Category: Speeches

Michelle Donelan – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Michelle Donelan on 2016-06-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether he plans for the provision of charging points for electric cars at multiple locations in the UK.

Anna Soubry

Plug-in vehicles are generally charged at home and overnight, and so the Government provides grants of up to £500 for the installation of domestic chargepoints. More than 60,000 have been installed to date. The UK also has over 11,000 publicly accessible chargepoints; in streets, car parks and motorway service areas. This includes almost 900 rapid chargepoints that can charge a car in 20-30 minutes – the largest network in Europe.

The Department for Transport’s Road Investment Strategy includes funding of £15m to improve the network of chargepoints on the strategic road network, and the Go Ultra Low city scheme is expected to deliver around 750 more publicly accessible chargepoints in UK towns and cities by 2020. We will announce further targeted support for plug-in vehicle chargepoints in due course.

01/01/2023
Alison Thewliss – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alison Thewliss on 2016-09-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average processing time is for cases handled by the Complex Casework Directorate.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The information requested on average processing time for cases handled by Complex Casework is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

01/01/2023
Adam Afriyie – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Adam Afriyie on 2015-11-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on election observation (a) in real terms and (b) as a proportion of her Department’s budget since 2010.

Mr Desmond Swayne

DFID tracks its spending on support to elections, and this encompasses election observation to build public confidence in electoral processes and help deter fraud, intimidation and violence. DFID spent a total of £212 million on bilateral and multilateral support to elections during the period 2010/11 to 2014/15 which represents 0.5% of DFID total spend. During this period DFID has funded elections observation in a number of countries often as part of wider election programmes, for example in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Kosovo, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Sudan.

01/01/2023
Lord Storey – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Storey on 2015-12-08.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what are the legal requirements for auditing school budgets in local authority schools.

Lord Nash

The Scheme for Financing Schools statutory guidance requires local authorities to set out the financial relationship between them and the schools they maintain. The scheme contains a provision which places schools within an internal audit regime determined by the authority, and the authority’s external audit regime.

01/01/2023
Kevin Brennan – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kevin Brennan on 2016-01-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has had with the Office for National Statistics on the issuing of special shares in the Green Investment Bank.

Anna Soubry

The Government is currently exploring with the Office of National Statistics whether there is scope to implement a special share style arrangement in a way that would not amount to a form of state control.

01/01/2023
Chris Heaton-Harris – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Heaton-Harris on 2016-02-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress has been made on the options circulated by the President of the European Council on the UK’s relationship with the EU.

Mr Philip Hammond

As The Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron) made clear in his statement to the House yesterday, the renegotiation deal delivers on the Government’s commitment to fix the problems with the EU that have frustrated people in the UK. It is legally binding, irreversible and delivers for the UK. The deal gives the UK the best of both worlds: in to the parts of Europe that work for us and out of those parts which don’t.

01/01/2023

Baroness Jowell – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Jowell on 2016-03-02.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people have been deported by the UK to each EU country under the terms of Dublin III per year since that Regulation came into force.

Lord Bates

The Dublin III Regulation came into force on 1 January 2014. The table below indicates the number of removals per EU country in that time.

Dublin Convention III returns to EU countries (2010 to 2015)

The number of removals under Dublin Convention III regulation for 2010-2015 as indicated by our records are shown in the table below.

Destination of Return	2014	2015
Austria	20	35
Belgium	35	35
Bulgaria	*	15
Croatia	5	*
Cyprus	*	*
Czech Republic	*	*
Denmark	*	10
Estonia	0	0
Finland	*	*
France	20	40
Germany	20	45
Greece	0	0
Hungary	10	30
Ireland	40	40
Italy	80	150
Latvia	0	0
Lithuania	*	*
Luxembourg	0	0
Malta	5	*
Netherlands	10	15
Norway	10	10
Poland	*	*
Portugal	0	*
Romania	*	*
Slovakia	*	5
Slovenia	*	0
Spain	5	5
Sweden	10	15
Switzerland	15	5

Totals 285 455

NOTE “*” represents figures below 3.

01/01/2023

Jim Shannon – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2016-04-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to prevent the emotional abuse of women.

Karen Bradley

The Government has introduced a new offence of coercive or controlling behaviour in an intimate or family relationship which came into force on 29 December 2015. The offence carries a maximum of 5 years imprisonment. Guidance for professionals on the new offence was issued on 5 December 2015.

The new offence will mean victims who experience coercive and controlling behaviour that stops short of serious physical violence, but amounts to extreme psychological and emotional abuse, can see their perpetrators brought to justice. Criminalising domestic abuse demonstrates this Government’s commitment to tackling all forms of abuse and improving the protection available to victims.

01/01/2023
Emily Thornberry – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2016-05-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) UK military personnel and (b) RAF Typhoons are currently deployed on NATO’s Baltic air policing mission.

Mr Julian Brazier

140 UK military personnel and four RAF Typhoon aircraft are currently deployed on NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission.

01/01/2023
Phil Boswell – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Phil Boswell on 2016-06-20.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with Minister of the Scottish Government on the proposed Apprenticeship Levy.

Greg Hands

We are working with the Scottish Government and the other devolved administrations to ensure they can get their fair share of the levy and, as far as possible, to develop a system for administering the levy which complements the skills and apprenticeship policies of each of the devolved administrations.

01/01/2023