Tag: Parliamentary Question

  • Gavin Newlands – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Gavin Newlands – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gavin Newlands on 2015-11-04.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2015 to Question 11080, on deportation: appeals, in how many of the 426 cases which were appealed were those appeals dismissed by the relevant tribunal.

    James Brokenshire

    Of the 426 cases referred to in answer of 14 October to Question 11080:

    – none were certification withdrawn

    – 359 have been certified under Regulation 24AA

    – all data provided relates to the First Tier Tribunal only

    – 25 are listed as abandoned or withdrawn by the appellant

    – 89 were dismissed by the relevant tribunal

    The Home Office does not disclose country specific information as its disclosure could prejudice relations between the UK and foreign governments.

    Notes : (1) All figures quoted have been derived from management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change. This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols.

    (2) Data Extracted on 28th September, 2015 in line with response to Question 11080

  • Nicholas Soames – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

    Nicholas Soames – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2015-11-25.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the location in the UK is of each army regiment.

    Mark Lancaster

    The UK locations of the major British Army units, as at 26 November 2015, are given below. In line with standard practice, information on Special Forces is being withheld for the purpose of safeguarding national security.

    Major Unit

    Town

    Household Cavalry Regiment

    Windsor

    Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment

    London

    1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery

    Tidworth

    3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery

    Harlow Hill

    7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery

    Colchester

    1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards

    Swanton Morley

    The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers And Greys)

    Leuchars

    The Royal Dragoon Guards

    Catterick

    The Royal Lancers

    Catterick

    The King’s Royal Hussars

    Tidworth

    The Light Dragoons

    Catterick

    The Royal Tank Regiment

    Tidworth

    4th Regiment Royal Artillery

    Topcliffe

    5th Regiment Royal Artillery

    Catterick

    12th Regiment Royal Artillery

    Thorney Island

    14th Regiment Royal Artillery

    Larkhill

    16th Regiment Royal Artillery

    Emsworth

    19th Regiment Royal Artillery

    Tidworth

    29th Commando Regiment Royal Artillery

    Plymouth

    32nd Regiment Royal Artillery

    Larkhill

    47th Regiment Royal Artillery

    Larkhill

    21 Engineer Regiment

    Ripon

    22 Engineer Regiment

    Perham Down

    23 Parachute Engineer Regiment

    Woodbridge

    24 Commando Engineer Regiment

    Chivenor

    26 Engineer Regiment

    Perham Down

    32 Engineer Regiment

    Catterick

    33 Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal)

    Wimbish

    36 Engineer Regiment

    Maidstone

    39 Engineer Regiment

    Kinloss

    42 Engineer Regiment (Geographical)

    Huntingdon

    101 (City of London) Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal)

    Wimbish

    62 Works Group Royal Engineers

    Chilwell

    63 Works Group Royal Engineers

    Chilwell

    64 Works Group Royal Engineers

    Chilwell

    66 Works Group Royal Engineers

    Chilwell

    20 Works Group Royal Engineers (Air Support)

    Peterborough

    1 Royal School of Military Engineering Regiment

    Chatham

    3 Roay School of Military Engineering Regiment

    Minley

    1st Signal Regiment

    Stafford

    2nd Signal Regiment

    York

    3rd Signal Regiment

    Bulford

    10th Signal Regiment

    Corsham

    11th (Royal School of Signals) Signal Regiment

    Blandford

    14th Signal Regiment (Electronic Warfare)

    Brawdy

    15th Signal Regiment (Information Support)

    Blandford

    16th Signal Regiment

    Stafford

    21st Signal Regiment

    Colerne

    22nd Signal Regiment

    Stafford

    30th Signal Regiment

    Bramcote

    1st Battalion Grenadier Guards

    Aldershot

    1st Battalion Coldstream Guards

    Windsor

    1st Battalion Scots Guards

    Aldershot

    1st Battallion Irish Guards

    London

    1st Battalion Welsh Guards

    Pirbright

    The Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland

    Holywood

    The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland

    Edinburgh

    The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland

    Inverness

    The Highlanders, 4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland

    Catterick

    1st Battalion The Duke Of Lancaster’s Regiment

    Catterick

    2nd Battalion The Duke Of Lancaster’s Regiment

    Preston

    1st Battalion The Royal Regiment Of Fusiliers

    Tidworth

    1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment

    London

    2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment

    Cottesmore

    1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment

    Warminster

    2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment

    Catterick

    1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment

    Bulford

    2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire, Worcester and Foresters, and Staffords)

    Chester

    1st Battalion The Royal Welsh

    Tidworth

    1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment

    Tern Hill

    2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment

    Colchester

    3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment

    Colchester

    2nd Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles

    Shorncliffe

    1st Battalion The Rifles

    Beachley

    2nd Battalion The Rifles

    Lisburn

    3rd Battalion The Rifles

    Edinburgh

    4th Battalion The Rifles

    Bulford

    1 Regiment Army Air Corps

    Yeovilton

    2 (Training) Regiment Army Air Corps

    Middle Wallop

    3 Regiment Army Air Corps

    Wattisham

    4 Regiment Army Air Corps

    Wattisham

    5 Regiment Army Air Corps

    Aldergrove

    7 (Training) Regiment Army Air Corps

    Middle Wallop

    9 Regiment Army Air Corps

    Dishforth

    3 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps

    Abingdon

    4 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps

    Abingdon

    7 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps

    Cottesmore

    9 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps

    Hullavington

    10 The Queen’s Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment

    Aldershot

    11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps

    Didcot

    13 (Air Assault) Support Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps

    Colchester

    17 Port And Maritime Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps

    Marchwood

    27 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps

    Aldershot

    29 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps

    South Cerney

    Allied Rapid Reaction Corps Support Battalion

    Innsworth

    5 Training Regiment the Royal Logistic Corps

    Grantham

    25 Training Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps

    Deepcut

    2 Medical Regiment

    North Luffenham

    3 Medical Regiment

    Preston

    4 Armoured Medical Regiment

    Aldershot

    5 Armoured Medical Regiment

    Catterick

    16 Medical Regiment

    Colchester

    22 Field Hospital

    Aldershot

    33 Field Hospital

    Gosport

    34 Field Hospital

    Strensall

    1 Close Support Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

    Catterick

    2 Close Support Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

    Leuchars

    4 Armoured Close Support Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

    Tidworth

    6 Armoured Close Support Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

    Tidworth

    7 Air Assault Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

    Wattisham

    5 Force Support Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

    Tidworth

    1st Regiment Royal Military Police

    Catterick

    3rd Regiment Royal Military Police

    Bulford

    4th Regiment Royal Military Police

    Aldershot

    Special Investigation Branch Regiment Royal Military Police

    Bulford

    Specialist Operations Regiment Royal Military Police

    Southwick Park

    Military Provost Staff Regiment

    Colchester

    1st Military Working Dog Regiment

    North Luffenham

    1 Military Intelligence Battalion

    Catterick

    2 Military Intelligence Battalion

    Upavon

    4 Military Intelligence Battalion

    Bulford

    Specialist Group Military Intelligence

    Hermitage

    15 (United Kingdom) Psychological Operation Group

    Hermitage

    The Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia)

    Monmouth

    The Honourable Artillery Company

    London

    The Royal Yeomanry

    London

    The Royal Wessex Yeomanry

    Bovington

    The Queen’s Own Yeomanry

    Newcastle Upon Tyne

    The Scottish And North Irish Yeomanry

    Edinburgh

    101st (Northumbrian) Regiment Royal Artillery

    Gateshead

    103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment Royal Artillery

    St Helens

    104th Regiment Royal Artillery

    Newport

    105th Regiment Royal Artillery

    Edinburgh

    106th (Yeomanry) Regiment Royal Artillery

    Grove Park

    71 Engineer Regiment

    Leuchars

    75 Engineer Regiment

    Warrington

    65 Works Group Royal Engineers

    Chilwell

    32nd (Scottish) Signal Regiment

    Glasgow

    37th Signal Regiment

    Redditch

    39th (Skinners) Signal Regiment

    Bristol

    71st (Yeomanry) Signal Regiment

    London

    52nd Lowland, 6th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland

    Glasgow

    51st Highland, 7th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland

    Perth

    3rd Battalion The Princess Of Wales’s Royal Regiment

    Canterbury

    4th Battalion The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment

    Preston

    5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

    Newcastle Upon Tyne

    3rd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment

    Bury St Edmunds

    4th Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment

    York

    4th Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire, Worcester and Forsters, and Staffords)

    Wolverhampton

    3rd Battalion The Royal Welsh

    Cardiff

    2nd Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd, 87th and The Ulster Defence Regiment)

    Lisburn

    4th Battalion The Parachute Regiment

    Pudsey

    The London Regiment

    London

    6th Battalion The Rifles

    Exeter

    7th Battalion The Rifles

    Reading

    1st Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Brigade Specialist Military Unit

    London

    1st Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Brigade Specialist Military Unit

    Birmingham

    6 Regiment Army Air Corps

    Bury St Edmunds

    150 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps

    Hull

    151 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps

    Croydon

    152 (North Irish) Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps

    Holywood

    156 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps

    Liverpool

    158 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps

    Peterborough

    154 (Scottish) Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps

    Dunfermline

    157 (Welsh) Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps

    Cardiff

    162 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps

    Grantham

    165 Port And Maritime The Regiment Royal Logistic Corps

    Plymouth

    159 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps

    Coventry

    167 Catering Support Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps

    Grantham

    2 Operational Support Group The Royal Logistic Corps

    Grantham

    201 (Northern) Field Hospital

    Newcastle Upon Tyne

    202 (Midlands) Field Hospital

    Birmingham

    203 (Welsh) Field Hospital

    Cardiff

    204 (North Irish) Field Hospital

    Belfast

    205 (Scottish) Field Hospital

    Govan

    207 (Manchester) Field Hospital

    Manchester

    208 (Liverpool) Field Hospital

    Liverpool

    212 (Yorkshire) Field Hospital

    Sheffield

    225 (Scottish) Medical Regiment

    Dundee

    243 (The Wessex) Field Hospital

    Bristol

    253 (North Irish) Medical Regiment

    Belfast

    254 (East of England) Medical Regiment

    Cambridge

    256 (City of London) Field Hospital

    Walworth

    306 Hospital Support Medical Regiment

    Strensall

    335 Medical Evacuation Regiment

    Strensall

    Operational Headquarters Support Group

    Strensall

    101 Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

    Wrexham

    102 Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

    Newton Aycliffe

    103 Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

    Crawley

    104 Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

    Northampton

    105 Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

    Bristol

    106 Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

    East Kilbride

    3 Military Intelligence Battalion

    London

    5 Military Intelligence Battalion

    Coulby Newham

    6 Military Intelligence Battalion

    Rusholme

    7 Military Intelligence Battalion

    Bristol
  • Matthew Offord – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    Matthew Offord – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Matthew Offord on 2016-01-07.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to page three of the HMG Strategy for Abolition of the Death Penalty 2010-2015, as revised in October 2011, what legal challenges to the mandatory death penalty his Department has been involved in involving (a) UK citizens and (b) non-UK citizens in each of the last five years.

    Mr David Lidington

    Using a range of funding tools, principally the Human Rights and Democracy Programme Fund, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has, since 2010, funded a number of non-governmental organisations to mount legal challenges to the use of the death penalty abroad both in specific cases and on matters of general principle. We do not fund the private legal costs of British nationals facing the death penalty, but we can refer cases to the FCO’s pro bono legal panel, where appropriate, to provide advice to the British national in question and their local lawyer on an entirely pro bono basis.

  • Ann Clwyd – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Ann Clwyd – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ann Clwyd on 2016-02-02.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the implications are for her Department’s policies of the legal submission given to her on 15 December 2015 by the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign on the confrontation between police and miners at Orgreave in June 1984.

    Mike Penning

    On 21 July 2015 the Home Secretary met a group of MPs, a Welsh Assembly Member, Michael Mansfield QC and members of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign (OTJC), led by Louise Haigh MP, to discuss their calls for a public inquiry to be established following the publication of the IPCC scoping review into the policing of events at Orgreave in 1984.

    Following this meeting, on 15 December 2015 the Home Secretary received a submission from the OTJC containing their arguments for establishing a public inquiry into the events at Orgreave. That 85 page submission raises a range of extensive issues which the Home Secretary is currently considering fully and in detail before responding. She will set out the Government’s position in due course.

  • Richard Burden – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

    Richard Burden – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Richard Burden on 2016-02-26.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with the new owners of London City Airport; what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the sale of that airport on airport capacity in the South East; and if he will make a statement.

    Mr Robert Goodwill

    There have been no discussions with the new owners of London City Airport.

    The purchase of London City Airport is a commercial matter between the relevant parties.

  • Dan Jarvis – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

    Dan Jarvis – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dan Jarvis on 2016-03-21.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, from which non-UK EU-based companies his Department procures materiel.

    Mr Philip Dunne

    In 2014-15, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) placed 2,128 new contracts. A breakdown of those which were non-UK EU-based companies is not held centrally.

    The MOD does, however, routinely publish a list of all organisations with which we have spent £5 million or more. Details for 2015 can be found in Excel tables 2a and 2b of the Trade, Industry and Contracts Bulletin 2015 at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mod-industry-trade-and-contracts-2015

  • Lord Mancroft – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Lord Mancroft – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Mancroft on 2016-04-13.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether NHS England’s decision to treat 10,000 hepatitis C patients represents a cap on the number of patients the NHS can treat in 2016–17.

    Lord Prior of Brampton

    NHS England’s approach paces the roll-out of hepatitis C treatment in accordance with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommendation for prioritisation and the modelling assumptions which informed the NICE recommendations.

  • Virendra Sharma – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Virendra Sharma – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Virendra Sharma on 2016-05-18.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the UK would lose access to the Prüm Convention in the event of a vote to leave the EU.

    James Brokenshire

    As set out in the Government’s White Paper on the process for withdrawing from the European Union, published on 29 February 2016, the rules for exiting the EU are set out in Article 50 of the Treaty on the European Union. The process that would be followed is unprecedented – no country has ever used Article 50. It would be a complex negotiation involving all 27 remaining EU Member States and the Commission.

    Should the UK leave the EU, future collaboration in relation to the relevant EU Prüm measures would depend on the outcome of the negotiation. Two non-EU countries (Norway and Iceland) have concluded an agreement to access Prüm, although both are part of the border-free Schengen area. The agreements were concluded in 2010, but neither agreement has yet entered into force.

  • Kelvin Hopkins – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

    Kelvin Hopkins – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kelvin Hopkins on 2016-07-07.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of non-planned Govia Thameslink Railway services were cancelled in each reporting period since July 2015.

    Claire Perry

    There have not been, and there are, no ‘non-planned’ services.

  • Helen Goodman – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union

    Helen Goodman – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Goodman on 2016-10-07.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what estimate he has made of the (a) value and (b) volume of imports by sector, from non-EU countries that were exported to countries in the EU as (i) components and (ii) free standing items in each of the last five years.

    Mr David Jones

    My Department, working with officials across government, continues to undertake a wide range of data analyses to inform the UK’s position for the upcoming negotiations with our EU partners. We have been clear that we will not provide a running commentary that might undermine our negotiating position.