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93687

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	India
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether Foreign and Commonwealth Office-sponsored officials from the Indian Prison Service were charged for a visit to HMP Grendon; and if so, how much, and on what grounds.
	tabling member printed	Lord Ramsbotham
	uin	HL2116
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) charged Penal Reform International £1,000 for running a full day visit to HMP Grendon in June 2014, involving ten Indian Prison Officers, two Indian Training Academy officials and one Penal Reform International representative. The charge covered the costs of NOMS staff screening and arranging the visit and HMP Grendon’s staff costs for escorting and providing refreshments for the thirteen delegates.</p><p> </p><p>Most of the international visits to prisons that NOMS arranges are at the request of other governments and are not charged. NOMS applies charges in a few cases to cover its costs where, as on this occasion, a private company or non-governmental organisation approaches NOMS as an intermediary and has a funded programme of which the visit is part.</p> answering member printed Lord Faulks question first answered 29/10/2014 17:56:58 answering member 4183 label Biography information for Lord Faulks
	tabling member	3744 label Biography information for Lord Ramsbotham

93689

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Higher Education: Finance
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in view of the latest <i>Times Guide to Universities</i> ranking all United Kingdom universities in terms of performance, what plans they have to cut or reduce funding to the poorest performers.
	tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
	uin	HL2118
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>The reforms this Government has introduced mean that funding now follows the decisions of students and that students can access better information, including about University performance, to support their choices. In September 2012 we introduced the Key Information Set to provide comparable information which students have said they find useful when choosing their higher education course. It includes on student satisfaction ratings, graduate salaries and employment outcomes, tuition fees and financial support, and the cost of accommodation.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 29/10/2014 17:38:58 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

93702

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Coalition Governments
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 23 June (HL244), whether they will now set a definite date for the release of their written response to the report of the Select Committee on the Constitution on the Constitutional implications of coalition government (HL Paper 130, Session 2013–14) published on 12 February and debated on 13 May.
	tabling member printed	Lord Lexden
	uin	HL2131
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>The Government is grateful to the Select Committee on the Constitution for its work on these important issues. The Government is considering these issues carefully and will respond shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire question first answered 29/10/2014 17:48:31 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
	tabling member	4202 label Biography information for Lord Lexden

93606

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Surveillance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions her Department has used the provisions of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 to access communications data, in each year since the coming into force of that Act.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	210772
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>The total number of communications data items processed by the Home Office each year since the enactment of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 is set out in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of requests processed</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002</p></td><td><p>53</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003</p></td><td><p>751</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004</p></td><td><p>360</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>1373</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>1078</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>1220</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>1028</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009 (Apr-Dec only)</p></td><td><p>796</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2813</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>4032</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>5020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>6056</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The operational directorates of the Home Office obtain communications data for the purpose of preventing and detecting crime as part of immigration and border functions as well as in anti-corruption investigations. In addition, it obtains the data in the interests of public safety and to prevent the escape of lawfully detained persons from the immigration detention estate.<br><br>The figures for 2000 to 2008 represent the total number of communications data applications per year, rather than those that were <br>approved, resulting in requests for communications data being made. Some of these applications were ultimately withdrawn, rejected by the designated person or cancelled before the data was acquired from the service provider. Figures for 2009 are only available for April to December of that year. <br><br>Figures from 2010 to 2013 represent the number of communications data items that were applied for, authorised and obtained from service providers.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 30/10/2014 11:43:20 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz