Tag: Parliamentary Question

Katy Clark – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Katy Clark on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many times the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Liverpool was staffed at below risk-assessed levels in (a) April 2014 and (b) May 2014.

Stephen Hammond

Liverpool Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) was staffed below risk assessed levels during:

a) April 2014 – 30 occasions out of 60 shifts

b) May 2014 – 6 occasions out of 62 shifts

Where there are specific issues at a MRCC Her Majesty’s Coastguard is using the current long established pairing arrangements between MRCCs. This enables each MRCC to be connected to at least one other MRCC which is available to provide mutual support.

November 2, 2022
Lord Chidgey – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Chidgey on 2014-06-26.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to deploy Stabilisation Unit experts to work as counterparts to the Central African Republic’s civil servants, to assist in financial, taxation and budgeting reform in that country.

Baroness Warsi

The UK will continue to work with and through international organisations, such as the World Bank and the UN, to ensure a coherent strategy for the Central African Republic, including on public financial management and public sector reform. We would be happy to consider the deployment of Stabilisation Unit experts to support the work of these international organisations, as necessary.

November 2, 2022
Ivan Lewis – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ivan Lewis on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what work the British Business Bank is doing in Northern Ireland to promote its services to small businesses located there.

Matthew Hancock

British Business Bank programmes facilitated £7.5m of new lending and investment to smaller businesses in Northern Ireland in 2013/14.

The Business Bank’s Enterprise Finance Guarantee programme supported £5.1 million of additional lending to Northern Irish businesses during 2013/14, bringing the total amount of lending through the programme in Northern Ireland to £36.1 million.

The Bank’s Start Up Loans programme was extended to Northern Ireland in June 2013 and since then, it has provided 120 loans to Northern Irish start-ups, lending a total of over £560,000.

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Northern Ireland Executive recently hosted a roadshow in Northern Ireland to promote the delivery of Business Bank programmes through Northern Irish finance providers and the Business Bank is actively discussing with the Executive how it can continue to support Northern Irish businesses in the future.

November 2, 2022
Chris Bryant – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture Media and Sport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Bryant on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to free (a) swimming and (b) other leisure services to all claimants of universal credit once universal credit has been fully rolled out.

Mrs Helen Grant

No costing has been estimated.

November 2, 2022
Chris Bryant – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Bryant on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of extending entitlement to free early education to all claimants of universal credit once universal credit has been fully rolled out.

Elizabeth Truss

Government-funded early education for three- and four-year-olds is already a universal entitlement, so there would be no cost of extending the entitlement. Universal Credit will be fully rolled out in the next Parliament, and spending decisions for that period have not been taken. This means it is, therefore not possible to estimate the potential cost on early learning for two-year-olds.

November 2, 2022

John Robertson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Robertson on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many marine dredging applications have been dealt with by the Marine Management Organisation using the online marine licensing system since 2009.

George Eustice

The online marine licensing system came into force on 6 April 2011 following the formation of the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) in 2010. To date the MMO have dealt with the following numbers of marine aggregate and non-aggregate dredging applications:

Aggregate dredging

2009/10	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14
0	1 x 15 year dredging permission	0	25 x short term marine licences;	14 x 15 year marine licences;
7 x 15 year marine licences	1 x 15 year dredging permission	0	1 x aggregate trial dredging
0	1	0	32	15

Non-aggregate dredging

There was a transitional period from 6 April 2011 to 5 April 2014 for non-aggregate dredging. This activity mainly included navigational dredging which become licensable from 6 April 2014.

Disposal dredged material at sea

(figures below represent MMO licensing up to April 2014)

2009/10

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

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November 2, 2022

Kerry McCarthy – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kerry McCarthy on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what resources his Department plans to commit to the Implementation Plan for the UK’s National Action Plan on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325.

Mark Simmonds

The National Action Plan (NAP) articulates our priorities on women, peace and security and is a tool to coordinate implementation of our work at the national level. It serves as a guiding policy document that is able to capture the diverse set of initiatives on this agenda taking place across our security, foreign policy and development work. The NAP’s Implementation Plan, which will be launched later this year, will be used to assess the impact of UK efforts on women, peace and security throughout the life of the NAP.

The NAP and the Implementation Plan, which will be launched later this year, provide the framework for activities which are funded through existing Departmental budgets, including: the Conflict Pool (the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund from 2015-16), the Human Rights and Democracy Fund, the Arab Partnership Fund and Official Development Assistance – all of which help to fund the work on women, peace and security across the world. We will also allocate funding for external and independent monitoring and evaluation of the NAP.

November 2, 2022
Julian Huppert – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julian Huppert on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions his Department has had with providers of residential care for people with physical impairments and learning difficulties on proposals for home closure.

Norman Lamb

The Department has not had any recent discussions with providers of residential care for people with physical impairments and learning difficulties on proposals for home closure.

The new Care Act, which will come into force in 2015, will give local authorities a core duty to promote their local market, with a particular focus on ensuring diversity, quality and sustainability which, importantly, will mean there should be sufficient high quality services available to meet the needs of individuals in their local area.

The Department has worked with stakeholders, including provider organisations, to develop draft statutory guidance to support the implementation of the Care Act. The guidance will describe how local authorities must meet these new duties, including encouraging sustainability through appropriate fee levels. The draft guidance was published as part of a 10 week public consultation on the full package of regulations and guidance under part 1 of the Care Act on 6 June.

The Government believes that people who wish and who are able to live in their communities, rather than in an institutional care setting, should be given the support they need to do so.

November 2, 2022

Andy Sawford – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andy Sawford on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Immigration Removal Centre detainees have (a) escaped from detention, (b) escaped whilst being escorted and (c) attempted to escape each IRC in the last four years; and how many such people are still at large.

Karen Bradley

Escapes from immigration removal centres and while under escort are a subset of
published statistics. The following table shows absconds for the financial
years 2010/11-2013/14.

Information on attempted escapes is not held centrally and could only be
provided by examination of individual records at disproportionate cost.

Eleven of those individuals recorded as escaped 2010/11-2013/14 have not been
located.

The police are informed immediately when a detainee has escaped and the
individual’s details are recorded on the Police National Computer should the
individual be apprehended at a later date.

People leaving detention by place of last detention, absconded 2010/11-2013/14 (financial year) (1)(2).

Year	Absconded
2010/2011
Absconded from centre	5
Absconded from escorts	3
Total	8
2011/2012
Absconded from centre	3
Absconded from escorts	3
Total	6
2012/2013
Absconded from centre	4
Absconded from escorts	1
Total	5
2013/2014
Absconded from centre	0
Absconded from escorts	0
Total	0

(1) Data from 2011/12 onwards are provisional.

(2) Total detainees are those detained in the United Kingdom solely under Immigration Act powers and exclude those in police cells, Prison Service establishments, short term holding rooms at ports and airports (for less than 24 hours), and those recorded as detained under both criminal and immigration powers and their dependants.

November 2, 2022

Andy Sawford – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andy Sawford on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many indeterminate sentence prisoners have been considered and (a) approved and (b) rejected for release on temporary licence; and how many of these had received approval from him for transfer to open conditions.

Jeremy Wright

Data on temporary release applications and the outcomes of such applications is not collected centrally and could not be provided except at disproportionate cost. Data on releases on temporary licence are published at the following links:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/offender-management-statistics-quarterly-october-december-2013-and-annual

and

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/statistical-notice-releases-on-temporary-licence-2012

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November 2, 2022