Tag: Tim Loughton

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2016-01-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what contingency arrangements his Department has made for the eventuality of a majority leave vote in the upcoming EU referendum.

Mr Edward Vaizey

I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given to question 21952 by my Rt. Hon Friend the Prime Minister on the 14^thJanuary.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2016-01-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what contingency arrangements his Department has made for the eventuality of a majority leave vote in the upcoming EU referendum.

Dominic Raab

The Government is fighting hard to fix the aspects of the UK’s EU membership that cause so much frustration in Britain in order to get a better deal for Britain and secure our future. The Government is confident that the right agreement can be reached.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2016-01-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much revenue from (a) CRB checks and (b) Disclosure and Barring Service checks has been raised for the public purse in each of the last 10 years.

Karen Bradley

The Disclosure and Barring Service was established on 1 December 2012 when the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) merged. The table below shows total fee income from disclosures for the period 1 April 2005 to 31 March 2015 collated from the Annual Reports for the period. DBS is self-funding and operates on a full cost recovery basis.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2016-02-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what role the child protection task force has in preventing harm to children.

Edward Timpson

At the heart of the government’s agenda for all children is how to safeguard and protect children from harm. An important part of this is the work of the cross-government Ministerial taskforce on Child Protection.

The Child Protection Implementation Taskforce is taking a comprehensive approach to child protection through looking at the children social care system as a whole. Every stage of the child’s journey in the care system is important to safeguard and protect children. The Taskforce has looked at how we get the best people to deliver the right outcomes for allchildren– in particular through social work reform and improving leadership; through improving systems and practice – building a better performing, more innovative social care sector; and through accountability and governance, looking at how arrangements locally and nationally help to drive a strong and improving system. It is monitoring implementation and driving forward improvements and reform.

The Department for Education published a paper in January 2016 – ‘Children’s social care reform: a vision for change’ – which outlines the areas of reform the Taskforce has been looking at. This can be found on the gov.uk website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childrens-social-care-reform-a-vision-for-change

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2016-03-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he expects the UK-China human rights dialogue to take place.

Mr Hugo Swire

The next round of the annual UK-China Human Rights Dialogue will take place in London. The date is still being agreed with the Chinese Government.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2016-03-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, who has attended meetings of the Child Protection Task Force and on what dates; and what action has been decided at those meetings.

Edward Timpson

Information relating to the proceedings of recent meetings of Implementation Taskforces is not disclosed as to do so could harm the frankness and candour of internal discussion.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2016-06-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many local authority children’s services departments have been visited by the Chief Social Worker for Children since she took up that post.

Edward Timpson

Since her appointment, the Chief Social Worker for Children and Families, Isabelle Trowler, has visited 50 local authorities.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2016-07-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his international counterparts on the outcome of the EU referendum.

Mr Philip Hammond

I have been holding, and will continue to hold, discussions with my international counterparts on the outcome of the EU referendum. Last week I met international counterparts at the NATO summit. I will meet many more overseas counterparts at the Asia–Europe Meeting in Ulaanbaatar later this week. I will also attend the Foreign Affairs Council, which will include an informal dinner on 17 July with my European counterparts to discuss the referendum outcome and an EU and Gulf Cooperation Council Summit Dinner on 18 July.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2016-10-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when a UK (a) Minister and (b) official last visited (i) the area designated by the Chinese government as the Tibetan Autonomous Region and (ii) the areas of Tibet subsumed by the Chinese government into China in the 1960’s; what requests for such visits are outstanding; and if he will make a statement.

Alok Sharma

​I refer my Hon. Friend to the answer given by the former Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for East Devon (Mr Swire), to the Hon. Member for Dundee West (Mr Law), on 4 May 2016 (PQ 35590), copied below for ease of reference:

The Hon. Member for Bury South (Mr Lewis) was the last serving Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) minister to visit the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), in September 2009. An FCO official last visited the TAR in June 2014. We continue to press the Chinese authorities for further access.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2015-10-27.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress he has made in retrieving the £3 million grant to Kids Company made by his Department immediately before that charity went into administration.

Mr Rob Wilson

We are currently in discussions with the Official Receiver regarding retrieving the grant Government recently provided to Kids Company.