Tag: Charlotte Leslie

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Charlotte Leslie on 2015-12-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many prosecutions there have been for tachograph violations in each year since 2010.

Andrew Jones

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency takes non-compliance with drivers hour’s regulations very seriously and deals appropriately with anyone who attempts to undermine public safety by not taking the required breaks. This includes taking prohibition and prosecution action.

DVSA is determined to tackle the small minority of operators and drivers who choose to break the rules, and it has effective measures in place to catch offenders quickly.

DVSA carry out investigations based on intelligence and information from the public and the haulage industry, as well as conducting checks across the strategic road network, using technology such as ANPR cameras, as well as enforcement officers at the roadside and at DVSA check sites

The figures below show the amount of prosecutions for tachograph violations in each year since 2010, with figures also included for 2008/09 and 2009/10 to provide context.

Heavy Goods Vehicle

	2008/09	2009/10	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15
Drivers Hours	3,913	2,717	2,211	2,346	2,130	2,219	1,518
Tacho records	2,046	1,391	1,153	1,619	1,664	1,831	1,343

Public Service Vehicle

	2008/09	2009/10	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15
Drivers Hours	326	107	87	458	293	119	149
Tacho records	219	122	58	409	218	106	148

Light Goods Vehicle

	2008/09	2009/10	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15
Drivers Hours	38	23	43	25	15	35	33
Tacho records	20	19	25	15	13	6	20

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Charlotte Leslie on 2016-02-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2016 to Question 23665, in which 33 different languages his Department has Operational Level (C1) examination pass speakers employed in the last five years up to the end of 2015.

Mr Tobias Ellwood

Records show that up until the end of 2015, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office had officers with a C1 pass in the following languages:
Albanian, Arabic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Czech, Dari, Dutch, Farsi, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Mandarin, Pashtu, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese.

The FCO Language Centre was re-opened in September 2013 to renew the focus and investment in languages as a core diplomatic skill to ensure that we get the right people with the right skills in the right jobs to deliver our foreign policy objectives. The Language Centre gives us a strong platform to grow our language skills as an organisation and develop a pipeline of talent to fill language slots on a continuous basis.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Charlotte Leslie on 2016-02-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many officials of his Department undertook language classes at (a) his Department and (b) post in (i) 2001 and (ii) 2010.

Mr Tobias Ellwood

I refer my rt hon. Friend to my answer of 10 February 2016 set out in PQ 25525.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Charlotte Leslie on 2016-03-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children’s mental health beds there are (a) in each local authority or clinical commissioning group region and (b) per head of population in each such region.

Alistair Burt

The data of how many children’s mental health beds in each clinical commissioning group by region and per head of population in each such region, is contained in the below table:

	Commissioned Beds	Number of Children 0-19	Commissioned Beds per 1,000 Children
London	242	2,198,488	0.11
East Midlands	137	1,146,555	0.12
East of England	187	1,461,845	0.13
West Midlands	175	1,434,330	0.12
North East	98	703,514	0.14
North West	196	1,641,767	0.12
Yorkshire and Humber	90	1,328,961	0.07
South Central	152	1,154,356	0.13
South East Coast	94	1,080,080	0.09
South West	54	1,069,126	0.05
Totals	1,425	13,219,022	0.11

Notes:

1. These figures only relate to where the service capacity is geographically located.
2. There is no account taken of how the referrals flow in terms of cross boundary activity – some of which is planned for to reflect transport networks and some of which would be unplanned out of area activity.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Charlotte Leslie on 2016-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many judicial reviews against her Department have (a) been initiated and (b) were successful since 2010.

Karen Bradley

No central records are kept of (i) the number of judicial reviews initiated against the department since 2010; (ii) the cost of defending such challenges; or (iii) the number of such challenges which have been successful. It would incur disproportionate cost to try to acquire this information.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Charlotte Leslie on 2016-06-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the mechanisms in place to pursue complaints against private company owners providing dental services in the event that the dentist who carried out the procedure leaves the country.

Alistair Burt

A complaint about privately funded healthcare is a matter between the patient and the provider of the service or clinician. However, if the service was commissioned by the National Health Service for NHS patients the NHS complaints regulations will apply and the complaint can be made to either the provider or commissioner of the service but not to both. In the circumstances where a provider is not available the complaint should be made to the commissioner of the service.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Charlotte Leslie on 2016-10-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to address the issue of non-British citizens tricking British citizens into marriage to obtain a UK visa or citizenship.

Mr Robert Goodwill

We take abuse of the spouse immigration route very seriously. In July 2012 the minimum probationary period before a non-European Economic Area (non-EEA) national spouse of a British citizen can apply for Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK was increased from two years to five years. This is a better test of the genuineness of the relationship before it can be relied upon as a basis for seeking to settle permanently in the UK.

In March 2015, a new scheme to tackle sham marriages was introduced under the Immigration Act 2014. All proposed marriages where one or both parties could gain an immigration advantage from it are now referred by registration officials to the Home Office. This gives us a much stronger platform to identify, disrupt and deter sham marriages.

If the marriage breaks down permanently before or once the non-EEA national spouse has obtained Indefinite Leave to Remain, the British citizen spouse can provide the Home Office with any relevant information and we may cancel or revoke their former spouse’s leave if it can be established that this was obtained by deception.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Charlotte Leslie on 2016-01-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what national guidelines her Department provides to police authorities on the closure of motorway lanes in the event of motorway traffic accidents.

Mike Penning

The Home Office has issued no guidance. How the police handle road traffic incidents is an operational matter for individual police Chief Officers, in conjunction with their Police and Crime Commissioners .

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Charlotte Leslie on 2016-02-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 29 January 2016 to Question 23665, how many (a) Arabic speakers with an Operational level (C1) examination pass and (b) Mandarin/Cantonese speakers there were employed in his Department in each year since 2006.

Mr Tobias Ellwood

Records from the last five years show that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has 51 officers who have a current Operational Level (C1) Arabic pass and 44 officers with a C1 pass in Mandarin/ Cantonese. We only record current C1 passes, valid for five years after the date of the exam, and therefore do not have pre-2010 data.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Charlotte Leslie on 2016-02-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many (a) Arabic speakers with an operational level (C1) examination pass and (b) Mandarin Cantonese speakers were employed by his Department in (i) 2001 and (ii) 2010.

Mr Tobias Ellwood

I refer my rt hon. Friend to my answer of 10 February 2016 (PQ 25484).