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349253

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Cost Effectiveness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the HM Treasury press release, Chancellor announces £4.5 billion of measures to bring down debt, published on 4 June 2015, what efficiency savings his Department plans to make to achieve reductions of £249 million in its budget.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	1628
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Following the Chancellor’s request to find additional in-year savings, we have put together a package that will enable us to drive efficiencies across the department. These savings will reduce the cost of justice to the taxpayer whilst creating a justice system that reflects the needs of its users.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 17/06/2015 16:37:48 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

348916

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2015
	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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Cost Effectiveness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to HM Treasury's press release, Chancellor announces £4.5 billion of measures to bring down debt, published on 4 June 2015, what assessment he has made of the effect on productivity of delivering efficiency savings from his Department's budget.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	1375
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills will deliver £450 million of the Chancellor’s announced £4.5 billion savings announced on the 4th June. The majority of this will be delivered through known underspends and releasing unallocated funding.</p><p> </p><p>Officials in the department are working with the appropriate funding bodies to determine how savings can best be achieved in line with Ministerial priorities.</p><p> </p><p>Priority areas for growth and productivity, including funding for apprenticeships and science, will not be affected – raising the skill level of the workforce and developing new ideas are fundamental drivers of long-run productivity growth.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 11/06/2015 11:45:56 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

349633

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2015
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: Cost Effectiveness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to HM Treasury's press release, Chancellor announces £4.5 billion of measures to bring down debt, published on 4 June 2015, what assessment he has made of the effect on productivity of delivering efficiency savings from his Department's budget.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	1963
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The savings for 2015-16 announced on 4 June 2015 are being achieved through further efficiency savings, tighter control of budgets to drive underspends in year, and driving through asset sales.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>As part of the £4.5 billion in-year savings announced by the Chancellor, the Department for Work and Pensions committed to delivering £105m from its £6.7bn budget in 2015-16, of which £75m is from efficiency savings. Departmental productivity is regularly assessed and is published in the Annual Report and Accounts.</p><p> </p><p>The government is getting on with the job of repairing the public finances, and to run a surplus in this Parliament. This will create the best conditions for sustainable growth.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/06/2015 13:42:25 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

349258

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2015
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: Cost Effectiveness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the HM Treasury press release, Chancellor announces £4.5 billion of measures to bring down debt, published on 4 June 2015, what efficiency savings his Department plans to make to achieve reductions of £105 million in its budget.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	1632
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The savings for 2015-16 announced on 4 June 2015 are being achieved through further efficiency savings, tighter control of budgets to drive underspends in year, and driving through asset sales.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions will make £75m efficiency savings in 2015-16 from projects, programmes and services across the department. A further £30m of income will be generated for HM Treasury through an increase in Social Fund debt recoveries.</p><p> </p><p>The government is getting on with the job of repairing the public finances, and to run a surplus in this Parliament. This will create the best conditions for sustainable growth.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/06/2015 13:36:32 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

47311

	registered interest
	date	07/04/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) first-tier and (b) upper-tier tax tribunal (i) judges and (ii) expert panel members there were as of April 2014; for how many days (A) first-tier and (B) upper-tier tax tribunal panel members sat in 2013-14; and how much was paid to tax tribunal panel members in 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	195472
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>I refer the Honourable Member to the answers provided in January which can be viewed on the Official Report 10 February 2014: Column 491W which contain the most up to date information on Judicial Numbers. Data for later periods will be contained in the next publication of the data on total numbers of the judiciary and their background.</p><p> </p><p>For the period April 2013–December 2013 panel members sat in the First-tier Tribunal Tax Chamber for a total of 964.50 days. Members do not sit on Tax cases in the Upper Tribunal.</p><p><em>This figure is taken from internal Management Information and as such has not been quality checked to the same level as official statistics.</em></p><p> </p><p>In the financial year 2013/14, judicial expenditure for all fee-paid judicial Office holders within the Tax jurisdiction was £1.8 million.</p><p><em>This figure is still subject to internal audit processes and will be incorporated into overall Judicial spend figures in the HMCTS Annual report and Accounts which will be published later this year. </em></p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

349257

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2015
	answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept id	63
	answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
	answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
	hansard heading	Department of Energy and Climate Change: Cost Effectiveness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the HM Treasury press release, Chancellor announces £4.5 billion of measures to bring down debt, published on 4 June 2015, what efficiency savings her Department plans to make to achieve reductions of £70 million in its budget.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	1631
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p>Across government, the savings for 2015-16 announced on 4 June 2015 are being achieved through further efficiency savings, tighter control of budgets to drive underspends in year, and driving through asset sales.</p><p>There are three areas where DECC will make savings:</p><ul><li>£10M will be realised by driving out underspends from existing contracts, for example because inflation is now lower than when costs were forecast.</li><li>£20M will be found through underspends in the Department’s arms-length bodies (ALBs).</li><li>£40M will be saved from our programme of energy-efficiency subsidy while we consider the right long-term framework for the home-energy-efficiency market.</li></ul><p>The government is getting on with the job of repairing the public finances, and to run a surplus in this Parliament. This will create the best conditions for sustainable growth.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 16/06/2015 14:09:55 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

670303

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she has taken to implement the IMB Annual Reports on prisons in England and Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	59018
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2017 answer text <p>All Independent Monitoring Board annual reports for prisons are responded to by Ministers. Those responses set out what has or will be done to address issues identified by Boards. I wrote to the Chair of the Birmingham Board on 28 November 2016 in response to the concerns raised in their report.</p><p> </p><p>The long-standing challenges in our prison estate cannot be fixed overnight but the Justice Secretary and I are absolutely committed to making prisons places of safety and reform. We already embarking on a major recruitment drive to boost the frontline with 2,500 extra prison officers and are putting in place new security measures to tackle drones, phones and drugs, which undermine safety.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 59015 question first answered 23/01/2017 11:14:11 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

670304

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Birmingham Prison
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she has taken to implement the most recent IMB Annual Report on HM Prison Birmingham.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	59015
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2017 answer text <p>All Independent Monitoring Board annual reports for prisons are responded to by Ministers. Those responses set out what has or will be done to address issues identified by Boards. I wrote to the Chair of the Birmingham Board on 28 November 2016 in response to the concerns raised in their report.</p><p> </p><p>The long-standing challenges in our prison estate cannot be fixed overnight but the Justice Secretary and I are absolutely committed to making prisons places of safety and reform. We already embarking on a major recruitment drive to boost the frontline with 2,500 extra prison officers and are putting in place new security measures to tackle drones, phones and drugs, which undermine safety.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah grouped question UIN 59018 question first answered 23/01/2017 11:14:11 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

714158

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Deportation: EU Countries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which EU readmission agreements contain clauses regarding the return of third country nationals.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	69161
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2017 answer text <p>All of the European Union Readmission Agreements contain clauses to return third country nationals. The agreements are available at: <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/irregular-migration-return-policy/return-readmission_en" target="_blank">https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/irregular-migration-return-policy/return-readmission_en</a></p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 31/03/2017 13:05:18 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

223556

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Taxation: Switzerland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department carried out an impact assessment on the future implications of signing its agreement with the Swiss Confederation on co-operation in the area of taxation.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	225451
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2015 answer text <p>An impact assessment was conducted and is summarised at page 16 of the Autumn Statement 2012 policy costings document<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup>under the heading of ‘Tax repatriation from Switzerland’.</p><p> </p><p>A further impact assessment was included at page A221 of the overview of draft legislation<sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup> in respect of Finance Bill 2013 published on 11 December 2012.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Progress against forecast, revised in accordance with standard review procedures once the agreement became operational, was considered in the National Audit Office report ‘Increasing the effectiveness of tax collection’<sup><sup>[3]</sup></sup> published on 6 February 2015. Here, at paragraph 5.8, the National Audit Office commented that, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) appears to be 'on track to meet its revised forecast of tax yield from the UK-Swiss agreement’.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/221551/as2012_policy_costings.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/221551/as2012_policy_costings.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[2] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/192207/fb2013_overview_of_legislation_in_draft.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/192207/fb2013_overview_of_legislation_in_draft.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>[3] <a href="http://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Increasing-the-effectiveness-of-tax-collection-a-stocktake-of-progress-since-2010.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Increasing-the-effectiveness-of-tax-collection-a-stocktake-of-progress-since-2010.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 17/03/2015 17:15:28 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood