The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2015-10-20.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much was paid by (a) the Police Federation, (b) UNISON and (c) other trades unions to each council in the North West in 2014.
Mr Marcus Jones
This information is not held centrally.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2015-10-20.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was paid by (a) the Police Federation, (b) UNISON and (c) other trades unions to each police constabulary in England in 2014.
Mike Penning
This information is not held by the Home Office.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2014-01-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much HM Courts and Tribunal Service spent on interpreters in 2011, 2012 and 2013; how much was spent on interpreting each language in those years; and how much was paid by defendants towards these costs.
Mr Shailesh Vara
The Department does not hold centrally all of the information that the Honourable Member has requested. Although we can not provide all the data on spend for the periods requested we can provide the annual spend for interpreters sourced through the Capita-TI Contract for Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal Service as below:
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Calendar Year |
2012 |
2013 |
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Total |
£7,940,128.79 |
£15,537,821.29 |
Off Contract bookings made by HMCTS are outside of these spend figures. The number of bookings made off contract has substantially decreased since the start of 2012 with those bookings moving onto the Capita TI contract. This move from off contract to Capita TI is reflected in the changing year on year contract spend.
Spend for 2012 is based on an 11 month period as the contract did not go live until 30th January 2012. Expenditure has also increased in the second year of contract due to changes made to the contract in May 2013 and an estimated 20% increase on volume. £15m was saved in year one of the contract.
In this instance to provide the requested information on total annual spend and spend by language, would exceed the disproportionate cost threshold of £850.00 or 4 ½ working days.
In order to provide the information we would be required toobtain a number of large reports from electronic databases. The relevant data must then be manually extracted and collated. It would also require comparison against additional financial data before analysis. We estimate that this process for the spend data would take approximately 6 working days given the volume of data involved.
Defendants in criminal cases do not contribute towards the costs of interpreters that are provided by HMCTS. Charges for HMCTS provided interpreters in civil, family and tribunal cases are not passed directly to parties, although the costs may be recovered from court and tribunal fees in the jurisdictions where they apply.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2015-10-20.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many full-time equivalent staff in his Department were allocated to deal with representations from hon. Members to address constituents’ concerns on 1 October (a) 2011, (b) 2012, (c) 2013, (d) 2014 and (e) 2015.
Justin Tomlinson
Many staff across the Department spend a proportion of their time working on ministerial correspondence.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2015-10-20.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make provision for a dedicated email address by which hon. Members can raise constituents’ concerns on tax credit claims.
Damian Hinds
HMRC runs three hotlines to help MPs – and their staff – deal quickly and efficiently with constituent issues and concerns. These include a dedicated hotline on Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit: 03000 135001, which is available from 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday. MPs can also email constituents’ queries on tax credits claims to HMRC’s Ministerial Correspondence team. It can be contacted at the following address: correspondence-team.mincom@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2015-10-20.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which hon. Members have been invited to visit the tax credit office in Preston since June 2010.
Harriett Baldwin
HMRC has not invited any hon. Members to visit the Tax Credit Office in Preston since June 2010.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2015-10-22.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many in-patient NHS beds for mental health patients there were in Lancashire on 1st June (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013, (e) 2014 and (f) 2015; and what the locations of beds were on each such date.
Alistair Burt
The information is not available in the format requested.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2015-10-22.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will Answer Question 11793 of 14 October 2015, on Home Office: staff.
James Brokenshire
The Hon. Member’s question was answered on 22 October 2015.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2015-10-19.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people with cancer who will be affected by proposals under the Welfare Reform and Work Bill to reduce the amount paid to new claimants in the employment and support allowance work related activity group.
Priti Patel
The Government set out its assessment of the impacts of the policies in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on 20th July. These are available on the Parliament website: http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/welfarereformandwork/documents.html
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2015-10-27.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2015 to Question 11793, how many full-time equivalent staff her Department allocated to responding to North West of England hon. Members’ enquiries on their constituents’ immigration issues on 1 September (a) 2012, (b) 2013, (c) 2014 and (d) 2015.
James Brokenshire
As stated in my previous reply of 22 October to Question 11793, it is not possible to provide the Hon. Member with all the information requested as it is not readily available or held centrally and could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.
UKVI requires many of its staff, as part of their roles, to contribute to dealing with immigration enquiries from Members. This can include providing contributions to Parliamentary Questions, Ministerial briefing or for a Select Committee hearing. Since 1 September 2015, UKVI has had dedicated MP Account Management teams whose job is to handle MP enquiries relating to their constituents.
The team designated to responding to members from the North West of England has a total of 9.8 full-time equivalent staff.
Other members of staff will also contribute to the preparation of responses.
The North West MP Account Manager team has performed at a high level and the results will shortly be seen following via the Member of Parliament satisfaction survey results which will soon appear on the Gov.uk website.
Published statistics confirm that UKVI’s overall service to Members has continually exceeded its service standard since Q4 2014. The Hon. Member can access this information at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/customer-service-operations-data-august-2015.