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1671479

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date	20/11/2023
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: Early Retirement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many officials in his Department in (a) Liverpool, Walton constituency and (b) the UK have been awarded (i) upper and (ii) lower tier level ill-health retirement when applying as a result of long covid in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	2682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>DWP does not request nor obtain evidence to assess applications for ill health retirement due to long covid.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does monitor levels and trends in short- and long-term sickness absence across all types of sickness absence recorded on DWP’s own HR data system, including short- and long-term sickness absence generally that may be attributed to Covid, but we do not receive any personal data that will help assess IHR applications.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard grouped question UIN 2675 2683 question first answered 28/11/2023 15:04:46 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1463289

registered interest
date	16/05/2022
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	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities: Social Clubs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Answer of 9 March 2022 to Question 132391 on civil service staff networks, what information he holds on (a) FTE staff time and (b) budgets available to recognised staff groups within his Department in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Orpington
tabling member printed	Gareth Bacon
uin	2682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2022 answer text <p>Across the Civil Service, employee networks provide a valuable support structure for staff. <br> <br>(a) All staff networks are entirely voluntary. A Network Business Deal introduced in February 2021 provides all network chairs/deputy chairs of networks up to 25% of their contracted hours to conduct activities aimed at running the network and delivery of their business plans. This is subject to the business need and agreement with line management. It also allows that Employee network executive team members who volunteer alongside the Chairs, Co-Chairs, and Deputy Chairs can be allocated up to 10%</p><p><br>(b) In each of the last three financial years a staff network budget of £20,000 per annum has been controlled by Human Resources. This covers all the networks listed below:<br> <br>The Department currently recognises 15 staff network groups and unless stated otherwise all have been running over the last three years. They include the following: BAMENet, Carers, Disability, EU Nationals, Fair Treatment Ambassadors (from 2021), Gender Equality, Health and Wellbeing, Jobshare, LGBT+, LGBT+ Allies, Neurodiversity, Social Mobility, Working Parents, 50+, Inclusion Allies (from 2022). The Department also recognises the following three faith network groups: Group Christian Fellowship, Jewish Network, Network for Muslims.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Walsall North answering member printed Eddie Hughes question first answered 24/05/2022 16:53:29 answering member 4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes
tabling member	4798 label Biography information for Gareth Bacon

1151067

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
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 Justice, how many and what proportion of TV licence fee evasion cases have been dealt with under the single justice procedure in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	2682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>The number and proportion of cases dealt with via the Single Justice Procedure for TV licence fee evasion cases in each year from 2015 to 2019 is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Calendar Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total TVL Cases</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>SJP TVL Case</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of cases via SJP</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>190,940</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>174,315</p></td><td><p>68,997</p></td><td><p>39.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>140,083</p></td><td><p>134,084</p></td><td><p>95.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>131,195</p></td><td><p>126,509</p></td><td><p>96.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>63,764</p></td><td><p>61,462</p></td><td><p>96.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><em><sup>1</sup></em><em>2019 is for the period 1 January to 30th June</em> <table><tbody><tr><td><p>Data Notes:</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ul><li>a. Data are taken from a live management information system and can change over time.</li><li>b. Data are management information and are not subject to the same level of check as official statistics.</li><li>c. The data provided are the most recent available and for that reason might differ slightly from any previously published information.</li><li>d. Cases received on new systems for the period December 2018 to June 2019 have been included.</li></ul></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 3553 question first answered 28/10/2019 16:53:29 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

748205

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Pregnancy: Paracetamol
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with the Royal Colleges on the potential effect of pregnant women taking paracetamol and its effect on unborn boys.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	2682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2017 answer text <p>The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) continuously monitors the safety of all medicines on the market in the United Kingdom and seeks independent expert advice from the Commission on Human Medicines on important new safety issues. The MHRA is aware of recently published research looking at the effect on male offspring of giving paracetamol to pregnant mice. All new evidence on the safety of paracetamol is kept under close review and this latest study will be carefully considered and any new advice will be communicated.</p><p> </p><p>There have not been any discussions with the Royal Colleges on this issue yet.</p><p> </p><p>Pregnant women should speak to their doctor or midwife before taking any medicine, including paracetamol.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/07/2017 09:46:19 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon