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455401

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Youth Custody: Cameras
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his Department's policy that all prison officers in youth facilities should wear body-mounted cameras.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
	uin	28480
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>The safety and welfare of young people in custody is vital and we take all incidents of violence extremely seriously.</p><p> </p><p>A pilot of Body Worn Video Cameras (BWVCs) is currently taking place across <del class="ministerial">24</del><ins class="ministerial">23</ins> prisons, including Cookham Wood, Feltham and Wetherby under -18 Young Offender Institutions.</p><p> </p><p>BWVCs are already in use at all Secure Training Colleges (STCs).</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 04/03/2016 14:50:06 question first ministerially corrected 07/03/2016 14:22:46 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous previous answer version 49267 answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

455212

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many officials in his Department are responsible for coordinating and developing international policy across Government.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	28516
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Promoting diversity in the Senior Civil Service is a ministerial responsibility of the Minister for the Cabinet Office. I have had frequent such meetings, and details of Ministers' meetings with external organisations are published routinely and can be found on www. Gov.UK.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">As part of this Government’s transparency agenda, twice a year all Departments are required to publish an organogram and structure charts that contain information about the roles performed by staff. The latest Cabinet Office organogram is available at <a href="https://data.gov.uk/organogram/cabinet-office" target="_blank">https://data.gov.uk/organogram/cabinet-office</a> and the latest structure charts may be downloaded at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/cabinet-office-structure-charts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/cabinet-office-structure-charts</a>.</ins></p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/03/2016 13:50:32 question first ministerially corrected 07/03/2016 16:23:22 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 49154 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

455437

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2016
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Wales Office: Cleaning Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the rate of pay is for cleaners in his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	28615
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>Cleaning services within the Wales Office are undertaken by outsourced providers under Ministry of Justice contracts.</p><p> </p><p>Rates of pay for cleaners are determined by their respective employers and not held by the Wales Office or Ministry of Justice.</p><p> </p><p>All employers are obligated to pay at least the National Minimum Wage and the new National Living Wage from April 2016.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns question first answered 04/03/2016 14:30:52 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

455227

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2016
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	UK Membership of EU
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effect on the economy of the UK leaving the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
	uin	28535
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>As the Chancellor has said, a UK exit from the EU would be a long, costly and messy divorce. The finance Ministers and central bank governors of the G20 concluded at the weekend that a British exit would cause an economic shock not just to the UK but to Europe and the world. What people are asking for in this referendum campaign is a serious, sober and principled assessment from the Government setting out the facts. The Treasury will publish a comprehensive analysis of our membership of a reformed EU and the alternatives, including the long-term economic costs and benefits of EU membership and the risks associated with an exit before 23 June.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 04/03/2016 14:27:29 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

455351

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Surgery: Greater Manchester
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time for an operation in (a) Pennine Acute NHS Trust and (b) Bolton NHS Trust was in the last year for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Bury South
	tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
	uin	28512
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>Patients have a legal right, set out in the NHS Constitution, to start consultant-led treatment within a maximum of 18 weeks from referral for non-urgent conditions. The following table shows the average median waiting time in weeks for patients whose wait ended during the month with an inpatient or day case admission to Pennine Acute NHS Trust or Bolton NHS Trust. Only a proportion of inpatient or day case admissions would have resulted in an operation.</p><p>Table: average median waiting times<sup>1, 2</sup> in weeks for patients whose wait ended during the month with an inpatient or day case admission<sup>3</sup>, 2015</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Bolton NHS Trust</p></td><td><p>Pennine Acute NHS Trust</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2015</p></td><td><p>8.2</p></td><td><p>10.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2015</p></td><td><p>8.7</p></td><td><p>11.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2015</p></td><td><p>7.6</p></td><td><p>9.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2015</p></td><td><p>7.6</p></td><td><p>10.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2015</p></td><td><p>7.9</p></td><td><p>10.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2015</p></td><td><p>7.0</p></td><td><p>11.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2015</p></td><td><p>6.6</p></td><td><p>11.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2015</p></td><td><p>6.3</p></td><td><p>10.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2015</p></td><td><p>6.9</p></td><td><p>10.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2015</p></td><td><p>7.1</p></td><td><p>11.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2015</p></td><td><p>7.0</p></td><td><p>10.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2015</p></td><td><p>5.7</p></td><td><p>10.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Source:</em> Consultant-led referral to treatment waiting times, NHS England</p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Notes: </em></p><ol><li>Median waiting times are calculated from aggregate data, rather than patient level data, and therefore are only estimates of the position on average waits.</li><li>Until September 2015, adjustments were permitted for clock pauses, where a patient declined reasonable offers of admission and chose to wait longer. From October 2015, there is no longer any provision to report pauses or suspensions in waiting time clocks.</li><li>Not every admission to hospital is for an operation, but hospital episode statistics suggest that 94% of elective finished admission episodes involve some form of procedure or intervention.</li></ol> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/03/2016 14:49:51 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis

455248

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Workers: Vacancies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many social worker vacancies remained unfilled in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
	tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
	uin	28543
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department of Health has responsibility for adult social care policy which includes the activities of social workers in adult settings. The Department for Education has responsibility for the activities of social workers in children’s services.</p><p> </p><p>The Health and Social Care Information Centre has recently published its report “Personal Social Services: Staff of Social Services Departments, England, as at September 2015”. This shows that the vacancy rates for adult social workers in local authorities are as follows:</p><p> </p><p>2014 there were 1,100* vacancies (8%)</p><p>2015 there were 1,700** vacancies (12%)</p><p> </p><p>*2014 based on 121 councils with vacancies data recorded.</p><p>**2015 based on 133 councils with vacancies data recorded.</p><p> </p><p>Source: Skills for Care - NMDS-SC</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 04/03/2016 14:01:39 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

455408

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners serving life sentences have been recalled to custody in each year since 2005.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	28567
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>The information you have requested in respect of the number of indeterminate sentence prisoners (ie those prisoners serving a life sentence or an indeterminate sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection - IPP) who have been recalled in each year since 2005 is available in the Ministry of Justice’s offender management quarterly statistical bulletin. This can be found using the following link:</p><p><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>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>We are unable to provide the data on the average amount of time indeterminate sentence prisoners spend in custody following recall and before their re-release. Whilst this information is held on individual case files, the NOMS electronic case management system is unable to provide a report on the average period of time spent. In order to provide an answer it would be necessary to undertake a manual exercise looking at the case records of all indeterminate sentence prisoners during this period. Such an exercise would incur disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 28568 question first answered 04/03/2016 14:23:51 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

455414

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what average number of months life-sentenced prisoners who were recalled to custody in the last five years spent in prison before they were re-released.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	28568
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>The information you have requested in respect of the number of indeterminate sentence prisoners (ie those prisoners serving a life sentence or an indeterminate sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection - IPP) who have been recalled in each year since 2005 is available in the Ministry of Justice’s offender management quarterly statistical bulletin. This can be found using the following link:</p><p><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>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>We are unable to provide the data on the average amount of time indeterminate sentence prisoners spend in custody following recall and before their re-release. Whilst this information is held on individual case files, the NOMS electronic case management system is unable to provide a report on the average period of time spent. In order to provide an answer it would be necessary to undertake a manual exercise looking at the case records of all indeterminate sentence prisoners during this period. Such an exercise would incur disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 28567 question first answered 04/03/2016 14:23:51 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

455214

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Appointments: Ethnic Groups
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he has taken to increase the number of public appointments of BAME representation in the last three months.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	28518
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to increasing the diversity of public appointments. The Centre for Public Appointments in the Cabinet Office supports departments on all issues relating to the diversity of public appointments. Steps we are taking to increase diversity include streamlining the application process​, placing an emphasis on ability over previous experience,​ and increasing awareness of opportunities by using a central website, social media. The Centre for Public Appointments also engages extensively with a variety of diversity networks​ and groups representing the views of ethnic minorities to raise awareness and increase the number of applications coming from BAME candidates and understand any potential issues or barriers.</p><p>I hosted an event in February for a variety of diversity networks to encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for Public Appointments and to advertise them in their own networks. The Cabinet Office is also represented at events run by diversity networks to raise awareness of the opportunities available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/03/2016 13:52:37 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

455405

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Publications
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) publications, (b) consultation documents and (c) circulars his Department has issued since August 2012; and what the title was of each such publication, consultation document or circular.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	28677
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>We publish consultations and other publications on GOV.UK. The list of pages published is available through a filtered search. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=&amp;publication_filter_option=all&amp;topics%5b%5d=all&amp;departments%5b%5d=ministry-of-justice&amp;official_document_status=all&amp;world_locations%5b%5d=all&amp;from_date=01%2F08%2F2012&amp;to_date" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?keywords=&amp;publication_filter_option=all&amp;topics[]=all&amp;departments[]=ministry-of-justice&amp;official_document_status=all&amp;world_locations[]=all&amp;from_date=01%2F08%2F2012&amp;to_date</a>=</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 04/03/2016 14:09:29 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth