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58567

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	19/06/2014
	date	05/06/2014
	date tabled	05/06/2014
	ddp created	05/06/2014 21:08:13
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 18:14:01
	answering body	The Lord Chairman of Committees
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	200
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Chairman of Committees (HoL)
	hansard heading	House of Lords: Food
	house id	2
	identifier	HL92
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	17/06/2014 16:40:59
	question text	To ask the Chairman of Committees what proportion of the food used in the House of Lords is (1) grown in the home counties; and (2) drawn from organic and whole-food sources.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 HL92
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL92
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The House of Lords does not draw any of its food from organic sources nor is any of the food offered categorised as “whole-food”. Fruit and vegetables used by the House sourced from the home counties are set out in the table below. Free-range chicken served in the House is mostly from Gloucestershire and Essex. The Salt Marsh lamb is from the Romney Marsh in Kent.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Produce</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Source county</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Asparagus</p></td><td><p>Hampshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Beetroot</p></td><td><p>Bedfordshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bramley apple</p></td><td><p>Cambridgeshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cauliflower</p></td><td><p>Kent</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Herbs (potted)</p></td><td><p>Hampshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jacket potatoes</p></td><td><p>Hertfordshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New potatoes</p></td><td><p>Kent</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Raspberries</p></td><td><p>Sussex</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Red potatoes</p></td><td><p>Kent</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spring greens</p></td><td><p>Cambridgeshire</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Strawberries</p></td><td><p>Kent</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tomatoes (gourmet)</p></td><td><p>Sussex</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Vitelotte potatoes</p></td><td><p>Kent</p></td></tr></tbody></table> question first answered 17/06/2014 16:40:59 answering member 2124
	creator	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

60471

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	10/06/2014
	date	06/06/2014
	date tabled	06/06/2014
	ddp created	06/06/2014 16:10:46
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 07:02:50
	answering body	Attorney General
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	identifier	199512
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	11/06/2014 13:17:16
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, for how many acts of violence in prisons the Crown Prosecution Service decided to (a) bring or (b) not bring a prosecution for each type of offence in each of the last four years.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Tooting
	tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 199512
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	199512
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a central record of the number of cases where the CPS has been asked to make a charging decision and the decision made, either to charge or to take no further action. No record is held as to where an alleged offence was said to have taken place. To obtain details of alleged acts of violence in prisons referred to the CPS for a charging decision would require a manual exercise of reviewing individual case files to be undertaken at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> question first answered 11/06/2014 13:17:16 answering member 69
	creator	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

57982

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	09/06/2014
	date	04/06/2014
	date tabled	04/06/2014
	ddp created	05/06/2014 00:33:47
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 06:05:19
	answering body	Attorney General
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Offences against Children
	house id	1
	identifier	199041
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	10/06/2014 10:59:01
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many reported cases of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl aged 13 to 16 under section 6 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 were not prosecuted because of the 12 month statute of limitations for that offence in the last (a) year, (b) five years and (c) 10 years.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Dartford
	tabling member printed	Gareth Johnson
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 199041
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	199041
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold records of the number of cases reported to the police or of the number the police decide not to proceed with. A record is held of the number of cases where the CPS has been asked to make a charging decision and the decision made; either to charge or take no further action.</p><p>However, no central records of the alleged offence(s) considered at the pre-charge decision are held by the CPS. To obtain details of the number of allegations of unlawful sexual intercourse offences considered and those which do not proceed, either by way of decision to take no further action or discontinuance following charge, due to the 12 month Statute of Limitations would require a manual exercise of reviewing individual case files to be undertaken at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> question first answered 10/06/2014 10:59:01 answering member 69
	creator	3970 label Biography information for Gareth Johnson
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	3970 label Biography information for Gareth Johnson

58029

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	09/06/2014
	date	04/06/2014
	date tabled	04/06/2014
	ddp created	05/06/2014 00:39:05
	ddp modified	01/04/2015 12:20:05
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Billing
	house id	1
	identifier	199086
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	09/06/2014 16:06:04
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he has taken to speed up payments by public bodies and private concerns to small businesses; and what recent assessment he has made of average payment times.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 199086
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	199086
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p> </p><p>We announced further reforms to public procurement on 30 May to speed up payments by public bodies to small businesses. These include improvements to e-invoicing, procurement processes and greater powers for Ministers to investigate complaints raised by the Cabinet Office's ‘mystery shopper scheme'.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have also announced new legislation that will require larger businesses to report on their payment performance and practices. Increasing transparency and driving openness is at the heart of building a more responsible payment culture that UK businesses need to thrive.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Recent research suggests that UK businesses experience an average 17 day delay to payment of invoices. This is a reduction in the past two years but a figure that is still too high and is holding back investment and growth.</p><p> </p> question first answered 09/06/2014 16:06:04 answering member 4070
	creator	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

57803

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	09/06/2014
	date	04/06/2014
	date tabled	04/06/2014
	ddp created	05/06/2014 00:16:19
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 05:48:32
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Disabled Students' Allowances
	house id	1
	identifier	199002
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	12/06/2014 16:10:01
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to his written statement of 7 April 2014, Official Report, columns 1-2WS, on Higher Education: student support, what impact assessment his Department has made of the proposed changes to disabled students' allowances.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	South Swindon
	tabling member printed	Mr Robert Buckland
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 199002
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	199002
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>We are currently consulting with a wide range of stakeholders to help inform both the Equality Analysis and Disabled Students' Allowances Guidance for 2015/16.</p><p>I will have due regard to an updated Equality Analysis before a final decision is made and regulations are laid before the House.</p> question first answered 12/06/2014 16:10:01 answering member 53
	creator	4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland

57801

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	09/06/2014
	date	04/06/2014
	date tabled	04/06/2014
	ddp created	05/06/2014 00:16:08
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 05:48:20
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Disabled Students' Allowances
	house id	1
	identifier	198941
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	12/06/2014 16:10:01
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will carry out a public consultation on proposed changes to disabled students' allowances.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	South Swindon
	tabling member printed	Mr Robert Buckland
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 198941
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	198941
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>We are currently consulting with a wide range of stakeholders to help inform both the Equality Analysis and Disabled Students' Allowances Guidance for 2015/16.</p><p>I will have due regard to an updated Equality Analysis before a final decision is made and regulations are laid before the House.</p> question first answered 12/06/2014 16:10:01 answering member 53
	creator	4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland

57802

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	09/06/2014
	date	04/06/2014
	date tabled	04/06/2014
	ddp created	05/06/2014 00:16:13
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 05:48:25
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Disabled Students' Allowances
	house id	1
	identifier	198942
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	12/06/2014 15:53:48
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students of each type of main disability are in receipt of disabled students' allowances.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	South Swindon
	tabling member printed	Mr Robert Buckland
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 198942
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	198942
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Information on students awarded and paid Disabled Students' Allowance is published annually by Student Loans Company (SLC) in the Statistical First Release ‘<em>Student Support for Higher Education England</em>'. The latest statistics are available at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.slc.co.uk/media/694170/slcsfr052013.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.slc.co.uk/media/694170/slcsfr052013.pdf</a></p><p>Information on the disability type for students in receipt of Disabled Students' Allowance is only available at the point of application and so are not included in our routine statistical outputs. The figures provided in the following table reflect the number of applications and do not necessarily correspond to the number of students who were actually awarded and paid.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>DSA Application data by disability type </strong></p><p>Academic Year 2012/13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Effective date: 10/07/2013</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Disability Type</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of new DSA applicants assessed as eligible for DSA</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Autistic Disorder</p></td><td><p>880</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blind/Partial Sight</p></td><td><p>410</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Deaf/Partial Hearing</p></td><td><p>530</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Learning Difficulty</p></td><td><p>21,720</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Longstanding Illness</p></td><td><p>2,840</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mental Health</p></td><td><p>3,390</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Multiple Disabilities</p></td><td><p>3,560</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disability type not Captured</p></td><td><p>1,080</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wheelchair/Mobility</p></td><td><p>540</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other Disability not Categorised Elsewhere</p></td><td><p>460</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>35,390</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>[1] Data has been rounded to the nearest 10.</strong></p><p><strong>[2] The data has been derived from analysing free text fields therefore may not be 100% accurate.</strong></p><p><strong>[3] Count of Applicants refers to new DSA applicants in academic year 2012/13 who have been assessed as eligible for DSA.</strong></p><p><strong>[4] Applications are for new DSA applications received in academic year 2012/13.</strong></p><p><strong>[5] Total does not add up due to rounding.</strong></p> question first answered 12/06/2014 15:53:48 answering member 53
	creator	4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland

57800

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	09/06/2014
	date	04/06/2014
	date tabled	04/06/2014
	ddp created	05/06/2014 00:16:01
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 05:48:16
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Higher Education: Disability
	house id	1
	identifier	198940
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	11/06/2014 13:09:43
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what funding is currently allocated to higher education institutes to assist them in fulfilling their responsibilities to disabled students under the Equality Act 2010.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	South Swindon
	tabling member printed	Mr Robert Buckland
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 198940
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	198940
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>In the academic year 2013/14 £15 million was allocated to Higher Education Institutions <em>through the</em>Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) grant, to help them recruit and support disabled students<em>. </em><em>This figure was an increase of £2 million on the previous year and has been maintained by HEFCE for 2014/15. </em><em>This is in addition to the direct support provided to disabled students through the Disabled Students' Allowances (DSA). In England, £125.1 million was spent on providing DSA in 2011/12.</em></p> question first answered 11/06/2014 13:09:43 answering member 53
	creator	4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland

58238

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	11/06/2014
	date	04/06/2014
	date tabled	04/06/2014
	ddp created	05/06/2014 00:59:39
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 06:29:13
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Export Controls: Appeals
	house id	1
	identifier	199010
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	11/06/2014 16:08:01
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of export licence appeals were finalised within (a) 20 and (b) 60 working days in 2013.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Tonbridge and Malling
	tabling member printed	Sir John Stanley
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 199010
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	199010
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p> </p><p>In 2013 4 out of 56 (7%) appeals cases were finalised within 20 working days and 22 out of 56 (39%) were finalised within 60 working days.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Officials continue to review procedures to streamline the handling of appeals, including additional resources and revised arrangements for consulting Ministers and advisers in other Government Departments. We expect an improvement in performance during 2014.</p><p> </p> question first answered 11/06/2014 16:08:01 answering member 88
	creator	91 label Biography information for Sir John Stanley
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	91 label Biography information for Sir John Stanley

58237

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	11/06/2014
	date	04/06/2014
	date tabled	04/06/2014
	ddp created	05/06/2014 00:59:33
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 06:29:07
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Standard Individual Export Licences
	house id	1
	identifier	199009
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	11/06/2014 16:02:59
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many standard individual export licences were finalised in 2013; and what proportion of those licences were finalised within (a) 20 and (b) 60 working days.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Tonbridge and Malling
	tabling member printed	Sir John Stanley
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 199009
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	199009
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p> </p><p>13,578 Standard Individual Export Licences (SIELs) were granted in 2013 and 148 applications for SIELs were refused. 77.8 per cent of these licences were finalised in 20 working days and 97.8 per cent were finalised in 60 working days.</p><p> </p> question first answered 11/06/2014 16:02:59 answering member 88
	creator	91 label Biography information for Sir John Stanley
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	91 label Biography information for Sir John Stanley