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  • John McDonnell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture Media and Sport

    John McDonnell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture Media and Sport

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by John McDonnell on 2014-06-12.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department plans to take to improve equality monitoring of employment within the media industry; and if he will make a statement.

    Mr Edward Vaizey

    Promoting greater equality of opportunity in the workforce is a matter the Government takes seriously. The Government is actively engaging with leading organisations in the media industry who are working together through the Creative Diversity Network to help address the under-representation of ethnic minorities in that sector. The industry will outline the steps it intends to take at a roundtable event in early July. Equality data monitoring is among a number of issues that will be discussed. In addition, Ofcom has a number of duties relating to equality of opportunity, as set out in the Communications Act 2003. These include requiring all UK licensed radio and television broadcasters’ licences to have in place arrangements for promoting equal opportunities in employment on the basis of gender, race and disability, and to review those arrangements with regard to any relevant guidance published by Ofcom.

  • Richard Burden – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

    Richard Burden – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

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

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many new drivers had their licences revoked as a result of insurance offences in each year since 2010.

    Stephen Hammond

    The Road Traffic (New Drivers) Act 1995 requires that drivers who accumulate six or more penalty points during their probationary period will have their licences revoked. The accumulation of offences can be for any reason. The table shows the number of drivers whose licences were revoked under the New Drivers Act who committed at least one insurance offence:

    Year Number of licences revoked
    2010 4,372
    2011 5,921
    2012 5,897
    2013 5,606
    2014 (up to 29 March) 1,118
    Total 22,914
  • Tom Watson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

    Tom Watson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Watson on 2014-06-12.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether UK aircraft have flown outside Afghan airspace in support of NATO International Security Assistance Force missions in Afghanistan.

    Mr Mark Francois

    To support the UK’s contribution to the NATO ISAF mission in Afghanistan UK military aircraft regularly transit to and from Afghanistan through non Afghan airspace .There has not been any employment of armed UK aircraft outside of the borders of Afghanistan in support of ISAF.

  • Chuka Umunna – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    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, how many bids by LEPS to the (a) regional growth fund and (b) exceptional regional growth fund have been (i) under discussion with officials, (ii) submitted, (iii) approved and (iv) rejected in each (A) bidding round and (B) region.

    Michael Fallon

    All bids received to the Regional Growth Fund (RGF) and for exceptional RGF (eRGF) support are discussed with officials as part of the appraisal process. The following table lists bids received directly from Local Enterprise Partnerships to the RGF by bidding round and the outcome.

    RGF Round 2

    Region

    Number of bids received

    Number of bids selected

    Number of bids not selected

    Yorkshire & Humber

    5

    1

    4

    North East

    3

    0

    3

    South East

    2

    2

    0

    North West

    3

    2

    1

    East Midlands

    4

    2

    2

    West Midlands

    2

    2

    0

    East of England

    0

    0

    0

    South West

    3

    2

    1

    RGF Round 3

    Region

    Number of bids received

    Number of bids selected

    Number of bids not selected

    Yorkshire & Humber

    3

    3

    0

    North East

    2

    2

    0

    South East

    4

    4

    0

    North West

    3

    3

    0

    East Midlands

    4

    4

    0

    West Midlands

    8

    4

    4

    East of England

    1

    1

    0

    South West

    4

    1

    3

    RGF Round 4

    Region

    Number of bids received

    Number of bids selected

    Number of bids not selected

    Yorkshire & Humber

    3

    3

    0

    North East

    1

    1

    0

    South East

    5

    3

    2

    North West

    4

    3

    1

    East Midlands

    3

    3

    0

    West Midlands

    7

    7

    0

    East of England

    2

    2

    0

    South West

    1

    1

    0
  • Madeleine Moon – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

    Madeleine Moon – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Madeleine Moon on 2014-06-12.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the full outturn cost of (a) building maintenance, (b) staffing, (c) training, (d) salaries for recruits and (e) other costs were at Catterick Infantry Training Centre in each year since 2006; and if he will make a statement.

    Anna Soubry

    Financial data is held from financial year 2007-08 onwards. The Ministry of Defence’s budgetary structure is organised into a number of different Top Level Budget areas. This means that the cost of activities at a single location can often be split between a number of different budgets which are not managed centrally. For example infrastructure costs (including utilities) are managed by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation through contracts which do not split out the costs for individual units operating on a particular site. Similarly, equipment costs are managed across whole fleets of items by Defence Equipment and Support, and not by individual location. For this reason the full running costs of the Infantry Training Centre and the Army Foundation College cannot be provided in the format requested. However the costs attributable to the Army can be provided from financial year 2007-08 onwards.

    Unit

    2007-08

    2008-09

    2009-10

    2010-11

    2011-12

    2012-13

    2013-14

    £million

    £million

    £million

    £million

    £million

    £million

    £million

    Army Foundation College

    54.658

    62.078

    58.435

    60.829

    62.199

    63.486

    62.232

    Infantry Training Centre

    83.172

    90.790

    104.702

    81.471

    103.196

    105.274

    93.046

    The Army’s anticipated outturn for the Army Foundation College Harrogate in 2014-15 is £66.204 million, and for Infantry Training Centre Catterick is £90.793 million.

  • Chuka Umunna – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    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, how many officials currently work in the Government’s Reshore UK service; how many such officials were previously employed in (a) the Manufacturing Advisory Service and (b) other Government departments or agencies; and where the staff of the Reshore UK service are currently located.

    Michael Fallon

    Reshore UK brings together and joins-up existing resources and activities of UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) globally, the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) in England and partner bodies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to promote the UK as the location of choice for businesses considering reshoring: it is not an employer in its own right.

  • Alison Seabeck – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Deputy Prime Minister

    Alison Seabeck – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Deputy Prime Minister

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alison Seabeck on 2014-06-12.

    To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, how many parliamentary questions tabled to his Office in the last parliamentary Session did not receive a substantive answer by the time of the 2014 prorogation; and when each such question was first tabled.

    Mr Nick Clegg

    Sixteen Parliamentary Questions, all of which were tabled to my Office one day before prorogation in the last Parliamentary Session, did not receive a substantive answer by the time of the 2014 prorogation.

  • Lucy Powell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    Lucy Powell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lucy Powell on 2014-04-03.

    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2014, Official Report, column 13W, on nurseries, if he will collect information on the number of workplace nurseries available to staff in his Department, his Department’s executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies in those years.

    Nicky Morgan

    There have been no workplace nurseries operated by the Department, its Executive agencies or non-departmental public bodies during any of the years in question.

  • Lord Kennedy of Southwark – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    Lord Kennedy of Southwark – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Kennedy of Southwark on 2014-06-18.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of how much sand and gravel is used each year to protect the United Kingdom coastline.

    Lord De Mauley

    The Environment Agency holds this information locally and it would be disproportionately costly to collate the records to answer this question accurately in the time allowed.

  • Toby Perkins – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

    Toby Perkins – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Toby Perkins on 2014-04-03.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will take steps to ensure that anonymous military graves at Padstow Cemetery are updated in situations where the identity of the former soldier has been discovered.

    Anna Soubry

    A claim as to the identity of an individual buried in Padstow Cemetery in a grave bearing a headstone with the inscription “A Royal Marine of the Great War”, is currently awaiting review by officials in the Joint Casualty & Compassionate Centre. If the claim is supported by clear and convincing evidence they will task the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to replace the headstone with a new memorial bearing the individual’s name.