The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Flynn on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of MINURSO in implementing its role in Western Sahara.
Hugh Robertson
MINURSO is effective in implementing its role in Western Sahara. MINURSO is mandated to monitor the ceasefire between Morocco and the POLISARIO: the situation in Western Sahara is generally calm and the ceasefire continues to hold.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the introduction of individual electoral registration in Northern Ireland.
Greg Clark
The experience of Northern Ireland has helped inform the plans for the transition to Individual Electoral Registration (IER) in Great Britain. As a result the approach in Great Britain differs from Northern Ireland in several key respects. Unlike the transition to IER in Northern Ireland in 2002, in Great Britain data matching is being used to ‘confirm’ the majority of current electors on the existing register without them having to make a new application. The transition is being phased over two years, which means no one who registered to vote at the last canvass will lose their right to vote at the General Election in 2015. The annual canvass is also being retained and on-line registration is being introduced to make electoral registration more accessible.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
Mike Penning
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is measuring National Wellbeing, not as an index but through a framework of 41 indicators which capture social progress around important aspects of life for individuals, communities and the nation. The statistics are experimental and as such we should not expect to have examples of major policies that have been heavily influenced by the wellbeing data at this stage.
Evidence provided to the Environmental Audit Committee for its Inquiry into Wellbeing can be found at:
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Michael Dugher on 2014-06-10.
To ask the Prime Minister, what interviews were conducted as part of the Cabinet Secretary’s review of the release of correspondence between Ministers relating to prevention of extremism.
Mr David Cameron
The Cabinet Secretary will respond to the hon. Member on this matter shortly. I will place a copy of the letter in the Library of the House.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2014-06-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much in additional payments has been paid to staff of HM Passport Office of each grade between po1 and 6 in each month of 2014; how many staff of each grade received such payments; and what the total amount of such payments is.
James Brokenshire
Her Majesty’s Passport Ofice does not hold data on overtime payments in the format
requested. However, below is the overtime costs associated with additional work
undertaken in each month of 2014.
January – £199,146
February – £400,812
March – £840,588
April – £793,559
May – £964,742
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2014-06-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the number of hedgehogs in the UK in each of the last three years.
George Eustice
No estimates of hedgehog populations have been made by Defra in the last three years. However, a report ‘The State of Britain’s Hedgehogs’ was published in 2011 by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society and the People’s Trust for Endangered Species. It estimates that hedgehog numbers were approximately 1.5 million in 1995. The report is available online at:
www.ptes.org/files/1428_sobh2011lowres.pdf
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) women and (b) men have cancers caused by the human papilloma virus.
Jane Ellison
At present the number of people living with Human papillomavirus (HPV) related cancers is not known for several reasons;
– there is no nationally collated database of individual patients’ records containing the HPV status of their cancers;
– prevalence figures are not known for all types of cancer i.e. the number of people who have been diagnosed and are still alive; and
– many people alive after treatment of cancer will have been cured and will not consider themselves to be still living with a cancer.
However it has been estimated by Parkin1 that the number of new cases per year, of cancers in the United Kingdom, which maybe HPV related as 5,088 (1.6% of all newly diagnosed cancer cases). Of these 4,058 are females and 1,030 are males. This is based on incidence rates for 2010.
Public Health England (PHE) has calculated a prevalence estimate for the number of women who are currently alive following treatment of their cervical cancer and this is at least 19,000. Many of these will be cured.
Later this year PHE will publish prevalence estimates i.e. the number of people living with the other types of HPV related cancers.
Notes:
Parkin, D M. Cancers attributable to infection in the UK in 2010
British Journal of Cancer (2011) 105, S49 – S56; doi:10.1038/bjc.2011.484
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2014-06-10.
To ask the Attorney General, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) successful prosecutions there were in each Crown Prosecution Service area for (i) assisting unlawful immigration to an EU member state, (ii) assisting entry to the UK in breach of a deportation or exclusion order, (iii) assisting the entry/remaining of an excluded person, (iv) possession and/or manufacture of false identity documents, (v) employment of illegal immigrants, (vi) trafficking in exploitation/for sexual exploitation, (vii) trafficking people for labour and other exploitation, (viii) conspiracy to traffic and (ix) slavery, servitude, forced and compulsory labour in the last five years for which figures are available.
Oliver Heald
The Crown Prosecution Service does not keep a central record of the number of prosecutions completed, and whether they were successful or not, for the offences listed in the question. This information could only be obtained by a manual examination of all files prosecuted which would incur disproportionate cost.
Official statistics relating to criminal court proceedings and offenders brought to justice are maintained by the Ministry of Justice.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Elfyn Llwyd on 2014-06-10.
To ask the Attorney General, in respect of how many alleged offences under section (a) 2A and (b) 4A of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 proceedings are active in magistrates’ and crown courts in England and Wales; and if he will make a statement.
Oliver Heald
The Crown Prosecution Service does not maintain a central record of the number of particular offences that are currently active in either magistrates’ or crown courts in England and Wales.
The CPS case management system does however record the number of finalised cases which reached a first hearing in the magistrates’ court as follows:
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2012-2013 |
2013-2014 |
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Protection from Harassment Act 1997 { 4A(1)(a)(b)(i) and (5) } |
Stalking involving fear of violence |
9 |
65 |
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Protection from Harassment Act 1997 { 4A(1)(a)(b)(ii) and (5) } |
Stalking involving serious alarm / distress |
10 |
149 |
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Protection from Harassment Act 1997 { 2A(1) and (4) } |
Stalking |
72 |
529 |
There is no indication of final outcome or if the offence charged was the offence at finalisation.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kelvin Hopkins on 2014-06-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what level of revenue support Govia will be entitled to in each accounting period of the direct award of the London Midland rail passenger franchise agreement to June.
Stephen Hammond
Although preliminary negotiations have taken place with regard to a Direct Award to run services from April 2016, formal negotiations are yet to take place.
However, we do not anticipate that the operator will be entitled to any revenue support throughout the period of the Direct Award.