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1486450

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date	05/07/2022
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Police: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent assessment she has made of the (a) adequacy and (b) effectiveness of the number of police officers in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	31118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2022 answer text <p>Policing in Northern Ireland, and therefore police funding and numbers, are devolved matters. The prioritisation of police resourcing is the responsibility of the Department of Justice, working with the wider Executive. How the PSNI allocate their funding is an operational matter for the Chief Constable, in consultation with the NI Policing Board.</p><p> </p><p>Recognising the unique security situation in Northern Ireland, the UK Government makes additional contributions to PSNI through Additional Security Funding. The UK Government contribution this financial year 22/23 is £32 million; demonstrating the UK Government’s commitment to security in Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth West answering member printed Conor Burns question first answered 08/07/2022 10:15:41 answering member 3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1486569

registered interest
date	05/07/2022
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what the total value has been of contracts held by their Department with (a) G4S, (b) Serco and (c) Capita in each year since 2020.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	31019
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2022 answer text <p>None. The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales does not have any contracts with G4S, Serco or Capita.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Monmouth answering member printed David T C Davies question first answered 08/07/2022 10:06:38 answering member 1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1485896

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving: Disqualification
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many drivers in each of the last 10 years have applied to reduce their driving disqualification period; and how many of those applications were successful.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL1420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2022 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency’s (DVLA) role is to update and maintain the drivers’ database with driving endorsements, including disqualifications, that are imposed by the courts. The DVLA will amend information on an individual’s driver record when it receives authorisation to do so from the court.</p><p> </p><p>There are 173,432 drivers on the DVLA’s database whose disqualification period has been reduced by the court following the completion of a rehabilitation course for an alcohol related driving offence in the last ten years.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, there are 317 drivers where the courts have asked the DVLA to remove a disqualification in the last ten years. This occurs where an individual has successfully applied to the court that originally dealt with the offence to have the disqualification removed.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 08/07/2022 10:28:52 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

1485898

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Trains: Consumer Information
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they will implement their plan to "remove repetitive and unnecessary onboard announcements on trains", announced on 21 January; and whether this will include the message “See it, say it, sorted.”
tabling member printed	Lord Blencathra
uin	HL1422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2022 answer text <p>Operators are working to remove unnecessary announcements from their automated systems in line with existing maintenance schedules, with work due to complete by the end of 2022. Passengers will already be hearing fewer automated announcements on some routes, alongside a reduction in ‘live’ announcements as onboard staff have been issued with updated guidance.</p><p> </p><p>Messages that play a safety critical role, or that ensure the railways are accessible for all, will remain. This includes ‘See it, Say it, Sorted’.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 08/07/2022 10:29:24 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	497 label Biography information for Lord Blencathra

1485910

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Russia and Rwanda: War Crimes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what budget they allocate to (1) the support they are providing to Ukraine in response to investigating alleged Russian war crimes committed in that country, and (2) investigating alleged Rwandan war criminals living in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL1441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2022 answer text <p>Russia's use of indiscriminate force against innocent civilians in Ukraine amounts to war crimes. Those must be investigated and those responsible must be held to account. The UK led efforts to refer the situation in Ukraine to the International Criminal Court (ICC). It is for the ICC Prosecutor to independently determine who should be prosecuted for war crimes committed in Ukraine. The UK will provide the necessary support to the ICC, including through £1 million in funding and technical assistance. In addition to supporting the ICC investigation, the Attorney General led a scoping mission to the region in May, to assess how UK Government Departments can assist Ukraine's domestic investigation into war crimes.</p><p>Regarding alleged Rwandan war criminals in the UK, an ongoing Metropolitan Police Service investigation into five alleged Rwandan genocidaires remains a priority for the Police, Home Office and wider UK Government.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 08/07/2022 12:05:03 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1485946

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Taxis: Diability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Stedman-Scott on 21 June (HL Deb col 53GC), when they will publish guidance for taxis and private hire vehicles regarding a more inclusive and accessible service; and when they will introduce legislation to make disability awareness training compulsory for taxi and private hire vehicle drivers.
tabling member printed	Baroness Deech
uin	HL1429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2022 answer text <p>On 28 March, the Department published a consultation on updated best practice guidance for local licensing authorities, which advises that every driver should complete disability awareness training. The consultation has now closed, and officials are carefully considering the responses received in order to finalise and publish the substantive guidance document.</p><p> </p><p>The Department remains committed to introducing mandatory disability awareness training for taxi and PHV drivers through new National Minimum Standards for licensing authorities when Parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 08/07/2022 10:28:21 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3756 label Biography information for Baroness Deech

1485984

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Importance of Strengthening Prisoners' Family Ties to Prevent Reoffending and Reduce Intergenerational Crime Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans his Department has to publish an update on their progress against the recommendations made by Lord Farmer, in his review entitled, The Importance of Strengthening Prisoners' Family Ties, published in August 2017.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	30114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2022 answer text <p>We expect to complete the final recommendation from Lord Farmer’s 2017 Review of Strengthening Family Ties in the male prison estate in the next few months. Recommendations from this review have been instrumental in supporting the organisation to take a strategic approach to our overall aim to embed the importance of family and significant others in reducing reoffending and preventing intergenerational crime.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 08/07/2022 13:07:04 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1486087

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many contracts that are worth (a) between £1 million and £3 million and (b) over £3 million their (i) Department and (ii) Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies (A) have agreed since 2010 and (B) are due to agree within the next 12 months; how much their Department has spent on monitoring each contract in each year since 2010; and how many officials have been working on that monitoring in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	29885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2022 answer text <p>Based on records held within our new sourcing system launched from end of 2019:</p><p> </p><p><sup>(A)</sup>From 2020 <sup>(i)</sup>DfTc have <sup>(a)</sup>awarded 83 contracts with a value between £1m and £3m, and <sup>(b)</sup>43 contracts with a value exceeding £3m.</p><p> </p><p><sup>(ii)</sup>It is likely that the information requested can only be provided at disproportionate cost as we would have to contact each of the agencies and non-departmental public bodies separately dedicating a resource(s) centrally to co-ordinate the response after identifying the relevant resource(s) within each of the agencies and non-departmental public bodies able to provide the answer; however, from the latest publication of Annual Accounts in terms of proportionality of the Department’s portfolio, the grey section (£0.386bn) of Image1 relates to size of DfTc spend in relation to the rest of its agencies and non-departmental public bodies (£41.887bn).</p><p> </p><p><sup>(B)</sup>In the next 12 months DfTc anticipate that 32 contracts shall commence with value between £1m and £3m and that 20 contracts shall commence with value over £3m. There are currently there are 732 contract managers within DfTc of which 452 have completed foundation contract management training with the remaining 280 working towards completion of the accreditation. It would cause a disproportionate cost to calculate the cost of deploying the 732 contract managers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 08/07/2022 10:34:28 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1486093

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many contracts that are worth (a) between £1 million and £3 million and (b) over £3 million their (i) Department and (ii) Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies (A) have agreed since 2010 and (B) are due to agree within the next 12 months; how much their Department has spent on monitoring each contract in each year since 2010; and how many officials have been working on that monitoring in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	29891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2022 answer text <p>The answering of this PQ has been split into two sections; the first will focus on the number and value of contracts agreed since 2010 and the second will address the question on monitoring and officials working on those contracts.</p><p>(A) The number of contracts awarded by the Commercial and Contract Management Directorate within the Ministry of Justice on behalf of its <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations#ministry-of-justice" target="_blank">34 agencies and public bodies</a> since 2010 is provided in the below table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Value Banding</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>£1million - £3million</p></td><td><p>More than £3million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>57</p></td><td><p>110</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>89</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>67</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>51</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>72</p></td><td><p>71</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>83</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p>77</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>67</p></td><td><p>111</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>151</p></td><td><p>117</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022*</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>57</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*Information for 2022 is to the 01 July 2022</p><p>The Commercial and Contract Management Directorate within the Ministry of Justice expects to award 188 contracts between July 2022 and July 2023 on behalf of its <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations#ministry-of-justice" target="_blank">34 agencies and public bodies</a>.</p><p>(B) The Ministry of Justice can only answer the monitoring and officials working part of the PQ at a disproportionate cost. There are 1799 contracts that fall into scope of the request. To answer this would require us to identify and contact the owner of each contract manager individually, in order to gather the required information. Furthermore, information for some of the contracts that date back over 12 years is not held centrally.</p><p>To obtain the information for each of the 1799 contracts would require an estimated 30 minutes per contract.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 08/07/2022 13:21:07 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1486096

registered interest
date	04/07/2022
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many contracts that are worth (a) between £1 million and £3 million and (b) over £3 million their (i) Department and (ii) Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies (A) have agreed since 2010 and (B) are due to agree within the next 12 months; how much their Department has spent on monitoring each contract in each year since 2010; and how many officials have been working on that monitoring in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	29894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2022 answer text <p>The Office of the Secretary of State for Wales has agreed no contracts worth over £1 million since 2010, and no contracts of such value are due to be agreed within the next 12 months.</p> answering member constituency Monmouth answering member printed David T C Davies question first answered 08/07/2022 10:05:33 answering member 1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett