Tag: Philip Davies

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-02-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department and non-departmental public bodies receive (a) home to work travel allowance, (b) a car allowance and (c) subsidised health insurance.

Karen Bradley

The Home Office does not pay a home to office travel allowance for staff to travel to their normal place of work. There is one employee of an Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB) who is paid an allowance for home to work travel.

Neither the Home Office nor its NDPBs pays any of its staff a car allowance.

Neither the Home Office nor its NDPBs provides subsidised health insurance to any of its staff.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-02-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of recalls to prison have been fixed term recalls in each of the last two years.

Dominic Raab

I am unable to provide the data you have requested in Question 29034 within the timescales for this parliamentary question. I will write to you in due course with such data as officials can collate it from casework systems.

Any offender who is believed to have committed further offences whilst on licence is liable to be arrested and charged and, if convicted, given a further sentence. If the offence is serious, they can be remanded into custody until trial. Offenders on licence who are charged with further offences are also liable to be recalled, potentially to serve the rest of their sentence in prison, as they will be in breach of the requirement of their licence to be of good behaviour. If the offender is assessed as not presenting a risk of harm to the public they can be assessed as suitable for a shorter, fixed term recall. Those who have been charged with serious sexual or violent offences will not be considered suitable for a fixed term recall.

The table below provides the proportion of recalls in 2013 and 2014 and the proportion who received a fixed term recall.

Year	Proportion of total recalls which were fixed term
2014	42%
2013	42%

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-03-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2016 to Question 26819, what the job titles are of those people in receipt of paid car allowances.

Jane Ellison

NHS England advises us that there are seven post holders in receipt of a car user allowance:

– Regional Director

– Director of Commissioning Operations

– Director of National Stakeholders – Primary Care Support

– Managing Partner

– Locality Director

– Head of Health and Justice

– Head of Primary Care Policy and Contracts

The Care Quality Commission advises that the Occupational Car User Allowance is paid to eligible staff in the following roles who use their personal vehicle to visit services and commissioners in order to undertake regulatory decision making.

― Children’s Services Inspector

― Children’s Services Team Leader

― Clinical Specialist

― Controlled Drugs Officer

― Corporate Provider Compliance Inspector

― Corporate Provider Compliance Manager

― Enforcement Advisor

― Health and Justice Inspector

― Health and Justice Manager

― Inspector

― Inspection Manager

― Integrated Care Manager

― Medicines Inspector

― Mental Health Act Reviewer

― National Safeguarding Advisor

― National Pharmacy Manager

― Pharmacist Inspector

― Pharmacist Specialist

― Registration Inspector

― Registration Manager

One Deputy Chief Inspector also currently receives a car allowance.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence advises that the five employees receiving a car allowance all have the job title of Implementation consultant.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-03-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will commission an independent assessment of the effect on children of legislation on smoking in cars.

Jane Ellison

The Department assesses the impact of tobacco control measures on an ongoing basis as it develops policy. The Smoke-Free (Private Vehicles) Regulations 2015 include a requirement to review the regulations within five years of them coming into force, which will include an assessment of the effect on children’s exposure to secondhand smoke in private vehicles.

In changing the law we always said the measure of success would be in changes in attitude and behaviour, not the number of enforcement actions. Information on prosecutions for the period since the regulations were introduced has not yet been published, however we would expect very few fixed penalty notices issued for these offences would lead to court appearances.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-04-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the most common reasons are why people who are remanded in custody do not go on to receive subsequent prison sentences.

Mike Penning

The reasons why some people who are remanded in custody do not then go onto receive prison sentences are not recorded. The decision to remand an individual into custody is taken by the independent judiciary. The presumption is in favour of bail, but the judiciary will use their discretion to remand an individual into custody, taking into account a number of factors including the seriousness of the crime and whether a remand into custody will be necessary to prevent absconding, committing further offences or interference with witnesses.

If a defendant is subsequently given a custodial sentence, the time they have spent on a remand into custody will be deducted from their sentence.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-05-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the proportion of (a) offenders and (b) victims of each religious belief involved in religiously aggravated offences in the last 12 months.

Mike Penning

It is not possible to separately identify from the Ministry of Justice Court Proceedings database the religious belief of an offender. This information can only be obtained at disproportionate cost. Information on the ethnicity of victims is not held.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-05-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of (a) men and (b) women who were remanded in custody (i) before conviction and (ii) after conviction did not go on to receive a custodial sentence for each offence type in the last year for which information is available.

Mike Penning

The number of sentenced offenders who were remanded in custody at the Crown Court before and after their conviction, and the proportion who did not receive a custodial sentence, by gender and offence group, in 2015, can be viewed in the attached table.

The number of sentenced offenders who were remanded in custody at magistrates’ courts before their conviction, and the proportion who did not receive a custodial sentence, by gender and offence group, in 2015, can be viewed in the attached table.

Data for post-conviction remand at magistrates’ courts is not held centrally and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-07-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) initial estimate and (b) actual cost was for the HMS Queen Elizabeth.

Mr Philip Dunne

As reported in successive Major Projects Reports, the original approved cost of the Queen Elizabeth Class (QEC) Aircraft Carrier programme was £3.9 billion, including the capitalised costs of the Assessment and Demonstration Phases. The approvals and cost management have been based on the QEC Class for a two-ship programme, and it is therefore not practicable to apportion costs to the individual Aircraft Carriers.

The current approved cost of the QEC Aircraft Carrier programme is £6.2 billion, as announced by my right hon. Friend the then Secretary of State for Defence the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond) on 6 November 2013 (Official Report, column 251-254). Whilst there are cost pressures, and final costs cannot be agreed until the programme finishes around 2019. The MOD continues to work closely with the Aircraft Carrier Alliance to drive the programme to remain within the current approved cost.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-09-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the current processing time from application to award for personal independence payments.

Penny Mordaunt

The current processing times represent a stable position for both DWP and our Assessment Providers and reflect the significant progress made to improve the claims process by both parties over the preceding months. We continue to look at all of our processes and activities to identify any further areas for improvement, or to drive out even greater efficiency.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-09-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of offenders who breached their post sentence supervision have been taken to court since the introduction of such supervision.

Mr Sam Gyimah

The Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014, which introduced post sentence supervision for those serving short custodial sentences, applies to offences committed on or after 1 February 2015. Statistics on the number of offenders starting post sentence supervision and the number of offenders committed to custody for breach of post sentence supervision conditions is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/541247/probation-q1-2016.xlsx.

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