Tag: Parliamentary Question

  • Greg Mulholland – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Greg Mulholland – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2015-11-09.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support she is providing to 16 and 17 year olds who have been victims of child sexual exploitation.

    Karen Bradley

    Tackling child sexual exploitation is a top priority for this Government. We have prioritised child sexual abuse as a national threat in the Strategic Policing Requirement, setting a clear expectation on police forces to collaborate across force boundaries, to safeguard children, to share intelligence and to share best practice.

    Significant progress has been made since the launch of the “Tackling CSE” report in March 2015. We have delivered the vast majority of a £7 million funding programme to support non statutory organisations that have experienced a surge in demand on their services. This funding is to support the victims and survivors of sexual abuse, including children of all ages.

    Furthermore, £1.6 million has been provided over four years (April 2012 – March 2016) for 13 Young People’s Advocates providing direct and dedicated support to young people who have been victims, or are at risk of, sexual and domestic violence and/or sexual exploitation. Funding of £1.72 million per year has also been committed to part fund 87 Independent Sexual Violence Advisers posts until March 2016.

  • Emily Thornberry – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    Emily Thornberry – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2015-12-08.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November 2015 to Question 17164, which employers have been sub-contracted to deliver community work placements by each of those prime providers.

    Priti Patel

    Prime Providers may use subcontractors to help source Community Work Placements. The current Community Work Placement sub-contractors working for prime providers are as follows:

    G4S Regional Management (UK&I) Limited: CPA2 – East Midlands

    Acorn Training

    Acorn Training Consultants

    Babington

    Framework Housing

    Learn Direct

    Work Pays

    Cygnus Consulting Limited

    JJ Training (UK) Limited

    G4S Regional Management (UK&I) Limited: CPA3 – London West

    ATN

    Cygnus Consulting Limited

    Urban Futures

    Ixion

    Pinnacle People

    G4S Regional Management (UK&I) Limited: CPA4 – London East

    ATN

    Ixion

    Faith Regen

    Resources Plus (Bexley)

    Urban Futures

    Pinnacle People

    Advanced Personnel Management Group (UK) Limited: CPA5 – North East

    Acumen

    DISC

    Escape Family Support

    Groundwork North East and Cumbria

    Groundwork South Tyneside and Newcastle

    Sunderland North Community Business Centre

    Tyne Metropolitan College

    Training and Advice Services Ltd

    G4S Regional Management (UK&I) Limited: CPA6 – North West

    Bootstrap

    The Work Company

    Learn Direct

    Groundwork

    Learndirect Limited: CPA8 – Scotland

    Aberdeen Foyer

    Argyll & Bute Council

    Argyll Training

    CEIS Ayrshire

    Dundee & Angus College

    Fife College

    Midlothian Council

    Ironworks

    Pulteneytown Peoples Project

    Lifeskills Central Limited

    Connect Community Trust

    G4S Regional Management (UK&I) Limited: CPA9 – South East

    Learn Direct

    PCMI

    Cygnus Consulting Limited

    Working Links (Employment) Limited: CPA13 – Wales

    Groundwork

    ACT Learnabout

    Bethany Training

    Tai Calon

    Grow Enterprise Wales (RCT Homes)

    North Wales Training

    Newport City Council

    Cornelly and District Development Trust

    Whitehead Ross

    Crest Cooperative

    Melin Homes

    Advanced Personnel Management Group (UK) Limited: CPA15 – West Midlands

    Sarina Russo Job Action

    Shropshire Council

    Stoke College

    Stoke Council

    Interserve Working Futures Limited: CPA16 – Yorkshire and the Humber

    Halifax Opportunities Trust

    Aim 2 Learn

    Interserve Working Futures Limited: CPA17 – Yorkshire and the Humber

    Groundwork Sheffield

    Phoenix Enterprises

    G4S Regional Management (UK&I) Limited: CPA18 – Yorkshire and the Humber

    Pinnacle People

    JJ Training

    Work Company

  • Lord Stoddart of Swindon – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    Lord Stoddart of Swindon – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Stoddart of Swindon on 2016-01-18.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether charities in receipt of donations from the Government, or other public institutions and bodies financed wholly or partly by taxpayers, will be debarred from campaigning in the EU referendum.

    Lord Bridges of Headley

    Under charity law, political activity by charities is subject to strict rules. In addition, there is a prohibition, in the 28 days ending with the referendum, on certain publications relating to the referendum by bodies whose expenses are met wholly or mainly out of public funds.

  • Heidi Alexander – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Heidi Alexander – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Heidi Alexander on 2016-02-04.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding his Department has set aside for managing the transition from NHS bursaries to student loans for new nursing, midwifery and allied health students from 1 August 2017.

    Ben Gummer

    The Department will be working with delivery organisations outside of the Department to assess a range of considerations for transition and implementation.

    The Department will be consulting on the health education funding reforms in due course.

  • Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town on 2016-03-01.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many lobbying consultancies would need to sign up to the Government’s Register of Consultant Lobbyists in order for the Register to be self-funding.

    Lord Bridges of Headley

    The Transparency Act requires that the regulations are set to recover the costs of the Registrar’s activities from the industry via subscription charges. The Register of Consultant Lobbyists is nearing the end of its set-phase but ongoing running costs would still be different from projections. The total annual charge paid by each registering consultant lobbyist increased from £750 to £1000 on 1 January 2016. The Government will keep the funding arrangements for the Register under review.

  • Catherine West – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    Catherine West – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Catherine West on 2016-03-23.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the human rights situation in Indonesia.

    Mr Hugo Swire

    Our Embassy in Jakarta engages with a wide range of Indonesian civil society organisations and regularly seeks their assessments of the human rights situation. Indonesia has a strong tradition of religious diversity and tolerance but there has been a rise in recent years of localised instances of inter- and intra-religious conflict and examples where the rights of religious and other minority groups have not been protected.

    We will continue to raise our concerns on these important issues with the Indonesian authorities.

  • Baroness Jones of Whitchurch – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Baroness Jones of Whitchurch – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch on 2016-05-03.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to legislate to make restaurants and food outlets display their hygiene ratings.

    Lord Prior of Brampton

    The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has responsibility for the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme. The FSA has been monitoring the impact of mandatory display of ratings at food outlets in Wales and will look closely at the evidence from this. It is anticipated that proposals will be presented to the Government by the end of the year.

  • Stephen Kinnock – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    Stephen Kinnock – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Kinnock on 2016-06-15.

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has discussed with the devolved administrations inserting the new anti-lobbying clause into their government grants.

    Matthew Hancock

    Officials in the Cabinet Office Grants Efficiency Programme team held preliminary discussions with the devolved administrations as part of the implementation of the grants clause. However, as announced on 27 April, the implementation of the clause has been paused pending a review of the representations made and we will take a decision on the form of the clause following this review. Revised guidance will be published in due course.

  • Liz Saville Roberts – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Attorney General

    Liz Saville Roberts – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Attorney General

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liz Saville Roberts on 2016-09-12.

    To ask the Attorney General, what his policy is on offences under section 4A of the Protection from Harassment 1998 Act being referred to the Court of Appeal on the grounds of undue leniency.

    Robert Buckland

    Neither of these offences are covered under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme and therefore the Law Officers have no power to refer sentences for these offences to the Court of Appeal.

    The Government has committed to extending the scope of the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme and is carefully considering its approach.

  • Oliver Colvile – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    Oliver Colvile – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Oliver Colvile on 2016-10-19.

    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans his Department has for the revised UK-Malawi tax treaty to be signed.

    Jane Ellison

    As is usual in any negotiation, the text of a tax treaty remains confidential between the two governments during the negotiations. It is not therefore possible to comment on the contents of a treaty before it is signed.

    The majority of the UK’s double taxation treaties are based on the OECD Model Double Taxation Convention. However, some developing countries prefer to follow the United Nations Model, whose provisions differ in some respects from the OECD Model, including in the “permanent establishment” article. Many of the UK’s treaties with developing countries contain at least some of these provisions. A treaty will be signed only when both governments are satisfied with its contents.

    It has long been the UK’s policy to include robust anti-abuse provisions in its tax treaties to ensure that they operate as intended and in particular that residents of third countries cannot indirectly benefit from their provisions.

    The text of the new treaty with Malawi was substantively agreed some time ago. However, in August 2016 Malawi raised some further points for consideration, which we will work together on. When that process is complete, and both countries are satisfied with contents of the new treaty, it will be signed and published. Parliament will scrutinise the revised agreement, as part of the affirmative Statutory Instruments procedures, before the treaty can enter into force.