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753450

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Ivory: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many prosecutions there have been for the illegal trade in ivory in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Gedling
	tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
	uin	5800
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>A number of offences controlling the international trade in endangered species are created by the COTES Regulations 1997.</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>Regulation 3: offences concerning false statements or notifications.</p></li><li><p>Regulation 4: offences of altering or wrongfully using a permit, certificate or import notification.</p></li><li><p>Regulation 6: contravening conditions or requirements of permits or certificates.</p></li><li><p>Regulation 8: offences of purchasing, acquiring, selling any specimen of a species for commercial purposes.</p></li></ul><p> </p><p>Although it is not possible to identify the number of prosecutions of particular offences, records are held showing the overall number of offences in which a prosecution commenced in the magistrates’ courts. The table below shows the number of offences, rather than defendants, charged by way of the COTES Regulations 1997 and Section 170(2) CEMA 1979 during each of the last five years. A single defendant may be charged with more than one offence.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2012-2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997 { 3 }</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997 { 4 }</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997 { 6 }</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997 { 8 }</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 { 170(2) }</p></td><td><p>755</p></td><td><p>699</p></td><td><p>826</p></td><td><p>856</p></td><td><p>749</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>It is not possible to separately identify offences which concern the illegal trade in ivory or ivory products from other unlawful international trade in endangered species.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 05/09/2017 09:25:08 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

754849

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Sentencing: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, if he will provide funding to advertise and raise public awareness of the process to refer unduly lenient sentences.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	6582
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The Unduly Lenient Sentence (ULS) scheme allows anyone to ask me to review certain sentences passed in the Crown Court and, where appropriate, to invite the Court of Appeal to consider increasing them.</p><p> </p><p>My office already does much to publicise the scheme. We publish ULS referrals on the website and work with local and national print and broadcast media to publicise them. Details of how to refer a case appear on the web site <a href="https://www.gov.uk/ask-crown-court-sentence-review" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/ask-crown-court-sentence-review</a>. My Office also promotes sentence increases on social media and distributes infographics online to increase public awareness.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016, more victims and their families got justice than ever before, after 141 criminals had their sentences increased under the ULS scheme.</p><p> </p><p>That year, we received 837 referrals, a 17% increase from the previous year, and the Solicitor General or I asked the Court of Appeal to look at 190, compared to 135 in 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 05/09/2017 07:59:53 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

753661

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Carbon Emissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the level of carbon emissions from his Department's buildings in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
	tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
	uin	5880
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>Figures for the department's overall carbon emissions are published annually in the Cabinet Office's Annual Report &amp; Accounts. Carbon emissions from the Cabinet Office estate are as follows:</p><p> </p><p>2015 - 5,950.34 Tonnes of CO2e</p><p>2016 - 5,092.77 Tonnes of CO2e</p><p>2017 (Jan-Mar) - 1425.5 Tonnes of CO2e</p><p> </p><p>Total CO2e emissions = 12468.61</p><p> </p><p>The Cabinet Office is fully committed to meeting the Government's Greening Government Commitments (GGC). The GGC departmental commitment is to reduce carbon emissions from a 2009/10 baseline by 35% by 2020; to date the department has achieved a reduction of over 50% in its overall emissions reductions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/09/2017 13:36:58 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

753662

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Consultants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much (a) his Department and (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible spent on external consultants and advisers in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
	tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
	uin	5881
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The overall amount spent on external consultancy by the Cabinet Office is published in the Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts available on page 52 on the below link. The Crown Commercial Service executive agency hold this information in their own accounts, which are available online.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016</a></p><p> </p><p>Accounts for 2016-17 will be published in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/09/2017 13:28:11 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

753663

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Advertising
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much was spent on advertising by (a) his Department and (b) each of its (i) non-departmental public bodies and (ii) executive agencies in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
	tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
	uin	5882
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and therefore can only be provided at disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 05/09/2017 13:02:27 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

753966

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Consultants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether, and at what cost, consultants have been contracted to carry out (a) marketing, (b) polling, (c) focus group and (d) other promotional activity relating to his Department's responsibilities in the last three years; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
	tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
	uin	6057
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and therefore can only be provided at disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 05/09/2017 13:01:26 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

753969

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Official Hospitality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many receptions his Department has hosted for representatives of print and broadcast media since 2015; how much each such reception cost; and how many people attended each such reception.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
	tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
	uin	6134
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>Costs of hospitality for the Cabinet Office are published in the Cabinet Office annual report and accounts which is available on the <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">gov.uk</a> website. The annual report and accounts for 2016/2017 will be released in due course.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 05/09/2017 13:03:24 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

753970

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Sick Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost of sickness pay to staff in his Department was in the most recent year for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
	tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
	uin	6135
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The cost of sickness pay to staff in the Cabinet Office was £353K between 1 June 2016 and 31 May 2017.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/09/2017 13:37:59 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

753975

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Zero Hours Contracts: Barnsley East
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people in Barnsley East constituency are employed on zero-hours contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	6285
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 6286 question first answered 05/09/2017 13:17:40 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ6285, 6286.pdf title UKSA Response to PQ6285
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

753976

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Zero Hours Contracts: Barnsley East
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people in Barnsley East constituency aged between 16 and 24 are employed on zero-hours contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	6286
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 6285 question first answered 05/09/2017 13:17:40 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ6285, 6286.pdf title UKSA Response to PQ6285
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock