Tag: David T. C. Davies

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David T. C. Davies on 2016-02-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers claiming to be under the age of 18 have been charged with a criminal offence in the last year; and what proportion of such asylum seekers were subsequently found to have fraudulently claimed to be under the age of 18.

James Brokenshire

The Home Office does not maintain a central record of the requested information and could only provide it at disproportionate cost.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David T. C. Davies on 2016-10-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals serving prison sentences have been deported in the last year for which figures are available.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The Home Office publishes quarterly statistics on the number of foreign national offenders that have been removed from prison under the Early Removal Scheme within the Immigration Statistics release on the GOV.UK website at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=uk-visas-and-immigration&publication_type=transparency-data.

Please note that the data is published on a quarterly basis. The link provides access to historical data for each quarter for the financial year 2015 / 2016

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David T. C. Davies on 2016-01-11.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the previously published Carbon Price Support rates of £30t/CO2 in 2020 and £70t/CO2 in 2030, at 2009 prices, remain in place.

Damian Hinds

CPS rates have been capped at £18/tCO₂ until 2019/20. An announcement on the rates beyond 2019/20 will be made in due course.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David T. C. Davies on 2016-02-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that the BBC upholds its obligations under the charter relating to impartiality during the EU referendum campaign.

Mr Edward Vaizey

In June 2015 I wrote to the Chairs of the BBC Trust and Ofcom on this subject. Their replies set out their plans. The Trust has since consulted on and published guidelines for covering the referendum.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David T. C. Davies on 2016-10-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any of the refugees recently admitted to the UK from Calais as children will be subject to dental checks in order to verify their ages.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The Home Secretary’s statement on Calais on 24 October (Column 55) referred to the proper safeguarding, age assessment and security checks we carry out, working closely with local authorities and social workers in the UK, to ensure that the children transferred here are eligible to come and it is in their best interests to do so.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David T. C. Davies on 2016-01-11.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he expects the freeze on carbon price floor rates to end.

Damian Hinds

CPS rates have been capped at £18/tCO₂ until 2019/20. An announcement on the rates beyond 2019/20 will be made in due course.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David T. C. Davies on 2016-03-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to support refugees in camps in the Middle East.

Mr Desmond Swayne

At the Syria Conference the UK announced that we will more than double our commitment to the Syria crisis, to £2.3 billion. The UK supports refugees, displaced and vulnerable people and host communities across the Middle East including in Yemen, Iraq and the occupied Palestinian territories.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David T. C. Davies on 2016-10-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps have been taken to verify the age of children who have been recently transported from Calais to the UK.

Mr Robert Goodwill

The Home Secretary’s statement on Calais on 24 October (Column 55) referred to the proper safeguarding, age assessment and security checks we carry out, working closely with local authorities and social workers in the UK, to ensure that the children transferred here are eligible to come and it is in their best interests to do so.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David T. C. Davies on 2016-01-11.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his policy is on the rates for carbon price support in (a) 2020 and (b) 2030.

Damian Hinds

CPS rates have been capped at £18/tCO₂ until 2019/20. An announcement on the rates beyond 2019/20 will be made in due course.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David T. C. Davies on 2016-04-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps the Government is taking to support international electricity connectors.

Andrea Leadsom

The Government is committed to increasing electricity interconnection with projects that support our energy objectives.

A number of interconnection projects are already progressing under Ofgem’s regulatory regime1, designed to bring forward interconnection investment in the interest of GB consumers. This includes projects to France, Belgium, Norway, Denmark and Ireland, which have been assessed by Ofgem as offering over £11.8bn in consumer benefits. A second window for applications for the cap and floor project is open until 31 October and the Government is keen to see more projects coming forward that can deliver strong consumer benefits.

The Government has also supported a number of mature interconnector projects to benefit from access to European grant funding as Projects of Common Interest.

Together these projects represent billions of pounds of infrastructure investment and aim to more than double our interconnection capacity by the early 2020s. This will make Britain more energy secure and will help lower consumer bills.

[1] Source, Ofgem https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/decision-roll-out-cap-and-floor-regime-near-term-electricity-interconnectors

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