Tag: Tulip Siddiq

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the geographic variation in the effectiveness of each of the UK’s NHS transplant centres for the transplantation of stem cells; and what steps NHS England is taking to reduce that variation.

Jane Ellison

NHS England assesses providers against service specifications. Of the 46 providers assessed, 41 were assessed to be compliant with the NHS England specification. Commissioners and providers have agreed action plans to achieve compliance in the remaining five. NHS England also collects data from providers against a number of metrics. There is a process for reviewing variation in this data involving the Clinical Reference Group chair and accountable commissioner. Where variation is identified, commissioning teams hold discussions with services to determine any actions required.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many immigration advisers were registered with each of the professional bodies approved as registers of immigration advisers in each year since 2009-10; how many complaints the Legal Ombudsman received about immigration advisers registered with each of those bodies in each of those years; in how many of these complaints the Legal Ombudsman found wrongdoing on the part of the adviser; in how many such cases the Legal Ombudsman (i) took action against the adviser and (ii) referred the complaint; and how many immigration advisers were (A) prohibited and (B) suspended as a result of such action.

Dominic Raab

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives Regulation (CILEx Regulation) and the Bar Standards Board (BSB) each regulate practitioners that can provide immigration advice or services in England and Wales.

There is no requirement to separately register as an immigration adviser, and all practising solicitors can deliver immigration services.

Every barrister issued with a practising certificate is authorised to carry out immigration advice and services.

CILEx Regulation closed its immigration register from 30 April 2004 until October 2014 when a new accreditation scheme was implemented. They currently have 8 registered immigration advisers.

The Legal Ombudsman for England and Wales was set up by the Office for Legal Complaints under the Legal Services Act 2007 to deal with complaints about regulated legal service providers in England and Wales.

The number of complaints relating to immigration advice investigated by the Legal Ombudsman since it opened in October 2010 are set out below.

October	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15	2015/ to end of Feb 2016
Immigration cases investigated	52	284	324	353	390	291

The OLC can make a number of recommendations where they find poor service, and can make multiple recommendations in relation to a single complaint. Within the above cases, the following number of recommendations have been made.

October	2010/11	2011/12	2012/13	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16
Recommendations made in relation to immigration cases	13	120	127	144	199	162

The Legal Ombudsman makes potential misconduct referrals to the regulators if they suspect an issue with conduct has arisen. It is then for the regulator to investigate the potential misconduct and the Legal Ombudsman takes no part in that aspect of the investigation.

For immigration and asylum issues OLC made the following potential misconduct referrals.

	2010/11	2011/12	2012/3	2013/14	2014/15	2015/16
Referrals to regulators for potential misconduct	8	22	57	43	75	44

The regulators cannot identify where practitioners have been prohibited from practice or suspended as a result of misconduct relating to immigration advice or services without disproportionate cost.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-03-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) residential care homes and (b) nursing homes have closed in the current year and in each of the previous five years.

Alistair Burt

The Department does not centrally hold information on the number of residential care homes or nursing homes that have closed in the current year, or in each of the last five years.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-03-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how (a) much funding has been paid to and (b) many full-time equivalent staff were employed by the Advisory. Conciliation and Arbitration Service in each year since 2009-10.

Nick Boles

Set out below is the amount of funding paid to Acas and is full-time equivalent staff for each year since 2009-10.

Financial year	Staff no. (FTE)	Grant in Aid (£’000)
2009-10	880	55,687
2010-11	876	47,200
2011-12	827	48,009
2012-13	787	46,450
2013-14	787	45,800
2014-15	784	44,240
2015-16	782 (end Feb)	44,478

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether the obligations for public bodies set out in the HM Treasury document, Managing Public Money, published in July 2013, will apply to the company given control of the operational functions of the Land Registry in the event that it is privatised under the (a) Government’s preferred model of privatisation with contract between the Government and a private operator and (b) alternative model of privatisation with independent economic regulation.

Anna Soubry

Managing Public Money principles only apply to public sector bodies, and therefore no privatised bodies will fall under its guidelines.

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he plans to announce the results of the consultation, Property ownership and public contracting by foreign countries: improving transparency, published on 4 March 2016.

Anna Soubry

The Government is currently analysing the responses to the discussion paper, with a view to announcing its next steps shortly.

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

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which competent authorities in the UK will be able to access data on the beneficial ownership of companies incorporated in (a) other EU countries and (b) British Overseas Territories.

Harriett Baldwin

All UK competent authorities can request company beneficial ownership information from foreign jurisdictions through Mutual Legal Assistance and other information sharing arrangements such as the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units. Furthermore, more than 30 countries have now joined the initiative to automatically share beneficial ownership information among participants (the statement can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/520459/statement_on_the_initiative_for_exchange_of_beneficial_ownership_information.pdf). The Prime Minister also recently announced that UK law enforcement and tax agencies will have full access to information on the beneficial ownership of companies incorporated in all UK Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies (except Guernsey).

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-05-03.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to table 1.5 of HM Revenue and Customs’ document, Measuring tax gaps, published in October 2013, how much revenue was lost as a result of the tax gap in (a) tax evasion and (b) the hidden economy in each year since 2009-10.

Mr David Gauke

HM Revenue and Customs published its latest tax gap estimates on 22 October 2015 in Measuring tax gaps 2015 edition. This is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/470540/HMRC-measuring-tax-gaps-2015-1.pdf

The tax gap by behaviour is set out in Figure 1.6 (page 11) and Table 1.5 (page 19). As behaviour estimates are made using management assumptions and judgement, they should be used as a broad indication.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-05-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which foreign countries made requests to the UK to recover criminal assets they had identified as having been laundered in the UK in each year since 2009; and how much in criminal assets was recovered from the UK for each of those countries in each such year.

Mr John Hayes

The table below shows the countries and territories that have made requests to the UK for assistance in recovering criminal assets.

Year Received	Requesting Country
2010	Switzerland
2011	Egypt
	Czech Republic
2012	Switzerland
2013	Switzerland
2014	Iran
	Switzerland
	Italy
2015	Switzerland
	Cyprus
	Italy
	Brazil
	Netherlands

These figures only show countries where 6 or more requests have been made for restraint or confiscation. This is because disclosure of figures where 5 or fewer requests have been made may lead to the identification of an individual Mutual Legal Assistance request. Please note that these figures are taken from local management information, and have not been quality assured to the level of published National Statistics. As such they should be treated as provisional and therefore subject to change.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-05-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) people, (b) nominated officers and (c) other nominated officers were prosecuted for failure to disclose under Section 19, Part III of the Terrorism Act 2000 in each year since 2009-10.

Mr John Hayes

The Home Office holds data on the number of people prosecuted for terrorism-related offences under specific legislation, on a principle offence basis (i.e. if an individual is prosecuted for multiple offences at one time, only the most serious offence is recorded). Since 2009/10, there have been no prosecutions where the principle offence comes under section 19 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

The Home Office does not hold data on the number of nominated officers that were prosecuted.