Tag: Tulip Siddiq

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-01-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of 24 December 2015 to Questions 19956 and 19957, how many migrants granted leave to remain in the UK did not have No Recourse to public funds conditions imposed on them because of exceptional circumstances in (a) 2008, (b) 2009 and (c) 2010.

James Brokenshire

The number of cases in which leave to remain in the UK was granted that did not have No Recourse to Public Funds conditions imposed on them in the years 2008 to 2010 was as follows:

2008: 3,490

2009: 7,795

2010: 9,020

These figures have been provided by the Home Office database with figures rounded to the nearest 5, interpreting ‘migrants’ as ‘lead cases’ and excluding asylum applications.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many appeals were made by civil society organisations to the Education Funding Agency and Local Government Ombudsman in relation to admissions decisions made by (a) academies, (b) academies which were previously maintained schools and (c) free schools in each year since 2009-10.

Edward Timpson

Parents have the right to complain to an admission authority regarding its decision to refuse admission of a child. The admission authority must establish an independent appeals panel to hear the complaint. On behalf of the Secretary of State, the Education Funding Agency (EFA) will investigate complaints about the appeals process operated by independent appeal panels for academies and free schools.

The table below provides information on admission appeals complaints assessed as being in scope for investigation by EFA since April 2012, when it was established. EFA has no record of admission appeal complaints in the last four financial years from any Civil Society Organisations.

The Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) handles the appeals process operated in respect of maintained schools. The Department does not hold information on the number of admission appeals complaints heard by the LGO. The LGO should hold this information.

	Financial year 2012-13	Financial year 2013-14	Financial year 2014-15	2015-16 Current financial year to date
PQ25402 (A) Total number of admission appeal complaints about academies investigated by EFA	127	163	144	203
PQ25402 (B) Total number of admission appeal complaints about academies which were previously maintained schools investigated by EFA	115	150	130	193
PQ25402 (C) Total number of admission appeal complaints about free schools investigated by EFA	Not recorded centrally for this financial year	4	8	4
Total number of admission appeal complaints fully upheld by EFA	15	13	26	15
Name of schools where EFA has investigated an admission appeal complaint subject to appeals	See attachment	See attachment	See attachment	See attachment
Total appeals complaints investigated, as a proportion of open academies and free schools	5% (of 2,796)	4% (of 3,874)	3% (of 4,881)	4% (of 5,447)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many Article 4 directions to restrict the application of permitted development rights in local areas have been made by (a) local planning authorities and (b) the Secretary of State in the last three years; how many times he has restricted or amended those developments by local planning authorities in that time; and how many such cases relate to planning permission for the construction of basements.

Brandon Lewis

Between 2013 and 2015 the Department was notified of 256 article 4 directions made by local authorities. The Department made no article 4 directions and modified eight.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-02-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on how many occasions in each year since 2009-10 he has been asked to confirm a local planning authority’s decision to revoke planning permission under Section 97 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990; and on how many such occasions he (a) confirmed and (b) overturned that decision.

Brandon Lewis

Section 97 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 means that if it appears to the local planning authority that it is expedient to do so, it may make an order revoking any planning permission to develop land. When an order is opposed by the owner and occupier of the land or by other persons who in the authority’s opinion will be affected, the order has to be submitted to the Secretary of State and shall not take effect unless it is confirmed by him.

For each year since 2009/10:

Year	Number submitted for confirmation	Confirmed	Overturned (declined to confirm)
2009/10	1	1	None
2010/11	1	None	None
2011/12	None	None	None
2012/13	1	None	None (withdrawn by authority)
2013/14	None	None	None
2014/15	None	None	None
2015/16	None	None	None

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether it is planned that tribunal hearings convened under the Investor State Dispute Settlements (ISDS) under the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership will sit in public; and what Government policy is on public sittings for ISDS tribunals.

Anna Soubry

The negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) are ongoing and the question of investment protection provisions in the agreement is still under consideration. The European Commission has however published its proposal for investment protections in TTIP. This builds on the reforms already introduced in the EU-Canada and EU-Singapore trade and investment agreements, including that arbitral tribunal hearings will typically be open to the public.

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 11 February 2016 to Questions 26129 and 26130, how many and which organisations applied for funding for community projects to tackle female genital mutilation through schemes operated by (a) her Department and (b) the Department for Communities and Local Government in 2014-15; and which such applications were (i) accepted and (ii) rejected.

Karen Bradley

In 2014-15, the Government provided over £380,000 to community organisations through the Home Office’s female genital mutilation (FGM) Community Engagement Initiative and the Department for Communities and Local Government’s FGM and forced marriage prevention projects.

A total of 179 applications were received, and 29 of these applications were funded. The Answer of 11 February 2016 to Questions 26129 and 26130 provides a list of the organisations whose applications were successful. The Government did not provide specific funding for FGM community engagement projects in 2013-14 or 2015-16.

We know that changing attitudes within communities is key to ending FGM and we will continue to work with community organisations and survivors through the FGM Unit’s stakeholder group and ongoing outreach programme to drive this work forward.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 26 March 2015 to Question 226653, how many times force was used in prisons and how many injuries were sustained by prisoners as a result of the use of force in each (a) private and (b) public sector prison in each category of prison in England and Wales in each year since 2009-10.

Andrew Selous

The information requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether heavy goods vehicles will use access roads in Brondesbury Villas during the construction phase of High Speed 2.

Mr Robert Goodwill

Brondesbury Villas is not identified in the HS2 Phase One Environmental Statement as a construction route for the purposes of the HS2 scheme. However, the Phase One Bill does included powers to enable utility protection and diversion works to be undertaken along Brondesbury Villas associated with the construction of the proposed HS2 running tunnels. The implementation of these utility protection and diversion works may involve the occasional use of HGVs along Brondesbury Villas.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 2 March 2016 to Question 27887, what proportion of undecided and withdrawn appeals were (a) undecided and (b) withdrawn in each year since 2009-10; and for what reasons the number of undecided and withdrawn appeals is higher in 2015-16 than in any of the previous six years.

Brandon Lewis

The attached table shows the number of undecided and withdrawn planning appeals, these were previously combined in the table in the answer of 2 March.

The undecided number for 2015-16 is much higher than other years because it includes the live casework that is in the system at present, awaiting a decision.

The number of withdrawn planning appeals has ranged between 500 and 630 for all years except 2009-2010, when the number of appeals received was higher.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-04-27.

To ask the Attorney General, (a) how much funding he has allocated to and (b) how many full-time equivalent staff were employed by the CPS’s Proceeds of Crime Unit in each year since 2009.

Jeremy Wright

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) allocated the following funding to its Proceeds of Crime Unit since 2009.

2008/09 £ 2,556,535

2009/10 £ 4,339,422

2010/11 £ 7,311,688

2011/12 £ 6,096,729

2012/13 £ 5,967,226

2013/14 £ 6,125,024

2014/15 £ 8,378,651

2015/16 £10,035,821

The following average full-time equivalent staff in post for Proceeds of Crime Unit since 2009 were:-

2008/09 41.9

2009/10 60.0

2010/11 73.1

2011/12 65.1

2012/13 77.3

2013/14 77.7

2014/15 124.4

2015/16 140.4