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891357

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date	25/04/2018
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	Turkey: Administration of Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterpart in the Turkish Government on ensuring fair trials for people accused of having links with terrorist organisations in that country.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Nigel Dodds
uin	137962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>​The Foreign Secretary and I have regular discussions on human rights issues with our Turkish counterparts. The arrest of Amnesty International staff in Turkey is a case in point. It is important that legal measures, particularly under the State of Emergency in Turkey, be proportionate, justified and in line with Turkey's democratic principles and its international human rights obligations.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 02/05/2018 14:16:11 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

890409

registered interest
date	24/04/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	European Social Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much each country of the UK received from the European Social Fund in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Nigel Dodds
uin	137482
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>Funding for European Structural Fund programmes, including the European Social Fund (ESF), are set as part of the EU’s multiannual financial framework (MFF), The ESF allocations to the UK, excluding any Youth Employment Initiative funding, for the 2014-20 MFF are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong> <strong>(€)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong> <strong>(€)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong> <strong>(€)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong> <strong>(€)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong> <strong>(€)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019</strong> <strong>(€)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020</strong> <strong>(€)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong> <strong>(2014-20)</strong> <strong>(€)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>899,042,788</p></td><td><p>463,063,745</p></td><td><p>476,653,947</p></td><td><p>486,192,813</p></td><td><p>495,922,545</p></td><td><p>505,845,912</p></td><td><p>3,326,721,750</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>56,201,749</p></td><td><p>57,326,918</p></td><td><p>58,474,453</p></td><td><p>60,082,304</p></td><td><p>61,284,704</p></td><td><p>62,511,128</p></td><td><p>63,761,984</p></td><td><p>419,643,240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>135,265,834</p></td><td><p>137,973,881</p></td><td><p>140,735,757</p></td><td><p>144,089,622</p></td><td><p>146,973,230</p></td><td><p>149,914,450</p></td><td><p>152,914,266</p></td><td><p>1,007,867,040</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>27,621,127</p></td><td><p>28,174,107</p></td><td><p>28,738,079</p></td><td><p>30,580,991</p></td><td><p>31,192,982</p></td><td><p>31,817,200</p></td><td><p>32,453,855</p></td><td><p>210,578,341</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gibraltar</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>1,315,551</p></td><td><p>677,820</p></td><td><p>690,861</p></td><td><p>704,868</p></td><td><p>718,875</p></td><td><p>733,367</p></td><td><p>4,841,342</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>These figures include EU funding available to support projects and programme administration, and the performance reserve, and does not include any non-EU co-financing. Each country of the UK has its own operational programme setting out the objectives and focus of ESF expenditure.</p><p> </p><p>ESF managing authorities will hold data on the 2007-13 programmes. The managing authorities for the ESF programmes in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar are the Devolved Administrations and HM Government of Gibraltar respectively. In England, where the Department for Work and Pensions is the managing authority, the allocations of ESF funding were:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2012 </strong> <strong>(€)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013 </strong> <strong>(€)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>410,923,902</p></td><td><p>427,344,776</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 02/05/2018 15:35:48 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

890417

registered interest
date	24/04/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	European Social Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many successful applicants to the European Social Fund left the programme early in each region of the UK in the latest period for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Nigel Dodds
uin	137483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>European Social Fund (ESF) programmes are administered in the UK by designated managing authorities. These are the Department for Work and Pensions for England, and the Devolved Administrations and HM Government of Gibraltar outside of England.</p><p> </p><p>To date managing authorities have had the following number of applicants withdraw from 2014-20 ESF projects before completion:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Number of applicants who withdrew from projects before completion </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England</strong></p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Wales</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Scotland</strong></p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Northern Ireland</strong></p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Gibraltar</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The above figures refer to applicants for funding who are managing ESF projects, rather than individual participants in individual projects.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 02/05/2018 15:36:05 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

890427

registered interest
date	24/04/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Fascism: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Government has taken steps to deter the display or sale of Nazi memorabilia on social media marketplace platforms; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Nigel Dodds
uin	137486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>As set out in the Internet Safety Strategy, behaviour which is unacceptable offline is unacceptable online. Therefore, where the sale of memorabilia supports harmful views or could encourage hate crime, we expect social media companies to have robust processes in place to remove this content.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 02/05/2018 13:08:02 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn