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416175

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date	04/09/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made on reducing Class A drug use among young people.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	8500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p>There has been a long term downward trend in overall drug use over the last decade including among young people aged 11-15 and young adults aged 16-24. However, we continue to be concerned about the harms caused by drug misuse, including ecstasy and other Class A drugs, which is why they are illegal.</p><p>The UK’s approach on drugs remains clear: we must prevent drug use in our communities, help dependent individuals recover, while ensuring our drugs laws are enforced. We have recently refreshed our approach to reducing the demand for drugs which includes investing in a range of evidence-based programmes, which have a positive impact on young people and adults, giving them the confidence, resilience and risk management skills to resist drug use.</p><p>For example: • we have launched a new online resilience building resource, ‘Rise Above’, aimed at 11- to 16-year-olds, which provides tools to help develop skills to make positive choices for their health, including avoiding drug use;</p><p>• we have developed evidence-based online tools for educators and commissioners including the Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention Information Service (ADEPIS) which provides practical advice and tools based on the best international evidence, including briefing sheets for teachers; and</p><p>• Public Health England has developed its role in supporting local areas: sharing evidence to support commissioning and the delivery of effective public health prevention activities; and launching toolkits to support local areas’ responses on specific issues around new psychoactive substances and other drug groups.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 8916 question first answered 08/09/2015 17:10:48 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

416216

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Ecstasy: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what effect recent findings of the Crime Survey for England and Wales on ecstasy use among 16 to 24 years olds will have on her Department's drugs policy; and what steps she is taking to reduce ecstasy use among young people
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	8916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p>There has been a long term downward trend in overall drug use over the last decade including among young people aged 11-15 and young adults aged 16-24. However, we continue to be concerned about the harms caused by drug misuse, including ecstasy and other Class A drugs, which is why they are illegal.</p><p>The UK’s approach on drugs remains clear: we must prevent drug use in our communities, help dependent individuals recover, while ensuring our drugs laws are enforced. We have recently refreshed our approach to reducing the demand for drugs which includes investing in a range of evidence-based programmes, which have a positive impact on young people and adults, giving them the confidence, resilience and risk management skills to resist drug use.</p><p>For example: • we have launched a new online resilience building resource, ‘Rise Above’, aimed at 11- to 16-year-olds, which provides tools to help develop skills to make positive choices for their health, including avoiding drug use;</p><p>• we have developed evidence-based online tools for educators and commissioners including the Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention Information Service (ADEPIS) which provides practical advice and tools based on the best international evidence, including briefing sheets for teachers; and</p><p>• Public Health England has developed its role in supporting local areas: sharing evidence to support commissioning and the delivery of effective public health prevention activities; and launching toolkits to support local areas’ responses on specific issues around new psychoactive substances and other drug groups.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 8500 question first answered 08/09/2015 17:10:48 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

416359

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Safety Measures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has published for police services on carrying throw ropes in police vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	8617
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office has issued no guidance to the police on carrying throw ropes in police vehicles.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/09/2015 16:59:57 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

416456

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests in connection with firearms there were in (a) Kingston and Surbiton constituency and (b) London in the last three years; and how many such arrests resulted in convictions for which a prison sentence of five years or more was imposed.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	James Berry
uin	8823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office does not collect data on the number of people arrested in connection with firearms. For offences that may or may not involve a firearm (such as robbery) we cannot separately identify those that involved a firearm from those that did not. As a result, we cannot provide numbers of arrests made in connection with firearms. In addition, specific arrests made by the police cannot be linked to convictions and sentences given in court. As a result, we would be unable to say how many of those arrests led to a sentence of five years or more.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/09/2015 17:04:29 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4489 label Biography information for James Berry

416766

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Church Commissioners
answering dept id	9
answering dept short name	Church Commissioners
answering dept sort name	Church Commissioners
hansard heading	Churches: Blackburn
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Meriden, representing the Church Commissioners, which non-redundant Church of England churches in the Diocese of Blackburn (a) have and (b) do not have food bank collection points.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
uin	8578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p><br></p><p>The Diocese of Blackburn works closely with ‘Together Lancashire’, a church-linked social action network run by Church Urban Fund. According to ‘together Lancashire’ there are currently around 36 food banks in the diocese of Blackburn, of which 6 are Trussell Trust foodbanks (Blacburn, Fylde, Ribble Valley, Morecombe Bay, Skelmserdale and Ormskirk). These food banks handed out an estimated 35,000 food parcels in 2014.</p><p><br></p><p>Nearly all these initiatives are church-led (though not necessarily Church of England) projects. A directory and map of food banks in Lancashire (including the unitary authorities of Blackpool and Blackburn &amp; Darwen) is available at: <a href="http://www.cuf.org.uk/node/618257" target="_blank">http://www.cuf.org.uk/node/618257</a></p><p><br></p><p>Separately, a Church in Action survey of Church of England clergy, which was published in January 2015, included a series of questions about church support for food banks. 1,812 church leaders took part in the survey. Of the 39 responses from Blackburn diocese:</p><p><br></p><ul><ul><li><p>31 churches (80%) were involved in some way in supporting a local food bank</p></li><li><p>6 offered church premises for the food bank</p></li><li><p>11 were helping to manage a food bank</p></li><li><p>14 were providing volunteers</p></li><li><p>29 were collecting food</p></li></ul></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Mrs Caroline Spelman question first answered 08/09/2015 16:16:51 answering member 312 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Spelman
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

417396

registered interest
date	01/09/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the change in the number of employment tribunal claims made since July 2013.
tabling member constituency	Livingston
tabling member printed	Hannah Bardell
uin	901230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p>The total number of claims received by the Employment Tribunal in the financial year 2014-2015 was 68% lower than in the financial year 2012-2013, the last full year before the introduction of fees in July 2013. We are currently undertaking a review of the introduction of fees and will announce our findings later this year.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 08/09/2015 16:51:36 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4486 label Biography information for Hannah Bardell

417397

registered interest
date	01/09/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisons: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to improve the provision of education in prisons; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Eddisbury
tabling member printed	Antoinette Sandbach
uin	901234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Increasing numbers of prisoners are engaged in learning but Ofsted Inspections confirm that one in five prisons has an inadequate standard of education provision and another two fifths require improvement. This is why I have asked Dame Sally Coates to chair a review of the quality of education in prisons.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 08/09/2015 16:27:00 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	4506 label Biography information for Antoinette Sandbach

417398

registered interest
date	01/09/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Legal Aid Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to ensure that people eligible for legal aid are able to access such aid.
tabling member constituency	Hackney South and Shoreditch
tabling member printed	Meg Hillier
uin	901231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Government is committed to making sure that those eligible for legal aid have access to quality services. Legal aid is an important part of access to justice and our reforms mean a legally aided lawyer is still available for those who most need one and legal aid is affordable for the hard-working taxpayers who pay for it.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 08/09/2015 16:18:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1524 label Biography information for Dame Meg Hillier

417399

registered interest
date	01/09/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Public Defender Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the (a) cost effectiveness and (b) level of use of the Public Defender Service.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	John Pugh
uin	901235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Public Defender Service (PDS) plays a vital role in ensuring access to justice for those eligible clients who are unable to secure representation. The PDS also support positive change within the Criminal Justice System, assists the Ministry of Justice and Legal Aid Agency colleagues and acts as a test-bed for digital working. As such, the value of the PDS is made up of many factors, not just representation of defendants. Therefore no direct assessment of cost effectiveness or level of use has been made.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 08/09/2015 16:09:37 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1454 label Biography information for John Pugh

417400

registered interest
date	01/09/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the recent investigations into alleged misuse of public money by private providers that held contracts with his Department.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	901229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Responding to three different Contract Management Reviews the department has embarked on a programme of work to improve and provide robust commercial capability, by;</p><p>· Introducing a new operating model and governance processes overseen by an Executive Committee.</p><p>· Improved reporting of contracts to monitor supplier performance, payments and risk.</p><p>· Raising levels of commercial competence, knowledge and skills across all staff.</p><p>These efforts will ensure that the department’s private suppliers are providing value for money at all stages of their delivery.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 08/09/2015 13:48:40 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris