Tag: Kate Green

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kate Green on 2016-04-28.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many requests from his Department for evidence to inform a work capability assessment were (a) made and (b) responded to by GPs and other professionals, in each of the last three years; and what the professional discipline was that each of those requests were made to.

Priti Patel

Information requests made by Healthcare Professionals to inform a Work Capability Assessment:

Year	Requests made:	Responses received:
Apr. 2013 to Mar. 2014	599,261	396,847
Apr. 2014 to Mar. 2015	536,101	314,170
Apr. 2015 to Mar. 2016	534,677	280,736

Source: Centre for Health Disability Assessments (CHDA)

Information on the professional discipline of the individual from whom information is requested is not held

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kate Green on 2016-10-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what resources and support her Department will make available to schools to promote gypsy, roma and traveller history month in June 2017.

Nick Gibb

Schools have a crucial role to play in celebrating the history and culture of all their pupils, fostering inclusion and reaching out to the communities they serve. The Government is keen to support and encourage all schools to fulfil this important role.

The Department is currently considering the drivers for raising the educational attainment of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) pupils, drawing on expertise from these communities, and will consider GRT History Month in that context.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kate Green on 2015-11-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to implement the family test.

Mr Tobias Ellwood

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office promotes the UK’s interests overseas, supporting our citizens and businesses around the globe. As such, we do not have responsibility for creating domestic policy.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kate Green on 2015-11-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what steps his Department is taking to implement the family test.

David Mundell

The Family Test was announced by the Prime Minister in August 2014 and introduced in October 2014. It is an integral part of the policy making process and is applied in the development of all new policy. DWP published guidance for Departments and officials on how the test should be applied when formulating policy and my Department follows that guidance.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kate Green on 2016-01-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance has been issued to police forces on monitoring and recording Gypsy and Traveller status as separate ethnic categories.

Mike Penning

The use of Census categories for ethnicity is assessed each year as part of the Home Office’s process of agreeing each year’s Annual Data Requirement (ADR) of mandatory collections of statistical data from the police. This process includes consideration of the need, use, burden and data quality issues for each data collection. The National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) have previously advised against the transition to the new Census categories due to the significant burden that this would place on forces to change IT systems and processes.

The ADR collections currently use the Census 2001 ethnicity framework, and there are no plans at present to move to the Census 2011 framework, which would add a separate category of ‘Gypsy or Irish Traveller’.

The guidance given to police forces on providing data to the Home Office is based on the Census 2001 ethnicity framework. It is, however, a decision for individual forces as to how they monitor and record ethnicity data for their own purposes.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kate Green on 2016-04-28.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many requests from his Department for evidence to inform a personal independence payment assessment were (a) made and (b) responded to by GPs and other professionals in each year since the introduction of the personal independence payment; and what the professional discipline was that each of those requests were made to.

Justin Tomlinson

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kate Green on 2016-10-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department takes to monitor the number of gypsy, traveller and romany children in (a) secure training centres, (b) secure children’s homes and (c) young offenders’ institutions using the 2011 census ethnic group classification.

Dr Phillip Lee

The Youth Justice Board (YJB) and HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) publish an annual report on ‘Children in Custody’ that monitors the number of gypsy, traveller and Romany (GRT) children in youth offenders’ institutions (YOIs) and secure training centres (STCs). The reports are available on the HMIP website.

The survey does not cover young people in Secure Children’s Homes (SCH). This is because Ofsted are responsible for inspecting SCHs, not HMIP.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kate Green on 2015-11-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many of his Department’s policies have been assessed against the family test; what steps he has taken to publish the outcome of such assessments that have been carried out; and if he will make a statement.

Mr Tobias Ellwood

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office promotes the UK’s interests overseas, supporting our citizens and businesses around the globe. As such, we do not have responsibility for creating domestic policy.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kate Green on 2015-11-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many of his Department’s policies have been assessed against the family test; what steps he has taken to publish the outcome of such assessments; and if he will make a statement.

David Mundell

The Family Test was announced by the Prime Minister in August 2014 and introduced in October 2014. It is an integral part of the policy making process and is applied in the development of all new policy.

DWP published guidance for Departments and officials on how the test should be applied when formulating policy and my Department follows that guidance. While the guidance states that departments should consider publishing assessments carried out under the Test, there is no requirement to do so.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kate Green on 2016-01-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government has taken to increase the number of BAME (a) executive and (b) non-executive staff of (i) NHS trusts, (ii) clinical commissioning groups and (iii) related arms length bodies since 2012.

Jane Ellison

In 2014, NHS England, in partnership with the National Health Service and arm’s length bodies, developed a Workforce Race Equality Standard which requires NHS organisations to demonstrate progress against a number of indicators of workforce race equality, including a specific indicator to address the low levels of Black and Minority Ethnic representation at Board level.

Since April 2015, the Standard has been included in the NHS contract for providers, and it will feature in the new assessment framework for clinical commissioning groups for 2016/17. The Standard has also been included in the Care Quality Commission’s inspections of provider organisations.

In addition to supporting the implementation of the Standard, the arm’s length bodies are also applying it to their own workforces. Further information on the NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard can be found at:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/gov/equality-hub/equality-standard/

The Department keeps diversity in focus throughout the appointments process for non-executives of arm’s length bodies. The Department’s “Non-Executive Appointments Diversity Action Plan” is published annually which outlines progress and actions to improve the diversity of public appointments and can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/445660/Diversity_Action_Plan_14_15.pdf

Cabinet Office publishes annual diversity statistics on new public appointments made by United Kingdom Ministers at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/diversity-in-public-appointments#history

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