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443249

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2016
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Floods
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the number of households affected by floods on 26 December 2015 in (a) Lancashire and (b) England.
	tabling member constituency	Ribble Valley
	tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Evans
	uin	21602
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2016 answer text <br /><p>Over 1,300 properties in Lancashire were affected by floods following Storm Eva with around 9,000 properties in England. These figures are subject to change and are based on local authority reporting.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 13/01/2016 16:58:49 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	474 label Biography information for Mr Nigel Evans

437150

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Flood Control
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Environment Agency's 2014 Long Term Investment Scenarios recommended optimum overall investment in flood defences of £750m to £800m each year to 2019-20; and whether she expects that level of overall investment to be achieved.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	19675
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>The Environment Agency's Long Term Investment Scenarios report represents the best currently available projections of potential long term costs to manage flood and coastal risk under a range of scenarios reflecting future uncertainties. It will be kept under review as any further evidence emerges.</p><br /><p>The report confirms that current Government investment plans to 2020, together with forecast local contributions, are in line with the level the Environment Agency’s assessment indicates is necessary to reduce overall flood risk <del class="ministerial">by 5%</del>.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 16/12/2015 15:36:34 question first ministerially corrected 16/12/2015 16:15:12 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart previous answer version 35407 answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

443246

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2016
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Hill Farming
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of implementing the Natural England report, Vital Uplands, published in 2009, in respect of restoration of deep upland vegetation to control hillside water run-off and valley flooding.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	21542
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2016 answer text <br /><p>The Vital Uplands report of 2009 was withdrawn by the previous Natural England Board and Management Team. Natural England, the Environment Agency, Defra and by academic institutions continue to closely monitor the complex science and evidence around upstream mitigation, through peatland, forestry and other natural measures. Some such measures have now been funded by the Government and piloted in schemes such as that in Pickering in Yorkshire. Natural upstream mitigation will be a key element of our planning at a catchment level, currently being taken forward through the Cumbrian Floods Partnership and our 25-year Environment Plan.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 15/01/2016 13:44:01 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

444185

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2016
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Flood Control: Yorkshire and the Humber
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department has allocated to (a) capital investment in and (b) maintenance flood protection schemes in (i) Barnsley East constituency, (ii) Barnsley, (iii) South Yorkshire and (iv) Yorkshire and the Humber in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Michael Dugher
	uin	22167
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2016 answer text <br /><p>The capital allocation for investment in flood schemes and revenue maintenance allocations for the Yorkshire RFCC area shown in the table below:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p>Funding in £000’s for the following financial years</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capital investment in schemes</p></td><td><p>28,800</p></td><td><p><br> 10,900</p></td><td><p><br> 17,400</p></td><td><p><br> 28,800</p></td><td><p><br> 43,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Revenue maintenance</p></td><td><p>12,536</p></td><td><p><br> 11,516</p></td><td><p><br> 13,751</p></td><td><p><br> 10,685</p></td><td><p><br> 14,409</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br></p><p>Environment Agency records regarding historic spend are collated for the geographical area covered by the Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee (RFCC) as a whole, which includes Barnsley.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 19/01/2016 15:37:24 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	3916 label Biography information for Michael Dugher

431968

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2015
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Landfill
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of trends in the proportion of waste sent to landfill by local authorities.
	tabling member constituency	Calder Valley
	tabling member printed	Craig Whittaker
	uin	17448
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>The latest available published statistics on the management of Local Authority collected waste in England are for the financial year 2014/15 which were published on 1 December 2015 and include information on the waste disposed to landfill. These data are available in the statistical notice and accompanying dataset on the gov.uk website via this link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-collected-waste-management-annual-results" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-collected-waste-management-annual-results</a>.</p><br /><p>In the financial year 2014/15, 25% of all Local Authority managed waste was disposed to landfill compared to 79% in 2000/01 with year on year reductions. Details are given in Table 1 below.</p><br /><p>Table 1 Local Authority Managed waste in England Disposed to Landfill</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>LA managed waste sent to landfill (thousand tonnes)</p></td><td><p>Proportion of all LA managed waste sent to landfill (%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000/01</p></td><td><p>22,039</p></td><td><p>79%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001/02</p></td><td><p>22,421</p></td><td><p>78%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002/03</p></td><td><p>22,068</p></td><td><p>75%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003/04</p></td><td><p>20,936</p></td><td><p>72%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004/05</p></td><td><p>19,822</p></td><td><p>67%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005/06</p></td><td><p>17,873</p></td><td><p>62%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006/07</p></td><td><p>16,890</p></td><td><p>58%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007/08</p></td><td><p>15,513</p></td><td><p>54%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>13,784</p></td><td><p>50%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>12,490</p></td><td><p>47%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>11,391</p></td><td><p>43%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>9,568</p></td><td><p>37%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>8,514</p></td><td><p>34%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>7,933</p></td><td><p>31%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>6,361</p></td><td><p>25%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 02/12/2015 10:37:45 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	3940 label Biography information for Craig Whittaker

846344

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convicted sex offenders who have breached the terms of their licence have been (a) recalled and (b) not recalled to prison in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	129002
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2018 answer text <ol><li>The number of convicted sex offenders who have been recalled to prison following breach of licence in the last five years:</li></ol><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>697</p></td><td><p>696</p></td><td><p>725</p></td><td><p>872</p></td><td><p>934</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><ol><li>We do not hold information centrally about the number of sex offenders in the community who may have breached their licence conditions and are not recalled to custody. To extract this data, would require a review of each separate case file to identify convicted sex offenders and then track their progress on licence.</li></ol><p> </p><p>Public protection is our top priority. Sex offenders on licence are subject to ongoing robust risk assessment and to strict licence conditions to manage that risk. They are supervised under statutory Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA); under MAPPA the Police and Probation services are required to work together to manage the risks of known sexual offenders. Any offender who fails to comply with his licence conditions can be immediately returned to prison.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 10/04/2018 09:30:57 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

353886

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2015
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Floods: Insurance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, by what date she plans that the flood reinsurance scheme will be fully operational.
	tabling member constituency	Brent North
	tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
	uin	2310
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2015 answer text <p> </p><p /> <p>Flood Re is on schedule to be established and begin its operational testing phase by July 2015. It will be a matter for the Flood Re team itself to determine when the scheme is ready to accept policies following authorisation by the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority. We understand that the Flood Re team expect this to be in April 2016.</p><p /> <p>Insurers have agreed to continue to abide by the Statement of Principles which ensures continued access to flood insurance until Flood Re is fully operational.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Insurers have agreed to continue to abide by the Statement of Principles which ensures continued access to flood insurance until Flood Re is fully operational.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 18/06/2015 15:01:17 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

864420

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Carillion: Insolvency
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of former employees of Carillion working in (a) HM Prison and Probation Service and (b) HM Courts and Tribunals Service have been transferred to (i) Gov Facilities Services Ltd and (ii) taken up employment with re-contracted providers.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	uin	132903
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>(a) HM Prison and Probation Service:<br> Over 95% of the former employees of Carillion working in HM Prison &amp; Probation Service have been transferred to Gov Facilities Services Ltd</p><p>432 Carillion employees were eligible to transfer to Gov Facility Services Ltd (GFSL) under TUPE arrangements with an additional 455 Carillion employees, who worked on the HMPPS contract, and who were subject to redundancy being offered employment with GFSL. 6 Carillion employees made a decision to resign prior to the date of transfer. <br> Finally, we understand that 18 Carillion employees, working on the HMPPS contract, were made redundant and not offered employment with GFSL as it was determined that their roles would not be required within the GFSL solution</p><p>(b) HM Courts and Tribunals Service:<br> ISS are the new Facilities provider (re-contracted provider) for Humberside and East Anglia Courts PFI and they will be taking over from Carillion. Once the new contract is signed, it is anticipated that all 24 ex-Carillion staff will move across and become ISS employees</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 20/03/2018 17:24:11 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

882475

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders: Homicide
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people previously convicted of (a) murder and (b) other killings have subsequently been convicted of carrying out additional killings after being released from prison in each year since 2010; and how many of those people had been serving (i) life and (ii) indeterminate sentences before being so released.
	tabling member constituency	New Forest East
	tabling member printed	Dr Julian Lewis
	uin	135537
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2018 answer text <p>(a) The mandatory sentence for murder is life imprisonment. The number of offenders serving a life sentence for murder and, after being released, subsequently convicted of an offence or offences which resulted in death is in column (a) in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>(b) The number of offenders serving a sentence for offences resulting in death (but not murder) and, after being released, subsequently convicted of an offence or offences resulting in death is in column (b) below. None of these offenders was serving an indeterminate sentence.</p><p> </p><p>The numbers given in each column relate to the year in which the offenders concerned were charged with an offence or offences which resulted in death not the year in which they were convicted.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>a) Life sentenced prisoners convicted of murder or other offences resulting in death at both index offence and SFO</p></td><td><p>b)Other sentenced offenders convicted of offences resulting in death at both index offence and SFO</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>* Not all SFO outcomes have been received for 2017, as some cases have not yet reached conclusion</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 18/04/2018 15:46:49 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	54 label Biography information for Sir Julian Lewis

1038008

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners released on licence have been found in breach of their licence conditions and (a) recalled to custody and (b) not recalled to custody in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	206339
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>(a) The number of recalls to custody following breach of licence in each of the last five years<sup>1</sup>:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>17330</p></td><td><p>17657</p></td><td><p>21467</p></td><td><p>21559</p></td><td><p>21914</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>1 The figures provided are for women and men recalled in each full year from 2013 to 2017 and may include offenders recalled more than once across multiple years or within years. The figures in these tables have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large-scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p><p> </p><p>The last full year available is 2017. Published statistics, including figures up to and including June 2018 are available here <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/offender-management-statistics-quarterly</a></p><p>(b) We do not hold information centrally about the number of offenders in the community who may have breached their licence conditions and are not recalled to custody. To extract this data would require a review of each separate case file to track their progress on licence.</p><p>Public protection is our priority and recall is used to ensure that offenders on licence who present a high risk of harm to the public or are at risk of re-offending are returned to custody as quickly as possible.</p><p> </p><p>Offenders on licence are subject to strict licence conditions, which are designed to enable the Probation Service to manage the risk that offenders may pose on release from prison and to safeguard public protection. All offenders on licensed supervision in the community are liable to recall to prison if they fail to comply with the conditions of their licence.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 15/01/2019 17:46:13 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel