The below Parliamentary question was asked by Caroline Lucas on 2014-04-28.
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will make an assessment of the feasibility of granting people the right to vote in General Elections based on residency rather than nationality; and if he will make a statement.
Greg Clark
The Government has no plans to link the right to vote in General elections to residency rather than nationality.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dominic Raab on 2014-04-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the Answer of 10 January 2013, Official Report, column 424W, on fossil fuels: imports, how much (a) oil and (b) gas was imported into the UK from (i) Russia, (ii) Norway, (iii) the Middle East and (iv) Latin America in each of the last two years.
Michael Fallon
Oil imported into the UK from Russia, Norway, the Middle East and Latin America in each of the last two years:
|
Crude Oil Imports (thousand tonnes) |
2012 |
2013 (provisional) |
|
Russia |
6,583 |
3,831 |
|
Norway |
24,555 |
19,789 |
|
Middle East |
7,786 |
11,326 |
|
Latin America |
1,186 |
778 |
Gas imported into the UK from Russia, Norway, the Middle East and Latin America in each of the last two years:
|
Gas Imports (GWh) |
2012 |
2013 (provisional) |
|
Russia |
0 |
0 |
|
Norwegian pipeline |
294,586 |
305,516 |
|
Norwegian LNG |
1,709 |
1,052 |
|
Middle East LNG |
145,702 |
98,966 |
|
Latin America |
0 |
0 |
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Roger Godsiff on 2014-04-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what account his Department takes of previous performance on government contracts when assessing bids for new contracts.
Dr Daniel Poulter
The Department has implemented the Government’s best practice for assessing past performance in its contracts and takes past performance into account as part of a legal and commercial compliance test for any contracts which are greater than £20 million in value. This is in line with the Cabinet Office Procurement Policy Note, Action Note 09/12, issued on 8 November 2012.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2014-04-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost is of keeping a foreign national offender classified by her Department as individual non-compliant in detention for one day.
James Brokenshire
The estimated average direct daily cost of holding a person in our immigration
detention facilities is £100. It should be noted that this is an average and it
will vary marginally depending upon the mix of facilities in use at a given
point.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-04-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been (a) prosecuted and (b) convicted for receiving each type of illicit or unauthorised items into prison through the post in each of the last four years.
Jeremy Wright
Prisons employ a range of measures to detect, disrupt and deter the trafficking of illicit items into prisons. Any contraband detected coming into the prison will be recorded on a central incident reporting system. However, to identify the manner in which the contraband entered the prison and any subsequent referral to the police would require a manual interrogation of incident reports. This could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.
Information on prosecutions and convictions for these offences is not held centrally and could only be obtained by asking each prison to source information locally. This, again, could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2014-04-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people who have received a benefit sanction have appealed this decision and won sanction in (a) Scotland, (b) Airdrie and Shotts constituency and (c) North Lanarkshire in each of the last four years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.
Esther McVey
The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julian Brazier on 2014-04-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what audit he has made of the performance of the Student Loans Company.
Mr David Willetts
Each year the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Devolved Administrations set Student Loans Company (SLC) stretching performance measures which are confirmed in an Annual Performance and Resource Agreement (APRA) letter. BIS closely monitors SLC’s performance against these measures throughout the year. Monitoring arrangements include formal quarterly reviews of SLC’s performance which are conducted by Ministers and senior officials.
Each year the SLC publishes externally audited information on its performance in its Annual Report and Accounts. The APRA letter and SLC’s Annual Report and Accounts are available on SLC’s website: http://www.slc.co.uk/
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Roger Godsiff on 2014-04-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect of changes to disabled students’ allowances on the number of disabled students completing higher or further education.
Mr David Willetts
The announced changes to Disabled Students’ Allowances (DSAs) will be subject to a full equality analysis to determine the impact of these changes on students with protected characteristics. The equality analysis will be given full consideration before regulations are laid before the House.
These changes will apply to all full-time, full-time distance learning, part-time and postgraduate students in higher education applying for DSA for the first time from the 2015/16 academic year. DSAs are not available to further education students, as the Government provides Learning Support funding to further education colleges and providers to help meet the additional needs of learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Blenkinsop on 2014-04-25.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much HM Treasury received in VAT charged on ebooks in (a) 2012-13 and (b) 2013-14.
Mr David Gauke
No reliable estimate has been possible for the value of VAT levied on the sale of e-books purchased in 2012‑13 and 2013-14.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2014-04-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2014, Official Report, column 56W, on families: disadvantaged, what criteria his Department uses for assessing whether a family has been turned around.
Kris Hopkins
As set out in my answer to the hon. Member for Croydon North (Steve Reed) on 2 December 2013, Official Report, column 556W, the criteria used by local authorities to determine whether a family is deemed turned around are published in the Financial Framework for the Troubled Families Programme’s Payment by Results Scheme. This can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-troubled-families-programme-financial-framework
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