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  • Graham Jones – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Graham Jones – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Graham Jones on 2015-11-03.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of its annual income has been held in reserve by Thames Valley Constabulary in each of the last five years.

    Mike Penning

    It is up to Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) and Chief Constables to decide how to allocate their resources, including the efficient use of reserves, based on local priorities. The total amount of revenue funding received by each PCC (formerly Police Authorities) and the total amounts of usable reserves, taken from publically available force area accounts are included in the table below. This includes total core Government funding area from the Home Office, Legacy Council Tax Grants and locally raised precept income. It excludes specific grants such as the Innovation Fund and other locally raised income.

    Hertfordshire Police Authority/PCC reserves

    Year

    Reserves £m

    Total revenue funding £m

    Reserves as % of government grant+precept

    31 Mar 2011

    19.4

    197.4

    9.8%

    31 Mar 2012

    24.9

    191.5

    13.0%

    31 Mar 2013

    28.0

    189.7

    14.8%

    31 Mar 2014

    36.7

    185.2

    19.8%

    31 Mar 2015

    47.9

    181.1

    26.5%

    Lancashire Police Authority/PCC reserves

    Year

    Reserves £m

    Total revenue funding £m

    Reserves as % of government grant+precept

    31 Mar 2011

    20.1

    285.6

    7.0%

    31 Mar 2012

    26.3

    273.5

    9.6%

    31 Mar 2013

    27.5

    273.5

    10.1%

    31 Mar 2014

    35.8

    266.0

    13.4%

    31 Mar 2015

    49.3

    258.9

    19.1%

    Thames Valley Police Authority/PCC reserves

    Year

    Reserves £m

    Total revenue funding £m

    Reserves as % of government grant+precept

    31 Mar 2011

    41.1

    395.0

    10.4%

    31 Mar 2012

    48.2

    383.4

    12.6%

    31 Mar 2013

    45.8

    382.2

    12.0%

    31 Mar 2014

    49.1

    375.9

    13.1%

    31 Mar 2015

    51.4

    369.7

    13.9%

  • Lord Falconer of Thoroton – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Lord Falconer of Thoroton – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Falconer of Thoroton on 2015-11-30.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government on how many occasions the fire brigade has been called to an incident at a migrant detention centre in each of the last five years.

    Lord Bates

    Information for the complete data period requested is not held centrally.

    Provisional management information available on the number of attendances by the fire brigade for fires at immigration removal centres from January 2013 is provided below in line with the period for published statistics:

    Jan to Dec 2013 – 12 incidents

    Jan to Dec 2014 – 10 incidents

    Jan to Sep 2015 – 8 incidents

    Attendances by the fire brigade for incidents other than fires during the same data period could only be provided by examination of individual records so this information cannot be provided except at disproportionate cost.

  • Graham Stringer – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

    Graham Stringer – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Graham Stringer on 2015-11-03.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to issue guidance on the implementation of the EU Cross Border Enforcement Directive.

    Andrew Jones

    The UK is required to transpose the EU Directive 2015/413 on the Cross Border Exchange of Information on Road Safety Related Traffic Offences by 6 May 2017. Work is currently underway to implement the relevant legal changes by this date. Explanatory notes will accompany the secondary legislation implementing the data sharing requirements and these will be made public when the legislation is tabled.

  • Baroness Tonge – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    Baroness Tonge – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Tonge on 2015-11-30.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they have made to the government of Israel concerning the use of hollow-point bullets by the Israel Defence Forces.

    Baroness Anelay of St Johns

    We have not raised this specific issue with the Israeli authorities. However, our Ambassador in Tel Aviv regularly raises UK concerns over the use of force, including lethal force, most recently on 19 November with the Israeli Minister for Strategic Affairs and Public Security. Officials from our Embassy in Tel Aviv also raised the issue of force with the Head of the Civil Department of the Israeli Office for the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) Civil Department, on 24 November and the Israeli National Security Council on 18 November.

  • Louise Ellman – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    Louise Ellman – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Ellman on 2015-11-03.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make representations to his Danish counterpart on reopening the inquest into the death of commercial diver Stephen O’Malley in 2012.

    Caroline Dinenage

    Under powers in the Coroners Act 1988 (as amended) a new coroner investigation may be ordered by the High Court, with the authority of the Attorney General, where it is in the interests of justice to do so because of fraud, rejection of evidence, irregularity of proceedings or insufficiency of inquiry in the original inquest or new facts or evidence have come to light. It therefore falls outside the responsibility of the Secretary of State.

  • Baroness Randerson – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

    Baroness Randerson – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Randerson on 2015-11-30.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many officials in the Department for Transport were working as part of the team dealing with rail franchising in 2014–15 and 2015–16.

    Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

    The information is not held in the format requested. Staff working in franchising sit in Passenger Services, with other staff carrying out much wider roles.

    The number of people (permanent and temporary) working in Passenger Services as at 31st March 2015 was 221.

    The number as of 1st December 2015 is 235.

    Our forecast requirements for future years are as follows:

    2016/17 246.25 Full-Time Equivalents

    2017/18 246.25 Full-Time Equivalents

    2018/19 234.25 Full-Time Equivalents

  • Baroness Manzoor – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    Baroness Manzoor – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Manzoor on 2015-11-03.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of how many people will work more hours as a result of the proposed four-year freeze in working age benefits from 2016.

    Lord Freud

    The Government set out its assessment of the impacts of the policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20th July. These are available on the Parliament website.

  • Lord Chidgey – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    Lord Chidgey – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Chidgey on 2015-11-30.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government in which countries local FM radio stations broadcasting BBC World Service programmes in-country have been closed down by the authorities in each year from 1999 to 2014.

    Baroness Anelay of St Johns

    The BBC World Service has advised that they experienced closures to their service in the following countries: 2006 – Tajikistan 2008 – Oman 2009 –Azerbaijan 2010 – Somalia 2010 – Sudan 2008 to 2011– Israel 2014 – Rwanda

  • Lord Fearn – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

    Lord Fearn – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Fearn on 2015-11-03.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government what control there is over the flight of drones in the United Kingdom.

    Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

    Article 166 of the UK Air Navigation order (ANO) 2009 requires operators of RPAS to maintain direct, unaided visual contact with the aircraft sufficient to monitor its flight path in relation to other aircraft, persons, vehicles, vessels and structures for the purposes of avoiding collisions. It also states that an operator may only fly the aircraft if they are reasonably satisfied that the flight can safely be made.

    In addition, Article 138 of the ANO 2009, which also applies to RPAS, states that “a person must not recklessly or negligently cause or permit an aircraft to endanger any person or property.” This includes persons within another aircraft, and of course the aircraft that those persons are within. The government expects users to understand and comply with this type of regulation which has been made in place for many years, albeit covering the flight of the more traditional model aircraft.

    Safety and Security must always be the overriding priority and both commercial and leisure operators most operate drones responsibly and within the rules. I am able to confirm that with regards to the policing and monitoring of such vehicles the Police has provided initial guidance to constabularies across the UK.

    Operators of RPAS that collect personal data must comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) unless a relevant exemption applies. The requirements of the DPA are regulated by the independent Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

  • Lord Kennedy of Southwark – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Northern Ireland Office

    Lord Kennedy of Southwark – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Northern Ireland Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Kennedy of Southwark on 2015-11-30.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to bring the law on abortion in Northern Ireland into line with the rest of the UK.

    Lord Dunlop

    Constitutionally, abortion law in Northern Ireland is a transferred matter, and is therefore the responsibility of Northern Ireland Executive Ministers.