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1676663

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date	08/12/2023
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	Universal Credit: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children were living in households (a) in receipt of Universal Credit and (b) subject to deductions in each parliamentary constituency in the most recent month for which data is available; what the (i) total and (ii) average sum of Universal Credit deductions was for households with children in each constituency; and what proportion of those sums was deducted to repay advance payments.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	5974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2023 answer text <p><strong>The requested information is provided in the separate spreadsheet and are subject to the following caveats:</strong></p><p> </p><p>1. For low level geography: volumes have been rounded to the nearest 100, total amounts have been rounded to the nearest £1,000 and average amounts have been rounded to the nearest £1. For totals at GB level: volumes have been rounded to the nearest 100,000, total amounts have been rounded to the nearest £1,000,000 and average amount has been rounded to the nearest £1. Proportions have been rounded to the nearest percentage point.</p><p>2. The sum of individual low level geographies may not sum to the total figure due to rounding.</p><p>3. Deductions include advance repayments, third party deductions and all other deductions, but exclude sanctions and fraud penalties which are reductions of benefit rather than deductions.</p><p>4. Children are defined here as being people who are declared as living in the same household as the UC claimant(s) and who are under the age of 20. The number of children may not be equal to the number of dependent children in the household who are eligible for child element for various reasons. This includes children over the age of 16 in non-advanced full-time education, looked-after children and, other young people living in multigenerational households whose parents are not the claimant. Those affected by the policy to provide support for a maximum of two children may also have a larger number of children compared to the number of children entitled to the child element in their household.</p><p>5. Figures are provisional and are subject to retrospective change as later data becomes available.</p><p>6. The ‘unknown' parliamentary constituency equates to 0.4% of all households and relates to households for which a constituency could not be determined due to incomplete postcode information.</p><p>7. Data for August 2023 has been provided in line with the latest available UC Household Statistics.</p><p>8. Claim numbers and numbers of children on UC will not match official statistics caseloads due to methodological differences.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 13/12/2023 11:45:01 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill attachment 1 file name Spreadsheet.xlsx title Spreadsheet
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1677625

registered interest
date	07/12/2023
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Conversion Therapy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when she plans to publish the responses to her Department's consultation on banning conversion therapy.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	900634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2023 answer text <p>The Government remains absolutely committed to taking action to tackle abhorrent conversion 'therapy' practices. These acts are aimed at changing someone else's identity, whether that be to or from being LGBT, and have no place in UK society.</p><p>Equality Ministers and officials have been carefully considering the issue, including all of the responses we received to our public consultation. This is to ensure any action we take is robust, measured and avoids any unintended consequences on parents, clinicians, teachers or religious groups.</p><p>A draft Bill setting out our approach will be published for pre-legislative scrutiny by a joint Committee of both Houses in the new year, alongside the Government’s response to the consultation.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 13/12/2023 17:05:31 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1674595

registered interest
date	01/12/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Packaging: Recycling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will undertake an impact assessment of the cumulative impact of extended producer responsibility, the Deposit Return Scheme, and the Packaging Recovery Note system on the brewing and hospitality sector.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	4856
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2023 answer text <p>Final Impact Assessments will be published for the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) to allow us to update the analysis to accurately reflect the January 2023 government response, and for extended producer responsibility for packaging (pEPR). These impact assessments will assess the impact on businesses which includes these sectors.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 11/12/2023 16:48:36 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1674596

registered interest
date	01/12/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Packaging: Recycling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has created a final programme-wide business case for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), the Consistent Collections Project, and the Deposit Return Scheme for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	4857
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>This is in progress. The Collection and Packaging Reforms Programme Business Case (PBC) is being prepared for Defra Investment Committee consideration early in the new year.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 19/12/2023 14:05:54 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1674597

registered interest
date	01/12/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Packaging: Recycling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will publish detailed delivery plans for (a) Extended Producer Responsibility, (b) Consistent Collections, and (c) the Deposit Return Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	4858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2023 answer text <p>An updated, outward facing roadmap for these reforms will be shared with impacted stakeholders early next year. This sits alongside a comprehensive stakeholder communications and engagement approach which includes monthly delivery forums and a fortnightly newsletter to ensure access to detailed delivery information.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 11/12/2023 16:42:06 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1674598

registered interest
date	01/12/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Waste Management
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish proposals for refill/reuse obligations as part of the Government’s waste and resource strategy.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	4859
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2023 answer text <p>The introduction of Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging, as part of the Collection and Packaging reforms, will move the full cost of dealing with packaging waste generated by households from local taxpayers and councils to businesses that handle and use packaging (applying the ‘polluter-pays principle’). This will encourage businesses to think carefully about how much packaging they use and how easy it is to recycle. It will also encourage use of refillable and reusable packaging which will have a great role to play in driving down unnecessary waste.</p><p> </p><p>We are working with WRAP to identify and analyse measures that could be used to encourage greater use of refillable and reuseable packaging. We remain committed to introducing refill/reuse obligations and will bring forward our proposals shortly.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 11/12/2023 16:37:19 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1674599

registered interest
date	01/12/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Packaging: Recycling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has taken recent steps to identify measures that could be used to encourage greater use of (a) refillable and (b) reusable packaging.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	4860
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2023 answer text <p>We are working with WRAP to identify and analyse measures that could be used to encourage greater use of refillable and reuseable packaging. We remain committed to introducing refill/reuse obligations and will bring forward our proposals shortly.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 11/12/2023 16:31:50 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1674478

registered interest
date	30/11/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Accommodation: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost was of a prison place in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	4725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2023 answer text <p>An average cost per prisoner, costs per prison place and overall prison unit costs for each private and public sector prison in England and Wales are routinely published by His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. This information is produced on an annual basis and is published after the end of each financial year.</p><p>Information on prison expenditure can be accessed in the Prison and Probation Performance Statistics pages for each financial year on the <a href="http://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a> website that can be accessed on this link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/prison-and-probation-trusts-performance-statistics" target="_blank">Prison and Probation Performance Statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>The average cost per prisoner place for the last five years is provided in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Average Cost Per Prisoner</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>£37,543</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>£41,136</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>£42,670</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>£48,409</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>£47,434</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The 2022/23 figures have not yet been published.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 06/12/2023 12:37:28 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1674479

registered interest
date	30/11/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Crown Court: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost of a sitting day in the crown court was for each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	4726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2023 answer text <p>The estimated average total cost of a Crown Court sitting day in each of last five financial years is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>The average daily cost of a crown court trial is not separable from average cost of a Crown Court sitting day. However, the full average cost of a trial cannot be reliably quantified from available management information sources.</p><p> </p><p>These costs include all relevant operational costs borne by HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS), including a proportional share of the cost of operating the court building. However, other HMCTS corporate overheads such as IT and headquarters functions are excluded. Costs borne by other agencies in the criminal justice system (e.g. spending on legal aid, or by the Crown Prosecution Service) are also excluded.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>Average cost of a Crown Court sitting day (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>2,719</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>3,215</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>3,562</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>3,027</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022-23</p></td><td><p>3,036</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 4727 question first answered 05/12/2023 16:51:45 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1674480

registered interest
date	30/11/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Crown Court: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average (a) daily and (b) annual cost of a trial in the crown court was in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	4727
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2023 answer text <p>The estimated average total cost of a Crown Court sitting day in each of last five financial years is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>The average daily cost of a crown court trial is not separable from average cost of a Crown Court sitting day. However, the full average cost of a trial cannot be reliably quantified from available management information sources.</p><p> </p><p>These costs include all relevant operational costs borne by HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS), including a proportional share of the cost of operating the court building. However, other HMCTS corporate overheads such as IT and headquarters functions are excluded. Costs borne by other agencies in the criminal justice system (e.g. spending on legal aid, or by the Crown Prosecution Service) are also excluded.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>Average cost of a Crown Court sitting day (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>2,719</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>3,215</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>3,562</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>3,027</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022-23</p></td><td><p>3,036</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 4726 question first answered 05/12/2023 16:51:45 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham