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Philip Davies – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Wales Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2015-11-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, which regulations his Department introduced as a result of EU legislation in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015 to date; which regulations his Department expects to implement as a result of EU legislation in (i) 2016 and (ii) 2017; and what estimate he has made of the cost of such regulation to the (A) public purse and (B) private sector.

Stephen Crabb

I refer the hon Member to the answer given by my Rt. Hon friend the Minister for Small Business, Industry and Enterprise (Anna Soubry) on 11 November 2015.

January 1, 2023

Margaret Ferrier – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Scotland Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Margaret Ferrier on 2015-12-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, on what dates since 19 October 2015 Scotland Office Ministers and officials and their counterparts at UK Trade and Investment have met to discuss the Scottish steel industry; what issues affecting that industry were discussed on each occasion; and if he will make a statement.

David Mundell

The Government has created three working groups to respond to the issues affecting the steel industry; on competitiveness and productivity, procurement and international comparisons. Each group meets regularly and updates have been provided by the Scotland Office or Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) at each meeting of the Scottish Steel Task Force. Officials from the Scottish Government are invited to attend all working group meetings.

The working group on competitiveness and productivity includes representatives from UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) and has been considering, amongst other things, issues relating to exports and foreign and direct investment. It has met three times since 19 October (28 October, 11 November and 8 December). In addition, a workshop was held on 18 November.

As a consequence of these deliberations, work is being done by BIS and UKTI that will result in increased visibility of UK Export Finance (UKEF) with the UK steel sector. Improvements will also be made to the identification of forthcoming international projects requiring a high steel content with better mechanisms to share these opportunities with the UK steel sector. UKTI have also been working closely with Scottish Development International to support them in trying to identify potential international investors that may be interested in the Tata Steel plate mills at Dalzell and Clydebridge.

January 1, 2023

Emily Thornberry – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2015-11-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average amount paid for the reimbursement of childcare costs to claimants in receipt of the childcare element of universal credit was in the most recent month for which figures are available.

Priti Patel

The information you have requested is not currently available. The Department published its strategy for releasing official statistics on Universal Credit (UC) in September 2013. As outlined in the strategy, officials are currently quality assuring data for UC therefore it is not yet possible to give a definitive list of what statistics will be provided in the future. These statistics however will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for official statistics.

The latest official experimental statistics on UC and the Departments release strategy can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics.

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January 1, 2023

Nadine Dorries – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nadine Dorries on 2015-12-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many trains were cancelled on the Govia Thameslink rail line due to problems with the line infrastructure in the most recent period for which figures are available.

Claire Perry

The latest rail reporting period was 18th October to 14th November. There were 757 full and 1,623 part cancellations attributed to Network Rail causes. The causes include infrastructure failures, poor railhead conditions, external incidents (e.g. trespass and vandalism) and adverse weather related incidents. The Department does not hold disaggregated data that shows individual causes. The latest rail reporting period was 18th October to 14th November. There were 757 full and 1,623 part cancellations attributed to Network Rail causes. The causes include infrastructure failures, poor railhead conditions, external incidents (e.g. trespass and vandalism) and adverse weather related incidents. The Department does not hold disaggregated data that shows individual causes.

January 1, 2023

Lord Berkeley – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Berkeley on 2015-11-04.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether there are any restrictions concerning ships anchoring in Mount’s Bay, and what steps are being taken to protect fishermen’s lobster pots from damage by ships’ ground tackle.

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

There are no restrictions concerning ships anchoring in Mount’s Bay. International freedoms permitting ships to anchor within territorial seas are protected under the UN Convention for the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Ships’ Masters are responsible for selecting safe and appropriate anchorage positions for their ships.

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is aware of the ongoing sea‑space competition issue between shipping and fisheries in Mount’s Bay. Warnings of unattended fishing pots have been placed on both nautical charts and in Admiralty Pilot books to assist Ships’ Masters with the decision where to anchor.

In October 2015, the MCA facilitated a meeting between affected Mount’s Bay fishermen and the UK’s Safety of Navigation Committee, with a view to addressing the underlying problems here. This work is ongoing.

January 1, 2023

Stephen Timms – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2015-12-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December 2015 to Question 17942, where a claimant’s income is insufficient to meet their living costs, how early an advance payment of up to 50 per cent of their universal credit award can be made once an assessment has been made.

Priti Patel

An advance payment of up to 50% of a claimant’s Universal Credit (UC) award can be approved, subject to the eligibility criteria being satisfied, as soon as the claimant attends the initial work search interview. If necessary, payment can be made by direct payment into the claimant’s account on the same day.

January 1, 2023

Lord Falconer of Thoroton – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Falconer of Thoroton on 2015-11-04.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many hours on average each prisoner spent per week (1) in a cell, and (2) on purposeful activity, in (a) each prison, (b) each category of prison, and (c) the entire prison estate, in each year since 2010.

Lord Faulks

Time unlocked and purposeful activity were two of the National Offender Management Service’s performance indicators for prisons until 2011/2012. These indicators were discontinued from the start of 2012/13. However, the figures requested are provided for 2010/11 and 2011/12 in the tables below.

Tables 1 and 2 cover time spent in cell. Average time in cell is measured per weekday and this information is provided by individual prison establishment, by prison category and across the prison estate. The figures for time in cell are derived from information collected on the average hours per weekday that prisoners are unlocked and using these to estimate hours spent locked in cell. It should be noted that time in cell includes time when prisoners are asleep. Time unlocked includes time where a prisoner is either out of their cell or where the cell door is unlocked allowing them to move freely in and out of the cell.

Tables 3 and 4 show the reported average hours of purposeful activity per prisoner per week at establishment level, for each category of prison and across the prison estate

These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.

Table 1: Time in Cell by Prison Establishment: Average Hours per Prisoner per Week Day

Establishment Name	2010-11	2011-12
Acklington	15.5	–
Albany	–	–
Altcourse	11.1	12.6
Ashfield	14.0	14.1
Ashwell	14.5	–
Askham Grange	8.0	8.0
Aylesbury	16.8	16.6
Bedford	14.3	14.4
Belmarsh	15.9	24.0
Birmingham	16.2	16.1
Blantyre House	6.0	6.0
Blundeston	14.0	12.4
Brinsford	14.1	24.0
Bristol	15.1	15.7
Brixton	17.4	17.4
Bronzefield	14.1	14.1
Buckley Hall	15.2	15.4
Bullingdon	16.1	15.6
Bullwood Hall	10.3	10.1
Camp Hill	–	–
Canterbury	13.7	13.3
Cardiff	15.9	16.7
Castington	16.6	–
Channings Wood	15.3	15.4
Chelmsford	14.7	14.4
Coldingley	14.4	14.6
Cookham Wood	15.2	14.3
Dartmoor	13.6	13.4
Deerbolt	17.5	17.2
Doncaster	13.4	11.6
Dorchester	18.2	18.5
Dovegate	14.8	14.3
Dover	11.4	11.4
Downview	13.8	14.2
Drake Hall	5.3	6.5
Durham	16.1	16.2
East Sutton Park	7.0	7.0
Eastwood Park	13.1	15.0
Edmunds Hill	10.2	–
Elmley	–	–
Erlestoke	14.3	14.4
Everthorpe	16.7	16.7
Exeter	16.2	15.9
Featherstone	13.1	14.5
Feltham	16.3	17.1
Ford	11.5	11.5
Forest Bank	13.7	13.7
Foston Hall	12.5	14.5
Frankland	15.1	14.9
Full Sutton	15.1	15.0
Garth	15.1	15.3
Gartree	15.2	15.5
Glen Parva	16.4	17.0
Gloucester	15.6	16.1
Grendon	10.3	10.3
Guys Marsh	13.6	13.7
Haslar	12.0	12.0
Haverigg	9.2	9.7
Hewell	13.3	13.0
High Down	16.2	16.5
Highpoint	14.5	13.3
Hindley	13.9	13.7
Hollesley Bay	8.0	8.0
Holloway	15.0	15.0
Holme House	16.1	15.4
Hull	16.0	16.1
Huntercombe	13.5	14.1
Isis	–	17.4
Isle of Wight	14.8	14.5
Kennet	13.8	13.7
Kingston	14.0	14.3
Kirkham	9.2	9.2
Kirklevington	5.0	5.0
Lancaster	14.9	–
Lancaster Farms	16.3	16.4
Latchmere House	0.0	1.9
Leeds	16.2	13.8
Leicester	16.5	16.1
Lewes	15.3	15.0
Leyhill	8.0	8.0
Lincoln	17.0	16.2
Lindholme	15.7	15.9
Littlehey	16.3	15.1
Liverpool	15.7	15.8
Long Lartin	14.7	15.7
Low Newton	13.4	13.5
Lowdham Grange	13.2	12.9
Maidstone	15.2	15.0
Manchester	13.8	13.4
Moorland	12.7	11.8
Morton Hall	10.4	24.0
Mount	13.1	13.0
New Hall	14.8	15.7
North Sea Camp	6.5	6.5
Northallerton	15.7	15.0
Northumberland	–	15.6
Norwich	15.2	15.8
Nottingham	16.2	16.2
Onley	14.8	14.4
Parc	14.6	14.9
Parkhurst	–	–
Pentonville	16.3	16.6
Peterborough	14.7	14.8
Portland	15.1	15.4
Preston	15.7	15.7
Ranby	14.3	14.6
Reading	15.1	14.4
Risley	15.0	15.0
Rochester	14.3	14.0
Rye Hill	14.8	14.3
Send	12.1	12.1
Sheppey Cluster	15.0	15.2
Shepton Mallet	14.6	14.5
Shrewsbury	15.4	15.4
Stafford	16.6	16.4
Standford Hill	–	–
Stocken	16.1	16.5
Stoke Heath	16.2	15.5
Styal	10.5	11.5
Sudbury	5.0	5.0
Swaleside	–	–
Swansea	15.5	15.4
Swinfen Hall	16.2	17.8
Thorn Cross	9.0	10.2
UskPrescoed	11.6	11.4
Verne	9.0	9.1
Wakefield	14.9	14.8
Wandsworth	17.4	16.7
Warren Hill	14.6	15.2
Wayland	12.6	11.7
Wealstun	16.5	15.7
Wellingborough	14.2	15.0
Werrington	14.3	14.8
Wetherby	14.2	14.4
Whatton	14.2	13.6
Whitemoor	15.5	15.2
Winchester	15.0	16.5
Wolds	12.1	12.0
Woodhill	15.0	14.5
Wormwood Scrubs	16.8	16.9
Wymott	15.5	15.5
National Total	14.5	14.5

‘-‘ Data not available

Table 2: Time in Cell by Prison Category: Average Hours per Prisoner per Week Day

Category	2010-11	2011-12
Category B	14.1	13.9
Category C	14.2	14.1
Dispersal	15	15.1
Female closed	12.8	13.6
Female local	13.5	14.1
Female open	7.6	7.6
Male closed young offender	15.8	16.2
Male juvenile	14.3	14.4
Male local	15.5	15.4
Male open	8.1	8.1
Male open young offender	9	10.2
Semi open	6	6.2
Cluster	14.5	14.5
National Total	14.5	14.5

Note: In the above table prisons are categorised according to their predominant function, though some establishments will have more than one function.

Table 3: Average number of hours per prisoner per week in purposeful activity by establishment

Establishment name	2010/11	2011/12
Acklington	20.7	–
Albany	24.2	24.6
Altcourse	35.2	33.7
Ashfield	29.1	26.7
Ashwell	29.1	–
Askham Grange	40.7	40.0
Aylesbury	20.7	21.9
Bedford	19.2	18.5
Belmarsh	18.5	18.4
Birmingham	21.3	21.3
Blantyre House	52.1	52.2
Blundeston	25.5	24.6
Brinsford	28.0	29.9
Bristol	25.2	22.9
Brixton	17.5	17.7
Bronzefield	26.6	26.9
Buckley Hall	27.0	26.5
Bullingdon	22.6	20.9
Bullwood Hall	24.5	24.0
Bure	21.2	24.6
Camp Hill	22.4	23.7
Canterbury	19.7	21.6
Cardiff	22.6	20.0
Castington	22.3	–
Channings Wood	24.0	23.7
Chelmsford	25.8	26.5
Coldingley	25.6	25.7
Cookham Wood	23.6	26.8
Dartmoor	24.1	23.1
Deerbolt	21.2	22.8
Doncaster	23.4	22.1
Dorchester	17.7	17.2
Dovegate	31.8	33.3
Dover	–	–
Downview	31.4	28.5
Drake Hall	34.4	36.0
Durham	16.9	18.2
East Sutton Park	45.0	45.3
Eastwood Park	21.5	22.4
Edmunds Hill	24.8	–
Elmley	17.1	17.5
Erlestoke	24.6	24.8
Everthorpe	22.5	22.7
Exeter	17.9	18.9
Featherstone	26.4	25.7
Feltham	22.2	20.3
Ford	41.6	41.8
Forest Bank	25.7	25.3
Foston Hall	30.9	29.7
Frankland	19.7	20.8
Full Sutton	20.5	21.1
Garth	25.9	26.2
Gartree	26.4	28.7
Glen Parva	20.7	20.8
Gloucester	20.7	19.5
Grendon	31.9	33.7
Guys Marsh	24.7	23.8
Haslar	–	–
Hatfield	–	–
Haverigg	27.6	25.3
Hewell	25.6	25.2
High Down	19.2	18.6
Highpoint	25.1	0.0
Hindley	30.9	33.4
Hollesley Bay	43.1	43.3
Holloway	23.1	21.8
Holme House	18.9	22.0
Hull	19.8	19.6
Huntercombe	27.0	28.4
Kennet	25.6	25.7
Kingston	29.2	27.3
Kirkham	47.1	49.3
Kirklevington	53.0	51.5
Lancaster	26.7	–
Lancaster Farms	26.9	27.0
Latchmere House	56.5	56.5
Leeds	18.6	18.9
Leicester	18.8	18.9
Lewes	23.0	20.3
Leyhill	39.5	40.0
Lincoln	19.3	18.9
Lindholme	21.4	21.5
Littlehey	20.6	22.5
Liverpool	20.2	20.8
Long Lartin	20.0	21.4
Low Newton	23.8	23.7
Lowdham Grange	27.3	27.9
Maidstone	25.1	25.9
Manchester	23.8	24.7
Moorland	29.0	31.1
Morton Hall	30.9	0.0
Mount	24.4	24.8
New Hall	27.2	25.0
North Sea Camp	45.9	43.1
Northallerton	23.7	23.5
Northumberland	–	20.0
Norwich	24.8	23.9
Nottingham	26.3	27.0
Onley	25.4	26.0
Parc	26.8	26.8
Parkhurst	21.3	22.9
Pentonville	18.1	18.4
Peterborough	–	–
Portland	27.6	–
Preston	20.7	20.6
Ranby	23.9	24.0
Reading	22.4	22.5
Risley	27.1	27.2
Rochester	22.0	22.3
Rye Hill	27.9	28.7
Send	30.6	31.2
Shepton Mallet	23.2	24.0
Shrewsbury	25.8	27.1
Stafford	26.2	26.6
Standford Hill	36.7	40.1
Stocken	25.7	24.8
Stoke Heath	25.6	28.1
Styal	24.7	23.1
Sudbury	43.6	45.8
Swaleside	24.3	26.6
Swansea	21.6	20.4
Swinfen Hall	26.3	23.8
Thameside	–	–
Thorn Cross	45.3	47.0
UskPrescoed	35.0	33.7
Verne	26.7	25.9
Wakefield	20.5	21.2
Wandsworth	17.2	17.6
Warren Hill	29.5	28.5
Wayland	25.2	25.8
Wealstun	20.4	21.7
Wellingborough	26.8	25.4
Werrington	30.8	27.6
Wetherby	29.7	27.5
Whatton	26.0	25.2
Whitemoor	24.1	25.5
Winchester	19.1	18.0
Wolds	24.4	24.1
Woodhill	21.2	20.0
Wormwood Scrubs	17.2	16.8
Wymott	25.7	26.2
National Total	24.7	24.9

‘-‘ Data not available

Table 4: Average number of hours per prisoner per week in purposeful activity by prison category

Category	2010/11	2011/12
Category B	27.1	30.1
Category C	24.8	25.2
Dispersal	20.7	21.7
Female closed	30.9	29.5
Female local	24.7	23.8
Female open	42.5	42.3
Male closed young offender	24.2	24.0
Male juvenile	28.9	27.5
Male local	21.4	21.4
Male open	42.5	44.2
Male open young offender	45.3	47.0
Semi open	43.9	45.6
Cluster	25.6	24.7
National Total	24.7	24.9

Note: In the above table prisons are categorised according to their predominant function, though some establishments will have more than one function.

January 1, 2023

Lord Greaves – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Greaves on 2015-12-03.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of (1) batteries, and (2) other waste electrical and electronic equipment, are recycled by (a) domestic households, (b) small and medium-sized commercial enterprises, (c) large commercial enterprises, (d) government departments, (e) local authorities, and (f) other public sector bodies.

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

The Government does not hold information in the form requested, but the overall collection and recycling rates for 2014 for these products and equipment expressed as a percentage of tonnage placed on the market is: –

36% of portable batteries;

37% of waste electrical and electronic equipment.

Industrialand automotive batteries are subject to a landfill disposal ban. Accordingly, all such batteries have to be recycled.

January 1, 2023

Gregory Campbell – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2015-11-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on how many occasions patients were refused access to their mental health records in 2014.

Alistair Burt

This information is not held centrally.

January 1, 2023

Lord Morris of Aberavon – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Attorney General

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Morris of Aberavon on 2015-12-03.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Attorney General has approved the rules of engagement for the RAF bombing of Syria, and whether he will be consulted regularly to ensure that such military action is carried out in accordance with the Geneva Conventions.

Lord Keen of Elie

As the Prime Minister has repeatedly made clear, in carrying out any military action in Syria, the Government will at all times act in accordance with the law.

In line with the longstanding Law Officers’ Convention, reflected in both the Cabinet Manual and the Ministerial Code, I am unable to provide specific details as to the role of the Attorney General in this matter.

January 1, 2023

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