Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she is discussing reciprocal social security agreements with her Romanian counterpart in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
Answered by Alok Sharma - COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
The United Kingdom is seeking to protect the social security coordination and reciprocal healthcare rights of UK nationals in the EU by reaching reciprocal arrangements with the EU or Member States to maintain existing rights for a transitional period until 31 December 2020 in a no deal scenario.
Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she is discussing reciprocal social security agreements with her Slovakian counterpart in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
Answered by Alok Sharma - COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
The United Kingdom is seeking to protect the social security coordination and reciprocal healthcare rights of UK nationals in the EU by reaching reciprocal arrangements with the EU or Member States to maintain existing rights for a transitional period until 31 December 2020 in a no deal scenario.
Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she is discussing reciprocal social security agreements with her Irish counterpart in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
Answered by Alok Sharma - COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
The UK and Ireland have signed a reciprocal agreement which will protect the social security rights of UK and Irish nationals living and/or working in each other’s state when the UK leaves the EU. The agreement can be viewed at: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/622/pdfs/uksi_20190622_en.pdf
Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 15 April 2019 to Question 242790 on State Retirement Pensions: Reciprocal Arrangements, which non-EU countries have made requests for reciprocal social security agreements with the UK since 1992.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Requests for social security agreements may be raised in formal and informal meetings and correspondence at both ministerial and official level. The Department for Work and Pensions does not, as a matter of routine, maintain records of such requests.
Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of arrests for antisemitic hate crimes in (a) 2016, (b) 2017 and (c) 2018.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of arrests, conducted by each police force in England and Wales, on an annual basis.
Data are held at the offence group level only (for example ‘Violence against the person’ and ‘Public order’ offences). Information on the number of arrests for hate crimes – and further details of the nature of an offence – are not held centrally.
Data are published in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, the latest of which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2018
Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of arrests for violent antisemitic hate crimes in (a) 2016, (b) 2017 and (c) 2018.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of arrests, conducted by each police force in England and Wales, on an annual basis.
Data are held at the offence group level only (for example ‘Violence against the person’ and ‘Public order’ offences). Information on the number of arrests for hate crimes – and further details of the nature of an offence – are not held centrally.
Data are published in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, the latest of which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2018
Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the performance of the Pubs Code Adjudicator relative to performance targets.
Answered by Kelly Tolhurst
The Government launched the statutory review of the Pubs Code and Pubs Code Adjudicator (PCA) on 30 April, inviting views and evidence from stakeholders and the public. In accordance with section 65 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015, the review will consider the PCA’s performance from 2 May 2016 to 31 March 2019, in particular how effective the Adjudicator has been in enforcing the Pubs Code. The invitation to contribute to the review ends on 22 July.
A report on the findings of the review will be published and laid before Parliament as soon as practicable.
Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many secondees from government departments are employed by the Pub’s Code Adjudicator by government department.
Answered by Kelly Tolhurst
The Pubs Code Adjudicator (PCA) is a corporation sole who has no power to directly employ any members of staff. Currently the PCA has 12 seconded members of staff from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Home Office, the Ministry of Defence and the Department for Education.
Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many people are employed on a (a) full-time and (b) part-time basis by the Pubs Code Adjudicator; and if he will publish the salary bands for those employees.
Answered by Kelly Tolhurst
The Pubs Code Adjudicator (PCA) is a corporation sole who has no power to directly employ any members of staff. Staff are seconded on the terms of their home organisation, within the salary band for their grade. Currently the PCA has 12 staff seconded, all of whom are on a full-time equivalent basis.
Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the average cost of an arbitration decision by the Pub’s Code Adjudicator has been since July 2016.
Answered by Kelly Tolhurst
From its levy calculations, the Pubs Code Adjudicator (PCA) estimates the average cost to the PCA of an arbitration decision as £4,323.31 in 2017 and £6,849.50 in 2018.