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64615

registered interest
date	30/06/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Elizabeth Truss MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Education and Childcare, that "our 15 year-olds are up to three years behind their peers in the top-performing countries in reading and mathematics", what action they propose to address this.
tabling member printed	Lord Quirk
uin	HL698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education believes that improving the quality of teaching in literacy and numeracy is crucial to building the foundation for future study and work. The Government has revised the national curriculum and set more rigorous and challenging content in English and mathematics to match the highest performing countries around the world. The new programmes of study for English and maths will challenge pupils to realise their potential in an increasingly competitive global market.</p><p> </p><p>The new maths GCSE will have more content, be more challenging and – alongside English - will be double weighted in school performance tables. The Department has recently allocated £11 million to fund <del class="ministerial">over</del> 32 new maths hubs to support a more challenging maths GCSE to improve the quality of maths education. This initiative, which includes a teacher exchange programme with Shanghai, will enable every school and college in England, from early years to the post-16 sector, to access locally-tailored support in all areas of maths teaching and learning.</p><p> </p><p>The new national curriculum for English places a greater emphasis on reading and requires pupils to study a range of books, poems and plays.</p><p>The national curriculum for English will give teachers greater flexibility and freedom which will help to raise standards and expectations for all pupils. It has been significantly slimmed down and will free up teachers to use their professional judgement to design curricula that meet the needs of their pupils.</p><p> </p><p>The new English language GCSE will place greater demands on pupils and has more emphasis on those skills demanded by employers. The new English literature GCSE will build on this foundation, and encourage students to read, write and think critically.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 08/07/2014 15:42:37 question first ministerially corrected 09/07/2014 15:07:12 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash previous answer version 8669 answering member printed Lord Nash answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	3254 label Biography information for Lord Quirk

64819

registered interest
date	30/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Police Cautions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cautions have been issued for offences of (a) murder, (b) rape, (c) sexual assault, (d) robbery and (e) burglary in (i) each year between 2010 and 2013 and (ii) each month since January 2013.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	203136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The number of offenders (including young people) cautioned, for offences of rape, sexual assault, robbery and burglary, by months in England and Wales from 2010 to 2013 (latest available) can be viewed in the table. There were no cautions administered for murder.</p><p><del class="ministerial">Simple cautions (previously police cautions) are a non-statutory disposal available to the police to dispose of any offence committed by an adult and designed for dealing with low level, mainly first time offending. The Government does not believe that cautions are appropriate for serious offences. We issued new guidelines on 14 November 2014 following a detailed review of how cautions were being used by police forces, and are strengthening the law to prevent cautions being used for serious offences.</del></p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice issues guidance on the process to be followed by the police and the CPS when they are administering simple cautions for adult offenders. This guidance states that the use of a simple caution for indictable only offences, such as rape, should only be given following authorisation by the CPS. These will be cases where there were exceptional circumstances which would mean that it was not in the public interest to prosecute.</p><p> </p><p>The overall number of simple cautions issued has halved since 2007. The cautioning rate, that is, the number of offenders cautioned as a percentage of offenders who were either cautioned or convicted, in 2013 was 20 per cent; this has declined from a peak of 31 per cent in 2007.</p><p>The Government is clear that serious offences should always be brought to court and to ensure that there is increased public confidence in the justice system last year announced limits on the use of simple cautions. These changes restrict the use of cautions for indictable only offences and certain serious either way offences unless there are exceptional circumstances and a senior police officer, as well as the CPS for certain cases, has agreed that a caution should be administered.</p><p>The MOJ guidance on Adult Simple Cautions was amended in November last year to reflect these changes, and we are currently legislating in the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill to place statutory restrictions around their use.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 07/07/2014 15:20:18 question first ministerially corrected 28/08/2014 11:45:56 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green attachment 1 file name Offenders cautioned(1)(2) for selected offences, by month, England and Wales, 2010-2013(3).xls title Offenders cautioned for selected offences -2010-13 previous answer version 9230 answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green attachment 1 file name Offenders cautioned(1)(2) for selected offences, by month, England and Wales, 2010-2013(3).xls title Offenders cautioned for selected offences -2010-13
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

64577

registered interest
date	27/06/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits: York
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many families in (a) York Central constituency and (b) York Unitary Authority area received child and working tax credits in 2009 and in each year since.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Hugh Bayley
uin	202934
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2014 answer text <p>The finalised annual award Child and Working Tax Credits statistics for 2012-13 are available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-tax-credits-finalised-award-statistics-geographical-statistics-2012-to-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-tax-credits-finalised-award-statistics-geographical-statistics-2012-to-2013</a></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial"><ins>Since </ins><ins>the original PQ answer was issued, HM Revenue and Customs</ins><ins> have revised figures for finalised Child and Working Tax Credit Statistics for 2012-13. As such, figures in the referenced publication of interest may </ins><ins>have </ins><ins>be</ins><ins>en</ins><ins> subject to change</ins><ins>.</ins></ins></p><p> </p><p>The finalised annual award Child and Working Tax Credits statistics for 2011-12 are available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-tax-credits-finalised-award-statistics-geographical-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-tax-credits-finalised-award-statistics-geographical-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>For the years 2009-10 to 2010-11, please refer to the archived publication webpage:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121106034103/http:/www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/personal-tax-credits/final-award-geog.htm" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121106034103/http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/personal-tax-credits/final-award-geog.htm</a></p><p> </p><p>Table 2 of these publications provide a breakdown of figures by local authority, including York.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 3 of these publications provide a breakdown of figures by parliamentary constituency, including York Central.</p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan question first answered 02/07/2014 14:56:46 question first ministerially corrected 24/03/2015 11:55:28 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes previous answer version 7633 answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	385 label Biography information for Sir Hugh Bayley

64342

registered interest
date	26/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Knee Replacements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS knee replacement operations were carried out in England, by region, in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	202780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p>The attached table shows how many knee replacement operations were carried out in England, by region, in the last three years.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows how many knee replacement revisions were carried out by the National Health Service in England in the last three years. Information relating to how long the average time interval was between total knee replacement and subsequent revision procedures is not held centrally.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Region</p></td><td><p>Full Knee Replacement</p></td><td><p>Only one bone in the knee joint is replaced</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>456</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>825</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Yorkshire And The Humber</p></td><td><p>759</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>551</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>751</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>East Of England</p></td><td><p>733</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>738</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South East Coast</p></td><td><p>673</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South Central</p></td><td><p>670</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>868</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>England Total</p></td><td><p>7,024</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>422</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>704</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Yorkshire And The Humber</p></td><td><p>751</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>547</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>728</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>East Of England</p></td><td><p>612</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>747</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South East Coast</p></td><td><p>613</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South Central</p></td><td><p>576</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>839</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>England Total</p></td><td><p>6,539</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>396</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>759</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Yorkshire And The Humber</p></td><td><p>677</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>572</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>713</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>East Of England</p></td><td><p>596</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>768</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South East Coast</p></td><td><p>584</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South Central</p></td><td><p>545</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>915</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>England Total</p></td><td><p>6,525</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Notes: </em></p><p>1. Finished Consultant Episode (FCE): Both tables show FCEs. An FCE is a continuous period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FCEs are counted against the year in which they end. The figures do not represent the number of different patients, as a person.</p><p>2. The data should not be described as a count of people as the same person may have been admitted on one or more occasion.</p><p>3. †Providers that are not based in England have been removed, and therefore the national totals may not be equal to the sum of the regional totals.</p><p>4. To protect patient confidentiality, figures between 1 and 5 have been replaced with “*” (an asterisk). Where it was still possible to identify figures from the total, additional figures have been replaced with &quot;*”.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 03/07/2014 14:46:03 question first ministerially corrected 28/10/2014 09:31:52 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name PQ202780_PQ202778 - Amended Table.docx title Table previous answer version 7888 answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison attachment 1 file name PQ202780_PQ202778 - Table.docx title Table
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

61553

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Learning Disability: Health Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to ensure that people with learning disabilities are not excluded from NHS England's five-year strategic plan for National Health Service commissioners to improve quality of and access to health care, outlined in Everyone Counts: Planning for Patients 2014/15–2018/19.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hollins
uin	HL322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government's Mandate to NHS England, sets out our ambitions for the health service, which include an objective that NHS England ensures clinical commissioning groups work with local authorities to ensure that vulnerable people, particularly those with learning disabilities and autism, receive safe, appropriate, high quality care. NHS England sets out how it will achieve the objectives in the Mandate in its 2014-15 – 2016-17 business plan. The Government will hold NHS England to account for its achievement.</p><p> </p><p><em>Everyone Counts: Planning for Patients 2014/15 to 2018/19</em>sets out a framework within which commissioners will need to work with providers and partners in local government to develop five year plans to secure the continuity of sustainable high quality care for all. Building on <em>Everyone Counts</em>, NHS England is beginning a programme of work to consider how to improve quality of and access to health care for people with learning disabilities. Within the framework there is specific reference to <em>Transforming Care: A national response to Winterbourne View Hospital. </em>This is a non-negotiable item that NHS England expects to be part of every relationship between commissioners and providers. As part of this, clinical commissioning groups, local authorities and specialised commissioners should work together to implement the core specification which describes the core principles that must be present in all education, health and social care services for children, young people, adults and older people with learning disabilities and/or autism who either display, or are at risk of displaying, behaviour that challenges.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is committed to work to reduce premature mortality amongst people with learning disability, including actions in response to the Confidential Inquiry into Premature Deaths of People with Learning Disabilities.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 26/06/2014 14:01:36 question first ministerially corrected 26/06/2014 15:34:49 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe previous answer version 6304 answering member printed Earl Baldwin of Bewdley answering member 3446
tabling member	4190 label Biography information for Baroness Hollins

61620

registered interest
date	12/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Army: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will estimate the (a) monthly and (b) total additional cost to date for paying Capita as if it was meeting quantity and quality standards for recruitments in the Recruiting Partnering Project.
tabling member constituency	Moray
tabling member printed	Angus Robertson
uin	200381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>Between its launch in March 2012 to 31 March 2014, the Army has paid Capita £100.380 million for the Recruiting Partnering Project. The Recruiting Partnering Project remains within the overall agreed cost of £1.360 <ins class="ministerial">billion. </ins><del class="ministerial">million.</del><br /><br />My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence (Philip Hammond) set out on 14 January 2014 the cost of Capita providing a new Information Technology platform as part of the Recruiting Partnering Project (Official Report: column 716). At the time, these costs were expected to be around £47.7 million directly linked to the change of hosting provision. Since this statement, these costs have reduced to around £42.9 million. <br /><br />As previously stated by the Secretary of State on 14 January, there has been an additional cost of around £1 million per month to run the Capita system. This includes costs for additional manpower.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 23/06/2014 16:43:56 question first ministerially corrected 01/08/2014 09:48:10 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry previous answer version 4680 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1433 label Biography information for Angus Robertson

61397

registered interest
date	11/06/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports
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 (a) new passports and (b) passport renewals there have been in the last year; and what the annual change in such figures has been.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	200217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>During the period between 1 June 2013 and 31 May 2014, Her Majesty's Passport Office <br />received <del class="ministerial">1,446,983</del> <ins class="ministerial">1,425,885</ins> first time passport applications and <del class="ministerial">4,528,751</del> <ins class="ministerial">4,461,343</ins> passport <br />renewal applications.<br /><br />This compares with 1,346,246 first time applications and 4,036,267 passport <br />renewal applications during the period between 1 June 2012 and 31 May 2013.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 08/07/2014 14:03:02 question first ministerially corrected 02/09/2014 14:35:59 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 8681 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

61513

registered interest
date	11/06/2014
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	European General Court
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will be publishing a response to proposals from the European Court of Justice for new rules of procedure that would permit the General Court to take into account, in actions for annulment, confidential information that has not been shown to some of the parties to the proceedings.
tabling member printed	Lord Pannick
uin	HL291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government issued an Explanatory Memorandum on the 25 <del class="ministerial">May</del> <ins class="ministerial">April</ins> in which it highlighted these proposals as a matter of particular interest. This is a complex and sensitive issue which Governments across the EU are very carefully considering. We are aware of parliamentary interest in this issue and will continue to update on developments. Under the Treaty on European Union national security remains the sole responsibility of each Member State.</p> answering member printed Baroness Warsi question first answered 19/06/2014 11:56:31 question first ministerially corrected 23/07/2014 14:51:10 answering member 3839 label Biography information for Baroness Warsi previous answer version 2243 answering member printed Baroness Warsi answering member 3839 label Biography information for Baroness Warsi
tabling member	3870 label Biography information for Lord Pannick

60619

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Open Prisons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners in an open prison have previously breached a licence condition while released on temporary licence.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	199722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>Keeping the public safe is our priority. That is why this Government has taken action on both releases on temporary licence (ROTL) and absconds from prison.</p><p> </p><p>We commissioned a fundamental review of ROTL policy and practice last year and, in March, announced a package of measures to ensure that the public was properly protected. We have brought forward some of those measures so that they take effect immediately; particularly with more serious offenders, where the review concluded that an enhanced risk assessment approach should be taken.</p><p> </p><p>Absconds have reached record lows under this Government but each incident is taken seriously. Immediate changes have already been ordered to tighten up the system as a matter of urgency. Prisoners will no longer be transferred to open conditions or allowed out on temporary release if they have previously absconded.</p><p><ins class="ministerial">My officials are currently working to provide the information requested. I will write to you in due course. </ins></p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 16/06/2014 16:59:29 question first ministerially corrected 09/10/2014 13:55:00 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright previous answer version 1732 answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

60645

registered interest
date	09/06/2014
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	New Businesses: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many Start Up Loans applications have been supported by each approved provider of Start Up Loans mentoring services in each region in which the new company was based or planned to be based.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	199740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>All loan recipients in all regions receiving a start-up loan are offered mentoring, although take up of support services is not a mandatory condition of making the facility available. The number of loans made in each region will be placed in the Libraries of the House.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/06/2014 16:49:08 question first ministerially corrected 17/06/2014 14:06:28 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock attachment 1 file name aTTACHMENT TO 199740.docx title Start up Loan applications previous answer version 1697 answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon answering member 88 attachment 1 file name aTTACHMENT TO 199740.docx title Start up Loan applications
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins