Chloe Smith: ...5 ≤5 IPR Completed – Death* 33 ≤5 ≤5 39 ≤5 ≤5 IPR Completed - Serious Harm** 11 ≤5 ≤5 15 ≤5 ≤5 * Death includes the categories death, alleged suicide and confirmed suicide. ** Serious Harm includes the categories self-harm, serious harm, attempted suicide and ‘other’. NB: Prior to July 2020 IPR data on the nation of...
Chloe Smith: ... 43 59 38 IPR Started - Serious Harm 3 19 17 IPR Completed - Death 39 40 41 IPR Completed - Serious Harm 3 12 16 * Death includes the categories death, alleged suicide and confirmed suicide. ** Serious Harm includes the categories self-harm, serious harm, attempted suicide and ‘other’.
Chloe Smith: ...(IPR), in cases where:a customer has suffered serious harm, has died (including by suicide), or where we have reason to believe there has been an attempted suicide and there is a suggestion or allegation that the Department’s actions or omissions may have negatively contributed to the customer’s circumstances,or the Department is asked to participate in a local authority-led...
Chloe Smith: ...as follows: Death* 123 Serious Harm** 34 The IPRs that have been completed since July 2019, are as follows: Death* 103 Serious Harm** 28 * Death includes the categories death, alleged suicide and confirmed suicide. ** Serious Harm includes the categories self-harm, serious harm, attempted suicide and ‘other’.
Chloe Smith: ...IPR is as follows: o a customer has suffered serious harm, has died (including by suicide), or where we have reason to believe there has been an attempted suicide. o AND there is a suggestion or allegation the Department’s actions or omissions may have negatively contributed to the customer’s circumstances. o OR the Department is asked to participate in a local authority-led...
Chloe Smith: ...in all cases where:a customer has suffered serious harm, has died (including by suicide), or where we have reason to believe there has been an attempted suicideAND there is a suggestion or allegation that the Department’s actions or omissions may have negatively contributed to the customer’s circumstances.OR the Department is asked to participate in a local authority-led Safeguarding...
Chloe Smith: ...Serious Harm’ at this point as well. Due to record keeping practices at that time, we do not have records of review categories prior to 2015. IPRs are conducted when:there is a suggestion or allegation that the Department’s actions or omissions may have negatively contributed to the customer’s circumstances, or cases in which the department may be able to learn about the operation...
Chloe Smith: ...as follows: Death* 114 Serious Harm** 31 The IPRs that have been completed since July 2019, are as follows: Death* 93 Serious Harm** 21 * Death includes the categories death, alleged suicide and confirmed suicide. ** Serious Harm includes the categories self-harm, serious harm, attempted suicide and ‘other’.
Chloe Smith: ...learning. They are not designed to identify or apportion blame (where engaged, a Coroner has responsibility for concluding the cause of death). IPRs are conducted when: o there is a suggestion or allegation that the Department’s actions or omissions may have negatively contributed to the customer’s circumstances, or cases in which the department may be able to learn about the...
Chloe Smith: ...such statement - the List of Ministers' Interests - was published at the end of May 2021. The Independent Adviser’s advice to the Prime Minister where he has carried out an investigation into an alleged breach of the Ministerial Code will be published. The Independent Adviser also published an Annual Report, setting out the work he has undertaken and his observations on matters within...
Chloe Smith: ...there have been no reported cases of personation. Voters’ confidence that elections are well-run in Northern Ireland is consistently higher than in Great Britain, and there are virtually no allegations of electoral fraud at polling stations”. Let me make some progress and set out what else is in this wide-ranging Bill. I must stress that it is not just in-person electoral fraud that...
Chloe Smith: ...personation. The EC has also previously noted that the confidence of voters that elections are well run in Northern Ireland is consistently higher than in Great Britain, and there are virtually no allegations of electoral fraud at polling stations. Even the perception that our electoral system is vulnerable to fraud is of course damaging to public confidence. Data from our pilot...
Chloe Smith: ...Officer’s or Counting Officer’s exercise of their functions, or as a result of a challenge to the conduct of the election or referendum by an election or referendum petition arising from alleged poll irregularities caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The indemnity only covers losses, liability, damages, costs, claims, proceedings or expenses incurred in relation to the conduct of the...
Chloe Smith: ...had given him a full account of his actions and the reasons for his decisions. The Prime Minister asked Mr Cummings to repeat his account to the public on 25 May. This was in the context of allegations surrounding Mr Cummings’ conduct in his role as special adviser to the Prime Minister.
Chloe Smith: ...on the use of confidentiality clauses in the Civil Service. This is publicly available here. It makes clear that such clauses should not be used to prevent staff from raising or discussing allegations of bullying, harassment or discrimination. As part of the Government's evidence for the Women and Equalities Committee report on the use of non-disclosure agreements in discrminination cases,...
Chloe Smith: As I set out in my answer to Question 25185, the annual report of the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Interests sets out details of investigations undertaken by the Adviser into alleged breaches of the Ministerial Code. The next annual report will be published in due course.
Chloe Smith: ...on the 2nd March 2020 (Official Record, Vol. 672 Col.609) The annual report of the independent Adviser on Ministerial Interests sets out details of investigations undertaken by the adviser into alleged breaches of the Ministerial Code.
Chloe Smith: ...discriminating behaviour wherever it takes place is not consistent with the Ministerial Code and will not be tolerated”. Sections 1.4 to 1.6 of the Ministerial Code sets out steps to investigate allegations of a breach of the Ministerial Code. The model contract for Special Advisers and the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers sets out the standards of conduct expected of special...
Chloe Smith: ...election, I heard concerns from hon. Members that there appeared to be some evidence that certain groups may have been engaging in double voting. My predecessor and I undertook to take all such allegations and seek for them to be investigated in a co-ordinated way through co-operation between the Electoral Commission and the National Police Chiefs Council. I am keen to do so again if there...
Chloe Smith: ...elections. People want to have confidence in the result of any election. I say in passing, because this is not about the European referendum, that the Electoral Commission has investigated the allegations to which he refers, and that is part of the system in which voters can have confidence. We have those rules, we have an independent regulator, and we have those investigations. That is...