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  • Helen Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    Helen Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Jones on 2014-04-01.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which rape support centres and helplines (a) nationally and (b) in each region will receive funding from the Rape Support Fund in 2014-15; and how much funding has been allocated in each case.

    Damian Green

    The Ministry of Justice remains committed to supporting organisations that deliver specialist support to female victims of rape and sexual violence and has committed £4.4m per year over 2014-2016 through the Rape Support Fund.

    Detail regarding all organisations funded through the Victim and Witness Fund, which includes the Rape Support Funds 2011-2014 and 2014-2016 can be found at gov.uk the information provided includes the amount of funding awarded to each organisation. The documents are located in the transparency data section of the Publications tab; https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/victims-and-witnesses-funding-awards

    The document for the 2014-2016 Rape Support Fund is divided into Police and Crime Commissioning Areas and includes the funding amounts awarded for both 2014/2015 and 2015/2016. The document was published on the 8 April 2014.

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  • Helen Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Helen Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Jones on 2014-06-04.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to improve ambulance services.

    Jane Ellison

    NHS England is working with Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority to improve performance in 2014-15, this includes a workstream looking at best practice.

    However, this Government also wants to tackle the root causes of the increasing demand on urgent and emergency care services.

    That is why the Urgent and Emergency Care review, led by Sir Bruce Keogh, is currently considering whole system change to the delivery of urgent and emergency care, including new models of delivery of care for ambulance services, such as:

    – general practitioner and other clinical support/advice in control rooms and to crews on the ground and how it can reduce conveyance rates (particularly for frail and elderly, mental health, and children) and;

    – prevention work available to the Ambulance Service: early diagnosis and risk management.

    In addition, as part of the Review, NHS England is working closely with stakeholders (including the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives) to ensure that ambulance services can be further developed and commissioned as a treatment as well as a transport service.

    As part of this work, an Ambulance Task Group has been set up and is working with Health Education England to reform the training and careers framework for paramedics – to involve developing a skilled set of advanced practitioners in the Ambulance Service to deliver care closer to home using hear & treat and see & treat models.

    The first phase of the Review was published last November. We expect NHS England to be publishing further reports later this year.

  • Helen Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Attorney General

    Helen Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Attorney General

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Jones on 2014-03-31.

    To ask the Attorney General, how many prosecutions have been (a) commenced, (b) resulted in a non-custodial sentence and (c) resulted in a custodial sentence for (i) witness intimidation, (ii) perverting the cause of justice and (iii) conspiracy to pervert the course of justice as a result of incidents arising from cases involving domestic violence in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

    Oliver Heald

    The records held by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) identify the number of offences in which a prosecution commenced and reached a first hearing in magistrates’ courts which were flagged as involving domestic violence, rather than the number of defendants or cases prosecuted.

    The data is accurate only to the extent that the flag has been correctly applied.

    Offences of perverting the course of justice are charged under Common Law, conspiracy to pervert justice, by way of Section 1 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 and intimidation of a witness or juror by way of Section 51 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.

    The table below shows, for each of the last five years, the number of these offences charged and reaching a first hearing at magistrates’ courts, which were identified as involving domestic violence.

    2009-2010

    2010-2011

    2011-2012

    2012-2013

    2013-2014

    Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 { 51 }: Intimidating/threatening or harming a witness or juror

    846

    859

    763

    611

    686

    Common Law: Perverting the course of justice (including attempts)

    140

    136

    103

    121

    150

    Criminal Law Act 1977 { 1 }: Conspiracy to pervert the course of justice

    4

    7

    5

    4

    8

    Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System

    There is no indication of the final prosecution outcome, or if the charged offence was the substantive charge at the time of finalisation. It is also often the case that an individual defendant is charged with more than one offence against the same victim.

    It is not possible to centrally disaggregate offences charged by way of Section 51 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, to separately identify those offences relating to witnesses from those concerning jurors. Such information could only be obtained through a manual search of records which would incur disproportionate cost.

    The CPS does not hold records of sentences imposed following a conviction. Statistics relating to sentences are maintained by the Ministry of Justice.

  • Helen Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

    Helen Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Jones on 2014-06-05.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the average rent is for (a) privately rented homes and (b) new homes built under the Affordable Homes Programme in (i) Warrington and (ii) Warrington North constituency.

    Kris Hopkins

    The information is not held centrally.

  • Helen Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Attorney General

    Helen Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Attorney General

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Jones on 2014-03-31.

    To ask the Attorney General, how many people have been prosecuted under the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 for breach of a non-molestation order in each police force area in each year since that Act came into force.

    Oliver Heald

    The records held by the Crown Prosecution Service do not identify the number of people prosecuted for a breach of a non-molestation order. Such information could only be obtained through a manual search of records which would incur disproportionate cost.

  • Helen Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    Helen Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Jones on 2014-06-05.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Warrington North constituency received universal credit at any time since the start of the Warrington pilot; and how many were in receipt of it on 1 April 2014.

    Esther McVey

    The Department published the latest set of experimental Official Statistics on UC on the 14th May 2014 which can be found at:

    https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics

      

    Statistics covering the periods to the end of March and April 2014 will be published on the 11th June and 16th July 2014 respectively.

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  • Helen Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Helen Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Jones on 2014-04-09.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, Everyone’s Business: Improving the police response to domestic abuse, who the members of the National Oversight Group are; and whether the group has yet met.

    Norman Baker

    I will write to the Hon Member.

  • Helen Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture Media and Sport

    Helen Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture Media and Sport

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Jones on 2014-06-04.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many people in Warrington North constituency are currently in receipt of a free television licence.

    Mr Edward Vaizey

    The data recording how many individuals are currently in receipt of a free television licence is not broken down by individual constituencies or regions.

  • Helen Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    Helen Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Jones on 2014-04-29.

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of people who are (a) employed on zero-hours contracts and (b) paid at a rate below that defined by the Living Wage Foundation as a living wage in Warrington North constituency.

    Mr Nick Hurd

    The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

  • Helen Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    Helen Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Jones on 2014-06-10.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of each type of benefit were sanctioned and for what period by Warrington Jobcentre in each year since 2010.

    Esther McVey

    The information requested on the duration of benefit sanctions is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

    The available information on the number of individuals with an adverse benefit sanction is shown in the table below.

    Number of individuals with an adverse benefit sanction in Warrington Jobcentre Plus office: 2010 – 2013

    Year

    Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)

    Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)

    2010

    1,121

    146

    2011

    912

    45

    2012

    1,436

    36

    2013

    1,488

    55

    Source: DWP Information, Governance and Security Directorate: Sanctions and Disallowance Decisions Statistics Database.

    Notes:

    1. Statistical disclosure control has been applied to protect against the identification of individual claimants.

    2. Figures for Income Support Lone Parents are not available by Jobcentre Plus office.

    3. The number of benefit sanctions applied is the number of sanction or disallowance referrals where the decision was found against the claimant.

    4. Data refers to January to December in each year shown.

    5. New regulations introduced a new revised sanctions regime for JSA and ESA claimants from 22nd October and 3rd December 2012 respectively.

    6. This data is published at:

    https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/

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