The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kelly Tolhurst on 2016-03-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Hungarian counterpart on the sale of Hungarian residency bonds through off-shore companies.
Mr David Lidington
The Foreign Secretary, my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond), has had no discussions with the Hungarian government on this issue.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Grahame Morris on 2016-04-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was spent on improving the road network in the Easington constituency in each of the last five years.
Andrew Jones
The maintenance of the local road network in Easington is the responsibility of Durham County Council, as local highway authority. The table below sets out how much funding the Department for Transport has allocated to the Council since 2012/13 financial year:
£millions
|
Financial Year |
2012/13 |
2013/14 |
2014/15 |
2015/16 |
2016/17 |
|
Highway Maintenance Block |
10.679 |
10.132 |
9.780 |
11.886 |
10.897 |
|
Incentive Fund |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N.A |
0.666 |
|
Highway Maintenance Block Top Up |
N/A |
1.836 |
1.007 |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Integrated Transport Block |
3.183 |
3.183 |
4.475 |
13.949 |
13.949 |
|
Wet Weather Payments |
N/A |
1.242 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Flood Recovery |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
1.100 |
N/A |
|
Pothole Fund |
N/A |
N/A |
2.198 |
N/A |
0.784 |
|
Total |
13.862 |
16.393 |
17.460 |
26.935 |
26.296 |
Local highway authorities are able to use revenue funding for maintaining their local highways and this is allocated by the Department of Communities and Local Government through the Revenue Support Grant.
Durham County Council is part of the North East Combined Authority. From 2015/16 Integrated Transport Block Funding has been paid to the North East Combined Authority and Durham will receive a proportion of that funding.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-05-06.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 May 2016 to Question 35790, what data her Department holds on criminal assets abroad and whether such assets are recovered or not.
Mr John Hayes
As the Answer to Question 35790 set out, the Action Plan for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist finance states that there is no definitive measure of the scale of money laundering, but the best available international estimate, by the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC), of amounts laundered globally are equivalent to 2.7% of global GDP or US$1.6 trillion in 2009. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills does not hold data on criminal assets held abroad. Criminal assets recovered since 2009 under asset sharing arrangements were set out in the previous answer.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Tonge on 2016-06-27.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have made for bilateral and multilateral aid to the Palestinian Authority after the UK has left the EU.
Baroness Verma
The Prime Minister has been clear that the negotiation for Britain’s future relationship with Europe will need to begin under a new Prime Minister, and we have now got to look at all the detailed arrangements. In the meantime, Departments continue working to deliver the Government agenda.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Bridgen on 2016-09-14.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of Action Fraud.
Mr Ben Wallace
Action Fraud is the national reporting point for fraud and financially-motivated cyber crime. We have seen significant improvement in performance; official figures show reports of fraud have trebled since Action Fraud was rolled out nationally, addressing the concern that fraud was an under-reported crime type.
Since it’s launch the Government has been building the capability of police forces, GCHQ and the NCA to respond to online cyber crime. Over the last year, Action Fraud has introduced an improved system which keeps victims informed of the progress of their case. The number of disseminations to local forces has also increased.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-01-14.
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Oral Answer to the hon. Member for Litchfield of 14 January 2016, how the media-smart literacy resources regarding body image are distributed to parents.
Caroline Dinenage
The Media Smart media literacy resource is owned by Media Smart, which is an arm of the Advertising Association. The resource is currently being updated and will be available on their website in due course.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Stoddart of Swindon on 2016-02-09.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of how many individuals would receive medical or health benefits from eating bread fortified by folic acid.
Lord Prior of Brampton
We have made no such assessment.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-03-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 February 2016 to Question 26820, what the job title is of the official in receipt of an allowance for home to work travel.
Karen Bradley
The individual’s job title cannot be revealed without making the individual easily identifiable, in contravention of the Data Protection Act.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Davis on 2016-04-12.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants (a) from each Department and (b) at each civil service grade have been seconded to the Cabinet Office Referendum Unit.
John Penrose
I refer my right hon. Friend the Member for Haltemprice and Howden and the hon. Member for Clacton to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for St Albans on 18 April 2016 to UIN: 32678.
The cost of the secretariat, including the Referendum Unit, will be accounted for in the Department’s annual report and accounts.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Caroline Lucas on 2016-05-06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Ethiopian government on the killing of protestors in the Oromia region since December 2015.
James Duddridge
The UK Government remains deeply concerned about the handling of demonstrations in Oromia and the reported deaths of a number of protestors, and has repeatedly made representations to the Ethiopian Government over the ongoing situation in Oromia. Justine Greening, the Secretary of State for International Development, raised our concerns with Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn on 21 January, as did I, with the Ethiopian Foreign Minister, Dr Tedros, at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa on 27 January. Our Ambassador did the same in a meeting with Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn on 26 April.
The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has been appointed to look into the handling of the protests in Oromia, and we await the publication of its report. We will continue to urge the EHRC and the Government of Ethiopia to ensure that their report is credible, transparent and leads to concrete action.