@prefix rdf: . @prefix nfo: . @prefix xsd: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix skos: . @prefix rdfs: . @prefix api: . @prefix parl: . rdfs:label "Biography information for Simon Hughes" . parl:answerText "

We are unable to provide figures specific to asylum cases awaiting travel
documents. This information is only held within paper case files, which would
mean this question could only be answered through a disproportionately
expensive manual case search.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Old Bexley and Sidcup" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "James Brokenshire" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2014-04-28"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2014-04-28T12:00:00.00Z"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Sadiq Khan" . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "88" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Attorney General" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Attorney General" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Attorney General" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Attorney General, whether any domestic violence cases have led to prosecutions for coercive control since the inclusion of coercive control in the Government's definition of domestic violence in March 2013." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "South Swindon" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Mr Robert Buckland" ; parl:uin "195663" ; dcterms:date "2014-04-07"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

The CPS flags all cases identified as domestic violence according to the revised Government definition implemented in March 2013. This includes the elements of coercive control, and behaviours which do not display visible injuries such as psychological abuse which were introduced in the revised definition. However the records held by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) cannot separately identify the number of people prosecuted for each of these elements. Such information could only be obtained through a manual search of records which would incur a disproportionate cost.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "North East Hertfordshire" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Oliver Heald" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2014-04-28"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:groupedQuestionUIN "195668" , "195667" ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2014-04-28T12:00:00.00Z"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis" . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "88" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Attorney General" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Attorney General" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Attorney General" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Attorney General, how many domestic violence cases have led to prosecutions for non-injurious behaviours." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "South Swindon" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Mr Robert Buckland" ; parl:uin "195667" ; dcterms:date "2014-04-07"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Lucy Powell" . parl:answerText "

The CPS flags all cases identified as domestic violence according to the revised Government definition implemented in March 2013. This includes the elements of coercive control, and behaviours which do not display visible injuries such as psychological abuse which were introduced in the revised definition. However the records held by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) cannot separately identify the number of people prosecuted for each of these elements. Such information could only be obtained through a manual search of records which would incur a disproportionate cost.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "North East Hertfordshire" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Oliver Heald" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2014-04-28"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:groupedQuestionUIN "195668" , "195663" ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2014-04-28T12:00:00.00Z"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright" . skos:prefLabel "House of Commons" . parl:answerText "

The records held by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)indicate the number of offences charged, in which a prosecution commenced at magistrates' courts under Section 2 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 (publishing or having an obscene article for publication for gain), rather than identifying the number of people prosecuted.

Section 2 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 creates the offence of publishing or having an obscene article for publication for gain.

The table below shows, in each of the last 8 years, for which figures are available, the number of offences, charged by way of Section 2 of the OPA 1959, and which reached a first hearing at magistrates' courts, in England and Wales.

Financial Year

Obscene Publications Act 1959 { 2 }

2005-2006

111

2006-2007

105

2007-2008

111

2008-2009

152

2009-2010

82

2010-2011

71

2011-2012

76

2012-2013

34

Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "North East Hertfordshire" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Oliver Heald" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2014-04-28"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2014-04-28T12:00:00.00Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

In March 2013, my Department published new guidance for local authorities outlining how councils should stop translating into foreign languages. As outlined in the Written Ministerial Statement of 12 March 2013, Official Report, Column 5WS, such translation weakens integration; discourages communities from learning English; undermines rather than strengthens equality goals; harms community relations; and is an expensive waste of taxpayers' money at a time when councils need to be making sensible savings. It is disappointing that councils like Tower Hamlets have disregarded that guidance, and reflects broader issues with the dysfunctional governance and divisive practices of the council.

I would add that in light of previous instances of electoral fraud, including impersonation in polling stations, postal voting irregularities and allegations of improper influence, Ministers in this Department have concerns about the practice of allowing foreign language translators/interpreters inside polling stations. The privacy of the ballot must be protected and voters inside a polling station should not be subject to any pressure or influence to vote in a particular way. In that context, the integrity of the ballot box and of the local democratic process requires independent and transparent scrutiny in polling stations by polling agents, council staff, the police and, indeed, passing members of the public who are also voting. This is undermined by polling room administration being conducted in foreign languages.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Great Yarmouth" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Brandon Lewis" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2014-04-28"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2014-04-28T12:00:00.00Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "54" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Ministry of Justice" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which contracts his Department holds with (a) Capita, (b) A4E, (c) G4S, (d) Serco, (e) GeoAMEY, (f) Sodexo and (g) Mitie; when each contract started; how much each contract is expect to cost over its lifetime; when each contract is due to end; whether there are any options in the contract for extension; whether any financial penalties have been incurred by each contractor to date; and whether each such contract has a break clause." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Tooting" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Sadiq Khan" ; parl:uin "177489" ; dcterms:date "2013-11-22"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "88" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Attorney General" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Attorney General" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Attorney General" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Attorney General, how many jobs have been transferred from the public to the private sector as a result of privatisations or outsourcing by the Law Officers' Departments since May 2010." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Manchester Central" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Lucy Powell" ; parl:uin "195504" ; dcterms:date "2014-04-07"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "88" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Attorney General" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Attorney General" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Attorney General" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Attorney General, how many cases of domestic violence have led to prosecutions for psychological abuse in each of the last five years." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "South Swindon" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Mr Robert Buckland" ; parl:uin "195668" ; dcterms:date "2014-04-07"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "7" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department for Communities and Local Government" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2014, Official Report, column 694W, on polling stations, what assessment he has made of the effect of foreign language translation by local authorities on integration of non-English speakers into their communities." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Bromley and Chislehurst" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Robert Neill" ; parl:uin "190554" ; dcterms:date "2014-03-04"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "7" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department for Communities and Local Government" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what funding was allocated from Homes and Community Agency to (a) develop new affordable housing and (b) bring empty homes back into use in Harrow in each of the last five years." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Harrow West" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Mr Gareth Thomas" ; parl:uin "174351" ; dcterms:date "2013-11-04"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "1" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Home Office" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum cases were awaiting decision for travel documents on 1 February 2014." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Leicester East" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Keith Vaz" ; parl:uin "189239" ; dcterms:date "2014-02-24"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

I undertook to write to you when the information had been received.

The table contained within Annex A details the live contracts that the Department holds with Capita, G4S, Serco, GeoAmey, Sodexo and MITIE. The table provides you with details on the start and end dates of these contracts, the estimated value of the contract as advertised when the procurement process was initiated, extension options and whether there is a break clause. Where information pertaining to any of these questions is already in the public domain, you will find for ease of reference links to the Hansard extracts.

There are no contracts between the Department and A4E.

The table within Annex A provides details on financial penalties where this information is already available in the public domain. To obtain this information for all the contracts listed would incur disproportionate costs.

The details for the legacy Electronic Monitoring contracts between the Department and G4S and Serco have not been provided to you due to the ongoing criminal investigation into issues relating to these contracts.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Kenilworth and Southam" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Jeremy Wright" ; parl:attachment ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2014-04-28"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2014-04-28T12:00:00.00Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "54" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Ministry of Justice" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many new criminal offences have been created in each year since May 2010; and what the predicted effect was on the number of prisoners for each such offence." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Tooting" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Sadiq Khan" ; parl:uin "188279" ; dcterms:date "2014-02-12"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland" . parl:answerText "

The CPS flags all cases identified as domestic violence according to the revised Government definition implemented in March 2013. This includes the elements of coercive control, and behaviours which do not display visible injuries such as psychological abuse which were introduced in the revised definition. However the records held by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) cannot separately identify the number of people prosecuted for each of these elements. Such information could only be obtained through a manual search of records which would incur a disproportionate cost.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "North East Hertfordshire" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Oliver Heald" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2014-04-28"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:groupedQuestionUIN "195663" , "195667" ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2014-04-28T12:00:00.00Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "88" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Attorney General" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Attorney General" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Attorney General" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Attorney General, how many prosecutions have taken place under the Obscene Publications Act 1959 for the offence of providing unrestricted access to hardcore pornography online, as set out in the 2005 Crown Prosecution Service guidelines, disaggregated by year." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Bishop Auckland" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Helen Goodman" ; parl:uin "196000" ; dcterms:date "2014-04-09"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Helen Goodman" . rdfs:label "Biography information for James Brokenshire" . rdfs:label "Biography information for Sir Robert Neill" . rdfs:label "Biography information for Keith Vaz" . parl:answerText "

I have set out below the number of criminal offences in England and Wales created by government departments. The numbers are collated by the Criminal Offences Gateway which scrutinises proposals on new and amended criminal offences for England and Wales.

The numbers are based on offences put through the Criminal Offences Gateway during the period 1 June 2010 to 31 May 2013 (the latest available data).

Further information can be found in the New Criminal Offences England and Wales https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revised-new-criminal-offences-statistics-in-england-and-wales-june-2009-may-2013

The numbers of new criminal offences, which include entirely new offences and existing offences which have been extended or amended in some way, are published annually by my department in the statistical bulletin New Criminal Offences. The new criminal offences enforce Government policy in a range of areas, including to contain the spread of serious animal diseases and to criminalise squatting in a residential building.

Period covered

Number of legislative provisions (secondary & primary) containing new offences

Total criminal offences created

1 June 2010 to 31 May 2011

33

174

1 June 2011 to 31 May 2012

52

292

1 June 2012 to 31 May 2013

60

327

712 criminal offences were created during the period 1 June 2009 to May 2010 which was the 12 months immediately prior to the establishment of the Criminal Offences Gateway.

New offences are needed for a number of reasons, for example, to update legislation that is now out of date, to underpin delivery of government priorities and to set out clearly what is acceptable and unacceptable behaviour. The Government committed to putting in place a mechanism, an additional layer of scrutiny, for proposals to create new offences. This is the first time a Government has done so and committed to doing so publicly. The Government has repealed 140 offences in the 12 months ending May 2013.

The information on the predicted effect on the number of prisoners for each relevant offence is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Bermondsey and Old Southwark" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Simon Hughes" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2014-04-28"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2014-04-28T12:00:00.00Z"^^xsd:dateTime . dcterms:title "Table 1" ; nfo:fileName "177489.XLS" . rdfs:label "Biography information for Gareth Thomas" . rdfs:label "Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald" . parl:answerText "

The Law Officers' Departments have not transferred any permanent jobs from the public to the private sector as a result of privatisations or outsourcing since May 2010.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "North East Hertfordshire" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Oliver Heald" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2014-04-28"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2014-04-28T12:00:00.00Z"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Kris Hopkins" . parl:answerText "

[Holding Reply: Thursday 7 November 2013]

The figures for affordable housing are as follows for the London Borough of Harrow area:

2008-09

£22 million

2009-10

£45 million

2010-11

£26 million

2011-12

£15 million

2012-13

£13 million

Since April 2012, allocations from the Affordable Housing Programme have been overseen by the Greater London Authority rather than the Homes and Communities Agency. There have been no specific allocations on empty homes over this period.

As outlined to the hon. Member in the answer of 7 January 2013, Official Report, Column 121W, I would note that the new Affordable Rent model now allows for more affordable housing to be delivered with lower levels of taxpayer capital subsidy and lever in more private investment.

As the National Audit Office has observed: “The Department selected the best delivery model open to it for the funds it had available” and “The Department has so far achieved its policy objective to maximise the number of homes delivered within the available grant funding” (National Audit Office, “Financial viability of the social housing sector; introducing the Affordable Homes Programme”, 4 July 2012, HC465, pp.6-7).

I also note that the Mayor's proposed Housing Strategy states: “£1.8 billion of public funding has been secured by the Mayor which will unlock an estimated additional £3.7 billion of other investment for London to enable 55,000 affordable homes to be delivered between 2011-15” (Mayor of London, “The Revised London Housing Strategy”, December2011, p.35).

Across England, 170,000 affordable homes have been delivered so far since April 2010, and a total of £19.5 billion of public and private investment is being spent on affordable housing over the current Spending Review period.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Keighley" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Kris Hopkins" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2014-04-28"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2014-04-28T12:00:00.00Z"^^xsd:dateTime . a api:ListEndpoint ; dcterms:hasPart ; api:definition . a api:Page ; "10"^^xsd:long ; "1"^^xsd:long ; "527"^^xsd:long ; dcterms:isPartOf ; api:definition ; api:extendedMetadataVersion ; api:items ( ) ; api:page "0"^^xsd:long ; ; .