The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mr David Hanson on 2014-03-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passengers travelled to the UK on routes connected to the Semaphore system in (a) 2011, (b) 2012 and (c) 2013.
James Brokenshire
The total number of passengers who travelled to the UK on routes connected to
the Semaphore system were approximately as follows:
(a) 66.5 million in 2011
(b) 64.5 million in 2012
(c) 78.8 million in 2013
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alison McGovern on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Immigration and Passport Service on (a) the service’s ability to meet the three-week timescale for processing an application for a child passport and (b) possible extension of that timescale.
James Brokenshire
Expected service standards for processing passports are given at: www.gov.uk.
My Rt. Hon. Friend the Home Secretary explained in the House on 12 June 2014
a set of measures to deal with the high level of passport demand has been put
in place. I refer the Hon. Member to the statement of 12 June 2014, Official
Report, columns 693 and 694.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2014-03-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of eligible (a) male and (b) female offenders were recalled on a fixed term recall instead of a standard recall (i) in 2008, (ii) in 2009, (iii) in 2010, (iv) in 2011, (v) in 2012 and (vi) since 3 December 2012.
Jeremy Wright
It has not been possible to obtain this information. I will write to the Honourable member in due course.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mike Weir on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will publish the (a) scope, (b) date of commissioning, (c) date of polling and (d) cost of polling commissioned by the Devolution Team in his Department on attitudes in Scotland towards Scottish independence and related matters from (i) Ipsos-MORI and (ii) other opinion survey companies since May 2011.
Greg Clark
The UK Government regularly commissions independent research to inform and evaluate major policy programmes. Cabinet Office has contracted Ipsos MORI for the purposes of providing market research in relation to the Scotland Analysis Programme. Two formal tenders for this research were issued in March and August 2013 respectively and, as with other tenders for Government contracts, these processes were managed by the Government Procurement Service (now part of the Crown Commercial Service).
Cabinet Office has also contracted Engine Partners LLP for the purposes of providing communications support work in relation to the Scottish independence referendum. A formal tender for this work was issued in September 2013 and was managed by the Government Procurement Service.
As part of the Government’s commitment to transparency in expenditure information relating to the costs of both sets of work is publicly available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-spend-data
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Caroline Flint on 2014-03-10.
To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, what the electoral registration figures were in each ward in the recent confirmation dry run conducted in (a) Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council and (b) Don Valley constituency.
Gary Streeter
The Electoral Commission informs me that the confirmation dry run involved matching all entries on the electoral registers against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Customer Information System database. Entries would be marked as green if they matched with DWP, amber if they were a partial match or red if there was no match.
The ward results for Doncaster Metropolitan borough Council are shown in the following table:
The ward results for the Don Valley constituency are shown in the following table:
Results for all wards are available on the Commission’s website here: http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0003/163146/Confirmation-dry-run-2013-Results-Wards.xls
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Watson on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 10 February 2014, Official Report, column 474W, on unmanned air vehicles: guided weapons, if he will take steps to receive parliamentary approval before the deployment of the armed forces to the redeployment of armed drones abroad.
Mr Mark Francois
There is no intention for Parliamentary approval to be sought before decisions on deployment or redeployment of individual items of equipment are made, though the Ministry of Defence may of course notify Parliament of significant deployments, as it does at present.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mr Roger Godsiff on 2014-03-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will assess the potential for improved administration and awareness of the short-term benefit advances scheme to affect demand for food banks; and if he will make a statement.
Esther McVey
DWP does make claimants aware of relevant support services, but will always consider whether it has provision first.
Short Term Benefit Advance awards are available to those entitled to them prior to initial payment of benefit, almost 100% of applications are routinely processed within 24 hours.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Uppal on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to raise awareness of endometriosis.
Dr Daniel Poulter
Information on endometriosis is readily available to healthcare professionals and the public. Both the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and NHS Choices have published information for the public on the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis. Further information can be found on the RCOG website:
www.rcog.org.uk/womens-health/clinical-guidance/endometriosis-what-you-need-know
and NHS Choices website:
www.nhs.uk/conditions/Endometriosis/Pages/Introduction.aspx
To support women with endometriosis all obstetricians and gynaecologists have been trained in the diagnosis, investigation and management of the condition, which is specifically listed as a topic in the core curriculum for obstetrics and gynaecology. The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology has published clinical guidelines on the management of women with endometriosis to assist clinicians.
In addition, NHS England has developed a service specification for severe endometriosis under the specialised commissioning area of complex gynaecology. NHS England expects all units providing a service to women with severe endometriosis to provide care which meets the standards laid out in a specification which can be found on their website:
www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/e10-comp-gynae-endom-0414.pdf
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Beecham on 2014-03-27.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will attempt to measure the re-offending rates of ex-service personnel convicted of criminal offences.
Lord Faulks
The Ministry of Justice does not centrally collate or hold information on the current or previous occupation of those convicted of criminal offences; therefore it is not possible to provide re-offending rates for ex-service personnel in the criminal justice system.
Rory Stewart MP has been invited to conduct an independent review of ex-Service personnel within the criminal justice system. He has been asked to consider the needs of ex-Services personnel, current rehabilitation available to them, how they are identified and best practice. The Review is due to report back in autumn 2014 and we will then consider his recommendations.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jeremy Corbyn on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Romanian-born prisoners are being held in British prisons.
Jeremy Wright
On 31 March 2014 there were 588 prisoners in England and Wales who declared they were Romanian on reception to prison.
All foreign national offenders sentenced to custody are referred to the Home Office for them to consider deportation at the earliest possible opportunity.
Romania has implemented the EU Prisoner Transfer Arrangement and relevant cases have been referred to the Home Office to obtain deportation orders.
The Prisoner Transfer process is just one mechanism for removing Foreign National Offenders. The number of FNOs deported under the Early Removal Scheme (ERS) has increased under this Government. In 2013, we removed nearly 2,000 FNOs under ERS and under the Tariff Expired Removal Scheme (TERS), which we introduced in May 2012, we have removed over 240 FNOs to date.
Whereas this Government has begun to reduce the foreign national population in prison since 2010, between 1997 and 2010, the number of foreign nationals in our prisons more than doubled.