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672107

registered interest
date	12/01/2017
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	Flood Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 December 2016 to Question 58001, on flood control, what her most recent estimate is of the number of lead flood authorities which have published a completed local flood risk strategy since 31 March 2016.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	59819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2017 answer text <p>Lead Local Flood Authorities (LLFAs) report their progress with local flood risk management strategies annually. This data will next be collected in the spring and will provide an update on progress as of 31 March 2017. New data on those who have published a completed strategy since March 2016 is therefore not available.</p><p> </p><p>Until this time we are specifically monitoring the situation of those 12 LLFAs that as of 31 March 2016 had not yet consulted on a draft strategy through the Regional Flood and Coastal Committees and the Environment Agency. As a result of this, I am aware this figure has now reduced to 8 and I have recently written to the 8 authorities encouraging them to complete their strategy as quickly as possible.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 16/01/2017 12:42:38 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

672143

registered interest
date	12/01/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Higher Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November 2016 to Question 54580, what specific proposals are being considered to strengthen the system to support the best universities to attract the best talent; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	59882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2017 answer text <p>We will be shortly be seeking views on how we can support the sector to continue to attract the brightest and best.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 16/01/2017 18:10:05 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

672145

registered interest
date	12/01/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she took to consult stakeholder bodies and the public on developing a sustainable approach to immigration.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	59714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to an immigration policy that works in the interests of the whole of the United Kingdom. We regularly meet and consult key stakeholders during policy development.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 16/01/2017 18:10:53 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

672152

registered interest
date	12/01/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests were (a) made and (b) accepted for transfer of an asylum application from the UK to another country under (i) article 8, (ii) article 9, (iii) article 10 and (iv) article 17 of the Dublin III Regulation during the last 12 months for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	59796
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2017 answer text <p>At present we do not publish data on cases covered by the Dublin Regulation. Eurostat, the EU’s statistics agency, regularly publishes Member State figures, which you can find at</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Dublin_statistics_on_countries_responsible_for_asylum_application" target="_blank">http://ec.europa.eu/<strong>eurostat</strong>/statistics-explained/index.php/Dublin_statistics_on_countries_responsible_for_asylum_application</a></p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 59797 59798 59799 question first answered 16/01/2017 18:14:41 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

672153

registered interest
date	12/01/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests were (a) made and (b) accepted for transfer of an asylum application to the UK under (i) article 8, (ii) article 9, (iii) article 10 and (iv) article 17 of the Dublin III Regulation during the last 12 months for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	59797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2017 answer text <p>At present we do not publish data on cases covered by the Dublin Regulation. Eurostat, the EU’s statistics agency, regularly publishes Member State figures, which you can find at</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Dublin_statistics_on_countries_responsible_for_asylum_application" target="_blank">http://ec.europa.eu/<strong>eurostat</strong>/statistics-explained/index.php/Dublin_statistics_on_countries_responsible_for_asylum_application</a></p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 59796 59798 59799 question first answered 16/01/2017 18:14:41 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

672154

registered interest
date	12/01/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests the Government made under the Dublin III Regulation for an asylum application to be transferred to another country; and how many of those requests were agreed to during the last 12 months for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	59798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2017 answer text <p>At present we do not publish data on cases covered by the Dublin Regulation. Eurostat, the EU’s statistics agency, regularly publishes Member State figures, which you can find at</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Dublin_statistics_on_countries_responsible_for_asylum_application" target="_blank">http://ec.europa.eu/<strong>eurostat</strong>/statistics-explained/index.php/Dublin_statistics_on_countries_responsible_for_asylum_application</a></p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 59796 59797 59799 question first answered 16/01/2017 18:14:41 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

672155

registered interest
date	12/01/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests the Government made under the Dublin III Regulation for an asylum application to be transferred to another country; and how many of those requests were agreed to during the last 12 months for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	59799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2017 answer text <p>At present we do not publish data on cases covered by the Dublin Regulation. Eurostat, the EU’s statistics agency, regularly publishes Member State figures, which you can find at</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Dublin_statistics_on_countries_responsible_for_asylum_application" target="_blank">http://ec.europa.eu/<strong>eurostat</strong>/statistics-explained/index.php/Dublin_statistics_on_countries_responsible_for_asylum_application</a></p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 59796 59797 59798 question first answered 16/01/2017 18:14:41 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

672156

registered interest
date	12/01/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refusals of an application for asylum resulted in the right of appeal being non-suspensive in each of the last three years; and in asylum cases where a right of appeal is non-suspensive, how many appeals were (a) submitted from outside the UK, (b) successful, (c) refused and (d) outstanding, in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	59800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office publish the number of main claimants refused asylum and eligible for the non-suspensive appeals process each quarter in table as_13_q of the quarterly Immigration Statistics release. The latest figures are available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/572377/asylum3-q3-2016-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/572377/asylum3-q3-2016-tables.ods</a></p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 16/01/2017 18:08:38 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

671645

registered interest
date	11/01/2017
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	CPS Direct
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the average call (a) answer time and (b) length was for CPS Direct in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
tabling member printed	Karl Turner
uin	59514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2017 answer text <p>The call handling system used by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) provides precise timings on queuing time of all calls received. Figures on length of call have been estimated from available data.</p><p>In 2012-13 the average answer time was 2 minutes 43 seconds; 2013-14 4 minutes 18; 2014-15 12 minutes 34; 2015-16 16 minutes 05 and 2016-17 25 minutes 03.</p><p>For the corresponding years the length of call has reduced from 39 minutes 15 seconds in 2012, 29 minutes 31 in 2013, 26 minutes 52 in 2014, 24 minutes 51 in 2015 and 23 minutes 02 in 2016.</p><p>Throughout this period there have been many changes to the process of CPS authorisation of police charging making year-on-year comparisons potentially misleading.</p><p>Issues which adversely affected efficiency in the summer of 2016 have now been addressed and the current daily average answering times are below 6 minutes.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 16/01/2017 16:40:20 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

671651

registered interest
date	11/01/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit: Overpayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) working tax credit and (b) child tax credit claims have been overpaid in the most recent 12 months for which data is available; what the total value of such overpayments was; what the (i) smallest, (ii) average and (iii) largest such overpayment was; and how many such overpayments have been overturned.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	59694
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2017 answer text <p>Due to the nature of Tax Credits payments it is not possible to divide overpayments between Working Tax Credits and Child Tax Credits.</p><p> </p><p>Figures on the number of overpaid Working Tax Credits and Child Tax Credits claims in 2014-15 and the aggregate amount can be found on page 8 of the Child and Working Tax Credits, Finalised Annual Awards, Supplement on Payments National Statistics. This is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/525468/cwtc_awards_sup.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/525468/cwtc_awards_sup.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The distribution by value of overpayments and underpayments is shown in table 3 of the same document.</p><p> </p><p>The figures for overpayments in 2014-15 are based on finalised award data. The vast majority of disputes regarding entitlement occur before the end of the finalisation process.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 16/01/2017 16:11:12 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead