The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Flynn on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of the Afghanistan National Army has deserted in each month since January 2010.
Mr Mark Francois
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him by my predecessor, the right hon. Member for South Leicestershire (Andrew Robathan) on 13 November 2012 (Official Report, colunm 161W).
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dan Jarvis on 2014-03-18.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what databases managed by his Department or its executive agencies and which will contain personal information are (a) under construction and (b) expected to go live in the next five years; and if he will make a statement.
Simon Hughes
I can confirm that the Ministry of Justice and its executive agencies including Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS), the National Offender Management Service (NOMS), the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) and the Legal Aid Agency (LAA), currently have no plans to introduce any new HR-related centralised, multi-user database systems.
In order to ascertain the individual categories of personal information across all existing, relevant centralised HR-related databases, we would be required to either allocate specialist business resources to identify the requirements and produce the data, or commission it directly from third party IT suppliers. All this would be at a disproportionate cost.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to provide that the freeze dates for population size for boundary reviews and the census be in the same year.
Greg Clark
The Government has no plans to do so. Using population figures derived from census data would not provide a better basis for a review of constituency boundaries than using the electoral register.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mr Andrew Smith on 2014-03-18.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what criteria his Department used in the decision to include the Garden Bridge in the Government’s National Infrastructure Plan.
Stephen Hammond
The National Infrastructure Plan 2013 sets out the government’s long-term plan to ensure that it can deliver the investment required to meet the UK’s infrastructure needs to 2020 and beyond. The Garden Bridge is not one of the Government’s ‘Top 40′ projects as set out in the Plan, but it is part of the ‘infrastructure pipeline’, which includes large capital programmes of investment worth £50 million or over.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-06-04.
To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, what (a) number and (b) proportion of voters voted (i) at a polling station and (ii) by postal ballot in each European parliamentary constituency in each such election since 1984.
Mr Gary Streeter
The Electoral Commission was formed in 2000 and as a result it only holds information from the 2004 European parliamentary elections onwards. It has placed the data it holds in the library.
The full datasets for the 2014 European parliamentary elections will be available at the end of August.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hywel Williams on 2014-03-18.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of whether the London to Holyhead line will become a local stopping service following the building of High Speed 2.
Stephen Hammond
No such assessment has been made. The opening of High Speed 2 will release capacity for train services on existing lines, including on the West Coast Main Line. Precise details of stopping patterns will be resolved when the relevant rail franchises are let in due course.
In the meantime, we will shortly announce a transparent and participatory process to consider long-term issues, opportunities and options for rail services on HS2 corridors.
We are also working with the Welsh Government who are developing a business case for the electrification of the North Wales Main Line.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Michael Dugher on 2014-06-10.
To ask the Prime Minister, how many members of staff of his Office worked on the review by the Cabinet Secretary of the release of correspondence between Ministers relating to prevention of extremism.
Mr David Cameron
The Cabinet Secretary will respond to the hon. Member on this matter shortly. I will place a copy of the letter in the Library of the House.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Hylton on 2014-03-17.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what investigations they are undertaking into the nutrition and health of children and vulnerable adults when sanctions are imposed on individuals who lose their benefits.
Lord Freud
The Department does not monitor nutrition.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2014-06-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport examining officers were employed by HM Passport Office in each year since 2010.
James Brokenshire
The table below shows the number of Her Majesty’s Passport Office full-time
equivalents working within the passport operational Directorates.
The formal record for workforce data is made on the last day of each calendar
month. We have therefore provided the data as of 31 March of each year.
(a) 2011- 2,586
(b) 2012- 2,216
(c) 2013- 2,389
(d) 2014-2,593
Due to the limitations of the HR management system used prior to Dec 2010, it
is not possible to provide reliable management information below top level for
any periods prior to that date.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Clive Efford on 2014-03-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of academy trusts did not submit their account returns on time (a) in the current year, (b) in 2013, (c) in 2012 and (d) in 2011.
Edward Timpson
The number and proportion of academy trusts that did not submit an accounts return on time is detailed in the table below:
|
Financial year |
Date due |
Number late |
Percentage late |
|
2012-13 |
31 January 2014 |
166 |
7.6% |
|
2011-12 |
31 January 2013 |
119 |
8.2% |
|
2010-11 |
31 January 2011 |
100 |
17.4% |
Academies were not required to submit accounts returns prior to 2010-11.