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1472202

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date	21/06/2022
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	Rivers
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 assessment he has made of the adequacy of legislation concerning riparian rights and responsibilities; and if he will make an assessment of the potential implications of that legislation on flood risks.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	22447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling flood risk and increasing the nation's resilience. We expect those responsible for all assets - including riparian landowners - to ensure ongoing maintenance and timely repairs where necessary. To support this the Government has commissioned a review of the statutory powers, roles and responsibilities in relation to assets and watercourse maintenance, including riparian landowners. It is expected to report in due course.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 28/06/2022 16:43:52 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1472203

registered interest
date	21/06/2022
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	Social Security Benefits: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps her Department has taken to help ensure accuracy in the payment of benefits.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	22448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2022 answer text <p>DWP takes significant steps to ensure the accuracy of benefit payments. Our Enhanced Checking Service, a team of trained fraud specialists, look at suspicious cases referred to them by benefit processing staff, which helps prevent fraud from occurring at the outset of a claim. Our Integrated Risk &amp; Intelligence Service (IRIS) detects and prevents emerging frauds, which allows our various Disrupt Teams to respond to threats.</p><p> </p><p>We revisited over 900,000 Universal Credit (UC) claims paid under ‘Trust and Protect’ procedures during the early days of the pandemic. Additionally, building on what we have learnt during the pandemic, we are currently creating a dedicated team to deliver targeted case reviews of existing Universal Credit claims. We are expecting to review over 2 million cases over the next 5 years, stopping around £2 billion of losses due to fraud and error over that period.</p><p> </p><p>We increasingly draw on data to help inform benefit payments and the use of HMRC’s Real Time Information has almost eradicated PAYE earnings fraud in UC. We have extended this principle across a range of legacy benefits by way of our Verify Earnings and Pensions (VEP) service.</p><p> </p><p>The Department maintains rigorous control of Official Error via its Quality Assurance</p><p>Framework, which provides assurance that the necessary quality controls are in place.</p><p>An Independent Quality and Assurance Team checks transactions conducted within DWP benefits and this insight informs training requirements, infrastructure improvements and risk management. A senior stakeholder group, comprising of Directors, oversees the quality agenda.</p><p> </p><p>UC Official Error overpayments have fallen in each of the last 3 years, from 2.1% of UC expenditure in 2018/19 to 0.7% in 2021/22.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 29/06/2022 16:52:57 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1472205

registered interest
date	21/06/2022
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	Universal Credit: Overpayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment her Department has made of the (a) effectiveness and (b) impact on claimants of the requirement for all overpayments to be collected from Universal Credit claimants in the context of the proportion of claimants who are having a collection for an overpayment applied.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	22449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2022 answer text <p>DWP has a responsibility to the taxpayer to recover any monies overpaid to benefit claimants and to do so in the most efficient way possible. Last year, working with Local Authorities, we recovered £1.0 billion of overpaid benefit.</p><p>Recovery from benefit remains the most efficient source of recovery, with 90% of debt recovered this way in 2021-22. However, we recognise the importance of safeguarding the welfare of claimants who have incurred debt and legislation protects claimants from excessive deductions. This means there are limits set for individual deductions. In Universal Credit the overall deduction cap is set at 25% of the standard allowance, having been reduced from 40%.</p><p>Additionally, any deductions from benefit are prioritised which means that 3<sup>rd</sup> party deductions to help pay utility or rent arrears (for example) take precedence over overpayment recovery deductions.</p><p>Anyone experiencing hardship with repayments is encouraged to contact DWP Debt</p><p>Management to negotiate a reduction in their rate of repayment, or a temporary suspension of repayment, depending on financial circumstances.</p><p>We remain an active participant in Breathing Space, launched in May 2021 as part of The Debt Respite Scheme to support debtors struggling to cope with problem debt. We also signpost customers to trusted partners, who can provide impartial money and debt advice.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 29/06/2022 16:48:16 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1472206

registered interest
date	21/06/2022
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	Personal Independence Payment: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average waiting time is for an assessment for Personal Independence Payment from the point of the initial claim.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	22450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Available data on journey times for PIP New Claims is published in Table 1A of Personal Independence Payment statistics to April 2022, published on 14 June 2022 <a href="https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1082040%2Ftables-pip-statistics-to-april-2022.xlsx&amp;wdOrigin=BROWSELINK" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 27/06/2022 15:41:21 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1472208

registered interest
date	21/06/2022
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made a recent assessment of the level of risk of incorrect child maintenance calculations being made as a result of fraudulent informal arrangements relating to other children.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	22451
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2022 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Group keeps the risk of fraud within its business under review, and any cases [where it seems likely fraud has occurred] are investigated. Where fraud is found in informal arrangements relating to other children, the investigation staff may support a new maintenance assessment or use other criminal powers as necessary.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 29/06/2022 15:42:06 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1472209

registered interest
date	21/06/2022
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Local Government: CCTV
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the availability of funding for local authorities to install and maintain CCTV networks.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	22452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2022 answer text <p>The Local Government Finance Settlement for 2022/23 makes available an additional £3.7 billion to councils in England, including funding for adult social care reform. In total, we expect local authority Core Spending Power to rise from £50.4 billion in 2021/22 to up to £54.1 billion in 2022/23. The majority of this funding is un-ringfenced in recognition of local authorities being best placed to understand local priorities.</p><p>In addition, the Safer Streets Fund, which is administered by the Home Office, provides local organisations with the resources they need to tackle crime through evidence based and innovative interventions including improved CCTV. £50 million per year is being invested in the Safer Streets Fund over the next three years.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 29/06/2022 16:35:52 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1472211

registered interest
date	21/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces Compensation Scheme and War Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to (a) strengthen (i) communication and (ii) digitisation and (b) reduce clearance times for War Pension and Armed Forces Compensation Scheme claims.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	22453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2022 answer text <p>Defence Business Services is working hard to address feedback from Veterans to improve its communications around the War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Schemes. This includes the rolling out of customer journey maps that explain the end-to-end process for AFCS and WPS claims, which are readily available on gov.uk. at the following link:</p><p> </p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/news/learning-from-our-experiences-together</p><p> </p><p>Further supporting products are in development with the next set being a series of short, how-to videos on making a claim that will be published on YouTube.</p><p> </p><p>The ongoing £40 million Transformation Programme to digitise existing paper based processes and create a single customer portal for veterans aims to introduce automation, processing improvements and significantly reduce paper holdings. The first release of the new system is expected in late 2023. This will underpin the customer portal, which is being developed concurrently. This will enable claimants to provide and retrieve information electronically and allow them to securely access details of their entitlement and payments.</p><p> </p><p>Clearance times for AFCS and WPS claims have generally been falling with average clearance time for AFCS at the end of May 2022 being 86 working days against a Key Performance Indicator of 90 working days. Average Clearance times for WPS claims had been falling each month since January, but rose to 132 working days in May, breaking the KPI of 127 working days for the first time since February after a high percentage of older cases were cleared.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 29/06/2022 16:16:55 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1472213

registered interest
date	21/06/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Disease Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there were for covid-19 related offences in England and Wales in 2021.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	22454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has published information on prosecutions and convictions for covid-19 related offences, in England and Wales, up to December 2021, in the ‘Outcomes by Offence’ data tool, available here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1076459/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2021-v2.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1076459/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2021-v2.xlsx</a>.</p><p>In the “Prosecutions and Convictions” worksheet, use the <em>Home Office offence code</em> filter to select the following offences:</p><ul><li>16857 - Failure to comply with screening restriction/requirement (coronavirus)</li><li>16858 - Operator of Port fails to comply with direction under Coronavirus Act 2020</li><li>16859 - Offences by potentially infectious persons (coronavirus)</li><li>16860 - Breach of emergency period restrictions (coronavirus)</li><li>16861 - Offences in relation to events and gatherings (coronavirus)</li></ul><p>Figures for prosecutions and convictions populate rows 24 and 25 respectively.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 27/06/2022 16:50:00 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1472214

registered interest
date	21/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK Visas and Immigration: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average waiting time in minutes was on the MP UK Visas and Immigration helpline in (a) April and (b) May 2022.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	22455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2022 answer text <p>We have been reviewing staff numbers and have added an additional 40 support staff who are supporting with the HMPO and Ukraine calls.</p><p>We continue to review resource and wait times to reduce these even further.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 29/06/2022 10:30:16 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1472216

registered interest
date	21/06/2022
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	Health Services: Waiting Lists
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with NHS Trusts on waiting lists; and what support the Government has made available to help reduce waiting lists.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	22456
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>With NHS England and NHS Improvement, we have regular discussions with National Health Service trusts to discuss waiting lists for planned treatment. These discussions include assessing current progress in tackling backlogs, offering support and sharing advice to implement the ‘Delivery plan for tackling the COVID-19 backlog of elective care’.</p><p>We have committed more than £8 billion over the next three years to increase elective activity and address waiting times for treatment. This is in addition to the £2 billion Elective Recovery Fund and £700 million Targeted Investment Fund.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 27/06/2022 12:19:41 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders