The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-05-06.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for how many court and tribunal cases his Department did not send a legal representative in each year since 2009-10.
Harriett Baldwin
As far as I am aware there were no cases of this kind in the period 2009-10 to the present.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-06-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential environmental and safety benefits of using single rather than double-decker buses during off-peak times on journeys with small numbers of passengers.
Andrew Jones
Whether to use single- or double-decker buses must be an operational decision for local bus operators. They are in the best position to understand and appreciate which type of vehicle to use on their bus routes, at which times during the day.
The Government is committed to helping local bus operators to operate more environmentally friendly buses. Measures such as the Green Bus Fund, awarded £89m from 2009-2014 for over 1200 low emission buses, including both single and double-decker buses. The £30m Low Emission Bus Scheme, announced last year, is available to fund both single- and double-decker low emission buses and supporting infrastructure.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-10-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hate crimes were committed against disabled people in each of the last five years.
Sarah Newton
The Home Office has collected disability hate crime data from the police since 2011/12.
In 2011/12, the police recorded 1,748 disability hate crime offences, 1,911 in 2012/13, 2,006 in 2013/14 and 2,508 in 2014/15.
Further information on hate crime can be found in Hate Crimes, England and Wales,
2014/15, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2014-to-2015
Data for 2015/16 are due to be published on 13 October 2016 and will be available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2015-to-2016
As stated by the Office for National Statistics, action taken by police forces to improve their compliance with the National Crime Recording Standard has led to improved recording of crime, especially for violence against the person offences. Together with a greater awareness of disability hate crime, and improved willingness of victims to come forward, this is likely to be a factor in the increase in disability hate crimes recorded by the police.
This Government is committed to tackling hate crime. The UK has one of the strongest legislative frameworks in the world to tackle hate crime. We are working across Government with police, (including National Community Tensions Team), the Crown Prosecution Service and community partners to send out a clear message that hate crime will not be tolerated and we will vigorously pursue and prosecute those who commit these crimes.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-10-18.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many local authorities have offered reduced business rates to private nurseries since the Minister for Childcare’s speech at the launch of the NDNA’s Annual Nursery Survey in January 2015.
Caroline Dinenage
The Government does not collect data on particular types of premises that might have benefited from local discretionary relief.
Central Government has given local authorities wide-ranging, discretionary powers to grant business rates discounts as they see fit – they are best placed to serve the needs of their community. All local authorities which grant a local discount will receive 50% of the cost from central Government funds.
The Minister for Childcare wrote to all local authorities in November 2014 to encourage them to apply business rates relief to nurseries and reminded them that central Government will meet 50% of the costs involved. He also encouraged nurseries to follow up with their local authorities themselves. The Department for Communities and Local Government wrote to local authorities in January 2015, reinforcing this message. This letter is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/395333/BRIL_1__-_2015__-__General_-_14_Jan.pdf
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2015-12-14.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) cases of national minimum wage compliance HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) National Minimum Wage Risk Unit has investigated, (b) Notices of Underpayment have been issued to employers for non-compliance, (c) employers have been fined the maximum amount for non-compliance and (d) employers have been taken to civil court or an employment tribunal by HMRC for failing to comply with the terms of a Notice of Underpayment in each of the last five years.
Mr David Gauke
The Government is committed to increasing compliance with minimum wage legislation and effective enforcement of it. Everyone who is entitled to the minimum wage should receive it. Employers who pay workers less than the minimum wage not only have to pay back arrears of wages at current minimum wage rates but also face financial penalties of up to £20,000 per underpaid worker.
I refer the honourable member to the answer provided at UIN 17623 for information on the number of investigations undertaken.
I refer the honourable member to the answer provided at UIN 16851 for information on Notices of Underpayment.
Information on the number of maximum penalties issued is provided in the table below.
|
Year |
10/11 |
11/12 |
12/13 |
13/14 |
14/15 |
|
No. of employers fined the maximum amount |
13 |
27 |
52 |
53 |
59 |
I refer the honourable member to the answer provided at UIN 225468 for information on civil court and employment tribunals.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2015-12-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November 2015 to Question 13605, on Tenancy Deposit Schemes, if he will provide that information for 2014-15.
Mr Shailesh Vara
The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-01-05.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many complaints about practical driving tests heard by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (a) were made by (i) men and (ii) women and (b) were found (i) in favour of and (ii) against the complainant; and how many such complaints were subsequently taken to the Independent Complaints Assessor in each year since 2009-10.
Andrew Jones
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) does not record information about the sex of any complainant. Nor does it retain information about complaints made before 2011-12 about practical driving tests or cases referred to the ICA. Information it does hold is as follows:
2011-12 1,080 complaints received – 42 upheld, 938 not upheld, 100 no outcome recorded
2012-13 1,108 complaints received – 40 upheld, 1002 not upheld, 66 no outcome recorded
2013-14 1,260 complaints received – 37 upheld, 1013 not upheld, 210 no outcome recorded
2014-15 1,401 complaints received – 27 upheld, 1158 not upheld, 216 no outcome recorded
2015- 16 1,351 complaints received – 37 upheld, 1174 not upheld, 140 no outcome recorded
Complaints referred to the ICA
2011-12 – 3 cases
2012-13 – 9 cases
2013-14 – 10 cases
2015-16 – 4 cases
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-01-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November 2015 to Question 902116, how much additional financial support in winter resilience money the NHS received in each year from 2009-10 to 2014-15; and on what dates in those years that additional support was allocated.
Alistair Burt
The following table shows funding given to the National Health Service for winter resilience each year:
|
Year |
Winter Financial Support |
Date |
|
2009-10 |
No figures available |
Not applicable |
|
2010-11 |
No figures available |
Not applicable |
|
2011-12 |
£300 million |
January 2012 |
|
2012-13 |
£330 million |
September 2012 |
|
2013-14 |
£400 million |
November 2013 |
|
2014-15 |
£400 million |
October 2014 |
The figures for 2009-10 and 2010-11 are not available as funding was not recorded in this way prior to 2011.
The figures for 2011-12 and 2012-13 represent additional non-recurrent funding provided to strategic health authorities and primary care trusts.
The figures for 2013-14 and 2014-15 represent additional non-recurrent funding added to NHS England Mandate.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-01-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refugees were referred to her Department by the UN High Commission for Refugees under (a) the Gateway Protection Programme, (b) the Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme and (c) the Mandate Refugee Scheme in each year since 2009-10; and how many such refugees in each year and for each scheme her Department refused after carrying out checks.
James Brokenshire
We do not report on how many people have been identified for resettlement in the UK under these schemes. Not all referrals translate into arrivals for a variety of reasons. In some instances, refugees choose to withdraw, for example, following the death of a family member, marriage or childbirth. Furthermore the Home Office also retains the right to reject individuals on security, war crimes or other grounds. In addition we do not currently differentiate between cases that are refused or withdrawn and therefore do not hold the information on refusals in the format requested.
Notwithstanding this, the Home Office is committed to publishing data on arrivals through the resettlement programmes in an orderly way as part of the regular quarterly Immigration Statistics, in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics. The next set of figures will be in the quarterly release on 25 February 2016 and will cover the period October-December 2015. These numbers will be updated each quarter.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-02-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2016 to Question 25818, on NHS England: Deloitte, how many policies NHS England is working on with Deloitte and its clinical reference group.
George Freeman
Due to the need to safeguard commercial-in-confidence information, we are unable to provide a breakdown of the number of policies completed within the contract.