The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2014-03-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many defendants charged with each offence type were sent to the Crown Court for sentence by magistrates in each of the last five years.
Shailesh Vara
The answers to both questions are contained in the following tables:
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-06-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of claimants of (a) jobseeker’s allowance and (b) employment and support allowance on Help to Work who will enter employment within (i) six months and (ii) 12 months.
Esther McVey
The information requested is not available.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-03-10.
To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, which local authority (a) augmented and (b) did not augment Department for Work and Pensions data matching with the electoral register with local authority data matching.
Gary Streeter
The Electoral Commission informs me that 137 local authorities provided data to them on their local data matching activities following the trial of matching with the DWP in 2013. The table below lists these local authorities. Those that did not provide data may still have carried out local data matching work.
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Reported on local data matching activities |
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Amber Valley |
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Argyll & Bute |
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Ashfield |
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Aylesbury Vale |
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Barking & Dagenham |
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Bassetlaw |
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Bath & North East Somerset |
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Bexley |
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Blaby |
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Bolsover |
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Bournemouth |
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Bracknell Forest |
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Brighton & Hove |
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Bromley |
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Bromsgrove |
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Broxbourne |
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Broxtowe |
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Burnley |
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Calderdale |
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Canterbury |
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Carlisle |
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Central Bedfordshire |
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Ceredigion |
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Cheltenham |
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Christchurch |
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Conwy |
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Coventry |
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Dartford |
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Daventry |
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Denbighshire |
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Derbyshire Dales |
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Dudley |
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Dumfries & Galloway |
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Durham |
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East Dorset |
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East Dunbartonshire |
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East Lindsey |
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East Lothian |
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East Northamptonshire |
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East Renfrewshire |
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Eastleigh |
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Eden |
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Edinburgh, City of |
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Elmbridge |
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Flintshire |
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Forest of Dean |
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Gosport |
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Gravesham |
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Guildford |
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Gwynedd |
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Halton |
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Hambleton |
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Hammersmith & Fulham |
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Harborough |
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Harrogate |
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Hastings |
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Havant |
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Herefordshire |
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High Peak |
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Hillingdon |
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Hyndburn |
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Inverclyde |
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Ipswich |
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Kensington and Chelsea |
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Kettering |
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Kingston upon Thames |
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Lewisham |
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Lincoln |
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Luton |
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Mansfield |
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Medway |
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Melton |
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Midlothian |
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Milton Keynes |
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Mole Valley |
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Neath Port Talbot |
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New Forest |
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Newport |
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North Dorset |
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North Kesteven |
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North Lincolnshire |
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North Somerset |
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North Tyneside |
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North Warwickshire |
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North West Leicestershire |
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Nottingham |
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Orkney Islands |
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Oxford |
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Pendle |
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Poole |
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Purbeck |
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Redcar & Cleveland |
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Redditch |
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Renfrewshire |
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Richmond upon Thames |
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Richmondshire |
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Rossendale |
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Rotherham |
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Rushcliffe |
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Rushmoor |
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Sandwell |
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Sedgemoor |
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Sefton |
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Sheffield |
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Shepway |
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Shropshire |
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South Derbyshire |
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South Gloucestershire |
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South Kesteven |
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South Ribble |
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Southend-on-Sea |
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St Edmundsbury |
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St. Helens |
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Staffordshire Moorlands |
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Stockport |
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Surrey Heath |
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Swale |
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Swindon |
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Tamworth |
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Tandridge |
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Thanet |
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Thurrock |
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Tonbridge & Malling |
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Walsall |
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Warrington |
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Watford |
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Waverley |
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West Berkshire |
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West Dunbartonshire |
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West Lindsey |
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West Lothian |
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Wigan |
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Wiltshire |
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Wolverhampton |
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Wychavon |
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Wyre |
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York |
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will revise the Government’s Responsibility Deal to include sugar in the list of ingredients that companies should work with caterers to reformulate in meals as part of the H4 pledge on Healthier Staff Restaurants.
Jane Ellison
There are 169 organisations currently signed up to the H4 pledge which includes a requirement for employers to work with caterers to reformulate recipes to ensure staff meals are lower in fat, salt and energy and do not contain artificial trans fats. There are currently no plans to include sugar in this list of ingredients. However, as part of the Public Health Responsibility Deal, 11 catering companies have signed up to take a range of actions to help people consume fewer calories, including through reformulation to reduce sugar content.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Lucas on 2014-03-07.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what change there has been in median gross pay for women in Wrexham constituency since 2010.
Nick Hurd
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Douglas Alexander on 2014-06-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what reports he has received of allegations of repressive measures taken towards civil society activists in China related to commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown; and whether the Government has made representations to the Chinese government on that matter.
Mr William Hague
We are concerned at reports of detentions in relation to the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square incident, and we raised our concerns about this with the Chinese authorities during the UK-China Human Rights Dialogue in London on 20 May 2014. The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. friend the Member for East Devon (Mr Swire), also raised this issue with the Chinese authorities on 19 May and made a statement on 21 May. We also fully support the EU statement of 28 May calling for the release of all those imprisoned for the peaceful expression of their views.
We were pleased to see that on 5 June the Chinese authorities released a number of those who had been arrested after attending an event to commemorate the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alun Cairns on 2014-03-06.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding her Department provided for staff to carry out trade union activities in each of the last three years; and how many days staff spent on those activities in those years.
Karen Bradley
[holding answer 20 March 2014]
The Department did not provide specific funding for staff to carry out trade union activities in 2011, 2012 or 2013.
Information on the amount of paid time spent on trade union activities by staff who are union representatives has only been centrally recorded since November 2012. Between November 2012 and September 2013 our central records show that 1,345 paid days were spent by union representatives on such activities. These central records are based on returns submitted by union representatives to account for the time they have spent on their union roles. Information on the amount of paid time spent on trade union activities prior to November 2012 could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Since October 2013 the Department has not permitted members of staff elected as union representatives to be granted paid facility time for any trade union activities and in future will only grant paid facility time for such activities in exceptional circumstances and with approval from the Secretary of State. In line with our legal obligations members of staff elected as union representatives are able to request time away from their work to undertake trade union activities but any time off granted for this purpose will be unpaid.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nic Dakin on 2014-06-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many recruits under the age of 18 years at (a) enlistment and (b) the point of submitting their application to join the armed forces who stated in section 3 of AFCO Form 4 that they were unemployed, completed training and moved into trained strength in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Anna Soubry
This information is not held in the format requested.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Jopling on 2014-03-27.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Nash on 26 March (WA 121), whether other Departments hold the data requested in the question; and whether they will now answer the question originally put.
Lord Nash
Local authorities are required to report annually on the numbers of children in need who have a disability (as defined by section 6 of the Equality Act 2010) as part of the Children in Need Census data collection. These data are collected under section 83 of the Children Act 1989 by the Department for Education. As part of this collection, local authorities report on the number of children with disabilities who are subject to child protection investigations under section 47 of the Children Act 1989. However, it is not possible to separately identify those with chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis.
The number of children in need with a disability is published in ‘Characteristics of Children in Need’, and can be found at:
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Fiona Bruce on 2014-06-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to prevent UK companies profiting from North Korean labour; and what steps he is taking to ensure that UK companies are compliant with international law on human trafficking, slavery and forced labour in their contracts in North Korea.
Mr Hugo Swire
The UK is the first country to publish the Implementation Plan of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which states the Government’s expectation of business behaviour both in the UK and overseas. In October 2013, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills amended the Companies Act 2006 to introduce mandatory reporting requirements for all UK listed companies to publish information on human rights issues. At the EU level, the UK in April this year secured agreement to impose further reporting requirements on companies across Europe. In particular, all large listed and public interest undertakings will be required to disclose policies, outcomes and risks relating to areas such as respect for human rights and, if relevant, linked to their supply and subcontracting chain.
Current trade between the UK and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is minimal and covered by an overarching provision that any activities should satisfy existing UN and EU sanctions. These refer to restriction in the export of goods and financial assistance, which may contribute to the development of the DPRK’s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes. There are currently no plans to introduce a general restriction on trade, as such a broad measure could adversely affect ordinary North Koreans.