Tag: Philip Davies

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 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.

George Eustice

The following table sets out the number of staff in receipt of each type of allowance in 2014/15.

	Home to Work Travel	Car
Core Department	7	0
Animal and Plant Health Agency	185	0
Environment Agency	829	10
Rural Payments Agency	79	14
Total	1,100	24

Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Consumer Council for Water, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Marine Management Organisation, Natural England and Veterinary Medicines Directorate have no staff in receipt of these allowances.

No staff were in receipt of subsidised health insurance.

The Home to Work Travel Allowance mainly relates to staff receiving the Excess Cost of Travel Allowance (ECTA). This is paid as a result of ongoing estates rationalisation where the home to work commute for a staff member has increased because of an office closure or move. Where there is a requirement for a limited number of RPA managers to operate out of more than one location, RPA also pay home to work travel costs to ensure the individual is not disadvantaged as a result of business needs. The EA figure includes staff in receipt of Overtime Attendance Allowance which is a fixed amount that is paid when they are required to respond to an unplanned incident.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-03-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve educational standards in Bradford.

Nick Gibb

This Government is committed to educational excellence everywhere. The new powers in the Education and Adoption Bill are designed to help raise standards in underperforming areas such as Bradford, ensuring all failing maintained schools become academies with strong sponsors, and coasting schools are challenged to improve.

The Regional Schools Comissioner has already prioritised Bradford for the Northern Fund and brought two new sponsors into the area.

We have also significantly expanded School Direct and Teach First, to ensure schools in Bradford have access to high-quality teachers. The new National Teaching Service, which will place outstanding teachers and middle leaders into schools which most need additional support to improve their teaching, will begin with a pilot later this year; Bradford will be one of the areas eligible to participate in this pilot.

I recently had the pleasure of being able to see some of the excellent work that is already being done to raise standards in Bradford, when I visited the outstanding Beckfoot School in Bingley, where 46% of pupils achieve the E-Bacc combination of core academic GCSEs.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2016 to Question 26815, what the job titles are of those people in receipt of paid car allowances.

Andrea Leadsom

Please note: this list excludes those in receipt of the essential car user allowance (29 people as of 23 February). This is allocated to those that require considerable business travel at a particular point in time, where a car is the most appropriate and cost efficient form of transport. The job titles will therefore vary.

The job titles of those in receipt of paid car allowances are in the attached.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-03-15.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy that three per cent of GDP annually be invested in infrastructure; and if he will make a statement.

Greg Hands

The government prioritises long-term investment over day-to-day expenditure, and is on course to exceed its commitment to invest £100 billion in infrastructure by 2020-21. This includes the largest programme of rail investment since Victorian times, the biggest investment in roads since the 1970s, and doubling the affordable housing budget. The Spending Review 2015 set out the government’s decision to invest £12 billion more through departmental capital budgets than was planned at Summer Budget 2015.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many overseas convictions of UK nationals have been recorded on the Police National Computer in the last year for which information is available.

James Brokenshire

The ACRO Criminal Records Office recorded on to the Police National Computer (PNC) conviction notifications of UK nationals convicted (or conviction updated) in the EU and outside the EU for the years specified, as follows:

EU

FY13/14 -number of notifications added to PNC – 5,797

FY 14/15 -number of notifications added to PNC – 8,334

FY 15/16 -number of notifications added to PNC – 5,873

Non-EU

FY13/14 –number of notifications added to PNC – 175

FY 14/15 -number of notifications added to PNC – 341

FY 15/16 -number of notifications added to PNC – 593

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of first-time offenders (a) of each ethnic group and (b) for each offence were sentenced to immediate custody in the latest year for which figures are available.

Dominic Raab

This information is published routinely in the Criminal Justice Statistics quarterly bulletin, and can be accessed from the Offending History data tool from the following web link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-september-2015

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether Ministers of his Department plan to attend the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in India in 2016.

Jane Ellison

The United Kingdom will be represented at the 7th Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, to be held in November 2016. The composition of the UK’s delegation has not yet been decided. The delegation will be led by the Department and there is no intention to include representatives from organisations outside of Her Majesty’s Government.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-06-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS spent on interpreters in each of the last three years.

Alistair Burt

This information is not held centrally.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-07-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an estimate of the cumulative effect of the tobacco control measures introduced in the last 10 years on small independent retailers before the publication of the Government’s next smoking strategy.

Nicola Blackwood

Tobacco control measures are reviewed regularly, including by statutory requirement. The impact of individual measures is also assessed in advance of implementation through impact assessments which are made publicly available.

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 (i) male and (ii) female offenders convicted of each offence in the violence against the person offence category were remanded in custody (A) pre-conviction and (B) post-conviction in each of the last three years.

Mr Sam Gyimah

The number and proportion of male and female offenders remanded in custody before conviction for violence against the person offences, at magistrates’ courts and the Crown Court in England and Wales, between 2013 and 2015, can be viewed in the table.

Reliable information on post-conviction remand status for offenders convicted at Crown and magistrates’ courts is not centrally held and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Court proceedings data for 2016 will be published in due course.