The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2016-07-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the timescale is for closing the 1993 and 2003 child support allowance IT systems before they reach end of usable life.
Caroline Nokes
The Department’s timetable for the closure of the 1993 and 2003 child support allowance IT systems is currently under consideration.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2016-09-02.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2016 to Question 42629, how much investment in mental health services in the community his Department has made in each year since 2008; and how much investment his Department plans to invest in each year up to 2020.
Nicola Blackwood
The information is not available in the format requested.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2016-09-02.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UN special envoy missions there have been in each of the last five years.
Alok Sharma
This response answers PQ 44298 and PQ 44301. For the purpose of these PQs we have defined ‘UN special envoy missions’ as Special Political Mission thematic cluster I, which covers special and personal envoys and advisers of the UN Secretary General.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office pays the UK’s assessed contributions for these as a part of our contribution to the UN Regular Budget, which are mandatory under the UN Charter. The UK’s fixed percentage share of the budget for each Special Political Mission was 6.604% during 2011 and 2012, and 5.179% from 2013 to 2015. The peacekeeping budget does not fund Special Political Missions. The UK does not hold a central register of UK voluntary contributions to SPMs
The table below provides the total number, annual budget and UK contribution to the cluster I SPM for calendar years 2011-2015.
Year Number Total budget (UK contribution) in US$ millions
2015 11 $37.3m ($1.93m)
2014 10 $24.9m ($1.29m)
2013 8 $16.7m ($0.866m)
2012 7 $11.43m ($0.755m)
2011 6 $8.69m ($0.574m)
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2016-09-13.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress has been made on developing the digital system for employers to pay the Apprenticeship Levy.
Mr David Gauke
The apprenticeship levy will be paid by employers alongside their other Pay As You Earn (PAYE) payments. This means employers will use the software they use for other aspects of their PAYE to report the apprenticeship levy to HM Revenue and Customs. A specification for the data items required for Real Time Information internet submissions for 2017-18 including the apprenticeship levy has been published and is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/real-time-information-online-internet-submissions-support-for-software-developers.
Employers will be able to use a digital service to spend the levy on apprenticeship training and assessment. The development of the digital service is being led by the Skills Funding Agency and it will be available for employers to register their account from January 2017.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2016-09-15.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2016 to Question 43315, on asylum: families, what additional support her Department provides to (a) requesting member states and (b) such people who have not had their asylum claims granted.
Mr Robert Goodwill
We are committed to making the Dublin Regulation work effectively and will take responsibility for an asylum claimant from another Member State where there are grounds to do so. The UK has been working to strengthen the process for family reunification of unaccompanied minors under Dublin for some time. We have seconded a UK official to Greece, have a long-standing secondee working in Italy and will shortly be seconding another official to the French Interior Ministry to support these efforts.
As stated in the answer of 5 September 2016 to Question 43315, the Dublin Regulation concerns the determination of the Member State responsible for examining a claim for asylum. It does not, however, concern the substantive assessment of whether or not asylum can be granted in individual cases. Asylum seekers and their dependants who are in the UK are supported by the Home Office if they would otherwise be destitute.
The Home Office provides funding to local authorities for the care of unaccompanied asylum seeking children. Those who the Home Office have found not to be in need of protection and who have exhausted their appeal rights are expected to leave the UK.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2016-10-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2016 to Question 44481, for what reasons the 26 clinical commissioning groups referred to were rated as inadequate for 2015-16.
David Mowat
This information is publicly available in the Year-end CCG Assurance Annual Assessment for 2015/16, on NHS England’s website:
Further detail can be found in the legal directions issued by NHS England to all clinical commissioning groups rated as inadequate. These are published on NHS England’s website:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/ccg-auth/directions/
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2016-10-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the number of people who would have been entitled to a larger income due to the proposed changes to the Pension Protection Fund’s compensation cap and who have died since the proposals were first included in the Pensions Act 2014.
Richard Harrington
The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2016-10-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 8 September 2016 to Question 44488, when he plans to tighten the Planning Guarantee for minor planning applications.
Gavin Barwell
We will make an announcement about the timetable for tightening the Planning Guarantee for applications for minor development as part of our response to the consultation on implementing the Housing and Planning Act 2016.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2016-10-19.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 14 June 2016 to Question 40130, how Child Support Agency (CSA) (a) client and (b) former client activity requests collection of any CSA arrears held by the Child Maintenance Service.
Caroline Nokes
We have interpreted this question to mean “how Child Support Agency (CSA) (a) clients and (b) former clients actively request collection of any CSA arrears held by the Child Maintenance Service.” If a client or former client of the Child Support Agency (CSA) would like their arrears collected they should call the Child Maintenance Service (CMS). When debt is moved from the Child Support Agency to the Child Maintenance Service system, clients receive a letter that includes contact details for the CMS.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2015-12-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Police and Crime Commissioners have powers to instruct the police to impose fines on motorists found to be travelling at 71 mph in 70 mph zones.
Mike Penning
How the police enforce road traffic law, including in respect of speeding offences, is a matter for their professional judgement and operational discretion.
Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) do not have powers to instruct the police in operational policing matters. The operational independence of the police is a fundamental principle of British policing. The Policing Protocol Order 2011, which sets out how the relationship between PCCs and Chief Constables should work, is explicit when it states that “At all times the Chief Constable, their constables and staff, remain operationally independent in the service of the communities that they serve.”
Regardless of the PCC in office, the police have the discretion to use their judgment when deciding who to investigate or arrest, and must by law be wholly without influence of the PCC in respect of operational policing.