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387869

registered interest
date	06/07/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: English Language
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many companies bid for the Secure English Language Test for applicants abroad; what the value was of that contract; and who was awarded that contract.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	5707
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>Three companies bid for the Secure English Language Test for applicants abroad. <ins class="ministerial">Four companies bid for the Secure English Language Test for applicants within the UK.</ins> The contract was awarded to IELTS Consortium; the Consortium is made up of Cambridge English Language Assessment as Consortium Lead, with British Council and IDP IELTS Australia. The Concession Agreement is cost neutral as it was procured as a concession, rather than a contract, with test-takers paying the test provider directly. The Home Office has not provided funding to the service providers under this arrangement. An estimate of the market value is approximately £60 million per annum worldwide, based on expected volumes of upwards of 400,000 SELT tests at an average cost of £150 per test.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 13/07/2015 14:25:42 question first ministerially corrected 21/07/2015 16:00:55 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 13700 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

387882

registered interest
date	06/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what contracts his Department and HM Courts and Tribunals Service currently have out to tender.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	5623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">As of the 7<sup>th</sup> July, the following contracts the Department, including HM Courts and Tribunals Service currently have out to tender are,</ins></p><p> </p><p>PQ 5623</p><p>1. Professional Services, Evaluation of Sentencing Council Guidelines.</p><p> </p><p>2. HMP Holloway Fire Safety Improvements.</p><p> </p><p>3. Reducing Reoffending, Provision of three Risk assessments at</p><p>HMP Swaleside, East Sutton Park and Stanford Hill.</p><p> </p><p>4. Operational Goods, Supply of Portable Mobile Phone Detection Equipment.</p><p> </p><p>5. Reducing Reoffending, Retender of Provision for 1 forensic psychology risk assessment at</p><p>HMP Leyhill,</p><p> </p><p>6. HMP Wandsworth Demolition of Laundry.</p><p> </p><p>7. Reducing Reoffending, Provision of sixteen forensic psychology risk assessments at HMP Frankland.</p><p> </p><p>8. Compliance and Enforcement Service, (Court Fines).</p><p> </p><p>9. Transforming Youth Custody – Secure Training Centre.</p><p> </p><p>10. Criminal Justice System – Efficiencies.</p><p> </p><p>11. Professional Services – To implement a specialist financial services framework.</p><p> </p><p>PQ 5624</p><p> </p><p>I can confirm that Synnex Concentrix has been announced as the preferred bidder for court enforcements.</p><p> </p><p>At this point, we are unable to disclose which suppliers have been involved in the other competitions listed above due to procurement competition rules and regulations.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 30/07/2015 11:43:01 question first ministerially corrected 31/07/2015 10:08:18 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara previous answer version 18838 answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

387883

registered interest
date	06/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Concentrix
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which contracts placed out to tender by (a) his Department and (b) HM Courts and Tribunals Service have been bid on by Synnex Concentrix.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	5624
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2015 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">As of the 7<sup>th</sup> July, the following contracts the Department, including HM Courts and Tribunals Service currently have out to tender are,</ins></p><p>PQ 5623</p><p>1. Professional Services, Evaluation of Sentencing Council Guidelines.</p><p> </p><p>2. HMP Holloway Fire Safety Improvements.</p><p> </p><p>3. Reducing Reoffending, Provision of three Risk assessments at</p><p>HMP Swaleside, East Sutton Park and Stanford Hill.</p><p> </p><p>4. Operational Goods, Supply of Portable Mobile Phone Detection Equipment.</p><p> </p><p>5. Reducing Reoffending, Retender of Provision for 1 forensic psychology risk assessment at</p><p>HMP Leyhill,</p><p> </p><p>6. HMP Wandsworth Demolition of Laundry.</p><p> </p><p>7. Reducing Reoffending, Provision of sixteen forensic psychology risk assessments at HMP Frankland.</p><p> </p><p>8. Compliance and Enforcement Service, (Court Fines).</p><p> </p><p>9. Transforming Youth Custody – Secure Training Centre.</p><p> </p><p>10. Criminal Justice System – Efficiencies.</p><p> </p><p>11. Professional Services – To implement a specialist financial services framework.</p><p> </p><p>PQ 5624</p><p> </p><p>I can confirm that Synnex Concentrix has been announced as the preferred bidder for court enforcements.</p><p> </p><p>At this point, we are unable to disclose which suppliers have been involved in the other competitions listed above due to procurement competition rules and regulations.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 30/07/2015 11:43:02 question first ministerially corrected 31/07/2015 10:18:51 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara previous answer version 18840 answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

387884

registered interest
date	06/07/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Crown Prosecution Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, if he will review the position of the incumbent Director of Public Prosecutions in view of the recent decision to charge Lord Janner.
tabling member constituency	Rochdale
tabling member printed	Simon Danczuk
uin	5644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">Decisions on whether or not to bring criminal charges are taken by prosecutors who are independent from government and independent from Parliament. I am confident of the independence and the integrity of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Alison Saunders, in making the difficult judgements the job of a prosecutor involves.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Victims’ Right to Review, which Alison Saunders helped to bring in, allows any victim of crime who is dissatisfied with a decision taken by a prosecutor not to proceed with their case to ask for the decision to be reviewed. This review has operated as it was designed to in the case of Greville Janner.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We are world leaders in offering that safeguard for victims and since Alison Saunders has been DPP, the CPS has prosecuted and convicted more child sex offenders than ever before.</ins></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">In the year to 31<sup>st </sup>December 2014, the Law Officers personally considered 469 cases and referred 128 offenders to the Court of Appeal under the unduly lenient sentence scheme. Leave was granted by the Court in 95% of cases which included some of the most serious violent and sexual offences, including murder, rape and sexual assault.</del></p><p><br /><del class="ministerial">The Attorney General’s Office publishes statistics for unduly lenient sentences at the end of the calendar year. This is to ensure that the figures are released in a consistent format and are accurate and quality assured. Unduly lenient sentences statistics for 2013 and 2014 are published on the Attorney General’s Office website - <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/attorney-generals-office" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/organisations/attorney-generals-office</a>. </del></p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 09/07/2015 12:58:22 question first ministerially corrected 09/07/2015 13:24:23 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright previous answer version 13176 answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4059 label Biography information for Simon Danczuk

387885

registered interest
date	06/07/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Just Solutions International
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 Just Solutions International.
tabling member constituency	Mid Worcestershire
tabling member printed	Nigel Huddleston
uin	5660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>Just Solutions international (JSi) was established in the previous parliament as the internal commercial brand of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS).</p><p> </p><p>Given our ambitious justice reform programme and the need to focus departmental resources on domestic priorities, the Justice Secretary has decided that JSi should cease to operate. NOMS will therefore not pursue any new projects with international partners through JSi.</p><p> </p><p>One project led by NOMS through JSi is sufficiently far advanced that the Government has decided withdrawing at this late stage would be detrimental to HMG’s wider interests. Under the JSi brand, NOMS submitted an initial bid to the Saudi Arabian authorities in August 2014<strong><ins class="ministerial">, and a final bid in April 2015,</ins></strong> to conduct a training needs analysis for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia prison service staff, via ELM, an executive agency of the Saudi Ministry of Finance. <del class="ministerial">Following the submission of a final bid in April 2015, NOMS is now liable for financial penalties should the bid be withdrawn.</del> NOMS’s bid was signed off through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Overseas Security and Justice Assistance (OSJA) process, and was supported by UKTI and the British Embassy in Riyadh.</p><p> </p><p>NOMS will therefore honour this outstanding bid and enter into a contract subject to the final decisions of ELM. All work relating to this project will be completed within 6 months of starting.</p><p> </p><p>My Department will continue to promote the rule of law, good governance and judicial reform internationally, working with FCO, DFID and other Government Departments as required. In future, any support will be provided on a cost recovery rather than a commercial basis.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 09/09/2015 16:58:56 question first ministerially corrected 16/09/2015 14:38:57 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous previous answer version 20239 answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston

387135

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
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	Social Security Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of families with children affected by the benefit cap have a child under (a) one year old, (b) two years old, (c) three years old and (d) four years old.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	5178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The information is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate costs.</del><ins class="ministerial">DWP statisticians are currently assessing the viability of publishing further age breakdowns for children in households subject to the benefit cap alongside suitable context and commentary. If the analyses prove to be sufficiently robust the results will be published at the earliest opportunity according to the Code of Practice for statistics.</ins></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/07/2015 16:57:41 question first ministerially corrected 10/07/2015 11:42:56 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson previous answer version 11479 answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

386567

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
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	Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Press
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which periodicals and newspapers his Department subscribes to; how many of each such periodical his Department acquires; and what the cost of subscribing to such periodicals was in 2014.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	5031
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2015 answer text <p>The Department purchases the following newspapers each week:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">The Sun M-F x 3</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial Times M-F x 3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Times M-F X 3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily <del class="ministerial">Telegraph</del> <ins class="ministerial">Telegraph</ins> M-F X 4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Independent M-F X 3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Guardian M-F X 3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Mail M-F X 3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Express M-F X 3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Mirror M-F X 3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Racing Post M-F X1</p><p>Racing Post Saturday X 1</p><p>Racing Post Sunday X 1</p><p>Guardian Saturday X 1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial Times Saturday X 1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Independent-Saturday X 1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Mail Saturday X 1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Express Saturday X 1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sun Saturday X 1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Times Saturday X 1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Mirror Sat X 1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Daily Tele<ins class="ministerial">graph</ins> Saturday X 1</p><p>Sunday Times X 1</p><p>Sunday Telegraph X 1</p><p>Independent on Sunday X 1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Observer X 1</p><p>Mail On Sunday X 1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sunday Express X 1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sunday Mirror X 1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Sun On Sunday X 1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spectator X 3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New Statesman X 1</p><p>Arts Review X 1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The total amount spent on newspapers for Financial Year 2014-15 was £9659.16</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 28/07/2015 16:22:33 question first ministerially corrected 30/07/2015 15:14:35 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot previous answer version 18740 answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

386702

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Medicine: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average cost to the taxpayer is of training someone to become a doctor in the UK.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	4761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on the average cost to the taxpayer of training someone to become a doctor in the United Kingdom.</p><br /> <br /> <br /><p>The Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent estimates within their report ‘Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2014’, published March 2014, that the average cost in <ins class="ministerial">2013/14 </ins><del class="ministerial">2014/15</del> of training to become a general practitioner is £485,390 with the consultant training cost being £726,551. These figures reflect the pre-registration costs of tuition, living expenses/lost production and clinical placements and the post-graduate costs of tuition and replacement costs not the average cost to the taxpayer.</p><br /> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 08/07/2015 13:27:38 question first ministerially corrected 02/11/2015 11:19:49 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer previous answer version 12875 answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

386719

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Deportation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers were removed from the UK under the Dublin Convention in (a) 2005, (b) 2010 and (c) 2014.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	4942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">In 2010 1,545 people were removed from the UK with reference to the Dublin Regulation, which replaced the Dublin Convention in 2003. This figure includes people who claimed asylum in the UK and those who did not, but had asylum claims in other States, as the Dublin Regulation applies in both cases. In 2014 740 were removed. Comparable figures are not available for 2005. The figures are based on management information and are only valid for the date of the report (11 June 2015). This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Removals from the UK under the Dublin Regulations have fallen since 2010 primarily because all Member States are unable to make transfers to Greece following the ruling on 21 January 2011 from the European Court of Human Rights in the case of MSS vs Belgium and Greece. The Court found that Greece had violated Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) that prohibits inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment both because of the poor living conditions for applicants and the failure by the Greek authorities to properly consider his asylum claim. This ruling prevents further transfers to Greece until the situation improves.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Since the Court ruling the UK has helped Greece significantly to improve its asylum system, both bilaterally and as part of interventions under the European Asylum Support Office (EASO). The UK has contributed more working days in asylum expert deployments under EASO support plans to countries such as Greece than any other Member State.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">Our records indicate that in 2010 1,150 people were removed from the UK with reference to the Dublin Regulation, which replaced the Dublin Convention in 2003. This figure includes people who claimed asylum in the UK and those who did not, but had asylum claims in other States, as the Dublin Regulation applies in both cases. Our records indicate that in 2014 520 people were removed, and in 2005 1,890 people were removed. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10, and are based on the latest management information and so are subject to change. This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols.</ins></p><p><br /><ins class="ministerial">Removals from the UK under the Dublin Regulations have fallen since 2010 primarily because all Member States are unable to make transfers to Greece following the ruling on 21 January 2011 from the European Court of Human Rights in the case of MSS vs Belgium and Greece. The Court found that Greece had violated Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) that prohibits inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment both because of the poor living conditions for applicants and the failure by the Greek authorities to properly consider his asylum claim. This ruling prevents further transfers to Greece until the situation improves.</ins></p><p><br /><ins class="ministerial">Since the Court ruling the UK has helped Greece significantly to improve its asylum system, both bilaterally and as part of interventions under the European Asylum Support Office (EASO). The UK has contributed more working days in asylum expert deployments under EASO support plans to countries such as Greece than any other Member State.</ins></p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire previous answer version 11376 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire 16353 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire question first answered 21/07/2015 13:04:48 question first ministerially corrected 22/02/2016 12:51:34 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

385427

registered interest
date	24/06/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Death: Kettering
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the (a) gender of the deceased person, (b) international classification of disease code for the underlying cause of death, (c) time taken to register the death, (d) year of death and (e) year the death was registered was for each death registered in Kettering constituency at least 366 days after the date of death in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011, (iii) 2012, (iv) 2013 and (v) 2014; and whether for each such death the deceased person was aged (A) under five, (B) five to 15, (C) 15 to 24, (D) 25 to 34, (E) 35 to 44, (F) 45 to 54, (G) 55 to 64 or (H) over 65 years when they died.
tabling member constituency	Kettering
tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
uin	4196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ 4196-9.pdf title UKSA Lerter to Member - Cause of Deaths 2 file name Table2_Kettering.docx title Table 2 - for Member - Registration Delays question first answered 29/06/2015 14:20:42 question first ministerially corrected 14/07/2015 16:43:51 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson previous answer version 9563 answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ 4196-9.pdf title UKSA Lerter to Member - Cause of Deaths
tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone