Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how frequently her Department reviews engineering jobs on the occupational shortage list to prevent over supply.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) reviews the Shortage Occupation List when commissioned to do so by the Government.
The MAC is an independent advisory body consisting of expert labour market economists. It has a clear, published methodology for assessing whether occupations are skilled, in shortage, and whether it is sensible to address those shortages in part through migration, based on a variety of indicators and using national “top down” data as well as “bottom up” evidence from employers.
The MAC has carried out two full reviews and three partial reviews of the Shortage Occupation List since May 2010. Further information about the MAC’s methodology and the reviews it has carried out are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/migration-advisory-committee
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to address the issue of non-British citizens tricking British citizens into marriage to obtain a UK visa or citizenship.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
We take abuse of the spouse immigration route very seriously. In July 2012 the minimum probationary period before a non-European Economic Area (non-EEA) national spouse of a British citizen can apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK was increased from two years to five years. This is a better test of the genuineness of the relationship before it can be relied upon as a basis for seeking to settle permanently in the UK.
In March 2015, a new scheme to tackle sham marriages was introduced under the Immigration Act 2014. All proposed marriages where one or both parties could gain an immigration advantage from it are now referred by registration officials to the Home Office. This gives us a much stronger platform to identify, disrupt and deter sham marriages.
If the marriage breaks down permanently before or once the non-EEA national spouse has obtained Indefinite Leave to Remain, the British citizen spouse can provide the Home Office with any relevant information and we may cancel or revoke their former spouse’s leave if it can be established that this was obtained by deception.
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April 2016 to Question 32920, what processes his Department uses to collect information on allegations of fraudulent benefit claims; and what assessment has been made of the effectiveness of those processes.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
There are a variety of ways that allegations of Benefit Fraud are collected and received by the DWP including telephone calls to the National Benefit Fraud Hotline, online and Letter and Data matching. Once an allegation has been received and, if it meets the required criteria containing enough information, a Fraud Referral Form is completed which is then entered into the internal Fraud Referral and Information Management System.
The effectiveness of these processes is measured by statistics produced and published in May each year and made available in the public domain. These statistics are used to evaluate, develop and support fraud and error policy, strategy and operational decisions.
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the number of offenders on probation housed in Approved Premises.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
Approved Premises (formerly known as probation or bail hostels) are used to provide enhanced supervision for higher-risk offenders who have been released from prison after completing the custodial part of their sentence. They also house a small number of defendants on bail. My Department is analysing the capacity and distribution of the Approved Premises estate to establish whether more places are needed.
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) Approved Premises have been operational and (b) people have resided in each of those premises in each year since 2010.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
100 Approved Premises have been operational since 2010. Figures on the number of individuals who have resided in each of the Approved Premises are not held centrally.
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what advice her Department provides to people living in Approved Premises who have (a) an addiction, (b) a mental health condition and (c) other health conditions.
Answered by Sam Gyimah
Offenders required to reside in Approved Premises are entitled to the same health provision as ordinary members of the public.
Approved Premises staff are not medically qualified and so cannot give clinical advice. They do have a general duty of care and Approved Premises staff are trained in identifying and working with people with addictions or mental health problems. All residents are obliged to be registered with a GP, and many Approved Premises have arranged provision such as on-site GP attendance and run healthy living programmes.
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in England received NHS treatment as a result of road traffic accidents in each year since 2010.
Answered by Philip Dunne
These data are not collected centrally.
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department holds information on the number of people in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland with insurance who received NHS treatment following a road traffic accident in each year since 2010.
Answered by Philip Dunne
These data are not collected centrally.
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in how many individual cases the NHS received payment from insurance companies for the costs associated with the treatment of customers who were involved in road traffic accidents in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland in each year since 2010.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The table below is for Great Britain only since information regarding Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland. Accurate and robust data can only be provided from 2012 due to system archiving in line with our departmental records management policy. Please note the breakdown of figures you have requested is derived from operational processes and systems. As such, it has not been subjected to the rigorous quality assurance checks applied to our published official statistics. It may change due to operational reasons and we recommend that caution be applied when using it.
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| Country | |||
Financial Year | Data | ENGLAND | WALES | SCOTLAND | Total |
2012 - 2013 | Number of Cases | 143,451 | 12,071 | 9,536 | 165,058 |
| Amount Recovered | £135,898,125 | £9,894,685 | £9,872,118 | £155,664,927 |
2013 - 2014 | Number of Cases | 131,196 | 10,807 | 9,042 | 151,045 |
| Amount Recovered | £133,803,563 | £9,312,992 | £9,884,527 | £153,001,081 |
2014 - 2015 | Number of Cases | 113,462 | 8,871 | 8,975 | 131,308 |
| Amount Recovered | £121,074,583 | £8,305,619 | £9,816,385 | £139,196,587 |
2015 - 2016 | Number of Cases | 104,785 | 8,079 | 8,628 | 121,492 |
| Amount Recovered | £111,746,264 | £7,549,742 | £9,544,194 | £128,840,200 |
Asked by: Charlotte Leslie (Conservative - Bristol North West)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the NHS Injury Cost Recovery scheme successfully claimed back by charging insurance companies for the costs associated with the treatment of customers who were involved in road traffic accidents in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland in each year since 2010.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The table below is for Great Britain only since information regarding Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland. Accurate and robust data can only be provided from 2012 due to system archiving in line with our departmental records management policy. Please note the breakdown of figures you have requested is derived from operational processes and systems. As such, it has not been subjected to the rigorous quality assurance checks applied to our published official statistics. It may change due to operational reasons and we recommend that caution be applied when using it.
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| Country | |||
Financial Year | Data | ENGLAND | WALES | SCOTLAND | Total |
2012 - 2013 | Number of Cases | 143,451 | 12,071 | 9,536 | 165,058 |
| Amount Recovered | £135,898,125 | £9,894,685 | £9,872,118 | £155,664,927 |
2013 - 2014 | Number of Cases | 131,196 | 10,807 | 9,042 | 151,045 |
| Amount Recovered | £133,803,563 | £9,312,992 | £9,884,527 | £153,001,081 |
2014 - 2015 | Number of Cases | 113,462 | 8,871 | 8,975 | 131,308 |
| Amount Recovered | £121,074,583 | £8,305,619 | £9,816,385 | £139,196,587 |
2015 - 2016 | Number of Cases | 104,785 | 8,079 | 8,628 | 121,492 |
| Amount Recovered | £111,746,264 | £7,549,742 | £9,544,194 | £128,840,200 |