Tag: Cathy Jamieson

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Cathy Jamieson on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which Scottish airports will benefit from the Regional Air Connectivity Fund.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The Government announced on 6 June that a Public Service Obligation will be established on the air route between Dundee Airport and London Stansted Airport from 1 July 2014 for a two-year period, with support from the Regional Air Connectivity Fund announced in last year’s Spending Round.

The Scottish devolved administration or regional body may apply for access to this fund to maintain an air link from other Scottish airports to London, where there is a risk that an existing link may be lost, and where the case for a Public Service Obligation has been made.

The Chancellor announced in this year’s Budget that the funding would be doubled to £20 million per year, and also extended to allow for the support for start-up aid for new air routes from UK regional airports. European Union aviation State aid guidelines allow for provision of start-up aid to facilitate start-up of new routes from airports which handle fewer than five million passengers per annum. This will therefore cover all Scotland’s airports apart from Glasgow and Edinburgh.

The Department for Transport is working with the Treasury to develop guidance that will clarify how the Government will ordinarily expect to interpret the European Union guidelines, and explain how the funding process will work.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Cathy Jamieson on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of passport applications have been dealt with within the target timescale in each of the last 12 months.

James Brokenshire

Expected service standards for passport applications are given at
www.gov.uk.

Information in respect of the Member’s constituency is not available and the
cost of collating it would be disproportionate.

The table below shows the proportions of UK passport applications in each of
the last 12 months which have been processed within the published service
standards.

2013	% straightforward applications processed within the published timescales	% non-straightforward applications processed within the published timescales
June	100%	97.8%
July	100%	96.9%
August	100%	96.4%
September	100%	96.0%
October	100%	95.9%
November	99.99%	96.5%
December	99.99%	96.3%
2014
January	99.99%	96.8%
February	99.98%	98.1%
March	99.95%	96.8%
April	98.59%	99.6%
May	92.26%	93.9%

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Cathy Jamieson on 2014-06-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of applicants who have upgraded to a premium service following contact with the Passport Office in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available.

James Brokenshire

The table below shows the number of people who have upgraded from a standard to
a premium service.

Month	Number of upgrades
January 2014	6
February 2014	17
Mar 2014	117
Apr 2014	996
May 2014	1024

The specific information required is held in application ‘case notes’ on
Her Majesty’s Passport Office systems which cannot be mined through database
queries. Data presented here is an estimate for 2014.

Information on the number of upgrades prior to January 2014 has not been
collated centrally.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Cathy Jamieson on 2014-06-04.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the amount of revenue accruing to the Exchequer from air passenger duty in respect of (a) domestic and (b) international flights from each airport in Scotland in 2013-14.

Nicky Morgan

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) does not collect information on the contribution to air passenger duty (APD) revenues made from flights to or from specific airports or countries.

HMRC has published a set of statistics presenting estimates of the disaggregation of tax receipts between England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disaggregation-of-hmrc-tax-receipts

The estimate for the total amount of APD revenues attributable to Scotland in 2012/13 was £227 million. This estimate is not broken down by revenues from domestic and international flights.

Information on APD revenues and passenger numbers by band is available at:

https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/Pages/TaxAndDutyBulletins.aspx

Information on the number of passengers flying to and from UK airports is available at:

http://www.caa.co.uk/default.aspx?catid=80&pagetype=88&pageid=3&sglid=3#Data

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Cathy Jamieson on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for passports have been made by residents in Kilmarnock and Loudoun in each of the last 12 months.

James Brokenshire

Expected service standards for passport applications are given at
www.gov.uk.

Information in respect of the Member’s constituency is not available and the
cost of collating it would be disproportionate.

The table below shows the proportions of UK passport applications in each of
the last 12 months which have been processed within the published service
standards.

2013	% straightforward applications processed within the published timescales	% non-straightforward applications processed within the published timescales
June	100%	97.8%
July	100%	96.9%
August	100%	96.4%
September	100%	96.0%
October	100%	95.9%
November	99.99%	96.5%
December	99.99%	96.3%
2014
January	99.99%	96.8%
February	99.98%	98.1%
March	99.95%	96.8%
April	98.59%	99.6%
May	92.26%	93.9%

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Cathy Jamieson on 2014-06-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what target she has set for the time in which applicants should receive a call back from the Passport Office when making enquiries about applications.

James Brokenshire

Her Majesty’s Passport Office’s current guideline for returning calls is to do so within 48 hours. Her Majesty’s Passport Office gives priority to those with the most immediate travel plans.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Cathy Jamieson on 2014-06-04.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he expects the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority to publish their review on removing barriers to entry and expansion in retail banking.

Andrea Leadsom

Budget 2014 detailed that the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority will publish a review of their work on removing barriers to entry and expansion in retail banking later this year.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Cathy Jamieson on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the target time is for dealing with passport applications.

James Brokenshire

Expected service standards for passport applications are given at
www.gov.uk.

Information in respect of the Member’s constituency is not available and the
cost of collating it would be disproportionate.

The table below shows the proportions of UK passport applications in each of
the last 12 months which have been processed within the published service
standards.

2013	% straightforward applications processed within the published timescales	% non-straightforward applications processed within the published timescales
June	100%	97.8%
July	100%	96.9%
August	100%	96.4%
September	100%	96.0%
October	100%	95.9%
November	99.99%	96.5%
December	99.99%	96.3%
2014
January	99.99%	96.8%
February	99.98%	98.1%
March	99.95%	96.8%
April	98.59%	99.6%
May	92.26%	93.9%