Asked by: Ann Coffey (The Independent Group for Change - Stockport)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 October to Question 177600 on Patients, how many patient safety incidents were recorded as absconder or missing patient by hospitals in England and Wales in the National Reporting and Learning System in each NHS trust in the latest period for which information is available.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
During the period 1 October 2017 to 31 March 2018, the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) recorded 12,405 cases of ‘missing or absconded patient’ from a National Health Service trust hospital in England and Wales, including incidents involving a mental health patient. This category on the NRLS also includes patients who left without signing a ‘discharge against medical advice’ form and those who failed to return from agreed leave, on time.
The attached tables show a breakdown of these cases by NHS trust for both England and Wales respectively. If a NHS trust does not appear in these tables, this is because the number of incidents is ‘0’.
During the same period, the NRLS recorded 6,186 cases of ‘missing or absconded patient’ involving a mental health patient in England and Wales. This breaks down as 5,946 in England and 240 in Wales. This category on the NRLS also includes patients who left without signing a ‘discharge against medical advice’ form and those who failed to return from agreed leave on time.
Asked by: Ann Coffey (The Independent Group for Change - Stockport)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answers of 3 December 2018 to Questions 196136 and 196137 on Social Security Benefits: Stockport, and with reference to the Answers of 10 September and 19 July 2018 to Questions 172598 and 166221, if the Government will publish the corresponding data for Stockport that has been provided to the hon. Member for Easington and the hon. Member for Inverclyde.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Information about appeals to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support), including volumes, outcomes and waiting times, is published at:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.
The information requested relates to average waiting times for appeals; and volumes of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) appeals for Stockport over the last five years to correspond with data previously provided for Easington and Inverclyde areas.
The published data, which can be viewed in the csv files at the link above, provide this information from 2015/16; data for the preceding two years is provided below.
| Stockport Tribunal Venue1 | |||||
PIP 2. | ESA.3 | |||||
Total Cleared4 | Number cleared at hearing | Number cleared without a hearing | Total Cleared | Number cleared at hearing | Number cleared without a hearing | |
2013-2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4711 | 3912 | 799 |
2014-2015 | 68 | 55 | 13 | 652 | 559 | 93 |
The average waiting time5 for all appeals from receipt to final outcome at the Stockport venue was 18 weeks in 2013/14; in 2014/15 it was 20 weeks.
1. Appeals for those people living in the Stockport area are heard in the Stockport venue.
2. PIP was introduced in April 2013 and replaced Disability Living Allowance.
3. Includes ESA and ESA (Reassessment).
4. Includes all cases cleared both with and without a tribunal hearing.
5. Waiting time is appeal receipt to outcome.
Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data that are available.
Latest figures (to June 2018) indicate that since PIP was introduced, 3.5 million decisions have been made, and of these 9% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned at Tribunals. For ESA, 3.5m ESA (post Work Capability Assessment) decisions have been made between April 2014 and March 2018 and of these 8% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned at tribunals.
Waiting times are calculated from receipt of the appeal to its final disposal. An appeal is not necessarily disposed of at its first hearing. The final disposal decision on the appeal may be reached after an earlier hearing had been adjourned (which may be directed by the judge for a variety of reasons, such as to seek further evidence), or after an earlier hearing date had been postponed (again, for a variety of reasons, often at the request of the appellant). An appeal may also have been decided at an earlier date by the First-tier Tribunal, only for the case to have gone on to the Upper Tribunal, to be returned once again to the First-tier for its final disposal.
Asked by: Ann Coffey (The Independent Group for Change - Stockport)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2018 to Question 131011 on Witnesses; Video Recordings when the Government plans to start the roll-out of Section 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Section 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 has been part commenced in Leeds, Liverpool and Kingston since December 2013. We are upgrading the technology that will record and play back recordings of hearings, supporting further roll out of Section 28. Testing of the quality of recordings has shown that progress has been made, supporting a plan to roll out Section 28 commencement to additional Crown Court sites during 2019. HMCTS continues to test the technology which supports these hearings, to ensure that it is right for some of the most vulnerable people in society.
Asked by: Ann Coffey (The Independent Group for Change - Stockport)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of children who will benefit from individual support through the Independent Child Trafficking Advocates service by country of origin in (a) 2019-20 and (b) 2020-21.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
An interim assessment of the first year of the Independent Child Trafficking Advocate (ICTA) service (February 2017 – January 2018) and associated data tables were published in July 2018 and can be found:
Data on referrals split by early adopter site is published in Table A1, and on children who went missing in C1. The data are not broken down to show if a child is looked after. Data on referrals between February 2018 and Janu-ary 2019 will be published in a final report in Spring 2019.
In July, the Government announced that it would roll out the ICTA service to one third of local authorities by April 2019. Following the expansion of the service, around one third of all children that we estimate will be referred into the NRM will be eligible to access the ICTA service in England and Wales. This estimate has not been broken down by country of origin.
Asked by: Ann Coffey (The Independent Group for Change - Stockport)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the findings of the evaluation of the Kent County Lines pilot project undertaken by JH Consulting.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The evaluation of St Giles Trust’s County Lines pilot project in Kent highlighted the important role of non-statutory partners in supporting those involved in county lines, and in particular, the importance of a consistent trusted adult in a young person’s life.
The Serious Violence Strategy sets out the Government’s response to violent crime, including county lines and places a new emphasis on early intervention including the Early Intervention Youth Fund (EIYF). On 10 November the Home Secretary announced that the EIYF will provide £17.7m over two years and which will support 29 projects endorsed by Police and Crime Commissioners across England and Wales, a number of which specifically work with children and young people at risk of criminal exploitation and county lines.
The Trusted Relationship Fund is also another important initiative helping to foster relationships between frontline professionals and young people at risk of exploitation including county lines.
Asked by: Ann Coffey (The Independent Group for Change - Stockport)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of expanding the support provided by the Independent Child Trafficking Advocates service to all unaccompanied and separated children.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Independent Child Trafficking Advocates (ICTAs) support children who have potentially been trafficked. Section 48 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, which makes provisions for ICTAs, is being examined by the Independent Review of the Modern Slavery Act led by Frank Field, Baroness Butler-Sloss and Maria Miller.
The aim of the review is to report on the operation and effectiveness of, and potential improvements to, provisions in the Modern Slavery Act 2015, which provides the legal framework for tackling modern slavery. A link to the terms of reference can be found https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/modern-slavery-act-2015-independent-review-terms-of-reference/review-of-the-modern-slavery-act-2015-terms-of-reference
The Government will consider carefully any recommendations about ICTAs which come out of the review.
Asked by: Ann Coffey (The Independent Group for Change - Stockport)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many referrals were made to the Independent Child Trafficking Advocates service in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018 to date for looked after children in each of the early adopter sites (i) Wales, (ii) Hampshire and (iii) Greater Manchester; and how many of those looked after children went missing from care in each of those areas in those periods.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
An interim assessment of the first year of the Independent Child Trafficking Advocate (ICTA) service (February 2017 – January 2018) and associated data tables were published in July 2018 and can be found:
Data on referrals split by early adopter site is published in Table A1, and on children who went missing in C1. The data are not broken down to show if a child is looked after. Data on referrals between February 2018 and Janu-ary 2019 will be published in a final report in Spring 2019.
In July, the Government announced that it would roll out the ICTA service to one third of local authorities by April 2019. Following the expansion of the service, around one third of all children that we estimate will be referred into the NRM will be eligible to access the ICTA service in England and Wales. This estimate has not been broken down by country of origin.
Asked by: Ann Coffey (The Independent Group for Change - Stockport)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many referrals were made to the Independent Child Trafficking Advocates service in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018 to date in each of the early adopter sites (i) Wales, (ii) Hampshire and (iii) Greater Manchester; and how many of those children went missing during those periods for each of those areas.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
An interim assessment of the first year of the Independent Child Trafficking Advocate (ICTA) service (February 2017 – January 2018) and associated data tables were published in July 2018 and can be found:
Data on referrals split by early adopter site is published in Table A1, and on children who went missing in C1. The data are not broken down to show if a child is looked after. Data on referrals between February 2018 and Janu-ary 2019 will be published in a final report in Spring 2019.
In July, the Government announced that it would roll out the ICTA service to one third of local authorities by April 2019. Following the expansion of the service, around one third of all children that we estimate will be referred into the NRM will be eligible to access the ICTA service in England and Wales. This estimate has not been broken down by country of origin.
Asked by: Ann Coffey (The Independent Group for Change - Stockport)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the average waiting times for appeals at tribunal for (a) personal independence payments and (b) employment and support allowance in the Stockport constituency in each of the last three years. .
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Information about the volumes and waiting times for appeals, including (a) Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and (b) Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.
HM Courts & Tribunals Service does not record data based on constituencies. SSCS appeals are listed into the hearing venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. The published data (which can be viewed at the link above) provide information about the volumes and waiting times for PIP and ESA appeals for individual hearing venues including the Stockport venue where appeals from constituents living in the Stockport area would be heard.
Waiting times are calculated from receipt of the appeal to its final disposal. An appeal is not necessarily disposed of at its first hearing. The final disposal decision on the appeal may be reached after an earlier hearing had been adjourned (which may be directed by the judge for a variety of reasons, such as to seek further evidence), or after an earlier hearing date had been postponed (again, for a variety of reasons, often at the request of the appellant). An appeal may also have been decided at an earlier date by the First-tier Tribunal, only for the case to have gone on to the Upper Tribunal, to be returned once again to the First-tier for its final disposal.
Latest figures (to June 2018) indicate that since PIP was introduced, 3.5 million decisions have been made, and of these 9% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned at Tribunals. For ESA, 3.5m ESA (post Work Capability Assessment) decisions have been made between April 2014 and March 2018 and of these 8% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned at tribunals.
Asked by: Ann Coffey (The Independent Group for Change - Stockport)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals were heard at tribunal for (a) personal independence payments and (b) employment and support allowance in the Stockport constituency in each of the last three years.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Information about the volumes and waiting times for appeals, including (a) Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and (b) Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), to the First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support) (SSCS) is published at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.
HM Courts & Tribunals Service does not record data based on constituencies. SSCS appeals are listed into the hearing venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. The published data (which can be viewed at the link above) provide information about the volumes and waiting times for PIP and ESA appeals for individual hearing venues including the Stockport venue where appeals from constituents living in the Stockport area would be heard.
Waiting times are calculated from receipt of the appeal to its final disposal. An appeal is not necessarily disposed of at its first hearing. The final disposal decision on the appeal may be reached after an earlier hearing had been adjourned (which may be directed by the judge for a variety of reasons, such as to seek further evidence), or after an earlier hearing date had been postponed (again, for a variety of reasons, often at the request of the appellant). An appeal may also have been decided at an earlier date by the First-tier Tribunal, only for the case to have gone on to the Upper Tribunal, to be returned once again to the First-tier for its final disposal.
Latest figures (to June 2018) indicate that since PIP was introduced, 3.5 million decisions have been made, and of these 9% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned at Tribunals. For ESA, 3.5m ESA (post Work Capability Assessment) decisions have been made between April 2014 and March 2018 and of these 8% have been appealed and 4% have been overturned at tribunals.