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156745

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2014
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Flexible Working
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in her Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	215191
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>My Department has not received any statutory applications to request flexible working. We do however have a number of staff who have flexible working arrangements, the details of which are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Type of flexible arrangement</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Male</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Female</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Compressed Hours</strong></p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Reduced Hours</strong></p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chipping Barnet answering member printed Mrs Theresa Villiers question first answered 26/11/2014 10:31:19 answering member 1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

156033

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Court Orders: Compensation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many deduction of earning orders for payment of compensation orders have been placed on offenders' benefit payments in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
	uin	214686
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>This Government takes recovery and enforcement of financial impositions very seriously and remains committed to finding new ways to ensure impositions are paid and to trace those who do not pay. This is why there has been a year on year increase in the total amount of financial impositions collected over the last three years.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to identify how many deductions from benefits orders or attachment of earnings orders have been used for the recovery of compensation without incurring disproportionate cost as this information can only be obtained by a manual search of all live and closed financial imposition accounts.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 26/11/2014 09:41:21 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for Lord Hanson of Flint

156047

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Licensing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions sellers of motor vehicles have been convicted of failing to use form V5C/3 to notify the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency of the transfer of a vehicle to a new owner in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	214486
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Ministry of Justice Court Proceedings Database holds information on defendants proceeded against, found guilty and sentenced for criminal offences in England and Wales. However, not all offences are individually reported within the centrally held data. Data for offences of failing to use form V5C/3 to notify the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency of the transfer of a vehicle to a new owner are held as part of a related group of vehicle licensing offences, and it is not possible to separately identify prosecutions for this specific offence from other offences within this grouping. This information may be held by the individual courts in England and Wales and as such it can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 26/11/2014 09:10:59 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

156057

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Court Orders: Compensation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been (a) paid to victims and (b) remains outstanding for compensation orders agreed by the courts in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
	uin	214709
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>This Government takes recovery and enforcement of financial impositions very seriously and remains committed to finding new ways to ensure impositions are paid and to trace those who do not pay. This is why there has been a year on year increase in the total amount of financial impositions collected over the last three years.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the total amount of compensation collected in each year and the amount outstanding at the end of the year.</p><p> </p><table><thead><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total compensation collected regardless of imposition date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Compensation outstanding at end of the year regardless of imposition date</strong></p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>£28.8m</p></td><td><p>£69.2m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>£29.6m</p></td><td><p>£68.9m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£28.2m</p></td><td><p>£68.1m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£33.3m</p></td><td><p>£67.2m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£28.3m</p></td><td><p>£67.7m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The balance outstanding includes accounts that were not due to be paid by the end of the period specified and those that were being paid by instalments on agreed payment plans.</p><p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service are looking to work with an external provider for future provision of the compliance and enforcement service. Working with an external provider would bring the necessary investment and technology HMCTS needs to achieve its aspirations for compliance and enforcement services in the future. It will enable the automation of many of the manual administrative processes and in turn decrease the cost of providing fine enforcement and increase the amount of fines that are paid. The innovation this will bring and the use of automated administrative processes will free up staff time to be more pro-active in pursuing offenders to ensure they comply with their court order.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 26/11/2014 08:45:42 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for Lord Hanson of Flint

156414

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of prisoners who were not born in the UK in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	214858
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Information is not held centrally on the country of birth of prisoners.</p><p> </p><p>For the nationality split of prisoners please refer to the Offender Management Statistics series. In particular:</p><p> </p><p>Table 1.6 for the most up to date quarterly statistics up to 30 September 2014:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/368442/prison-population-q3-2014.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/368442/prison-population-q3-2014.xls</a></p><p> </p><p>Table 1.9 for the long run time series as at 30 June for 2002-2014:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/339036/prison-population-2014.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/339036/prison-population-2014.xls</a></p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 26/11/2014 11:06:27 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

156599

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	HM Coastguard
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the minimum manning levels are for each Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool North and Cleveleys
	tabling member printed	Paul Maynard
	uin	215225
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The minimum risk assessed watch levels for each Maritime Rescue Coordination Centres (MRCCs) not currently within the new National Network are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>MRCC</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Summer<sup>#</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Winter<sup>#</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Day</p></td><td><p>Night</p></td><td><p>Day</p></td><td><p>Night</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shetland</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aberdeen</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humber</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London CG</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dover</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Swansea</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Milford Haven</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Holyhead</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liverpool</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belfast<sup>* </sup></p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stornoway</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>#</sup> Summer is in line with British Summer Time and Winter is in line with Greenwich Mean Time.</p><p><sup>*</sup> Belfast MRCC Watch Risk Assessed levels increase by one Watchkeeper at weekends</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 26/11/2014 09:19:56 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
	tabling member	3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard

156600

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	HM Coastguard: Fareham
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the minimum manning levels are for the Maritime Operations Centre in Fareham.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool North and Cleveleys
	tabling member printed	Paul Maynard
	uin	215226
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>Since September 2014, minimum staffing has been set at a network level so that resources can be matched to demand. At this time, the National Maritime Operations Centre near Fareham and the Coastguard Operations Centre in Falmouth have been incorporated into the growing national network and are responsible for coordinating search and rescue from Dodman Point, South of Mevagissey, Cornwall to Beachy Head, East Sussex.</p><p> </p><p>The current minimum watch levels for today’s network are:</p><p> </p><p>· Weekday Day – 9 Watchkeepers</p><p>· Weekend Day – 11 Watchkeepers</p><p>· Weekday Night- 7 Watchkeepers</p><p>· Weekend Night – 7 Watchkeepers</p><p> </p><p>Minimum staffing will change as the national network grows up to December 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 26/11/2014 09:15:10 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
	tabling member	3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard

157033

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Shipping: Exhaust Emissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October 2014 to Question 211928, what discussions his Department has had with its Scottish counterpart on the Rosyth-Zeebrugge freight service operated by DFDS and that company’s announcement on the viability of that route following the introduction of the sulphur dioxide emission regulations.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	215415
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>In July 2014, the Government’s support for shipowners and ports was successful in securing €29.5m of EU assistance under the TEN-T programme. All the projects received the full amount that they bid for. They are:</p><p>· €10m - Pilot project to deploy hybrid scrubber technology. (P&amp;O with ports of Dover / Calais / Hull / Rotterdam)</p><p>· €2.5m – Deployment of hybrid scrubbers. (DFDS with ports of Immingham / Gothenburg)</p><p>· €4.3m – Trial of Liquefied Natural Gas bunkering in Teesport. (Teesport and consortium)</p><p>· €12.7m – Retrofitting a ship with LNG engines and developing port infrastructure. (Portsmouth with Brittany Ferries, port of Caen and Zeebrugge).</p><p>Ultimately, operators will make commercial decisions. The Government is aware that there are ferry routes which industry considers are vulnerable, but this information is commercially sensitive. We are exploring with the European Commission whether a ferry route which is deemed to be vulnerable as a result of the new sulphur requirements could receive State Aid – and, if so, the parameters on which it could do so. Those discussions are ongoing.</p><p>I have had two exchanges of letters with Keith Brown MSP, Minister for Transport and Veterans, concerning the future of the Rosyth – Zeebrugge freight service and the options that were being considered. We both recognised that issues around State Aid would significantly restrict domestic support and I confirmed that we had written to the Commission about the provision of State Aid. I assured Mr Brown that the UK would continue to support applications for EU funding to assist eligible projects that helped mitigate the impact of the Directive.</p><p>The aim of providing assistance would be to help secure existing routes, which in turn, should help to secure employment. Any domestic funds that we provide to industry will need to provide value for money to the taxpayer and avoid distortions in a competitive market. However, there would be no direct link between these funds and the provision of employment and training for UK seafarers. This is already provided for separately, through the training requirements of the tonnage tax regime and through our Support for Maritime Training (SMarT) funding which we increased by 25% last year to £15m.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes grouped question UIN 215416 215417 215418 215419 215458 question first answered 26/11/2014 09:39:12 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

157036

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Shipping: Exhaust Emissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October 2014 to Question 211928, what recent progress has been made with the European Commission over the scope for State Aid in respect of ferry routes from the UK which are deemed to be vulnerable as a result of the new international and EU sulphur regime; and what his policy is on the linking of such provision to (a) employment and (b) training for UK-based seafarers.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	215416
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>In July 2014, the Government’s support for shipowners and ports was successful in securing €29.5m of EU assistance under the TEN-T programme. All the projects received the full amount that they bid for. They are:</p><p>· €10m - Pilot project to deploy hybrid scrubber technology. (P&amp;O with ports of Dover / Calais / Hull / Rotterdam)</p><p>· €2.5m – Deployment of hybrid scrubbers. (DFDS with ports of Immingham / Gothenburg)</p><p>· €4.3m – Trial of Liquefied Natural Gas bunkering in Teesport. (Teesport and consortium)</p><p>· €12.7m – Retrofitting a ship with LNG engines and developing port infrastructure. (Portsmouth with Brittany Ferries, port of Caen and Zeebrugge).</p><p>Ultimately, operators will make commercial decisions. The Government is aware that there are ferry routes which industry considers are vulnerable, but this information is commercially sensitive. We are exploring with the European Commission whether a ferry route which is deemed to be vulnerable as a result of the new sulphur requirements could receive State Aid – and, if so, the parameters on which it could do so. Those discussions are ongoing.</p><p>I have had two exchanges of letters with Keith Brown MSP, Minister for Transport and Veterans, concerning the future of the Rosyth – Zeebrugge freight service and the options that were being considered. We both recognised that issues around State Aid would significantly restrict domestic support and I confirmed that we had written to the Commission about the provision of State Aid. I assured Mr Brown that the UK would continue to support applications for EU funding to assist eligible projects that helped mitigate the impact of the Directive.</p><p>The aim of providing assistance would be to help secure existing routes, which in turn, should help to secure employment. Any domestic funds that we provide to industry will need to provide value for money to the taxpayer and avoid distortions in a competitive market. However, there would be no direct link between these funds and the provision of employment and training for UK seafarers. This is already provided for separately, through the training requirements of the tonnage tax regime and through our Support for Maritime Training (SMarT) funding which we increased by 25% last year to £15m.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes grouped question UIN 215415 215417 215418 215419 215458 question first answered 26/11/2014 09:39:12 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

157037

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Shipping: Exhaust Emissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October 2014 to Question 211928, which ferry routes from the UK are deemed to be vulnerable as a result of the introduction of new international and European Union sulphur regimes.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	215417
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>In July 2014, the Government’s support for shipowners and ports was successful in securing €29.5m of EU assistance under the TEN-T programme. All the projects received the full amount that they bid for. They are:</p><p>· €10m - Pilot project to deploy hybrid scrubber technology. (P&amp;O with ports of Dover / Calais / Hull / Rotterdam)</p><p>· €2.5m – Deployment of hybrid scrubbers. (DFDS with ports of Immingham / Gothenburg)</p><p>· €4.3m – Trial of Liquefied Natural Gas bunkering in Teesport. (Teesport and consortium)</p><p>· €12.7m – Retrofitting a ship with LNG engines and developing port infrastructure. (Portsmouth with Brittany Ferries, port of Caen and Zeebrugge).</p><p>Ultimately, operators will make commercial decisions. The Government is aware that there are ferry routes which industry considers are vulnerable, but this information is commercially sensitive. We are exploring with the European Commission whether a ferry route which is deemed to be vulnerable as a result of the new sulphur requirements could receive State Aid – and, if so, the parameters on which it could do so. Those discussions are ongoing.</p><p>I have had two exchanges of letters with Keith Brown MSP, Minister for Transport and Veterans, concerning the future of the Rosyth – Zeebrugge freight service and the options that were being considered. We both recognised that issues around State Aid would significantly restrict domestic support and I confirmed that we had written to the Commission about the provision of State Aid. I assured Mr Brown that the UK would continue to support applications for EU funding to assist eligible projects that helped mitigate the impact of the Directive.</p><p>The aim of providing assistance would be to help secure existing routes, which in turn, should help to secure employment. Any domestic funds that we provide to industry will need to provide value for money to the taxpayer and avoid distortions in a competitive market. However, there would be no direct link between these funds and the provision of employment and training for UK seafarers. This is already provided for separately, through the training requirements of the tonnage tax regime and through our Support for Maritime Training (SMarT) funding which we increased by 25% last year to £15m.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes grouped question UIN 215415 215416 215418 215419 215458 question first answered 26/11/2014 09:39:12 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner