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	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	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	Minimum Wage
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to enforce the National Minimum Wage, and in particular to protect the employees of agencies and those on zero-hours contracts from exploitation.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
	uin	HL5
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The Government is committed to increasing compliance with minimum wage legislation and effective enforcement of it. Everyone who is entitled to the minimum wage should receive it.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>HMRC enforces the National Minimum Wage for all workers. This includes agency workers and those on zero hour contracts. HMRC investigates every complaint made to the Pay and Work Rights helpline. In addition, HMRC conducts risk-based enforcement in sectors or areas where there is a higher risk of workers not getting paid the legal minimum wage.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The Government is taking a tougher approach on employers that break National Minimum Wage law and has already made it simpler to name and shame employers that break NMW law. The Government has also increased the financial penalty percentage that employers pay for breaking minimum wage law.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 18/06/2014 13:53:18 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
	tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

57910

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	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	Housing Benefit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of housing benefit claimants 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	198959
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The available information is in the following tables:</p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Housing Benefit recipients by employment status: Great Britain, 2009/10 to 2013/14</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Caseload (thousands)<sup>1</sup></p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>In employment</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Not in employment</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Total</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Proportion in employment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Receiving means-tested out of work benefits</p></td><td><p>Not receiving means-tested out of work benefits (pensioners and other working age)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2009</p></td><td><p>527</p></td><td><p>2,067</p></td><td><p>1,944</p></td><td><p>4,539</p></td><td><p>11.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2010</p></td><td><p>702</p></td><td><p>2,142</p></td><td><p>1,953</p></td><td><p>4,797</p></td><td><p>14.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2011</p></td><td><p>835</p></td><td><p>2,174</p></td><td><p>1,925</p></td><td><p>4,934</p></td><td><p>16.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2012</p></td><td><p>934</p></td><td><p>2,227</p></td><td><p>1,880</p></td><td><p>5,041</p></td><td><p>18.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2013</p></td><td><p>1,019</p></td><td><p>2,192</p></td><td><p>1,811</p></td><td><p>5,022</p></td><td><p>20.3%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 2: Average Housing Benefit award by employment status: Great Britain, 2009/10 to 2013/14</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>£ per week</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>In employment</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Not in employment</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Receiving means-tested out of work benefits</p></td><td><p>Not receiving means-tested out of work benefits (pensioners and other working age)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2009</p></td><td><p>76.54</p></td><td><p>92.01</p></td><td><p>71.62</p></td><td><p>81.58</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2010</p></td><td><p>84.68</p></td><td><p>94.06</p></td><td><p>73.54</p></td><td><p>84.42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2011</p></td><td><p>86.92</p></td><td><p>96.08</p></td><td><p>76.64</p></td><td><p>87.01</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2012</p></td><td><p>87.75</p></td><td><p>97.55</p></td><td><p>80.19</p></td><td><p>89.32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2013</p></td><td><p>89.51</p></td><td><p>95.87</p></td><td><p>82.64</p></td><td><p>89.87</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Table 3: Housing Benefit Outturn expenditure by employment status: Great Britain, 2009/10 to 2013/14</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>£ million, real terms (2014/15 prices)</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>In employment</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Not in employment</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Receiving means-tested out of work benefits</p></td><td><p>Not receiving means-tested out of work benefits (pensioners and other working age)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>2,591</p></td><td><p>11,208</p></td><td><p>8,275</p></td><td><p>22,074</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>3,438</p></td><td><p>11,460</p></td><td><p>8,161</p></td><td><p>23,060</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>4,092</p></td><td><p>11,667</p></td><td><p>8,257</p></td><td><p>24,016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>4,558</p></td><td><p>11,965</p></td><td><p>8,335</p></td><td><p>24,858</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>4,958</p></td><td><p>11,383</p></td><td><p>8,122</p></td><td><p>24,462</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Single Housing Benefit Extract (SHBE) and local authority subsidy returns</p><p> </p><p>It is important to note that the increase in the Housing Benefit caseload in employment is driven by a number of factors, including:</p><p> </p><ul><li>The overall increase in the number of households renting, whether or not in receipt of Housing Benefit</li><li>Recession-related impacts such as previously unemployed HB claimants moving into work and losing eligibility to passported benefits but continuing to claim HB, where as a consequence of the complexity of the benefit system it is possible that in some cases these households may not have made a claim for HB had they not had a spell on out-of-work benefits. A key feature of Universal Credit is its smoothing of this type of transition.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The information requested for those who are self-employed is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Information on numbers in employment do not include those Housing Benefit recipients whose claim is passported: that is those receiving Income Support, Jobseekers Allowance (Income-Based), Employment and Support Allowance (Income-Based), or Pension Credit (Guaranteed Credit). This is unlikely to have a significant impact on the trends shown in the tables.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol start="1" type="1"><li>In employment expenditure is based on instances where either the claimant or their partner has recorded earnings (which could be part-time or full-time) including pensioners, estimated using administrative data from Local Authority systems.</li></ol><ol start="2" type="1"><li>A small number of claimants on passported benefits who receive Housing Benefit may also be working, or have a working partner. These claimants are not identified in the data.</li><li>“Out of work benefits” refer to Income Support, income-based Jobseekers Allowance and income-based Employment Support Allowance.</li><li>Annual expenditure is calculated using quarterly averages of claimant numbers and claim amounts, aligned to out-turn expenditure from local authority subsidy returns.</li><li>Total out-turn expenditure for 2013/14 an estimate, based on SHBE data and the 2012/13 out-turn expenditure; this is subject to revision as local authority subsidy returns are made.</li><li>Expenditure figures may differ from previous published figures due to a change in methodology and data sources.</li><li>Housing Benefit caseload and average weekly amounts information can be found at: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></li></ol> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 198955 198960 question first answered 26/06/2014 15:03:23 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb previous answer version 261 answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

57911

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	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	Housing Benefit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value of the average claim for housing benefit made by those (a) out of work, (b) self-employed and (c) employed was in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds West
	tabling member printed	Rachel Reeves
	uin	198960
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The available information is in the following tables:</p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Housing Benefit recipients by employment status: Great Britain, 2009/10 to 2013/14</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Caseload (thousands)<sup>1</sup></p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>In employment</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Not in employment</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Total</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Proportion in employment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Receiving means-tested out of work benefits</p></td><td><p>Not receiving means-tested out of work benefits (pensioners and other working age)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2009</p></td><td><p>527</p></td><td><p>2,067</p></td><td><p>1,944</p></td><td><p>4,539</p></td><td><p>11.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2010</p></td><td><p>702</p></td><td><p>2,142</p></td><td><p>1,953</p></td><td><p>4,797</p></td><td><p>14.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2011</p></td><td><p>835</p></td><td><p>2,174</p></td><td><p>1,925</p></td><td><p>4,934</p></td><td><p>16.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2012</p></td><td><p>934</p></td><td><p>2,227</p></td><td><p>1,880</p></td><td><p>5,041</p></td><td><p>18.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2013</p></td><td><p>1,019</p></td><td><p>2,192</p></td><td><p>1,811</p></td><td><p>5,022</p></td><td><p>20.3%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 2: Average Housing Benefit award by employment status: Great Britain, 2009/10 to 2013/14</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>£ per week</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>In employment</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Not in employment</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Receiving means-tested out of work benefits</p></td><td><p>Not receiving means-tested out of work benefits (pensioners and other working age)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2009</p></td><td><p>76.54</p></td><td><p>92.01</p></td><td><p>71.62</p></td><td><p>81.58</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2010</p></td><td><p>84.68</p></td><td><p>94.06</p></td><td><p>73.54</p></td><td><p>84.42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2011</p></td><td><p>86.92</p></td><td><p>96.08</p></td><td><p>76.64</p></td><td><p>87.01</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2012</p></td><td><p>87.75</p></td><td><p>97.55</p></td><td><p>80.19</p></td><td><p>89.32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2013</p></td><td><p>89.51</p></td><td><p>95.87</p></td><td><p>82.64</p></td><td><p>89.87</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Table 3: Housing Benefit Outturn expenditure by employment status: Great Britain, 2009/10 to 2013/14</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>£ million, real terms (2014/15 prices)</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>In employment</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Not in employment</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Receiving means-tested out of work benefits</p></td><td><p>Not receiving means-tested out of work benefits (pensioners and other working age)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>2,591</p></td><td><p>11,208</p></td><td><p>8,275</p></td><td><p>22,074</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>3,438</p></td><td><p>11,460</p></td><td><p>8,161</p></td><td><p>23,060</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>4,092</p></td><td><p>11,667</p></td><td><p>8,257</p></td><td><p>24,016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>4,558</p></td><td><p>11,965</p></td><td><p>8,335</p></td><td><p>24,858</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>4,958</p></td><td><p>11,383</p></td><td><p>8,122</p></td><td><p>24,462</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Single Housing Benefit Extract (SHBE) and local authority subsidy returns</p><p> </p><p>It is important to note that the increase in the Housing Benefit caseload in employment is driven by a number of factors, including:</p><p> </p><ul><li>The overall increase in the number of households renting, whether or not in receipt of Housing Benefit</li><li>Recession-related impacts such as previously unemployed HB claimants moving into work and losing eligibility to passported benefits but continuing to claim HB, where as a consequence of the complexity of the benefit system it is possible that in some cases these households may not have made a claim for HB had they not had a spell on out-of-work benefits. A key feature of Universal Credit is its smoothing of this type of transition.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The information requested for those who are self-employed is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Information on numbers in employment do not include those Housing Benefit recipients whose claim is passported: that is those receiving Income Support, Jobseekers Allowance (Income-Based), Employment and Support Allowance (Income-Based), or Pension Credit (Guaranteed Credit). This is unlikely to have a significant impact on the trends shown in the tables.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol start="1" type="1"><li>In employment expenditure is based on instances where either the claimant or their partner has recorded earnings (which could be part-time or full-time) including pensioners, estimated using administrative data from Local Authority systems.</li></ol><ol start="2" type="1"><li>A small number of claimants on passported benefits who receive Housing Benefit may also be working, or have a working partner. These claimants are not identified in the data.</li><li>“Out of work benefits” refer to Income Support, income-based Jobseekers Allowance and income-based Employment Support Allowance.</li><li>Annual expenditure is calculated using quarterly averages of claimant numbers and claim amounts, aligned to out-turn expenditure from local authority subsidy returns.</li><li>Total out-turn expenditure for 2013/14 an estimate, based on SHBE data and the 2012/13 out-turn expenditure; this is subject to revision as local authority subsidy returns are made.</li><li>Expenditure figures may differ from previous published figures due to a change in methodology and data sources.</li><li>Housing Benefit caseload and average weekly amounts information can be found at: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></li></ol> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 198955 198959 question first answered 26/06/2014 15:03:23 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb previous answer version 262 answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

57912

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	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	Housing Benefit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value was of housing benefit paid to claimants 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	198955
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The available information is in the following tables:</p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Housing Benefit recipients by employment status: Great Britain, 2009/10 to 2013/14</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Caseload (thousands)<sup>1</sup></p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>In employment</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Not in employment</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Total</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Proportion in employment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Receiving means-tested out of work benefits</p></td><td><p>Not receiving means-tested out of work benefits (pensioners and other working age)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2009</p></td><td><p>527</p></td><td><p>2,067</p></td><td><p>1,944</p></td><td><p>4,539</p></td><td><p>11.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2010</p></td><td><p>702</p></td><td><p>2,142</p></td><td><p>1,953</p></td><td><p>4,797</p></td><td><p>14.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2011</p></td><td><p>835</p></td><td><p>2,174</p></td><td><p>1,925</p></td><td><p>4,934</p></td><td><p>16.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2012</p></td><td><p>934</p></td><td><p>2,227</p></td><td><p>1,880</p></td><td><p>5,041</p></td><td><p>18.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2013</p></td><td><p>1,019</p></td><td><p>2,192</p></td><td><p>1,811</p></td><td><p>5,022</p></td><td><p>20.3%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 2: Average Housing Benefit award by employment status: Great Britain, 2009/10 to 2013/14</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>£ per week</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>In employment</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Not in employment</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Receiving means-tested out of work benefits</p></td><td><p>Not receiving means-tested out of work benefits (pensioners and other working age)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2009</p></td><td><p>76.54</p></td><td><p>92.01</p></td><td><p>71.62</p></td><td><p>81.58</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2010</p></td><td><p>84.68</p></td><td><p>94.06</p></td><td><p>73.54</p></td><td><p>84.42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2011</p></td><td><p>86.92</p></td><td><p>96.08</p></td><td><p>76.64</p></td><td><p>87.01</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2012</p></td><td><p>87.75</p></td><td><p>97.55</p></td><td><p>80.19</p></td><td><p>89.32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2013</p></td><td><p>89.51</p></td><td><p>95.87</p></td><td><p>82.64</p></td><td><p>89.87</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Table 3: Housing Benefit Outturn expenditure by employment status: Great Britain, 2009/10 to 2013/14</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>£ million, real terms (2014/15 prices)</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>In employment</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Not in employment</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Receiving means-tested out of work benefits</p></td><td><p>Not receiving means-tested out of work benefits (pensioners and other working age)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>2,591</p></td><td><p>11,208</p></td><td><p>8,275</p></td><td><p>22,074</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>3,438</p></td><td><p>11,460</p></td><td><p>8,161</p></td><td><p>23,060</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>4,092</p></td><td><p>11,667</p></td><td><p>8,257</p></td><td><p>24,016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>4,558</p></td><td><p>11,965</p></td><td><p>8,335</p></td><td><p>24,858</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>4,958</p></td><td><p>11,383</p></td><td><p>8,122</p></td><td><p>24,462</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Single Housing Benefit Extract (SHBE) and local authority subsidy returns</p><p> </p><p>It is important to note that the increase in the Housing Benefit caseload in employment is driven by a number of factors, including:</p><p> </p><ul><li>The overall increase in the number of households renting, whether or not in receipt of Housing Benefit</li><li>Recession-related impacts such as previously unemployed HB claimants moving into work and losing eligibility to passported benefits but continuing to claim HB, where as a consequence of the complexity of the benefit system it is possible that in some cases these households may not have made a claim for HB had they not had a spell on out-of-work benefits. A key feature of Universal Credit is its smoothing of this type of transition.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The information requested for those who are self-employed is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Information on numbers in employment do not include those Housing Benefit recipients whose claim is passported: that is those receiving Income Support, Jobseekers Allowance (Income-Based), Employment and Support Allowance (Income-Based), or Pension Credit (Guaranteed Credit). This is unlikely to have a significant impact on the trends shown in the tables.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol start="1" type="1"><li>In employment expenditure is based on instances where either the claimant or their partner has recorded earnings (which could be part-time or full-time) including pensioners, estimated using administrative data from Local Authority systems.</li></ol><ol start="2" type="1"><li>A small number of claimants on passported benefits who receive Housing Benefit may also be working, or have a working partner. These claimants are not identified in the data.</li><li>“Out of work benefits” refer to Income Support, income-based Jobseekers Allowance and income-based Employment Support Allowance.</li><li>Annual expenditure is calculated using quarterly averages of claimant numbers and claim amounts, aligned to out-turn expenditure from local authority subsidy returns.</li><li>Total out-turn expenditure for 2013/14 an estimate, based on SHBE data and the 2012/13 out-turn expenditure; this is subject to revision as local authority subsidy returns are made.</li><li>Expenditure figures may differ from previous published figures due to a change in methodology and data sources.</li><li>Housing Benefit caseload and average weekly amounts information can be found at: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></li></ol> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 198959 198960 question first answered 26/06/2014 15:03:22 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb previous answer version 263 answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	4031 label Biography information for Rachel Reeves

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	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Official Cars
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicles built by Nissan are in the Government car pool.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	198961
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>There are 84 vehicles operated by the Government Car Service for ministerial use. None of these are currently built by Nissan. The Government Car Service trialled the use of a Nissan Leaf in 2012 and it operated the Nissan Primera within the ministerial fleet until 2005. The ministerial fleet is scheduled for review later this year.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 18/06/2014 14:05:11 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

58232

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Bus Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the extent of compliance of operators with point 30 of the Senior Traffic Commissioner for Great Britain guidance in Statutory Document 14: Local Bus Services.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	198843
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>‘Statutory Document 14: Local Bus Services', which was drafted by and consulted on by the Senior Traffic Commissioner, has not yet been finalised following the consultation period. There is, therefore, no ‘point 30' within existing guidance on which to make any assessment.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 18/06/2014 12:49:23 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

57926

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Sentencing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people who (a) were given a non-custodial sentence and (b) were given their first custodial sentence in each year from 2004 had previously had (i) no criminal convictions, (ii) one criminal conviction, (iii) two criminal convictions, (iv) three criminal convictions, (v) four criminal convictions, (vi) five to 10 criminal convictions, (vii) 11 to 20 criminal convictions, (viii) 21 to 30 criminal convictions, (ix) 31 to 40 criminal convictions, (x) 41 to 50 criminal convictions, (xi) 51 to 75, (xii) 76 to 100 criminal convictions and (xiii) more than 100 criminal convictions.
	tabling member constituency	Hyndburn
	tabling member printed	Graham Jones
	uin	199092
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2014 answer text <p>Since 2010, crime has continued to fall and fewer individuals are entering the criminal justice system for the first time. But we have a persistent hardcore of offenders being recycled round and round the criminal justice system, as these figures bear out.</p><p>This Government is committed to tackling re-offending rates. We have reformed sentences, so that they combine both punishment and requirements that are effective at preventing further offending. We have legislated so that all community orders must now have a punitive element, and, from 2015, every offender leaving prison spends at least 12 months under supervision, where currently around 50,000 are released each year with no statutory support. 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>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. A court may only impose a community order or a custodial sentence where the offence is imprisonable. The overwhelming majority of repeat offenders have previously received a number of custodial sentences but the large majority of previous convictions identified in the table below resulted in a fine as they were for summary non-motoring offences.</p><p>The number of offenders who were given a non-custodial sentence in each year since 2004, broken down by their number of previous convictions, is given in Table 1. It is important to note that these figures are based only on those offences recorded on the Police National Computer (PNC) by an English or Welsh police force, including the British Transport Police, and include a number of offences for which the maximum sentence available to the court is a fine. It should also be noted that these figures are based on counting the number of separate occasions on which offenders were sentenced in each year and some offenders will therefore be represented several times in the figures.</p><p>Table 2 provides a similar breakdown for those offenders who received their first custodial sentence in each year. Again, the figures are drawn from the PNC and will include a number of offences for which the maximum sentence available to the court is a fine. A large proportion of each offender's criminal history is therefore likely to include some offences for which it is not possible to receive a custodial sentence. Of those offenders who had between 76 and 100 previous convictions between the 12 months ending September 2004 and the 12 months ending September 2013, 84% of the disposals for their previous convictions were fines. This increases to 96% when you look at the offenders who had over 100 previous convictions. It should also be noted that these figures are based on counting the number of separate occasions on which offenders were sentenced in each year and some offenders could therefore be represented several times in the figures.</p><p>The number of offenders who have received at least one previous conviction, or indeed multiple previous convictions, before receiving their first custodial sentence has decreased under this Government.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 10/07/2014 16:45:37 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright attachment 1 file name Number of offenders given a non-custodial sentence for an offence, in each year since 2004 for the 12 months ending September by number of previous convictions.xls title Non custodial sentences by previous convictions previous answer version 253 answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	3999 label Biography information for Graham P Jones

57613

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	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	Palestinians
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Israeli counterpart on the recent destruction of fruit trees at the Tent of Nations farm on the West Bank.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	198634
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2014 answer text <p>We have not raised this specific issue with the Israeli authorities. However, we repeatedly make clear to the Israeli authorities our serious concerns about continued demolitions of Palestinian property and the need to abide by their other obligations under international law. Officials from our Embassy in Tel Aviv raised the issue of demolitions in general on 28 May with Prime Minister Netanyahu's office.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Hugh Robertson question first answered 25/06/2014 12:28:55 answering member 1415 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Robertson
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

58233

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Clyde Naval Base
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civilian personnel are employed at HMNB Clyde by (a) his Department, (b) Babcock, (c) ABL Alliance, (d) Serco, (e) Rolls Royce, (f) Thales and (g) other main contractors.
	tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
	tabling member printed	Katy Clark
	uin	198730
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>As at 9 June 2014, 1,285 Ministry of Defence civilian personnel are employed at Her Majesty's Naval Base Clyde. Additionally there are approximately 1,900 people employed in the Naval Base by contractors. The precise number is a matter for the contractors and will fluctuate, depending on the tasks and the number of sub-contractors employed.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 23/06/2014 15:25:35 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

58234

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Clyde Naval Base
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will provide a skills breakdown of the civilian personnel employed at HMNB Clyde by (a) his Department, (b) Babcock, (c) Serco, (d) Rolls Royce, (e) Thales and (f) other main contractors.
	tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
	tabling member printed	Katy Clark
	uin	198728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>A breakdown of the Ministry of Defence civilian personnel employed at Her Majesty's Naval Base Clyde, by job family, as at 9 June 2014, is provided in the table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Job Family</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Business Management &amp; Improvement</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Commercial</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Internal Communications and Media Relations</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Corporate Support</p></td><td><p>59</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Engineering and Science</p></td><td><p>97</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Estates</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Finance</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health Professionals</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Human Resources</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Information</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Logistics</p></td><td><p>67</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Programme &amp; Project Management</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Security, Health &amp; Safety</p></td><td><p>931</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Training and Education</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,285</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>A skills breakdown for Babcock, Serco, Rolls Royce, Thales and other main contractors is a matter for individual contractors and is not held by the Department.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 23/06/2014 15:10:20 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning