Tag: David Hanson

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2015-10-28.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will undertake a review into how his Department advises British citizens on the ethical rating of nations in line with performing to international standards on the illegal wildlife trade.

James Duddridge

The UK plays a leading role in encouraging countries to take action to stop poaching of endangered species and to reduce demand for illegal wildlife products. For example, the UK drafted both the London Declaration from the London Conference on IWT in 2014 and the Kasane Statement from the Botswana Conference of March 2015 to push countries into committing themselves to ambitious actions to tackle the illegal wildlife trade. A review was compiled for the Botswana Conference showing progress by countries on the commitments to action agreed at London. These documents have been made publicly available on www.gov.uk.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2016-01-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents of attempted suicide there were in prisons in each of the last five years.

Andrew Selous

The national statistics on safety in custody use the category of self-harm incidents, defined as “any act where a prisoner deliberately harms themselves irrespective of the method, intent or severity of any injury”. They do not include a separate category of “attempted suicide”, because the intent of the prisoner is often unknown. Some incidents are more likely to result in a fatality than others, but the point at which a self-harm incident becomes an attempted suicide is unclear.

Summary statistics on self-harm in prison custody are published quarterly, and the latest annual figures, for the ten years to June 2015, can be found in Table 3 of the Safety in Custody statistics bulletin available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/472712/Safety-in-custody-summary-q2-2015.xls

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2016-02-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average hourly earnings of (a) female, (b) male, (c) full-time and (d) part-time employees of his Department were in each of the last five years.

Jane Ellison

The following table shows the average hourly rates of pay for all Civil Servants in the Department by gender and by working pattern for the last five years. The average hourly rate calculation uses net hours for both full-time and part-time staff.

	March 2012	March 2013	March 2014	March 2015	January 2016
Female	£22.34	£22.23	£22.23	£22.45	£22.48
Male	£25.37	£25.41	£21.69	£24.40	£24.56
Part-time	£22.95	£22.64	£23.60	£24.08	£23.95
Full-time	£23.74	£23.75	£23.12	£23.11	£23.21

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2016-02-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the average hourly earnings of (a) female, (b) male, (c) full-time and (d) part-time employees of his Department were in each of the last five years.

Mr Edward Vaizey

The information requested is already in the public domain. The Office for National Statistics publishes average salary information for each Civil Service Department by gender, and by working pattern. These figures are published as an annual salary.

The Civil Service statistics can be found at:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/civilservicestatistics

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2016-02-19.

To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, what the average hourly earnings for their (a) female and (b) male (i) full-time and (ii) part-time employees was in each of the last five years.

Mrs Caroline Spelman

The following information relates to employees of the Church of England’s National Church Institutions (NCIs). Senior salaries, gender and race information are published each year in the annual reports of Archbishops’ Council, Pensions Board and Church Commissioners.

Women make up 55% of the total workforce and hold just over 40% of the roles at a senior level. Most roles fit into a pay banding structure which pays the same for equivalent jobs in each band. The equal pay draft regulations have just been published and the NCIs will be reporting in line with the requirements when they have been passed into law.

Clergy officeholders, as distinct from employees, are paid a stipend rather than a salary. For information female and male Bishops in office receive the same level of stipend. All other clergy officeholder stipends are based on a national stipend benchmark which is set by post and is the same for female and male clergy in each diocese.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2016-09-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been spent on court reporting and transcribing services in (a) civil and (b) Crown courts in England and Wales in each financial year since 2010.

Sir Oliver Heald

The table below shows the amount spent on court reporting and transcription services in civil and Crown courts in England & Wales for each financial year from 2011 to 2015.

Financial Year	Civil & Family	Crown Courts
2010-2011	Not Available	Not Available
2011-2012	£4,101,318.83	£4,101,339.00
2012-2013	£4,371,822.48	£1,953,877.00
2013-2014	£4,458,233.95	£2,042,664.00
2014-2015	£4,673,564.18	£2,447,053.75
2015-2016	Not Yet Available	Not Yet Available

The Civil and Family figures refer to the value of court reporting & transcription services received by all users of the services where the case was heard:

• in County Courts;
• in High Court (including district registries); and
• in the Court of Appeal (Criminal and Divisions)

The Crown Courts figures refer to the value of court reporting & transcription services received by all users of the services where the case was heard in a Crown Court in England and Wales.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2015-10-28.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will work with his international counterparts to request that the UN Secretary General appoint a Special Envoy for Sustainable Development.

James Duddridge

Effective follow up and implementation of the now-agreed 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is one of the UK’s top priorities at the United Nations. We continue to discuss this with the UN Secretary General, the wider UN system, and Member States. It would need to be clear what value any new UN special envoy would add to existing UN activity before the UK advocated such an idea, over and above existing sustainable development activities.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2016-01-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on training prison officers to help prisoners with mental health issues in each of the last three years.

Andrew Selous

All prison officers receive training on mental health issues as part of their initial training course. The majority of mental health training is delivered locally and costs attributed to such training are not held centrally.

The national NOMS Learning and Development department have spent the following in the last three years (staff and sundry costs only) training prison officers to help prisoners with mental health issues:

	2013 £k	2014 £k	2015 £k
National Mental Health Training	24	77	84

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2016-02-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average hourly earnings of (a) female, (b) male, (c) full-time and (d) part-time employees of her Department were in each of the last five years.

Karen Bradley

The average hourly pay for Civil Servants in the Home Office by gender and part and full time workers, for each of the last five years is in Table 1.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2016-02-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average hourly earnings of (a) female, (b) male, (c) full-time and (d) part-time employees of his Department were in each of the last five years.

Mark Lancaster

The information requested is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.