The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2016-03-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much Southern Rail/GTR has paid in compensation payments to passengers in each of the last three years.
Claire Perry
The Department holds the information as set out in the table attached. Not all operators are required to provide such figures.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2016-04-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2016 to Question 31461, when he plans to respond to Question 24897, tabled on 29 January 2016 by the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham for answer on 3 February 2016.
Joseph Johnson
I have replied to my hon Friend.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2016-06-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has had discussions with the West London Mental Health Trust on future funding of the Corsellis Brain Collection.
George Freeman
The Department has not made any specific assessment of the importance of the collection for promoting research into brain diseases.
The excess costs of maintaining the collection compared with the income from specimen preparation over a number of years have rendered the collection unsustainable as a research resource. Every effort is being made to ensure as much of the collection as possible is available to researchers and the West London Mental Health Trust has been working with BRAIN UK (an initiative funded by the Medical Research Council which co-ordinates the distribution of tissue across the country) to support this.
As part of this strategy the Trust has therefore decided to publicise the decision to close the collection and invite requests from appropriate academic departments for tissue relevant to their research and teaching programmes, and to respectfully dispose of those tissue samples for which no scientific purpose can be envisaged. Some 7,500 out of 8,500 specimens have identified destinations as a result of this process, to departments across the United K and in the Netherlands, in Canada and in Hong Kong. The Trust has obtained the appropriate Human Tissue Authority licenses for this work. We understand that the collection will close by the end of June 2016.
The UK Brain Bank Network, which is funded by Government through the Medical Research Council, has established a national network of UK brain tissue resources (banks) for researchers to access. The Network currently involves 10 brain banks across the UK which now hold over 14,000 well characterised brains.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2016-07-21.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many young people have (a) started, (b) completed and graduated from and (c) registered for the National Citizen Service since its inception.
Mr Rob Wilson
The table below provides the most complete information on the number of young people who have registered for, begun and completed NCS. There was considerable national growth in the programme in 2015 – exact figures on 2015 NCS participation will be published in the independent evaluation in due course.
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Total registered |
Total participants |
Total completers |
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2011 |
10,897 |
8,434 |
6,809 |
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2012 |
30,987 |
26,003 |
21,360 |
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2013 |
50,924 |
39,994 |
37,266 |
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2014 |
74,559 |
57,789 |
52,413 |
The small number of participants for whom we recorded missing completion data have not been included in the above figures. Figures on participants and completers are available in the published independent evaluations of NCS.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2016-10-19.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress has been made on the matter of reclamation and archaeological investigation of HMS Victory 1744.
Mike Penning
Recent progress on the wreck of HMS Victory 1744 has included a survey of the site by HMS Echo. When the results of this survey have been analysed they will be discussed by the members of the Victory 1744 Advisory Group as part of the ongoing work to protect this historically important site.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2015-10-27.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children have been placed in residential children’s homes outside their home local authority area in each of the last five years.
Edward Timpson
Information on the number of children accommodated in children’s homes inside and outside the Council boundary is published in table A2 of the statistical first release “Children looked after in England (including adoption and care leavers), year ending 31 March 2015” at:
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2015-12-16.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents his Department has recorded of drones operating over prison estates in the last year for which figures are available; what steps his Department took following each such incident; and if he will make a statement.
Andrew Selous
If an incident involving a drone occurs, prisons will invoke appropriate contingency plans and will work alongside the police and CPS to ensure those responsible are caught. NOMS are exploring research options with the Home Office Centre for Applied Science and Technology (CAST) on detection and mitigation technology for drones.
There were 30 reported drone related incidents between 1 December 2014 and 30 November 2015. This includes drone finds and drone sightings by prison staff in and around public and private prisons in England and Wales.
Individual prisons will invoke the appropriate contingency plan relevant to the circumstances of the incident involving a drone. This includes, for example, working with the police and CPS to ensure those responsible for an incident involving a drone are caught and, if appropriate, prosecuted.
These figures have been drawn from live administrative data systems. Care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, but the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2016-01-11.
To ask the Attorney General, what contingency arrangements the Law Officers’ Departments have made for the eventuality of a majority leave vote in the upcoming EU referendum.
Jeremy Wright
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given to question 21952 by my Rt. Hon Friend the Prime Minister on the 14th January.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2016-01-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what contingency arrangements her Department has made for the eventuality of a majority leave vote in the upcoming EU referendum.
Mr Nick Hurd
I refer the Honourable Member to the answer provided by my Right Honourable Friend the Prime Minister on Thursday 14 January 2016 (UIN: 21952).
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2016-01-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason she has not yet brought forward proposals to include the names of mothers on their children’s marriage certificates.
James Brokenshire
There is agreement that the names of both parents should be included in the marriage entry. The Home Office has, therefore, been working with all interested parties to consider the most efficient and effective way to achieve this. Doing so is likely to require additional funding and changes to legislation, IT systems and administrative processes.
A timetable will be confirmed for changes as soon as there is an opportunity to legislate on this matter.