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100354

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will provide funding for schools and colleges providing education for young people under the age of 19 to meet the additional costs arising from the (a) additional employer contribution as set out in the Teachers' Pensions (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2014 and (b) higher national insurance contributions which will be paid from 1 April 2016 as a result of the Pension Act 2014; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	211581
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education is asking schools, like other employers across the public sector, to contribute more towards their employees’ pensions to ensure that the cost of public sector pension schemes do not fall unfairly on taxpayers. Our protection of the core schools budget in real terms means that schools are well-placed to cope with changes in their costs in 2015-16. The Department has also deferred the introduction of the increase to September 2015, giving schools an additional five months to plan how they will meet the additional pensions cost.</p><p>In addition, the Chancellor confirmed that the next spending review will take into account the cost to employers of the reforms to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme and the implications for National Insurance.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 27/10/2014 11:01:14 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

101482

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Young Offender Institutions: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many hours per week of education juvenile boys in Hindley and Cookham Wood young offender institutions had in each week in June 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	212297
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Young Offender’s Institution</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Week 1</strong></p><p><strong>w/c 02/06/2014</strong></p><p><strong>(Hours per Learner)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Week 2</strong></p><p><strong>w/c 09/06/2014</strong></p><p><strong>(Hours per Learner)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Week 3</strong></p><p><strong>w/c 16/06/2014</strong></p><p><strong>(Hours per Learner)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Week 4</strong></p><p><strong>w/c 23/06/2014</strong></p><p><strong>(Hours per Learner)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Week 5</strong></p><p><strong>w/c 30/06/2014 (one day in June)</strong></p><p><strong>(Hours per Learner)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>HMYOI Hindley</strong></p></td><td><p>15.22</p><p> </p></td><td><p>14.85</p><p> </p></td><td><p>14.07</p><p> </p></td><td><p>14.73</p><p> </p></td><td><p>2.42</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>HMYOI Cookham Wood</strong></p></td><td><p>8.29</p><p> </p></td><td><p>8.30</p><p> </p></td><td><p>9.87</p><p> </p></td><td><p>11.28</p><p> </p></td><td><p>2.93</p><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The contracted number of hours per learner per (full) week is 15. The variation in the hours received results from legitimate absences, such as attending court, attending appointments and illness, and occasional provider cancellations (which we reconcile against for funding). The Education Funding Agency works closely with the providers, the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) and the Youth Justice Board to resolve issues affecting the delivery of education and training.</p><p> </p><p>The shortfall in hours per learner shown at HMYOI Cookham Wood is due to cancellations by the prison, rather than by the education provider.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 03/11/2014 17:56:35 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

100523

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits: Telephone Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to reduce waiting times experienced by (a) people on a low income and (b) other people using the HM Revenue and Customs tax credits helpline.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	211582
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>HMRC is responsible for handling calls to the Tax Credits helpline but is unable to distinguish, at the point of contact with its telephone system, if a caller is on a low income or otherwise.</p><p> </p><p>To keep the cost of dealing with HMRC as low as possible, the department has made it cheaper to call in most cases by rolling out 03 telephone numbers and by introducing voice recognition technology to its telephone systems, this allows some customers to get the answer they need without waiting to speak to adviser.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC recognises that wait times across all lines of business are not where it, or its customers, would like them to be. Over the next few months HMRC will be migrating its existing telephone services to a new telephony platform. This will improve the way that the queuing systems work and over time, will lead to reduced wait times.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC is also looking at a number of initiatives to improve customer service and wait times. These include: greater flexible working across HMRC to improve its response to particular peaks in demand and is investing in online and digital services for the future, opening up a wider variety of channels.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 03/11/2014 14:50:04 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

63002

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2014
	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 Schemes
	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 Answer of 1 May 2014, Official Report, columns 813-4W, on social security benefits, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of the community work placement and mandatory intervention regime schemes.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	201488
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The costs of Help to Work, which includes community work placement and the mandatory intervention regime, is:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£190 million</p></td><td><p>£230 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>This information is publicly available at:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263942/35062_Autumn_Statement_2013.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263942/35062_Autumn_Statement_2013.pdf</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 24/06/2014 14:32:50 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

63004

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2014
	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 Schemes
	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 Answer of 1 May 2014, Official Report, columns 813-4W, on social security benefits, what estimate he has made of the annual savings from the fewer days on benefits for participants in the community work placement and mandatory intervention regime schemes.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	201493
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The estimated benefit savings from Help to Work, which includes community work placement and the mandatory intervention regime, is £25 million in 2013-14, £130 million in 2014-15 and £140 million in 2015-16.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£25 million</p></td><td><p>£130 million</p></td><td><p>£140 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>This information is publicly available at:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263942/35062_Autumn_Statement_2013.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263942/35062_Autumn_Statement_2013.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 24/06/2014 14:23:35 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

101491

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Security
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been paid in forfeiture because of the Prison Service's use of barbed and razor wire in each of the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	212304
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>No fines have been paid to the EU or any other organisation because of HM Prison Service’s use of barbed and razor wire in the last four years. Furthermore, there have been no infraction proceedings at the European Court of Justice and no findings against the UK in the European Court of Human Rights about this issue in that time period.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) provides razor wire and barbed wire as part of construction and refurbishment projects on its custodial estate. It is deployed most often at the top of perimeter fences and fences which form partitions within the grounds of prisons. It forms one of a number of security measures which prevent prisoners scaling fences either to breach the perimeter or to enter hazardous and prohibited areas of a prison</p><p> </p><p>The MoJ works with the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) to ensure that its proposed use would not present a health or safety hazard to prisoners, members of NOMS staff, visitors to a prison or members of the public.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 03/11/2014 14:48:34 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

77448

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Young Offenders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many young offenders have been tried before (a) adult magistrates' courts and (b) Crown courts in England and Wales in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	205394
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>The vast majority of children and young people have their cases heard by specially trained magistrates in the Youth Court.</p><p> </p><p>A child or young person may only be tried in the adult magistrates’ courts where they are a co-defendant with an adult and the court has decided that it is in the interests of justice to keep the defendants together. Children alleged to have committed serious offences, for example homicide or offences that for an adult would result in 14 years or more in prison, are tried in the Crown Court and may also be tried there if it is in the interest of justice to keep them together with an adult co-defendant.</p><p> </p><p>Overall crime is down and fewer young people are offending. Proven offending by under-18s has reduced by 44 percent since 2010/11, while the number of first time entrants to the system has fallen by 39 percent over the same period. The number of young people dealt with in the criminal courts has also fallen, reducing by 51% between 2010 and 2013.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the number of children and young people tried in (a) the adult magistrates’ courts is set out at Table 1.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Young people aged 10-17 tried at adult magistrates' courts, England and Wales, 2010-2013</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of young people tried at adult magistrates' courts<sup>(1), (2), (3) &amp; (5)</sup></p></td><td><p>10,401</p></td><td><p>10,667</p></td><td><p>5,463</p></td><td><p>5,702</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Data on the number of children and young people tried in (b) the Crown Court is set out in Table 2.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 2: Young people aged 10-17 tried at the Crown Court, England and Wales, 2009 - 2013</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of young people tried at the Crown Court <sup>(4) &amp; (5)</sup></p></td><td><p>3,002</p></td><td><p>2,787</p></td><td><p>2,367</p></td><td><p>1,847</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are considering the recommendations made by the recent inquiry by Parliamentarians, chaired by Lord Carlile, including the recommendation concerning where cases involving children and young people are heard.</p><p>_______________________________________</p><p>(1) Excludes cases that were discontinued, where the charge was withdrawn, where the defendant failed to appear, and committals for trial to the Crown Court.</p><p>(2) The figures given in the table relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.</p><p>(3) A child or young person may only be tried in the adult magistrates’ courts where they are a co-defendant with an adult and the court has decided that it is in the interests of justice to keep the defendants together.</p><p>(4) The figures given in the table relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.</p><p>(5) Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing and can be subject to change over time. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 22/07/2014 16:30:29 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

90352

	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	Young Offender Institutions: Bullying
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of victims of bullying in youth custody institutions who suffer from mental health issues.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	207909
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Bullying is taken very seriously across the youth estate. All youth custody establishments must have an anti-bullying policy and safeguarding arrangements in place which address both the causes and effects of bullying. The safety of young people and approaches for managing challenging behaviour in custody are monitored by the Youth Justice Board and independent inspectorates.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the number of incidents of bullying in youth custody institutions are collected by individual establishments in order to assist them in managing bullying but information is not held centrally. Whilst healthcare providers will have data about mental health issues, this information is not held centrally and is not routinely collected alongside bullying information.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 207903 207907 question first answered 16/09/2014 15:45:35 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

90360

	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	Young Offender Institutions: Bullying
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken to prevent bullying in the youth custody environment.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	207907
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Bullying is taken very seriously across the youth estate. All youth custody establishments must have an anti-bullying policy and safeguarding arrangements in place which address both the causes and effects of bullying. The safety of young people and approaches for managing challenging behaviour in custody are monitored by the Youth Justice Board and independent inspectorates.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the number of incidents of bullying in youth custody institutions are collected by individual establishments in order to assist them in managing bullying but information is not held centrally. Whilst healthcare providers will have data about mental health issues, this information is not held centrally and is not routinely collected alongside bullying information.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 207903 207909 question first answered 16/09/2014 15:45:35 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

90365

	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	Young Offender Institutions: Bullying
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of incidents of bullying in youth custody institutions in each year since May 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	207903
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Bullying is taken very seriously across the youth estate. All youth custody establishments must have an anti-bullying policy and safeguarding arrangements in place which address both the causes and effects of bullying. The safety of young people and approaches for managing challenging behaviour in custody are monitored by the Youth Justice Board and independent inspectorates.</p><p> </p><p>Data on the number of incidents of bullying in youth custody institutions are collected by individual establishments in order to assist them in managing bullying but information is not held centrally. Whilst healthcare providers will have data about mental health issues, this information is not held centrally and is not routinely collected alongside bullying information.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous grouped question UIN 207907 207909 question first answered 16/09/2014 15:45:33 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis