Tag: Tulip Siddiq

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-02-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2016 to Question 25400, which academies and free schools made those applications to her Department to vary admissions requirements.

Edward Timpson

Pursuant to the answer of 9 February 2016 to Question 25400, one academy and two free schools have made applications to the Department to vary admissions requirements, these are as follows:

Academy

• The Victory Academy (Thinking Schools Academy Trust) – not approved.

Free Schools

• Nishkam School West London (Nishkam School Trust) – approved.

• Cobham Free School – approved.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-02-22.

To ask the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington representing the House of Commons Commission, what the Commission’s policy is on the allocation of service charges paid by card to (a) permanent and (b) contracted canteen and hospitality staff working on the parliamentary estate.

Tom Brake

Service charges paid by debit and credit cards are passed on to catering staff employed by the House of Commons in addition to their wages through the House of Commons payroll system. They are shared equally amongst staff working on a particular day in a given venue.

Agency (contracted) workers do not receive service charge amounts as there is no mechanism for these to be paid to the individual as the agencies are paid separately to the House of Commons payroll system.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-02-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much has been claimed in reimbursement expenses by Dr Nicole Mather in her role as Director of the Office for Life Sciences in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16 to date.

George Freeman

Dr Nicole Mather is an employee of Deloitte on secondment to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). In her role as Director of the Office for Life Sciences, Nicole has claimed reimbursement expenses including travel, accommodation and subsistence within the UK, Europe and the US in the course of carrying out her role and when accompanying the Minister for Life Sciences, for the period (a) 2014-15 to a total of £772.44 and period (b) 2015-16 a total of £1,009.90 to date.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-02-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2016 to Question 24958, how much funding the Government allocated for the provision of (a) domestic abuse services, (b) female rape support centres, (c) independent domestic violence advisers (IDVAs) and (d) independent sexual violence advisers (ISVAs) in each year from 2009-10 to 2015-16; and how many (i) rape support centres, (ii) IDVAs and (iii) ISVAs were supported with that funding in each of those years.

Karen Bradley

The previous Government provided £40 million of dedicated funding for domestic and sexual violence services between 2011 and 2015 equating to £10 million per year. This funding was extended until April 2016, supplemented by an additional £10 million for refuges, a £3.5 million fund to boost the provision of domestic violence services including refuges, and an uplift of £7 million for victims of sexual violence and child sexual abuse.

This funding included £1.7 million per year to part-fund 87 Independent Sexual Violence Advisers (ISVAs), an increase from £860,000 in 2009-10 and 2010-11 which supported 43 and 44 posts respectively, and £2.5 million per year to part-fund 144 Independent Domestic Violence Advisers (IDVAs), an increase from £1.5 million in 2009-10 and £2.3 million in 2010-11 which supported 63 and 114 posts respectively.

While it is not fully possible to disaggregate funding for domestic abuse services from support for wider violence against women and girls services, the attached table provides a detailed breakdown of funding to support the provision of IDVAs, ISVAs and Rape Support Centres for each year from 2009/10 to 2015/16.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-02-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding the Government has allocated to the NSPCC’s Modern Slavery helpline in financial year (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16; how many full-time equivalent staff have been employed by that helpline; how many calls the helpline has received; and how much funding the Government plans to allocate to the helpline in 2016-17.

Karen Bradley

The NSPCC-run modern slavery helpline was launched in July 2014, as part of a wider awareness-raising campaign, to better support potential victims of modern slavery. For the financial year 2014-15, £35,000 was made available to the NSPCC to run the modern slavery helpline and, in 2015-16, £15,000 was made available.

The NSPCC run Modern Slavery helpline does not employ dedicated staff. Instead, training was provided to existing NSPCC call handlers by existing staff in the NSPCC child trafficking advice centre, the Metropolitan Police’s Human Trafficking Unit and the Modern Slavery Unit. For the period 31 July 2014 to 11 February 2016 the helpline received 1,005 contacts.

No funding has been allocated for the financial year 2016-17. Polaris, a US-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), is establishing an enhanced UK helpline in collaboration with a UK-based NGO, which will supersede the current NSPCC helpline. The new helpline will provide increased analytical capability and is expected to be in operation later this year.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-03-03.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2016 to Question 28978, which Category 2 countries or territories to which her Department made (a) import extradition requests and (b) people were extradited to the UK from in each year since 2009-10.

James Brokenshire

Category 2 territories” refers to countries designated as extradition partners under Part 2 of the Extradition Act 2003. The territories listed were Category 2 territories at the time the request was made or the person was extradited.

Year	Category 2 territories to which extradition requests were made	Category 2 territories from which people were extradited to the UK
2009	Australia Bangladesh Canada Chile Hong Kong India Jamaica Malaysia Mexico Peru South Africa Thailand Turkey Turks and Caicos UAE Ukraine USA	Australia Brazil Canada Colombia Croatia India Iraq Jamaica Mexico South Africa Switzerland Thailand Turkey Turks and Caicos UAE USA
2010	Australia Bangladesh Barbados Canada Colombia Ghana Jamaica Nigeria South Africa St Vincent UAE USA	Australia Bangladesh Barbados Canada Iraq Peru South Africa Thailand Turkey USA
2011	Antigua Australia Azerbaijan Canada Dominican Republic Ghana India Israel Jamaica Nigeria Norway South Africa Sri Lanka Switzerland Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Turkey USA Zimbabwe	Australia Bangladesh Canada Ghana Norway South Africa St Vincent Switzerland Thailand Turkey UAE USA
2012	Australia Bangladesh Canada Ghana Jamaica Malaysia Mexico New Zealand Nigeria Singapore South Africa Switzerland Thailand Turkey UAE USA	Australia Canada Grenada Jamaica Nigeria Thailand Trinidad and Tobago UAE USA
2013	Australia Canada Ecuador India Iraq Jamaica Nigeria Norway South Africa Switzerland Trinidad and Tobago Turkey UAE USA	Antigua Australia Canada Ghana India Jamaica Mexico Singapore South Africa Switzerland Thailand UAE USA
2014	Australia Bangladesh Brazil Canada Hong Kong Iceland, India Jamaica Malaysia New Zealand Nigeria South Africa Sri Lanka Thailand UAE USA	Australia Canada Hong Kong Israel Jamaica Malaysia Nigeria South Africa
2015	Australia Canada Hong Kong India Jamaica Kenya Mexico New Zealand Nigeria Norway Philippines South Africa St Lucia Switzerland Tanzania Thailand Turkey UAE Ukraine USA	Australia Brazil Canada Jamaica Malaysia New Zealand Nigeria Norway Philippines South Africa Switzerland Tanzania Thailand Trinidad & Tobago UAE USA

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-03-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Freedom of Information Request release of 1 October 2014, reference BIS/FOI/2014/20352, what the data on referrals is for each financial year between 2009-10 and 2015-16.

Nick Boles

The Pay and Work Rights Helpline (PWRH) was replaced by the Acas helpline from 1st April 2015, meaning that the same data referred to in the FOI referenced above is not available for 2015/16. The table below shows the data on referrals from the PWRH to relevant enforcement authorities for the 2009/10 financial year.

	2009/10*
HMRC	3000
EAS	820
HSE	290
DEFRA	440
GLA	100

*The Pay and Work Rights Helpline opened in May 2009

Notes

1. Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10

2. Calls can be referred to more than one agency so the sum does not amount to the total number of calls referred for the period

3. Calls referred to agencies includes complaints, complex queries and calls where intelligence was passed to other agencies

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-04-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many restriction (a) notices and (b) orders her Department has issued to restrict inquiries under (i) section 19(1)(a) and (ii) section 19(1)(b) of the Inquiries Act 2005 in each year since 2009-10 (A) in total and (B) for the Undercover Policing Inquiry.

Mike Penning

Since 2009, under section 19(2)(a) of the Inquiries Act 2005,the Secretary of State for the Home Department has issued a total of four restriction notices – two in 2014 and two in 2015. All four were in relation to the Litvinenko Inquiry.

The Secretary of State for the Home Department has not issued any restriction notices for the Undercover Policing Inquiry.

Under section 19(2)(b) of the Inquiries Act 2005 restriction orders can only be issued by the Chair of an inquiry.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-05-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether it is his policy that the proposed public register of beneficial owners of companies will provide details of the names of (a) trust or company service providers and (b) other third parties which incorporated those companies.

Anna Soubry

It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-05-04.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer to Question 23205 of 22 January 2016, when the consultation on transposition of the EU’s Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive will begin.

Harriett Baldwin

The consultation on the transposition of the EU’s 4^th Anti-Money Laundering Directive will take place later this year and, once issued, will run for 12 weeks.