Rupert Lowe MP: written questions 2024
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Courts: FinesMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15370More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an estimate of the total amount written off in court fine accounts for each of the last 10 years.
Answer: Financial penalties imposed by the courts will often consist of multiple elements including, amongst others, compensation, victim surcharge, prosecutor’s costs and a fine.The Government takes the recovery and enforcement of all financial impositions very ...
Answered 29 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordCourts: FinesMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15369More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the total amount of outstanding court fines are.
Answer: Financial penalties imposed by the courts will often consist of multiple elements including, amongst others, compensation, victim surcharge, prosecutor’s costs and a fine.The Government takes the recovery and enforcement of all financial impositions very ...
Answered 2 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCourts: InterpretersMinistry of JusticeTabled 20 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15368More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of court cases have required a translator for each of the last 10 years.
Answer: The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Answered 29 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DeductionsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15366More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the total amount deducted from benefit payments to pay for claimants' court imposed fines each year for the ten previous years.
Answer: Table 1 provides the total amount deducted from Universal Credit payments to repay a Court Fine debt for each financial year from April 2018 to August 2024. Table 1: the total amount deducted from Universal Credit payments for Court Fines, April 2018 to A...
Answered 29 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPensioners: PovertyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15365More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of pensioners per constituency in (a) relative and (b) absolute poverty.
Answer: Statistics on the number of pensioners living in relative and absolute poverty are not available at a constituency level. Statistics on the number of pensioners living in relative and absolute poverty at regional level are published annually in the Househ...
Answered 28 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: Public OpinionHome OfficeTabled 20 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15294More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has commissioned public opinion polling on irregular migration in the last five years.
Answer: Contracts are in place for polling on a range of Home Office policy areas, including irregular migration.
Answered 2 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordUndocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 901404More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle illegal migration.
Answer: Mr Speaker, this Government came to office with a pledge to crack down on the organised crime gangs responsible for the vile trade in people-smuggling across the Channel, working with our counterparts in Europe and beyond, and I am pleased to report that ...
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordNational IncomeTreasuryTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15140More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2024 to Question 13562 on National Income, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of immigration numbers on recent trends in the rate of (a) economy growth and (
Answer: The impact of migration on GDP and GDP per capita will depend, among other factors, on the age, education, skill level, and participation rate of migrants, as well as the investment response of businesses. The latest data indicates that net migration has ...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSexual Offences: NationalityHome OfficeTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15139More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to Answer of 19 November 2024 to Question 13879 on Sexual Offences: Languages, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing registered sex offender nationality data st
Answer: ViSOR is the information-sharing system that the police, probation and prison services use to manage the risks posed by violent and sexual offenders managed under multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA). The categorisation of those offenders o...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordFarms: Domestic VisitsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15138More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farms he has visited since 5 July 2024.
Answer: Since 5 July the Secretary of State has had frequent engagement with the sector, including; attending the Great Yorkshire Agriculture Show in July 24; visiting a farm and meeting with a group of local farmers in Essex in September 24; meeting with the Pre...
Answered 5 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15137More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many farmers her Department consulted on changes to agricultural property relief before the Autumn Budget 2024.
Answer: The Government takes into account all representations made ahead of the Budget, and meets with stakeholders on a regular basis.
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: Inheritance TaxTreasuryTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15136More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to item 29 of Table 5.1 of the Autumn Budget 2024, HC 295, what the evidential basis is for her Department's estimate that changes to inheritance tax will raise £520 million from 2028/29.
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to the PQ referenced 13620 published on 11th November 2024 at https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-11-11/13620.
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: HousingHome OfficeTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15076More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing daily numbers of irregular migrants housed in (a) hotels and (b) other accommodation.
Answer: Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics, taking into account a number of factors including user needs, the resources required to compile the statistics, as well as quality and...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: EU NationalsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15047More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department has paid in benefits to people from the EU without settled status since the end of the transition period.
Answer: The requested information is not readily available. We are, however, exploring the feasibility of developing suitable statistics related to the immigration status of non-UK / Irish Universal Credit claimants. EU citizens present in the UK at the end of th...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: EU NationalsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15046More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people from the EU without settled status have been paid benefits since the end of the transition period.
Answer: The requested information is not readily available. We are, however, exploring the feasibility of developing suitable statistics related to the immigration status of non-UK / Irish Universal Credit claimants. EU citizens present in the UK at the end of th...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Work and Pensions: StaffDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15045More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff her Department employs at (a) SEO, (b) Grade 7 and (c) Grade 6.
Answer: We have provided the information requested in the table below. Staffing figures (as of 31st October 2024) are provided as Full Time Equivalence (FTE): GradeFTESEO4099.3G73069.8G61146.0
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Work and Pensions: StaffDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15044More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff of what grade her Department employed in non-customer engaging roles in each of the last five financial years.
Answer: The information you have requested is not held centrally and will have to be provided by operational teams. Gathering this data would incur disproportionate costs.
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: OverpaymentsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15043More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what overpayments of benefits due to Departmental error there were in each of the last five financial years.
Answer: The Department publishes estimates of the levels of fraud and error in the benefit system by financial year. These statistics for the last five years are available at: Fraud and error in the benefit system - GOV.UK Below is an extract: OVERALL LEVELS OF M...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Work and Pensions: TravelDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15042More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department spent on staff (a) travel, (b) subsistence and (c) stays in hotels in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Department does not keep this information centrally and to provide it would incur disproportionate costs.Information on annual DWP spend can be found here.
Answered 2 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEnglish Language: EducationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14785More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people who took an English for Speakers of Other Languages class claimed Universal Credit in the last 12 months; and what the cost to the public purse was of the provisio
Answer: The information requested is not held by the Department for Work and Pensions. English for Speakers of Other Languages and other skills data is held by Department for Education for England only. Devolved administrations will hold data on participants on E...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: Translation ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14781More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of NHS patients who have received (a) translation and (b) interpretation services in each of the last 10 years.
Answer: The Department does not hold this information centrally.
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordOffenders: AsylumHome OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14761More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals with Application Registration Cards were (a) arrested and (b) convicted in the last 12 months.
Answer: Available information on arrests for notifiable offences in England and Wales is published annually and the latest available data covering the year ending March 2024 can be found here: Stop and search, arrests and mental health detentions, March 2024 - GO...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDeportationHome OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14746More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many deportations have been prevented through use of the European Convention on Human Rights in each of the last 10 years.
Answer: The Home Office does not regularly publish information about the basis of foreign national offender (FNO) appeals. However, in February 2022 an ad hoc study was published on FNO lodged and allowed appeals, covering some of the period covered in this quest...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Energy Security and Net Zero: AviationDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14738More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the total number of (a) air miles and (b) flights conducted by his Department's staff was in each of the last ten years.
Answer: The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) was created in February 2023, so no information is held for periods prior to that date. For the information requested, anything prior to January 2024 was all still recorded as BEIS, so it mixes all t...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDeportationHome OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14737More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many repeat deportations there were in each of the last ten years.
Answer: Available statistics on the returns of foreign national offenders (FNOs) are published on a quarterly basis in the Returns Detailed Datasets, and are currently available to the end of June 2024, which are available at: Immigration system statistics quarte...
Answered 26 Nov 2024
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