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90941

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Bail: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful appeals against bail were made by prosecutors in Crown courts since 3 December 2012.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	208542
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains no central record of the number or outcomes of appeals against bail conducted by the CPS in Crown courts. This information could only be obtained by examining all prosecution files maintained during the requested period, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 11/09/2014 12:51:28 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

90942

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Slavery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, on how many occasions in each region the Crown Prosecution Service has issued a charging authority denied decision against a police request to charge under section 4 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004 since 2004.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	208607
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains no central record of the offences, category of offences or a breakdown of the age of victims, on cases referred to the CPS for a charging decision. This information could only be obtained by examining all of the files sent to the CPS for charging advice, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 208608 question first answered 13/10/2014 14:44:26 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

90943

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Slavery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, on how many occasions the Crown Prosecution Service London region has issued a charging authority denied decision against a police request to charge under section 4 of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004 where the victim was under 18 years of age in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	208608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains no central record of the offences, category of offences or a breakdown of the age of victims, on cases referred to the CPS for a charging decision. This information could only be obtained by examining all of the files sent to the CPS for charging advice, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 208607 question first answered 13/10/2014 14:44:26 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

90944

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Slavery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, on how many occasions in each region the Crown Prosecution Service has issued a charging authority denied decision against a police request to charge under sections 57, 58 and 59 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	208609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains no central record of the offences, category of offences, or a breakdown of the age of victims, on cases referred to the CPS for a charging decision. This information could only be obtained by examining all of the files sent to the CPS for charging advice, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 208610 question first answered 13/10/2014 14:48:31 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

90945

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Slavery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, on how many occasions in each region the Crown Prosecution Service has issued a charging authority denied decision against a police request to charge under sections 57, 58 and 59 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 where the victim was under 18 years in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Wigan
tabling member printed	Lisa Nandy
uin	208610
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains no central record of the offences, category of offences, or a breakdown of the age of victims, on cases referred to the CPS for a charging decision. This information could only be obtained by examining all of the files sent to the CPS for charging advice, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 208609 question first answered 13/10/2014 14:48:31 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4082 label Biography information for Lisa Nandy

90946

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Apprentices: Ashfield
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many apprentices there were in Ashfield constituency in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	208541
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2014 answer text <p>Information on the number of apprenticeship starts by parliamentary constituency is published in a supplementary table to a Statistical First Release (SFR):</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/324021/apprenticeships-starts-by-geography-learner-demographics-and-sector-subject-area.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/324021/apprenticeships-starts-by-geography-learner-demographics-and-sector-subject-area.xls</a></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 01/10/2014 12:58:19 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

90947

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Minimum Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many employers have been issued with a Notice of Underpayment since 1 October 2013; and of those how many have been identified under the Department's National Minimum Wage naming scheme.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	208599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Government is committed to increasing compliance with minimum wage legislation and the effective enforcement of it. Everyone who is entitled to the minimum wage should receive it.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notices of Underpayment (NOU) have been issued in 571 cases where investigations were completed between 1 October 2013 and 31 July 2014. 118 of these were for investigations that commenced on or after 1 October 2013 and were therefore issued under the new scheme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Of these, the Government has so far named 30 employers under the revised scheme. Between them they owed workers a total of over £50,000 in arrears and have been charged financial penalties totalling over £24,000. Some employers may also not be named if they make representations that fall under the very exceptional circumstances of the scheme or if they have arrears of £100 or less. However the vast majority of employers issued with a notice of underpayment will be named and shamed once the time limits for appeals have expired.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 11/09/2014 15:11:27 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

90948

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Vocational Guidance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effect on young people in (a) Wirral, (b) Liverpool City Region and (c) England of devolving the duty to deliver careers guidance.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	208499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not hold information about the impact of devolving the duty on young people in Wirral or the Liverpool City region specifically.</p><p>Since 2012, all maintained schools in England have been legally required to secure independent careers guidance for their pupils. The decision to devolve this responsibility to schools was made in light of evidence that the previous Connexions Service was not meeting young people’s needs.</p><p>In 2013, Ofsted’s study of the early implementation of this duty found that much of schools’ provision was not yet good enough. It also found that young people needed more opportunities to find out about careers from employers.</p><p>In response the Government published an Inspiration Vision statement and new statutory guidance and departmental advice on careers guidance and inspiration, which is effective from September 2014. This provides a clear framework and practical support for schools to help them inspire their pupils through more contact with the world of work. Ofsted is now giving careers guidance a higher priority in school inspections and we will work with them to monitor carefully the impact of the statutory guidance and the wider improvements that government has put in place.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 11/09/2014 16:43:23 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

90950

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to make it easier for small businesses to access the tendering process for government contracts.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	208517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>To make it easier for small businesses to access the tendering process for government contracts, we have removed unnecessary bureaucracy such as pre-qualification questionnaires from low value central Government contracts. All central Government procurements over £10k must now be advertised on Contracts Finder, which has introduced unprecedented transparency to the range of opportunities available.</p><p>In addition, the Government’s appointment of Crown Representatives for SMEs and voluntary bodies has ensured that the voice of both SMES and voluntary sector organisations is heard inside Whitehall.</p><p>Our ‘Mystery Shopper’ scheme allows suppliers to report bad procurement practice, and we have published a series of “top tips” videos to help SMEs and voluntary organisations pitch for and win government contracts.</p><p>Building on these reforms, we are now taking forward Lord Young’s recommendations to create an SME-friendly ‘single market’ for public procurement including through the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill.</p><p> </p><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 13/10/2014 16:25:35 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

90951

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Voluntary Work: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have participated in National Citizen Service schemes in (a) England and (b) North Swindon in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	208518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2014 answer text <p>National Citizen Service has been run in England since 2011. In the first year of pilots 8,434 took part and in the second 25,377. In 2013’s session there were 39,994 participants.</p><p>The 2014 NCS programme is ongoing and the number of participants will be reported as part of an independent evaluation following the conclusion of the programme.</p><p>Details of participation rates have been held at local authority level since 2012. In Wiltshire there were 69 participants in 2012 and 174 in 2013’s session.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed Mr Brooks Newmark question first answered 10/09/2014 15:50:38 answering member 1488 label Biography information for Mr Brooks Newmark
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson