The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sheila Gilmore on 2014-06-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what visits each of the Ministers in his Department have made since January 2013; and what the purpose of each such visit was.
Mr David Jones
The information requested is enclosed in the following table.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-03-31.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what funds his Department has spent on preparing HM Prison the Verne for re-role as an immigration detention centre to date.
Jeremy Wright
The Ministry Justice has not spent any additional money to date in preparing HM Prison The Verne to hold immigration detainees. However, the Home Office has funded infrastructure changes to make the site suitable for holding immigration detainees. These changes have allowed for early and cost-efficient preparation for its change of use while continuing to allow The Verne to operate as a prison.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2014-06-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of universal credit claims made in pilot areas have been based on independent self-assessment.
Esther McVey
We have interpreted the question as the proportion of people who assess their own eligibility for UC via the on-line self assessment tool.
https://www.gov.uk/browse/benefits/entitlement
The Department does not collect this data
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2014-03-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make an assessment of the effect on higher education providers of charging fees to international students for use of the NHS.
Mr David Willetts
The Home Office published an impact assessment on its website on the 11 October 2013 entitled ‘Regulating migrant access to health services in the UK’, in which it estimates the impact of implementing a health surcharge as outlined in the Immigration Bill. The Home Office predicts that implementing a health surcharge could cause Tier 4 visa grants to fall by approximately 830, which will have an impact on higher education providers of approximately £11 million per year. The surcharge is £200 per annum for most migrants however, to reflect their contribution to UK growth, a concession was factored into the Immigration Bill for students – they will pay £150 per annum rather than the full cost.
BIS will continue to work closely with the Home Office and the higher education sector to monitor the effects of the surcharge on student numbers and to ensure that the impact is manageable.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim McGovern on 2014-06-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment her Department has made of the effect of illegal settlements on the economic development of Palestine.
Justine Greening
Denying Palestinians access to the resources of Area C, whether through expanding illegal settlements, declaring closed military zones and national parks, or restricting movement and access, is crippling the Palestinian economy. The World Bank estimates that easing these restrictions could increase Palestinian GDP by 35%.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-03-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on which occasions prisons (a) reached and (b) exceeded their (i) occupational capacity and (ii) in-use certified normal accommodation in each month since September 2013.
Jeremy Wright
Individual prison population and capacity information is published monthly on the Ministry of Justice website at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-population-figures-2014
Population and capacity figures for March 2014 will be published on the Government website on Friday 11 April
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julian Huppert on 2014-06-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the statement in Vodafone’s 2013-14 Sustainability Report, that Section 19 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 prohibits disclosing the existence of any requirement to provide assistance in relation to a warrant, whether her Department issued guidance to that effect.
Karen Bradley
The statutory Interception of Communications Code of Practice, which was approved by Parliament and came into force on 1 July 2002, provides advice on safeguards for intercept material.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Turnberg on 2014-03-28.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they are having with Mahmoud Abbas on continuing the negotiations with Israel for a two-state solution.
Baroness Warsi
The Government is having regular discussions about the current peace talks with the Palestinian Authority and the Government of Israel. The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague), most recently had a discussion on 3 April with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas about the peace process. The Foreign Secretary met with the Israeli Minister for Intelligence, International Relations and Strategic Affairs, Yuval Steinitz on 8 April where they discussed the latest in the peace process.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Harriet Harman on 2014-06-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of primary pupils of each ethnic background and in total have engaged with (a) theatre activities, (b) music activities, (c) dance and (d) other arts in each year since 2009-10.
Mr Edward Vaizey
Taking Part child survey results for activity by individual art forms are not regularly published broken down by BAME. This requires further analysis of the underlying survey data and we will publish this analysis in the libraries of both Houses.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2014-03-27.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many serious case reviews have been (a) commissioned and (b) published since June 2010.
Mr Edward Timpson
302 serious case reviews (SCRs) have been commissioned by local safeguarding children boards (LSCBs) and notified to the Department for Education since June 2010. 114 have been published.
|
Serious case reviews commissioned |
Serious case reviews published[1] |
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|
10 June 2010 to 31 March 2011 |
52 |
0 |
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1 April 2011 to 31 March 2012 |
55 |
12 |
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1 April 2012 to 31 March 2013 |
81 |
31 |
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1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014 |
114 |
71 |
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Total |
302 |
114 |
136 SCRs are currently in progress. 30 SCRs have been notified as not for publication due to compelling reasons related to the welfare of the children directly related to these cases.
22 SCRs have been completed and have not yet been published due to outstanding police investigations, criminal proceedings and welfare issues.
We have set up a national panel of independent experts who will advise and challenge LSCBs on any case where an LSCB has concerns about the publication of an SCR report and/or intends not to publish an SCR report.
[1] Overview reports only. These figures do not include executive summaries published during this period.