Tag: Philip Davies

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2015-10-13.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the work required to collect the revenue paid into the EU budget in each year since 1985.

Mr David Gauke

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) does not calculate separately the cost of collecting revenues paid over to the EU each year. Revenues paid over to the EU are funded through paying over a proportion of the customs duties and general taxation that are collected by HMRC.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2015-10-13.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the work required to collect the revenue paid into the EU budget each year.

Mr David Gauke

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) does not calculate separately the cost of collecting revenues paid over to the EU each year. Revenues paid over to the EU are funded through paying over a proportion of the customs duties and general taxation that are collected by HMRC.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2015-10-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what arrangements his Department has to ensure that financial grants made by his Department to Action on Smoking and Health are not used to fund activities intended to influence (a) Parliament, Government or political parties, (b) the awarding or renewal of Government contracts and grants and (c) legislative or regulatory action.

Jane Ellison

The conditions applicable to grants awarded to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) are set out in the grant award letters.

ASH’s compliance with the conditions of the grant is assessed at the grant monitoring meetings held between the Deputy Director of tobacco control and representatives from ASH as well as in the final full year grant monitoring and governance reports.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the marginal cost was of one extra prisoner being accommodated in each prison in England and Wales when each prison is functioning at its operational capacity in the latest period for which figures are available.

Jeremy Wright

The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) does not have information on the marginal cost of a prisoner for each prison. The calculation of a marginal cost would normally apply where a permanent change to a prison’s operational capacity is taking place.

Prisons are not expected to operate above their operational capacity and ensuring that this capacity is set to reflect the provision of safe and decent accommodation and the operation of suitable regimes ensures that levels of crowding in prisons are carefully managed.

Sensible measures have been taken to ensure that we have sufficient capacity to deal with any temporary increases in population. These include creating additional places in prisons in a safe and decent way and ensuring that prisons reflect the needs of the current population. Any short term increases in capacity will only be those sites where additional prisoners can be safely and decently accommodated and where a senior prison manager has certified that the additional prisoners will be held in safe, secure and decent accommodation.

We will end this Parliament with more adult male prison places than we inherited, more hours of work in prisons than we inherited, more education for young detainees than we inherited and a more modern, cost effective prison estate than we inherited.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2015-01-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) offence and (b) sentencing outcome of each terrorist-related offence dealt with in court was in the last five years.

Mike Penning

This Government takes terrorism offences extremely seriously, which is why there are tough sentences available to the courts. We are further strengthening the law in this area through the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill, currently going through Parliament.

We are increasing the maximum sentence from 10 or 14 years to a life sentence for three specific terror offences – weapons training for terrorist purposes, other training for terrorism, and making or possession of explosives. We are also ending automatic early release for those convicted of a range of serious terror offences – including weapons training for terrorist purposes and directing a terrorist organisation – so that they will only be released before the end of their custodial term at the discretion of the independent Parole Board, who must be satisfied that they no longer pose a threat to society. We are also ensuring that terrorists convicted of a second very serious offence will face the ‘two-strikes’ automatic life’ sentence.

Data for terrorist related offences and sentence outcomes can be viewed in Tables C.01-C.04 at the below link:-

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/operation-of-police-powers-under-the-terrorism-act-2000-quarterly-update-to-june-2014-data-tables

Findings of guilt includes crimes which have a terrorist link.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2015-02-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there have been for dog fighting in each of the last five years.

Mike Penning

It has not been possible to answer the question within the timeframe as the information is being assembled from a variety of statistical sources, but I will write to the Honourable Member as soon as it is available. A copy of the letter will be placed in the House Library.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost was of each (a) prison place and (b) prisoner in the case of (i) male and (ii) female prisoners in the latest period for which figures are available.

Jeremy Wright

The Department routinely publishes average costs per prisoner and prison place, based on actual net resource expenditure for each private and public sector prison and in summary form for the whole of the prison estate in England and Wales on an annual basis after the end of each financial year. This includes a breakdown of these costs by prison category and individual prison within each category, and separately by prisoner gender.

The most recently published figures are for financial year 2012-13 which give an average annual Overall cost per place of £36,808 and average annual Overall cost per prisoner of £34,766. An average annual cost per male prisoner of £34,306 and £44,746 per female prisoner, based on Overall resource costs, is also published.

The information for financial year 2012-13 is available in the Cost per Place and Prisoner and Supplementary Information files on the Department’s website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics-201213

Figures for 2013-14 will be published alongside the Management Information Addendums to the NOMS Annual Report and Accounts in October 2014.

Continuing to reduce prison unit costs is one of the key targets for the Department. Between 2009/10 and 2012/13 prison unit costs (based on Overall prison costs) have reduced in real terms by 16% per place and 13% per prisoner.

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2015-01-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national prisoners from each country were convicted of each offence type from September 2013 to September 2014.

Andrew Selous

International prisoner transfer arrangements may enable non-nationals to apply to transfer to their state of normal residence or to the state to which they have close ties. There is no requirement on a state to accept the transfer of a non-national resident. Since 2010, no such transfers have taken place to England and Wales. Prisoner transfer is a devolved matter and is the responsibility of the relevant Minister in Scotland and in Northern Ireland.

The numbers of foreign national prisoners from each country convicted of each offence in the violence offence group from April 2013 to March 2014 are in the attached table 1.

The numbers of foreign national prisoners from each country, convicted of each offence type from 1 October 2013 to 31 March 2014 are at the attached table 2. Prison receptions data for April to June 2014 is not available by offence group due to problems with data quality. Figures for this period will be published in due course subject to the result of ongoing investigations. Prison receptions data for July to September 2014 is currently not available and is due to be published on 29 January 2015.

The number of foreign national offenders in our prisons has reduced since 2010, compared to that number doubling between 1997 – 2010.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2015-02-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will delay the commencement of regulations on the standardised packaging of tobacco products for 12 months or until any legal challenges have been concluded.

Jane Ellison

Certain parts of the Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Products Regulations implement the European Tobacco Products Directive are required to be brought into force in May 2016. For those regulations that introduce further requirements, it is clear that there are benefits for business if the requirements of the Directive and the further standardised packaging requirements are implemented at the same time.

The Government will keep under close review all legal challenges that are relevant to standardised packaging of tobacco products. If legal challenges are made to the regulations, then it will promote certainty, and be better for all affected parties, that such challenges are determined in courts or tribunals as soon as possible.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the names are of all prisoners who have absconded from prison and currently not been returned; and if he will specify in each such case (a) the offence each absconder originally committed and (b) the length of custodial sentence they were serving when they absconded.

Simon Hughes

I apologise for the delay in replying. The table below provides details of index offence and length of sentence of those absconders who are unlawfully at large having absconded between April 2004 and March 2014 (the most recent period that statistics are available). Information prior to April 2004 could only be collated by performing manual checks across different databases and could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.

In order to disclose the names of absconders who are unlawfully at large, it is necessary to make appropriate checks to ensure that disclosure will not jeopardise ongoing Police operations to recapture the offender, will not place any one else in danger and to ensure that any victim has been informed of both the abscond and release of the name. These checks are still on-going and I will write shortly as soon as the information has been prepared.

The number of absconds has reduced by 80% over the last 10 years.

Table1: Index offence and sentence length of absconders unlawfully at large from April 2004 to March 2014, as at 30 September 2014

OFFENCE	SENTENCE
SUPPLYING DRUGS	3 YRS
GOING EQUIPPED TO CHEAT	2YRS
GOING EQUIPPED TO CHEAT	2YRS
POSSESS DRUGS WITH INTENT	6YRS
AGGRAVATED BURGLARY	4YRS 6MTHS
FALSE INSTRUMENTS	6MTHS
BURGLARY	18MTHS
DEATH BY RECKLESS DRIVING	4YRS
IMPORT/EXPORT DRUG	19YRS
CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT THEFT	3YRS 6MTHS
IMPORT/EXPORT DRUG	9YRS
THEFT	8MTHS
CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD	7YRS
IMPORT/EXPORT DRUG	12YRS
IMPORT/EXPORT DRUG	7YRS
POSSESS FIREARM WITH INTENT	78MTHS
IMPORT/EXPORT DRUG	12YRS
POSSESS OFFENSIVE WEAPON	23MTHS
BLACKMAIL	3YRS
POSSESS DRUGS WITH INTENT	3YRS 6MTHS
IMPORT/EXPORT DRUG	10YRS
CUSTOMS EVASION (DRUGS RELATED)	7YRS
FINES	6MTHS
DECEPTION	30MTHS
IMPORT/EXPORT DRUG	5YRS
CUSTOMS EVASION (DRUGS RELATED)	8YRS
ASSISTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS	54MTHS
DECEPTION	9MTHS
TRESPASS WITH INTENT	15MTHS
CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT THEFT	3YRS
THEFT	15MTHS
CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT THEFT	2YRS
DECEPTION	26MTHS
POSSESS OFFENSIVE WEAPON	5YRS
ASSISTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS	6YRS
DECEPTION	12MTHS
CONSPIRACY TO SUPPLY DRUGS	6YRS
POSSESS DRUGS WITH INTENT	6YRS
FALSE INSTRUMENTS	12MTHS
MANSLAUGHTER	5YRS
THEFT	Unknown
CONSPIRACY TO IMPORT DRUGS	8YRS
ROBBERY	LIFE
FALSE INSTRUMENTS	18MTHS
DECEPTION	30MTHS
THEFT	4YRS
CONTEMPT OF COURT	15MTHS
BURGLARY	6MTHS
SUPPLYING DRUGS	42MTHS
GBH	2YRS
FRAUD	5YRS
FRAUD	DETAINEE
CONSPIRACY TO SUPPLY DRUG	40MTHS
POSSESS FIREARM WITH INTENT	LIFE
BURGLARY	112DAYS
POSSESS DRUGS WITH INTENT	7YRS
GOING EQUIPPED TO STEAL	6MTHS
THEFT	2YRS
EXCESS ALCOHOL	112DAYS
CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD	6YRS
ROBBERY	ISPP
POSSESS DRUGS WITH INTENT	3YRS
ROBBERY	6Y
CONPIRACY TO COMMIT BURGLARY	3 YRS 3 MTHS
POSSESS FIREARM WITH INTENT	LIFE
BURGLARY	3YRS
ARSON	ISPP
RAPE	LIFE
ROBBERY	9YRS
WOUNDING WITH INTENT	6YRS 8MTHS
ROBBERY	3YRS
GBH	8YRS
ROBBERY	ISPP
BURGLARY	32MTHS
BURGLARY	2Y 6MTHS
POSSESSION OF A FIREARM WITH INTENT	ISPP
CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT BURGLARY	64MTHS

Note: Table shows absconds of prisoners and excludes absconds of immigration detainees from NOMS operated establishments and those operated as Immigration Removal Centres by NOMS under contract to the Home Office.

These figures have been drawn from live administrative data systems which may be amended at any time. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.