Tag: 2014

Jim Shannon – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2014-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many women have been charged with child sex offences but not convicted in each of the last three years.

Simon Hughes

The proportion of offenders given custody for sexual offences has increased since 2003.

The number of female defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty or not guilty at all courts for sexual offences against children, in England and Wales from 2008 to 2012 (the latest data available), can be viewed in the table.

Court Proceedings data for calendar year 2013 are planned for publication in May 2014

Charging data is not held by the Ministry of Justice.

November 1, 2022
Biography information for Anas Sarwar – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Biography information for Anas Sarwar on International Development.

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Lynne Featherstone

The roots of the conflict in Central African Republic (CAR) are complex and whilst the recent inter-communal violence is primarily targeting Muslim inhabitants, Christian communities have also fallen victim to sectarian killings. Much of the Muslim population of CAR has fled, including traders who were overwhelmingly Muslim.

DFID is funding agencies such as UNHCR, Mercy Corps and the ICRC to implement protection programmes in CAR, including conflict resolution and social cohesion activities. DFID has contributed £18 million in 2014 towards the crisis. The UK is also supporting the international efforts to restore peace and security and has welcomed the adoption of UNSCR 2149 authorising the deployment of a UN peacekeeping mission (MISCA).

November 1, 2022

Sadiq Khan – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals who have served their sentence but are awaiting deportation there are in each prison.

James Brokenshire

The number of Foreign National Offenders (FNOs) detained in prison beyond the
end of their sentence pending deportation (as of 31 December 2013) is shown in
the table below:

Prison Name	Total
HMP & YOI Isis	10
HMP Addiewell	*
HMP Altcourse	*
HMP Aylesbury	5
HMP Barlinnie	5
HMP Bedford	5
HMP Belmarsh	10
HMP Birmingham (Winson Green)	15
HMP Brinsford	5
HMP Bristol	5
HMP Brixton	10
HMP Bronzefield	10
HMP Bullingdon	25
HMP Bure	5
HMP Cardiff	5
HMP Channings Wood	*
HMP Chelmsford	15
HMP Coldingley	*
HMP Dartmoor	*
HMP Deerbolt	5
HMP Doncaster	10
HMP Dorchester	*
HMP Dovegate	*
HMP Drake Hall	5
HMP Dumfries	*
HMP Durham	*
HMP Eastwood Park	*
HMP Edinburgh	5
HMP Elmley	5
HMP Elmley (Sheppey Cluster)	30
HMP Erlestoke House	*
HMP Everthorpe	*
HMP Exeter	*
HMP Featherstone	5
HMP Feltham	15
HMP Forest Bank	15
HMP Garth	*
HMP Glen Parva	10
HMP Guys Marsh	5
HMP Haverrigg	*
HMP Hewell	15
HMP High Down	15
HMP Highpoint North	20
HMP Highpoint South	10
HMP Holloway	15
HMP Holme House	5
HMP Hull	*
HMP Huntercombe and Finnamore	35
HMP Lancaster Farms	*
HMP Leeds (Armley)	15
HMP Leicester	10
HMP Lewes	5
HMP Lincoln	20
HMP Lindholme	5
HMP Littlehey	15
HMP Liverpool	10
HMP Long Lartin	*
HMP Low Newton	*
HMP Maidstone	45
HMP Manchester	10
HMP Moorland	20
HMP New Hall	*
HMP Northumberland	*
HMP Norwich	10
HMP Nottingham	15
HMP Oakwood	5
HMP Parc	5
HMP Pentonville	45
HMP Peterborough	15
HMP Portland	5
HMP Preston	*
HMP Ranby	15
HMP Risley	15
HMP Rochester	*
HMP Send	*
HMP Shotts	*
HMP Stafford	5
HMP Standford Hill (Sheppey Cluster)	*
HMP Stoke Heath	5
HMP Styal	*
HMP Swinfen Hall	*
HMP Thameside	35
HMP The Mount	10
HMP Wakefield	*
HMP Wandsworth	45
HMP Wayland	*
HMP Whatton	*
HMP Winchester	*
HMP Wolds	*
HMP Woodhill	15
HMP Wormwood Scrubs	60
HMP Wymott	5
Grand Total	850

1. All figures quoted have been derived from management information and are
therefore provisional and subject to change. This information has not been
quality assured under National Statistics protocols.
2. Figures relate to main applicants only.
3. Figures relate to criteria FNO cases only.
4. Figures rounded to the nearest 5 ( – = 0, * = 1 or 2) and may not sum to the
totals shown because of independent rounding.
5. Data is a snapshot of individuals detained in prison on 31 December 2013.

We make every effort to ensure that a person’s removal by deportation
coincides, as far as possible, with his/her release from prison on completion
of sentence. Where a detainee refuses to cooperate with the removal or
deportation process, detention may be prolonged.

The Immigration Bill will have a significant impact on the ability of FNOs to
delay removal by mounting legal challenges whilst in the UK. The current
appeals system means that 17 different types of decision can be appealed. The
Immigration Bill will simplify the appeals system and mean that appeals can
only be brought where the Home Office has refused a protection (asylum or
humanitarian protection) claim, a human rights claim or a claim based on EU
free movement rights. It will also give us the power to certify that where
deportation will not cause serious irreversible harm, the appeal will be heard
after the offender has left the country.

November 1, 2022

Kate Green – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kate Green on 2014-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish his Department’s risk assessment of the transfer of his Department’s contract with Atos Healthcare for provision of work capability assessments to a new provider; and what steps he is taking to mitigate the risks identified in that assessment.

Mike Penning

The transition from Atos Healthcare to the new provider in 2015 provides a further opportunity to improve the service the Department offers to claimants and customers. The Department will manage the transition carefully to mitigate the impact on claimants and customers and to further mitigate any risks the new provider will initially use elements of the Atos infrastructure already in place, including IT, Estate and Atos employees (subject to TUPE).

The priority for the new provider will be to deliver the best possible service for claimants, increase the volume of assessments carried out and reduce waiting times.

November 1, 2022
Chris Ruane – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average length of time taken was for personal independence payments to be made in Wales in each month for which data are available.

Mike Penning

I refer the hon Member to the answer I gave to the hon Member for Liverpool, West Derby and the hon Member for Airdrie and Shotts, official report, 5 March, column 850W.

November 1, 2022
Kate Green – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kate Green on 2014-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what contracts are held by his Department with Atos Healthcare for the provision of medical and health-related assessments.

Mike Penning

The Department holds a national contract with Atos Healthcare for the provision of Work Capability Assessments and contracts for Personal Independence Payment Assessments for PIP Lot 1 covering North West England, North East England, Scotland and Isle of Man and PIP Lot 3 covering London / Southern England.

November 1, 2022
Lord Singh of Wimbledon – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Singh of Wimbledon on 2014-04-08.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Warsi on 7 April (WA 244), by what criteria they decided to promote a United Nations inquiry into events in Sri Lanka; whether they have considered the situation of the Sikh community in India against those criteria; if not, why not; and if so, with what conclusions.

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

We have serious human rights concerns on Sri Lanka, and concerns over lack of progress on accountability and reconciliation. In a joint statement with the UN Secretary-General in 2009, the Sri Lankan government committed to addressing accountability issues. In 2011, the UN Panel of Experts recommended that the Sri Lankan government should immediately hold ‘an effective domestic accountability process’ into alleged violations and abuses of international human rights and humanitarian law by both sides of Sri Lanka’s military conflict. The Panel of Experts also recommended that the UN Secretary-General should establish an ‘independent international mechanism’ to investigate these allegations.

In both 2012 and 2013, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) subsequently called upon the Sri Lankan government to hold a credible domestic accountability process into the allegations. In the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay’s report to the UNHRC on Sri Lanka in March 2014, the High Commissioner assessed that domestic accountability processes were ‘limited and piecemeal’, and that none ‘had the independence or credibility required’. As a result of this, the British Government supported the High Commissioner’s call for an international investigation. On 27 March, the UNHRC passed a resolution which establishes an international investigation, in addition to calling on the Sri Lankan government to make progress on human rights and accountability.

On the situation of the Sikh community in India, I refer the noble Lord to my answer of 7 April 2014, Official Report Column WA 244.

November 1, 2022
Lord Hylton – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Hylton on 2014-04-08.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of recent deaths in the Yarmouk section of Damascus, reported by Amnesty International in its report Squeezing the life out of Yarmouk: War crimes against besieged civilians, and, in particular, of that organisation’s attribution of the deaths to starvation and lack of medical care.

Lord Bates

DFID is deeply concerned by reports of Palestinian refugees in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus suffering and dying as a result of malnutrition and lack of medical care. Yarmouk has been under siege for some time and we are calling for unfettered access to all affected communities and for all sides to lift sieges to end this suffering.

November 1, 2022
Lord Patten – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Patten on 2014-04-08.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the announcement by the government of Argentina that their new 50 peso banknote will show the Falkland Islands as part of their national territory.

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

The British Government obviously has no control over what other countries choose to put on their currency. However, we are clear that incorporating the Falkland Islands in this way in no way affects either the UK’s sovereignty or the right of the Falkland Islanders to self–determination, which they exercised in March 2013 in an overwhelming vote to remain part of the UK.

November 1, 2022
Chuka Umunna – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chuka Umunna on 2014-04-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer to Lord Adonis of 3 June 2013, Official Report, House of Lords, column 122WA, on government departments: secondments, of those secondments to his Department listed on that date, how many of these secondments related (a) wholly, (b) partly and (c) incidentally to the privatisation of Royal Mail; and how many of those secondments took place primarily for the purpose of helping with the privatisation of Royal Mail.

Michael Fallon

Of the secondees listed in the answer given to the noble Lord, Lord Adonis on 3 June 2013, two worked on the Royal Mail privatisation in the Shareholder Executive.

November 1, 2022