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170939

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date	17/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Administration of Justice
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many resignations have occurred from 2012 to 2014 among all grades in (1) the Police Service, (2) the Prison Officer Service, and (3) the Probation Service.
tabling member printed	Lord Christopher
uin	HL3846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p>The available information collected centrally appears in the tables below.</p><p>Table 1: Number of voluntary resignations in the Police service<sup>1</sup>, by officer rank and police worker type, England and Wales, 2011/12 to 2013/14<sup>2</sup></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>2011/12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Police Officers</p></td><td><p>1,158</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO)</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chief Superintendent</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Superintendent</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chief Inspector</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Inspector</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sergeant</p></td><td><p>135</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Constable</p></td><td><p>983</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Police Staff</p></td><td><p>5,829</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Police Community Support Officer (PCSO)</p></td><td><p>1,787</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Designated officer</p></td><td><p>214</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Traffic Warden</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Special Constable</p></td><td><p>3,872</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>1. Total police officer leavers by rank and gender are published in the Police Workforce, England and Wales, statistical publications.</p><p>Breakdown by leaving type (i.e voluntary resignations) are not regularly published, therefore these figures have not been verified by police forces and are provisional.</p><p> </p><p>2. This table contains full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number, with the exception of special constables where they are provided on a headcount basis.</p><p> </p><p>Source: Home Office</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 2: Number of resignations in the National Offender Management Service (NOMS), National Probation Service (NPS) and Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) resignations, England and Wales, 2012 to 2014</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014(Jan -Sep)<sup>3</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Prison:</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>NOMS (Excluding NPS)<sup>1</sup></p></td><td><p>1050</p></td><td><p>940</p></td><td><p>800</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Probation:</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>NPS<sup>1,2</sup></p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td><p>170</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CRC<sup>2,4,5</sup></p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td><p>240</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>All figures are rounded to the nearest 10, with numbers ending in 5 rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias. As with all HR databases, extracts are taken at a fixed point in time, to ensure consistency of reporting. However the database itself is dynamic, and where updates to the database are made late, subsequent to the taking of the extract, these updates will not be reflected in figures produced by the extract. For this reason, HR data are unlikely to be precisely accurate, and to present unrounded figures would be to overstate the accuracy of the figures. Rounding to 10 accurately depicts the level of certainty that is held with these figures.</p><p>Totals are formed from unrounded parts prior to rounding. For this reason, rounded totals may not equal the sum of their rounded parts.</p><p> </p><p>1. The National Probation Service (NPS) was formed on 1 June 2014 and its staff became civil servants on that date. The NPS is part of NOMS, however figures have been presented separately for NPS</p><p>2. Prior to 1 June 2014, Probation Services were provided by probation trusts that managed staffing locally, and no data on resignations from probation trusts are held centrally.</p><p>3. Figures are only available up to 30 September 2014, the date of the latest publication.</p><p>4. Information provided by CRCs are only available as FTE; otherwise, figures are provided as head count.</p><p>5. The number of CRC resignations provided is complete for all CRCs with the exception of Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire CRC. They were only able to provide leaver data for the Gloucestershire and Wiltshire elements of their CRC in certain months (September 2014 for Gloucestershire and August and September 2014 for Wiltshire).</p><p>Source: NOMS</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 12/01/2015 13:49:46 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3395 label Biography information for Lord Christopher

170957

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Flats: Overcrowding and Sub-letting
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action long-term tenants and leaseholders can take in the case of (1) illegally short-let properties in their block, and (2) over-occupation of small flats.
tabling member printed	Baroness Gardner of Parkes
uin	HL3864
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p>Where a property is believed to be being sub-let illegally, including where an occupation limit is specified for the property which is being exceeded, tenants or leaseholders in the block should familiarise themselves with their tenancy or lease to determine what rights, responsibilities and obligations exist, and consider referring the matter to their landlord to take any remedial action that may be necessary in the first instance.</p><p> </p><p>Where a resident is concerned that a social housing tenancy has been illegally sub-let, they should report the matter to their local council to ask them to investigate the potential social housing fraud.</p><p> </p><p>Councils have a range of powers over housing standards, including unsafe or over-crowded accommodation. These are laid out in our guide for local authorities on dealing with rogue landlords.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dealing-with-rogue-landlords-a-guide-for-local-authorities" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/dealing-with-rogue-landlords-a-guide-for-local-authorities</a></p><p> </p><p>Residents should report such matters to the council if they are concerned about potential breaches.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 12/01/2015 17:23:43 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3596 label Biography information for Baroness Gardner of Parkes

170958

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Leasehold
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action tenants living in flats which are part of a divided house can take where the relationship between tenants and leaseholders has broken down.
tabling member printed	Baroness Gardner of Parkes
uin	HL3865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2015 answer text <p>Where relations between tenants and leaseholders break down, which cannot otherwise be resolved amicably or by alternative dispute resolution, leaseholders are protected by the terms of their lease and the rights, obligations and responsibilities therein. These may include requiring the landlord to enforce the terms of the lease or tenancy in accordance with any obligations that they may have to do so.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 09/01/2015 10:21:01 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3596 label Biography information for Baroness Gardner of Parkes

170962

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Combined Cadet Force
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the expenditure on the combined cadet force for each of the last 25 years for which figures are available.
tabling member printed	Lord Temple-Morris
uin	HL3869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p>For the vast majority of requested years, the information required to verify expenditure on the Combined Cadet Force (CCF) is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p><p>However, extensive work was carried out for the Defence Youth Engagement Review (published in 2011) which confirmed that spending on the CCF in Financial Year (FY) 2009-10 was £26 million. Further analysis, undertaken as part of our recent work on CCF funding, confirmed that spending in FY 2012-13 was £27.7 million.</p> answering member printed Lord Astor of Hever question first answered 12/01/2015 17:39:15 answering member 3428 label Biography information for Lord Astor of Hever
tabling member	267 label Biography information for Lord Temple-Morris

170966

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Council Tax Reduction Schemes
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether there was a cut in funding for Council Tax Support in 2014–15; and whether they have plans to cut funding further in 2015–16.
tabling member printed	Baroness King of Bow
uin	HL3873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>We provided £3.7 billion for localised council tax support in 2013-14 and 2014-15, and will be providing the same amount in 2015-16.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have also provided further central government funding for councils to freeze council tax again in 2015-16. Not only does freezing council tax help all council taxpayers, but it also helps keep down the cost to councils of local council tax support.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Spending on council tax benefit doubled under the last Administration, costing taxpayers £4 billion a year – equivalent to almost £180 a year per household. Our reforms to localise council tax support have given councils direct financial incentives to support local firms, cut fraud and promote local enterprise.Councils now benefit, via the falling cost of local council tax support, from positive action taken to reduce welfare dependency, increase employment and make work pay.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 14/01/2015 17:54:56 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	143 label Biography information for Baroness King of Bow

171037

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
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	Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2014 to Question 217431, if he will make it his policy to record the ethnicity of staff working for companies contracted by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	219119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2015 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) seeks to ensure its procurement policy is aligned with wider Government policy as led by the Crown Commercial Service, part of the Cabinet Office. It is not currently BIS policy to request diversity data of the staff working for companies contracted by the Department, but we will keep this option under review.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 08/01/2015 16:16:13 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

171043

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Telecommunications: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent review he has made of the arrangements that ensure that customers can easily switch contracts between telecom providers.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	219348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2015 answer text We set out our thinking on switching in the Connectivity, Content and Consumers [CCC} Strategy Paper, published in July 2013. In December 2013 Ofcom announced that gaining-provider led (GPL) switching would be mandated for broadband and fixed telephony over the Openreach network. Full implementation of this will be completed by June 2015. In July 2014, Ofcom published a call for inputs (which closed in September) on switching providers of broadband, pay-TV, mobile voice and data services and bundled services, in order to gauge the impact of these processes on consumers’ experience and on competition. Ofcom is conducting further research and holding discussions with industry and consumer organisations. It will publish a document setting out its findings in the first half of 2015 answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 08/01/2015 10:34:16 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

171049

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many retired civil servants have received late pension payments since the spin out of MyCSP in 2012.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	219344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2015 answer text <p>MyCSP was spun-out as a mutual joint venture in May 2012. Mutualising MyCSP was good for staff, taxpayers and for the service they provide to pensioners. MyCSP will almost halve the cost of administering pensions within a decade, while improving services which were variable before. Employees of MyCSP have benefited through dividends, which they have received in both years since mutualisation. Staff survey figures show rising staff engagement and a decline in sickness absence.</p><p>MyCSP Ltd took over administration of the pensioner payroll in September <del class="ministerial">2011</del><ins class="ministerial">2014</ins>. Legacy problems were inherited from the previous supplier, including 5,579 cases where payments had already been delayed or missed by September<ins class="ministerial"> 2014</ins>. MyCSP have now cleared all but 422 of these cases and MyCSP has switched available resources to reduce the remaining backlog as quickly as possible.</p><p>Since October<ins class="ministerial"> 2014</ins> there have been 1197 cases of delayed payment, most of which were the result of ongoing delays of the historic cases inherited from the previous supplier in September<ins class="ministerial"> 2014</ins>.</p><p>Since October<ins class="ministerial"> 2014</ins> 36 overseas pensioners have been awaiting payments. 33 of these are still outstanding because new banking mandates need to be completed to allow processing by the new paying bank.</p><p>MyCSP are doing everything possible to clear all remaining cases where payments are still due but are in many cases dependent on employers or pensioners themselves for the necessary information to do so. Where delayed payment has caused hardship MyCSP have been making emergency interim payments to members. The majority of the scheme’s 658,000 pensioners have been paid accurately and on time since September<ins class="ministerial"> 2014</ins>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 08/01/2015 18:02:36 question first ministerially corrected 09/01/2015 12:34:54 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham previous answer version 37628 answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

171050

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many retired civil servants have not received any pension payments from MyCSP since October 2014.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	219342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2015 answer text <p>MyCSP was spun-out as a mutual joint venture in May 2012. Mutualising MyCSP was good for staff, taxpayers and for the service they provide to pensioners. MyCSP will almost halve the cost of administering pensions within a decade, while improving services which were variable before. Employees of MyCSP have benefited through dividends, which they have received in both years since mutualisation. Staff survey figures show rising staff engagement and a decline in sickness absence.</p><p>MyCSP Ltd took over administration of the pensioner payroll in September 2014. Legacy problems were inherited from the previous supplier, including 5,579 cases where payments had already been delayed or missed by September 2014. MyCSP have now cleared all but 422 of these cases and MyCSP has switched available resources to reduce the remaining backlog as quickly as possible.</p><p>Since October 2014 there have been 1197 cases of delayed payment, most of which were the result of ongoing delays of the historic cases inherited from the previous supplier in September 2014.</p><p>Since October 2014 36 overseas pensioners have been awaiting payments. 33 of these are still outstanding because new banking mandates need to be completed to allow processing by the new paying bank.</p><p>MyCSP are doing everything possible to clear all remaining cases where payments are still due but are in many cases dependent on employers or pensioners themselves for the necessary information to do so. Where delayed payment has caused hardship MyCSP have been making emergency interim payments to members. The majority of the scheme’s 658,000 pensioners have been paid accurately and on time since September 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 08/01/2015 18:02:35 question first ministerially corrected 09/01/2015 09:05:54 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham previous answer version 37580 answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

171051

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many retired civil servants have received late pension payments from MyCSP since October 2014.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	219343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2015 answer text <p>MyCSP was spun-out as a mutual joint venture in May 2012. Mutualising MyCSP was good for staff, taxpayers and for the service they provide to pensioners. MyCSP will almost halve the cost of administering pensions within a decade, while improving services which were variable before. Employees of MyCSP have benefited through dividends, which they have received in both years since mutualisation. Staff survey figures show rising staff engagement and a decline in sickness absence.</p><p>MyCSP Ltd took over administration of the pensioner payroll in September 201<del class="ministerial">1</del><ins class="ministerial">4</ins>. Legacy problems were inherited from the previous supplier, including 5,579 cases where payments had already been delayed or missed by September<ins class="ministerial"> 2014</ins>. MyCSP have now cleared all but 422 of these cases and MyCSP has switched available resources to reduce the remaining backlog as quickly as possible.</p><p>Since October<ins class="ministerial"> 2014</ins> there have been 1197 cases of delayed payment, most of which were the result of ongoing delays of the historic cases inherited from the previous supplier in September<ins class="ministerial"> 2014</ins>.</p><p>Since October<ins class="ministerial"> 2014</ins> 36 overseas pensioners have been awaiting payments. 33 of these are still outstanding because new banking mandates need to be completed to allow processing by the new paying bank.</p><p>MyCSP are doing everything possible to clear all remaining cases where payments are still due but are in many cases dependent on employers or pensioners themselves for the necessary information to do so. Where delayed payment has caused hardship MyCSP have been making emergency interim payments to members. The majority of the scheme’s 658,000 pensioners have been paid accurately and on time since September<ins class="ministerial"> 2014</ins>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 08/01/2015 18:02:36 question first ministerially corrected 09/01/2015 12:35:40 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham previous answer version 37627 answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth