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388337

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date	07/07/2015
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Welfare Tax Credits: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the effect on claimants in Scotland of changes to working and child tax credits.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Harry Harpham
uin	5814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>I meet with the Chancellor regularly to discuss a wide range of issues. Our changes to working and child tax credits will support our welfare reforms by ensuring that work always pays. Taxpayers should not be asked to subsidise, through the tax credit system, businesses which pay the lowest wages. Instead, we will support people in work through lower taxes and higher wages.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 14/07/2015 12:20:07 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4477 label Biography information for Harry Harpham

388339

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	English Votes for English Laws
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on the compatibility of proposals to implement English votes on English laws with the Union with England Act 1707; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
tabling member printed	Dr Paul Monaghan
uin	5764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>The Union with Scotland Act 1706 and the Union with England Act 1707 provide that the United Kingdom of Great Britain shall be represented by one Parliament. I am satisfied that the proposal to introduce English votes on English laws is compatible with this legislation. Parliament will remain the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and all Members will be entitled to debate and vote on all legislation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 14/07/2015 12:18:42 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4383 label Biography information for Dr Paul Monaghan

388340

registered interest
date	07/07/2015
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what discussions he has had with Ministers in the Scottish Government on the potential effect of the Government's immigration policies on Scotland's higher and further education sectors.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	5765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>I am in contact with ministerial colleagues from the Home Office on a range of issues, including how we can continue to attract the brightest and the best students from overseas to study in Scotland.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 14/07/2015 11:49:44 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

387895

registered interest
date	06/07/2015
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Annual Reports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, when he plans to publish his Department's Annual Report and Accounts for 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	5692
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>The Annual Report and Accounts of the Scotland Office and Office of the Advocate General for 2014-15 will be laid before the House of Commons before the summer recess.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 09/07/2015 11:37:33 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

387896

registered interest
date	06/07/2015
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what bonuses were paid to (a) officials and (b) special advisers in his Department in each of the last three financial years; and for what reasons each such bonus was awarded.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	5652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>All staff in the Scotland Office are on assignment, secondment or loan from other Government bodies, in the majority of cases, the Scottish Government and the Ministry of Justice. Staff may be eligible for bonuses, in addition to basic salary, through their parent bodies' pay arrangements.</p><p>The Scotland Office is not responsible for payments made through end of year performance payments or allowances under staffs' parent bodies' pay arrangements and does not hold information centrally on these matters.</p><p>The Scotland Office is able to authorise directly non-consolidated and non-pensionable bonus payments in recognition of special effort, achievement and commitment, where the payment of such bonuses forms part of the individual member of staff’s terms and conditions. The current bonus arrangements do not apply to staff on assignment from the Scottish Government.</p><p>The following information shows the cost of such payments in the last three financial years:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Cost of Payments (£)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Awards</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p>£3,050</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p>£4,700</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p>£0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Special Advisers are not eligible for bonuses.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 13/07/2015 14:39:44 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

387897

registered interest
date	06/07/2015
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Ministerial Policy Advisers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what the (a) name, (b) responsibilities and (c) pay band is of each of the special advisers in his Department.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	5653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my Rt hon. Friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office on 13 July 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 14/07/2015 11:48:15 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

387370

registered interest
date	02/07/2015
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, 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	5313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>Statistics on the use of Freedom of Information exemptions are published by the Ministry of Justice (Table 10 of annual reports). They are available here:</p><p><a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" target="_blank"><strong>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</strong></a><em>. </em></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> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 09/07/2015 11:32:18 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

387371

registered interest
date	02/07/2015
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, 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	5292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>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:</p><p><a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" target="_blank"><strong>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</strong></a><em>. </em></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> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 09/07/2015 11:34:13 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

387372

registered interest
date	02/07/2015
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Scotland Office: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, 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	5334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>No guidance has been issued to 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 has published its own guidance on the use of this exemption, and is available here:</p><p><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"><strong>http://www.justice.gov.uk/information-access-rights/foi-guidance-for-practitioners/exemptions-guidance</strong></a><em>.</em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 09/07/2015 11:36:01 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

387448

registered interest
date	02/07/2015
answering body	Scotland Office
answering dept id	2
answering dept short name	Scotland
answering dept sort name	Scotland
hansard heading	Devolution: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to the contribution of the leader of the House of 2 July 2015, if he will place in the Library copies of independent assessments which confirm that the Scottish achieves the recommendations of the Smith commission report.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
uin	5448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>I am confident that the Scotland Bill will deliver the Smith Commission agreement in full and will be recognised as doing so.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale answering member printed David Mundell question first answered 09/07/2015 13:39:20 answering member 1512 label Biography information for David Mundell
tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman