Neil O'Brien MP: written questions 2024
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Written questions
Personal Independence PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11038More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people claiming the Personal Independence Payment were (a) born and (b) not born in the UK.
Answer: The Department does not routinely collect data on the country of birth of individuals claiming any benefits. DWP policy responsibility lies in establishing a customer’s eligibility to claim benefits. An individual’s specific country of birth does not play...
Answered 29 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordEmployment and Support AllowanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11037More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people claiming Employment and Support Allowance were (a) born and (b) not born in the UK.
Answer: The Department does not routinely collect data on the country of birth of individuals claiming any benefits. DWP policy responsibility lies in establishing a customer’s eligibility to claim benefits. An individual’s specific country of birth does not play...
Answered 29 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordUniversal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11036More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people claiming Universal Credit were (a) born and (b) not born in the UK.
Answer: The Department does not routinely collect data on the country of birth of individuals claiming any benefits. DWP policy responsibility lies in establishing a customer’s eligibility to claim benefits. An individual’s specific country of birth does not play...
Answered 29 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordSocial Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 24 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11035More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 23 October 2024 to Question 9771 on Social Security Benefits, for which benefit lines the Department records data on the birthplace of people claiming (a) out of work and (b) o
Answer: The Department does not routinely collect data on the country of birth of individuals claiming any benefits. DWP policy responsibility lies in establishing a customer’s eligibility to claim benefits. An individual’s specific country of birth does not play...
Answered 29 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordHIV/AIDSDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10769More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people there were in each region with a newly diagnosed HIV infection whose country of birth was (a) in the UK and (b) not in the UK in each year since 2014.
Answer: The number of new diagnoses for each year between 2014 and 2023, presented by region of residence and by whether country of birth was UK or not, is publicly available from the following GOV.UK link: https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view
Answered 14 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordHIV/AIDSDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10768More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2024 to Question 9646 on HIV Infection: Diagnosis, how many people living with diagnosed HIV infection there were whose country of birth was (a) in the UK and (
Answer: The information is not available in the format requested, however HIV data are publicly accessible from the HIV data tables published on GOV.UK at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hiv-annual-data-tables.
Answered 14 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDeportationHome OfficeTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10127More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which countries do not accept the return of people with identity documentation issued by the UK.
Answer: We do not expect that anyone being returned from the UK would still hold valid UK documentation. A person being removed from the UK has, by definition, no right to be in the UK.
Answered 29 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordStreet Trading: Greater LondonDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 18 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9942More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will increase the fines available through section 38 of the London Local Authorities Act 1990.
Answer: Local Authorities are responsible for enforcement and central Government has no current plans for legislation that can be used to amend these fees.
Answered 22 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDental ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9773More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many units of (a) orthodontic and (b) dental activity were (i) commissioned and (ii) delivered per head of population in each region in each year since 2006.
Answer: We do not hold data on the units of dental activity delivered per head of population in each region and each year since 2006. Activity in National Health Service dentistry is measured by the number of Units of Dental Activity (UDAs) commissioned and deliv...
Answered 24 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordReoffendersMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9772More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners released under Standard Determinate Sentence 40 legislation have been recalled to prison.
Answer: Recall remains, as intended, a tool Probation can use to protect the public.Data on SDS40 recalls forms a subset of data intended for future publication, but our initial operational insights suggest there has not been a significant change to the use and a...
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordSocial Security BenefitsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9771More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people claiming out of work benefits were (a) born in the UK and (b) not born in the UK.
Answer: The Department does not consistently record data on the birthplace of those claiming out of work benefits across all benefit lines. DWP policy responsibility lies in establishing a customer’s eligibility to claim benefits. An individual’s place of birth d...
Answered 23 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordHIV/AIDSDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9770More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many new HIV diagnoses there were in each year since 2012, by world region of birth.
Answer: This data is published routinely on gov.uk.
Answered 23 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordDental Services: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9769More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department provides to integrated care boards on the use of funding for dentistry; and whether such funding is required to be ring-fenced for the provision of dentistry services.
Answer: NHS England has issued guidance on the ringfencing of dental budgets between 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025, which is available at the following link:https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/revenue-finance-and-contracting-guidance-for-2024-25/To ensure comp...
Answered 6 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordBrook House Immigration Removal CentreHome OfficeTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9768More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's timetable is for making a decision on whether to grant Brooke House College Market Harborough a student sponsor licence.
Answer: Institutions applying to join the Register of Student Sponsors usually receive a decision on their application within 8 weeks. UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) are not currently in receipt of such an application from Brooke House College at this time, and ...
Answered 25 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordLeasehold: ReformMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9767More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when her Department plans to publish the Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Bill; and what discussions she has had with the Leader of the House on making parliamentary time for that
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave to Question UIN 7625, on the 14 October 2024. We will announce further details in due course.
Answered 24 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordImmigration: AppealsMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9766More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2024 to Question 8672 on Immigration: Appeals, for what reason she has no plans to legislate to change the current arrangements on publication of decisions of the First-tier T
Answer: I am satisfied that the question of whether, and in what form, to publish judgments is properly a judicial function. The judge is best placed to determine these matters in individual cases.
Answered 25 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordChurches: VATTreasuryTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9765More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to extend the scheme making church repairs exempt from VAT beyond March 2025.
Answer: The Chancellor of the Exchequer will soon set out the details of the government’s spending priorities for 25/26 in the usual way at the Spending Review on the 30 October.
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordParking: Pedestrian AreasDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9764More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to take steps to (a) allow local authorities with civil parking enforcement powers to enforce against unnecessary obstruction of the pavement and (b) enable highways authorities outside London
Answer: In 2020, the Department undertook a public consultation on options for changing the way pavement parking is managed outside London. We are considering the views received to inform the Government’s next steps for pavement parking policy. The formal consult...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordParking: SchoolsDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9763More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to bring forward legislative reforms to zig zag markings outside schools to enable enforcement even where cars are partially on the pavement.
Answer: Local authorities in England with designated civil parking enforcement powers already have the option to use existing traffic order-making powers to take civil enforcement action against vehicles which are stationary, whether fully or partially, on zigzag...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordOffenders: Foreign NationalsMinistry of JusticeTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9762More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 6948 on Offenders: Foreign Nationals, if she will publish a breakdown of foreign national offenders by detailed offence type.
Answer: We recently provided information on the offence group of foreign national offenders (FNOs) in prison on 30 June 2024, in answer to PQ 6948. This can be found in the attached table.The Department currently has no plans to publish a breakdown of foreign nat...
Answered 25 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordHIV/AIDSDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9646More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people living with diagnosed HIV infection there are whose country of birth was (a) in the UK and (b) not in the UK by region.
Answer: The following table shows the number of people diagnosed and seen for care in 2023 presented by region and by whether country of birth was the United Kingdom: Region of residenceUK bornBorn outside the UK East Midlands2,3923,876 East of England3,2425,325 ...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordEducation: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 14 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8855More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse will be per local authority to fund (a) the teachers' pay additional grant, (b) the teachers' pension employer contribution grant and (c) the core schools budget grant for fina
Answer: In 2024/25, the department is providing schools and high needs settings with £900 million through the teachers’ pay additional grant (TPAG), £1.1 billion through the teachers’ pension employer contribution grant (TPECG) to support them with the increased ...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordImmigration: AppealsMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8672More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure decisions of the First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber are published on the same basis as decisions of the Upper Tribunal.
Answer: I refer the honourable Member to the answer I gave on 10 October 2024 to Question 7538: Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament.Decisions on publishing judgments, including those judgments of the Immigrati...
Answered 16 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordImmigration: AppealsMinistry of JusticeTabled 7 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7538More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will publish decisions of the First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber on the same basis that decisions of the Upper Tribunal are currently published.
Answer: The decision whether to publish a judgment is a judicial one.Currently, judgments of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal are not routinely published. However, members of the public and the media can apply to the tribunal for a co...
Answered 10 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordHIV/AIDS: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 7 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7537More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men who received care for a diagnosed HIV infection were born in (i) the UK, (ii) Europe, (iii) Northern Africa, (iii) Eastern Africa, (iv) Middle
Answer: The information requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Answered 16 Oct 2024
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