The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Law on 2015-12-07.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have been employed in Dundee by the Government and its agencies in each year since 1990.
Mr Rob Wilson
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Law on 2016-01-19.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether preliminary impact assessments were carried out on the effect of the current HM Revenue and Customs Location Strategy on local tax compliance, across all heads of duty, the Scottish economy, equal opportunities in Scotland, the environment, and the individual staff whose offices are to be closed and what those assessments have indicated.
Mr David Gauke
HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) Location Programme is the result of an extended period of consultation and deliberation. The Department has taken account of a number of criteria in reaching its decisions, including the quality of local transport links, the local labour market and future workforce supply, the cost of buildings and asset value, and the need to retain the staff and skills it needs to continue its transformation. These changes will reduce HMRC’s estates costs by around £100 million a year by 2025.
HMRC’s modelling estimates that the majority of staff in Scotland live within Reasonable Daily Travel of Glasgow or Edinburgh. Reasonable Daily Travel is calculated in line with established HR policies and procedures. Every worker at HMRC will have a one-to-one meeting with their manager to discuss their individual circumstances.
HMRC conducted high level People Impact and Equality Assessments to inform its planning. The Department plans to update these once discussions have been held with its staff.
Activities of trade union representatives are governed by long-standing agreements with departments.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Law on 2016-04-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when (a) a minister and (b) officials in his Department last visited the area described by the Chinese government as the Tibetan Autonomous Region.
Mr Hugo Swire
The Hon. Member for Bury South (Mr Lewis) was the last serving Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) minister to visit the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), in September 2009. An FCO official last visited the TAR in June 2014. We continue to press the Chinese authorities for further access.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Law on 2016-06-07.
To ask the Leader of the House, how many times he has visited Scotland in an official capacity since the 2015 General Election; and what meetings were held on each such visit.
Chris Grayling
I have not visited Scotland in an official capacity since the 2015 General Election.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Law on 2016-06-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what comparative assessment she has made of the cost to the public purse of deportations on chartered flights and commercial flights.
James Brokenshire
The Home Office conducts a cost comparison between charter flights and commercial flights every 6 months.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Law on 2015-12-07.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) households and (b) people are in receipt of tax credits in Dundee; and how many children are in each such household.
Damian Hinds
The latest information on the number of tax credit recipients in the Dundee City local authority can be found in table 3 of the April 2015 Personal Tax Credits provisional awards geographical analyses published statistics, found here:
These statistics are published in April and December each year.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Law on 2016-01-22.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the implications for his policies are of the finding of the National Audit Office in its recent report, Contracted-out health and disability assessments, HC 609, of 5 January 2016, that his Department is spending more on fit-for-work assessments than it is saving since reforming health and disability assessments.
Priti Patel
The purpose of the Work Capability Assessment is to assess fairly and accurately entitlement to benefit, not to generate savings.
We have commissioned independent reviews which have all concluded that the assessment regimes for health related benefits remain fit for purpose.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Law on 2016-04-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the proportion of (a) native Tibetans, (b) Han Chinese and (c) others who were resident in Tibet in (i) 2015, (ii) 2005 and (iii) 1995.
Mr Hugo Swire
The Government does not collect this data.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Law on 2016-06-07.
To ask the Prime Minister, how many times he has visited Scotland in an official capacity since the 2015 General Election; and what meetings were held on each such visit.
Mr David Cameron
I regularly visit all parts of the United Kingdom, including Scotland. Details of my meetings with external organisations are published on a quarterly basis and can be accessed via the gov.uk website.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Law on 2016-06-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many flights for the purposes of deporting people whose asylum or human rights claims were refused were chartered by the Government in each of the last five years.
James Brokenshire
Home Office charter flights are used to remove individuals who have been refused asylum in the UK, but also individuals who have committed other immigration and criminal offences. Home Office records indicate that there were 45 charters in 2012, 48 in 2013, 46 in 2014, 38 in 2015 and 18 to date in 2016.
In addition to charter flights the Home Office also removes people via scheduled commercial services.
This is provisional management information that is subject to change. It has not been assured to the standard of Official Statistics.