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Paul Flynn – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Flynn on 2016-10-07.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to match the level of funding for Wales that is provided by the EU.

Mr David Gauke

The UK Government will guarantee EU funding for structural and investment fund projects in Wales, including agri-environment schemes, signed before we leave the EU. It will be for the Welsh Government to make an assessment of which projects should be pursued in areas of its competence, and this guarantee will apply to any such projects. The agricultural sector in Wales will receive the same level of funding that it would have received under Pillar 1 of CAP until the end of the Multi-Annual Financial Framework in 2020.

As a result of these steps taken by the UK Government, individuals and organisations in receipt of EU funds now have a greater degree of certainty about funding over the coming years. The UK Government will work with the Welsh Government to consider future funding arrangements for once the UK has left the EU.

01/01/2023

Andy Slaughter – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andy Slaughter on 2016-01-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) working at height and (b) concerted indiscipline incidents have been recorded in each prison since May 2010.

Andrew Selous

The vast majority of incidents at height are minor in nature and resolved quickly and professionally without injury, damage or disruption to the running of the prison. Many are short in duration, lasting less than 15 minutes and the majority occur when prisoners go onto netting on prison wings. Each incident is investigated fully to ensure lessons are learnt and best practice in managing incidents is shared across NOMS.

These figures show that the Prime Minister and Justice Secretary are right and our prisons badly need reform. We are making progress: we have made it illegal to smuggle new psychoactive substances (NPS) into prisons and have trained over 300 sniffer dogs to detect NPS and are trialling the use of body worn cameras with front-line staff. But the only way to reduce disorder and violence in our prisons is to give those who work in prisons the tools necessary to better reform and rehabilitate offenders.

The table below provides numbers of incidents at height reported between May 2010 and November 2015, broken down by establishment. The information requested on concerted indiscipline incidents can be found in my response to PQ 28151.

Number of Incident at Height by prisons, England and Wales, May 2010 to November 2015


Establishments	Incident at Height
Altcourse	242
Ashfield	21
Ashwell	0
Aylesbury	41
Bedford	39
Belmarsh	14
Birmingham	158
Blundeston	6
Brinsford	27
Bristol	37
Brixton	24
Bronzefield	21
Buckley Hall	18
Bullingdon	29
Cardiff	20
Channings Wood	79
Chelmsford	54
Coldingley	19
Cookham Wood	2
Dartmoor	37
Deerbolt	15
Doncaster	140
Dorchester	5
Dovegate	91
Dover	9
Downview	1
Drake Hall	1
Durham	74
Eastwood Park	14
Erlestoke	20
Everthorpe	18
Exeter	36
Featherstone	36
Feltham	106
Ford	0
Forest Bank	64
Foston Hall	4
Frankland	7
Full Sutton	11
Garth	11
Gartree	6
Glen Parva	52
Gloucester	7
Guys Marsh	54
Haslar	0
Hatfield	1
Haverigg	120
Hewell	71
High Down	85
Highpoint	42
Hindley	299
Holloway	1
Holme House	39
Hull	20
Humber	53
Huntercombe	8
IOW: Albany	1
IOW: Camp Hill	36
IOW: Parkhurst	2
Isis	59
Isle of Wight	19
Kennet	3
Kingston	1
Lancaster Castle	1
Lancaster Farms	117
Leeds	90
Leicester	77
Lewes	23
Leyhill	0
Lincoln	126
Lindholme	159
Littlehey	9
Liverpool	187
Long Lartin	7
Lowdham Grange	111
Maidstone	4
Manchester	108
Moorland	46
Morton Hall	11
Mount	38
New Hall	3
Northallerton	7
Northumberland	71
Northumberland: Acklington	5
Northumberland: Castington	1
Norwich	46
Nottingham	290
Oakwood	174
Onley	33
Parc	197
Pentonville	100
Peterborough	44
Portland	58
Preston	45
Ranby	162
Reading	14
Risley	53
Rochester	80
Rye Hill	97
Send	1
Sheppey: Elmley	56
Sheppey: Swaleside	33
Shrewsbury	4
Stafford	37
Stocken	72
Stoke Heath	33
Styal	10
Sudbury	1
Swansea	12
Swinfen Hall	46
Thameside	76
Thorn Cross	0
UskPrescoed	1
Verne	4
Wakefield	10
Wandsworth	84
Warren Hill	2
Wayland	41
Wealstun	16
Wellingborough	10
Werrington	194
Wetherby	158
Whatton	0
Whitemoor	13
Winchester	114
Wolds	12
Woodhill	138
Wormwood Scrubs	33
Wymott	52

01/01/2023

Andrew Gwynne – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2016-01-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2016 to Question 21778, on genito-urinary medicine, what questions it is planned will be asked of local commissioners as part of Public Health England’s survey of local commissioning arrangements for sexual health; when that survey is planned to be completed; and when he plans to make publicly available the results of that survey.

Jane Ellison

Public Health England, supported by the Association of Directors of Public Health, is undertaking a review of Sexual Health, Reproductive Health and HIV Commissioning services; the survey was first published on the 19 January 2016. The closing date for the survey is 8 February 2016. Results of the survey, including responses and analysis of the questions, will be published this summer.

A range of tailored commissioning questions have been selected for local authorities, NHS England and clinical commissioning groups. Each survey is slightly adapted for its audience. The survey questions focus on 11 key areas; commissioning support structures, services commissioned, needs assessments, service specifications, access to services, tendering, changes to investment, tariffs and payments, outcomes and performance, resources and top challenges.

01/01/2023

Jim Cunningham – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-02-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of his Department’s budget was spent on Christmas parties hosted by British embassies and consulates in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15; and what estimate he has made of such planned spending in 2015-16.

Mr David Lidington

Information on the expenditure incurred for individual events is not kept centrally, so this information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

01/01/2023

Jim Shannon – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2016-03-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support the Government is providing to ensure the completion of new security infrastructure and measures along the border between Lebanon and Syria.

Mr Tobias Ellwood

The UK has contributed £34 million to support the Lebanese Armed Forces’ (LAF) ability to defend the border and contain spillover from the Syria conflict. The UK funded Land Border Regiments are successfully protecting the integrity of the Lebanese border for the first time in the country’s history.

The UK is committed to continue its support to the LAF and bring the Lebanese borders under the authority of the state and has announced £6.7m additional support to the establishment of the 4th Land Border Regiment starting April 2016.

01/01/2023

Richard Burden – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Richard Burden on 2016-04-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and which (a) ministers and (b) officials he plans will represent the UK at the International Maritime Organisation conference on controlling shipping emissions.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The 69th Session of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee will be held from 18 to 22 April 2016 at the IMO, at which a number of environmental matters will be discussed, including air pollution and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from shipping.

No Ministers are attending. 14 Government officials plan to attend the committee; one from the Department of Energy and Climate Change; one from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; and 12 from the Department for Transport including seven from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.

01/01/2023

Royston Smith – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Royston Smith on 2016-05-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department has provided to The Future Leaders Trust in each of the last three years.

Nick Gibb

The total funding provided by the Department to The Future Leaders Trust in each of the last three years is available via the links below. The accounts for 2015-16 will be published in July 2016.

For 2014-15 published accounts (page 235):

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/517766/DfE-consolidated-annual-report-and-a-counts-2014-to-2015-Web-version.pdf

For 2013-14 published accounts (page 157):

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/397024/DfE_consolidated_annual_report_and_accounts_2013_to_2014.pdf

For 2012-13 published accounts (page 153):

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/275186/DFE_Group_Consolidated_12-13_ARA.pdf

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01/01/2023

David Lammy – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Trade

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Lammy on 2016-07-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the number of trade negotiators required to negotiate the UK’s trade deals when the UK leaves the EU.

Greg Hands

The Rt hon Member will be aware that my Rt hon Friend the Prime Minister has created a new Department for International Trade, which is responsible for promoting British trade across the world and ensuring the UK takes advantage of the huge opportunities open to us. We are building up our trade policy capability. The new Department has begun a process to recruit and train staff to work on the UK’s trade policy. We will adapt the resource devoted to trade policy in line with future demands.

01/01/2023

Stephen Gethins – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Gethins on 2016-10-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to make available research funding at the same level as currently received after the UK leaves the EU.

Joseph Johnson

The Government is committed to maintain and enhance the strength of our research base. This is why we have protected the science resource budget in real terms from its 2015/16 level of £4.7 billion for the rest of the parliament, as well as committing to invest in new scientific infrastructure on a record scale – £6.9 billion over the period 2015-2021.

The Treasury decision to underwrite the grants of competitively bid for EU research funding will give British participants and their EU partners the assurance and certainty needed to plan ahead for projects that can run over many years. We will ensure that the UK continues to be a world leader in international research and innovation.

01/01/2023

Jess Phillips – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jess Phillips on 2016-01-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will exempt (a) domestic violence refuges and (b) other supported accommodation where higher rates of housing benefit are paid from planned changes to the housing benefit cap.

Justin Tomlinson

The introduction of Local Housing Allowance limits to social sector tenants in receipt of Housing Benefit or the housing element of Universal Credit will only apply from April 2018 where new tenancies have been taken out or renewed after April 2016.

The Department is working on the exact policy design details for tenants in supported accommodation which includes domestic violence refuges.

01/01/2023

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