Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department holds information on the number of injuries caused by dangerous dogs to (a) postal workers and (b) courier workers broken down at (i) national, (ii) local authority and (iii) Parliamentary constituency level.
Answered by Daniel Zeichner - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Defra does not hold data on the total number of dog attacks or on the number of injuries caused by dangerous dogs on postal or courier workers as enforcement authorities and healthcare services are not required to report this information to Defra. This information may be collected by the NHS, individual police forces and local authorities.
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2012 to Question 124834, on Criminal Injuries Compensation, if she will uprate the figures given in that Answer to 2024 prices.
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The following table sets out the value of each of the tariff bands in the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme (CICS) along with how much each of the tariff bands would be worth in 2012 and 2024, if they had increased by the rate of inflation since 1996 using each of the indices (a) RPI and (b) CPI:
Band | Tariff amount [1996] | (a) Inflated amount (RPI) [2012] | (b) Inflated amount (CPI) [2012] | (a) Inflated amount (RPI) [2024] | (b) Inflated amount (CPI) [2024] |
1 | £1,000 | £1,540 | £1,358 | £2,532 | £1,946 |
2 | £1,250 | £1,925 | £1,697 | £3,166 | £2,433 |
3 | £1,500 | £2,310 | £2,036 | £3,799 | £2,919 |
4 | £1,750 | £2,695 | £2,376 | £4,432 | £3,406 |
5 | £2,000 | £3,081 | £2,715 | £5,065 | £3,892 |
6 | £2,500 | £3,851 | £3,394 | £6,331 | £4,866 |
7 | £3,300 | £5,083 | £4,480 | £8,357 | £6,423 |
8 | £3,800 | £5,853 | £5,159 | £9,623 | £7,396 |
9 | £4,400 | £6,777 | £5,973 | £11,143 | £8,563 |
10 | £5,500 | £8,472 | £7,467 | £13,928 | £10,704 |
11 | £6,600 | £10,166 | £8,960 | £16,714 | £12,845 |
12 | £8,200 | £12,630 | £11,132 | £20,766 | £15,959 |
13 | £11,000 | £16,943 | £14,933 | £27,857 | £21,408 |
14 | £13,500 | £20,794 | £18,327 | £34,188 | £26,274 |
15 | £16,500 | £25,415 | £22,400 | £41,785 | £32,113 |
16 | £19,000 | £29,265 | £25,793 | £48,116 | £36,978 |
17 | £22,000 | £33,886 | £29,866 | £55,713 | £42,817 |
18 | £27,000 | £41,587 | £36,654 | £68,375 | £52,548 |
19 | £33,000 | £50,829 | £44,799 | £83,570 | £64,225 |
20 | £44,000 | £67,772 | £59,732 | £111,426 | £85,634 |
21 | £55,000 | £84,715 | £74,665 | £139,283 | £107,042 |
22 | £82,000 | £126,303 | £111,319 | £207,658 | £159,590 |
23 | £110,000 | £169,430 | £149,330 | £278,566 | £214,084 |
24 | £175,000 | £269,548 | £237,571 | £443,173 | £340,589 |
25 | £250,000 | £385,069 | £339,387 | £633,104 | £486,555 |
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the expenditure of her Department's criminal injuries hardship fund has been in each year since its creation.
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The below table shows the compensation spend under the Hardship Fund in each financial year. It does not include the running costs of the Hardship Fund. The Hardship Fund opened on 27 November 2012.
Financial Year | Amount Paid |
2012/13 | £883.03 |
2013/14 | £1,116.05 |
2014/15 | £1,475.85 |
2015/16 | £312.68 |
2016/17 | £313 |
2017/18 | 0 |
2018/19 | 0 |
2019/20 | 0 |
2020/21 | 0 |
2021/22 | 0 |
2022/23 | 0 |
2023/24 | 0 |
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what funds have been raised through the victim surcharge in each year since its creation.
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The surcharge (often referred to as the victim surcharge) was first introduced in April 2007 and changes were introduced on 1 October 2012, 1 September 2014, 8 April 2016, 28 June 2019, 14 April 2020 and then again on 16 June 2022.
When a court passes a sentence, it must also order that the relevant surcharge is paid. The amount of the surcharge depends on the sentence and whether at the time the offence was committed the offender was an adult or a youth (under 18 years of age), or if the offender is an organisation.
Revenue raised from the surcharge provides a contribution towards Ministry of Justice-funded victim and witness support services.
HMCTS accounts for the amount of victim surcharge imposed and collected in the annual HMCTS Trust Statement. The Trust Statement was introduced in 2010-11, prior to that the data was not collated centrally. The table below illustrates the amounts imposed and collected each year since April 2010. The amounts collected will include receipts for amounts imposed in prior years.
Financial Year | Victim Surcharge Imposed £000 | Victim Surcharge collected £000 |
2010-11 | 12,552 | 10,516 |
2011-12 | 11,234 | 10,165 |
2012-13 | 14,331 | 10,518 |
2013-14 | 30,970 | 19,548 |
2014-15 | 35,203 | 24,569 |
2015-16 | 37,866 | 28,307 |
2016-17 | 44,785 | 31,029 |
2017-18 | 46,603 | 35,022 |
2018-19 | 45,521 | 33,529 |
2019-20 | 44,424 | 39,689 |
2020-21 | 36,647 | 35,039 |
2021-22 | 46,654 | 37,852 |
2022-23 | 65,270 | 41,314 |
2023-24 | 104,032 | 65,496 |
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 08 July 2019 to Question 261492, on Criminal Injuries Compensation, if she will publish the same information for each year since 2017-18.
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The information in the table below sets out the criminal injuries compensation spend for each of the years shown (as published in the CICA Annual Report and Accounts). It does not include compensation awarded under the Victims of Overseas Terrorism Compensation Scheme.
Year | Compensation Spend |
2017/18 | £155,840,000 |
2018/19 | £130,359,000 |
2019/20 | £194,839,000 |
2020/21 | £153,367,000 |
2021/22 | £158,192,000 |
2022/23 | £173,089,000 |
2023/24 | £164,620,000 |
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Highways England traffic officers were employed on 15 March in each year since 2016.
Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The number of traffic officers employed by National Highways on 15 March in each year since 2016 was as follows:
Year | Traffic officer headcount on 15 March |
2016 | 1,435 |
2017 | 1,410 |
2018 | 1,419 |
2019 | 1,546 |
2020 | 1,472 |
2021 | 1,412 |
2022 | 1,390 |
2023 | 1,488 |
2024 | 1,553 |
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2025 to Question 26736 on Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Bidfood, what contracts (a) under the value of £12,000 and (b) tendered before 2015 and subsequently extended (i) the BFS Group Limited and (ii) subsidiary companies of BFS Group Limited holds with (A) her Department and (B) agencies of her Department.
Answered by Stephanie Peacock - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
Core Department:
DCMS does not hold any active contracts, nor any contracts since 1st April 2015 with BFS Group Limited and its subsidiaries. To the best of our knowledge, we do not hold any information on Bidfood contracts tendered before 2015, noting that we do not hold consistent contract records before 2015, as this is prior to the migration to our previous electronic contract management software.
Executive Agencies:
DCMS does not hold executive agency contractual information.
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what contracts (a) BFS Group Limited and (b) subsidiary companies of BFS Group Limited hold with (i) her Department and (ii) agencies of her Department.
Answered by Alex Norris - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
Information about contracts awarded by Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government and its agencies is available on Contracts Finder or Find a Tender Service, as required under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
Details can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder and https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Search.
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the cost of a standard-class annual rail season ticket from (a) Longbridge, (b) Northfield and (c) Kings Norton stations to Birmingham New Street in 2010.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
In 2010, annual season tickets from both Longbridge and Northfield to Birmingham New Street cost £597.00, and from Kings Norton to Birmingham New Street cost £523.00.
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2025 to Question 25524 on UK International Consumer Centre, if he will place a copy of the agreement referenced in the Commons Library.
Answered by Justin Madders - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
I regret that the grant funding agreement cannot be submitted to the Commons Library. Grant letters and details are commercially sensitive for both the parties.
Releasing these details would, or would be likely to, prejudice the interests of those concerned by damaging the confidence which customers, suppliers or investors have, threatening their ability to obtain supplies or secure finance, and potentially weakening their position in a competitive environment by revealing market-sensitive information or information of potential usefulness to others such as its competitors.