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445145

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date	15/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Type 26 Frigates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much imported steel will be used in the manufacture of the new Type 26 frigates in (a) market value and (b) weight in tonnes.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	22739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>Steel is sourced by our contractors from a range of UK and international suppliers, reflecting the need to ensure a competitive price and delivery at the required time and quality. UK suppliers have provided significant quantities of steel for major defence equipment procurement programmes, whenever they have been able to meet specified standards. Our new Government guidelines, published in November 2015, will help UK steel suppliers to compete effectively with international suppliers for major projects, including those in defence.</p><p>No steel suppliers have been selected or any orders placed for the Type 26 Global Combat Ships. It is therefore too early to say how much steel will be used in this programme or from where it will be sourced.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 22740 question first answered 20/01/2016 16:37:19 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

445146

registered interest
date	15/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Type 26 Frigates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much UK steel will be used in the manufacture of the new Type 26 frigates in (a) market value and (b) weight in tonnes.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	22740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>Steel is sourced by our contractors from a range of UK and international suppliers, reflecting the need to ensure a competitive price and delivery at the required time and quality. UK suppliers have provided significant quantities of steel for major defence equipment procurement programmes, whenever they have been able to meet specified standards. Our new Government guidelines, published in November 2015, will help UK steel suppliers to compete effectively with international suppliers for major projects, including those in defence.</p><p>No steel suppliers have been selected or any orders placed for the Type 26 Global Combat Ships. It is therefore too early to say how much steel will be used in this programme or from where it will be sourced.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 22739 question first answered 20/01/2016 16:37:19 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

445149

registered interest
date	15/01/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Neonicotinoids: EU Action
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the EU ban on neonicotinoids has been renewed; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
uin	22708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>EU restrictions prohibiting the use of three neonicotinoids on some crops have been in place since 1 December 2013. Other uses of these neonicotinoids remain approved. The restrictions have been implemented in full in the UK and will remain in place unless and until the European Commission decides to change them. The Commission has mandated the European Food Safety Authority to carry out a scientific review of the effects of neonicotinoids on pollinators. The UK will participate in that process.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 20/01/2016 11:11:49 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

445150

registered interest
date	15/01/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Heathrow Airport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment the Secretary of State has made of the potential effects of a third runway at Heathrow Airport on the UK's ability to meet pollution targets set at COP21.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	22706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>Any decision regarding future airport capacity will take into account the Government’s obligations under the 2008 Climate Change Act.</p><br /><p>The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has responsibility for addressing emissions from international aviation, rather than the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which held COP21. We are working hard through ICAO to try to secure agreement on a global market-based measure to address international aviation emissions.</p><br /><p>For domestic aviation, which is covered by UNFCCC, emissions are already accounted for under the UK's Carbon Budgets with the aim of ensuring overall UK emissions are less than 80% of 1990 levels by 2050.</p><br /> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 20/01/2016 15:38:03 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

445172

registered interest
date	15/01/2016
answering body	House of Commons Commission
answering dept id	18
answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
hansard heading	House of Commons: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington representing the House of Commons Commission, what the average salary is for employees of the House of Commons.
tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
uin	22750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>The average salary (basic pay) of staff employed by the House of Commons was £36,784 as at 31 December 2015.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 20/01/2016 16:57:42 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn

445174

registered interest
date	15/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Medway Secure Training Centre
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will order a serious case review of allegations of abuse at Medway Secure Training Centre.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	22747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>Kent Police and Medway Council’s child protection team have launched an investigation into the allegations made about Medway Secure Training Centre (STC). It will be for the Local Safeguarding Children Board to decide whether to undertake a serious case review. The Ministry of Justice and Youth Justice Board will do everything we can to assist and support the investigation underway. Last week, HM Inspectorate of Prisons and Ofsted have also visited the STC since the allegations were made.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 20/01/2016 11:41:33 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

445175

registered interest
date	15/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	G4S
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many fines G4S has paid under any contract with his Department in each of the last five years; and for what reasons each such fine was imposed.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	22707
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice holds a number of centrally and locally managed contracts with G4S and information on the total financial remedies imposed could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost. However, the total for G4S run prisons, Young Offender’s Institutes (YOIs) and secure training centres (STC) were as follows:</p><p> </p><p>As I stated in the answer to PQ 22664, there have been two incidents in the last five years in which financial remedies were applied at Medway STC. In both cases, G4S failed to comply with operating procedures. In the same time period, there was one incident for which financial remedies were applied at Rainsbrook STC, for failing to comply with operating procedures.</p><p> </p><p>Financial remedies applied to private prisons, including HMP/YOI Parc since 2010 are set out in the attached table.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 08/03/2016 15:03:19 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous attachment 1 file name 22707 - G4S prisons financial remedies.xlsx title Financial Remedies 2010-16
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

445176

registered interest
date	15/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Rehabilitation Companies: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which community rehabilitation companies have informed his Department of plans to reduce staff in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	22714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>All Community Rehabilitation Companies informed the MoJ of their plans to restructure as part of the bidding process, which was robustly evaluated. They are contractually required to maintain a professional and appropriately skilled workforce to deliver the services set out in their contracts. We are robustly managing the contracts to make sure the providers deliver services which reduce reoffending, protect the public and provide value for money to the taxpayer.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 20/01/2016 11:46:11 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

445177

registered interest
date	15/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what anti-racism training is given to youth court magistrates.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	22715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>All judicial office holders are required to apply the law fairly and objectively regardless of the ethnicity of those who appear before them. A key principle of judicial training is that it should include the social context within which judges and magistrates operate, such as awareness of diversity issues. Additionally, the Judicial College, which oversees the delivery of judicial training on behalf of the Lord Chief Justice, maintains an Equal Treatment Bench Book to assist judicial office holders to deal fairly with those who appear before them. The Bench Book is publicly available at: <a href="https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/publications/equal-treatment-bench-book/" target="_blank">https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/publications/equal-treatment-bench-book/</a></p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 20/01/2016 11:49:36 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

445181

registered interest
date	15/01/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) budget for and (b) expenditure on in-service emissions testing was for the (i) Vehicle Certification Agency and (ii) Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Riverside
tabling member printed	Mrs Louise Ellman
uin	22741
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2016 answer text <p>The Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA) in-service emissions budget is in the table below:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>Budget</p></td><td><p>Expenditure</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006 / 2007</p></td><td><p>Not available</p></td><td><p>Not available</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007 / 2008</p></td><td><p>Not available</p></td><td><p>£170k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008 / 2009</p></td><td><p>Not available</p></td><td><p>£205k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009 / 2010</p></td><td><p>£200K</p></td><td><p>£200K</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010 / 2011</p></td><td><p>£200K</p></td><td><p>£200K</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011 /2012*</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012 /2013</p></td><td><p>£40K</p></td><td><p>£40K</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013 /2014</p></td><td><p>£50K</p></td><td><p>£29.5K</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014 / 2015</p></td><td><p>£150K</p></td><td><p>£42.3K</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 / 2016</p></td><td><p>£123.2K</p></td><td><p>**</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>* Following the work in 2010-2011, the focus of emissions testing changed to consider aftermarket alteration of vehicles, both light and heavy duty.</p><p>** Ongoing £96K anticipated.</p><br /><p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency does not hold a budget for in-service emissions testing and it does not have expenditure for in service emissions testing.</p><br /> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 20/01/2016 15:44:45 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	484 label Biography information for Dame Louise Ellman