Tag: Philip Davies

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.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners had reached the state pension age (a) on the latest date and (b) during the most recent year for which information is available.

Andrew Selous

The number of prisoners of state pensionable age on 30 September 2014 was 2221. In the year to 30 September 2014, 262 prisoners reached state pensionable age.

Further information can be found in the National Offender Management Service Offender Equalities Annual Report 2013/14 the link to which is below.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/380129/noms-offender-equalities-annual-report-2013-14.pdf

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2015-09-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons his Department sought the deemed consent arrangements for grants from HM Treasury under Section 64 of the Health and Public Act 1968; and what the job titles are of the officials in his Department that were involved in those discussions.

Jane Ellison

The Department agreed deemed consent arrangements with HM Treasury to reduce the administrative burden, recognising that newer grant giving legislation did not require similar approvals, and to streamline the grants making process, whilst maintaining the same level of oversight and scrutiny of cases. The decision was made with the agreement of the Director of Group Finance and the Deputy Director – Voluntary Sector Grants.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2014-05-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average compensation payment ordered in employment tribunal cases relating to discrimination on the grounds of race was, by ethnicity of complainant, in each of the last five years.

Mr Shailesh Vara

I am answering these questions together.

Data on highest compensation awards for discrimination jurisdictions for the last five years are set out in Tables E6 to E10 of the latest Official Statistics release published by the Ministry of Justice, which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2013.

Data on average compensation awards in race discrimination and religious discrimination claims are set out in Tables E6 and E9 of that publication, respectively.

Information on the nature of complaints upheld, and the type of race or religion relevant to individual claims, is not recorded centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost following a manual trawl of all relevant tribunal files. The records retention and disposal schedule applicable to such tribunal files also means that information covering each of the last five years would not be held.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2014-05-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) court possession orders and (b) interim possession orders in relation to squatting in non-residential buildings have been made since the introduction of the criminal offence of squatting in a residential building; and how many such orders were made in the equivalent period preceding this law being implemented.

Mr Shailesh Vara

While we hold records on the total number of possession orders and interim possession orders applied for and granted by the civil courts, our databases do not show what proportion of these related to non-residential buildings or, in the case of possession orders, actions against trespassers. Such information could only be obtained by manually checking court case files at a disproportionate cost.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2014-06-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which powers he is seeking to repatriate from the EU.

Mr David Lidington

As the Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron) said in May, Brussels has got too big, too bossy, too interfering. It should be nation states wherever possible, Europe only where necessary.

Our reform priorities are to make the EU more democratically accountable, more competitive and more flexible.