Asked by: Margaret Curran (Labour - Glasgow East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the annual cost to her Department is of providing UK border control services at (a) Paris Gare Du Nord station, (b) Bruxelles Midi station and (c) Calais port and Eurotunnel terminus.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The annual costs of providing UK border control services are as follow:
Paris Gare Du Nord station - £4.6 million
Bruxelles Midi station - £3.3 million
Calais port - £21.8 million
Eurotunnel terminus (Coquelles) – £21.2 million
The above resource costs are based on the last financial year's data(2013/14)
and are taken from the Home office accounting system Adelphi. These have not
yet been audited. Publication of the annual set of accounts will not present
these costs in this level of detail.
Asked by: Margaret Curran (Labour - Glasgow East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people aged under 25 years in each parliamentary constituency in Scotland have claimed jobseeker's allowance for more than (a) one and (b) two years in each year since 2010.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Margaret Curran (Labour - Glasgow East)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of people in England and Wales identified themselves as (a) British, (b) Scottish and (c) British and Scottish in the 2011 census.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Margaret Curran (Labour - Glasgow East)
Question to the Scotland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, when the next Joint Ministerial Council (a) Plenary, (b) Domestic and (c) Europe meeting will take place; and what will be discussed at each such meeting.
Answered by Alistair Carmichael - Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Justice)
The Joint Ministerial Committees take place in their Plenary, Domestic and European forms on a regular basis. Dates for future meetings are subject to agreement with the devolved administrations, as are the agendas which are agreed in advance via the JMC joint secretariat.
Asked by: Margaret Curran (Labour - Glasgow East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many employment tribunals in Scotland have been processed by HM Courts and Tribunals Service in each year since 2010.
Answered by Shailesh Vara
The Government is committed to working across the employment law (including the employment dispute resolution) system to help to make it easier for companies to hire and manage staff, while protecting workers' rights. This encourages employers to create new jobs, supporting enterprise and growth.
Workload before the employment tribunals is affected by several factors, including underlying economic performance trends, the impacts of reforms of employment legislation and tribunals process, and the number of collective disputes (for example involving insolvencies, and equal pay complaints) that lead to large-scale multiple claims.
The number of claims accepted by employment tribunals and processed by HMCTS in each calendar year, since 2010, is set out in the table below.
Employment tribunal claims accepted in Scotland for Calendar years 2010 to 2013, inclusive
Calendar Year | No. Claims Accepted |
2010 | 18,795 |
2011 | 16,670 |
2012 | 12,533 |
2013 | 7,506 |
Source: ET Database
Asked by: Margaret Curran (Labour - Glasgow East)
Question
To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, which parliamentary constituencies in Scotland are part of local authority areas whose electoral registration officers did not reach the required performance indicators on Standard 3 in respect of electors who failed to register to vote.
Answered by Gary Streeter
The Electoral Commission informs me that no EROs in Scotland reported not meeting standard 3 at the recent 2013 canvass. The Commission is in the process of conducting a detailed analysis of EROs' electoral registration data from the 2013 canvass, following which it will publish its final assessment of EROs' performance.
Asked by: Margaret Curran (Labour - Glasgow East)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what support the First Minister of Scotland has received from UK Trade & Investment ahead of his upcoming visit to the US.
Answered by Michael Fallon
UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) in New York and San Francisco have worked closely with the First Minister's team in planning arrangements for his visit.
The Consul-General in New York hosted a lunch at his residence on 7 April 2014 in association with Scottish Development International (SDI) and Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI) for the First Minister and 17 Scottish companies in the accompanying trade mission, to which key business figures in the US were invited.
On 8 April 2014 SDI and mission delegates attended a UKTI briefing discussion on marketing in the US. Mission companies will have access to meeting rooms for one-to-one meetings throughout the week, as well as UKTI staff who will be available to discuss business opportunities in the US market. UKTI staff are also supporting a number of events during the week, including the US office launch on 5 April 2014, of Scottish based Smarter Grid Solutions and other events where mission delegates will be present.
For the visit of the Scottish Government's External Affairs and International Development Minister, Huzma Yousaf, UKTI contributed to the guest list for Mr Yousaf's Scotland Week reception in San Francisco. UKTI also contributed to energy sector invitees for the World Trade Centre-Northern California breakfast event for the Minister, as requested by the World Trade Centre.
Asked by: Margaret Curran (Labour - Glasgow East)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which companies have been awarded sub-contracts for construction of HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales since June 2013; at which sites he expects work under each such contracts to be carried out; and what the monetary value is of each such contract.
Answered by Philip Dunne
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 6 June 2013 (Official Report, column 1279W).
Asked by: Margaret Curran (Labour - Glasgow East)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what support the First Minister of Scotland has received from (a) the British embassy in Washington and (b) consular offices in the US ahead of his upcoming visit to that country.
Answered by David Lidington
The British Embassy in Washington, and the New York Consulate, have provided support for the visit this week of the First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, to the US. The Consul General in New York hosted a lunch at his residence on 7 April, in association with Scottish Development International (SDI), for the First Minister and 17 Scottish companies from the First Minister's accompanying trade mission, to which key business figures were invited. The British Embassy in Washington worked with the New York Consulate to organise port courtesies for the First Minister, upon arrival in New York ,to allow the Scottish Affairs Office (based in the British Embassy Washington) to greet the First Minister at the airport and expedite customs and immigration procedures.
Asked by: Margaret Curran (Labour - Glasgow East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, where each Jobcentre Plus office is in Scotland; when each office opened; and how many people have used each such office in each year since 2010.
Answered by Esther McVey - Minister without Portfolio (Cabinet Office)
There are 94 Jobcentres in Scotland. A full list of these Jobcentres is provided at Annex 1.
We do not keep a record of when each office opened, so I am unable to supply you with this information.
There are no official statistics kept which would provide you with the number of people who have used each office in each year since 2010. Many people, some of whom are already employed, use the jobpoints or Intranet Access Devices in our Jobcentres but may not make a claim to benefit or register unemployed. It would therefore be impossible to provide you with the total number of people using the Jobcentres.
Annex 1
List of Jobcentres in Scotland
East & South East Scotland
Alloa JC |
Bathgate JC |
Broxburn JC |
Cowdenbeath JC |
Cupar JC |
Dalkeith JC |
Dunfermline JC |
EdinburghCity |
Eyemouth JC |
Falkirk JC |
Galashiels JC |
Glenrothes JC |
Grangemouth JC |
Hawick JC |
High Riggs JC |
Kirkcaldy JC |
Leith JC |
Leven JC |
Livingston JC |
Musselburgh JC |
Penicuik JC |
St. Andrews |
Stirling JC |
Westerhailes JC |
Glasgow, Lanarkshire & East Dunbartonshire
Airdrie JC |
Anniesland JC |
Bellshill JC |
Bridgeton JC |
Cambuslang JC |
Castlemilk JC |
Cumbernauld JC |
Drumchapel JC |
East Kilbride JC |
Easterhouse JC |
Govan JC |
Hamilton JC |
Kirkintilloch JC |
Lanark JC |
Langside JC |
Laurieston JC |
Maryhill JC |
Motherwell JC |
Newlands JC |
Parkhead JC |
Partick JC |
Rutherglen JC |
Shettleston JC |
Springburn JC |
North of Scotland District
Aberdeen JC |
Arbroath JC |
Banff JC |
Blairgowrie JC |
Buckie JC |
Dingwall JC |
Dundee City JC |
Elgin JC |
Forfar JC |
Forres JC |
Fort William JC |
Fraserburgh JC |
Invergordon JC |
Inverness JC |
Kirkwall JC |
Lerwick JC |
Montrose JC |
Perth JC |
Peterhead JC |
Portree JC |
Stornoway JC |
Wick JC |
West of Scotland District
Alexandria JC |
Annan JC |
Ayr JC |
Barrhead JC |
Campbeltown JC |
Clydebank JC |
Cumnock JC |
Dumbarton JC |
Dumfries JC |
Dunoon JC |
Girvan JC |
Greenock JC |
Helensburgh JC |
Irvine JC |
Johnstone JC |
Kilbirnie JC |
Kilmarnock JC |
Oban JC |
Paisley JC |
Port Glasgow JC |
Renfrew JC |
Rothesay JC |
Saltcoats JC |
Stranraer JC |
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