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792977

registered interest
date	21/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates' Courts: City of Westminster
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what monitoring his Department has in place to ensure that Westminster Magistrates Court is compliant with disability access legislation.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	114762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service has a programme of monthly inspections which are undertaken across the estate, including at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, to ensure compliance with the Equality Act 2010. Westminster Magistrates’ Court is currently compliant.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 01/12/2017 10:54:10 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

792978

registered interest
date	21/11/2017
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Magistrates' Courts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reasons his Department uses the Witness Service to supply drinking water to victims at magistrates courts.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	114763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice grant funds the court based Witness Service for the provision of emotional and practical support to witnesses giving evidence in criminal courts in England and Wales. The Witness Service does not have a specific responsibility to provide drinking water in courts but has, in the past, put in place arrangements for the provision of drinking water in a number of witness waiting areas where they did not exist as this is an element of supporting witnesses as they prepare to give evidence.</p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 28/11/2017 16:21:46 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

792979

registered interest
date	21/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Married People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress UK Visas & Immigration has made on clearing the backlog of applications for spouse visas as a result of the Supreme Court ruling in February 2017.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	114764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2017 answer text <p>Significant progress has been made in taking decisions on applications affected by the MM Lebanon Supreme Court ruling and there remain very few applications awaiting assessment.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 23/11/2017 17:30:43 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

792980

registered interest
date	21/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Married People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time is for applicants waiting for decisions on spouse visa applications.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	114765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2017 answer text <p>The specific data requested is not published by the Home Office.</p><p>Published data on visa processing times, including the percentage of visas processed within published service standards, is published online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data</a> (then listed by publication date under ‘UK Visas &amp; Immigration’).</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 23/11/2017 17:36:13 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

792981

registered interest
date	21/11/2017
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, how long the average wait time is for immigration applicants using the priority service.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	114766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2017 answer text <p>The specific data requested is not published by the Home Office.</p><p>Published data on visa processing times, including the percentage of visas processed within published service standards, is published online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data</a> (then listed by publication date under ‘UK Visas &amp; Immigration’).</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 23/11/2017 17:36:57 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

792982

registered interest
date	21/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Bank Services: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many acts of bank fraud against an individual were recorded in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	114767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>Data for banking and credit card industry fraud are published by ONS on a quarterly basis. These data will cover frauds against individuals as well as industry bodies. The latest data are for year to June 2017 and are available in Table A5 at the link below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables</a></p><p> </p><p>The way in which fraud offences are reported and subsequently recorded has changed in recent years. Previously, police forces were responsible for recording fraud offences, however, from April 2011 Action Fraud began gradually taking over the recording of fraud offences on behalf of individual police forces, completing in March 2013. Action Fraud is the UK’s national fraud and cybercrime reporting centre. The industry bodies Cifas and FFA UK also record data on fraud offences committed against their members.</p><p> </p><p>Information on fraud offences prior to the switch to Action Fraud can be found in Table A4 in the same link as provided above.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 27/11/2017 17:36:08 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

792983

registered interest
date	21/11/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Bank Services: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the conviction rate for bank fraud against an individual was in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	114768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not held by the Treasury.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay question first answered 29/11/2017 16:49:05 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

781400

registered interest
date	31/10/2017
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	Recycling: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the level of recycling rates in each London Borough.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	110601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2017 answer text <p>No estimates are made on the level of recycling rates in each London Borough. The 2015/16 published household waste recycling rate for each London Borough is shown in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Authority</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Authority type</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Percentage of household waste sent for reuse, recycling or composting </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barking and Dagenham LB</p></td><td><p>Collection</p></td><td><p>18.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barnet LB</p></td><td><p>Collection</p></td><td><p>36.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bexley LB</p></td><td><p>Collection &amp; Disposal</p></td><td><p>52.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brent LB</p></td><td><p>Collection</p></td><td><p>35.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bromley LB</p></td><td><p>Collection &amp; Disposal</p></td><td><p>46.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Camden LB</p></td><td><p>Collection</p></td><td><p>24.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>City of London</p></td><td><p>Collection &amp; Disposal</p></td><td><p>30.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Croydon LB</p></td><td><p>Collection &amp; Disposal</p></td><td><p>37.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ealing LB</p></td><td><p>Collection</p></td><td><p>43.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Enfield LB</p></td><td><p>Collection</p></td><td><p>35.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greenwich LB</p></td><td><p>Collection &amp; Disposal</p></td><td><p>34.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hackney LB</p></td><td><p>Collection</p></td><td><p>24.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hammersmith and Fulham LB</p></td><td><p>Collection</p></td><td><p>22.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Haringey LB</p></td><td><p>Collection</p></td><td><p>36.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harrow LB</p></td><td><p>Collection</p></td><td><p>40.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Havering LB</p></td><td><p>Collection</p></td><td><p>31.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hillingdon LB</p></td><td><p>Collection</p></td><td><p>44.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hounslow LB</p></td><td><p>Collection</p></td><td><p>33.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Islington LB</p></td><td><p>Collection</p></td><td><p>29.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lambeth LB</p></td><td><p>Collection</p></td><td><p>28.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lewisham LB</p></td><td><p>Collection &amp; Disposal</p></td><td><p>18.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merton LB</p></td><td><p>Collection &amp; Disposal</p></td><td><p>34.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newham LB</p></td><td><p>Collection</p></td><td><p>14.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Redbridge LB</p></td><td><p>Collection</p></td><td><p>27.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Richmond upon Thames LB</p></td><td><p>Collection</p></td><td><p>40.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea</p></td><td><p>Collection</p></td><td><p>25.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames</p></td><td><p>Collection &amp; Disposal</p></td><td><p>45.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southwark LB</p></td><td><p>Collection &amp; Disposal</p></td><td><p>35.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sutton LB</p></td><td><p>Collection &amp; Disposal</p></td><td><p>34.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tower Hamlets LB</p></td><td><p>Collection &amp; Disposal</p></td><td><p>26.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Waltham Forest LB</p></td><td><p>Collection</p></td><td><p>34.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wandsworth LB</p></td><td><p>Collection</p></td><td><p>21.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Westminster City Council</p></td><td><p>Collection &amp; Disposal</p></td><td><p>17.3%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br></p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 08/11/2017 15:37:42 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

777037

registered interest
date	24/10/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Wrecks: British Overseas Territories
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many wrecks have been recovered in each of the Overseas Territories since the introduction of the Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks by the UK in 2015.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	109445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>No wrecks have been recovered from the waters surrounding any of the Overseas Territories since the introduction of the Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks by the UK in 2015.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 26/10/2017 15:04:33 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

776053

registered interest
date	23/10/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Coastal Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total amount of central Government spending was on initiatives focusing on marine and coastal communities in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	108960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2017 answer text <p>The Coastal Communities Fund encourages economic development through sustainable economic growth and jobs. Between 2012-13 and 2016-17, spend was £15,538,789, £2,936,246, £19,258,377, £39,237,505 and £15,189,904. Coastal Community Teams are local partnerships that develop forward plans for their community. In 2015-16 and 2016-17, spend was £1,180,000 and £280,000. The Coastal Revival Fund supports unlocking the heritage economy and businesses seeking to grow with the revival of coastal sites. In 2015-16 and 2016-17, spend was £3,000,000 and £700,000.</p><p>Other programmes that have delivered additional benefits to these communities include:</p><p>- European Maritime Fisheries Fund (£15.6m from 2013 to date)</p><p>- Flood and Coastal Risk Management Programme (£2.5bn to be spent between 2015 and 2021)</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 31/10/2017 14:35:34 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord