Tag: David Hanson

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2016-01-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many suspensions of the Secure ID checks took place (a) in the UK, (b) at each port and (c) at each airport in each of the last five years.

James Brokenshire

In November 2011, the then Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration found that the then UKBA had carried out a number of suspensions of Warnings Index Checks without due ministerial authority. Since then, Border Force has operated to a Ministerially-approved mandate that requires it to undertake Warnings Index Checks against all passengers arriving into the UK on scheduled, commercial routes; and Secure ID Checks against passengers that require a visa to enter the UK. These checks have not been suspended at any port since November 2011.

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

To ask the Leader of the House, what the average hourly earnings of (a) female, (b) male, (c) full-time and (d) part-time employees of his Office were in each of the last five years.

Chris Grayling

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him by my right hon. Friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office on 26 February 2016, to Question UIN 26973.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 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.

George Eustice

The table below provides details of the average hourly earnings of each group of employees in the core-Department as at 30^th June 2015 in each of the last five years.

Year	Female	Male	Full-time	Part-time
2015	£19.79	£21.31	£20.51	£20.84
2014	£19.36	£21.43	£20.32	£20.80
2013	£18.62	£20.88	£19.76	£19.44
2012	£18.23	£20.94	£19.64	£19.04
2011	£18.69	£21.20	£19.80	£20.92

The difference in hourly rate of pay for male and female staff can be explained by a greater proportion of male staff at the higher grades.

A recent equal pay review, analysing pay by grade, found that there were no significant equal pay differences based on gender.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2016-04-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on producing an implementation plan for England for the UK Strategy for Rare Diseases; and when he expects such a plan to be in place.

George Freeman

There are no plans to consult on the implementation plan for England on the UK Strategy for Rare Diseases. NHS England published a Statement of Intent to implement the UK Strategy in February 2014. Implementation of the Strategy is also included in NHS England’s Five Year Forward View.

The UK Rare Disease Forum is responsible for monitoring progress on implementation of the Strategy across the United Kingdom. It published its first progress report on 29 February 2016. This recognises that significant progress has been made against majority of the 51 recommendations in the report. Further reports will be published in 2018 and 2020.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2016-10-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people received pre-charge bail conditions that (a) withheld their travel documents and (b) restricted their movement in each year since 2010; and how many people breached those pre-charge bail conditions.

Brandon Lewis

The information requested is not held centrally.

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

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans the Government has to pay a daily rate or fee to members of the review committee he has proposed on securing the decisive role of the Commons on financial matters and secondary legislation; and what rate he plans to set for that work.

John Penrose

The Government has asked Lord Strathclyde to lead a review to examine how to secure the decisive role of the elected House of Commons in relation to (i) its primacy on financial matters; and (ii) secondary legislation. Lord Strathclyde will be supported by a panel of experts and further details will be announced in due course.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2016-01-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many suspensions of terrorist warning index checks took place without a reason for that suspension in each of the last five years.

James Brokenshire

In November 2011, the then Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration found that the then UKBA had carried out a number of suspensions of Warnings Index Checks without due ministerial authority. Since then, Border Force has operated to a Ministerially-approved mandate that requires it to undertake Warnings Index Checks against all passengers arriving into the UK on scheduled, commercial routes; and Secure ID Checks against passengers that require a visa to enter the UK. These checks have not been suspended at any port since November 2011.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 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.

Mrs Theresa Villiers

This information is not held and to provide it would incur a disproportionate cost.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many alerts were issued by the National Border Targeting Centre to the regional offices of Border Force relating to flights of potential interest in each of the last five years.

James Brokenshire

The National Border Targeting Centre issue alerts to both police and Border Force officials at the UK border. The figures provided record those alerts raised for Immigration or Customs reasons at the Border, and do not include any police alerts.

In 2013 Border Force implemented a quality assurance procedure of Border Force alerts which were being disseminated to the frontline. You will see that in 2012, alerts steadily dropped. Alert ratios reduced due to a more stringent alert framework being adopted by the agency. Alerts were of a higher quality and specifically directed to manage the threat to the Border depending on the priorities of the Border Control Strategy and threat assessment.

Year Alert count

2011 16,694

2012 15,864

2013 11,076

2014 10,516

2015 10,167

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2016-04-28.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals to reform the current method of electing hereditary peers to the House of Lords.

John Penrose

Given the very large and urgent list of other constitutional reforms currently underway, it’s hard to justify giving Lords reform a higher priority than other manifesto promises. We will continue to consider steps that are able to command support from all sides of the House. The Leader of the House of Lords has convened cross-party talks to discuss these issues, and those talks continue.