Tag: Julie Cooper

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Cooper on 2016-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 March 2016 to Question 29659, how many UK citizens have been prosecuted by the Financial Action Task Force for money laundering abroad since 2010.

Mr John Hayes

The Government is committed to ensuring that the UK has a robust anti-money laundering regime, and strongly supports the work of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in developing and implementing effective anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing regimes. FATF does not have any law enforcement or prosecutorial role.

The Government established the National Crime Agency in 2013 to lead the law enforcement response to this threat. This has since been augmented with a new International Corruption Unit to provide a single centre of excellence in this field.

The National Risk Assessment of money laundering and terrorist financing was published on 15 October 2015. This identified the threats and vulnerabilities we face in these areas, and an action plan will be published shortly, setting out the steps that we will take to address them.

The number of people prosecuted, convicted and given a custodial sentence for money laundering offences, in England and Wales, from 2004 to 2014 (the latest data available), can be viewed on the Ministry of Justice website at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2014 under “Criminal justice statistics outcomes by offence data tool” by selecting the offence: 38 Money laundering.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Cooper on 2016-04-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many times he has attended public meetings of the Defence Committee since his appointment.

Michael Fallon

I have attended each of the three public oral evidence sessions to which I have been invited since my appointment. I have agreed to appear before the Committee on 24 May on Russia and 8 June on Syria and Iraq.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Cooper on 2016-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many e-courts there are in Lancashire.

Mr Shailesh Vara

Excluding one closing court, in Lancashire all criminal courts (4 Crown courts and 6 magistrates’ courts) are equipped to work digitally through services such as in-court evidence presentation, video links, a shared file store, Wi-Fi and a new digital case management system in the Crown courts.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Cooper on 2016-05-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visas were processed using the priority visa service in 2015.

James Brokenshire

The number of visas processed using priority visa services in 2015 is shown in the attached table. This figure includes both priority and super priority applications.

Total Priority applications resolved between 01-Jan-2015 and 31-Dec-2015	561,475
of which Super Priority applications resolved between 01-Jan-2015 and 31-Dec-2015	9,400
of which Priority applications resolved between 01-Jan-2015 and 31-Dec-2015	552,075

This is provisional management information that is subject to change. It has not been assured to the standard of Official Statistics.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Cooper on 2015-11-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the police has taken to tackle suspected boiler-room operations in the City of London.

Mike Penning

The City of London Police leads Operation Broadway, which is a multi-agency response to boiler room frauds operating in the City of London. Operation Broadway makes use of intelligence from the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau and the collective powers of its agencies to identify and tackle boiler rooms. Operation Broadway responses to boiler rooms focus on disruption and displacement and a number of differing tactical operations will be used. Operation Broadway also features in social media campaigns to raise public awareness of boiler room fraud.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Cooper on 2016-01-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what personal budgeting advice, and in what format, is provided to recipients of universal credit.

Priti Patel

As part of the assistance being provided under Universal Support, Universal Credit gives budgeting support to help claimants manage their money on a monthly basis and pay bills on time.

As well as support offered by work coaches, claimants are offered advice by external organisations with the relevant expertise. This advice is available online, by phone or face-to-face.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Cooper on 2016-01-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in (a) Burnley, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West had an appointment with an NHS dentist in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012, (iv) 2013, (v) 2014 and (vi) 2015.

Alistair Burt

Information is not available in the format requested.

The table below shows the unique number of patients who received National Health Service dental care in the previous 24 months. An equivalent measure covering the 12 month period is not available.

	1 April 2008 – 31 March 2010	1 April 2009 – 31 March 2011	1 April 2010 – 31 March 2012	1 April 2011- 31 March 2013	1 April 2012 – 31 March 2014	1 April 2013 – 31 March 2015
NHS East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)	–	–	–	–	218,979	222,038
Lancashire Local Authority	–	–	–	–	671,482	670,931
NHS England North (Lancashire and Greater Manchester)	–	–	–	–	2,496,149	2,508,845
East Lancashire Primary Care Trust (PCT)	186,295	200,034	210,839	219,406	–	–
North West Strategic Health Authority (SHA)	4,180,855	4,251,505	4,302,218	4,323,082	–	–

Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)

Notes:

1. Includes patients seen by an NHS dentist, including work undertaken by dentists under vocational training and orthodontic patients. Does not cover dental treatment carried out in hospitals under Hospital Dental Services, nor under services provided privately.
2. Number of patients seen shows the number of individual patients who received care or treatment from an NHS dentist at least once in a 24 month period (patients are counted on their first visit only, e.g. if a patient has visited the dentist twice, they will only appear in the patients seen data set once).
3. HSCIC dental data are not available at the geographies requested. The latest information is available at CCG, LA and NHS Geography Region and earlier years are only available at PCT and SHA level.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Cooper on 2016-01-27.

To ask the Leader of the House, what date is planned for the State Opening of Parliament in 2016.

Chris Grayling

The date for the next State Opening of Parliament will be announced by Written Statement in the usual way.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Cooper on 2016-02-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many maintained nurseries there are in (a) Burnley, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West.

Mr Sam Gyimah

According to data from EduBase[1], there are eight local authority maintained nurseries in the Burnley constituency, 24 in Lancashire local authority, and 70 in the North West.

Local authority maintained nurseries are nurseries run by local authorities which are stand-alone and not attached to a primary school. There is therefore more nursery provision in these areas than these figures show; for example, nursery classes in schools and private nurseries.

[1] EduBase as at 9^th February 2016. Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/schools-in-england

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Cooper on 2016-02-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS 111 calls were made in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015 in (i) Lancashire and (ii) Burnley.

Jane Ellison

The data is not held centrally.