The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Champion on 2015-09-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the human rights situation in Egypt.
Mr Tobias Ellwood
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office published its annual Human Rights and Democracy Report on 12 March 2015, which provides an assessment of the situation in Egypt, and is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/case-studies/country-case-study-egypt
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Champion on 2014-06-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on independent adjudicators in each public and private prisons and young offender institution in each month since January 2013.
Jeremy Wright
Independent Adjudicators are District Judges or Deputy District Judges who attend establishments when necessary to hear more serious cases. Where a replacement Judge needs to sit in court to replace one attending a prison the cost of the replacement Judge is charged on a quarterly basis by HM Courts Service to the National Offender Management Service. The charge varies according to time involved.
The information in the table below shows the monthly charges paid for the use of independent adjudicators in all prisons in England and Wales including Young Offenders Institutions for the period January 2013 to March 2014. Details for the months April 2014 to present are not yet available.
The cost per visit can vary due to several factors, including distance travelled, overnight accommodation where necessary, and the number of establishments visited on a single journey. Charges are made on the basis of visits and not adjudications, so a single visit may include several adjudications taking place at the same establishment.
The cost of annual Adjudication charges in 2013/14 was 22% lower than the cost in 2009/10.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Champion on 2014-03-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken to ensure that the probation contracts in England and Wales are let without risk to the public or waste of public money.
Jeremy Wright
Under our reforms the market will be opened up to a diverse range of new rehabilitation providers, so that we get the best out of the public, voluntary and private sectors, at the local as well as national level. Protecting the public must remain our top priority,and the new National Probation Service will manage all offenders who pose a high risk of harm to the public or have committed the most serious offences. The Secretary of State will continue to issue national standards for the management of offenders, and the Government will place contractual requirements on Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) to ensure that the risk of harm posed by offenders is effectively managed. Providers bidding to run CRCs will need to demonstrate in their bids how they would deliver high quality rehabilitative support to offenders, and they will be held to account to deliver these services in their contracts. Bidders will also need to demonstrate how they will maintain a workforce with appropriate levels of competence and training to deliver these services.
Our proposals will be affordable within the context of the MoJ commitment to deliver annual savings of over £2 billion by 2014/15. We plan to make efficiency savings through the use of competition, the introduction of private and voluntary sector providers, and by consolidating back-office functions within the public sector. Releasing these efficiency savings will enable us to invest in rehabilitation and extend provision to support supervision to a wider group of offenders.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Champion on 2014-04-01.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent estimate he has made of the number of children in (a) Rotherham constituency and (b) South Yorkshire living in fuel poverty.
Gregory Barker
Fuel poverty is measured at the household level rather than the individual level and detailed data on the age of household occupants is not available at the sub-regional level.
The number of households in fuel poverty in England, which contain at least one child under the age of 16, was 898,000 in 2011. This is equivalent to about 38 per cent of all fuel poor households.
The total numbers of households in fuel poverty, for the areas in 2011 were estimated as:
(around 11 per cent of all households in the constituency)
(around 11 per cent of all households in the county)
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Champion on 2014-03-27.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the timetable is for the contracting-out of the Probation Service during 2014.
Jeremy Wright
Under our reforms the market will be opened up to a diverse range of new rehabilitation providers, so that we get the best out of the public, voluntary and private sectors, at the local as well as national level. A more diverse market of rehabilitation providers will bring innovation in rehabilitative services, helping to deliver a real reduction in reoffending rates. The process to establish the owners of the 21 new Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) with responsibility for the provision of rehabilitation services is well underway. We will assess the bids we receive over the summer, and expect to sign contracts with new CRC owners later this year. We remain committed to seeing Payment by Results rolled out across the system by 2015.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Champion on 2014-04-03.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment she has made of the levels of poverty among Tamils living in Sri Lanka.
Mr Alan Duncan
Sri Lanka has met Millennium Development Goal No 1 which calls for the halving of extreme poverty, and is on track to meet most other MDGs. Poverty remains in areas of northern and eastern Sri Lanka where large numbers of Tamils live. We do not have a breakdown by ethnic group.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Champion on 2014-04-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many firefighters in South Yorkshire retired before the age of 60 in each of the last 10 years.
Brandon Lewis
The Department collects information on numbers of normal and early retirements only, it does not collect information on the specific age of these firefighters at retirement. To assist the hon. Member a table containing this information has been provided.
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Wholetime and Retained Duty System firefighters leavers from South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority 2002/03 – 2012/13 |
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Compulsory/voluntary age retirements |
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2002-03 |
30 |
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2003-04 |
26 |
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2004-05 |
43 |
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2005-06 |
35 |
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2006-07 |
19 |
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2007-08 |
29 |
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2008-09 |
64 |
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2009-10 |
43 |
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2010-11 |
27 |
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2011-12 |
18 |
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2012-13 |
30 |
The Department collects information on retirements at Fire and Rescue Authority level only.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Champion on 2014-04-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the mean retirement age of a firefighter was in each of the last 10 years.
Brandon Lewis
The Department collects information on numbers of normal and early retirements only, it does not collect information on the specific age of these firefighters at retirement. To assist the hon. Member a table containing this information has been provided.
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Wholetime and Retained Duty System firefighters leavers from South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority 2002/03 – 2012/13 |
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Compulsory/voluntary age retirements |
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2002-03 |
30 |
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2003-04 |
26 |
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2004-05 |
43 |
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2005-06 |
35 |
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2006-07 |
19 |
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2007-08 |
29 |
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2008-09 |
64 |
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2009-10 |
43 |
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2010-11 |
27 |
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2011-12 |
18 |
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2012-13 |
30 |
The Department collects information on retirements at Fire and Rescue Authority level only.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Champion on 2014-04-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many firefighters in Rotherham retired before the age of 60 years in each of the last 10 years.
Brandon Lewis
The Department collects information on numbers of normal and early retirements only, it does not collect information on the specific age of these firefighters at retirement. To assist the hon. Member a table containing this information has been provided.
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Wholetime and Retained Duty System firefighters leavers from South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority 2002/03 – 2012/13 |
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Compulsory/voluntary age retirements |
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2002-03 |
30 |
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2003-04 |
26 |
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2004-05 |
43 |
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2005-06 |
35 |
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2006-07 |
19 |
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2007-08 |
29 |
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2008-09 |
64 |
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2009-10 |
43 |
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2010-11 |
27 |
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2011-12 |
18 |
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2012-13 |
30 |
The Department collects information on retirements at Fire and Rescue Authority level only.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Champion on 2014-04-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to publish data on (a) women’s homelessness, (b) the number of women who become homeless in a reporting period and (c) the length of their homelessness.
Kris Hopkins
I refer the hon. Member to my answer of 13 March 2014, Official Report, column 311-312W.