Tag: Parliamentary Question

Lord Stoddart of Swindon – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Stoddart of Swindon on 2014-06-10.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to bring their proposals to give HM Revenue and Customs power to remove money from bank accounts without prior judicial process for consideration or agreement by the House of Lords; and, if so, how.

Lord Deighton

The Government is consulting on the Direct Recovery of Debts until 29th July. This policy will modernise and strengthen HMRC’s ability to recover tax and tax credit debts from those who are refusing to pay what they owe but have sufficient funds in their accounts.

The Government intends to publish a response document and draft legislation later this year. This draft legislation will be consulted on before it is included in next year’s Finance Bill, where it will be subject to the usual Parliamentary scrutiny.

November 1, 2022
Lord Roberts of Llandudno – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Roberts of Llandudno on 2014-06-10.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether it is their intention for on-site legal surgeries be held in HMP The Verne.

Lord Faulks

Earlier this year the Legal Aid Agency conducted an expression of interest exercise among existing contract holders providing immigration surgeries at other Immigration Removal Centres, with four providers confirmed as interested in operating surgeries in HMP The Verne. Communications will be issued shortly regarding when these services are likely to commence.

November 1, 2022
David Amess – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Amess on 2014-06-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress his Department has made in reducing the number of young people not in education, employment or training since May 2010.

Matthew Hancock

Latest quarterly figures published in May show that the proportion of 16-18 year olds NEET is 6.7% – down a third since 2010 and the lowest on record.

November 1, 2022
Lord Berkeley – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Berkeley on 2014-06-09.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Kramer on 13 May (WA 493), what is the amount of the annual charge used to calculate the net presentvalue of the Thameslink rolling stock project and the number of diagrammed multiple units and diagrammed vehicles to be provided.

Baroness Kramer

The aggregate net present value for the supply and maintenance of the new Thameslink trains (including the provision of depots) is £2.8 billion in 2014 prices. Cross London Trains Ltd will lease 1140 vehicles as 115 trains, consisting of 55 12-car units and 60 8-car units, to the Thameslink operator to support an assumption of 109 diagrams. The final number of diagrams to be operated will be determined through the planning process for the December 2018 timetable.

November 1, 2022
Lord Laming – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Laming on 2014-06-09.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they intend to take to reduce the number of children and young people who currently disappear from public care.

Lord Nash

It is every Council’s responsibility to provide looked after children with safe, secure care. This includes protecting them from the risks of going missing. New guidance was issued in January 2014 on children who go missing from care. The guidance places a duty on local authorities to offer all children an independent interview when they return from going missing. These interviews can reduce the likelihood of the child going missing again, as well as identify risks to which they may have been exposed whilst missing. We have also now started to collect national data for all children who go missing from care, not just those missing for 24 hours. This data will help build a clearer picture of the extent to which children go missing from local authority care.

The new Ofsted inspection framework has a focus on missing children. To be judged as “good” local authorities will have to show that:

“Comprehensive records are held and shared between agencies to help and protect children and young people. Together they take steps to ensure that all children, including those who are excluded from school, are safe and that for those who are missing or often missing there is a clear plan of urgent action in place to protect them and to reduce the risk of harm or further harm.”

Where Ofsted find poor practice they make specific recommendations to the local authority in their report.

November 1, 2022
Lord Stoddart of Swindon – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Stoddart of Swindon on 2014-06-09.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Prime Minister’s comments in Brussels on 27 May that Brussels was too big and too busy” indicate that they intend to oppose any further expansion of the European Union.”

Baroness Warsi

The Prime Minister, my Rt. Hon Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron)’s comment was that Brussels is “too big and too bossy”. He was referring to the need for the EU to reform to become less interfering and more competitive, flexible and democratically accountable. He was not pronouncing on the EU’s territorial size.

The UK continues to be a strong supporter of enlargement based on firm but fair conditionality, focussing on key concerns shared by many Member States, particularly around the rule of law. Enlargement has proved a huge driver of peace, prosperity and progress across our continent.

November 1, 2022
Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town on 2014-06-09.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they will bring forward delegated legislation under the Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 enabling complaints against claims management firms to be heard by the Legal Services Ombudsman.

Lord Faulks

The Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 provides the necessary enabling powers to put in place the funding arrangements for the Legal Ombudsman to deal with complaints against claims management companies. These provisions were commenced on 21 March 2014. They include a power for the Lord Chancellor to make Regulations to charge fees to recover the costs he has incurred in meeting the expenditure of the Legal Ombudsman in relation to claims management complaints.

The Government consultation on the proposed structure of the Lord Chancellor’s cost recovery fee ended on 6 June and the responses are being analysed. Once the fee structure is finalised, the Fee Regulations will be laid in Parliament for approval. Following this, an order to commence section 161 of the Legal Services Act 2007 will be laid. This will extend the remit of the Legal Ombudsman to enable it to deal with complaints about authorised claims management companies.

The government is committed to enabling this as soon as possible.

November 1, 2022
Priti Patel – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Priti Patel on 2014-06-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding his Department has provided to each local authority for highways in each of the last 10 years.

Mr Robert Goodwill

I have placed a table in the Libraries of the House which sets out how much each local highway authority has been allocated for highways in the last ten years.

This table includes funding we have provided through a number of funding streams including Highways Maintenance Integrated Transport Block, Local Major Projects, Local Pinch Point Fund and Community Infrastructure Fund projects.

Local authorities are also able to use revenue funding, allocated by the Department of Communities and Local Government through the Revenue Support Grant for maintaining their local highways. Neither revenue nor capital highways maintenance block funding is ring-fenced and it is for local highway authorities to decide upon their spending priorities across the whole range of services that they provide.

The Department is also funding local highways maintenance projects in Portsmouth, Birmingham, Sheffield, Isle of Wight and the London Borough of Hounslow through the Private Finance Initiative.

November 1, 2022

Dominic Raab – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dominic Raab on 2014-06-09.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding for the extraction of North Sea oil has come from (a) the Government, (b) the Scottish Government and (c) the private sector in each year from 1984.

Michael Fallon

I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Department for Energy and Climate Change.

Government departments and agencies, including notably the Department of Energy and Climate Change and its predecessor departments, have for many years supported research aimed at identifying UK hydrocarbon potential and finding ways of finding and extracting it more cost-effectively. Comprehensive records of the amount spent on such activities by year across Government are not available.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change does not have detailed information on the annual expenditure of the Scottish Government.

Estimates of total annual pre-tax expenditure in £ billions by the private sector on finding and developing UK hydrocarbons (oil and gas, in the North Sea as well as elsewhere in the UK and on the UK Continental Shelf) for the period 1984–2013 are given in the table below. More detailed information through to 2012 is available online at https://www.gov.uk/oil-and-gas-uk-field-data#ukcs-income-and-expenditure.

1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993
6.3	6.5	5.6	5.0	5.3	6.1	8.0	10.4	10.2	9.5

1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
8.5	9.4	9.4	9.6	9.9	7.8	7.5	8.3	8.6	8.2

2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
8.4	9.9	12.0	12.4	13.1	13.3	14.9	18.3	21.8	25.8

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November 1, 2022

John Robertson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Robertson on 2014-06-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of welfare reforms since May 2010 on levels of child poverty.

Esther McVey

The Government has not made an assessment of the effect of welfare reforms on levels on child poverty. Given the large number of reforms and variables involved, the impact of welfare changes cannot be seen in isolation.

However, the guiding principles of all of this Government’s welfare reforms are to get more people into work by making work pay.

A key component of the Welfare Reform is Universal Credit. Universal Credit is expected to improve work incentives by allowing individuals to keep more of their income as they move into work, and by introducing a smoother and more transparent reduction of benefits when they increase their earnings.

We estimate this new reform will lift around 300,000 children out of poverty.

November 1, 2022