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941993

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Firearms
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	Whether his Department plans to support the arming of rural police officers; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
uin	906468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>It is for chief officers to determine the number of armed officers in their areas, based on a thorough assessment of threat and risk. The policy in this country has long been that the police should not generally be armed. This is vital in promoting good relations with the public and the community they serve.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 16/07/2018 15:54:48 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

941994

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services and Police: Cooperation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps his Department is taking to encourage greater collaboration between the police and fire services.
tabling member constituency	North East Derbyshire
tabling member printed	Lee Rowley
uin	906469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government is working with police and fire services to implement provisions in the Policing and Crime Act 2017 that enable collaboration to go further and faster, including the new statutory duty to collaborate and enabling PCCs to take on fire and rescue governance, where a local case exists.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 16/07/2018 15:52:21 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley

941995

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to ensure that illegal migrants cannot profit from working in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Walsall North
tabling member printed	Eddie Hughes
uin	906470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>In the Immigration Act 2016, we made illegal working a criminal offence so that wages can be seized as proceeds of crime and introduced tougher sanctions on rogue employers. We have also recently introduced additional safeguards to protect legal migrants seeking employment who do not have the necessary documentation to establish their lawful immigration status.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 16/07/2018 15:50:38 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4635 label Biography information for Eddie Hughes

941996

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to ensure that illegal migrants cannot profit from working in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Halesowen and Rowley Regis
tabling member printed	James Morris
uin	906471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>In the Immigration Act 2016, we made illegal working a criminal offence so that wages can be seized as proceeds of crime and introduced tougher sanctions on rogue employers. We have also recently introduced additional safeguards to protect legal migrants seeking employment who do not have the necessary documentation to establish their lawful immigration status.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 16/07/2018 15:51:32 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	3992 label Biography information for James Morris

941997

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to ensure that the UK's security services have the resources required to counter terrorism.
tabling member constituency	Torbay
tabling member printed	Kevin Foster
uin	906473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>In 2015, the Government committed to spending more than £2 billion per year on counter-terrorism and investing 30% more over the Spending Review period, including £1.4 billion investment in new capabilities for the security and intelligence agencies.</p><p>In light of the changing threat picture set out in our strengthened and updated CONTEST strategy, we have also allocated an additional £50m funding to Counter-Terrorism Policing this year.</p> answering member constituency Bromsgrove answering member printed Sajid Javid question first answered 16/07/2018 15:47:32 answering member 3945 label Biography information for Sir Sajid Javid
tabling member	4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster

941998

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Shoplifting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to reduce shop theft.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	David Hanson
uin	906474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>I chair the National Retail Crime Steering Group with the British Retail Consortium. This brings retailers and the police together to ensure an effective response to crimes affecting retailers and includes work to reduce shop thefts.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 16/07/2018 15:45:54 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

939879

registered interest
date	12/07/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Hope Valley Line
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the timeframe is for the start of the Northern Hub related Hope Valley line improvement scheme.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	163510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2018 answer text <p>Network Rail have completed the single option design for the railway infrastructure scheme proposed in the Hope Valley and are actively working on plans to progress the work. The current funding envelope for enhancements made provision for this scheme to be delivered in the period between 2019-2024. The timetable for further work on this scheme will be announced in due course.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 19/07/2018 10:07:16 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

939881

registered interest
date	12/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Capita: Translation Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) objectives and (b) milestones his Department set relating to the decision to tender all justice related interpretation services to Capita Translation and Interpreting between 2012 and 2016; and what assessment he has made of the (a) value for money for the public purse, (b) effect on the conduct of criminal trials and (c) extent to which those (i) objectives and (ii) milestones were met.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	163549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2018 answer text <p>The sourcing strategy for language services, which resulted in the award of a contract to Applied Language Solutions in August 2011 (subsequently acquired by Capita Translation and Interpreting (CTI)) contained several high-level objectives, namely to:</p><ul><li>Improve the quality and consistency of service standards;</li><li>Improve value for money; and</li><li>Improve contract monitoring arrangements.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Milestones were set by the Ministry of Justice relating to relevant stages of the sourcing and procurement process, namely:</p><ul><li>Issue of Pre-Qualification Questionnaire;</li><li>Supplier Conference;</li><li>Invitation to Participate in Dialogue;</li><li>Invitation to Submit Outline Solution;</li><li>Invitation to Submit Detailed Solution;</li><li>Invitation to Submit Final Tender;</li><li>Selection of Preferred Bidders; and</li><li>Contract Award.</li></ul><p> </p><p>These objectives and milestones were met, leading to contract award in August 2011.</p><p> </p><p>It has previously been estimated that the contract enabled the Ministry to spend £48m less than it would otherwise have spent under legacy arrangements which were regarded as costly and inefficient.</p><p> </p><p>CTI performance initially fell short of contractual requirements and measures were implemented to address root causes which delivered improvements and increased fulfilment rates. These are set out within the published Criminal Court Statistics (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-court-statistics</a> ).</p><p> </p><p>Ineffective trial rates attributed to interpreter availability have been consistently low over the contracted period. Published statistics for ineffective trial rates show that a lack of interpreter was the reason for 0.4% of trials being relisted in the magistrates' court in 2012 reducing to 0.3% in 2014, and 0.1% in the Crown Court throughout the course of the contract.</p><p> </p><p>Robust contract monitoring and management arrangements were in place throughout the life of the CTI contract, including performance reporting and provision of comprehensive management information, monthly contract management meetings, and application of an improved performance management (key performance indicators and service credits) regime.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 20/07/2018 09:41:08 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

939882

registered interest
date	12/07/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Magistrates' Courts: Convictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, with reference to tables three and seven of the Crown Prosecution Service Annual Report 2016-17, what the reasons are for conviction rates in Magistrates Courts being higher than those in Crown Court; and what assessment his Department has made of the reasons for defendants having a 25 per cent greater chance of acquittal at a Crown Court than at a Magistrates Court.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	163550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>The latest annual report and accounts are now available on the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) Website. The table below shows that, during each of the last four most recently available years, conviction rates have remained stable in both magistrates’ courts and at the Crown Court.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2014-2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Magistrates' Courts Conviction Rate</p></td><td><p>84.2%</p></td><td><p>83.8%</p></td><td><p>84.8%</p></td><td><p>84.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Crown Court Conviction Rate</p></td><td><p>79.4%</p></td><td><p>79.2%</p></td><td><p>78.9%</p></td><td><p>79.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Data Source: CPS Management Information System</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Cases prosecuted at magistrates’ courts tend to comprise minor or less serious offences with a greater proportion of defendants pleading guilty (78.0% during 2017-18, compared to 70.9% at the Crown Court). By way of example, motoring cases comprise over 21% of cases in the magistrates’ courts but only 2% in the Crown Court.</p><p>In contrast, a greater proportion of cases triable on indictment at the Crown Court are serious and complex in nature, and defendants are more likely to plead not guilty. During the most recent year, 16.8% of prosecutions at the Crown Court resulted in a trial, with a conviction after contest rate of 54.0%, compared to 9.1% of magistrates’ courts prosecutions and a conviction after contest rate of 62.1%.</p> answering member constituency Torridge and West Devon answering member printed Mr Geoffrey Cox question first answered 25/07/2018 08:18:50 answering member 1508 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Cox
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

939884

registered interest
date	12/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Social Rented Housing: Electrical Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment has he made of trend in compliance with electrical safety regulations in the social rented sector.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	163513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>The English Housing Survey includes information on the presence of five electrical safety features: modern PVC wiring, modern earthing, modern consumer unit casing, miniature circuit breakers and residual current devices. The latest English Housing Survey stock condition report was published 12 July this year and is available at- <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-housing-survey-2016-stock-condition" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-housing-survey-2016-stock-condition</a>. The report finds that, in the social rented sector 25.2 per cent of homes did not have all five electrical safety features.</p><p>The Government has been listening to social housing residents and landlords in a programme of visits across England to better understand the issues and concerns they have, including concerns around electrical safety.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 25/07/2018 10:06:31 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey