The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-03-03.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2016 to Question 26827, what the job titles are of those people in receipt of subsidised health insurance.
Harriett Baldwin
The individuals are Commercial Specialists, who transferred into HM Treasury from Partnerships UK under a TUPE arrangement.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-03-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 March 2016 to Question 29595, what the reasons were for refusal of the Tier 2 (Minister of Religion) Visas.
James Brokenshire
The Home Office does not hold this information in the format requested. It could only be obtained at disproportionate cost, through the interrogation of individual case records.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-04-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what improvements have been made by the ACRO Criminal Records Office on access to overseas convictions of UK nationals convicted abroad.
James Brokenshire
The UK’s participation in the European Criminal Records Information System (ECRIS) since 2012 means that EU Member States are now obligated to notify the UK each time a UK national is convicted of a criminal offence in another state.
In the last two years, the UK has agreed twelve bilateral agreements with countries outside the EU to improve the exchange of criminal records information (Jamaica, UAE, Anguilla, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos, Antigua and Barbuda, Ghana, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, and St Kitts and Nevis). The UK also receives conviction information on UK nationals with countries on an ad-hoc basis via Interpol.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office also notifies the ACRO Criminal Records Office when a UK national is subject to criminal proceedings overseas for a serious offence and seeks consular assistance. ACRO have also gained access to the OTRCIS system (Overseas Territory Regional Crime Intelligence System) so that they can now access convictions of British passport holders living in the British Overseas Territories).
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-05-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people on the dangerous persons database are (a) missing and (b) wanted; and for what offence or reason those people are on that database.
Karen Bradley
The Home Office does not hold this data. Statistical information from the ViSOR dangerous persons database is owned by the police, and the Home Office does not have access to this information.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-05-05.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what options are available to a magistrates’ court when an unrepresented serving prisoner refuses to leave their prison cell to face new either-way offence charges.
Mr Shailesh Vara
Where a magistrates’ court is dealing with a new offence which is triable either-way, and the defendant is an unrepresented serving prisoner who does not attend either in person or through a live link, the court will need to adjourn the case. This will enable either the defendant to attend, or the Crown Prosecution Service to consider alternative procedural routes.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-06-06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the proportion of people in the UK (a) who smoke and (b) from other EU member states who smoke.
Jane Ellison
The Department considers a range of published statistics relating to smoking prevalence in England. These are drawn together in the Health and Social Care Information Centre report Statistics on Smoking, England, which is available at the link below:
http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB20781
The Integrated Household Survey gives figures for the other United Kingdom countries and is available at the link below:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_418136.pdf
Information on smoking prevalence in European countries is available from the World Health Organization European Region Tobacco Control Database at the link below:
http://data.euro.who.int/Tobacco/
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-07-21.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what rail infrastructure funding his Department is providing to each region in each of the next three years.
Paul Maynard
The Department for Transport provides funding for rail infrastructure in England and Wales, which makes up part of the total funding requirement for Network Rail to deliver its Control Period 5 commitments between 2014 and 2019. Government funding is not divided by region.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-09-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders in each offence category were released on post-conviction bail by Crown Courts in each of the last three years; and (a) how many and (b) in what proportion of such cases the offender received a custodial sentence.
Mr Sam Gyimah
Robust and reliable information on post-conviction remand status of offenders convicted at the Crown Court is not centrally held, and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-10-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2016 to Question 45487, what the average time taken was for the return of forensically analysed evidence in cases involving (a) burglary, (b) murder, (c) violence against the person, excluding murder, (d) drugs offences and (e) sexual offences in the last 12 months; and if she will make a statement.
Brandon Lewis
The Home Office does not hold this information.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2015-11-05.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November 2015 to Question 13135, if he will place in the Library a copy of the review described at section A7 of Schedule One of the contract for the provision of tobacco control legislation enforcement undertaken by the contractor.
Jane Ellison
Section A7 of Schedule One, entitled ‘Grounds for discretionary rejection’ is available at:
https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive/contract/1072169/
The schedule does not describe a review.
Two applications were submitted for the current tobacco control legislation enforcement contract.