The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Redwood on 2016-06-20.
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, which EU (a) legislative and (b) other proposals his Department is leading negotiations on for the Government in the Council of the EU.
Alun Cairns
None.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gareth Johnson on 2016-09-05.
To ask the Attorney General, how many sentences referred to the Court of Appeal under the unduly lenient sentence scheme were (a) increased and (b) kept the same in each of the last five years.
Jeremy Wright
The Government has committed to extending the scope of the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme and is carefully considering its approach.
The number of offenders who have had their sentence increased under the unduly lenient sentence scheme in each of the last five years is set out below.
|
Year |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
|
Offenders who have had their sentence increased by the Court of Appeal |
95 |
62 |
61 |
106 |
102 |
Some cases attract multiple referrals from various sources and we do not record how many referrals each case has received. The total number of cases where requests were received by the Attorney General’s Office for sentences to be reviewed in each of the last five years is set out below.
|
Year |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
|
Total number of referrals received by the Attorney General’s Office for sentences to be reviewed under the scheme |
377 |
435 |
498 |
674 |
713 |
The number of sentences referred to the Court of Appeal under the unduly lenient sentence scheme that were (a) increased and (b) kept the same in each of the last five years is set out below.
|
Year |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
|
Total number of sentences referred to the Court of Appeal |
117 |
82 |
70 |
122 |
136 |
|
Total number of sentences that were increased |
95 |
62 |
61 |
106 |
102 |
|
Total number of sentences that remained unchanged |
22 |
20 |
9 |
16 |
34 |
The number of referrals under the unduly lenient sentence scheme that have been rejected due to falling outside the remit of the scheme in each of the last five years is set out below.
|
Year |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
|
Number of referrals that have been rejected due to the offence falling outside the remit of the scheme |
62 |
75 |
131 |
194 |
228 |
|
Number of referrals received out of time |
3 |
12 |
9 |
10 |
16 |
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Patrick Grady on 2016-10-20.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will issue a response to Early Day Motion 448, on Death of political prisoners in Iran in 1988, tabled on 13 September 2016.
Mr Tobias Ellwood
I refer the hon. Member to my answer of 17 October 2016 (PQs 47087, 47085 and 47084).
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Danny Kinahan on 2016-03-14.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many dogs were imported into Northern Ireland for (a) non-commercial reasons under the PETS scheme and (b) commercial reasons in the most recent period for which figures are available; and what the countries of origin of those dogs were in each category.
George Eustice
The movement of dogs into the United Kingdom, whether through the Pet Travel Scheme or for commercial reasons is a devolved matter.
The Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland has suggested that the Honourable Member write to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Northern Ireland Executive.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Durkan on 2015-11-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the time taken for Anguilla to respond to his Department’s consultation on a public register of beneficial ownership; and what assessment he has made of the legitimacy of the reasons for the time that was taken.
James Duddridge
I refer the Honourable Gentleman to the answer given by my Rt Hon Friend, the Member for East Devon (Hugo Swire MP) Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to the answer of 10 November 2015 (PQ 15153), and to the answers given by my Hon Friend, the Member for South West Hertfordshire (David Gauke MP), the Financial Secretary to the Treasury on 16 October 2015, to (PQ10437, PQ10438 and PQ10448).
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2015-12-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to encourage people to walk for up to 30 minutes a day.
Jane Ellison
The Government recognises that walking is a key part of being active. The UK Chief Medical Officers’ physical activity guidelines for adults recommending 150 minutes of physical activity every week, identify walking as the easiest way of building physical activity into everyday life. To raise awareness of the guidelines, we have recently created an infographic for health professionals to use when they discuss physical activity with their patients. We have made walking a key part of the recommended activity.
Following the Infrastructure Act 2015, the Department of Health has also been working closely with Department of Transport on plans which will underpin the first Cycling and Walking Delivery Plan to be published in the summer. This will take forward the vision set out in the Cycling Delivery Plan 2014, to make walking and cycling the natural choices for short journeys or as part of a longer journey.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2016-01-19.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit applications in 2015 were initially rejected as the result of a computer system error and subsequently accepted.
Priti Patel
No Universal Credit applications were rejected because of a computer system error.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Murrison on 2016-02-04.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the timetable is for his Department’s plans to separate retail and investment banking arms.
Harriett Baldwin
The banks are required to separate by 1 January 2019 and implementation remains firmly on track.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Angus Brendan MacNeil on 2016-03-02.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost of state pensions to the Government as a proportion of GDP was over each of the last 30 years; and what the projected cost of state pensions as a proportion of GDP is over each of the next 30 years.
Justin Tomlinson
The requested information is available from 1991/92 to 2045/46 in the table below:
|
UK expenditure on State Pension as a proportion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) |
UK expenditure on State Pension as a proportion of GDP per million claimants of State Pension |
|
|
1991-92 |
4.0% |
0.39% |
|
1992-93 |
4.0% |
0.39% |
|
1993-94 |
4.0% |
0.39% |
|
1994-95 |
3.9% |
0.38% |
|
1995-96 |
3.9% |
0.36% |
|
1996-97 |
3.8% |
0.36% |
|
1997-98 |
3.8% |
0.35% |
|
1998-99 |
3.9% |
0.35% |
|
1999-00 |
3.9% |
0.35% |
|
2000-01 |
3.8% |
0.34% |
|
2001-02 |
4.0% |
0.35% |
|
2002-03 |
4.0% |
0.35% |
|
2003-04 |
3.9% |
0.34% |
|
2004-05 |
3.9% |
0.33% |
|
2005-06 |
3.9% |
0.33% |
|
2006-07 |
3.8% |
0.32% |
|
2007-08 |
3.9% |
0.32% |
|
2008-09 |
4.2% |
0.34% |
|
2009-10 |
4.6% |
0.36% |
|
2010-11 |
4.5% |
0.35% |
|
2011-12 |
4.7% |
0.36% |
|
2012-13 |
4.9% |
0.37% |
|
2013-14 |
4.8% |
0.37% |
|
2014-15 |
4.8% |
0.37% |
|
2015-16 |
4.9% |
0.37% |
|
2016-17 |
4.8% |
0.37% |
|
2017-18 |
4.8% |
0.36% |
|
2018-19 |
4.8% |
0.36% |
|
2019-20 |
4.7% |
0.36% |
|
2020-21 |
4.6% |
0.35% |
|
2021/22 |
4.7% |
0.35% |
|
2022/23 |
4.8% |
0.35% |
|
2023/24 |
4.9% |
0.35% |
|
2024/25 |
5.0% |
0.35% |
|
2025/26 |
5.1% |
0.35% |
|
2026/27 |
5.2% |
0.35% |
|
2027/28 |
5.2% |
0.35% |
|
2028/29 |
5.2% |
0.35% |
|
2029/30 |
5.4% |
0.35% |
|
2030/31 |
5.5% |
0.35% |
|
2031/32 |
5.6% |
0.36% |
|
2032/33 |
5.8% |
0.36% |
|
2033/34 |
5.9% |
0.36% |
|
2034/35 |
5.9% |
0.36% |
|
2035/36 |
5.9% |
0.36% |
|
2036/37 |
5.9% |
0.36% |
|
2037/38 |
6.1% |
0.36% |
|
2038/39 |
6.2% |
0.36% |
|
2039/40 |
6.3% |
0.36% |
|
2040/41 |
6.4% |
0.36% |
|
2041/42 |
6.4% |
0.36% |
|
2042/43 |
6.5% |
0.36% |
|
2043/44 |
6.5% |
0.36% |
|
2044/45 |
6.6% |
0.36% |
|
2045/46 |
6.6% |
0.36% |
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Robert Syms on 2016-03-23.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the potential reduction in revenue to the public purse resulting from the EU Tobacco Products Directive.
Jane Ellison
The Department assesses the impact of all proposed measures before laying legislation using standard government methodology. These assessments are set out in Impact Assessments which are scrutinised by the Regulatory Policy Committee before publication alongside the Statutory Instrument. Impact Assessments include a thorough analysis of the costs, benefits and risks associated with policy options.
A number of the tobacco measures contain commitments to further review the impact of the legislation within five years of them coming into force.