The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-12-01.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many civil servants in her Department are in the redeployment pool.
George Eustice
There are presently six Departmental staff awaiting redeployment.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Flynn on 2016-01-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implementation to date of the Joint Comprehensive Plan for Action on the Iranian nuclear programme.
Mr Tobias Ellwood
Following Adoption Day in October, Iran has been undertaking the nuclear actions required under the Joint Comprehensive Plan for Action, including recently shipping 12.5 tonnes of enriched uranium to Russia. Iran has almost completed removing the necessary 13,000 centrifuges and put plans in place to remove the core of the Arak plutonium reactor. The International Atomic Energy Agency will verify that Iran has undertaken all of the necessary steps to trigger Implementation Day.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim McMahon on 2016-02-02.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2015 to Question 1705, if she will make it her policy to collate information centrally on the number of police stations and police custody cells that closed.
Mike Penning
The Government has no plans to place an unnecessary bureaucratic burden on locally elected Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) or Chief Constables by requiring this information to be reported centrally. Decisions about the most effective use of available resources, including the number and operating hours of police stations and the number of custody cells, are a matter for the Police and Crime Commissioner and Chief Constable locally (the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime and the Commissioner in the case of the Metropolitan Police and the Corporation and the Commissioner in the case of the City of London Police), tailored to the needs of the local community.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-02-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much (a) Network Rail and (b) the Highways Agency spent on hire cars in (i) 2014-15 and (ii) 2015-16 to date.
Claire Perry
Network Rail has spent the following on car hire:
2014-15: £8,020,720
2015-16: £8,346,337 (year to date)
Highways England (Formerly the Highways Agency) has spent the following on car hire:
2014-15: £631,902
2015-16: £752,847 (year to date)
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andy Slaughter on 2016-03-21.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans the Government has to help more homeless people rent privately.
Mr Marcus Jones
One person without a home is one too many and we are committed to doing all we can to prevent homelessness. That is why we have increased central investment to tackle homelessness over the next four years to £139 million. At Budget, we went one step further and announced £100 million to deliver low cost ‘move on’ accommodation to enable people leaving hostels and refuges to make a sustainable recovery from a homelessness crisis, providing at least 2,000 places for vulnerable people to enable independent living.
We’re determined to create a bigger, better private rented sector and are attracting billions of pounds of investment to build homes specifically for private rent, which will increase choice for tenants. Our £1 billion Build to Rent fund will deliver up to 10,000 new rental homes, with over 4,500 already started, and our £10 billion of debt guarantees programme will also support the delivery of new rental homes, as well as up to 30,000 additional affordable homes.
We have also already made a significant investment of nearly £14 million for Crisis to develop a programme to help single homeless people access private rented sector accommodation. Over 10,000 people have been helped, with over 90% maintaining tenancies for at least 6 months
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kerry McCarthy on 2016-04-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which organisations have received public grant funding from her Department in each of the last five years; how much grant funding each organisation received; and what the purpose of each such grant was.
George Eustice
A list of grants by organisation for the last five years (2011-16 inclusive) will be placed in the Library. It is not possible to identify the actual amount each organisation received related to each listed grant without incurring a disproportionate cost to the department, therefore an average value has been apportioned to each requested financial year from the total grant value.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Diana Johnson on 2016-06-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the budget for NHS Protect was in each of the last eight years.
George Freeman
The information requested is in the following table:
|
Year |
NHS Protect Budget (£ million) |
NHS Protect staff |
NHS Protect investigators |
|
2008-09 |
13.379 |
218 |
83 |
|
2009-10 |
13.439 |
204 |
71 |
|
2010-11 |
12.121 |
217 |
68 |
|
2011-12 |
11.381 |
190 |
33 |
|
2012-13 |
11.381 |
173 |
32 |
|
2013-14 |
11.381 |
178 |
32 |
|
2014-15 |
11.154 |
186 |
34 |
|
2015-16 |
10.473 |
174 |
33 |
The below Parliamentary question was asked by MiDavies on 2016-09-02.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans she has to ensure appropriate arrangements are made available to safeguard vulnerable women who participate in criminal justice proceedings.
Dr Phillip Lee
I am committed to making the process of going to court simpler, easier, and more sympathetic to victims. My department’s court reform programme will make sure victims and witnesses, both male and female, continue to be treated with respect throughout the process. For example, the digitisation of the courts services is having a positive impact on victims by providing the ability to give video evidence rather than facing the trauma of attending court.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Rob Marris on 2016-10-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions he has had with the Department for International Development on the UK’s commitment to weather-indexed insurance.
Jesse Norman
My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has not had any discussions with my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for International Development on weather-indexed insurance in the last six months.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Owen Smith on 2015-11-03.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of how many working households including people under 25 are likely to lose income as a result of changes he has announced to tax credits.
Damian Hinds
The Government is committed to achieving a higher wage, lower tax, lower welfare economy. That means more emphasis on support to working families on low incomes through reducing tax and increasing wages, than on topping up low wages through tax credits.
The Chancellor is listening to concerns raised by colleagues and will announce in his Autumn Statement how he plans to achieve the same goal of reforming tax credits and saving the money we need to secure our economy, while at the same time helping in the transition.