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  • Lord Greaves – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Lord Greaves – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Greaves on 2015-11-26.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of (1) the number of unaccompanied refugee children who are waiting at or near Calais and other Channel ports on the European mainland in the hope of crossing to England, and (2) how many of those are dependents or close relatives of persons who are living in the UK.

    Lord Bates

    The management of the migrant camps in Calais is the responsibility of the French Government. The UK Government does not routinely assess the numbers of migrants (including children) in Calais, or hold a breakdown of their ages. EU asylum rules oblige Member States to bring together close family members, including children. For a refugee child to be reunited with family members in the UK, a claim must first be lodged with the French authorities. The French and UK Governments are actively encouraging and assisting migrants in the Calais area to claim asylum in France.

  • Andrew Rosindell – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Andrew Rosindell – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Rosindell on 2015-11-02.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many British citizens have been extradited to the US under the US-UK extradition treaty since 2010; and how many US citizens have been extradited to the UK under that treaty in the same period.

    James Brokenshire

    Since the start of 2010 the UK has extradited 35 British citizens (including dual nationals) from the UK to the USA, over the same time period the US has extradited 8 US nationals (including dual nationals) to the UK.

    Of those arrested for the purposes of extradition to the US since 1 January 2010, 50 individuals (of all nationalities) have been extradited (up to and including 3 November 2015).

    All figures are from local management information, and have not been quality assured to the level of published National Statistics. As such they should be treated as provisional and therefore subject to change.

  • Lord Marlesford – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    Lord Marlesford – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Marlesford on 2015-11-26.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government why they have increased the Resource Departmental Expenditure Limit for International Development by 16.1 per cent between 2017–18 and 2018–19, as per Table 1A of the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015.

    Lord O’Neill of Gatley

    Total departmental expenditure limits (TDEL) for the Department for International Development (DFID) are set on the basis of forecast Gross National Income (GNI) growth to enable the Government to meet the commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of GNI on official development assistance (ODA). Budgets also take into account assumptions for non-budgetary spend on ODA such as the UK’s share of EU ODA expenditure. As a result, DFID’s total DEL budget will increase by 8.5 per cent between 17/18 and 19/20.

    The split between capital and resource DEL is set to help manage pressures such as capital contributions to multilateral development banks.

  • Andrew Gwynne – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

    Andrew Gwynne – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2015-11-02.

    To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the value of stationery that has been (a) lost and (b) stolen from her Department in each of the last five fiscal years; and what the cost was of replacing such stationery.

    Mr Desmond Swayne

    DFID does not maintain records of stationery lost or stolen. Therefore, it is not possible to estimate what the replacement cost would be.

  • Peter Kyle – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    Peter Kyle – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Peter Kyle on 2015-11-26.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015, by how much the Government plans to increase the funding per place for apprenticeships.

    Nick Boles

    At the Autumn Statement, my Rt hon Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the Government will establish a new employer-led body to set apprenticeship standards and ensure quality. The body will be independent of Government and will also advise on the level of levy funding each apprenticeship should receive. Our expectation is that funding caps will be significantly higher for programmes which have high costs and are of high quality.

  • Sadiq Khan – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission

    Sadiq Khan – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2015-11-02.

    To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many people on the electoral register on 7 May 2015 were (a) registered under individual electoral registration, (b) data matched and (c) carried over from the old register in each London borough.

    Mr Gary Streeter

    The Electoral Commission holds data on how many register entries on 7 May 2015 related to electors who had either been confirmed, through data matching, or were individually registered, and the number that were being retained on the registers under the IER transitional arrangements. This data is set out below by local authority area in London.

    Local authority

    Confirmed or IER Registered

    Retained

    Local Government (incl. Attainers)

    Barking and Dagenham

    116,080

    11,107

    127,187

    Barnet

    232,443

    16,587

    249,030

    Bexley

    170,789

    8,432

    179,221

    Brent

    195,769

    22,004

    217,773

    Bromley

    235,233

    6,889

    242,122

    Camden

    147,719

    10,070

    157,789

    City of London

    6,514

    428

    6,942

    Croydon

    250,652

    13,231

    263,883

    Ealing

    239,332

    6,929

    246,261

    Enfield

    207,295

    10,242

    217,537

    Greenwich

    175,963

    8,952

    184,915

    Hackney

    147,700

    43,774

    191,474

    Hammersmith and Fulham

    124,392

    6,660

    131,052

    Haringey

    153,161

    18,537

    171,698

    Harrow

    167,110

    13,490

    180,600

    Havering

    182,833

    5,378

    188,211

    Hillingdon

    202,116

    7,123

    209,239

    Hounslow

    181,404

    8,079

    189,483

    Islington

    148,265

    9,524

    157,789

    Kensington and Chelsea

    86,285

    17,660

    103,945

    Kingston upon Thames

    116,425

    1,689

    118,114

    Lambeth

    214,529

    25,297

    239,826

    Lewisham

    181,801

    16,187

    197,988

    Merton

    146,741

    6,233

    152,974

    Newham

    186,965

    18,896

    205,861

    Redbridge

    192,949

    25,486

    218,435

    Richmond upon Thames

    138,025

    1,336

    139,361

    Southwark

    197,577

    15,230

    212,807

    Sutton

    139,529

    8,141

    147,670

    Tower Hamlets

    170,626

    15,215

    185,841

    Waltham Forest

    172,094

    14,616

    186,710

    Wandsworth

    228,354

    13,347

    241,701

    Westminster

    129,062

    8,244

    137,306

  • Rachel Reeves – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    Rachel Reeves – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Rachel Reeves on 2015-11-26.

    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the effect on the household income of a family with one earner and two children which becomes a new claimant of universal credit and is not migrating from a legacy benefit of the Government’s proposed changes to universal credit announced in the Summer Budget 2015 in each of the next four financial years.

    Damian Hinds

    This issue is a matter for the Department for Work and Pensions. I understand that the Minister for Work and Pensions has responded to an identical question tabled by the hon Member.

  • Lilian Greenwood – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

    Lilian Greenwood – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2015-11-02.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2015 to Question 4759, if he will update the benefit-cost ratio for Great Western electrification given in that Answer to reflect the revised cost estimate for that electrification project confirmed in oral evidence by Mark Carne of the Committee of Public Accounts, on Network Rail: planning and delivery of 2014-19 rail investment programme, HC473, Q1, on 21 October 2015.

    Claire Perry

    The Department and Network Rail are updating business cases as part of the Hendy Review Process. Network Rail is continuing to examine the deliverability and potential scheduling of Great Western works following which the benefit cost ratio for the programme will be updated.

  • Nicola Blackwood – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    Nicola Blackwood – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicola Blackwood on 2015-11-26.

    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much of his Department’s funding allocated in the Spending Review 2015 will be for research and development expenditure up to 2020.

    Harriett Baldwin

    Spending Review 2015 set out settlements for departments and showed how the government will deliver on its priorities, eliminate the deficit, and deliver security and opportunity for working people.

    Final decisions on internal departmental funding allocations for future years, including for research and development, have not yet been made.

  • Jamie Reed – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    Jamie Reed – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jamie Reed on 2015-10-30.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect of the Government’s proposal to freeze the earnings threshold for plan 2 student loans on the cost of attending university.

    Joseph Johnson

    Freezing the repayment threshold will not affect the cost of attending university. It will mean that students, once earning, will on average meet a greater share of these costs over their working life through loan repayments, helping ensure the long-term financial sustainability of the system. Lower earning graduates below the repayment threshold will not be affected by the proposed changes.

    Estimates of the impact of freezing the repayment thresholds are illustrated in the consultation document, which has been published here:

    https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/freezing-the-student-loan-repayment-threshold

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