10 157 1 false 2014-12-15 2014-12-17T11:11:20.067Z East Dunbartonshire Jo Swinson false 2014-12-17 Biography information for Jo Swinson <p>The initial report from Mr MacDonald was received on 17 July 2014 for review by the Insolvency Service. Further information including another more detailed report was received from him during September and October 2014, and these again have been reviewed by the Insolvency Service. The reports are confidential.</p><p> </p><p>The reports themselves do not require a direct response but I can confirm that the Insolvency Service has completed its review of this material and is in communication with Mr MacDonald.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> Biography information for Steve Rotheram To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he received reports from the MacDonald Partnership in relation to mis-sold Scottish Power Power Plan warranties; what the titles of such reports were; and when he plans to respond to those reports. Liverpool, Walton Department for Business, Innovation and Skills 26 218595 Business, Innovation and Skills Business, Innovation and Skills Steve Rotheram House of Commons Scottish Power Work and Pensions Department for Work and Pensions 2014-10-21 2014-10-24T13:48:18.1742771Z Thornbury and Yate Steve Webb false 2014-10-24 Biography information for Steve Webb <p>From the latest data available, 280,780 applications have been made for Funeral Payments in Great Britain between May 2010 and September 2014. In the same period there have been 139,560 refusals.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes</strong></p><p> </p><p>1. These figures do not include applications which were processed clerically and have not yet been entered on to the Social Fund Computer System.</p><p> </p><p>2. The figures given are the number of applications and initial refusals in the given time period and not the number of people who made applications or received awards. An individual may make more than one application in a year. Information on the number of people who made applications and received awards is not available.</p><p> </p><p>3. The refusal figures given are based on the initial decisions made on each case and may include cases where an award was later made on review.</p><p> </p><p>4. All figures are rounded to the nearest 10.</p> Liverpool, Walton Funeral Payments false 1 Work and Pensions Steve Rotheram To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications have been made to the Government Funeral Payment scheme since May 2010; and how many such applications have been rejected. 211293 29 2014-10-21 2014-10-24T13:50:43.3807695Z PQ 211252 ( table).xls harassment and stalking - custodial sentences Bermondsey and Old Southwark Simon Hughes false 2014-10-24 Biography information for Simon Hughes <p /> <p>The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 (PHA) makes it a criminal offence for someone to pursue a course of conduct which amounts to harassment (section 2) or causes someone to fear that violence will be used against them (section 4).</p><p> </p><p>The PHA was amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 to insert two specific offences of stalking - sections 2A (stalking) and 4A (stalking involving fear of violence or serious alarm or distress).</p><p> </p><p>The average custodial sentence for people found guilty of harassment and stalking in between 2009 and 2013 can be viewed in the table.</p> 54 Steve Rotheram Justice Justice Ministry of Justice To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average custodial sentence was for people found guilty of (a) stalking and (b) harassment in 2012-13. Harassment: Sentencing 1 211252 Liverpool, Walton false 211473 Hospitals: Mortuaries 2014-10-22 17 false Department of Health To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average length of time was a deceased body spent in the mortuary of an English hospital in each year since 2004. Liverpool, Walton Health Health 2014-10-27T17:16:42.7329776Z Battersea Jane Ellison false 2014-10-27 Biography information for Jane Ellison <p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p> 1 Steve Rotheram 211643 2014-10-22 Liverpool, Walton 54 To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to increase gang-related intelligence for prison officers prior to prisoner arrivals in order to prevent mixed gang wings. Ministry of Justice Steve Rotheram Justice 2014-10-29T17:52:58.6696583Z South West Bedfordshire Andrew Selous false 2014-10-29 Biography information for Andrew Selous <p /> <p>On arrival in an establishment, the risk a prisoner presents to others and themselves, and their risk of harm from other prisoners will be assessed. Where appropriate, this will include a Cell Sharing Risk Assessment to assess a prisoner’s suitability to share accommodation. The risk assessment will consider information and intelligence from a number of sources, including known gang affiliations and conflicts if appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>In April 2014, NOMS completed the implementation of a nationally networked intelligence system - ‘Mercury’. Through the Mercury system staff are able to access intelligence linked to prisoners where a prisoner has previously been held in custody, on or in advance of a prisoner’s arrival (where a prisoner is being sent from another establishment). In addition where a prisoner has previously been held in custody, the National Offender Management Information System (NOMIS) will hold warnings to alert staff to particular risks and behaviours.</p><p> </p><p>A number of law enforcement agencies, including the police, regularly share information about prisoners to support the identification of risk. This includes prisoners with gang affiliations and conflicts.</p><p> </p><p>To ensure that prisoners are held in safe, decent and secure conditions, the risks to and from prisoners remain constantly under review. Where risks become known, establishments take appropriate steps to mitigate these risks, which may include relocating a prisoner to another wing or establishment.</p> 1 Justice Prisons: Organised Crime false Ministry of Justice Steve Rotheram To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many control and restraint techniques have been used in prisons in each year since 2004. Justice Justice 211642 2014-10-29T17:50:21.6820186Z South West Bedfordshire Andrew Selous false 2014-10-29 <p /> <p>A specialised system of restraint known as control and restraint (C&amp;R) has been developed over many years to ensure that prisoners can be controlled with minimum risk of injury to staff or prisoners. C&amp;R is a system of techniques used by a team of three officers as a last resort to bring a violent or unmanageable prisoner under control. Wherever possible staff are instructed to avoid use of force and de-escalate the situation by persuasion or negotiation. If the techniques are applied they are used for as short a time as possible.</p><p> </p><p>All prisons submit a central monthly return providing the number of times force has been used in the prison, and specifically the number of uses of C&amp;R. While this has been collated centrally since late 2009, to provide details since 2004 could only be achieved at disproportionate cost, as it would require contacting every prison individually and tracing data from prisons that have closed since 2004.</p> 54 false Prisons: Restraint Techniques 1 Liverpool, Walton 2014-10-22 Liverpool, Walton Steve Rotheram 2014-10-29T17:49:06.9757293Z South West Bedfordshire Andrew Selous false 2014-10-29 <p>There are no building projects planned or in delivery that are specifically intended to improve first night accommodation across the estate. Where individual first night accommodation has been identified as requiring improvement, this is taken forward locally by the Governor/Director.</p><p> </p><p>Prison Service Instruction 74/2011 Residential Services requires that prisoners have access to living accommodation, furnishings, fittings and equipment that are safe, decent and secure and which meet their individual needs, as far as practicable. Living accommodation and communal areas are also to be kept clean and maintained. Where a fault is reported residential prison staff are responsible for reporting the problem to the appropriate person for the issue to be resolved.</p><p> </p> Prison Accommodation Justice To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to improve first night accommodation for prisoners in prisons. 211652 false 54 Ministry of Justice 2014-10-22 1 Justice 211466 false 29 Department for Work and Pensions 2014-10-27T13:51:34.5425884Z Thornbury and Yate Steve Webb false 2014-10-27 <p /> <p>Table 1 below shows the average wait (in days) for decisions on a Social Fund application for each year from 2003 and a breakdown by application type.</p><p> </p><p>No data is provided for 2014. This is because the number of applications and waiting times vary seasonally, meaning that an average only covering part of the year is not comparable with whole year averages shown from 2003-2013.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Average wait (days)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Funeral Payments</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Community Care Grants</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Crisis Loans</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Budgeting Loans</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Sure Start Maternity Grants</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2003</strong></p></td><td><p>13.1</p></td><td><p>8.3</p></td><td><p>1.2</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td><td><p>4.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2004</strong></p></td><td><p>13.5</p></td><td><p>8.2</p></td><td><p>1.3</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td><td><p>4.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2005</strong></p></td><td><p>12.1</p></td><td><p>7.5</p></td><td><p>1.4</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td><td><p>4.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2006</strong></p></td><td><p>12.5</p></td><td><p>9.1</p></td><td><p>1.5</p></td><td><p>3.2</p></td><td><p>3.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2007</strong></p></td><td><p>13.4</p></td><td><p>10.9</p></td><td><p>1.6</p></td><td><p>4.5</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2008</strong></p></td><td><p>14.3</p></td><td><p>11.3</p></td><td><p>1.8</p></td><td><p>5.1</p></td><td><p>5.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2009</strong></p></td><td><p>14.8</p></td><td><p>13.3</p></td><td><p>2.0</p></td><td><p>5.3</p></td><td><p>5.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p>15.3</p></td><td><p>8.9</p></td><td><p>2.1</p></td><td><p>5.4</p></td><td><p>4.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p>13.1</p></td><td><p>7.5</p></td><td><p>2.1</p></td><td><p>5.0</p></td><td><p>4.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>14.6</p></td><td><p>7.5</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td><td><p>4.9</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>17.1</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>5.5</p></td><td><p>4.0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>1. These figures do not include applications which were processed clerically and have not yet been entered on to the Social Fund Computer System.</p><p> </p><p>2. No average wait time is reported for Community Care Grants or Crisis Loans in 2013. This is because these payments were replaced by Local Welfare Provision in March 2013.</p><p> </p><p>3. The clearance time for an individual Social Fund loan or grant is measured in whole working days from the date the application is received until the date the decision is taken. The minimum clearance time recorded for an individual case is one working day, even if the application is cleared immediately.</p><p> </p><p>4. Cold Weather Payments are not included in Table 1. These are made automatically if the claimant is eligible at the time of the cold weather trigger, so there is no decision to be made.</p><p> </p><p>5. All figures are provided to 1 decimal place.</p> Liverpool, Walton To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average wait for a decision on a social fund application was in each year since 2003. Steve Rotheram 1 2014-10-22 Work and Pensions Social Fund Work and Pensions 2014-10-22 1 Department for Work and Pensions Work and Pensions Work and Pensions 29 false Liverpool, Walton Steve Rotheram 211468 2014-10-27T13:57:49.2833144Z Thornbury and Yate Steve Webb false 2014-10-27 <p /> <p>From the latest data available, 305,840 applications have been made for Funeral Payments in Great Britain between January 2010 and September 2014, the latest data available. In the same period there have been 151,620 refusals.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 below shows the number of applications and refusals for each year. Note that 2014 data only extends to September thus far.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014 (Jan-Sep)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Applications</p></td><td><p>66,780</p></td><td><p>70,990</p></td><td><p>66,390</p></td><td><p>62,200</p></td><td><p>39,470</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Refusals</p></td><td><p>33,350</p></td><td><p>36,330</p></td><td><p>34,540</p></td><td><p>29,200</p></td><td><p>18,190</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>1. These figures do not include applications which were processed clerically and have not yet been entered on to the Social Fund Computer System.</p><p> </p><p>2. The figures given are the number of applications and initial refusals in the given time period and not the number of people who made applications or received awards. An individual may make more than one application in a year. Information on the number of people who made applications and received awards is not available.</p><p>.</p><p>3. The refusal figures given are based on the initial decisions made on each case and may include cases where an award was later made on review.</p><p> </p><p>4. All figures are rounded to the nearest 10.</p> To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications were made to the Social Fund to cover the cost of funerals in each year since 2010; and how many of those applications were rejected. Funeral Payments 1 2014-11-03T17:44:55.2293111Z Battersea Jane Ellison false 2014-11-03 <p>Information is not available in the format requested. The information is provided for the upper tier and unitary local authority for the areas requested and for London boroughs within the Greater London Authority area. The allocations are below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Public health allocation to upper tier and unitary local authorities in 2014-15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Office for National Statistics Local Authority Name</p></td><td><p>2014-15 allocation<br> £'000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Birmingham</p></td><td><p>80,838</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Manchester</p></td><td><p>44,116</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leeds</p></td><td><p>40,540</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newcastle Upon Tyne</p></td><td><p>21,301</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bristol, City of</p></td><td><p>29,122</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southampton</p></td><td><p>15,050</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sunderland</p></td><td><p>21,234</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p><p>Greater London Authorities:</p></td><td><p>577,514</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>City of London</p></td><td><p>1,698</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barking and Dagenham</p></td><td><p>14,213</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Barnet</p></td><td><p>14,335</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bexley</p></td><td><p>7,574</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brent</p></td><td><p>18,848</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bromley</p></td><td><p>12,954</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Camden</p></td><td><p>26,368</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Croydon</p></td><td><p>18,825</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ealing</p></td><td><p>21,974</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Enfield</p></td><td><p>14,257</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greenwich</p></td><td><p>19,061</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hackney</p></td><td><p>29,818</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hammersmith and Fulham</p></td><td><p>20,855</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Haringey</p></td><td><p>18,189</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harrow</p></td><td><p>9,146</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Havering</p></td><td><p>9,717</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hillingdon</p></td><td><p>15,709</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hounslow</p></td><td><p>14,084</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Islington</p></td><td><p>25,429</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kensington and Chelsea</p></td><td><p>21,214</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kingston upon Thames</p></td><td><p>9,302</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lambeth</p></td><td><p>26,437</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lewisham</p></td><td><p>20,088</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merton</p></td><td><p>9,236</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Newham</p></td><td><p>26,112</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Redbridge</p></td><td><p>11,411</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Richmond upon Thames</p></td><td><p>7,891</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southwark</p></td><td><p>22,946</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sutton</p></td><td><p>8,619</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tower Hamlets</p></td><td><p>32,261</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Waltham Forest</p></td><td><p>12,277</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wandsworth</p></td><td><p>25,431</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Westminster</p></td><td><p>31,235</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The annual public health budget for 2014-15 is £2.79 billion provided to upper tier and unitary local authorities, we are providing local authorities with £8.2 billion ring- fenced public health funding over three years.</p><p> </p> Steve Rotheram Public Health 212270 2014-10-28 Liverpool, Walton To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the annual public health budget is for (a) Birmingham City Council, (b) Manchester City Council, (c) Leeds City Council, (d) Newcastle City Council, (e) Bristol City Council, (f) Southampton City Council, (g) Sunderland City Council and (h) the London Assembly. 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