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106156

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Leader of the House of Lords
	answering dept id	92
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Leader of the House of Lords
	hansard heading	Oral Questions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask the Leader of the House whether she will propose to the Procedure Committee a review of the system for tabling oral questions in the House of Lords in respect of the requirement for members to queue.
	tabling member printed	Lord Avebury
	uin	HL2628
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2014 answer text <p>The process for tabling oral questions was considered in detail in the 2012-13 session. In response to concerns raised about the current “first-come-first-served” system - including a concern about the requirement to queue raised by my Noble Friend, Lady Sharples - the Procedure Committee proposed the introduction of a ballot in its place (Procedure Committee, 3rd Report, Session 2012-13). The House remitted the issue back to the Procedure Committee for further consideration (HL Deb 9 Jan 2013, cols 145-172). <br><br>That further review did not identify a clear consensus as to whether a ballot was preferred to the “first-come-first-served” system (see Procedure Committee, 5th Report, Session 2012-13; see also HL Deb 24 April 2013, cols 1406-1417). <br><br>I know that strong views persist on both sides of the argument about this issue. I will write to the Chairman of the Procedure Committee on my Noble Friend’s behalf to suggest that the matter might be discussed at a future meeting of the Procedure Committee.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Stowell of Beeston question first answered 18/11/2014 14:34:08 answering member 4205 label Biography information for Baroness Stowell of Beeston
	tabling member	1665 label Biography information for Lord Avebury

106388

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Cybercrime: Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2014, to Question 212020, how many successful prosecutions were made for cybercrimes in each year since 2009.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton West
	tabling member printed	Julie Hilling
	uin	213370
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service does not centrally record the number of prosecutions initiated, or those which resulted in a successful outcome, relating to cyber or cyber-enabled crime. A number of offences may involve the use of a computer or a network in the commission of the offence. To obtain details of the number of cases where defendants were alleged to have been involved in cyber or cyber-enabled crimes would require a manual review of individual case files to be undertaken which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 06/11/2014 14:41:56 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	3925 label Biography information for Julie Hilling

106349

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Sexting: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many cases including the sending of a nude or sexually explicit electronic image of an individual under the age of 18 where the perpetrator of the crime is under the age of 18 have been referred to the Crown Prosecution Service in the last three years; how many such cases have been taken forward for prosecution; and how many such prosecutions have been successful.
	tabling member constituency	Basingstoke
	tabling member printed	Maria Miller
	uin	213364
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not collect specific data on suspects referred to the CPS for a charging decision where the sending of sexually explicit images of children is alleged. However, data is available to indicate the number of offences charged, in which a prosecution commenced at magistrates’ courts, for offences of involving indecent images of children.</p><p> </p><p>The two main offence provisions for the prosecution of offences relating to indecent images of children are section 1 of the Protection of Children Act 1978 (making, distributing, showing or advertising indecent images of children) and section 160 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (possession of indecent images of children).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The table below sets out the number of offences charged by way of the above legislation, in each of the last three years, in England and Wales.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2011-2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-2014</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Protection of Children Act 1978 { 1 }</p></td><td><p>15,599</p></td><td><p>14,694</p></td><td><p>15,574</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Criminal Justice Act 1988 { 160 }</p></td><td><p>3,885</p></td><td><p>3,849</p></td><td><p>4,265</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Data Source: CPS Management Information System</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to disaggregate offences which relate to indecent images sent by way of an electronic device as opposed to other indecent image offences, cases where a conviction was obtained or the age of the perpetrator without reviewing individual case files incurring disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 07/11/2014 11:21:16 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	1480 label Biography information for Dame Maria Miller

106192

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Fraud: Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many successful prosecutions have been made for non-benefit-related fraud in each year since 2009; and how many such prosecutions were for offences against an individual victim.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton West
	tabling member printed	Julie Hilling
	uin	213310
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service does not maintain a separate record of the outcome of prosecution proceedings by specific offences, such as non-benefit frauds, or where the offences prosecuted concerned one victim. To obtain this information would involve undertaking a manual search of case records which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 11/11/2014 11:35:59 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	3925 label Biography information for Julie Hilling

106335

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Cybercrime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many cyber-crime cases the Crown Prosecution Service has prosecuted since 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian Lucas
	uin	213190
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given by the Attorney General on the 6<sup>th</sup> November to question 213370 from the Hon. Member for Bolton West.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 11/11/2014 11:31:27 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

106228

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Homelessness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the support available to single homeless people.
	tabling member constituency	Pudsey
	tabling member printed	Stuart Andrew
	uin	213238
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government has increased spending to prevent and tackle homelessness, making over £500 milion available to councils and the voluntary sector. Local authorities are required to provide advice and information to single homeless people who approach them.<br><br>We have launched an £8 million Help for Single Homeless Fund for local auhtorities which will improve council services for single people facing the prospect of homelessness by encouraging better partnership working between councils and other local partners.</p><p> </p><p>We are also helping single homeless people to find and sustain accomodation in the private rented sector through our £13 million funding to Crisis. By 2016 we expect the Crisis scheme to have helped 10,000 single homeless people.</p><p> </p><p>In addition No Second Night Out schemes and Streetlink have helped thousands of vulnerable people who have slept rough or were at risk of doing so to get the help they need.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 10/11/2014 16:24:32 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew

114628

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Planning Permission
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to increase local control over planning policy.
	tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
	tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
	uin	905968
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>This Government has abolished the Labour Government’s top-down Regional Strategies, such as the South East Plan, and closed down the unelected Regional Assemblies. We also stopped proposals, being implemented by the then Labour Government, to hand more planning power to the unelected Regional Development Agencies and Regional Assemblies.</p><p> </p><p>The Localism Act has strengthened the role of Local Plans, allowing local councils – in consultation with local residents – to draw up plans and determine where new development should and should not go. 80 per cent of councils now have a published Local Plan, and we are working with the remaining local councils to help them deliver up to date plans.</p><p> </p><p>In National policy, we have safeguarded environmental designations such as the Green Belt which were under threat of deletion from the Regional Strategies; given councils new powers to tackle unwanted garden grabbing; and allowed councils and neighbourhoods to introduce a new planning protection for valuable green local spaces.</p><p> </p><p>Localism should involve decentralising power to the lowest appropriate level. So neighbourhood planning now allows local neighbourhoods and parishes to shape planning in their local area: over 1,200 communities are so far developing neighbourhood plans. We are funding a £63 million package of support to help local people take up community rights, and we have been consulting on practical ways we can strengthen the neighbourhood planning process based on the experience we have learnt to date.</p><p> </p><p>Decentralisation also involves empowering individuals – so we have extended permitted development rights to allow households and local firms to make small changes (such as small extensions and change of use) without the need for full planning permission. We have been consulting on further common sense reforms in our consultation published in July.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 10/11/2014 16:13:10 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab

114629

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Homelessness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department has issued to local authorities and community groups on tackling rough sleeping.
	tabling member constituency	Hereford and South Herefordshire
	tabling member printed	Jesse Norman
	uin	905972
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government has increased spending to prevent and tackle rough sleeping and homelessness making over £500 million available, giving councils the funding and tools needed to take action against rough sleeping locally.<br><br></p><p>There are a range of initiatives and projects in place to help rough sleepers, prevent single homelessness and to help those who have been homeless find and sustain accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>Thousands of vulnerable people who have slept rough or were at risk of doing so have received the help they need through No Second Night Out schemes and Streetlink – the digital and national telephone service to enable the public to connect rough sleepers quickly to the local services available so they get the help they need to get them off the streets.</p><p> </p><p>We have supported the roll-out of No Second Night Out nationally through the £20 million Homelessness Transition Fund for the voluntary sector ensuring rough sleepers do not spend more than one night on the street. In 20 key rough sleeping areas outside London homelessness charities reported that 67% of rough sleepers were helped off the streets after a single night.</p><p> </p><p>We have launched an £8 million Help for Single Homeless Fund for local authorities which will improve council services for single people facing the prospect of homelessness by encouraging better partnership working between councils and other local partners.</p><p> </p><p>We are also helping single homeless people to find and sustain accommodation in the private rented sector through our £13 million funding to Crisis. By 2016 we expect the Crisis scheme to have helped 10,000 single homeless people.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 10/11/2014 16:17:44 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman

106229

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Council Housing: Hampshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people in Rushmoor Borough Council area are currently on a council housing waiting list; and how many of these (a) have waited longer than three years, (b) are single and (c) have five or more children.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Mr Mike Hancock
	uin	213204
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to my written answer of 10 November 2014, PQ 212865.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 213205 213206 213207 213208 question first answered 11/11/2014 16:04:42 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	59 label Biography information for Mr Mike Hancock

106230

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2014
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Council Housing: New Forest
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people in New Forest District Council area are currently on a council housing waiting list; and how many of these (a) have waited longer than three years, (b) are single and (c) have five or more children.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Mr Mike Hancock
	uin	213205
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to my written answer of 10 November 2014, PQ 212865.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 213204 213206 213207 213208 question first answered 11/11/2014 16:04:42 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
	tabling member	59 label Biography information for Mr Mike Hancock