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90357

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Open Prisons
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Category D long-sentenced prisoners who have more than two years left to serve to earliest release date are currently in open conditions.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	207934
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>As at 30 June 2014, there were 24 determinate sentence prisoners held in open conditions with more than two years left to serve before their earliest release date and 18 indeterminate sentence prisoners in open conditions with more than two years left to serve before their tariff expiry[1].</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Those prisoners with at least two more years left before their earliest release will either be serving a determinate sentence of four years or more, or an indeterminate sentence with a minimum tariff of two years or more. The earliest date on which an indeterminate sentence prisoner (ISP) may be released from custody is on completion of “tariff” – that is, the minimum period to be served in custody, as determined by the Court, for the purposes of retribution and deterrence.</p><p>Progression to open conditions is never automatic and only follows a satisfactory assessment of the prisoner’s reduction in risk to a level that is manageable in conditions of lower security. The assessment will take account of issues including successful completion of any offending behaviour programmes identified as essential to the risk reduction process and any security intelligence or other information that provides evidence of the prisoner’s trustworthiness for open conditions. For determinate sentence prisoners, this assessment is carried out by an operational manager in the holding prison. For ISPs, it generally involves a recommendation by the independent Parole Board.</p><p> </p><p>Once allocated to open prison, prisoners continue to be monitored and are returned to closed prison immediately if there are any concerns about their suitability for such conditions.</p><p> </p><p>When a prisoner moves to the less rigid structure of open conditions an assessment of how the prisoner will adapt to increasing responsibility. For many prisoners, in particular those such as life sentence prisoners, who have spent a considerable amount of time in custody; these can be important components for successful reintegration in the community and therefore a mechanism to help protect the public by reducing the likelihood of reoffending.</p><br /><p>[1] Please note that these figures do not include prisoners held in open conditions in non-predominant function open prisons, nor those held in open sites that are part of multi-site establishments performing different functions, nor those held in small (under 50 place) open units at predominant function closed prisons. Women and young adults are included in the figures.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 17/11/2014 14:00:33 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

156818

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2014
	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 assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the implementation of the introduction of fees for employment tribunals.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	215285
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Fees were implemented in the Employment tribunals on 29 July 2013. The implementation project for fees was delivered on time and to budget, and around 70% of employment tribunal claims are now received on-line.</p><p> </p><p>Fees are part of the Government’s broader package of Employment reforms. In particular, we want to encourage people to avoid long drawn out disputes which emotionally damage workers and financially damage businesses. From 6 May, anyone contemplating bringing a claim to the Employment tribunals must first consider ACAS conciliation, which is provided free of charge. The early results are encouraging.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to undertaking a review of Employment tribunal fees and we will be bringing forward our plans on the scope and timing of the review in due course.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 24/11/2014 17:16:45 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

156819

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2014
	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 assessment he has made of whether tribunal fees are deterring legitimate claims being made.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	215286
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>It is not the Government’s intention to deter people from bringing legitimate claims to the Employment Tribunals, and we do not believe that is the case. The purpose of introducing fees was to transfer some of the cost of the tribunals from the taxpayer to those who use them, where they can afford to do so.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to undertaking a review of Employment Tribunal fees and we will be bringing forward our plans on the scope and timing of the review in due course.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 24/11/2014 17:05:51 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

168732

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Employment and Support Allowance: West Midlands
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of appeals against employment and support allowance sanctions made from the West Midlands have been successful in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	217735
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The First-tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support), administered by HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS), hears appeals against Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) decisions on a range of benefits.</p><p>HMCTS does not record data specifically relating to appeals against sanctions imposed by DWP and does not therefore hold the information requested.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 217736 217737 question first answered 11/12/2014 17:31:06 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

168728

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Employment and Support Allowance: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total cost has been of administering successful appeals against employment and support allowance sanctions in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	217738
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>We are unable to answer this request as we do not differentiate between successful &amp; unsuccessful appeals to ESA when calculating activity costs.</p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 11/12/2014 11:50:55 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

170373

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Free Schools
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what free school project applications have been withdrawn or cancelled; and what each application had spent on (a) property and planning, (b) technical and consultant and (c) legal fees before withdrawal or cancellation.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	218726
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>As of 16 December 2014, 21 projects have withdrawn or been cancelled. These are listed below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Name of School</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rotherham Central Free School</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Priory Rural Skills and Equestrian Free School</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chorley Career and Sixth Form</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newham Free Academy</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rivendale Free School</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barnfield Fernwood Free School</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Bristol Primary School</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warrington Montessori School</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rainbow Schools (Nottingham)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Lights</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Leeds Retail and Financial Services Academy</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harris Free School Tottenham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Free School Leeds</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>TLG Bradford</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newark School of Enterprise</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Inspirar Bilingual Academy</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Marco Polo Academy</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oasis Community School Walthamstow</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Phoenix Free School of Oldham</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>On Track Chiltern</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Advance School Norbury</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>When a project is cancelled or withdrawn, the Department for Education seeks to make alternative use of any capital spend on sites or otherwise.</p><p>Any capital costs spent on these projects are declared in the Department’s annual accounts at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-annual-reports" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-annual-reports</a></p><p>The March 2014 accounts will be published in the New Year.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 18/12/2014 16:38:54 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

169605

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Cycling: Coventry
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will discuss with Coventry City Council steps to make Coventry more accessible to cyclists.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	218073
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>As proposed in the draft Cycling Delivery Plan, published on 16 October 2014, we are looking to forge partnerships with local authorities. In exchange for signing up to a series of actions to deliver ambitious changes in cycling and walking - they will receive access to supporting tools and incentives, including priority access to funding, knowledge sharing, and sector expertise. If they have not already done so, I would encourage Coventry City Council to consider a partnership.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 15/12/2014 16:24:03 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

169606

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Cycling: Urban Areas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to make cities more accessible to cyclists.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	218071
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>In line with the Government’s localism agenda local authorities are responsible for their highways and for identifying and implementing sustainable transport options.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Cycling Ambition grants eight cities across England have shared £77 million of funding, and in these cities spend on cycling is now over £10 per person. In addition, in November, a further £114 million for the Cycling Ambition cities was announced.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, as proposed in the draft Cycling Delivery Plan, published on 16 October 2014, we are looking to forge partnerships with local authorities across England. In exchange for signing up to a series of actions to deliver ambitious changes in cycling and walking - they will receive access to supporting tools and incentives, including priority access to funding, knowledge sharing, and sector expertise.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 15/12/2014 16:20:26 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

89532

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Islamic State
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he plans to take to address the threat of IS to the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	207524
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2014 answer text <p>JTAC raised the threat level on 29 August from SUBSTANTIAL to SEVERE. The increase in the threat level is related to developments in Syria and Iraq where terrorist groups, including ISIL, are planning attacks against the West. ISIL <br>is a clear national threat to the UK, as it is a global threat to our international partners and the region. We believe that more than 500 individuals from the UK have travelled to Syria since the start of the conflict. It is estimated half of these have returned. We judge that a significant minority of UK extremists currently fighting in Syria are affiliated with ISIL. British citizens fighting with proscribed terrorist organisations would clearly pose a threat to the UK should they return. Such <br>individuals are among our primary counter-terrorism concerns.<br><br>The Government is taking steps to counter this unprecedented threat. On Wednesday 26 November, we introduced the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill, in order to extend the powers available to our law enforcement and intelligence <br>agencies. This Bill will ensure that we can: disrupt the ability of people to travel abroad to fight, as well as their ability to return here; enhance our ability to monitor and control the actions of those in the UK that pose a threat; and combat the underlying ideology that feeds, supports and sanctions terrorism. It includes provisions to:<br><br>The powers set out in the Bill are essential to keep up with the very serious and rapidly changing threats we face.<br><br>This legislation will provide additional tools to compliment work already underway to tackle the threat from ISIL under a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism led strategy. <br><br>We must take action at home – but we must also have a comprehensive strategy to defeat these extremists abroad. This involves using all the resources at our disposal – humanitarian efforts, which Britain is already leading, to help <br>those displaced by ISIL’s onslaught, and diplomatic efforts to engage the widest possible coalition of countries in the region as part of this international effort. At the UN, we are leading the process of condemning <br>ISIL, disrupting the flows of finance to ISIL and forging a global consensus about preventing the movement of foreign fighters.<br><br>This strategy also involves political efforts to support the creation of a new and genuinely inclusive government in Iraq and to bring about a transition of power in Syria that can lead to a new representative and accountable government <br>that can take the fight to ISIL.<br><br>We are determined to defeat the ideology of all forms of extremism, not just violent extremism. So we are banning preachers of hate, proscribing organisations that incite terrorism and stopping people from inciting hatred in <br>our schools, universities and even our prisons. For those individuals who are at risk of radicalisation, agencies such as the police and local authorities work together to assess the nature and the extent of the risk and, where <br>necessary, provide an appropriate support package tailored to individual needs. And we are working with industry to remove more extremist online material than ever before to protect those British young people vulnerable to becoming <br>radicalised. Since the start of this government, the Counter-Terrorism Internet Referral Unit has secured the removal of 65,000 items from the internet that encouraged or glorified acts of terrorism. More than 46,000 of these have been <br>removed since December last year. At present, content relating to ISIL, Syria and Iraq represents around seventy per cent of the Unit’s caseload.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 09/12/2014 15:06:17 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

169583

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Shoplifting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people convicted of shoplifting were first-time offenders in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	218069
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>Shoplifting can have a serious financial impact on the businesses affected and the local economy and prosecutions will be brought where appropriate.</p><p>The table below shows the number of first time offenders to the criminal justice system in England and Wales convicted for Shoplifting in the 12 months ending June 2010 to 12 months ending June 2014.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>First time offenders to the criminal justice system<sup>(1) </sup>in England and Wales, convicted for Shoplifting, 12 months ending June 2010 to 12 months ending June 2014</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>12 month period to the end of June</p></td><td><p><strong>Number of offenders</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2,106</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2,032</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>1,924</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>1,826</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1,887</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong><em>Source: Police National Computer, Ministry of Justice</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>Notes:</em></strong></p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><em>(1) Offenders recorded on the Police National Computer by an English or Welsh police force as having received their first conviction. Where there were multiple offences on the same occasion, the figures only include primary offences recorded as shoplifting on the Police National Computer.</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice’s extract of the Police National Computer (PNC), which is used for all analyses of offenders’ histories, only holds details on convictions given for recordable offences and does not generally include non-recordable summary offences usually heard in Magistrates courts. In addition, as with any large scale recording system the PNC is subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 15/12/2014 15:52:49 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham