Tag: 2016

Gregory Campbell – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2016-01-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate she has made of the level of investment in UK oil and gas production until May 2020.

Andrea Leadsom

The latest published projections of development capital expenditure by the UK upstream oil and gas industry are those in Supplementary Table 2.1 to the Office for Budget Responsibility’s June 2015 Fiscal Sustainability Report:

http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/fsr/fiscal-sustainability-report-june-2015/.

This had annual investment (in £ billion) at the following levels:

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Updated projections informed by recently-received information from operators should be published alongside the Economic and Fiscal Outlook which will accompany the forthcoming Budget.

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01/01/2023
Lord Storey – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Storey on 2016-02-23.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government which schools will no longer receive the extra £2,300 per school per year to help provide hot meals.

Lord Nash

In 2015-16, each maintained school in England with 150 pupils or fewer received temporary funding to help with the transition to universal infant free school meals (UIFSM). The full list of schools who received this funding in 2015-16 is attached alongside this response. Full details of 2015-16 funding allocations for UIFSM can be found on GOV.UK.

01/01/2023
Luciana Berger – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-03-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of women accessing mental health services experienced sexual or domestic abuse in each of the last five years.

Alistair Burt

Information on the number and the proportion of women who access mental health services having experienced sexual or domestic abuse is not held centrally.

01/01/2023
David Mackintosh – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Mackintosh on 2016-04-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that funding from the public purse for her Department’s work (a) does not reach unintended destinations and (b) is tracked from its source to its intended project.

Mr Nick Hurd

At every stage in the programme cycle DFID assesses and mitigates the risk that aid could be diverted from its intended purpose or project. DFID provided a comprehensive written answer on 29 March 2016 [Hansard ref 31732] which set out in more detail the steps DFID take to ensure that funding from the public purse for her Department’s work (a) does not end up in unintended destinations and (b) is tracked from its source to its intended project. In addition, DFID’s Counter Fraud and Whistleblowing Unit will take all necessary steps to investigate swiftly all allegations of corruption and fraud and pursue sanctions available in each case, including dismissal, prosecution, suspension and cancellation of aid.

01/01/2023

Jack Dromey – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jack Dromey on 2016-05-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 May 2016 to Question 37288, if she will publish statistics on how many European Arrest Warrant surrenders to and from each UK law enforcement agency of each type there have been in each region.

James Brokenshire

These statistics are provided by the National Crime Agency on their website at: http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/european-arrest-warrant-statistics However, this does not provide statistics on surrenders by law enforcement and offence – these are recorded separately.

The following figures are therefore based on surrenders to and by relevant police force areas (excluding those law enforcement agencies that sit outside of regional police force areas (i.e., British Transport Police)). This, and the fact that these figures are taken from statistics for the relevant fiscal years, rather than the calendar years, explains the slight variation from the figures previously released.

Police Force Area	Surrenders to the UK Fiscal years 2009/10 to 2015/16
Cleveland	1
Durham	3
Northumbria	6
North East Region	10
Cheshire	6
Cumbria	4
Greater Manchester	46
Lancashire	42
Merseyside	43
North West Region	141
Humberside	9
North Yorkshire	8
South Yorkshire	13
West Yorkshire	47
Yorkshire and Humber Region	77
Derbyshire	9
Leicestershire	17
Lincolnshire	8
Northamptonshire	0
Nottinghamshire	10
East Midlands Region	44
Staffordshire	24
Warwickshire	2
West Mercia	8
West Midlands	25
West Midlands Region	59
Bedfordshire	5
Cambridgeshire	4
Essex	4
Hertfordshire	15
Norfolk	9
Suffolk	10
East of England Region	47
London, City of	22
Metropolitan Police	139
London Region	161
Hampshire	18
Kent	28
Surrey	6
Sussex	28
Thames Valley	18
South East Region	98
Avon & Somerset	22
Devon & Cornwall	15
Dorset	5
Gloucestershire	4
Wiltshire	1
South West Region	47
Dyfed-Powys	1
Gwent	4
North Wales	4
South Wales	13
Wales	22
Northern Ireland	34
Northern Ireland	34
TOTAL	740

Police Force Area	Surrenders from the UK Fiscal years 2009/10 to 2015/16
Cleveland	25
Durham	29
Northumbria	56
North East Region	110
Cheshire	103
Cumbria	18
Greater Manchester	268
Lancashire	122
Merseyside	106
North West Region	617
Humberside	104
North Yorkshire	36
South Yorkshire	136
West Yorkshire	360
Yorkshire and Humber Region	636
Derbyshire	69
Leicestershire	121
Lincolnshire	163
Northamptonshire	125
Nottinghamshire	145
East Midlands Region	623
Staffordshire	70
Warwickshire	42
West Mercia	79
West Midlands	373
West Midlands Region	564
Bedfordshire	129
Cambridgeshire	242
Essex	157
Hertfordshire	85
Norfolk	95
Suffolk	65
East of England Region	773
London, City of	11
Metropolitan Police	1967
London Region	1978
Hampshire	167
Kent	277
Surrey	58
Sussex	172
Thames Valley	273
South East Region	947
Avon & Somerset	128
Devon & Cornwall	85
Dorset	68
Gloucestershire	42
Wiltshire	41
South West Region	364
Dyfed-Powys	32
Gwent	18
North Wales	35
South Wales	55
Wales	140
Northern Ireland	196
Northern Ireland	196
TOTAL	6948

01/01/2023

Chi Onwurah – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chi Onwurah on 2016-07-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many full-time equivalent staff of his Department (a) have moved and (b) are planned to move into the EU Unit.

Joseph Johnson

The new Department for Exiting the European Union will be made up of staff from various departments across Government. The overall size and scope of the new department, including staffing and budget, are under consideration.

01/01/2023
Imran Hussain – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Imran Hussain on 2016-10-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect of changes to the funding of English for speakers of other languages services on the ability of local authorities to provide access to English language classes to resettled Syrian refugees.

Mr Robert Goodwill

Learning English is a key factor in integration and is vital for gaining access to the employment market. Our experience is that most Syrians resettled under the programme are keen to learn English.

English language tuition is already provided as part of the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement scheme (VPRS) and will be available for adults entering the UK under the Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement scheme (VCRS). The recently announced additional £10 million of funding will increase the amount of training available for Syrian refugees resettled in the UK.

We will be working with local authorities to ensure that the funding is taken up in the most effective way, including providing funding for regional English Speakers of other languages (ESOL) co-ordinators to promote best practice, map provision, support authorities to commission services and coordinate volunteers. Many people across the country have also offered their time and support to help refugees improve English and integrate better into their community.

01/01/2023
Frank Field – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2016-01-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many rough sleepers have been helped by the No Second Night Out Across England programme; and what proportion of those people were successfully kept off the streets.

Mr Marcus Jones

Rapid intervention is vital to identifying new rough sleepers and ensuring that the support is in place to help them off the streets quickly. The longer someone sleeps rough, the greater the risk that they will become entrenched on the streets. That is why we invested in rolling out No Second Night Out across England through the £20 million Homelessness Transition Fund. Over two-thirds of rough sleepers in 20 key areas outside London did not spend a second night on the streets.

The Government is committed to protecting the most vulnerable in society. But one person without a home is one too many, which is why we will increase central investment over the next four years to £139 million for innovative programmes to prevent and reduce homelessness and rough sleeping. We have also protected homelessness prevention funding for local authorities, through the provisional local government finance settlement, totalling £315 million by 2019-20.

Data on the number of people helped through the Fund is in an independent evaluation, published by Homeless Link: http://www.homeless.org.uk/sites/default/files/site-attachments/Three%20Years%20of%20Transition%20-%20summary%20evaluation%20report.pdf.

01/01/2023
David Rutley – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Rutley on 2016-02-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the effect on national security of the continuous at-sea nuclear deterrent.

Michael Fallon

Successive UK Governments have concluded that for as long as nuclear weapons exist, a nuclear deterrent, based on a continuous at sea deterrence, has a vital role to play in our security and that of our NATO allies. It provides the ultimate guarantee of our national security and way of life.

01/01/2023
Alistair Carmichael – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alistair Carmichael on 2016-03-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on the tendering process for masts for the Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme’s Extended Areas Services project.

Mike Penning

There has been constant engagement between officials in the Home Office led Emergency Service Mobile Communications Programme (ESMCP) and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport regarding the new Emergency Services Network (ESN), specifically the Programme’s Extended Areas Services (EAS) project, and DCMS’ Mobile Infrastructure Programme (MIP).

01/01/2023

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