@prefix rdf: . @prefix nfo: . @prefix xsd: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix skos: . @prefix rdfs: . @prefix api: . @prefix parl: . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "17" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department of Health" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Health" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Health" ; parl:hansardHeading "Public Health" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "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." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Liverpool, Walton" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Steve Rotheram" ; parl:uin "212270" ; dcterms:date "2014-10-28"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Simon Hughes" . rdfs:label "Biography information for Andrew Selous" . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "54" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Ministry of Justice" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Justice" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Justice" ; parl:hansardHeading "Prison Accommodation" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to improve first night accommodation for prisoners in prisons." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Liverpool, Walton" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Steve Rotheram" ; parl:uin "211652" ; dcterms:date "2014-10-22"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "29" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department for Work and Pensions" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Work and Pensions" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Work and Pensions" ; parl:hansardHeading "Funeral Payments" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "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." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Liverpool, Walton" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Steve Rotheram" ; parl:uin "211468" ; dcterms:date "2014-10-22"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

A specialised system of restraint known as control and restraint (C&R) has been developed over many years to ensure that prisoners can be controlled with minimum risk of injury to staff or prisoners. C&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.

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&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.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "South West Bedfordshire" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Andrew Selous" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2014-10-29"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2014-10-29T17:50:21.6820186Z"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Steve Webb" . rdfs:label "Biography information for Jane Ellison" . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "29" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department for Work and Pensions" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Work and Pensions" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Work and Pensions" ; parl:hansardHeading "Social Fund" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "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." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Liverpool, Walton" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Steve Rotheram" ; parl:uin "211466" ; dcterms:date "2014-10-22"^^xsd:dateTime . rdfs:label "Biography information for Jo Swinson" . skos:prefLabel "House of Commons" . parl:answerText "

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.

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.

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.

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.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "South West Bedfordshire" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Andrew Selous" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2014-10-29"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2014-10-29T17:52:58.6696583Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

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.

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.

Average wait (days)

Funeral Payments

Community Care Grants

Crisis Loans

Budgeting Loans

Sure Start Maternity Grants

2003

13.1

8.3

1.2

2.7

4.7

2004

13.5

8.2

1.3

3.0

4.0

2005

12.1

7.5

1.4

2.9

4.0

2006

12.5

9.1

1.5

3.2

3.9

2007

13.4

10.9

1.6

4.5

4.8

2008

14.3

11.3

1.8

5.1

5.3

2009

14.8

13.3

2.0

5.3

5.0

2010

15.3

8.9

2.1

5.4

4.7

2011

13.1

7.5

2.1

5.0

4.3

2012

14.6

7.5

3.0

4.9

3.6

2013

17.1

5.5

4.0

Notes

1. These figures do not include applications which were processed clerically and have not yet been entered on to the Social Fund Computer System.

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.

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.

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.

5. All figures are provided to 1 decimal place.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Thornbury and Yate" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Steve Webb" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2014-10-27"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2014-10-27T13:51:34.5425884Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "29" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department for Work and Pensions" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Work and Pensions" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Work and Pensions" ; parl:hansardHeading "Funeral Payments" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "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." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Liverpool, Walton" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Steve Rotheram" ; parl:uin "211293" ; dcterms:date "2014-10-21"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "54" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Ministry of Justice" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Justice" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Justice" ; parl:hansardHeading "Prisons: Restraint Techniques" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many control and restraint techniques have been used in prisons in each year since 2004." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Liverpool, Walton" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Steve Rotheram" ; parl:uin "211642" ; dcterms:date "2014-10-22"^^xsd:dateTime . dcterms:title "harassment and stalking - custodial sentences" ; nfo:fileName "PQ 211252 ( table).xls" . rdfs:label "Biography information for Steve Rotheram" . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "17" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department of Health" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Health" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Health" ; parl:hansardHeading "Hospitals: Mortuaries" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "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." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Liverpool, Walton" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Steve Rotheram" ; parl:uin "211473" ; dcterms:date "2014-10-22"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "54" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Ministry of Justice" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Justice" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Justice" ; parl:hansardHeading "Prisons: Organised Crime" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "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." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Liverpool, Walton" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Steve Rotheram" ; parl:uin "211643" ; dcterms:date "2014-10-22"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

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).

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).

The average custodial sentence for people found guilty of harassment and stalking in between 2009 and 2013 can be viewed in the table.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Bermondsey and Old Southwark" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Simon Hughes" ; parl:attachment ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2014-10-24"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2014-10-24T13:50:43.3807695Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

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.

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.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "East Dunbartonshire" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Jo Swinson" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2014-12-17"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2014-12-17T11:11:20.067Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

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.

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.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "South West Bedfordshire" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Andrew Selous" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2014-10-29"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2014-10-29T17:49:06.9757293Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "54" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Ministry of Justice" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Justice" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Justice" ; parl:hansardHeading "Harassment: Sentencing" ; parl:houseId "1" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "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." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Liverpool, Walton" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Steve Rotheram" ; parl:uin "211252" ; dcterms:date "2014-10-21"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answer ; parl:answeringDeptId "26" ; parl:answeringDeptPrinted "Department for Business, Innovation and Skills" ; parl:answeringDeptShortName "Business, Innovation and Skills" ; parl:answeringDeptSortName "Business, Innovation and Skills" ; parl:hansardHeading "Scottish Power" ; parl:legislature ; parl:questionText "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." ; parl:registeredInterest false ; parl:tablingMember ; parl:tablingMemberConstituency "Liverpool, Walton" ; parl:tablingMemberPrinted "Steve Rotheram" ; parl:uin "218595" ; dcterms:date "2014-12-15"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

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.

Public health allocation to upper tier and unitary local authorities in 2014-15

Office for National Statistics Local Authority Name

2014-15 allocation
£'000

Birmingham

80,838

Manchester

44,116

Leeds

40,540

Newcastle Upon Tyne

21,301

Bristol, City of

29,122

Southampton

15,050

Sunderland

21,234

Greater London Authorities:

577,514

City of London

1,698

Barking and Dagenham

14,213

Barnet

14,335

Bexley

7,574

Brent

18,848

Bromley

12,954

Camden

26,368

Croydon

18,825

Ealing

21,974

Enfield

14,257

Greenwich

19,061

Hackney

29,818

Hammersmith and Fulham

20,855

Haringey

18,189

Harrow

9,146

Havering

9,717

Hillingdon

15,709

Hounslow

14,084

Islington

25,429

Kensington and Chelsea

21,214

Kingston upon Thames

9,302

Lambeth

26,437

Lewisham

20,088

Merton

9,236

Newham

26,112

Redbridge

11,411

Richmond upon Thames

7,891

Southwark

22,946

Sutton

8,619

Tower Hamlets

32,261

Waltham Forest

12,277

Wandsworth

25,431

Westminster

31,235

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.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Battersea" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Jane Ellison" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2014-11-03"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2014-11-03T17:44:55.2293111Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

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.

Table 1 below shows the number of applications and refusals for each year. Note that 2014 data only extends to September thus far.

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014 (Jan-Sep)

Applications

66,780

70,990

66,390

62,200

39,470

Refusals

33,350

36,330

34,540

29,200

18,190

Notes

1. These figures do not include applications which were processed clerically and have not yet been entered on to the Social Fund Computer System.

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.

.

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.

4. All figures are rounded to the nearest 10.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Thornbury and Yate" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Steve Webb" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2014-10-27"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2014-10-27T13:57:49.2833144Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

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.

Notes

1. These figures do not include applications which were processed clerically and have not yet been entered on to the Social Fund Computer System.

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.

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.

4. All figures are rounded to the nearest 10.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Thornbury and Yate" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Steve Webb" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2014-10-24"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2014-10-24T13:48:18.1742771Z"^^xsd:dateTime . parl:answerText "

This information is not held centrally.

" ; parl:answeringMember ; parl:answeringMemberConstituency "Battersea" ; parl:answeringMemberPrinted "Jane Ellison" ; parl:dateOfAnswer "2014-10-27"^^xsd:dateTime ; parl:isMinisterialCorrection false ; parl:questionFirstAnswered "2014-10-27T17:16:42.7329776Z"^^xsd:dateTime . a api:ListEndpoint ; dcterms:hasPart ; api:definition . a api:Page ; "10"^^xsd:long ; "1"^^xsd:long ; "157"^^xsd:long ; dcterms:isPartOf ; api:definition ; api:extendedMetadataVersion ; api:items ( ) ; api:page "0"^^xsd:long ; ; .