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  • Luciana Berger – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Luciana Berger – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-12.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the prevalence and effect of the sale of so-called legal highs (a) online and (b) in shops.

    Norman Baker

    The Government monitors the prevalence of use of particular new psychoactive substances through the Crime Survey for England and Wales. The latest results of the crime
    survey can be found here:
    http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/period-ending-decembe
    r-2013/stb-crime-stats-dec-2013.html

    New questions have been included in the 2014/15 Crime Survey, to capture the use of a wider range of new psychoactive substances than was previously the case.

    The Home Office is currently undertaking a six month review led by an expert panel to look at how the UK’s legislative, educational and health response to new psychoactive substances can be enhanced. It is anticipated that the panel will report their recommendations to Home Office Ministers before summer recess.

  • Grahame M. Morris – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Grahame M. Morris – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Grahame M. Morris on 2014-06-12.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 11 November 2013, Official Report, columns 419-20W, on animals: experiments, when the Animals in Science Committee will publish its review of the Home Office inspectorate’s report and Imperial College’s independent report on the investigation into animal experiments at Imperial College, London; and when this report will be placed in the Library.

    Norman Baker

    A draft of the report will be presented to the Animals in Science Committee for discussion and agreement on 23 June 2014. Subject to any amendments that the Committee may require, it is expected that the report will be published shortly thereafter.

  • Jessica Morden – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Jessica Morden – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jessica Morden on 2014-06-12.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what revenue has been received by the Passport Office for (a) standard passport applications, (b) fast-track applications and (c) premium service applications in (i) 1 January 2012 to 31 May 2012, (ii) 1 January 2013 to 31 May 2013 and (iii) 1 January 2014 to 31 May 2014.

    James Brokenshire

    The table below sets out the requested information:

    £m Standard Fast-track Premium
    1Jan – 31 May 2012 173.9 7.4 14.9
    1Jan – 31 May 2013 170.9 9.9 17.2
    1 Jan –31 May 2014 202.3 12.4 13.8

    Figures are based on cashiered income, without any accounting adjustments.

  • Jessica Morden – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Jessica Morden – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jessica Morden on 2014-06-12.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of fast-track passport applications made in the last six months have been processed within seven days.

    James Brokenshire

    The table below gives the proportion of fast-track passport applications that
    were processed within seven days.

    December 2013: 99.97%
    January 2014 99.99%
    February 2014 99.97%
    March 2014 99.95%
    April 2014 99.99%
    May 2014 99.96%

  • Jessica Morden – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Jessica Morden – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jessica Morden on 2014-06-12.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much overtime has been paid to passport office staff at the Newport Passport Office since 2011.

    James Brokenshire

    Overtime costs relating to the Newport Passport Office from January 2011
    to 2014 amount to £298,965.

  • Jessica Morden – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Jessica Morden – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jessica Morden on 2014-06-12.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) standard passport applications, (b) fast-track applications and (c) premium service applications were processed in (i) 1 January 2012 to 31 May 2012, (ii) 1 January 2013 to 31 May 2013 and (iii) 1 January 2014 o 31 May 2014.

    James Brokenshire

    The information requested is shown in the following table. This also includes data up until 30 June for each year.

  • Jessica Morden – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Jessica Morden – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jessica Morden on 2014-06-12.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much has been spent on courier services for passports outside the DX contract since 1 January 2014.

    James Brokenshire

    Her Majesty’s Passport Office has incurred no costs outside contractual
    arrangements with DX since 1 Januar

  • Ian Swales – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Ian Swales – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Swales on 2014-06-12.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of redundancy payments for special advisers in her Department has been since May 2010.

    Karen Bradley

    No redundancy payments have been made to special advisers in the Home Office since May 2010.

  • Sheila Gilmore – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Sheila Gilmore – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sheila Gilmore on 2014-06-12.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what visits each of the Ministers in her Department have made since January 2013; and what the purpose of each such visit was.

    Karen Bradley

    Home Office Ministers have meetings with and make visits to a wide variety of international partners, as well as organisations and individuals in the public and private sectors, as part of the process of policy development and delivery.

    Details of these meetings and visits are passed to the Cabinet Office on a quarterly basis and are subsequently published on the Gov.uk website:
    http://data.gov.uk/dataset/ministerial-data-home-office

  • Gerald Kaufman – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Gerald Kaufman – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gerald Kaufman on 2014-06-12.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she intends to reply to the letter to her dated 2 May 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mrs Amila Dar.

    James Brokenshire

    I wrote to the Rt. Hon. Member on 16 June 2014.