Tag: 2014

Hilary Benn – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hilary Benn on 2014-05-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) asylum seekers and (b) refugees from Syria have applied for leave to remain since the start of the Syrian conflict; and how many such people have been granted leave to remain.

James Brokenshire

The published available figures only relate to asylum seekers.

The latest published Home Office data shows that between 1 April 2011 and 31
December 2013 there were 3,796 applications for asylum from Syrian nationals
(including main applicants and their dependants) in the UK. During the same
period, 2,507 Syrian nationals and dependants were granted leave to remain in
the UK, including asylum, humanitarian protection or discretionary leave. These
grant decisions do not all necessarily relate to applications made in the same
period. In addition, given the need to give each asylum claim careful
consideration on its merits, not all the asylum applications made during that
period will have received a decision during that time.

Eurostat data based on provisional management information shows that between 1
April 2011 and 28 February 2014 there were 4,105 applications for asylum from
Syrian nationals (including main applicants and their dependants) in the UK.
Eurostat data on grants of asylum are only available annually. There are some
definitional differences between National Statistics published by the Home
Office on a quarterly basis and monthly figures published by Eurostat.

November 1, 2022
Simon Kirby – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Simon Kirby on 2014-05-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will bring forward proposals to relocate (a) staff and (b) offices of his Department to Brighton; and if he will make a statement.

Jeremy Wright

Although reducing and rationalising the Ministry of Justice estate could result in relocations, there is no centrally driven relocation target to this effect. Any relocation is done based on the operational needs of the Department. The Ministry of Justice currently has no plans to relocate its staff or offices to Brighton. The Ministry of Justice continues to work with the Government Property Unit to ensure that the Ministry of Justice estate operates in an efficient manner and represents value for money.

November 1, 2022
Jim Murphy – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Murphy on 2014-05-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of UK aid to Syria has been written off as nugatory expenditure.

Justine Greening

No UK aid to Syria has been written off as nugatory expenditure.

November 1, 2022
Luciana Berger – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-05-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, who is responsible for the collection and disposal of clinical waste from patients’ homes.

Dan Rogerson

Local authorities have duties to arrange for the collection and disposal of household waste. Clinical waste produced at domestic property is treated as household waste.

November 1, 2022
Sarah Champion – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Champion on 2014-05-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether (a) his Department and (b) the Probation Service has experienced problems in accessing the Risk of Serious Recidivism Predictor Tool to date.

Jeremy Wright

We are carrying out extensive local testing of the key elements of the new Transforming Rehabilitation systems across a number of Probation Trusts. Findings are helping us to refine the associated tools and guidance. We have now completed testing of the new Risk of Serious Recidivism (RSR) tool, which will be used to inform the allocation of cases to new Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) or the National Probation Service (NPS). Our testing with operational staff in Trusts indicates that the tool is straightforward to use, in line with our commitment to minimising bureaucracy for frontline staff.

We have begun the roll out of the current version of the tool to all Trusts.

November 1, 2022
Dan Jarvis – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dan Jarvis on 2014-05-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the proportion of secondary school students who studied the First World War as part of their (a) GCSE and (b) A-level studies in each year since May 2010.

Elizabeth Truss

The Department for Education does not hold information on the individual topics which students elect to take in their GCSE and A level examinations. Information on the proportion of pupils attempting GCSE history is published in the 2009/10[1], 2010/11[2], 2011/12[3] and 2012/13[4] GCSE and equivalent results statistical first release.

Information on the number of entries in A level history is published in the 2012/13[5] A level statistical first release.

[1]https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gcse-and-equivalent-results-england-academic-year-2009-to-2010-revised (Table 9)

[2]https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revised-gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-academic-year-2010-to-2011 (Table 9)

[3]https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revised-gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-academic-year-2011-to-2012 (Table 9)

[4]https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2012-to-2013-revised (Table 9)

[5]https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-level-and-other-level-3-results-england-2012-to-2013-revised (Table 14)

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November 1, 2022
Ian Lucas – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Lucas on 2014-05-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received on the current whereabouts of the children recently kidnapped from Chibok, Nigeria.

Mark Simmonds

Since the abduction of the Nigerian school girls on 14 April we have remained in close contact with the Nigerian authorities about the case. Although the whereabouts of the girls remains unclear, reports in the media and from girls who escaped suggest they are being held in the Sambisa Forest area of Borno State. Media reports also suggest the girls may have been taken into Cameroon and Chad. We continue to try and establish the facts in this case.

November 1, 2022
Jesse Norman – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jesse Norman on 2014-05-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to encourage safer cycling.

Mr Robert Goodwill

In addition to the £278m of funding directly for cycling in England, we continue to support Bikeability cycle training for children. It provides trainees with skills suited to the road, but also explains the importance of obeying the Highway Code, and sharing the road. Some councils provide free or subsidised training to adults.

November 1, 2022
Virendra Sharma – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Virendra Sharma on 2014-04-30.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of potential geographical variations in the handling of individual funding requests for the prescription of Duodopa to patients with Parkinson’s disease.

Norman Lamb

We have made no such assessments.

November 1, 2022

Jenny Chapman – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jenny Chapman on 2014-04-30.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers were serving on detached duty in each month from January 2011 to January 2014.

Jeremy Wright

A nationally co-ordinated detached duty scheme has been operating since 21 October 2013. Information on the number of officers serving on detached duty before the introduction of the national scheme is not available. The full-time equivalent of officers provided on detached duty from the beginning of the nationally co-ordinated scheme until the 31 December 2013 is contained in the table below. Some allocations outside of the national scheme continued after October 2013 but is not included in the information provided. London region particularly allocated staff within their own region. Information collected on the staffing allocated. On occasions the resource is not actually deployed due to changes in local circumstances.

The deployment of staff between prisons on detached duty is a regular and normal part of prison resourcing. It allows staff to be allocated from prisons with the capacity to provide them, to those where additional staffing is required. On average over the three month period (October to December 2013), less than 1% of staff were provided on detached duty. A large proportion of the capacity was available from prisons that were in the process of closure or going through a re-role. This process temporarily releases a number of officers who are not supplied for specific occasions but are sent and received on a shift pattern throughout the week.

Full Time Equivalent of Officers Working on Detached Duty ¹

– 21 October 2013 to 31 December 2013

	Full Time Equivalent Officers Provided on Detached Duty
Scheme started in October so no data available for earlier period
October 2013 (Data relates to part month from 21 October)	46
Nov-13	107
Dec-13	205

¹ Detached duty figures are not published but other staffing data is published up to 31 December 2013 and therefore information is only presented up until that date.

November 1, 2022