Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered answering member label attachment file name title previous answer version answering member constituency answering member printed answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

174657

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
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	Higher Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on funding for (a) University Centre Shrewsbury and (b) other new universities.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	221294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2015 answer text <p>Ministershave discussed projects that Local Enterprise Partnerships have submitted for the £1 billion expansion of Growth Deals announced at Autumn Statement, including the proposal for the Marches LEP for the University Centre Shrewsbury.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I was pleased to have the opportunity to meet with my hon. Friend and the Leader of Shropshire Council, when I visited Harper Adams University, Shropshire, earlier this month.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 13/02/2015 11:50:11 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

174658

registered interest
date	20/01/2015
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	Higher Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of the economic benefit of universities to the region in which they are located.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	221295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2015 answer text <p>The Higher Education Funding Council for England published data on their website in October last year which explores the link between economic growth and higher education provision. This includes information on employment levels, higher education qualifications and graduate mobility. Universities UK have also produced a series of reports which examine the higher education sector’s contribution to the UK economy (“The impact of universities on the UK economy), with the most recent publication in 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 13/02/2015 11:17:15 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

174356

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Small Businesses: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much revenue is protected by applying the EU VAT place of supply rules to micro businesses and sole traders which operate under the UK VAT threshold.
tabling member constituency	Morecambe and Lunesdale
tabling member printed	David Morris
uin	221289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>A Tax information and Impact Note was published on 10 December 2013, which included an assessment of the additional revenue raised by the change. It is available at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/385370/OLD_complete_v3.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/385370/OLD_complete_v3.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 24/03/2015 17:47:33 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	4135 label Biography information for David Morris

174364

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department spent on (a) recruitment agency fees, (b) outplacement agency fees for displaced or redundant staff and (c) staff training in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	221225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2015 answer text <p>My Department has reduced staffing costs from £218 million a year in 2009-10 to £95 million in 2013-14, an ongoing saving of £123 million a year.<br><br>There is and remains a need to replace staff from general turnover and where we need specific technical skills. We are committed to open recruitment, so we can obtain individual staff with the best expertise from the private sector, the voluntary sector and other parts of the public sector.</p><p> </p><p>The total sums spent on recruitment agencies are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£27,787</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£13,201</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£9,974</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£16,946</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>Zero</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>These figures exclude public appointments and Cabinet Office recruitment but are inclusive of VAT.</p><p> </p><p>We have not made any such outplacement agencies fees in the last five years.</p><p> </p><p>This Government has taken a series of steps to save taxpayers' money and improve overall quality of the training provision. My answer of 24 February 2015, Question 224508, outlined the spending in each full financial year from 2008-09 onwards.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 04/03/2015 16:57:54 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins previous answer version 39797 answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

174370

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Affordable Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the effect on the delivery of affordable housing of his Department's policy on section 106 affordable housing exemptions for small sites.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	221278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Communities and Local Government carried out a public consultation in March 2014 to invite views and local evidence on proposed changes to national policy on section 106 affordable housing and tariff contributions. All evidence submitted was carefully considered.</p><p> </p><p>As a consequence of the consultation, we amended our proposals to introduce a lower threshold of 5 units for rural areas, as outlined in my Written Ministerial Statement of 28 November 2014, <em>Official Report</em>, Column 55WS. Rural exception sites are also exempted.</p><p> </p><p>I can confirm that we have also undertaken an Equality Impact Assessment, which I will arrange to be placed in the Library of the House. We do not consider our reforms will have a negative impact on discrimination, fostering good relations or advancing equality of opportunity.</p><p> </p><p>We estimate that the policy will save, on average, £15,000 in Section 106 housing contributions per new dwelling in England—some councils are charging up to £145,000 on single dwellings. Further savings will be made from scaling back Section 106 tariffs, which may add additional charges of more than £15,000 per dwelling, over and above any housing contributions. Taken together, these reforms will deliver six-figure savings for small-scale developers in some parts of the country.</p><p> </p><p>We do not believe that our reforms will have any significant adverse effect on our affordable housing programme. We have so far delivered 217,000 new affordable homes since 2010, and are bringing in £19.5 billion of public and private in affordable housing over the current Spending Review period. In the next Parliament, we are on track to deliver a further 275,000 new affordable homes, backed up by £38 billion of public and private investment.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Builders Federation has confirmed that these changes will provide a boost to small and medium builders, stating: “This exemption would offer small and medium-sized developers a shot in the arm. The time and expense of negotiating Section 106 affordable housing contributions on small sites, and the subsequent payments, can threaten the viability of small developments and act as another barrier to the entry and growth of smaller firms”</p><p> </p><p>Similarly, the Federation of Master Builders has said: “The new ten unit threshold for affordable housing contributions is a sensible and proportionate approach to help alleviate the pressure on SME house builders who have been squeezed out of the housing market in recent years. This is important because without a viable SME house building sector we won’t be able to build the number of new homes that are needed to address the housing crisis”.</p><p> </p><p>We also listened to representations from the hon. (Labour) Member for Bassetlaw (John Mann) who has campaigned vigorously against such levies. Indeed, I would observe that under the majority of the last Labour Government, the national threshold (as stated in PPG3) was actually 15 units.</p><p> </p><p>Loading stealth taxes on new housing just makes housing less affordable and cuts house building. Unrealistic Section 106 charges result in no development, no regeneration and no community benefits: reducing them can result in more housing and more affordable housing. Our reforms will help unblock small stalled sites and provide a boost to self-builders and small house builders.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 12/02/2015 17:08:26 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis previous answer version 39802 answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

174457

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Convictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) number of convictions, (b) conviction rate as a percentage of prosecutions brought and (c) rate of convictions as a percentage of crimes reported was for (i) murder, (ii) grievous bodily harm, (iii) sexual offences, (iv) burglary, (v) robbery, (vi) theft, (vii) criminal damage, (viii) public order offences, (ix) drug offences, (x) driving offences and (xi) all offences in (A) Elmbridge, (B) Surrey, (C) the South East of England and (D) England in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
uin	221192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>Crime is falling and is at its lowest level since records began in 1981, as per the Crime Survey in England and Wales. Since 2010 those who do offend are more likely to go to prison and for longer than ever before. For the first time in ten years, an immediate prison sentence is the most common disposal for indictable offences.<br> <br>This follows a series of measures by the Government to toughen up sentencing and make sure those who commit these crimes face a significant term in prison, including an automatic life sentence for a second serious sexual or violent offence. <br><br>There are also several measures to strengthen sentencing in the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill, which has completed its passage through Parliament and awaits Royal Assent. These include ensuring that all dangerous offenders who receive the tough Extended Determinate Sentence (EDS) are no longer automatically released two-thirds of the way through their custodial term. The Government has also banned the use of simple cautions for serious offences. <br> <br>We are also determined that our justice system delivers the right outcomes for victims of crime and the public as a whole, and we have made great strides in recent years – not least through smarter use of technology, and joined-up working.<br><br>The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty, along with conviction ratio at all courts of the offences specified in the question from 2009 to 2013 can be viewed in the tables as detailed below:-<br><br>Figures for Surrey can be viewed in Table 1<br>Figures for the South East of England can be viewed in Table 2<br>Figures for England as a whole can be viewed in Table 3<br><br>There are no courts in the Borough of Elmbridge; hence the figure for that portion of the question is zero. The Ministry of Justice court proceedings database cannot specifically identify the exact location of offences. These figures are based on the location of the court hearing the case.<br><br>Conviction ratio is provided in place of conviction rate as a case can be commenced in one year and concluded in a subsequent year.<br><br>A defendant may be convicted in a different year to that in which they were proceeded against. Variation in the conviction ratio can be caused either by a change in the percentage of cases that end in conviction or by a change in the percentage of cases that end in a conviction in the same year as the original proceeding. Therefore fluctuations in data, particularly in the last year for which figures are available can be misleading. <br><br>Rates of convictions as a percentage of reported crime cannot be provided. The Home Office collects data on the number of notifiable offences recorded by the police. Of these, some crimes may be subsequently ‘no crimed’ (for example if it is believed a crime did not actually take place or was incorrectly recorded as a crime).<br><br>Therefore, conviction rates as a percentage of recorded crime could therefore present a misleading picture.<br><br>Court proceedings data for 2014 are planned for publication in Spring 2015.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 10/02/2015 09:55:12 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning attachment 1 file name PQ 221192 - Defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts.xls title Defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts
tabling member	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab

174486

registered interest
date	19/01/2015
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Self-employed: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average weekly earnings were for self-employed women in each year since 2002-03.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	221265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p><strong>Table 1: </strong>estimated median weekly income (£) from self-employment of women from 2002/03 to 2012/13. These figures cover a period that includes the deepest recession since the 1930s and the initial recovery from a large fall in national income. In the period since 2012/13 the economic recovery has picked up speed, with GDP in 2014 up by 2.6% on the previous year, while the number of people in work increased by more than half a million in the year to November 2014.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Self-employed women</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002/03</p></td><td><p>147</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003/04</p></td><td><p>150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004/05</p></td><td><p>143</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005/06</p></td><td><p>140</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006/07</p></td><td><p>159</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007/08</p></td><td><p>134</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>143</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>137</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>125</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>134</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>120</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Source:</strong> Family Resources Survey</p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ol start="1" type="1"><li>Figures have been adjusted to 2012/13 prices using RPI and are rounded to the nearest pound (£).</li></ol><p>2. Self-employment is defined using the ILO definition.</p><p>3. The Family Resources Survey is a nationally representative sample of UK households.</p><p>4. The figures from the Family Resources Survey are based on a sample of households which have been adjusted for non-response using multi-purpose grossing factors which align the Family Resources Survey to former Government Office Region population by age and sex. Estimates based on survey data are subject to uncertainty due to sampling error and remaining non-response error.</p><ol start="5" type="1"><li>Median self-employment income divides the number of people, when ranked by self-employment income, into two equal-sized groups.</li></ol> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 09/02/2015 17:02:43 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey previous answer version 39820 answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

172719

registered interest
date	08/01/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Staff
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Bates on 18 December 2014 (HL3693) and by Lord Henley on 13 March 2013 (WA 73) and 10 January 2012 (WA37–8), which Home Office Minister authorised the decision to withhold from Parliament the names of the Home Office officials convicted of offences relating to misconduct in public office for which they have received custodial sentences; and when the previous practice of revealing such names in parliamentary answers was changed.
tabling member printed	Lord Marlesford
uin	HL4039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>Lord Bates approved the response to HL3693 but in view of the Noble Lords further question we are reviewing our position and will write accordingly.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 12/02/2015 17:42:01 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	1854 label Biography information for Lord Marlesford