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164303

registered interest
date	24/11/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps the Law Officers' Departments are taking to ensure their services are available online; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	215656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>Information on the work of the Law Officers’ Departments websites can be found on the Gov.uk website or on their own websites. However, as their work is primarily aimed at providing legal support to the Government or conducting prosecutions on behalf of the Crown, they do not currently provide any specific online services directly to the public.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 01/12/2014 15:06:55 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

164304

registered interest
date	24/11/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Harry Street
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, for what reasons the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to proceed with some of the charges against Harry Street during hearings in his case at Birmingham Crown Court in October 2014.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	215700
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>On 6 October 2014 the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) accepted guilty pleas to one count of making an explosive substance, three counts of possessing a prohibited firearm and one count of putting a person in fear of violence by harassment. The pleas were accepted on the basis that if Harry Street’s mental health ever deteriorated to the same extent it had in 1978 he was undoubtedly capable of deploying the weapons.</p><p>The decision not to proceed with the four remaining counts was taken in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors which provides: “Prosecutors should only accept the defendant’s plea if they think the court is able to pass a sentence that matches the seriousness of the offending”. In view of the evidence before the court, it was clear to the CPS that the sentence imposed by the court would be a restricted hospital order under section 37 and section 41 of the Mental Health Act 1983 whether he was convicted of all counts, or those which were accepted as pleas.</p><p>In making a restricted hospital order, the Learned Judge fully supported the approach taken by the CPS. The court ordered the remaining counts to lie on the file not to proceed without the leave of the court.</p><p>The decision to accept the guilty pleas on 6 October 2014 was taken following full consultation with the victims/ victims’ families for both the recent offences and the 1978 offences.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 01/12/2014 15:05:01 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

164305

registered interest
date	24/11/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Students: Suffolk
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of students in Suffolk local education authority area applied for student (a) loans and (b) grants in the (i) 2008-09, (ii) 2009-10 and (iii) 2010-11 academic years.
tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
tabling member printed	Mr David Ruffley
uin	215720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The number of full-time students, residing in the local authority of Suffolk when they applied for financial support, who were awarded student loans or grants in academic years 2008/09 to 2013/14 is shown in Table 1.</p><p> </p><p>It was not possible to provide the proportions requested in the answer because estimates of the loan and grant eligible population are not available at that level of detail.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1</strong> -- Students awarded student loans or grants who were living in Suffolk Local Authority<sup>1</sup> when they applied for financial support.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Local authority: Suffolk</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Type of financial support</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Academic Year</p></td><td><p>Loans</p><p>[2]</p></td><td><p>Grants and Allowances [3]</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>10,300</p></td><td><p>6,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>11,100</p></td><td><p>6,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>11,300</p></td><td><p>6,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>11,800</p></td><td><p>7,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>11,700</p></td><td><p>6,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>12,000</p></td><td><p>6,700</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Source: Student Loans Company</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>[1] Suffolk Local Authority covers applicants with postcodes in Babergh, Forest Heath, Ipswich, Mid Suffolk, St Edmundsbury and Suffolk districts at the time of application</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>[2] Includes maintenance and tuition fee loans</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>[3] Includes Higher Education grants, Special Support grants, Maintenance grants, Tuition Fee grants, Disabled Student allowances, Travel grants, Childcare grants, Dependants grants, Parental Learning allowances and Adult Dependant grants.</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>[4] Data refer to the mid-November following the end of each respective academic year.</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>[5] Figures may differ slightly from the answer provided in March 2011 as a more recent postcode address file has been used.</strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 02/12/2014 16:08:14 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	133 label Biography information for Mr David Ruffley

164308

registered interest
date	24/11/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to ensure its services are available online; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	215655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>A number of BIS services are available online including transaction services (e.g. filing information and accounts at Companies House), as well as online guidance available on GOV.UK and information on BIS services. BIS also uses digital channels to engage stakeholders in developing policy making.</p><p>BIS is committed to the vision set out in the Government Digital Strategy, publishing its own digital strategy in 2012. BIS and Partner Organisations have embarked on a digital transformation programme that by 2020 will ensure that all services that can be redesigned as such will be 'digital by default' and available on GOV.UK. They will be redesigned around the needs of users i.e. businesses, students, employees and consumers.</p><p>As a critical first step, BIS is playing a key role as part of the Government's Digital Exemplar Programme covering organisations with services that have over 100k transactions annually. BIS provides 5 of the 25 exemplar services. These are:</p><ul><li>Patents Renewal (Intellectual Property Office (IPO))</li><li>Redundancy Payments (Insolvency Service)</li><li>Land Registry Digital Delivery Service</li><li>Apprenticeships (Skills Funding Agency)</li><li>Part-Time Student Finance (Student Loans Company)</li></ul><p>Each of these services have or are being redesigned to be digital by default. Two are already live - Patents Renewal and Part-Time Student Finance - and the remaining three will be publicly available by end March 2015.</p><p>Beyond the exemplar services, The BIS Digital and Technology 2020 roadmap will identify all current non-digital services across BIS and Partner Organisations that need to be redesigned to be digital by default by 2020 along with the estimated timelines for development and online availability.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 27/11/2014 15:37:12 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

164309

registered interest
date	24/11/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Business: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many loans have been made by the British Business Bank to companies based in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	East Antrim
tabling member printed	Sammy Wilson
uin	215629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>The British Business Bank became an operationally independent organisation on 1<sup>st</sup> November 2014. It does not make loans directly to businesses. Instead, it works with private sector delivery partners to deliver all of its programmes, allowing it to pull in significant amounts of private sector funding.</p><p>The Bank’s programmes are already supporting businesses in Northern Ireland. Through the Start Up Loans programme 205 loans have already been offered to start-up businesses in Northern Ireland with a total value of nearly £1m. The Enterprise Finance Guarantee programme has facilitated lending of £39.3m to 271 businesses.</p><p>Additionally, the Bank’s investment programmes, which provide lending through alternative finance providers, have so far facilitated 112 loans to businesses in Northern Ireland with a total value of £5.9m.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 215630 question first answered 01/12/2014 16:52:41 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1593 label Biography information for Sammy Wilson

164310

registered interest
date	24/11/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Business: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the value is of loans made to businesses in Northern Ireland by the British Business Bank.
tabling member constituency	East Antrim
tabling member printed	Sammy Wilson
uin	215630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>The British Business Bank became an operationally independent organisation on 1<sup>st</sup> November 2014. It does not make loans directly to businesses. Instead, it works with private sector delivery partners to deliver all of its programmes, allowing it to pull in significant amounts of private sector funding.</p><p>The Bank’s programmes are already supporting businesses in Northern Ireland. Through the Start Up Loans programme 205 loans have already been offered to start-up businesses in Northern Ireland with a total value of nearly £1m. The Enterprise Finance Guarantee programme has facilitated lending of £39.3m to 271 businesses.</p><p>Additionally, the Bank’s investment programmes, which provide lending through alternative finance providers, have so far facilitated 112 loans to businesses in Northern Ireland with a total value of £5.9m.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 215629 question first answered 01/12/2014 16:52:41 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1593 label Biography information for Sammy Wilson

164314

registered interest
date	24/11/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to ensure its services are available online; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	215657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>Progress against the delivery of my department's Digital Strategy, which sets out plans to become ‘digital by default’ in line with the Government Digital Strategy, is due to be published in December.</p><p>One of the 25 'exemplar' major government service that are being redesigned and rebuilt to be simpler, clearer and faster to use was the Cabinet Office's Register to Vote service. This went live in June this year in England and Wales followed by Scotland in September. More than 2.2m people have registered to vote using this digital service, with an overall satisfaction rate of over 90%. Further details are published on <a href="http://gov.uk/transformation" target="_blank">gov.uk/transformation</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 01/12/2014 11:20:05 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

164315

registered interest
date	24/11/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Appointments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his role is in public appointments.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	215701
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>Individual public appointments are made by the relevant Minister in the sponsor department of the public body. It is the responsibility of appointing departments to conduct recruitment processes in accordance with the Commissioner for Public Appointments’ Code of Practice.</p><p>I have responsibility for overall policy on Government public appointments and am working to improve their diversity, including by providing appropriate guidance to departments.</p><p>Over the last 8 years, the number of women appointed to the boards of public bodies remained static around 36%. Statistics for 2013/14 show that 39% of new appointments were made to women, with recent figures even stronger. There remains more to do to improve the diversity of our public appointments and the Centre for Public Appointments in the Cabinet Office plays a coordinating and supportive role in this.</p><p>I make appointments to the boards of a number of Cabinet Office bodies.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 01/12/2014 16:59:26 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

164316

registered interest
date	24/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Stamp Duty Land Tax: Suffolk
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many properties sold in (a) Bury St Edmunds constituency and (b) Suffolk County Council area attracted stamp duty land tax levied at (i) zero per cent, (ii) one per cent, (iii) three per cent and (iv) four per cent in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
tabling member printed	Mr David Ruffley
uin	215719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>Estimates of the number of residential property transactions, rounded to the nearest 10, for Bury St Edmunds parliamentary constituency and Suffolk County Council are given in the following table, grouped by stamp duty land tax band.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><em>Bury St Edmunds</em></p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td colspan="2"> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>SDLT Band</p></td><td><p><strong>0%<sup>(1)</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>1%<sup>(2)</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>3%<sup>(3)</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>4%<sup>(4)</sup></strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>higher<sup>(5)</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p>440</p></td><td><p>1140</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>420</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>50</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>&lt;50</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p>430</p></td><td><p>1150</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>390</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>50</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>&lt;50</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p>430</p></td><td><p>1390</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>520</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>80</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>&lt;50</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td colspan="10"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Suffolk</em></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p>3570</p></td><td><p>6140</p></td><td><p>2000</p></td><td><p>350</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p>3590</p></td><td><p>6220</p></td><td><p>2140</p></td><td><p>350</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p>3950</p></td><td><p>7680</p></td><td><p>2650</p></td><td><p>460</p></td><td><p>60</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td colspan="6"> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>(1)</sup> Threshold is £125,000 in all years. The temporary increase in the threshold from £125,000 to £250,000 for first time buyers between March 2010 and March 2012 is ignored.</p><p> </p><p><sup>(2)</sup> £125,001 to £250,000</p><p> </p><p><sup>(3)</sup> £250,001 to £500,000.</p><p> </p><p><sup>(4)</sup> £500,001 to £1 million.</p><p> </p><p><sup>(5) </sup>Above £1 million. This includes the 5%, 7% and 15% bands. Due to tax payer confidentiality more detailed information cannot be provided for the higher bands.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Transactions with a value under £40,000, the current stamp duty land tax notification threshold, are excluded from figures for all years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of transactions bearing stamp duty will be lower than the number shown in the non-zero bands due to various applicable reliefs, (e.g. disadvantaged area relief, group relief, registered social landlord relief). There are also some lease transactions which fall in the zero per cent band on account of consideration, but which bear stamp duty on the lease rental.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 01/12/2014 15:10:25 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	133 label Biography information for Mr David Ruffley

164319

registered interest
date	24/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to ensure its services are available online; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	215671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>The Treasury doesn’t currently have any online transactional services. We will ensure that any future services meet the Digital by Default Service Standard as set by the Government Digital Service (GDS).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 27/11/2014 17:43:06 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby