Kim Johnson MP: written questions
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Department for Work and Pensions: Skilled WorkersDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40548More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact the new salary thresholds for Skilled Worker visas on staffing levels in her Department.
Answer: Whilst the impact of changes to the Skilled Worker Salary threshold are affecting a very small proportion of staff within the Department, visa expiry and potential options for obtaining a future work visa are specific to individuals’ circumstances and the...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordVisas: Skilled WorkersHome OfficeTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40547More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there is any flexibility in the thresholds for (a) minimum working hours and (b) actual hours worked in the context of Skilled Worker visa applications.
Answer: The general salary threshold applies regardless of the number of working hours. The occupation specific going rates are assessed according to a worker’s contracted hours, which is consistent with the approach taken in national minimum wage guidance. Some ...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrison Sentences and Reoffenders: CostsMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38680More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost is for processing (a) a fixed term and (b) an emergency recall to prison.
Answer: The process of recalling an offender to custody, whether for a fixed-term or in an emergency, involves activity and administration on the part of the Probation Service (which requests recall); officials in HM Prison and Probation Service (who revoke the o...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons and Probation: Criminal RecordsMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38679More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many volunteer support workers working in (a) prisons and (b) probation had criminal convictions in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Answer: All support workers and volunteers in HM Prison & Probation Service are subject to vetting checks on entry, to protect the security and integrity of the organisation. This includes anyone recruited via our Lived Experience routes, such as Going Forwar...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons and Probation: Criminal RecordsMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38678More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many paid support workers working in (a) prisons and (b) probation had criminal convictions in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Answer: All support workers and volunteers in HM Prison & Probation Service are subject to vetting checks on entry, to protect the security and integrity of the organisation. This includes anyone recruited via our Lived Experience routes, such as Going Forwar...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPrison SentencesMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37323More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving imprisonment for public protection sentences were (a) classified as Category A prisoners and (b) in Category A prisons on 11 March 2025.
Answer: Category A prisoners are those that are considered to pose the highest risk to the public, the Police or national security. High security establishments are designed to mitigate those risks and to prevent escape.Some Category B prisoners are held in high ...
Answered 14 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: ChildrenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37322More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women have been granted an exemption to the two-child limit as a result of non-consensual conception since April 2017.
Answer: The requested information is provided in the table below and shows in April of each year from 2017 to 2024, the number of households with a non-consensual conception exception to the two-child policy, who were women (if single claimants) or couples in whi...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: Lone ParentsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37321More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the gender breakdown is for Universal Credit claimants who are single parents.
Answer: The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Work and Pensions: StaffDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37320More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to revisions to the Immigration Rules, updated on 19 February and 14 March 2024, what recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the potential i
Answer: Whilst the impact of changes to the Skilled Worker Salary threshold, introduced in April 2024, is affecting a very small proportion of staff within the Department, visa expiry and potential options for obtaining a future work visa are specific to individu...
Answered 14 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLone Parents: Maternity LeaveDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35376More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many single parents on maternity leave have had benefit payments capped.
Answer: The requested statistics are not available as the Department does not hold information on the maternity leave status of single parents that have had benefit payments capped.
Answered 14 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 34933More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints the Disability Confident policy team in her Department has had concerning a Disability Confident employer failing to comply with the Disability Confident criteria in the last three y
Answer: The Disability Confident scheme has over 19,000 members and they report over 12 million employees working in their organisations. The scheme is designed as a learning journey with all employers starting at Level 1 and encouraged to progress through the sc...
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 34932More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to ensure that bodies providing independent validation of organisations seeking Disability Confident Leader status or to renewal of that status are fit for purpose.
Answer: The Disability Confident scheme has over 19,000 members and they report over 12 million employees working in their organisations. The scheme is designed as a learning journey with all employers starting at Level 1 and encouraged to progress through the sc...
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 34931More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which bodies provide independent validation of organisations seeking Disability Confident Leader status or renewal of that status.
Answer: The Disability Confident scheme has over 19,000 members and they report over 12 million employees working in their organisations. The scheme is designed as a learning journey with all employers starting at Level 1 and encouraged to progress through the sc...
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: EqualityDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33997More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a public inquiry into the policy of so-called educationally subnormal schools in the 1960s and 1970s and (a) the number and proportion
Answer: The department does not currently plan to establish a public inquiry into the policy framework surrounding placement of children in schools for the so-called “educationally subnormal” in the 1960s and 1970s, but is keen to ensure that the mistakes made in...
Answered 22 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCriminal Cases Review CommissionMinistry of JusticeTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33996More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, as at 26 February 2025, how many applications to the Criminal Cases Review Commission have been open for (a) over one year, (b) over two years, (c) over five years, (d) over ten years and (e) over fifteen years.
Answer: The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has provided the following information, which is unpublished management information and has not been subject to the same quality checks as Official Statistics which are published by the Ministry of Justice.As at...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish NationalityHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32253More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department’s guidance entitled Good character: caseworker guidance, updated on 13 February 2025, whether adults granted ref
Answer: When assessing good character, it is normally appropriate to disregard immigration breaches if it is accepted this was outside of the applicant’s control, which will normally be the case where children are involved.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish NationalityHome OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32252More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department’s guidance entitled Good character: caseworker guidance, updated on 13 February 2025, whether children granted refugee status who arrived in the UK unaccompanied can n
Answer: When assessing good character, it is normally appropriate to disregard immigration breaches if it is accepted this was outside of the applicant’s control, which will normally be the case where children are involved.
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Sanitary ProductsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32084More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the availability of free period products at (a) primary care and (b) secondary care settings in England.
Answer: The Government recognises the importance of women and girls being able to access the care they need for their reproductive health, including period products.Since 2019 it has been a requirement in the NHS Standard Contract that the National Health Service...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordStudents: Sanitary ProductsDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32083More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing free period products to learners in (a) further and (b) higher education settings in England.
Answer: Nobody should have to miss out on education because of their period, which is why the department provides free period products to girls and women in all state-maintained schools and 16 to 19 education organisations in England. Higher education (HE) instit...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Work and Pensions: StaffDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32050More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will meet with representatives of trade unions to discuss the potential impact of workplace visa rules on staff in her Department.
Answer: Whilst the impact of changes to the Skilled Worker Salary threshold introduced in April 2024 are affecting a very small proportion of staff within the Department, visa expiry and potential options for obtaining a future work visa are specific to individua...
Answered 26 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Work and Pensions: VacanciesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32049More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the number of vacancies in her Department.
Answer: DWP is a demand led organisation which determines the level of staffing resource required to deliver our services. Workforce Plans, which include recruitment, set out detailed plans to deliver the required level of resource. Workforce Plans are regularly ...
Answered 26 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordOffenders: SuicideMinistry of JusticeTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31169More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences on licence in the community have taken their own lives in each year since 2005.
Answer: Table: Self-inflicted deaths of offenders serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence supervised on licence in the community, financial year 2019/20 to 2023/24, England and Wales (1) (2) (3) 2019/202020/212021/222022/232023/24 (p)Total611974(p...
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGangs: DatabasesMinistry of JusticeTabled 31 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27937More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed deletion of the Gang Violence Matrix on (a) legal risks and (b) access to justice for affected people.
Answer: The now decommissioned Gang Violence Matrix (GVM) was an operational risk assessment tool used by the Metropolitan Police. The Metropolitan Police is the controller of this data and is operationally independent of Government.The Metropolitan Police has al...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGangs: DatabasesHome OfficeTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27638More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will instruct the Metropolitan Police to delay the deletion of its Gangs Violence Matrix.
Answer: The Gangs Violence Matrix (GVM) was an intelligence tool used by the Metropolitan Police to identify and risk-assess individuals involved with gangs across London.The police are operationally independent of the government, and the GVM was devised and oper...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGangs: DatabasesHome OfficeTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27637More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of identifying an independent body to safeguard data relating to the Metropolitan Police’s Gangs Violence Matrix.
Answer: The Gangs Violence Matrix (GVM) was an intelligence tool used by the Metropolitan Police to identify and risk-assess individuals involved with gangs across London.The police are operationally independent of the government, and the GVM was devised and oper...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
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