The below Parliamentary question was asked by Michael McCann on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in how many cases against her Department funded by legal aid public interest lawyers represented clients in each of the last 10 years.
Karen Bradley
The Home Office does not keep a central record of which cases brought against
it are legally aided, or of the law firms that represent litigants.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Michael McCann on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases funded by legal aid taken against her Department where public interest lawyers have represented clients were won by her Department each of the last 10 years.
Karen Bradley
The Home Office does not keep a central record of which cases brought against
it are legally aided, or of the law firms that represent litigants.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Michael McCann on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases funded by legal aid against his Department where public interest lawyers have represented clients were won by his Department in each of the last 10 years.
Mike Penning
The Department does not centrally record information about the identity of claimants’ representatives or information relating to claimants’ funding arrangements. This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Michael McCann on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in how many cases against his Department funded by legal aid public interest lawyers have represented clients in each of the last 10 years.
Mike Penning
The Department does not centrally record information about the identity of claimants’ representatives or information relating to claimants’ funding arrangements. This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Caroline Dinenage on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 14 May 2014, Official Report, column 610W, on fuels: Gosport, when he expects the work to establish the preferred options and costs of replacement for the fuel tanks at the oil fuel depot in Gosport to be complete.
Mr Philip Dunne
Work on the preferred options and costs of replacement for the fuel tanks at the oil fuel depot in Gosport is continuing and is expected to be completed by the end of the 2014.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kwasi Kwarteng on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what rights prisoners in HM Prison High Down Sutton have to association and exercise; and whether he has received representations that prisoners at that prison are being permitted less than half an hour to exercise per day.
Jeremy Wright
Prisoners at High Down have the same access to exercise and association as in all prisons in England and Wales. The details are set out in Prison Service Instruction (PSI) 58/2011 Physical Education for Prisoners. In addition, prisoners are entitled to association time outside of their cells that may include forms of exercise.
We have no record of any formal representations made by prisoners at HMP Highdown on the lack of opportunity to exercise
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Madeleine Moon on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answers of 18 November 2013, Official Report, columns 696W and 698W and of 18 December 2013, Official Report, columns 632W, on armed forces: young people, if he will publish the terms of reference of the cost benefit analysis of the recruitment of young people into the armed forces; when he expects that report to be published; and if he will make a statement.
Anna Soubry
The report has been submitted by the Army to Ministry of Defence (MOD) HQ, for consideration. It is not possible to provide a publication date for the report until the report’s findings have been considered.
The terms of reference of the report are as follows:
Question – “What is the cost overhead to MOD of Phase 1 training for Junior Entry (JE) soldiers versus Standard Entry (SE) soldiers joining the Army?”
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Madeleine Moon on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to the Answer of 10 April 2014, Official Report, column 381W, on development aid, if she will publish the agreement (a) between her Department, the CDC and ACTIS on the Department for International Development impact fund and (b) between her Department and ACTIS when it was spun off from the CDC; and if she will make a statement.
Justine Greening
The agreement between my Department and CDC for the Impact Fund will be placed in the House of Commons Library.
Copies of the key documents relating to CDC and Actis were placed in the Library of the House by the then Secretary of State for International Development subsequent to his Ministerial Statement on the CDC reorganisation of 12 July 2004.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people have applied to join the Royal Navy cadet force in each of the last five years.
Anna Soubry
The number of people who made a formal application to join the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Combined Cadet Force in each of the last five years is shown in the following table:
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Adult Volunteers 50 40 40 40 50
Cadets 300 570 1140 1720 1650
In accordance with convention these figures have been rounded.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2014-06-04.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to encourage insurance companies to set travel insurance premiums for the elderly based on their state of health rather than their age.
Andrea Leadsom
Insurers take into account a range of different factors when considering risk and decisions concerning the pricing of insurance products are a commercial matter for individual insurers. The Government does not seek to intervene in these decisions.
The insurance industry recognises that older people can face difficulties finding appropriate travel insurance and in 2012 signed an agreement, endorsed by the Government, to re-direct older customers to an alternative insurer or to a specialist insurance broker where they cannot provide insurance themselves.