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25299

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	published
	registered interest
	answer date	21/11/2013
	date	19/11/2013
	date tabled	19/11/2013
	ddp created	19/11/2013 23:30:50
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 23:55:12
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	identifier	176826
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	07/04/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the cost of travel within the UK was for his Department in each year since 2010; and how much of this was spent on (a) hire cars, (b) helicopter hire, (c) hotel accommodation and (d) subsistence.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	Islwyn
	tabling member printed	Chris Evans
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 176826
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	176826
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p> </p><p><em>Role of the Department</em></p><p>Reflecting our responsibilities for local government, housing, planning and communities across England, the work of the Department involves staff travelling to different parts of the country.</p><p>Improved procurement has reduced our average domestic hotel rate in the UK by 8% between 2009-10 and 2012-13. Moreover, domestic flights for longer journeys can avoid the need for paying for staff to stay in a hotel overnight.</p><p>Since 2011-12, the Department accepted responsibility for some new functions outside of London, including residual functions following the closure of the Government Offices for the Regions and then oversight of the European Regional Development Fund following the abolition of the Regional Development Agencies. As these business functions relate to work in areas outside of London and to the European Commission, this has therefore increased our travel spend compared to the base of 2010-11. However, this is far more than offset by the very significant savings to taxpayers of the abolition of these regional bodies.</p><p>Based on current estimates (which reflect accounting consequences from machinery of government changes) the DCLG Group is reducing its annual running costs by around 40% in real terms between 2010-11 and 2014-15. This equates to net savings of at least £532 million over this spending review period and includes savings of around £420 million from the closure of the Government Offices for the Regions.</p><p>In addition to this, I note that the Regional Development Agencies were spending in the region of £246 million a year on administration (as cited in 11 March 2009, <em>Official Report</em>, Column 592W).</p><p><em>Spending data</em></p><p>The tables below list spending on travel by financial year. Figures for 2009-10 are from July 2009, as this is when the department's current approved travel agent contract commenced; those figures are therefore only for three-quarters of the financial year, and the full year is likely to be proportionately higher.</p><p> </p><table><thead><tr><td> </td><td><p><em>Overseas Travel</em></p></td><td><p><em>Overseas Accommodation</em></p></td><td><p><em>Overseas Subsistence</em></p></td><td><p><em>Total</em></p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>July 2009 - March 10</p></td><td><p>£408,621</p></td><td><p>£19,847</p></td><td><p>£79,574</p></td><td><p>£508,042 (part-year)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£56,304</p></td><td><p>£21,759</p></td><td><p>£27,798</p></td><td><p>£105,861</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£69,463</p></td><td><p>£21,204</p></td><td><p>£19,946</p></td><td><p>£110,613</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£78,474</p></td><td><p>£29,224</p></td><td><p>£21,911</p></td><td><p>£129,609</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><thead><tr><td> </td><td><p><em>UK Travel</em></p></td><td><p><em>UK Accommodation</em></p></td><td><p><em>UK Subsistence</em></p></td><td><p><em>Total</em></p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>July 2009 - March 10</p></td><td><p>£621,028</p></td><td><p>£309,260</p></td><td><p>£174,888</p></td><td><p>£1,105,176 (part-year)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£434,467</p></td><td><p>£199,563</p></td><td><p>£81,315</p></td><td><p>£715,345</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£980,307</p></td><td><p>£162,544</p></td><td><p>£71,913</p></td><td><p>£1,214,764</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£1,030,710</p></td><td><p>£166,149</p></td><td><p>£74,424</p></td><td><p>£1,271,283</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Explanatory notes:</p><p>- Overseas subsistence costs can include accommodation, meals and travel tickets purchased locally.</p><p>- The costs of internal travel abroad are not routinely recorded in the form requested and this information could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p><p>- Data on cost per trip is not centrally held in the form requested.</p><p>- For car hire, the data from our finance systems do not separate out expenditure for domestic and international car hire and this could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p>- For helicopter hire, our records show that the Department has incurred no expenditure on this since 2010-11.</p><p>- Figures contained in this answer may differ from previous answers to Parliamentary Questions, as the data extracts have been re-run and reflect ongoing accruals and data. Delays in billing or crediting transactions can sometimes have an effect on the spend data between the financial years.</p><p>Taken in the whole, we have reduced overall travel spending compared to the last Administration, and delivered substantive savings for taxpayers' from the abolition of regional government in England.</p><p> </p>
	creator	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans
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43632

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	20/03/2014
	date	18/03/2014
	date tabled	18/03/2014
	ddp created	18/03/2014 22:31:57
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 02:46:41
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	house id	1
	identifier	192478
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	25/03/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people were employed as civil servants in (a) the most recent period for which figures are available, (b) 2004 and (c) 1994.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	Islwyn
	tabling member printed	Chris Evans
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 192478
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	192478
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p>
	creator	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans

43694

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	20/03/2014
	date	18/03/2014
	date tabled	18/03/2014
	ddp created	18/03/2014 22:33:06
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 02:47:23
	answering body	Department for Education
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	identifier	192479
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	25/03/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent research has been commissioned into truancy in schools; and if he will make a statement.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	Islwyn
	tabling member printed	Chris Evans
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 192479
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	192479
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>From the 2011/12 absence data, we know that pupils who have regular attendance at school are four times more likely to achieve five or more A*-C grades at GCSE, including English and maths, than those pupils who are persistently absent. Persistent absence has fallen by 15 per cent under this Government, from 392,305 pupils missing 15 per cent of school time in 2010/11 to 333,850 in 2011/12. The former Government Adviser on behaviour, Charlie Taylor, published his report on improving school attendance in April 2012. It can be found at <a href="http://tinyurl.com/crt8nok" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/crt8nok</a></p>
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43700

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	20/03/2014
	date	18/03/2014
	date tabled	18/03/2014
	ddp created	18/03/2014 22:33:19
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 02:47:29
	answering body	Department for Education
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	1
	identifier	192512
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	24/03/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of school-age pupils who have been illegally excluded from school in each of the last five years.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	Islwyn
	tabling member printed	Chris Evans
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 192512
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	192512
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Department for Education's statutory guidance makes clear that all exclusions from school must be lawful, reasonable and fair. The guidance sets out schools' responsibilities in relation to exclusion and includes examples of unlawful use of exclusion. There is no excuse for a school not to adhere to the correct process, and Ofsted takes seriously any evidence that a school has acted unlawfully in its use of exclusion.</p>
	creator	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans

50382

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/05/2014
	date	08/05/2014
	date tabled	08/05/2014
	ddp created	08/05/2014 19:32:13
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 05:13:00
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	house id	1
	identifier	198231
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	13/05/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the situation for religious minorities in northern Nigeria.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	Islwyn
	tabling member printed	Chris Evans
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 198231
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	198231
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Conflict in northern Nigeria has caused great suffering in communities of different faiths and ethnicities. Representatives of The Government maintain regular contact with religious and ethnic community leaders across Nigeria. We recognise there are tensions in many parts of the country, including in the north east, middle belt and the Niger Delta. Recent attacks by Boko Haram have been indiscriminate, but it is almost certain that these attacks have killed more Muslims than Christians.</p><p>We recognise the underlying issues of poverty and inequality, which lead to inter-communal tensions and conflict in Nigeria and we urge political, traditional and religious leaders to work together in order to resolve these issues. The Department for International Development (DFID), the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) continue to fund a range of conflict resolution projects across Nigeria designed to address these problems. We currently have an expert team in Abuja to help Nigeria deal with the abduction of the school girls from Chibok and to also look at addressing longer term challenges, including inter-communal tensions.</p>
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	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4040 label Biography information for Chris Evans

50383

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/05/2014
	date	08/05/2014
	date tabled	08/05/2014
	ddp created	08/05/2014 19:32:13
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 05:13:05
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	house id	1
	identifier	198232
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	13/05/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent reports he has received on the situation for religious minorities in Burma.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	Islwyn
	tabling member printed	Chris Evans
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 198232
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	198232
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>British officials regularly receive reports on a wide range of human rights issues, including the treatment of religious minorities in Burma. We share UN Special Rapporteur for Burma Tomas Ojea Quintana's concerns, as noted in his final report to the UN Human Rights Council on 2 April 2014, that the Burmese government is “not fulfilling its international human rights obligation to tackle incitement to violence based on national, racial or religious hatred”. We are particularly concerned by the rise in anti-Muslim attacks and hate speech over the last two years, continued intercommunal tensions in Rakhine State and the plight of the Rohingya. I raised our wider concerns about the situation in Rakhine State with senior Burmese Ministers during their visit in January and Baroness Warsi discussed the situation with the Burmese Minister of National Planning and Economic Development, Dr Kan Zaw, during his visit to the UK in March. During my visit to Burma in January, I also met the Kachin Baptist Convention, the largest religious organisation in Kachin State. We continue to encourage religious tolerance and dialogue and call on the Burmese authorities and community leaders to help create a conducive environment for this to take place.</p>
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50384

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/05/2014
	date	08/05/2014
	date tabled	08/05/2014
	ddp created	08/05/2014 19:32:13
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 05:13:10
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	house id	1
	identifier	198237
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	13/05/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the situation of Christian communities in Syria.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	Islwyn
	tabling member printed	Chris Evans
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 198237
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	198237
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The ongoing crisis has clearly had a devastating impact on Christians, and on all of Syria's communities. We remain deeply concerned by the situation for Christian communities in Syria, including in Raqqah and Kessab.</p><p>This reinforces the need for us to support the moderate opposition who, as the UN Commission of Inquiry has acknowledged, have a pluralist and democratic vision for Syria and who are fighting extremist groups such as ISIL which pose a grave threat to Christians and others.</p>
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50662

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	14/05/2014
	date	06/05/2014
	date tabled	06/05/2014
	ddp created	14/05/2014 12:50:07
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 05:29:24
	answering body	Wales Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	house id	1
	identifier	903939
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	14/05/2014 12:00:00
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what estimate he has made of the level of trade undertaken by businesses in Wales with countries in the EU.
	session	2013/14
	session number	3
	tabling member constituency	Islwyn
	tabling member printed	Chris Evans
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2013/14 903939
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	903939
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p> </p><p>I refer the hon Gentleman to the answer I gave to the members for Delyn, Cardiff West and Ogmore earlier today.</p><p> </p>
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100310

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	24/10/2014
	date	22/10/2014
	date tabled	22/10/2014
	ddp created	22/10/2014 22:50:46
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 03:20:50
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electronic Government
	house id	1
	identifier	211552
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	29/10/2014 17:02:14
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress his Department has made in tackling copycat websites which charge extra for government services.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Islwyn
	tabling member printed	Chris Evans
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 211552
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	211552
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>My Rt Hon Friend the Minister of State for Culture and the Digital Economy updated the House on the work the government is undertaking to address the issue of misleading websites during a Westminster Hall Debate on 28 October 2014.</p><p> </p>
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100331

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	24/10/2014
	date	22/10/2014
	date tabled	22/10/2014
	ddp created	22/10/2014 22:50:53
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 03:22:59
	answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Internet: Wales
	house id	1
	identifier	211551
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	29/10/2014 09:44:36
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the timetable is for the extension of high-speed internet to the South Wales Valleys.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Islwyn
	tabling member printed	Chris Evans
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 211551
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	211551
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Superfast Cymru has already enabled over 230,000 Welsh homes and businesses to access superfast broadband and aims to cover 700,000 (93%) by the end of 2017. The Welsh project team recently announced that all exchanges in Wales will be covered in the programme, with work commencing in all exchanges by September 2015. The programme within in the South Wales Valleys has already connected 24 exchanges in the Caerphilly area, with two remaining exchanges due to be upgraded in December 2014. The final two will be enabled in 2015.</p>
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