Tag: Gregory Campbell

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2014-05-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in England and Wales per 10,000 of the population were prosecuted for non-payment of the television licence fee in each of the last three calendar years.

Mr Shailesh Vara

The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts for offences relating to installing or using a television receiver without the appropriate licence, per 10,000 of the population in England and Wales for the years 2010 to 2012 is shown in Table 1 below. The Government has indicated that, in line with the amendment to the Deregulation Bill, it will consider whether evasion of a television licence should continue to be a criminal offence.

It should be noted that court proceedings statistics for the year 2013 are planned to be published by the Ministry of Justice on 15th May 2014.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2014-05-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will raise at the UN the prospects of severe famine in South Sudan.

Lynne Featherstone

The UK is extremely concerned about the humanitarian situation in South Sudan. The ongoing conflict, which has led to the displacement of over 900,000 people within the country, limited the ability of people to plant their crops, and disrupted trade and local markets. There is concern that those in conflict-affected states will experience famine later this year.

The UK is taking a leading role in responding to the crisis. We have so far contributed £20 million to the United Nations and International Non-Governmental Organisations for emergency humanitarian assistance inside South Sudan. We are considering additional support. We will continue to take every opportunity, including in the United Nations, to raise our concerns about the deteriorating humanitarian situation.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2014-06-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many premium rate type telephone lines were in use for members of the public to contact his Department in (a) June 2010 and (b) June 2014.

Jenny Willott

The Department had no public facing premium rate lines in use in June 2010 or June 2014.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2014-05-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will discuss with the devolved legislatures how to ensure best practice is adopted in implementing single farm payments across the UK.

George Eustice

The Secretary of State negotiated successfully in the European Council of Agriculture Ministers to secure powers to implement CAP reform in the UK at a territorial level. The responsibility for delivery of direct payments under CAP reform therefore rests with each territorial administration. However, Defra Ministers regularly discuss the implementation of CAP reform with their devolved administration counterparts and officials from all four territorial administrations meet frequently to discuss implementation, share best practice and address UK-level and cross-border issues.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2014-05-06.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total estimated number of higher rate taxpayers was in (a) the last financial year and (b) 2010.

Mr David Gauke

Estimates of the number of taxpayers at each income tax rate band are published in HMRC’s National Statistics which are available on the internet at the following address:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/number-of-individual-income-taxpayers-by-marginal-rate-gender-and-age

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2014-06-18.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department takes to ensure that delegated legislation brought forward by his Department is consistent with EU Directives.

Nicky Morgan

In 2010 this Government committed to ensuring the effective implementation of EU legislation so that British businesses are not put at a disadvantage relative to their European competitors.

This Department follows the Government’s Guiding Principles for EU legislation, which can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/185626/bis-13-774-guiding-principles-for-eu-legislation.pdf

HM Treasury is committed to ensuring that no unnecessary legislative burdens are placed on UK businesses when transposing EU law.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2014-05-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to his Egyptian counterpart about the mass trial of and death sentences on members of the Muslim brotherhood.

Hugh Robertson

In a meeting with the Egyptian Foreign Minister on 2 April, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague) raised his concern over the death sentences imposed on 529 people. He asked the Egyptian Government to review these issues as a matter of urgency and to ensure that individuals’ human and legal rights were properly upheld.

The Foreign Secretary also made a statement on 28 April expressing deep concerns that a further 683 people had been sentenced to death by the same court and that 37 of the original death sentences handed down on 24 March had been upheld. He expressed concern at the potential negative impact of such sentences on the Egyptian Government’s ability to take forward an inclusive political process, and urged that the sentences be reviewed. We will continue to raise this issue in our conversations with the Egyptian Government.