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1023069

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/12/2018
	date	10/12/2018
	date tabled	10/12/2018
	ddp created	10/12/2018 22:02:00
	answering body	Attorney General
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	ddp modified	10/12/2018 22:13:39 17/12/2018 11:27:01
	hansard heading	Suicide
	house id	1
	identifier	200564
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	17/12/2018 10:55:55
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether a suicide note is classified as a legal document.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 200564
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	200564
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Attorney General’s Office is not responsible for determining the legal status of any document. The legal status of a document would depend on a number of factors including the context it was being presented in.</p>
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671646

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	13/01/2017
	date	11/01/2017
	date tabled	11/01/2017
	ddp created	11/01/2017 22:50:22
	answering body	Attorney General
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	ddp modified	11/01/2017 22:55:22 19/01/2017 15:14:02
	hansard heading	Government Legal Service
	house id	1
	identifier	59592
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	56
	question first answered	19/01/2017 14:42:31
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many lawyers are employed in the Government Legal Service; and how many such lawyers are (a) women and (b) from ethnic minority communities.
	session	2016/17
	session number	2
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2016/17 59592
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	59592
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Government Legal Service (GLS) is not a department but a grouping of the legal profession within Government. Government lawyers take different forms; some are employed by the Government Legal Department (GLD), others employed by regulators and organisations at arm’s length from Government. The GLS is supported by a very small secretariat of fewer than five staff and does not systematically collect information as data is held by the lawyer’s own organisations. We are therefore unable to provide this information for the GLS. There is data for the GLD, which is the single largest ‘member’ of the GLS and the largest provider of legal services to government. As of 31 December 2016 the figures for the Government Legal Department are as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Number of lawyers</p></td><td><p>1,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of female lawyers</p></td><td><p>896</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of lawyers from ethnic minority communities *</p></td><td><p>187</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of female lawyers from ethnic minority communities *</p></td><td><p>132</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*This figure is obtained from the information that is voluntarily self-recorded by employees</p>
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672035

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	16/01/2017
	date	12/01/2017
	date tabled	12/01/2017
	ddp created	12/01/2017 20:40:16
	answering body	Attorney General
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	ddp modified	12/01/2017 20:45:12 18/01/2017 15:15:05
	hansard heading	Attorney General: Legal Profession
	house id	1
	identifier	59708
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	56
	question first answered	18/01/2017 14:43:50
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the cost to his Department was of the use of external lawyers by his Department (a) in general and (b) related to the work of the Treasury Solicitors in (i) 2016, (ii) 2015 and (iii) 2014.
	session	2016/17
	session number	2
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2016/17 59708
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	59708
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The cost relating to the use of external lawyers (including lawyers in the Government Legal Department, formerly the Treasury Solicitor’s Department) by the Attorney General’s Office for the last three financial years is in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>£</p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cost of GLD lawyers</p></td><td><p>425,859</p></td><td><p>330,442</p></td><td><p>322,023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cost of GLD disbursements (Counsel)</p></td><td><p>210,537</p></td><td><p>340,640</p></td><td><p>220,182</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cost of GLD disbursements (Other external lawyers)</p></td><td><p>40,153</p></td><td><p>8,677</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Non-GLD legal fees (Counsel)</p></td><td><p>18,816</p></td><td><p>14,252</p></td><td><p>18,949</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total external legal fees</strong> <strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>695,366</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>694,011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>561,153</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>All figures are exclusive of VAT.</p>
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	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

78986

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	01/09/2014
	date	21/07/2014
	date tabled	21/07/2014
	ddp created	21/07/2014 20:50:18
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 18:53:33
	answering body	Attorney General
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Consultants
	house id	1
	identifier	206676
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	01/09/2014 14:44:35
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2014, Official Report, column 184W, on consultants, who the consultants were; what they were contracted to do; and how much each was paid.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 206676
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	206676
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p> </p><p>The information requested in respect of the Crown Prosecution Service was contained in an answer given to the Rt. Hon Member by the Attorney General on the 16<sup>th</sup> July (Official Report, Col 678W).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The table below contains details on the consultants used by the SFO since 2010-11.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Contractor</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Work type</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount (£)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>PA Consultancy</p></td><td><p>Support work for senior management</p></td><td><p>986k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>Corven</p></td><td><p>Development work relating to Deferred</p><p>Prosecution Agreements; coaching</p></td><td><p>480k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>SCC</p></td><td><p>IT consultancy</p></td><td><p>60k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>DTZ</p></td><td><p>Preparation of Business case for</p><p>relocation and satellite offices</p></td><td><p>24k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>Morland Consulting</p></td><td><p>Research &amp; Support Strategic</p><p>Risk Assessment</p></td><td><p>10k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>Processflows Ltd</p></td><td><p>IT consultancy</p></td><td><p>1k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>Ravn Systems Ltd</p></td><td><p>IT consultancy</p></td><td><p>7k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>PA Consultancy</p></td><td><p>Support work for senior</p><p>management</p></td><td><p>208k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>Corven</p></td><td><p>Consultancy work relating to</p><p>Deferred Prosecution Agreements</p></td><td><p>542k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>BNP Paribas</p></td><td><p>Lease surrender</p></td><td><p>61k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>Ravn Systems</p></td><td><p>IT consultancy</p></td><td><p>44k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>Hill and Knowlton</p></td><td><p>Communication advice</p></td><td><p>1k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>PA Consultancy</p></td><td><p>Late invoice for work in</p><p>2011-12 (as above)</p></td><td><p>31k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>SCC</p></td><td><p>IT consultancy</p></td><td><p>32k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>CIO Partners</p></td><td><p>Preparation of specialist</p><p>IT specification</p></td><td><p>2k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>Others*</p></td><td><p>Data management reviews</p></td><td><p>14k</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>* Two individuals carried out some work relating to an incident of data loss</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Note 1:</strong> Records for this type of expenditure were not properly documented prior to April 2012. Available records are summarised above:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Note 2:</strong> The combined total of costs for the year 2010/11 does not match SFO’s previously published figures. The previous figure was understated by £10k because of credits for late invoices relating to 2009/10 which had been incorrectly categorised as consultancy expenditure.</p><p> </p>
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765777

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	10/10/2017
	date	06/10/2017
	date tabled	06/10/2017
	ddp created	06/10/2017 18:29:52
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	09/10/2017 15:55:21 16/10/2017 13:32:02
	hansard heading	Aerospace Industry
	house id	1
	identifier	105882
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	16/10/2017 13:00:42
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to protect the UK aerospace sector.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 105882
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	105882
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Department provides strong support for the UK aerospace sector through the Aerospace Growth Partnership. We believe this has been successful in protecting the industry and supporting its growth. Since 2010, the UK aerospace industry has seen turnover grow from £23.7billion to £32billion; exports have increased from £18billion to £30billion; direct jobs have grown from 110,000 to 120,000, with indirect jobs up from 148,000 to 161,000; and, between 2010 and 2016, productivity growth in the sector was over five times more than in the economy as a whole. In addition we have created a more certain environment to drive increased investment in R&amp;D, through a £1.95billion Government commitment over 13 years to 2026, matched by industry, to fund new R&amp;D projects.</p><p>But we are not complacent and will continue to work with industry through the AGP to retain the UK's position as a leading aerospace nation.</p>
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765778

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	10/10/2017
	date	06/10/2017
	date tabled	06/10/2017
	ddp created	06/10/2017 18:29:54
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	06/10/2017 19:08:08 12/10/2017 14:53:02
	hansard heading	Space Technology
	house id	1
	identifier	105934
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	12/10/2017 14:21:45
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department has taken to support the UK space industry during the negotiations on the UK leaving the EU.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 105934
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	105934
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and I have made it clear that we want our companies and our universities to continue participating in key EU space programmes.</p><p>Furthermore my Department has shown strong support for the UK space industry through the €1.4bn investment I made with the European Space Agency in December 2016. I have also announced an investment of £99m in a National Satellite Testing Facility at Harwell.</p>
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453840

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	24/02/2016
	date	22/02/2016
	date tabled	22/02/2016
	ddp created	23/02/2016 01:26:54
	ddp modified	01/03/2016 17:02:04
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Higher Education: Ethnic Groups
	house id	1
	identifier	27693
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	56
	question first answered	01/03/2016 16:30:16
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps the Government is taking to increase representation of BME students in leading universities.
	session	2015/16
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2015/16 27693
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	27693
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Prime Minister has a goal of increasing by 20% the number of BME students in higher education. In our new guidance to the Director of Fair Access, which we published on 11 February, we ask him to maximise the contribution of Access Agreements towards this ambition. The share of BME enrolments at UK institutions has already risen from just over 20% to 23% between 2009/10 and 2014/15. Entry rates for 18 year olds in each ethnic group increased in 2015, reaching the highest recorded values for each group. Between 2009 and 2015, the entry rate for young people in the Black ethnic group increased by over 40 percent proportionally.</p><p> </p><p>Investment by the higher education sector through Access Agreements is expected to reach £746 million in 2016/17 up from £404 million in 2009/10.</p><p> </p><p>The Government accepts that selective institutions already do much to widen participation. We also acknowledge the work that they already do. Nonetheless, we are convinced that more could and should be done. In our recent guidance to the Director of Fair Access, <a href="http://www.offa.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/11-02-2016-OFFA-Guidance.pdf" target="_blank">www.offa.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/11-02-2016-OFFA-Guidance.pdf</a> we asked him to secure more progress. Institutions must use evidence and good practice to lever better results and there needs to be more innovation in this area. As the Director of Fair has also said, ‘it should not be beyond institutions themselves to find ways of making more progress.’</p>
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92991

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	16/10/2014
	date	13/10/2014
	date tabled	13/10/2014
	ddp created	13/10/2014 23:31:33
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 01:11:43
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Overseas Students
	house id	1
	identifier	210184
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	27/10/2014 14:41:24
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many overseas students were studying at each UK university in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 210184
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	210184
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency collects and publishes data on student enrolments at UK Higher Education Institutions. Statistics on enrolments by country of domicile, mode of study, level of study and institution can be accessed via the following link for the latest available academic years, which are 2011/12 and 2012/13.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/content/view/1973/239/" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/content/view/1973/239/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on enrolments at UK Higher Education Institutions in the academic year 2013/14 will become available from Higher Education Statistics Agency in January 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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750035

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	12/07/2017
	date	10/07/2017
	date tabled	10/07/2017
	ddp created	10/07/2017 23:21:11
	answering body	HM Treasury
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	ddp modified	10/07/2017 23:36:50 13/07/2017 16:42:10
	hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Consultants
	house id	1
	identifier	4094
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	13/07/2017 16:11:42
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many contracts exist between HM Revenue and Customs and (a) KPMG, (b) Ernst & Young, (c) Deloitte and (d) PwC; and what the value is of each such contract.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 4094
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	4094
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs’ current contracts with these organisations are as follows.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Organisation</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Contract</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Value</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>KPMG</p></td><td><p>Civil Service Learning Training Contract</p></td><td><p>£3.86m pa</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ernst &amp; Young</p></td><td><p>None</p></td><td><p>£0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Deloitte</p></td><td><p>Forensic Accountancy Services</p></td><td><p>£538k pa</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PwC</p></td><td><p>Estates Transformation Support</p></td><td><p>£225k total</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p>
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773896

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	23/10/2017
	date	19/10/2017
	date tabled	19/10/2017
	ddp created	19/10/2017 20:41:58
	answering body	HM Treasury
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	ddp modified	19/10/2017 20:56:08 27/10/2017 12:33:03
	hansard heading	Coinage
	house id	1
	identifier	108795
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	27/10/2017 12:01:28
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the reasons are for there being between 400 and 450 million old, round pound coins still in circulation.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 108795
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	108795
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The process of repatriation of the old £1 coins is still ongoing. Coins are being returned to banks by individuals and businesses every day. We encourage those that still have round £1 coins to now bank or donate them to charity.</p><p> </p><p>In all recoinages, a proportion of coin is not returned. We expect that the proportion of round £1 coins removed from circulation to be in line with previous withdrawals of high denomination coins, such as the recoinage of the 50p, which took place between 1997 and 1998.</p><p> </p>
	creator	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz
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