24 Oct 2024·Department for Work and Pensions·Answered
AskedHow many and what proportion of people claiming Income Support were (a) born and (b) not born in the UK.
ReplyThe 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...
24 Oct 2024·Department for Work and Pensions·Answered
AskedHow many and what proportion of people claiming Housing Benefit were (a) born and (b) not born in the UK.
ReplyThe 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...
24 Oct 2024·Department for Work and Pensions·Answered
AskedHow many and what proportion of people claiming the Personal Independence Payment were (a) born and (b) not born in the UK.
ReplyThe 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...
24 Oct 2024·Department for Work and Pensions·Answered
AskedHow many and what proportion of people claiming Employment and Support Allowance were (a) born and (b) not born in the UK.
ReplyThe 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...
24 Oct 2024·Department for Work and Pensions·Answered
AskedHow many and what proportion of people claiming Universal Credit were (a) born and (b) not born in the UK.
ReplyThe 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...
24 Oct 2024·Department for Work and Pensions·Answered
AskedPursuant 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
ReplyThe 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...
23 Oct 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedPursuant 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 (
ReplyThe 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.
23 Oct 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedHow 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.
ReplyThe 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
21 Oct 2024·Home Office·Answered
AskedWhich countries do not accept the return of people with identity documentation issued by the UK.
ReplyWe 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.
18 Oct 2024·Department for Business and Trade·Answered
AskedIf he will increase the fines available through section 38 of the London Local Authorities Act 1990.
ReplyLocal Authorities are responsible for enforcement and central Government has no current plans for legislation that can be used to amend these fees.
17 Oct 2024·Department for Transport·Answered
AskedWhether 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
ReplyIn 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...
17 Oct 2024·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·Answered
AskedCommunities 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
ReplyI 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.
17 Oct 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedHow 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.
ReplyWe 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...
17 Oct 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedHow many new HIV diagnoses there were in each year since 2012, by world region of birth.
ReplyThis data is published routinely on gov.uk.
17 Oct 2024·Department for Work and Pensions·Answered
AskedHow many people claiming out of work benefits were (a) born in the UK and (b) not born in the UK.
ReplyThe 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...
17 Oct 2024·Department for Transport·Answered
AskedWhether she plans to bring forward legislative reforms to zig zag markings outside schools to enable enforcement even where cars are partially on the pavement.
ReplyLocal 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...
17 Oct 2024·Treasury·Answered
AskedWhether she plans to extend the scheme making church repairs exempt from VAT beyond March 2025.
ReplyThe 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.
17 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
AskedHow many prisoners released under Standard Determinate Sentence 40 legislation have been recalled to prison.
ReplyRecall 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...
17 Oct 2024·Home Office·Answered
AskedWhat her Department's timetable is for making a decision on whether to grant Brooke House College Market Harborough a student sponsor licence.
ReplyInstitutions 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 ...
17 Oct 2024·Ministry of Justice·Answered
AskedPursuant 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
ReplyI 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.