The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2014-06-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of police hunts for all prisoners who have absconded or escaped from prisons in each of the last five years.
Damian Green
This information is not held centrally.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Bryant on 2014-06-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to (a) legal aid and (b) remission from court costs to all claimants of universal credit once universal credit has been fully rolled out.
Mr Shailesh Vara
The information requested is contained in a letter that I sent on 10 June to the Rt Hon Member for East Ham in response to his earlier Parliamentary Question on the same subject. That letter has now been deposited in the Library of the House. (Deposit Reference: DEP2014-1040)
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2014-06-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many prisoners have completed university degrees inside prison in each of the last 10 years; and what the cost to the public purse was of that education.
Matthew Hancock
Most prisoners who study higher education (HE) in custody do so through the Open University (OU). The table below shows the number of prisoners in England who have completed OU degrees whilst in prison from academic year 2003/04. Prior to September 2012, the costs of prisoners’ tuition were met from public funds in an arrangement that broadly mirrored the grant arrangements for other part-time HE students. The OU’s additional costs for delivering in custody are met through a grant from the Department. We do not have information on the public funding for these specific learners. From September 2012, prisoners have been required to take out, and then repay, tuition fee loans in the same way as other learners.
Number of prisoners completing Open University degrees in prisons from 2003/04
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Award Year (academic year) |
Total number of prisoners |
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2003/04 |
4 |
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2004/05 |
10 |
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2005/06 |
14 |
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2006/07 |
10 |
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2007/08 |
11 |
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2008/09 |
22 |
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2009/10 |
19 |
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2010/11 |
23 |
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2011/12 |
26 |
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2012/13 |
16 |
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Total |
155 |
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England only |
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Information supplied by the Open University |
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-06-26.
To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, if the Electoral Commission will publish the 10 local authorities with the biggest (a) increase and (b) decrease in the net number of electors following the 2013 annual canvass.
Mr Gary Streeter
The Electoral Commission informs me that the table below shows the ten local authorities with the biggest increases and decreases in electorate between the start and end of the 2013 canvass.
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Local authority |
Change (November 2013 – Feb/March 2014 |
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Edinburgh, City of |
20,241 |
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Cheshire West and Chester |
14,676 |
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Tower Hamlets |
10,566 |
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Newcastle upon Tyne |
9,550 |
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Taunton Deane |
9,023 |
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North Lanarkshire |
9,001 |
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South Lanarkshire |
8,926 |
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Glasgow City |
8,710 |
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Huntingdonshire |
8,023 |
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Mole Valley |
7,866 |
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Northampton |
-10,309 |
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Barnet |
-12,743 |
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Newham |
-16,617 |
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Maidstone |
-10,121 |
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Cornwall |
-13,195 |
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East Devon |
-6,424 |
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Birmingham |
-20,572 |
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Shropshire |
-14,350 |
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Leeds |
-24,119 |
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Renfrewshire |
-7693 |
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2014-06-26.
To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, with reference to the Answer of 29 January 2014, Official Report, column 575W, on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, when she plans to place the requested information on the Dignity at Work conferences in the libraries of both Houses.
Mrs Helen Grant
Information on the Dignity at Work conferences is in the process of being placed in the Libraries of both Houses.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-06-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will place in the Library the methodology and assumptions used to populate the Help to Work sections of Table 2.1, page 78, Autumn Statement 2013, Cm 8747 showing financial savings arising from the programme.
Esther McVey
Page 8 of the Autumn Statement 2013: policy costing document sets out the assumptions and methodology for the benefit savings from Help to Work that are in Table 2.1, page 78, Autumn Statement 2013.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stewart Jackson on 2014-06-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what his policy is on future public subsidies to onshore solar energy projects; and if he will make a statement.
Gregory Barker
The UK has seen a remarkable transformation in solar PV deployment under the Coalition Government; we now have over 3GW of installed capacity. The measures that we set out in our Solar Strategy will ensure that solar PV continues to be a vital part of the UK’s renewable energy mix for many years to come.
Alongside those measures, we are consulting on proposals to change the small-scale feed-in tariff scheme to enable more communities to benefit from ownership of renewable electricity generation, as well as proposals to encourage more deployment of solar PV on buildings.
We are also consulting on changes to the renewables obligation in relation to support for large-scale solar projects, and are working closely with industry to ensure that transition to the new contracts for difference mechanism supports the on-going development of the solar sector in the UK.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Robert Flello on 2015-01-15.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if the Government will launch an inquiry into the price of fuel to identify the reasons for the disparity between global oil prices and the domestic prices paid by motorists.
Matthew Hancock
The Government has made it clear to the industry that it is vital the benefits of plunging oil prices are passed on quickly to the domestic prices paid by motorists.
UK national average pump prices are now at their lowest levels since March 2010 for diesel and at its lowest since Dec 2009 for petrol. We expect fuel retailers to cut prices further as the decline in crude oil prices in recent weeks continues to feed through the system.
We continue to monitor price movements very closely.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Caroline Flint on 2015-01-15.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the contribution of 6 November 2014 by the Minister of State in his Department, Official Report, column 949, what his Department’s policy is on the provision of state aid to UK Coal in respect of Thoresby and Kellingley coal mines.
Matthew Hancock
UK Coal submitted a request for additional public sector support to extend the working life of the Thoresby and Kellingley coal mines on 16 January 2015. The Government is carefully considering this request including whether it represents acceptable value for money and is a good use of taxpayer’s money.
If the Government concludes there is merit in supporting the new plan, it would need to ensure the plan is consistent with state aid rules applying to the coal sector and seek approval from the European Commission to pay aid to UK Coal.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dame Tessa Jowell on 2015-01-15.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many vacant A&E consultant posts there are in (a) London and (b) England; and how many such vacant posts there are in each category in each of the last six years.
Dr Daniel Poulter
Information on vacancies is not collected by the Department. The last annual National Health Service vacancy survey in England was undertaken by the Health and Social Care Information Centre in 2010. The survey was suspended in 2011 and then discontinued in 2013 following the publication of the Fundamental Review of Data Returns, which aimed to reduce the burden of the collection of data from NHS organisations.
The attached table provides vacancy data for 2009 and 2010, the only two years within the last six years for which data is available.