Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents of shoplifting in each parliamentary constituency in the East of England have led to a conviction resulting in (a) probation and (b) a custodial sentence in each year since 2006.
Answered by Mike Penning
Shoplifting can be a serious offence which can damage livelihoods. For cases taken to court there is a wide range of sentences available on conviction, including custody for the most serious examples.
Sentencing in individual cases is a matter for the courts, taking into account the circumstances of each case and imposing a sentence which is proportionate to the seriousness of the offence.
Defendants proceeded against, found guilty and sentenced to a community sentence or immediate custody for shoplifting offences in the East of England, by police force area, from 2006 to 2013 can be viewed in the table.
Data cannot be separately analysed by parliamentary constituency.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the crime detection rate was in (a) Bury St Edmunds constituency, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each year since 2010.
Answered by Baroness Featherstone
There was a significant change from the former detections framework to the new outcomes framework in April 2013. The new outcomes framework includes a broader range of "outcomes" for crimes dealt with by the police. This provides greater transparency on how crimes are resolved when compared with the former detections framework which only covered a subset of the new outcomes and, therefore, of the ways crimes are "resolved".
Information on the new outcomes framework and data for England and Wales were published by the Home Office in its "Crime Outcomes in England and Wales 2013/14" bulletin, alongside the number of outcomes in each police force area.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-2013-to-2014
While statistics published from 2013/14 onward focus on the new outcomes framework rather than detections, it is technically possible to calculate the former detection rates. Figures for Suffolk Police and England and Wales are shown in the table provided. It is not possible to provide data for Bury St Edmunds constituency as outcomes data are collected at police force area level.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the monetary value was of assets (a) seized and (b) frozen under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 in each police force area in the East of England in each year since 2010.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The amount recovered by each police force under the Proceeds of Crime Act and the previous asset recovery legislation is provided in Table A. There is no provision for police forces to freeze assets under the Proceeds of Crime Act; however we are able to provide force-by-force breakdowns of the amount of cash seized and value of property subjected to a restraint order during a criminal investigation or proceeding. A proportion of this may be deemed by the courts to be subject to forfeiture or confiscation. Table B provides figures for the amounts seized or restrained.
More assets have been recovered since 2010 than ever before, although prosecutors face greater difficulties in obtaining restraint orders following the impact of the Court of Appeal decision in Windsor & Ors v Crown Prosecution Service [2011] EWCA Crim 143. The Government has taken steps to address this by bringing forward provisions in the Serious Crime Bill, which is currently before Parliament, to lower the legal test for restraint in order to make it easier to obtain restraint orders earlier in investigations.We are working with operational partners to ensure that the use of restraint orders is considered at the outset of all appropriate investigations.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has paid to each local authority in the East of England in asylum seeker support in each year since 1997.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Payments to local authorities in the East of England in respect of asylum seeker support for the financial years between 2002-03 and 2013-14 are shown in the following table. Data for previous years are not available at the required level of analysis and it would incur disproportionate cost to provide the information for the years before 2002-03.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many sub-post office branches have closed in each local authority area in the East of England in each year since 2005.
Answered by Jo Swinson
The Post Office is managed by Post Office Ltd, which operates independently of Government. As the information requested is an operational matter for Post Office Ltd, I have asked Paula Vennells, Chief Executive Officer of Post Office Ltd, to reply to the hon. Member directly, and a copy will be placed in the libraries of the House.
It is, however, worth noting that in November 2010 published its policy statement, “Securing the Post Office network in the digital age”, which made clear commitments to end the programmes of branch closure of the previous administration, and to instead invest in maintaining and modernising a network of at least 11,500 branches that meets strict access criteria that see, for example, 99.7% of the population nationally living within three miles of a post office outlet.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hospital beds per head of population there were in the (a) East of England Strategic Health Authority area and (b) Suffolk Primary Care Trust area in each year since 2007-08.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The information is not collected centrally in the format requested.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the average travelling distance to a 24-hour accident and emergency department in the East of England in the last year.
Answered by Jane Ellison
No estimate has been made by the Department.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of practising dentists in each county in the East of England are taking on new NHS patients.
Answered by Dan Poulter
The information requested is not collected centrally. The NHS Choices website, www.nhs.uk, publishes some dental practice-level information about whether National Health Service patients in various categories are being accepted for new courses of treatment. However, the relevant data collection is voluntary and not all dental practices have taken the opportunity to return this information to NHS Choices.
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many admissions to hospital through accident and emergency departments with an alcohol-related diagnosis there were in (a) Suffolk, (b) Norfolk and (c) Essex in each of the last four years.
Answered by Jane Ellison
Information is not available in the format or for the period requested.
Information on the sum of alcohol attributable fractions for admissions to hospital through accident and emergency departments in Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex from 2009-10 to 2012-13 is shown in the table below:
County | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 |
Suffolk | 4,375 | 5,023 | 5,240 | 5,509 |
Norfolk | 7,456 | 8,171 | 9,292 | 9,398 |
Essex | 12,863 | 14,067 | 14,905 | 14,768 |
Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)
Note:
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (FT) (Suffolk);
- Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust (Suffolk);
- James Paget University Hospitals NHS FT (Norfolk);
- Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS FT (Norfolk);
- Queen Elizabeth Hospitals King's Lynn NHS Trust (Norfolk);
- Mid Essex Hospitals Services NHS Trust (Essex);
- Colchester Hospital University NHS FT (Essex);
- Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS FT (Essex);
- Southend University Hospital NHS FT (Essex); and
- The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (Essex).
http://www.nwph.net/nwpho/publications/AlcoholAttributableFractions.pdf
Asked by: David Ruffley (Conservative - Bury St Edmunds)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of students in Suffolk local education authority area applied for student (a) loans and (b) grants in the (i) 2008-09, (ii) 2009-10 and (iii) 2010-11 academic years.
Answered by Greg Clark
The number of full-time students, residing in the local authority of Suffolk when they applied for financial support, who were awarded student loans or grants in academic years 2008/09 to 2013/14 is shown in Table 1.
It was not possible to provide the proportions requested in the answer because estimates of the loan and grant eligible population are not available at that level of detail.
Table 1 -- Students awarded student loans or grants who were living in Suffolk Local Authority1 when they applied for financial support.
Local authority: Suffolk | Type of financial support | |
Academic Year | Loans [2] | Grants and Allowances [3] |
2008/09 | 10,300 | 6,500 |
2009/10 | 11,100 | 6,600 |
2010/11 | 11,300 | 6,700 |
2011/12 | 11,800 | 7,100 |
2012/13 | 11,700 | 6,600 |
2013/14 | 12,000 | 6,700 |
Source: Student Loans Company
[1] Suffolk Local Authority covers applicants with postcodes in Babergh, Forest Heath, Ipswich, Mid Suffolk, St Edmundsbury and Suffolk districts at the time of application
[2] Includes maintenance and tuition fee loans
[3] Includes Higher Education grants, Special Support grants, Maintenance grants, Tuition Fee grants, Disabled Student allowances, Travel grants, Childcare grants, Dependants grants, Parental Learning allowances and Adult Dependant grants.
[4] Data refer to the mid-November following the end of each respective academic year.
[5] Figures may differ slightly from the answer provided in March 2011 as a more recent postcode address file has been used.