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825494

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Carillion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what savings his Department has made through its contract with Carillion compared with the projected cost of continuing to provide maintenance in-house in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	123633
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>There was an underestimation of the historical costs of maintenance and services, which meant that more of the award has been spent on maintenance and services rather than efficiency savings. As a result, the contract has not delivered the anticipated savings.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 26/11/2018 17:48:03 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

895255

	registered interest
	date	01/05/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Fuels: Tax Evasion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2018 to Question 136367 on Fuels: Tax Evasion, whether any legal action followed those arrests.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	139991
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>Of the three arrests made between 01 January 2017 and 31 March 2018 for fuel fraud, two were reported to the Public Prosecution Service in December 2018 while one remains under investigation pending report.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 15/05/2019 17:35:36 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

896458

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-disclosure agreements his Department has signed with employees in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	140805
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. A search of personnel records is required to retrieve this information.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 04/12/2018 16:23:12 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

909105

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: Deportation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department carried out any equality impact assessments prior to setting his Department's targets for the removal of illegal immigrants; and if he will publish any such assessments.
	tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
	tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
	uin	146067
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold any Equality Impact Assessments related to the setting of targets for removals of illegal migrants. This is because the Equalities Act 2010 does not require public authorities to carry out such assessments. <a href="http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06591/SN06591.pdf." target="_blank">http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06591/SN06591.pdf.</a></p><p>Ministers have not set specific targets for the enforced removal of illegal immigrants in 2018 – 19.</p><p>The Department has published information on the performance management regime for enforced removals. This is set out is set out in Sir Philip Rutnam’s letters of 14 May and 25 June 2018 to Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP, Chair, Home Affairs Select Committee:</p><p><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/home-affairs/Correspondence-17-19/180514-Home-Office-Permanent-Secretary-Immigration-Enforcement.pdf%20" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/home-affairs/Correspondence-17-19/180514-Home-Office-Permanent-Secretary-Immigration-Enforcement.pdf </a>(14 May)</p><p>and</p><p><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/home-affairs/Correspondence-17-19/180625_Permanent_Secretary_Immigration%20Enforcement.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/home-affairs/Correspondence-17-19/180625_Permanent_Secretary_Immigration%20Enforcement.pdf</a> (25 June)</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 08/02/2019 15:46:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

942622

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Gold and Foreign Exchange Reserves
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the gold reserves of the Bank of England were on 30 June (a) 1998, (b) 2008 and (c) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	164422
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>The Bank of England does not own any gold reserves of its own, except for two bars held for display at the Bank of England Museum. However, the Bank provides safe custody for the UK's gold reserves and for other customers. It has only started recently publishing the weight of all the gold in its custody on its website, which includes data back to 2011. On 30 June 2018, it held 166,516,000 fine troy ounces of gold. There is no equivalent data available for 1998 and 2008.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 15/05/2019 17:33:50 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

942910

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offenders: Housing Benefit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment of the effect on people on remand of the reduction under universal credit in the period for which they can claim housing benefit from 12 to six months; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	David Hanson
	uin	164891
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>There are no current assessments either by the Ministry of Justice or the Department for Work and Pensions.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that having somewhere stable to live on release from prison can be a critical factor in supporting rehabilitation and reducing homelessness, and this is particularly acute for short-sentenced offenders. This is why Universal Credit continues to pay housing support for up to 6 months to support those benefit recipients who are imprisoned, whether on remand and/or sentenced.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 29/11/2018 15:23:36 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

943024

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK Border Force: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK Border Force staff were employed at each UK (a) port and (b) airport in (i) 2012 and (ii) May 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	164993
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given to the Hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale on the 7th February 2017, UIN 60627 for staffing from 2012 to 2015. The latest published staffing figures for Border Force can be found in the Home Office Annual Report for 2016 - 17.</p><p>Refer to link below: FY2016/17 – Page 66<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2016-to-2017" target="_blank"> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2016-to-2017</a></p><p>Data for staffing levels in 2017/18 will be available when the Annual Report for 2017 – 18 is published</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/01/2019 17:05:58 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

964005

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	UK Relations with EU
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions officials in his Department's Europe Unit had with representatives of EU member states and EU institutions prior to 12 July 2018 on the content of the White Paper on the future relationship between the UK and the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	169344
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>In the run up to the publication of the White Paper, there was regular engagement with our EU counterparts, but no copies were shared with other Member States.</p><p> </p><p>Work to support this required a cross-government effort, including close collaboration the Cabinet Office Europe Unit, the Department for Exiting the European Union and other Government departments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 07/01/2019 17:17:35 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

964038

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants attempting to make a claim for universal credit have not completed the process due to a failure to agree terms on a Claimant Commitment.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	169034
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>The table attached shows the number of Universal Credit Full Service claims that have been closed prior to payment, because of a failure to sign a Claimant Commitment.A Claimant Commitment sets out all the work-related requirements a claimant must meet to receive Universal Credit. If a claim is closed on these grounds, a claimant can appeal if they disagree with the decision.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 13/11/2018 17:15:54 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma attachment 1 file name Claimant Committment information.pdf title Claimant Commitment Information
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

964153

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many universal credit claims have been closed in each of the last 12 months for which data is available; and what the reasons were for the closure of those claims.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	169050
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p>The table attached shows the number of claims closed and reason for closure for both new claims prior to payment and claims that were in payment.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 13/11/2018 17:25:24 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma attachment 1 file name Universal Credit claim closurer reasons.pdf title UC Claim Closure Reasons
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead