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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

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

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

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

385083

registered interest
date	23/06/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Squatting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of changes in the prevalence of squatting in commercial premises following the introduction of the criminal provisions contained in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	3649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2015 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">We continue to monitor the situation closely.</ins></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">Data on life sentence prisoners who commit offences of homicide and other serious offences are taken from the NOMS Public Protection Unit Database.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">From 1 May 2013 – 31 April 2015, 12 offenders have been convicted of further offences, having been released on a life licence. The table below provides a breakdown of the offences. These offences are limited to those which fall in scope under the Probation Serious Further Offence (SFO) Review Procedures, and relate to those offences contained in Schedule 15a of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, which attract a sentence of 14 years or more.</del></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><del class="ministerial">01/05/2013- 31/04/2014</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Murder</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">2</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Other serious offences</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">2</del></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><del class="ministerial">01/05/2014- 31/04/2015</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Murder</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">1</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Other serious offences</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">7</del></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">Public protection is our priority, and offenders serving a life sentence are subject to strict controls for as long as their risk requires them. If they fail to comply with these conditions or their behaviour indicates that it is no longer safe for them or for the public if they remain in the community, they can be immediately returned to prison. All 12 of these offenders were returned to prison when charged with serious further offences.</del></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 01/07/2015 16:44:17 question first ministerially corrected 01/07/2015 17:03:57 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 10598 answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous answering member 1453
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

353889

registered interest
date	12/06/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many publicly-funded charging points for electric vehicles have been delivered in each of the last 10 years; and how many such points are planned for delivery in 2015.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	2332
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2015 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Department for Transport ran a public consultation to help inform the specification for the new Northern and TransPennine Express franchises, and received over 21,000 responses; a summary of these have been published on the Government’s website.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The Invitation To Tender for the Northern franchise has specified the replacement of Pacers (which are currently used) on services between Huddersfield and Sheffield) by the start of 2020, and other rolling stock used on the franchise will be subject to a substantial refurbishment. It also specifies an increase in the Sunday service provision on this route by December 2017. Our process for evaluating franchise bids encourages bidders to exceed the minimum specifications we state, and the bids themselves are due in to the Department by 26 June. We are due to announce the outcome towards the end of the year.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The number of publicly-funded chargepoints for electric vehicles that have been delivered in each of the last 10 years, including those for domestic use and those that are publicly accessible, is provided below. The first Government funding for chargepoints was in 2010/11 under the Coalition Government. Chargepoint installations in 2015/16 will depend on demand for domestic chargepoints and the detail of new infrastructure schemes to be announced later this year. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> <p> </p><p> </p></ins></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><ins class="ministerial"> </ins><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>2010/11</strong></ins></p></td><td><ins class="ministerial"> </ins><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>2011/12</strong></ins></p></td><td><ins class="ministerial"> </ins><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>2012/13</strong></ins></p></td><td><ins class="ministerial"> </ins><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>2013/14</strong></ins></p></td><td><ins class="ministerial"> </ins><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>2014/15</strong></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><ins class="ministerial"> </ins><p><ins class="ministerial">579</ins></p></td><td><ins class="ministerial"> </ins><p><ins class="ministerial">1,401</ins></p></td><td><ins class="ministerial"> </ins><p><ins class="ministerial">3,644</ins></p></td><td><ins class="ministerial"> </ins><p><ins class="ministerial">9,520</ins></p></td><td><ins class="ministerial"> </ins><p><ins class="ministerial">42,423</ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">This question was inadvertently grouped with 2324.</ins></p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 17/06/2015 13:47:08 question first ministerially corrected 19/06/2015 11:17:14 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones previous answer version 5724 answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

353898

registered interest
date	12/06/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to improve rail links between Huddersfield and Sheffield.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	2324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Transport ran a public consultation to help inform the specification for the new Northern and TransPennine Express franchises, and received over 21,000 responses; a summary of these have been published on the Government’s website.</p><p> </p><p>The Invitation To Tender for the Northern franchise has specified the replacement of Pacers (which are currently used) on services between Huddersfield and Sheffield) by the start of 2020, and other rolling stock used on the franchise will be subject to a substantial refurbishment. It also specifies an increase in the Sunday service provision on this route by December 2017. Our process for evaluating franchise bids encourages bidders to exceed the minimum specifications we state, and the bids themselves are due in to the Department by 26 June. We are due to announce the outcome towards the end of the year.</p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial"> <p><ins class="ministerial">This quesiton was inadvertently grouped with question 2332.</ins></p><p><br /></p></ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 17/06/2015 13:47:08 question first ministerially corrected 19/06/2015 11:17:39 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones previous answer version 5725 answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

348746

registered interest
date	05/06/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railway Stations: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to improve access for disabled people at National Rail stations.
tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Monaghan
uin	1300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2015 answer text <p>By the end of this year the Access for All programme, launched in 2006, will have provided step free routes to more than 150 stations and smaller scale improvements at over 1,100. A further £160m has been allocated to extend the programme until 2019 and the 68 stations to benefit from this were announced last year.</p><p> </p><p>This is in addition to access improvements delivered by other major projects or the industry itself, which must meet UK and EU standards for accessibility.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 10/06/2015 14:11:32 question first ministerially corrected 10/06/2015 14:43:40 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry previous answer version 3604 answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4383 label Biography information for Dr Paul Monaghan