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57913

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the value was of the average claim for tax credit made by people who were (a) out of work, (b) self-employed and (c) employed in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds West
	tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
	uin	198956
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2014 answer text <p>The following table is based on finalised tax credits administrative data for each financial year. The latest data available are 2012-13.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Tax Year</p></td><td> </td><td colspan="3"><p>Average tax credit award for households who are classified as 'in work'</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Average tax credit award for households who are classified as 'out of work'</p></td><td><p>Households who are classified as self employed only</p></td><td><p>Households who are classified as employed only</p></td><td><p>Households who are classified as both employed and self employed</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>£4,700</p></td><td><p>£6,500</p></td><td><p>£3,300</p></td><td><p>£3,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>£5,000</p></td><td><p>£6,800</p></td><td><p>£3,700</p></td><td><p>£4,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£5,200</p></td><td><p>£6,900</p></td><td><p>£3,900</p></td><td><p>£4,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£5,600</p></td><td><p>£7,200</p></td><td><p>£4,500</p></td><td><p>£4,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£6,000</p></td><td><p>£<del class="ministerial">7,600</del> <ins class="ministerial"><ins>7,500</ins></ins></p></td><td><p>£<del class="ministerial">6,300</del> <ins class="ministerial"><ins>6,200</ins></ins></p></td><td><p>£<del class="ministerial">6,400</del> <ins class="ministerial"><ins>6,000</ins></ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>These figures have been rounded to the nearest £100.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The increase in average tax credit awards in 2012-13 can largely be explained by the removal of the ‘Second Income Threshold’ in April 2012. This policy removed a number of higher income households from the tax credit population. As higher income households generally have lower tax credits awards, the effect of removing these households increases the average award.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 10/06/2014 09:38:55 question first ministerially corrected 24/03/2015 12:39:18 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes previous answer version 268 answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
	tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

57619

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 6 May 2014, Official Report, column 66W, on asylum: children, which local authorities have used the fund and how much to support asylum seekers who are care leavers in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	198605
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The total amount of funding provided in each of the 5 years is set out below:<br><br>Year £million<br>2013/14 - 11.9<br>2012/13 - 12.9<br>2011/12 - 15.3<br>2010/11 - 20.3<br>2009/10 - 11.0<br><br>The figures for 2009-13 inclusive are taken from the audited accounts of the UK <br>Border Agency. Figures for 2013-14 are provisional and subject to audit and <br>possible adjustment.<br><br>The following lists the local authorities that receive the leaving care <br>funding.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 09/06/2014 16:56:06 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire attachment 1 file name Worksheet for PQ198605 - response 6-6-14.xls title Table - PQ 198605
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

57861

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she intends to reply to the letter to her dated 8 April 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Naraendra Singh Bhati.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Sir Gerald Kaufman
	uin	198699
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>I wrote to the Rt. Hon. Member on 20 May 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 09/06/2014 16:33:15 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	451 label Biography information for Sir Gerald Kaufman

57862

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she intends to reply to the letter to the Immigration and Security Minister dated 7 April 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr Asif Khan Uriakhel.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Sir Gerald Kaufman
	uin	198698
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>I wrote to the Rt. Hon. Member on 20 May 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 09/06/2014 16:30:17 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	451 label Biography information for Sir Gerald Kaufman

57864

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she intends to reply to the letter to the Immigration and Security Minister dated 7 April 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr M Frimpong.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Sir Gerald Kaufman
	uin	198701
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>I wrote to the Rt. Hon. Member on 20 May 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 09/06/2014 16:31:27 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	451 label Biography information for Sir Gerald Kaufman

57992

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in how many cases against her Department funded by legal aid public interest lawyers represented clients in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Mr Michael McCann
	uin	198665
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Home Office does not keep a central record of which cases brought against <br>it are legally aided, or of the law firms that represent litigants.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 198661 question first answered 09/06/2014 10:15:39 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3963 label Biography information for Mr Michael McCann

57993

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases funded by legal aid taken against her Department where public interest lawyers have represented clients were won by her Department each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Mr Michael McCann
	uin	198661
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Home Office does not keep a central record of which cases brought against <br>it are legally aided, or of the law firms that represent litigants.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 198665 question first answered 09/06/2014 10:15:38 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3963 label Biography information for Mr Michael McCann

58100

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Private Investigators
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 13 May 2014, Official Report, 462W, on private investigation, whether she plans to consult upon the terms and conditions of licences for private investigators prior to their implementation under the new statutory licensing requirement.
	tabling member constituency	Harborough
	tabling member printed	Sir Edward Garnier
	uin	198722
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Security Industry Authority (SIA) - the regulator of the private security <br>industry - will engage with the private investigations sector on the development <br>of licensing criteria and conditions prior to the implementation of the new <br>licensing regime.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 09/06/2014 10:16:44 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	337 label Biography information for Lord Garnier

57858

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many reports on equality information and objectives each category of public authority has published under the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011 in each year since the regulations came into force; and what the cost of producing those reports was for each category of public authority in each such year.
	tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
	tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
	uin	198764
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p>The specific information requested is not collected or held centrally.</p><p>The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), an independent statutory body, is responsible for the enforcement, monitoring and assessment of how public bodies comply with the public sector Equality Duty (PSED) and specific duties. The EHRC has published two reports to date which look at the performance of public bodies in England under the PSED and specific duties:</p><p>• ‘Publishing equality information: Commitment, engagement and transparency' was published in December 2012. This report looked at how public authorities had performed with regard to the first specific duty (publication of equality information). Data for this assessment was collected between February and April 2012 and covered 1,159 public authorities in England. The report indicated that about half of the public authorities reviewed were publishing equality information on their workforce and service users by April 2012. Many more (78%) were publishing information on either their staff or their service users.</p><p>• ‘Assessment of the publication of equality objectives by English public authorities' was published in Autumn 2013. This report sets out the findings of an assessment of how public authorities in England are publishing equality objectives. Data for the assessment was collected between September and December 2012 and covered 2,010 public authorities.</p><p>These reports do not estimate the associated costs of producing and publishing equalities information.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey grouped question UIN 198765 question first answered 09/06/2014 16:38:25 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
	tabling member	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab

57859

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many public authorities in each category of public authority published equality information and objectives under the Equality Act (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011 in each year since they came into force.
	tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
	tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
	uin	198765
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p>The specific information requested is not collected or held centrally.</p><p>The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), an independent statutory body, is responsible for the enforcement, monitoring and assessment of how public bodies comply with the public sector Equality Duty (PSED) and specific duties. The EHRC has published two reports to date which look at the performance of public bodies in England under the PSED and specific duties:</p><p>• ‘Publishing equality information: Commitment, engagement and transparency' was published in December 2012. This report looked at how public authorities had performed with regard to the first specific duty (publication of equality information). Data for this assessment was collected between February and April 2012 and covered 1,159 public authorities in England. The report indicated that about half of the public authorities reviewed were publishing equality information on their workforce and service users by April 2012. Many more (78%) were publishing information on either their staff or their service users.</p><p>• ‘Assessment of the publication of equality objectives by English public authorities' was published in Autumn 2013. This report sets out the findings of an assessment of how public authorities in England are publishing equality objectives. Data for the assessment was collected between September and December 2012 and covered 2,010 public authorities.</p><p>These reports do not estimate the associated costs of producing and publishing equalities information.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey grouped question UIN 198764 question first answered 09/06/2014 16:38:25 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
	tabling member	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab