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Written Question
Mentally Disordered Offenders
Thursday 17th December 2015

Asked by: Neil Coyle (Labour - Bermondsey and Old Southwark)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many psychiatric assessments have been requested by judges in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by Shailesh Vara

The information requested is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 15 Oct 2015
Welfare Reform and Work Bill (Ninth sitting)

"The Minister mentioned that he had had meetings with or representations from social housing associations. Will he clarify how many housing associations supported the measures proposed by the Government? How many housing associations have outlined to the Minister and the Department the risk that they might have to close some …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 15 Oct 2015
Welfare Reform and Work Bill (Ninth sitting)

"Will the Minister give way?..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 15 Oct 2015
Welfare Reform and Work Bill (Ninth sitting)

"Riverside Housing Association has said that

“a year on year rent reduction would make this element of our business loss making.”

St Mungo’s has said that

“the requirement to reduce rents in social housing in England by one per cent per year for four years will result in the loss …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 15 Oct 2015
Welfare Reform and Work Bill (Tenth sitting)

"My hon. Friend may be aware that my local authority, Southwark, is the largest landlord in London. In the previous Parliament, it was able to build more affordable homes than any other local authority, and it has a commitment to 11,000 new council homes in a welcome house building programme. …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 15 Oct 2015
Welfare Reform and Work Bill (Tenth sitting)

"To further demonstrate the Government’s inability to understand the housing crisis in London in particular, is my hon. Friend aware that the Help to Buy scheme helped a very round number of people in the run-up to May 2015—an incredibly round number of zero—and that I have written to the …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 15 Oct 2015
Welfare Reform and Work Bill (Tenth sitting)

"Those people in work are also paying taxes. There seems to be some misunderstanding on the Government Benches about who pays taxes in this country...."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 15 Oct 2015
Welfare Reform and Work Bill (Tenth sitting)

"On the point about homelessness, is my hon. Friend aware that in London since 2010, the number of former armed forces members sleeping rough has risen elevenfold, and does she agree that that heaps shame on the Government’s attitude towards those who have served in our country’s armed forces?..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 15 Oct 2015
Welfare Reform and Work Bill (Tenth sitting)

"The Minister’s concern for the rising rents in housing associations might be more welcome if it were married with concern for the rise in the private rented sector. Why is the Minister reluctant to address the concern of 70,000 private renters in Southwark and the steep rent rises they face?..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 15 Oct 2015
Welfare Reform and Work Bill (Tenth sitting)

"The Minister used careful language—“most” and “many”—when talking about the financial robustness of housing associations. What distinction is made for those housing associations that are not in as strong a financial position? How will they be supported through a change that could see them lose significant sums?..."
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