Category: Speeches

Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-04-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much the UK Government has agreed to provide the government of Nigeria in financial support as part of the prisoner transfer agreement with the country signed on 9 January 2014; and what the benefits for the UK are of that agreement.

Jeremy Wright

We are currently in discussion about supporting further projects that will assist Nigeria to improve their prisons and build the capacity they need to receive prisoners from the UK under the compulsory prisoner transfer agreement we signed in January this year. To date the cross-Government Migration Fund has funded refurbishment works at Kiri Kiri women’s prison in Lagos, and supported a project aimed at increasing access to justice for remand prisoners to tackle the issue of congestion within the Nigerian prison estate.

The prisoner transfer process is just one mechanism for removing foreign national offenders (FNOs). All FNOs sentenced to custody are referred to the Home Office to be considered for deportation at the earliest possible opportunity. The number of FNOs deported under the Early Removal Scheme (ERS) has increased under this Government with nearly 2,000 FNOs removed in 2013. Under the Tariff Expired Removal Scheme (TERS) which we introduced in May 2012, we have removed 243 FNOs (at April 23^rd 2014).

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.

01/11/2022
Lucy Powell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lucy Powell on 2014-04-29.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to reply to questions 192679, 192680 and 192681 on children: daycare, tabled on 18 March 2014 for answer on 24 March 2014.

Nicky Morgan

I have done so.

01/11/2022
Tim Loughton – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture Media and Sport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2014-04-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to extend civil partnerships to opposite sex couples.

Mrs Helen Grant

The Government is currently considering the views expressed by consultation respondents on the future of civil partnership in England and Wales. The Government has not itself proposed any changes to civil partnership.

01/11/2022
Douglas Alexander – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Deputy Prime Minister

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Douglas Alexander on 2014-04-29.

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to the oral Answer of 6 February 2014, Official Report, column 348W, on Colombia, what discussions he held with (a) business, (b) government and (c) civil society representatives regarding the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Action Plan on Business and Human Rights during his visit to Colombia in February 2014.

Mr Nick Clegg

I refer the Rt. Hon Member to the answer I gave on 11 February, Column 691. In addition to this, all members of the business delegation who accompanied me were briefed on Human Rights issues before the visit.

01/11/2022

Nick Gibb – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick Gibb on 2014-04-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the waiting time is for new routine referrals to Ophthalmology in each NHS hospital trust area.

Dr Daniel Poulter

Information on the median average waiting time for patients waiting to start consultant-led ophthalmology treatment for all National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts in England is shown in the following table.

Latest data for February 2014 shows that the median average waiting time for patients waiting to start consultant-led ophthalmology treatment in the Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is 8.6 weeks.

Monthly Referral to Treatment (RTT) waiting times for incomplete pathways in ophthalmology, February 2014

Provider Name	Average (Median) Waiting Time (In Weeks)
Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	4.7
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust	4.1
Ashford And St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	4.9
Barts Health NHS Trust	6.2
Bedford Hospital NHS Trust	6.0
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	7.3
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust	5.5
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	4.9
Brighton And Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust	5.7
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust	10.2
Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	5.7
Calderdale And Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust	4.9
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	5.2
Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	5.3
Chelsea And Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	5.1
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	6.5
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust	5.1
Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust	4.7
Countess Of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	6.4
County Durham And Darlington NHS Foundation Trust	6.8
Coventry And Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust	4.4
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust	4.9
Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust	5.3
Doncaster And Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	5.0
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	6.9
Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust	8.8
East And North Hertfordshire NHS Trust	4.5
East Cheshire NHS Trust	6.1
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust	4.9
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust	4.2
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	6.0
Epsom And St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust	4.9
Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	6.5
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust	2.7
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	4.3
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	7.5
Guy’s And St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust	4.2
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	5.7
Harrogate And District NHS Foundation Trust	5.5
Heart Of England NHS Foundation Trust	5.3
Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust	3.6
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	3.0
Hull And East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust	5.5
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust	5.1
Isle Of Wight NHS Trust	5.5
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	4.8
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	5.7
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	6.1
Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	4.6
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	5.0
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	4.8
Lewisham And Greenwich NHS Trust	5.1
Luton And Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	5.1
Maidstone And Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust	6.3
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	5.6
Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust	5.7
Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust	4.7
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust	5.4
Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	4.0
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	5.7
Norfolk And Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	6.4
North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust	7.2
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust	6.0
North West London Hospitals NHS Trust	3.8
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust	4.2
Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust	5.5
Northern Lincolnshire And Goole NHS Foundation Trust	5.4
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	5.3
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust	8.5
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	5.4
Peterborough And Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	5.4
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust	5.8
Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	5.7
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust	5.6
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	8.8
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust	6.7
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust	5.5
Royal Devon And Exeter NHS Foundation Trust	4.8
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust	6.8
Royal Liverpool And Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust	4.6
Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	5.9
Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust	5.2
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust	4.0
Sandwell And West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust	4.5
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	5.6
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	5.6
Shrewsbury And Telford Hospital NHS Trust	10.4
South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	4.2
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	6.3
South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust	6.8
South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust	5.8
Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	5.4
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust	4.4
Southport And Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust	3.5
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust	7.0
St Helens And Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust	4.7
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust	6.7
Surrey And Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	6.2
Taunton And Somerset NHS Foundation Trust	8.3
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust	5.8
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	4.1
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	4.7
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust	5.4
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust	3.2
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust	2.1
The Royal Bournemouth And Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	5.2
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust	4.5
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust	6.2
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	5.9
University Hospital Of North Staffordshire NHS Trust	4.8
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust	5.6
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust	5.3
University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust	5.3
University Hospitals Coventry And Warwickshire NHS Trust	5.2
University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS Trust	5.8
University Hospitals Of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust	5.2
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust	5.5
Warrington And Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	3.4
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust	10.8
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust	3.1
Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	8.6
Weston Area Health NHS Trust	5.6
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	6.0
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	4.7
Worcestershire Health And Care NHS Trust	4.2
Wrightington, Wigan And Leigh NHS Foundation Trust	4.0
Wye Valley NHS Trust	5.6
Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	3.0
York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	5.4

Notes:

1. Median waiting times are calculated from aggregate data, rather than patient level data, and therefore are only estimates of the position on average waits.

2. Median waiting times are not calculated for organisations (and treatment functions) with less than 50 pathways in the month.

3. The following trusts did not submit any RTT incomplete pathway data for February 2014:

– Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust;

– Barking, Havering & Redbridge NHS Trust;

– Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;

– Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust;

– The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust; and

– Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust.

01/11/2022

Nick de Bois – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick de Bois on 2014-04-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) managerial, (b) teaching and (c) clerical staff in schools in Enfield were paid more than (i) £42,000, (ii) £69,000 and (iii) £100,000 in the last year for which figures are available.

Mr David Laws

The table below provides the full- and part-time numbers of qualified leadership and classroom teachers in publicly-funded schools in Enfield local authority area who are paid salaries of more than £42,000, £69,000 and £100,000.

Over £42,000

Over £69,000

Over £100,000

Leadership

390

80

10

Classroom

580

–

–

Total

970

80

10

The information provided is from the November 2012 School Workforce Census. Local authority area figures from the November 2013 School Workforce Census will be published in summer 2014.

Data is not available for managerial and clerical staff.

01/11/2022
Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-04-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the days staffing levels were against the (a) benchmark and (b) baseline staffing level at the time of the disturbance of HM Prison Northumberland on Saturday 29 March 2014.

Jeremy Wright

The information requested could not be obtained within the timescale. I will write to the Member in due course.

01/11/2022
Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-04-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the re-opened wings at (a) HM Prison Hull and (b) HM Prison Chelmsford will take prisoners.

Jeremy Wright

We will always have enough prison places for those sent to us by the courts and continue to modernise the prison estate so that it delivers best value for the taxpayer

This Government has a long term strategy for managing the prison estate. We will have increased the adult male prison capacity so that we have more places than we inherited from the previous Government.

The retention of significant spare prison capacity over and above what is required is expensive and cannot be justified given the current financial climate. The mothballing of spare capacity at HM Prisons Chelmsford and Hull saved the taxpayer £3.6m in the financial year 2013-14. This compares to the significantly lower cost of maintaining this accommodation on a mothballed basis, so that it could be reactivated if necessary.

We have reviewed the refurbishment requirements at both sites and believe that, with minor investment, they can now be reopened on a contingency basis without carrying out a full refurbishment. These costs are anticipated to be around £132k by the time they have reopened. From the end of March to date, around £12k has been spent on Chelmsford, and around £107k has been spent on Hull.

The indicative additional staffing requirement to reactivate the places at Hull is around 65 members of staff – of which approximately 40 are uniformed. The indicative additional staffing requirement to reactivate the places at Chelmsford is around 30 members of staff – of which approximately 20 are uniformed grades. This means we are able to create additional places at an average cost of £7k per place (subject to final benchmarking review), as opposed to the average cost of a prison per place of £26,139.

The staffing requirement will initially be met by short term detached duty from other prisons, before looking to redeploy staff permanently where surpluses exist – and if necessary through external recruitment.

Subject to certification, Hull will create 282 places and Chelmsford 148 places, with prisoners due to start arriving this summer.

The reactivation of these places is a prudent and good value for money response to an increased prison population. Under the previous administration, police and court cells were turned into temporary prisons, with over 50,000 prisoners held in these cells in 2007-08 alone.

01/11/2022
Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-04-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 10 April 2014, Official Report, column 406W, on prisons: postal services, how many incidents of (a) drug-related or (b) miscellaneous contraband were found in post received by prisoners in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012 and (d) 2013.

Jeremy Wright

All finds of contraband, whether found in post or otherwise, are recorded on a central incident reporting system under the drug-related or the miscellaneous incident categories. In order to establish the number of occasions, in each of the last four years, where contraband had been found in post sent to prisoners, would require the examination of over 62,000 individual electronic incident files. This could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.

01/11/2022
Bob Ainsworth – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Bob Ainsworth on 2014-04-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the future acquisition requirements for intelligence surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance systems.

Mr Philip Dunne

The Department assesses potential future acquisition requirements for intelligence surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) systems as part of the annual Capability Audit process, which considers current and future capability gaps, and the options to fill them. On recent operations the Urgent Operational Requirement (UOR) mechanism has also been used to expedite the delivery of ISTAR equipment to fill such capability gaps in the short-term (such as the REAPER Remotely-Piloted Aerial System). As the MOD reorganises itself for broader contingent operations, the annual Capability Audit process will continue to assess which of these UOR equipments have broad utility and should continue to receive funding. In parallel, separate capability investigations are underway, predominantly in support of prospective consideration during the next Defence Review. This analysis includes the ongoing Air ISTAR Optimisation Review.

01/11/2022

	Over £42,000	Over £69,000	Over £100,000

Leadership	390	80	10
Classroom	580	–	–
Total	970	80	10