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170511

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many specialist domestic violence courts have closed since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
	uin	218706
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>From April 2010 Local Criminal Justice Boards (LCJBs) took responsibility for the governance and performance management of the 143 accredited Specialist Domestic Violence Courts (SDVCs) across England and Wales. As of March 2014 there were 137 accredited SDVCs. However, the closure of SDVCs in some areas does not necessarily mean that provision in that area has ceased, as many of the SDVC systems cover a number of courthouses. Closure of an SDVC in one courthouse would simply mean that the case would be heard in another accredited courthouse within the Local Justice Area.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS remains committed to a partnership approach to supporting domestic violence victims going through the Criminal Justice Process.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 06/01/2015 17:14:11 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

170487

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applicants were granted British citizenship who had previously committed crimes in other countries in each year since 2010; and of what crimes those applicants had been convicted.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
	uin	218744
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Information on how many individuals who were granted British citizenship who <br>had previously committed crimes in other countries is not aggregated in <br>national reporting systems. This information could only be obtained by a <br>disproportionately expensive manual case by case search to collate the data.<br><br>However where the Secretary of State is aware that a person has committed <br>crimes in other countries they would not normally be granted citizenship as the <br>good character requirement would not be satisfied.</p><p /> <p /> <p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/01/2015 11:42:37 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

170477

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who were granted British citizenship disclosed financial fraud in their application for citizenship.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
	uin	218818
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Information on how many individuals who were granted citizenship who disclosed <br>financial fraud in their application for citizenship is not aggregated in <br>national reporting systems. This information could only be obtained by a <br>disproportionately expensive manual case by case search to collate the data.<br><br>However where the Secretary of State is aware that a person has practised fraud <br>they would not normally be granted citizenship as the good character <br>requirement would not be satisfied.</p><p /> <p /> <p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/01/2015 11:45:18 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

170548

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	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	Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the savings to his Department from the Q&A system in the (a) 12 months and (b) five years since 4 June 2014; what additional ICT systems or improvements to existing systems his Department has introduced or plans to introduce that would not have been feasible without the Q&A system; and what assessment he has made of the extent to which the system has made it easier to answer questions from hon. Members on time.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	218795
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>No estimate has been made of savings arising from the introduction of the Q&amp;A system. The introduction of the Q&amp;A system has had no impact on existing or planned ICT systems.</p><p> </p><p>One of the benefits of the new system is the possibility for the reporting of the timeliness of answers to Parliamentary Questions to be delivered with greater consistency and accuracy across all answering bodies. It will be for the Procedure Committee to evaluate the effectiveness of the new system in improving performance when it assesses the evidence following the end of the session.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 05/01/2015 14:07:04 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

170517

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Courts: Repairs and Maintenance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was spent on the refurbishment of court buildings in each of the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
	uin	218636
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Ministry of Justice and HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service are unable to collate the information required to answer the question without a detailed check to ensure the information is accurate. I will write to the hon. Member for Hammersmith in due course with the information once it is available.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 06/01/2015 17:03:59 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

170484

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for British citizenship were made in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
	uin	218741
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The information requested, which is published regularly, is given in the table below<br><br></p><p /> <p /><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><strong>Citizenship applications, United Kingdom 2010 to 2013</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Year</td><td>Applications for British citizenship</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>2010</td><td>199,767</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>2011</td><td>207,797</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>2012</td><td>181,410</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>2013</td><td>232,262</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Source: Home Office, Migration Statistics</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">Immigration Statistics July to September 2014</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Tables cz_01</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p /> <p /> <p><br>The latest Home Office immigration statistics, including applications for <br>British citizenship are published in the release Immigration Statistics July -<br>September 2014, table cz_01 (Citizenship tables), which is available from the <br>Library of the House and on the Department’s website at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release</a></p><p /> <p /> <p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/01/2015 11:48:22 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

170516

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) prison officers, (b) prison governors and (c) other members of staff were assaulted in the course of their work in each of the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
	uin	218635
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Violence in prisons is not tolerated and assaults on our hardworking staff are unacceptable. We do not underestimate the hard work and challenges that prison staff face on a daily basis which is why we have been working extremely closely with the police and CPS to tackle this issue. A new joint protocol produced by the Prison Service, Crown Prosecution Service and Association of Chief Police Officers will set out that when there are serious assaults on prison staff, the perpetrators will be prosecuted unless there is a good reason why not.</p><p>The number of assaults on staff is published in the Safety in Custody Bulletin available at this link: <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics</a>. Table 3.1 provides the total number of staff assaults whereas the number of prisoner on officer assaults can be found in table 3.8 of the annual tables.</p><p>With the exception of prison officers assaulted during “prisoner on officer” assaults, the role of the staff member involved is not recorded and so any staff members that are assaulted in other types of assault incident cannot be identified by their specific role. The incident reporting system does not record detailed information about staff members that are assaulted and so we are not able to provide the requested breakdown. Whilst this information is not held centrally assaults on staff are taken very seriously and as such are recorded and managed locally.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 06/01/2015 17:23:10 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

170562

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	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	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 3 of his Department's document, Universal Credit National Expansion, published on 9 December 2014, what steps his Department takes to ensure that place-names are not mis-spelled in its publications.
	tabling member constituency	Lichfield
	tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
	uin	218648
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We apologise for this single mistake, it falls short of our normal standards for publications.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 06/01/2015 16:14:32 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

170290

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	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	Apprentices: Minimum Wage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 11 December 2014 to Question 217744, when his Department plans to write to level 2 and 3 apprenticeships in England informing them of their National Minimum Wage entitlement.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	218767
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>A letter is issued to all new level 2 and 3 apprentices in England on Government-funded apprenticeships, setting out what they can expect from their apprenticeship. This includes information on their national minimum wage entitlement.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 05/01/2015 16:41:25 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles previous answer version 35662 answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

170439

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hepatitis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects NHS England to publish an updated service specification for hepatitis C services.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool North and Cleveleys
	tabling member printed	Paul Maynard
	uin	218753
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>A specification for hepatitis C services is currently in draft form and is being taken through NHS England processes for approval. If approved, NHS England anticipate that it would be implemented in 2015-16.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 06/01/2015 14:34:08 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard