The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Winnick on 2014-06-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will arrange for the hon. Member for Walsall North to receive a reply to her letter to the Director General, UK Visas and Immigration, of 1 May 2014 on behalf of a constituent, CTS ref M5845/14.
Karen Bradley
The Director General responsible for Immigration Enforcement, responded to the hon. Member on 17 June 2014.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Bob Ainsworth on 2014-06-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of (a) adult and (b) child passport renewal applications were processed within the three-week service standard in each of the last six months.
James Brokenshire
he table below shows the number of straightforward passport applications
received within the UK which were processed within 3 weeks.
|
Month |
Proportion of straightforward applications processed within 3 weeks |
|
Dec 13 |
99.99% |
|
Jan 14 |
99.99% |
|
Feb 14 |
99.98% |
|
Mar 14 |
99.95% |
|
Apr 14 |
99.59% |
|
May 14 |
92.26% |
Her Majesty’s Passport Office does not hold a further breakdown of this information by
application type. The cost of bringing that information together would be
disproportionate and so it is not possible to provide the information you have
requested.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liam Byrne on 2014-06-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many meetings she has had with her Department’s Chief Scientific Adviser in the last 12 months.
Karen Bradley
As was the case under previous administrations, details of internal meetings are not normally disclosed.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Ruffley on 2014-06-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many drink-driving offences were recorded in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years; and how many successful prosecutions for such offences there have been.
Norman Baker
Drink driving is a summary offence, and not a notifiable offence. The Home Office only collects data on notifiable offences.
The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty at all courts for offences relating to drink driving, in England and Wales from 2009 to 2013 can be viewed in Table 1. The same data for Suffolk can be viewed in Table 2. This data is held by the Ministry of Justice.
Data is not available below Police Force Area level, and so data for Bury St Edmunds cannot be provided.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2014-06-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much in overtime costs has been spent in HM Passport Office in each month of 2014.
James Brokenshire
Overtime costs in Her Majesty’s Passport Office in each month of 2014 are as follows
January – £199,146
February – £400,812
March – £840,588
April – £793,559
May – £964,742
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2014-06-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the current anticipated turn-round time for passport processing is for (a) applications from UK residents making new applications, (b) new applications for a child’s passport and (c) UK residents applying abroad.
James Brokenshire
Expected service standards for passport applications are published on
www.gov.uk.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Williamson on 2014-06-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with the National Farmers’ union on the details of the injunction relating to protestor activities around the badger culls scheduled to take place in Gloucestershire and Somerset in 2014.
Damian Green
Home Office officials have had discussions with officials from the Department
for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the National Farmers’ Union
about the use of civil injunctions, in the context of a broader engagement with
both organisations, on the badger culling activity for 2014.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2014-06-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she has received from the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on the processing of passport applications from abroad since 1 January 2014.
James Brokenshire
Home Office Ministers have regular discussions with Ministerial colleagues and
others. As was the case with previous administrations, it is not the government’s
practice to provide details of all such meetings.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dan Jarvis on 2014-06-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the TecSOS system for high risk victims of domestic abuse; and what plans she has to rollout the programme to other areas of the country.
Norman Baker
The report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) on the police
response to domestic abuse, published in March 2014, clearly set out the
importance of using new technology to help protect victims of domestic abuse.
Whilst it is an operational matter for chief constables on procuring
technology, we are aware that the TecSOS system is used by 16 police
forces across England and Wales.
Through the National Oversight Group, set-up and chaired by the Home Secretary
to drive delivery against the HMIC recommendations, the Government is ensuring
that best practice on the use of new technology, like TecSOS, is identified and
shared so that the policing of domestic abuse is robust.
As part of its commitment to support high risk victims of domestic abuse, the
Government part-funds 144 Independent Domestic Violence Advisors and 54
Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference co-ordinator posts. This funding
amounts to £3.4 million per year.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Richard Fuller on 2014-06-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if she will review the effectiveness of Part 8 of the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003; and if she will bring forward legislative proposals to extend the scope of these provisions to include complaints on high hedges.
Nick Boles
Part 8 of the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003 (‘High hedges’) addresses private disputes about tall evergreen hedges adversely affecting neighbouring homes and gardens. We have no current plans to undertake a specific review of this part of the 2003 Act.