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433147

registered interest
date	30/11/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the benefit to the public purse of the closing of tax loopholes in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	18092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>Revenue protected in connection with avoidance measures is scored in relevant documentation published by HM Treasury.</p><br /><p>However, for convenience on 19 March 2015 the coalition government published a document detailing the action taken over the course of the last Parliament to tackle tax evasion and avoidance. That document can be found at: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tackling-tax-evasion-and-avoidance" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/tackling-tax-evasion-and-avoidance</a></p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 08/12/2015 16:31:54 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

433267

registered interest
date	30/11/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the reduction in the number of legal aid cases taken on by solicitors in the private sector; and what assessment he has made of the effect of the change to legal aid provision on such solicitors take up of such cases.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	18091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>When reform began we had an unsustainably expensive legal aid system - costing more than £2 billion every year. We still have a very generous system, last year we spent £1.6bn on legal aid, around a quarter of the department’s expenditure.</p><br /><p>Statistics on legal aid in England and Wales are published every quarter, presenting the key statistics on workload and expenditure across both the criminal and civil legal aid schemes. The statistics are available via <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/legal-aid-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/legal-aid-statistics</a>. The vast majority of legal aid work is carried out by solicitors working in the private sector. It is difficult to summarise workloads across the legal aid system meaningfully within a single number because there is no single definition of a case that applies to all of the diverse services being provided, so users of legal aid statistics are best advised to look at trends in workload for each area of legal aid separately.</p><br /><p>For many areas of civil law, the implementation of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) led to a reduction of workload for solicitors in areas where legal aidwas reduced.</p><br /><p>LASPO did not change eligibility or scope in relation to criminal legal aid.</p><br /> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 08/12/2015 17:51:33 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

433290

registered interest
date	30/11/2015
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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are currently in receipt of disability benefits in (a) Burnley, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	18251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2015 answer text <p>The available information for Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance, by age and a range of geographical breakdowns, is available using the Department’s Tabulation Tool: <a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/</a>.</p><br /><p>Similar information for Personal Independence Payment and Employment Support Allowance is available using Stat-Xplore: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>.</p><br /><p>Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore is available here: <a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a>.</p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 18249 question first answered 04/12/2015 11:05:23 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

433291

registered interest
date	30/11/2015
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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people under the age of 25 are in receipt of disability benefits in (a) Burnley, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	18249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2015 answer text <p>The available information for Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance, by age and a range of geographical breakdowns, is available using the Department’s Tabulation Tool: <a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/</a>.</p><br /><p>Similar information for Personal Independence Payment and Employment Support Allowance is available using Stat-Xplore: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>.</p><br /><p>Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore is available here: <a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a>.</p><br /> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 18251 question first answered 04/12/2015 11:05:23 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

433292

registered interest
date	30/11/2015
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	Social Security Benefits: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in receipt of disability benefits re-joined the workforce in (a) Burnley, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012, (iv) 2013, (v) 2014 and (vi) 2015.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	18250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is not available.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/12/2015 11:09:26 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper