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Ophthalmic Services: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average unit cost of a first outpatient paediatric ophthalmology appointment was in 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	27593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2016 answer text <p>The information is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>Information on outpatient paediatric ophthalmology appointments in 2014-15</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Median waiting time in days for a first appointment<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>53 days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of appointments that were cancelled by the hospital</p></td><td><p>36,533</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of appointments that were cancelled by the patient</p></td><td><p>33,448</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of appointments that the patient did not attend</p></td><td><p>65,436</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National average unit cost of a first appointment<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>£118</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Sources:</em></p><p>Hospital episode statistics, Health and Social Care Information Centre</p><p>Reference costs, Department of Health</p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p><sup>1</sup>Waiting time is defined as the time in days between the date the referral request was received and the date of the first appointment, whether it was attended or not.</p><p><sup>2</sup>Defined as a consultant-led single-professional first appointment. Separate data are collected are collected on non-consultant-led, multi-professional, and follow-up appointments.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 27616 27793 question first answered 26/02/2016 15:49:21 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

177708

registered interest
date	02/02/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Housing: Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he is taking to help households improve their energy efficiency.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	907446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2015 answer text <p>We have extended our successful Energy Company Obligation out to 2017 and have reformed the Green Deal with changes such as the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund.</p><p> </p><p>Together, ECO and the Green Deal have helped more than one million homes become more energy efficient, and as I have informed the House already, yesterday I laid regulations to require landlords to bring their properties up to a minimum level of energy efficiency from 1 April 2018.</p><p> </p><p>If the House agrees these new, tough rules for the private rented sector, we estimate that around one million tenants will benefit from warmer and cheaper to heat homes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingston and Surbiton answering member printed Mr Edward Davey grouped question UIN 907453 question first answered 05/02/2015 14:58:48 answering member 188 label Biography information for Ed Davey
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh