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100828

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
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	Universal Credit: Ashfield
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many payments to universal credit claimants have been made directly to a landlord in Ashfield local authority area.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	211835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>The information you have requested is not currently available. The Department published its strategy for releasing official statistics on Universal Credit in September 2013 which can be found at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/universal-credit-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These statistics however will be published in accordance with the relevant protocols in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As outlined in the strategy, officials are currently quality assuring data for Universal Credit, therefore it is not yet possible to give a definitive list of what statistics will be provided in the future.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Forest of Dean answering member printed Mr Mark Harper question first answered 28/10/2014 12:04:14 answering member 1520 label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

93823

registered interest
date	16/10/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the mortality rate from cancer has been in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) the East Midlands in each of the last 15 years.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	210947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 21/10/2014 15:32:03 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ 210947 ONS 353.pdf title ONS Letter to Member - Mortality Rate
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

93867

registered interest
date	16/10/2014
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Public Appointments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what public appointments her Department has made in each of the last five years; and what payments each person so appointed is entitled to claim.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	210952
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>Public appointments made by the Government Equalities Office in the last five years have been to the Equality and Human Rights Commission:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</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></tr><tr><td><p>EHRC public appointments</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>For the last five years EHRC Commissioners have received fees at a rate of £400 per day (except for the Chair and Deputy Chair who are salaried). Commissioners also receive expenses for travel and subsistence in the course of their EHRC duties. Payments made vary considerably depending on each Commissioner’s role and the amount of time that each contributes. The table shows the range of remuneration paid to Commissioners during the period:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p><strong>2009/10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Range of EHRC Commissioner salary or fees paid</p></td><td><p>£2,366 to £124,000</p></td><td><p>£7,000 to £124,000</p></td><td><p>£10,808 to £147,000</p></td><td><p>£2,167 to £65,000</p></td><td><p>£10,000 to £55,838</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Range of EHRC Commissioner expenses paid</p><p> </p></td><td><p>£2 to £1,574</p></td><td><p>£1 to £1,580</p></td><td><p>£1 to £1,260</p></td><td><p>0 to £1,718</p></td><td><p>0 to £7,679</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 21/10/2014 11:03:47 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

91592

registered interest
date	11/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) women and (b) men have been unable to pay employment tribunal fees in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	209108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) is unable to collect such data, since it cannot identify people who choose not to use the employment tribunals for whatever reason.</p><p> </p><p>A fee remission scheme is available for anyone without the means to pay a fee in the employment tribunals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 13/10/2014 12:41:07 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

91593

registered interest
date	11/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) women and (b) men have pursued discrimination cases against their employers in employment tribunals in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	209140
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The number of discrimination cases received can be found in the latest official statistics release published by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). Statistical data are published annually and quarterly, including volumes of jurisdictional discrimination complaints received and disposed of. That information is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2014.</p><p> </p><p>The tables below provide data on the number of jurisdictional complaints accepted for discrimination claims by gender for the last five financial years(1) and the number of jurisdictional complaints where no gender was recorded.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Table 1 – Number of jurisdictional complaints accepted by gender for discrimination claims</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Female</p></td><td><p>Male</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>23,027</p></td><td><p>13,821</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>26,041</p></td><td><p>13,925</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>17,287</p></td><td><p>12,336</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>22,414</p></td><td><p>13,682</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>15,288</p></td><td><p>8,699</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Table 2 – Number of jurisdictional complaints accepted for discrimination where no gender was recorded</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>3,598</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>711</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>192</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>186</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>258</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>(1) These data have been taken from a live case management system so may differ from the previously published official statistics. These data have been extracted specifically to answer this question and are not subject to the same level of checking as the official statistics.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 13/10/2014 12:34:16 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

91663

registered interest
date	11/09/2014
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	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many individual change of circumstances the Child Maintenance Service or Child Support Agency has processed in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	209149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>For cases administered by the Child Support Agency, information on the number of individual change of circumstances output, is only readily available from November 2010. Information broken down by financial year from April 2011 is provided in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of change of circumstance outputs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2011 – March 2012</p></td><td><p>2,930,868</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2012 – March 2013</p></td><td><p>3,204,127</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2013 – March 2014</p></td><td><p>2,948,445</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Note:</p><p>The information is provided for GB cases only</p><p>The 2012 child maintenance scheme, administered by the Child Maintenance Service, was opened to all new applicants on 25 November 2013. We are not yet in a position to release full statistics, therefore we are unable to provide you with the information requested. When system data becomes available and fully assured they will be released as part of a managed process, which will be pre-announced and in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 13/10/2014 10:02:33 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

91054

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Homophobia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were (a) charged and (b) convicted of homophobic hate crimes in the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	208536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2014 answer text <p>All forms of hate crime are deplorable and it’s important that victims are protected and have the confidence to come forward. The Government is driving forward work to tackle hostility and hate crime. We have toughened up sentencing and are working closely with the police and other agencies to increase reporting, improve support and prevent these terrible crimes happening in the first place.</p><p> </p><p>The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates' court for offences relating to acts intended to stir up religious hatred or hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation, under Sections 29B to 29G of the Public Order Act 1986, in England &amp; Wales, from 2009-2013 (latest data available) can be viewed in table 1. The data held centrally by the Ministry of Justice on court proceedings do not specifically identify whether the stirring up hatred offence prosecuted was on grounds of religious hatred or sexual orientation.</p><p> </p><p>The number of offenders found guilty at all courts for offences relating to acts intended to stir up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation, under Sections 29B to 29G of the Public Order Act 1986, in England &amp; Wales, from 2009-2013 (latest data available) can be viewed in table 2.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 14/10/2014 09:48:33 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning attachment 1 file name 208536 - table.xls title Statistics for 2009-2013
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

91056

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Homosexuality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many men had convictions for offences related to consensual gay sex expunged from their criminal records in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	208531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p /> <p>As of 9 September 2014 the number of individuals who have had convictions for offences related to consensual gay sex expunged from their criminal records in each year since 2012 are:</p><p /> <p><br>2012 0<br>2013 38<br>2014 13</p><p /> <p><br>There are three outstanding cases. Some individuals have made multiple applications.</p><p /> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 11/09/2014 16:37:35 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

91108

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Employment: Homophobia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what targets the Government has set for tackling homophobia in the workplace; and what steps have been taken to achieve those targets in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	208534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2014 answer text <p>The Government has not set targets for tackling homophobia in the workplace; however, practical advice for employers and/or employees on dealing with homophobia is available via the following Government-funded bodies: acas, the Equality and Human Rights Commission; the Equalities Advisory and Support Service; and on GOV.UK.</p><p>In March 2011 the Government published Working for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equality: Moving Forward which set out the actions to be taken across Government to enhance equality for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGB&amp;T) people. The Government is also providing match funding to the Citizens’ Advice European Union funded project to overcome barriers to employment and advancement in the workplace, which includes a specific focus on LGB&amp;T people.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 12/09/2014 13:00:42 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

76999

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Small Businesses: Ashfield
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 small and medium-sized enterprises have been started in Ashfield constituency in each of the last five years; and what proportion of such businesses are still trading.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	205156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/08/2014 answer text <p>There is no single data source that comprehensively measures all business start-ups within the UK. However, as a near proxy BankSearch collates data on the number of new business bank accounts opened in Great Britain. This can be used as an indicative measure of business start-up activity and is the most comprehensive source available to BIS. Data goes as far back as 2008 and does not include information on whether the business is trading or not.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 28/08/2014 15:16:40 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock attachment 1 file name Ashfield - SME start-ups.docx title SME start-ups in Ashfield constituency
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero