The below Parliamentary question was asked by Anne Main on 2016-05-19.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much EU funding the UK has received to tackle climate change in each of the last 10 years.
Amber Rudd
DECC does not hold this information centrally and to collate it would incur disproportionate costs.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Champion on 2016-07-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when she plans to publish the sentencing guidelines for Part 1 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
Mr Sam Gyimah
Sentencing Guidelines are issued by the Sentencing Council for England and Wales, a body independent of Government.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-09-14.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of cases of each risk type relating to error and fraud completed by SYNNEX-Concentrix under its contract with HM Revenue and Customs between May 2014 and October 2015.
Jane Ellison
Between the commencement of the contract in November 2014 and the end of October 2015, the number of cases completed by Concentrix by risk type were as follows:
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Catherine McKinnell on 2016-01-20.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of non-priority single homeless people in the UK in each year since 2010-11.
Mr Marcus Jones
Information on homeless households not in priority need is already collected and published in table 770 of the homelessness live tables which can be viewed at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness
No information is collected on the household type of households found to be not in priority need.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Holly Lynch on 2016-02-19.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much he estimates will have been spent by April 2016 on implementing digitalisation requirements at Calderdale Magistrates’ Court and Halifax County Court and Family Court.
Mr Shailesh Vara
Approximately £35,000 will have been spent at Halifax (Calderdale) Magistrates’ Court and Family Court by April 2016. The expenditure has been in in-court presentation technology. All the hardware which was bought will be reallocated to another court following closure. There has been no expenditure in digitisation of Halifax County Court and Family Court.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Alton of Liverpool on 2016-03-14.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Prior of Brampton on 2 February (HL5773) and 7 March (HL6225), whether the previously licensed research to perform genome editing in human embryos by means of CRISPR-Cas9 has commenced; if so, when that research actually commenced and when the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) received evidence of ethics approval; if not, how the HFEA has confirmed that the newly approved activities have not already commenced prior to receipt of evidence of ethics approval; and whether the delay due to the absence of evidence of ethics approval has applied only to genome editing or also to all activities previously covered by the same licence.
Lord Prior of Brampton
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that the research referred to by the Noble Lord has not commenced. When ethics approval has been received, the person responsible is required to provide evidence of this to the HFEA. The ethics approval applies to new activities in the research project, including the use of CRISPR-Cas9.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andy Slaughter on 2016-04-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, who the Government’s representative was at the MaMa-COHAFA (Council Working Party on Humanitarian Aid and Food Aid) meeting in Brussels on 11 April 2016.
Mr David Lidington
The UK was represented by officials from the Department for International Development and the UK Representation to the EU.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ann Clwyd on 2016-05-19.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what military equipment has been licenced for export to Egypt in each of the last three years.
Anna Soubry
Information on military and dual use export licences is published as Official Statistics in the quarterly and annual reports on Strategic Export Controls which are all available to view on GOV.UK. These reports contain detailed information on export licences issued, refused or revoked, by destination, including the overall value, type (e.g. Military, Other) and a summary of the items covered by these licences.
Data currently covers all years from 2008 up to 31 December 2015.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Margaret Greenwood on 2016-07-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will publish the internal guidance that his Department issues to staff on the safeguards that those staff must observe when consideration is being given to (a) suspend or withhold payment, (b) impose a sanction or (c) terminate a claim in the case of a claimant of universal credit who has a mental health condition.
Damian Hinds
There is no intention to publish the internal guidance as it is for Department use only.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stewart Malcolm McDonald on 2016-09-14.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to promote tourism in Scotland.
Tracey Crouch
Tourism is a devolved matter but a number of policy levers – from aviation connectivity to aspects of the regulatory framework and immigration – are reserved. Through the recently published Tourism Action Plan, this Government is working to ensure the benefits of growth in the tourism industry can be felt across the whole of the UK.