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156912

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date	20/11/2014
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	EU External Trade: USA
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on what occasions have (a) EU companies seeking to trade in the US and (b) US companies seeking to trade in the EU claimed to have been discriminated against by the courts of the host nation in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
uin	215459
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>Claims made by EU investors in third countries or vice versa may be made in a wide range of situations in which the UK government is not involved and about which it does not have access to relevant information.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 05/12/2014 14:57:50 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

157016

registered interest
date	20/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Borders: Security
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2014 to Question 213850, what estimate she has made of the total number of vehicles entering the UK which were not subject to screening by either body scanning machines or dogs in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	North East Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Stephen Barclay
uin	215376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>We have made no such estimate as the use of screening is conducted on an intelligence led basis as part of Border Force's multi-layered approach. <br><br>The screening of vehicles by Border Force is undertaken through a range of methods. These include Passive Millimetric Wave Imagers, carbon dioxide probes, body detection dogs and heart beat detectors. Border Force has investment in <br>detection technology over the last 18 months, includes a £2 million scanner upgrade, a further £400,000 committed to infra red camera technology, and a £1.3 million investment in specialist dog search teams, at the juxtaposed <br>controls.<br><br>The selection of vehicles for screening is made on an intelligence led basis. Border Force staff, their contractors and detection technology are deployed to meet the risk. <br><br>In 2013/14 Border Force and its contractors detected 18,000 clandestine attempts to enter the UK illegally at our juxtaposed controls. This represents an increase of over 60% from 2012/13. <br><br>The UK and French Governments have signed a joint declaration agreeing to work together to improve the quality of border controls. <br><br>Border Force deploys 7,500 specialist staff, five cutters at sea and spends £518 million a year protecting our borders.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 15/12/2014 12:19:13 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 29846 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay

157025

registered interest
date	20/11/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Hindley Prison
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on the future of Hindley Young Offender's Institute.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	215510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>HM Prison and Young Offender Institution Hindley’s role is to hold young adult men (aged between 18 and 21 years) and adult men (aged 21 and older). This ensures that the accommodation at Hindley is used in line with the National Offender Management Service’s Estate strategy, which is to provide the number and type of prison places required by the courts, configure the estate to give best effect to Ministry of Justice strategic policy priorities, support stakeholder objectives, and those of partner organisations and make the best use of taxpayers’ money.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 13/01/2015 14:36:46 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger