Tag: David T. C. Davies

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David T. C. Davies on 2015-12-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, whether he plans to amend the draft Wales Bill to enable the National Assembly for Wales to vary income tax without a referendum.

Stephen Crabb

At Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015, my Rt hon Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that the Government will remove the need for a referendum to introduce the Welsh Rates of Income Tax. This will be done in the Wales Bill, which will be introduced into Parliament in the New Year.

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, what estimate her Department has made of the number of asylum seekers who have been found to have fraudulently claimed to be under the age of 18 in each of the last years.

James Brokenshire

We publish statistics on cases where the claimant’s age has been disputed and a formal age assessment has been carried out. The table below shows the number of cases in each of the last 3 years.

Asylum Claims by Year with a disputed age
Year of Claim	Totals
2012	337
2013	323
2014	318

Data is taken from published statistics https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2015/asylum

Whilst we do hold information on the results of these assessments and whether they were found to be under the age of 18 the way corresponding data is held means that to obtain the data could only be achieved at disproportionate cost by examination of individual case files.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by David T. C. Davies on 2016-10-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has used the Tempro 7 system to make revised calculations of traffic flows on the proposed M4 relief road.

Mr John Hayes

The assessment of the M4 relief road around Newport is being considered by the Welsh Government.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David T. C. Davies on 2015-12-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2015 to Question 17668, if he will collect information on how much has been spent from the public purse on providing legal aid for asylum seekers who wish to purse immigration appeals.

Mr Shailesh Vara

The information is not held centrally.

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 2015-10-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people arrived at UK airports without travel documents in the last year for which figures are available.

James Brokenshire

This information is not held centrally. However, total numbers of refusals at the border are published here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2015/list-of-tables#admissions