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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	Prisons: Offensive Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents were recorded of knives or other weapons being confiscated by staff in each prison in England and Wales in each year between 2011 and 2013.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	203140
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>Prisons deploy a comprehensive range of robust searching and security techniques to detect, deter and disrupt the supply of unauthorised items, including weapons, both at the point of entry to the prison or concealed within the prison.</p><p> </p><p>The number of incidents recorded of knives or other weapons being confiscated by staff, and how many prisoners have been found in possession of knives or other weapons, in each prison in England and Wales in each year between 2011 and 2013 is recorded on a central incident reporting system, but not in a discrete category. In order to establish the number of recorded confiscations or possessions for the period in question would require the interrogation of over 30,000 individual electronic incident files. This could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 203141 question first answered 07/07/2014 16:59:56 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington

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date	12/03/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
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house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Darlington constituency currently receive independent living fund payments.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Jenny Chapman
uin	191710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Independent Living Fund records data by post code or local authority rather than by constituency and therefore, does not hold the information in the format requested. As at 13 March 2014 there are 63 ILF recipients in the area covered by Darlington Borough Council. </p><p> </p><p>The ILF publishes data by local authority quarterly on its website: <a href="http://www.dwp.gov.uk/ilf/publications/corporate-publications/statistics/index.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.dwp.gov.uk/ilf/publications/corporate-publications/statistics/index.shtml</a></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 18/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	3972 label Biography information for Baroness Chapman of Darlington