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387376

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date	02/07/2015
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, on how many occasions his Department applied the exemption in section 38(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (disclosure likely to endanger the safety of any individual) in wholly or partly refusing a freedom of information request in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
tabling member printed	Peter Grant
uin	5316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>Wales Office statistics on the use of Freedom of Information exemptions are published by the Ministry of Justice (Table 10 of annual reports), and are available here: <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</a>.</p><p>These statistics provide the number of times section 38 as a whole has been used by each government department. More detailed figures for the constituent parts of section 38 are not readily available because our systems are not designed to provide a more detailed breakdown than is required for the published statistics.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns grouped question UIN 5295 question first answered 09/07/2015 14:28:11 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

387377

registered interest
date	02/07/2015
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, on how many occasions his Department applied the exemption in section 38(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (disclosure likely to endanger the physical or mental health of any individual) in wholly or partly refusing a freedom of information request in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
tabling member printed	Peter Grant
uin	5295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>Wales Office statistics on the use of Freedom of Information exemptions are published by the Ministry of Justice (Table 10 of annual reports), and are available here: <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</a>.</p><p>These statistics provide the number of times section 38 as a whole has been used by each government department. More detailed figures for the constituent parts of section 38 are not readily available because our systems are not designed to provide a more detailed breakdown than is required for the published statistics.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns grouped question UIN 5316 question first answered 09/07/2015 14:28:11 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

387378

registered interest
date	02/07/2015
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Wales Office: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what instructions have been given to staff in his Department dealing with freedom of information requests on the application of Freedom of Information Act Awareness Guidance No. 19, issued by the Information Commissioner's Office, in considering whether to apply the exemptions in section 38 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
tabling member printed	Peter Grant
uin	5337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>No guidance has been issued to Wales Office staff on the application of Freedom of Information Act Awareness Guidance No.19, issued by the Information Commissioner's Office, about the application of section 38 of the Act. However, the Ministry of Justice as the lead Department on Freedom of Information requests has published its own guidance on the use of this exemption. This is available here: <a title="http://www.justice.gov.uk/information-access-rights/foi-guidance-for-practitioners/exemptions-guidance" href="http://www.justice.gov.uk/information-access-rights/foi-guidance-for-practitioners/exemptions-guidance" target="_blank">http://www.justice.gov.uk/information-access-rights/foi-guidance-for-practitioners/exemptions-guidance</a><em>.</em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns question first answered 09/07/2015 14:25:48 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

387125

registered interest
date	01/07/2015
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Electorate: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many people of voting age there were in each local authority area in Wales (a) in each of the last 10 years and (b) on the latest date for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ynys Môn
tabling member printed	Albert Owen
uin	5127
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes mid-year estimates of population for Wales. Estimates of the numbers of people aged 18 and above in each local authority area in Wales over the last ten years is provided below. The latest available data, for mid-2014, was published on 25 June 2015.</p><p> </p><p /><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2005</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2006</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2007</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2008</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Isle of Anglesey</strong></p></td><td><p>54574</p></td><td><p>54998</p></td><td><p>55561</p></td><td><p>55989</p></td><td><p>56145</p></td><td><p>56215</p></td><td><p>56398</p></td><td><p>56447</p></td><td><p>56463</p></td><td><p>56533</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Gwynedd</strong></p></td><td><p>94601</p></td><td><p>95232</p></td><td><p>95643</p></td><td><p>96047</p></td><td><p>96609</p></td><td><p>97409</p></td><td><p>97845</p></td><td><p>98397</p></td><td><p>98316</p></td><td><p>98583</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Conwy</strong></p></td><td><p>89539</p></td><td><p>90249</p></td><td><p>91168</p></td><td><p>91946</p></td><td><p>92429</p></td><td><p>92681</p></td><td><p>93382</p></td><td><p>93634</p></td><td><p>94048</p></td><td><p>94564</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Denbighshire</strong></p></td><td><p>73666</p></td><td><p>73787</p></td><td><p>74460</p></td><td><p>74741</p></td><td><p>74664</p></td><td><p>74482</p></td><td><p>74395</p></td><td><p>74777</p></td><td><p>75144</p></td><td><p>75337</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Flintshire</strong></p></td><td><p>116139</p></td><td><p>116783</p></td><td><p>117566</p></td><td><p>118462</p></td><td><p>119242</p></td><td><p>119521</p></td><td><p>120031</p></td><td><p>120348</p></td><td><p>121016</p></td><td><p>121644</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Wrexham</strong></p></td><td><p>101060</p></td><td><p>102025</p></td><td><p>102897</p></td><td><p>103880</p></td><td><p>104722</p></td><td><p>105379</p></td><td><p>106015</p></td><td><p>106615</p></td><td><p>107020</p></td><td><p>107275</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Powys</strong></p></td><td><p>102428</p></td><td><p>103391</p></td><td><p>104555</p></td><td><p>105591</p></td><td><p>106272</p></td><td><p>106464</p></td><td><p>106868</p></td><td><p>107174</p></td><td><p>107236</p></td><td><p>107516</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Ceredigion</strong></p></td><td><p>61943</p></td><td><p>61944</p></td><td><p>62013</p></td><td><p>61715</p></td><td><p>61526</p></td><td><p>62313</p></td><td><p>62523</p></td><td><p>63408</p></td><td><p>63416</p></td><td><p>62875</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Pembrokeshire</strong></p></td><td><p>90963</p></td><td><p>92085</p></td><td><p>93624</p></td><td><p>95210</p></td><td><p>95983</p></td><td><p>96713</p></td><td><p>97509</p></td><td><p>98021</p></td><td><p>98378</p></td><td><p>99000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Carmarthenshire</strong></p></td><td><p>139986</p></td><td><p>141562</p></td><td><p>143239</p></td><td><p>144403</p></td><td><p>145078</p></td><td><p>145535</p></td><td><p>146347</p></td><td><p>146779</p></td><td><p>147313</p></td><td><p>147829</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Swansea</strong></p></td><td><p>182568</p></td><td><p>184058</p></td><td><p>185708</p></td><td><p>187271</p></td><td><p>188718</p></td><td><p>190590</p></td><td><p>191909</p></td><td><p>192893</p></td><td><p>193324</p></td><td><p>194267</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Neath Port Talbot</strong></p></td><td><p>108125</p></td><td><p>109003</p></td><td><p>109786</p></td><td><p>110495</p></td><td><p>110769</p></td><td><p>111179</p></td><td><p>111671</p></td><td><p>112032</p></td><td><p>112063</p></td><td><p>112590</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Bridgend</strong></p></td><td><p>103141</p></td><td><p>104459</p></td><td><p>106225</p></td><td><p>107569</p></td><td><p>108552</p></td><td><p>109481</p></td><td><p>110509</p></td><td><p>110834</p></td><td><p>111450</p></td><td><p>112178</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Vale of </strong></p><p><strong>Glamorgan</strong></p></td><td><p>94527</p></td><td><p>95475</p></td><td><p>96651</p></td><td><p>97658</p></td><td><p>98421</p></td><td><p>98824</p></td><td><p>99443</p></td><td><p>99722</p></td><td><p>100113</p></td><td><p>100662</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Cardiff</strong></p></td><td><p>253146</p></td><td><p>256018</p></td><td><p>260051</p></td><td><p>263894</p></td><td><p>268034</p></td><td><p>271305</p></td><td><p>274592</p></td><td><p>276824</p></td><td><p>279269</p></td><td><p>281207</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Rhondda </strong></p><p><strong>Cynon Taf</strong></p></td><td><p>181948</p></td><td><p>182897</p></td><td><p>183434</p></td><td><p>183915</p></td><td><p>184268</p></td><td><p>184331</p></td><td><p>184278</p></td><td><p>185566</p></td><td><p>186077</p></td><td><p>186911</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Merthyr Tydfil</strong></p></td><td><p>43193</p></td><td><p>43652</p></td><td><p>44251</p></td><td><p>44863</p></td><td><p>45417</p></td><td><p>45888</p></td><td><p>46297</p></td><td><p>46439</p></td><td><p>46513</p></td><td><p>46587</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Caerphilly</strong></p></td><td><p>132422</p></td><td><p>133672</p></td><td><p>135127</p></td><td><p>136515</p></td><td><p>137482</p></td><td><p>138485</p></td><td><p>139249</p></td><td><p>139761</p></td><td><p>140263</p></td><td><p>141099</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Blaenau Gwent</strong></p></td><td><p>53561</p></td><td><p>54085</p></td><td><p>54391</p></td><td><p>54738</p></td><td><p>55060</p></td><td><p>55256</p></td><td><p>55476</p></td><td><p>55660</p></td><td><p>55716</p></td><td><p>55722</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Torfaen</strong></p></td><td><p>69764</p></td><td><p>70084</p></td><td><p>70444</p></td><td><p>70753</p></td><td><p>71104</p></td><td><p>71117</p></td><td><p>71371</p></td><td><p>71767</p></td><td><p>71980</p></td><td><p>72248</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Monmouthshire</strong></p></td><td><p>68886</p></td><td><p>69557</p></td><td><p>70210</p></td><td><p>70858</p></td><td><p>71511</p></td><td><p>72071</p></td><td><p>72667</p></td><td><p>73144</p></td><td><p>73745</p></td><td><p>74234</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Newport</strong></p></td><td><p>106160</p></td><td><p>107281</p></td><td><p>108221</p></td><td><p>109459</p></td><td><p>110591</p></td><td><p>111628</p></td><td><p>112550</p></td><td><p>112919</p></td><td><p>113338</p></td><td><p>113566</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Preseli Pembrokeshire answering member printed Stephen Crabb question first answered 08/07/2015 11:54:35 answering member 1554 label Biography information for Stephen Crabb
tabling member	1474 label Biography information for Albert Owen