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100007

registered interest
date	20/10/2014
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Egypt
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they have made to the government of Egypt about recent arrests of students, and the placing of private security companies, on university campuses there.
tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
uin	HL2222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>The Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron), asked that the Egyptian government address the large number of people being held in detention during his meeting with President Al-Sisi at the UN General Assembly in New York on 23 September. John Casson, our Ambassador in Cairo, discussed the recent university protests with Ahmed el-Tayyeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, on 14 October. The UK believes that freedom of expression, including the right to protest peacefully, is important in any democracy.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 28/10/2014 16:36:00 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

99769

registered interest
date	20/10/2014
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	Arms Trade: Gulf States
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the value was of UK arms exports to (a) Saudi Arabia and (b) Bahrain in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
uin	211158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>We do not hold data on actual arms sales, only on export licences we have granted, available at: <a href="https://www.exportcontroldb.bis.gov.uk/sdb/fox/sdb/SDBHOME" target="_blank">https://www.exportcontroldb.bis.gov.uk/sdb/fox/sdb/SDBHOME</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 28/10/2014 16:09:49 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke

99770

registered interest
date	20/10/2014
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	Arms Trade: Exports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many arms exports licences have been revoked by the Government in the last year; and for which countries these licences have been revoked.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
uin	211160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>15 arms related licences for direct export to Russia have been revoked;</p><p> </p><p>10 arms related licences have been revoked where Russia was listed as a 3<sup>rd</sup> party and ultimate end user for these licences. Of these licences 5 were for direct export to France, 4 for Italy and 1 for South Africa.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 28/10/2014 16:11:28 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke

99771

registered interest
date	20/10/2014
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	Riot Control Weapons: Hong Kong
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the value of the UK's tear gas exports to Hong Kong was in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Annette Brooke
uin	211161
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>We do not hold data on actual exports, only on export licences we have granted. They are available to view at: <a href="https://www.exportcontroldb.bis.gov.uk/sdb/fox/sdb/SDBHOME" target="_blank">https://www.exportcontroldb.bis.gov.uk/sdb/fox/sdb/SDBHOME</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 28/10/2014 16:14:45 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1431 label Biography information for Annette Brooke

99789

registered interest
date	20/10/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Interest Rate Hedging Products
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the Financial Conduct Authority on the interest rate swap redress scheme.
tabling member constituency	Aberconwy
tabling member printed	Guto Bebb
uin	211065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>Treasury Ministers and officials meet with a wide range of organisations as part of the usual policy making process.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, the Chancellor has had no recent discussions with the FCA specifically regarding its review on the mis-selling of interest rate hedging products.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It might be useful to know that the Treasury publishes a list of ministerial meetings with external organisations. This is available online at: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/minister_hospitality.htm.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 28/10/2014 16:23:36 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb

99897

registered interest
date	20/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Telecommunications: Court Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many production orders to access stored electronic communications have been invoked by each UK police force in each year since May 2010; and what the prosecution rate is following the invoking of such production orders.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	211013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 28/10/2014 14:20:05 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

99919

registered interest
date	20/10/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Burglary: Reoffenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which courts did not send people with the highest number of previous convictions for burglary to prison for a further offence of burglary in each of the years since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	211135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>Sentencing in individual cases is a matter for our independent judiciary, taking account of the circumstances of the case and the maximum penalty for the offence. However, when sentencing an offender the courts must treat recent and relevant previous convictions as an aggravating factor. There is also a mandatory minimum sentence of three years’ imprisonment for a third conviction for domestic burglary. The sentencing guideline for burglary aims to ensure that the effect on victims is at the centre of considerations about what sentence each offender should receive. The average custodial sentence length for domestic burglary has increased from 21.4 months in 2009 to 23.6 months in 2013.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is committed to strengthening sentences, so that they combine both punishment and requirements that are effective at preventing further offending. We are transforming rehabilitation, by bringing together the best of the public, private and voluntary sectors, and only rewarding them when they actually do reduce reoffending.</p><p> </p><p>The highest number of previous convictions for burglary by an offender who was convicted of a further burglary offence and not sentenced to immediate custody for the further offence by court or Local Justice Area (LJA) in England and Wales, from the 12 months ending March 2010 to the 12 months ending March 2014, is given in Table 1.</p><p> </p><p>The offenders concerned (and one of the two offenders in 2010, is the same offender in 2011 and 2013) have long offending histories, and they have received immediate custodial sentences for most of their burglary convictions, the vast majority of which were not for domestic burglary.</p><p>Table 1: The highest number<sup>1</sup> of previous convictions for burglary by an offender who was convicted of a further burglary offence and not sentenced to immediate custody for the further offence<sup>3</sup> by court or Local Justice Area (LJA) in England and Wales, 12 months ending March 2010 to 12 months ending March 2014.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong><em>12 months ending March </em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>Court </em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>Number<sup>1 </sup>of previous convictions</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2010</em></p></td><td><p><em>Sussex</em><em> (Western) Local Justice Area &amp; Horseferry Road Magistrates Court</em></p></td><td><p><em>61,61</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2011</em></p></td><td><p><em>Bristol Local Justice Area</em></p></td><td><p><em>64</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2012</em></p></td><td><p><em>Manchester</em><em> Magistrates Court</em></p></td><td><p><em>47</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2013<sup>*</sup></em></p></td><td><p><em>Central London Local Justice Area </em></p></td><td><p><em>65</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>2014</em></p></td><td><p><em>South East Surrey Local Justice Area</em></p></td><td><p><em>52</em></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong><em>Source</em></strong><em>: Ministry of Justice, Police National Computer (PNC)</em></p></td><td><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><em>1. Number of previous convictions are counts of the number of separate occasions an offender has previously been convicted of burglary.</em></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><em>2. All data have been taken from the MoJ extract of the Police National Computer. This includes details of all convictions, cautions, reprimands or warnings given for recordable offences (see www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1139/schedule/made for definition). It is therefore possible that some offenders presented in the table above have previously also received convictions for offences not recorded on the PNC.</em></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><em>3. An offender may have had previous convictions for which they received an immediate custodial sentence</em></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><em>* One of the two offenders in 2010 is also the relevant offender</em></p><p><em> in 2011 and 2013.</em></p></td><td><p><em> </em></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 28/10/2014 14:16:43 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

99972

registered interest
date	20/10/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	East Coast Main Line
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the annual average cost of each seat on the East Coast rail service in (1) standard class, and (2) first class.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL2187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>The average cost of each seat on the East Coast rail service, calculated by adding direct rolling stock costs (staff including drivers and guards, materials, leasing, operating and maintaining, fuel, retail costs net revenue, logistics) and dividing by total number of seats are as follows:</p><p> </p><p>1) Standard Class: £9,750 per annum</p><p> </p><p>2) First Class: £16,339 per annum</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 28/10/2014 15:27:53 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

99973

registered interest
date	20/10/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Rolling Stock
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have subsidised, or are considering subsidising, the costs of rail operators in converting first class carriages to standard class.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL2188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>Government specifies capacity requirements at a high level and seeks input from the industry as to cost effective and timely ways in which this can be delivered. The industry is free to consider initiatives which meet the overall requirements of the Department for Transport's specification. This may include providing additional seating capacity in standard class carriages through conversion of first class carriages. In the case of the recent Virgin West Coast and First Great Western Direct Awards, the Government has contracted with the operators to provide additional capacity in this way.</p> answering member printed Baroness Kramer question first answered 28/10/2014 15:28:29 answering member 1557 label Biography information for Baroness Kramer
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

99983

registered interest
date	20/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: Calais
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the current situation in Calais with regard to the number of people, from a number of countries, illegally seeking to enter the United Kingdom by secreting themselves in vehicles travelling to ports in Kent; and whether the situation has improved, or deteriorated, in recent months.
tabling member printed	Lord Condon
uin	HL2198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>There has been a sharp rise in numbers of illegal immigrants in Calais and the surrounding area, since 2013. This stems from the fact that France, unlike the UK, is part of the border free Schengen Area. We are clear that it is for the French to maintain law and order on their soil, but it is in the UK's interest to work with France to secure the border at Calais and other key ports.</p><p> </p><p>On 20 September 2014, the Home Secretary and French Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, signed a joint declaration outlining a number of joint initiatives to tackle increasing migratory flows in Europe. That includes a range of improvements to security and infrastructure in Calais, to strengthen the port and provide greater protection to hauliers and tourists.</p><p> </p><p>Her Majesty’s Government has long been alive to the challenges posed in Calais. Millions of pounds have already been invested in improving security and upgrading technology in Calais. The Government has increased staffing levels in the port and extended security patrols. In addition to physical searches, Border Force officers use detection dogs, heartbeat detectors and carbon dioxide probes to find those hiding clandestinely in vehicles and freight.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 28/10/2014 15:19:32 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	2171 label Biography information for Lord Condon