Tag: 2014

Richard Fuller – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Richard Fuller on 2014-04-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in how many cases the Child Support Agency has started committal proceedings in each of the last five years.

Steve Webb

Pursuant to my Written Answer on Monday 20 January 2014, Official Report, columns 42 – 43W, information on the number of cases in which the Child Support Agency has started committal proceedings is only readily available from 2010. The table below shows the number of cases where committal proceedings were started for each of the last three complete financial years and the current year to date:

Financial Year	Committal Proceedings Started
April 2010 – March 2011	3270
April 2011 – March 2012	3560
April 2012 – March 2013	300
April 2013 – December 2013	10

Notes:

1) Following a Court Of Appeal decision in October 2012, a review of the Commitment to Prison process was carried out to ensure it complied with the terms of the judgement given in that case. Whilst doing so, applications for Commitment to Prison were not brought before the court. Procedures resumed from March 2013.

2) Data sourced from the Tallyman Informer system.

3) Data rounded to the nearest 10.

01/11/2022

Kevan Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kevan Jones on 2014-06-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the National Audit Office report, Army 2020, HC 263, published on 11 June 2014, page 17, if he will provide details of the eight options for force structures that his Department considered in 2011, and his Department’s estimate of the savings each would have accrued.

Mr Mark Francois

I am not able to provide the information requested, since to do so could adversely affect the formulation of future defence policy.

01/11/2022
Chuka Umunna – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chuka Umunna on 2014-04-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what (a) discussions and (b) correspondence has taken place between (i) his Department, (ii) Royal Mail, (iii) banks acting as bookrunners, co-ordinators and lead managers and (iv) priority investors since the privatisation of Royal Mail took place; and if he will publish any such relevant correspondence.

Michael Fallon

Since the Initial Public Offering, my Department has had discussions with Royal Mail in our continuing role as a minority shareholder in Royal Mail.

There has been ad hoc contact with the Global Co-ordinators primarily to help with enquiries about the IPO but no formal correspondence.

It is not appropriate to publish correspondence relating to the above on the grounds that it relates to our shareholding or has been provided to help develop Government policy and to do so would inhibit the free and frank advice or exchange of views for the purposes of internal deliberation.

This Department has not had discussions or corresponded with the priority investors.

01/11/2022
Sheila Gilmore – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sheila Gilmore on 2014-06-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what visits each of the Ministers in his Department have made since January 2013; and what the purpose of each such visit was.

Anna Soubry

Details of Ministers visits and the purpose of each visit overseas are published quarterly and can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-transparency-publications

Details of Ministers overseas visits and the purpose of each visit from January to December 2013 are published. The details from January 2014 to date will be published in due course.

01/11/2022
Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-04-03.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people who do not meet the income threshold required to pay National Insurance contributions opt to pay national insurance contributions voluntarily.

Mr David Gauke

Estimates of the number of (a) people and (b) women who work in more than one job but do not pay national insurance, even though their total earnings are above the lower earnings threshold; and, of those, how many are women, are available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/state-pension-coverage-lower-earnings-limit-and-multiple-jobs

The rest of the information requested is not available.

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01/11/2022
Baroness Lister of Burtersett – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Lister of Burtersett on 2014-06-18.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by the Minister of State for Pensions, Steve Webb, on 13 March (HC Deb, 317W) and the Written Answer by Baroness Stowell of Beeston on 3 March (WA 278–9), how they reconcile the statements that it was always the intention that 2014–15 would be the last year of separate funding for local welfare provision from the Department for Work and Pensions” and that “this decision was taken at the Spending Round 2013″.”

Lord Freud

I see no contradiction in the above statements.

01/11/2022
Chuka Umunna – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chuka Umunna on 2014-04-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many vacant premises are currently located at each enterprise zone.

Kris Hopkins

More than 7,600 jobs have been created and 260 new businesses attracted to the 24 Enterprise Zones over the period April 2012- December 2013. However, I am unable to disclose zone-level information as the estimates that Enterprise Zones provide us with may be subject to local commercial sensitivities and disclosure may prejudice commercial negotiations. For this reason, it is for individual zones to determine whether they make this information available.

01/11/2022
David Nuttall – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Nuttall on 2014-06-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many prosecutions there have been for breaches of the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations 1988 in each of the last three years.

Michael Fallon

The data requested is not held centrally.

01/11/2022
Tom Greatrex – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Greatrex on 2014-04-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what forecast he has made of the effect of the Supplemental Balancing Reserve on the Loss of Load Expectation for winter 2014-15.

Gregory Barker

The Government has not made any forecast of the effect of the Supplemental Balancing Reserve (SBR) on the Loss of Load Expectation for winter 2014-15.

SBR is one of National Grid’s two new balancing services, approved by Ofgem in December 2013. SBR and the Demand Side Balancing Reserve (DSBR) will address potential capacity shortfalls in the middle of the decade.

National Grid is currently developing a methodology to determine how much capacity should be contracted via SBR. Once this is approved by Ofgem, National Grid will proceed with the procurement process.

01/11/2022
Tom Blenkinsop – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Blenkinsop on 2014-06-18.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what changes there have been in the claimant count for women claiming for over 12 months since May 2010.

Mr Nick Hurd

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

01/11/2022