In the 12 month period ending 31 October 2018, there were (a) 32,440 telephone appointments, (b) 78,961 face to face appointments and (c) 44,969 digital journey completions.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4142", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Guy Opperman"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Hexham"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Guy Opperman"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2018-11-20", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "previousAnswerVersion" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1006972/answer/previousversion/85865", "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4142", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Guy Opperman"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Hexham"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Guy Opperman"} } , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2018-11-20T14:18:54.897Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "29"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Work and Pensions"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Work and Pensions"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2018-11-14", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Pensions: Advisory Services"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have had (a) a telephone appointment, (b) a face to face appointment and (c) completed a digital journey with the Pension Wise guidance service in the 12 month period ending October 2018.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/298", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Steve McCabe"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Birmingham, Selly Oak"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Steve McCabe"} ], "uin" : "191266"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1003735", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1003735/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
Sustainability and transformation partnerships and integrated care systems are made up of bodies including local authorities and clinical commissioning groups, which retain statutory responsibility for providing health and care services for the populations they serve. These include a range of services involved in children\u2019s palliative care.<\/p>
<\/p>
NHS England and the Department would expect all of these partners to be regularly talking to, and working with, relevant organisations given their remit to identify overall local need and to join up services.<\/p>
<\/p>
NHS England is also working with commissioners, clinicians, voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations and people with lived experience to refresh the children\u2019s palliative and end of life care service specification and the commissioning pathway, to reflect collective responsibilities across health and social care. Work will continue on this until spring 2019. NHS England is also making available guidance across the sector to support good practice, including sharing examples.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4008", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Gosport"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Caroline Dinenage"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2018-11-14", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2018-11-14T16:37:59.613Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "17"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2018-11-09", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Palliative Care: Children"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to monitor how effectively (a) sustainability and transformation partnerships, (b) integrated care systems, (c) clinical commissioning groups and (d) local authorities are supporting children's palliative care in accordance with their legal duties.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/298", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Steve McCabe"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Birmingham, Selly Oak"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Steve McCabe"} ], "uin" : "189538"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1003844", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Education"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1003844/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
The information requested is not held centrally. The department does not collect data on specific adoption circumstances.<\/p>
Information on those children placed for adoption where consent is dispensed by the court is published annually in Table D1 of the statistical release, \u2018Children looked after in England including adoption: 2016 to 2017\u2019 at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2016-to-2017<\/a>.<\/p> <\/p> Figures for the year ending 31 March 2018 will be published on 15 November 2018. These are circumstances where the court can dispense without the consent of a parent, to the placement and adoption of their child if the welfare of the child requires it. This may be a decision in some situations that is not in accordance with the parents\u2019 wishes.<\/p> <\/p> The welfare of a child is paramount and local authorities have a statutory duty to intervene to undertake child protection enquiries and to take action to safeguard and promote the child\u2019s welfare. However, decisions on adoption are ultimately taken by an independent judge based on the evidence presented.<\/p> <\/p>"}
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, "date" : {"_value" : "2018-11-09", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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}
], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many contested adoptions have taken place in each of the last five years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/298", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Steve McCabe"}
}
, "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Birmingham, Selly Oak"}
, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Steve McCabe"}
], "uin" : "189539"}
, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1003869", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Foreign and Commonwealth Office"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1003869/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " We have followed Azza Soliman's case closely, as well as the related Foreign Funding case. We understand that Ms Soliman was released on bail, pending further investigation, in December 2016. On 6 December 2017, Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon highlighted Ms Soliman's case in his speech at an Amnesty International Human Rights Day event. UK officials raised the Foreign Funding case with the Egyptian Assistant Foreign Minister for Human Rights on 18 April 2018. On 18 September 2018, we made a statement at the UN Human Rights Council in which we expressed concern about the "arrests of activists, bloggers and journalists".<\/p>"}
, "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1201", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Alistair Burt"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Egyptian Government on the (a) detention and (b) interrogation of Azza Soliman, the Egyptian human rights activist and co-founder of Lawyers for Justice and Peace.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4495", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Kit Malthouse"}
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, "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Right to Buy Scheme"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether someone seeking to port their right to buy discount for a second time is entitled to if their first attempt to purchase and use that discount is unsuccessful.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/298", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Steve McCabe"}
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, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Steve McCabe"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/997145", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/997145/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " If a tenant is offered and accepts the opportunity to 'port' their Right to Buy discount to another property through the Voluntary Right to Buy Midlands pilot, their application will be paused to allow them time to discuss alternative properties with their housing association. It is up to individual housing associations to determine the extent of their porting offer, and the number of alternative properties that will be made available to tenants, depending on what is reasonable for the circumstances locally.<\/p> The Government has not collected information on the number of homes that are available to buy under the porting arrangements. This will be gathered as part of the Government\u2019s evaluation of the pilot that will follow its completion.<\/p>"}
, "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4495", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Kit Malthouse"}
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, "date" : {"_value" : "2018-10-29", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
, "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Right to Buy Scheme: Midlands"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the number of homes that are available to buy under the porting arrangements of the Midlands voluntary right to buy pilot.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/298", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Steve McCabe"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/997146", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/997146/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Department will closely monitor the progress of the Midlands pilot, and the spending of the budget as the pilot progresses, to ensure that as many eligible tenants as possible have the opportunity to become home owners under the scheme.<\/p> 6,000 tenants were successful in the ballot. Evidence from the scheme for council tenants, and the initial small-scale pilot that completed in 2017, suggests that a high number of tenants who make an application may not go on to complete a sale, for example because they do not meet the eligibility criteria, or because they are unable to fund the remainder of the purchase.<\/p> It is expected that the pilot budget of £200 million will fund somewhere in the region of 3,000 sales, though this figure may vary, depending on the average discount being claimed, and the level of drop out.<\/p>"}
, "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4495", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Kit Malthouse"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether everyone who is successful in the ballot and deemed eligible for the Midlands voluntary right to buy pilot will have the opportunity to buy a property under that scheme.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "uin" : "184847"}
, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/997147", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/997147/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Department will closely monitor the progress of the Midlands pilot, and the spending of the budget as the pilot progresses, to ensure that as many eligible tenants as possible have the opportunity to become home owners under the scheme.<\/p> 6,000 tenants were successful in the ballot. Evidence from the scheme for council tenants, and the initial small-scale pilot that completed in 2017, suggests that a high number of tenants who make an application may not go on to complete a sale, for example because they do not meet the eligibility criteria, or because they are unable to fund the remainder of the purchase.<\/p> It is expected that the pilot budget of £200 million will fund somewhere in the region of 3,000 sales, though this figure may vary, depending on the average discount being claimed, and the level of drop out.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will undertake a mid-point review of the Midlands voluntary right to buy pilot to assess whether there is sufficient funding in place to cover all sales.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Steve McCabe"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/994596", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government"}
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, {"_value" : "183854"}
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, "date" : {"_value" : "2018-10-25", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will provide full details of the discount available to tenants under the Midlands Voluntary Right to Buy pilot.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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