Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many fixed penalty notices were issued by the police to motorists who use mobile telephones while driving in the last five years for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
The number of fixed penalty notices (FPNs) issued to motorists for the use of handheld mobile phones while driving in each of the years from 2010 to 2014 is published in the annual “Police Powers and Procedures” statistical bulletin, which can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons the Government permits the 35 people named under the US Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012 to (a) hold assets in the UK and (b) be issued with UK visas.
Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford
As we have previously made clear, the Magnitsky case remains of serious concern to the UK Government.
The UK Government has powers in relation to assets that are very similar to those available to the United States under the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012. These powers are under regular review and the Government will consider further legislation if and when the evidence suggests it is necessary.
Wherever we have evidence that individuals were involved in the Magnitsky case, that evidence is taken very carefully into account in considering visa applications.
For reasons of data protection the Government does not routinely comment on individuals' asset holdings or immigration cases.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons the Government permits the 35 people named under the US Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012 to (a) hold assets in the UK and (b) be issued with UK visas.
Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford
As we have previously made clear, the Magnitsky case remains of serious concern to the UK Government.
The UK Government has powers in relation to assets that are very similar to those available to the United States under the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012. These powers are under regular review and the Government will consider further legislation if and when the evidence suggests it is necessary.
Wherever we have evidence that individuals were involved in the Magnitsky case, that evidence is taken very carefully into account in considering visa applications.
For reasons of data protection the Government does not routinely comment on individuals' asset holdings or immigration cases.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average number of days taken to remove a foreign national offender was in 2014.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The information requested is available at :
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-enforcement-data-february
-2015
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the police on holding children with mental health problems in police cells.
Answered by Mike Penning
It is not generally acceptable that anyone with mental health problems, and especially children, are held in police cells. We are clear that those who have committed no offence, and again especially children, should be taken to health based places of safety. Our recent review of the relevant powers recommends making it illegal to take under 18 year olds to police cells as a place of safety.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on the purchase of televisions in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
Answered by Karen Bradley
Information on expenditure on purchase of televisions in 2013 and 2014 is not held centrally and would incur disproportionate cost to obtain.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many officials employed by her Department, of each grade, have remained at that grade since 2010 but received a pay rise; and how much of a rise each such person at each such grade has received.
Answered by Karen Bradley
It has not been possible to answer this question because of the disproportionate cost involved in checking through over approximately 15,000 individual staff records.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by her Department in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The Secretary of State for the Home Department can confirm the information
relating to lost, and stolen, mobile phones, Blackberrys and laptops can be
found on the following link to the Home Office webpage on the Gov.UK website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/306918
/2013_Annual_ICT_Losses.csv/preview
| January - December 2013 | ||
| Device / Incident | TOTAL | |
| Lost Blackberrys / Mobile Phones | 62 | |
| Stolen Blackberrys / Mobile Phones | 12 | |
| Lost Laptops | 3 | |
| Stolen Laptops | 5 | |
| Lost Removable Media | 1 | |
| Stolen Removable Media | 0 | |
| Recovered Blackberrys / Mobiles | 2 | |
| Recovered Laptops | 0 |
Information is recorded and published under calendar year, information on items
lost and stolen for 2014 will be published in early 2015.