Asked by: Simon Clarke (Conservative - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders were served with a Deportation Order in each year since 2010.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The information requested above is not available in a reportable format and would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.
Any foreign national who is convicted of a crime and given a prison sentence is considered for deportation at the earliest opportunity.
Section 32 of the UK Borders Act 2007 provides a statutory duty to deport a foreign national if they have been convicted of an offence in the UK and sentenced to a period of imprisonment of at least 12 months. This is subject to several exceptions, including where to do so would be a breach of a person’s ECHR rights or the UK’s obligations under the Refugee Convention.
Where a decision is made to deport, and representations are raised against that decision, an FNO is likely to be granted a right of appeal. This may be exercised in or out of country depending on the circumstances of the case.
The Home Office publishes data on Returns in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of Returns from the UK by return type (including enforced returns) are published in table Ret_01 of the Returns ‘summary tables’.
The term 'deportations' refers to a legally-defined subset of returns which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. Information on those deported is not separately available and therefore the published statistics refer to all enforced returns.
The MoJ publishes data on Appeals in the following statistical quarterly release, https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2020.
Asked by: Simon Clarke (Conservative - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders received a prison sentence of 12 months or more in each year since 2010.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The information requested above is not available in a reportable format and would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.
Any foreign national who is convicted of a crime and given a prison sentence is considered for deportation at the earliest opportunity.
Section 32 of the UK Borders Act 2007 provides a statutory duty to deport a foreign national if they have been convicted of an offence in the UK and sentenced to a period of imprisonment of at least 12 months. This is subject to several exceptions, including where to do so would be a breach of a person’s ECHR rights or the UK’s obligations under the Refugee Convention.
Where a decision is made to deport, and representations are raised against that decision, an FNO is likely to be granted a right of appeal. This may be exercised in or out of country depending on the circumstances of the case.
The Home Office publishes data on Returns in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of Returns from the UK by return type (including enforced returns) are published in table Ret_01 of the Returns ‘summary tables’.
The term 'deportations' refers to a legally-defined subset of returns which are enforced either following a criminal conviction or when it is judged that a person’s removal from the UK is conducive to the public good. Information on those deported is not separately available and therefore the published statistics refer to all enforced returns.
The MoJ publishes data on Appeals in the following statistical quarterly release, https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2020.
Asked by: Simon Clarke (Conservative - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to help people with shared ownership of a property who are unable to dispose of the property as a result of remedial action being needed by the landlord owing to the presence of combustible cladding.
Answered by Christopher Pincher
It is unacceptable for leaseholders, including those in shared ownership, to have to worry about the cost of fixing historic safety defects in their buildings that they did not cause.
Where developers or building owners have been unable or unwilling to pay, we have introduced funding schemes providing £1.6 billion to accelerate the pace of work and meet the costs of remediating the highest risk and most expensive defects – ACM cladding and other unsafe cladding systems like High Pressure Laminates.
The Government is determined to remove barriers to fixing historic defects and identify financing solutions that help to protect leaseholders, including those participating in shared ownership schemes, whilst also helping to protect the taxpayer. The Government has asked Michael Wade to accelerate work on a long-term solution. We will provide an update as soon as we are in a position to do so.
Asked by: Simon Clarke (Conservative - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of free ports to support the UK's global trade after the end of the transition period.
Answered by Steve Barclay - Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The government plans to establish Freeports across the UK. These will be national hubs for trade, innovation and commerce, regenerating communities across the UK. They can attract new businesses, spreading jobs, investment and opportunity to towns and cities up and down the country.
Our Freeports consultation response, published on Wednesday 7 October, sets out in more detail how Freeports will unleash the potential of ports across the country.
Asked by: Simon Clarke (Conservative - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
What additional support he is providing to the NHS ahead of winter 2020-21.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This Government is committed to supporting the National Health Service and wider social care sector this winter, as it has throughout this year. In July, the Government announced £3 billion in additional funding, alongside £450 million for accident and emergency department upgrades and expansions. Similarly, we are supporting adult social care with a further £546 million of infection control funding over this winter. Where health policy is devolved, the devolved nations have benefitted from the appropriate Barnett consequentials.
Asked by: Simon Clarke (Conservative - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the White Paper, The Future Relationship Between the United Kingdom and the European Union, published in July 2018, what assessment he has made of the UK's ability to establish Supercharged Free Ports after the UK leaves the EU.
Answered by Mel Stride - Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
A free port is an area located at a port which is designated as a free zone. Section 100A of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (CEMA) currently provides the legal basis for the designation of free zones by HM Treasury and will continue to do so following UK withdrawal from the EU. Applying for designation as a free zone will be a commercial decision to be taken by private operators.
Schedule 2 Part 2 Paragraph 2 of the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018 makes provision to enable HMRC to make regulations imposing requirements in respect of goods kept in free zones designated under CEMA 1979.
Asked by: Simon Clarke (Conservative - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the White Paper, The Future Relationship Between the United Kingdom and the European Union, published in July 2018, what assessment he has made of the UK's ability to establish Supercharged Free Ports after the UK leaves the EU.
Answered by Mel Stride - Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
A free port is an area located at a port which is designated as a free zone. Section 100A of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (CEMA) currently provides the legal basis for the designation of free zones by HM Treasury and will continue to do so following UK withdrawal from the EU. Applying for designation as a free zone will be a commercial decision to be taken by private operators.
Schedule 2 Part 2 Paragraph 2 of the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018 makes provision to enable HMRC to make regulations imposing requirements in respect of goods kept in free zones designated under CEMA 1979.
Asked by: Simon Clarke (Conservative - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what average spending per pupil was in (a) Middlesbrough and (b) Redcar and Cleveland in each year since 2009-10.
Answered by Nick Gibb
School-level figures for spending per pupil by local authority are published annually. The Department publishes information on income and expenditure in schools on the Schools Financial Benchmarking website, available at:
https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources.
To download data for all schools click on the Data Sources link and then CFR data (Consistent Financial Reporting, covering local authority maintained schools) and AAR data (Academies Accounts Return, for academy schools).
Average spending per pupil (£’s) – Local Authority Maintained schools
Year (Financial) | (a) Middlesbrough | (b) Redcar and Cleveland |
2009-10 | * | * |
2010-11 | £4,656 | £4,864 |
2011-12 | £4,945 | £4,940 |
2012-13 | £4,916 | £4,811 |
2013-14 | £4,767 | £4,918 |
2014-15 | £5,125 | £5,133 |
2015-16 | £5,211 | £5,351 |
2016-17 | £5,050 | £5,068 |
Source: CFR data (Consistent Financial Reporting, covering local authority maintained schools) available at:
Average spending per pupil (£’s) – Academy schools
Year (Academic) | (a) Middlesbrough | (b) Redcar and Cleveland |
2009/10 | * | * |
2010/11 | * | * |
2011/12 | £7,286 | £7,631 |
2012/13 | £7,164 | £7,813 |
2013/14 | £7,089 | £7,279 |
2014/15 | £6,646 | £6,291 |
2015/16 | £6,395 | £5,848 |
2016/17 | £5,464 | £5,586 |
* : Data not available
Source: AAR data (Academies Accounts Return, for academy schools) available at:
https://sat1prsfb.blob.core.windows.net/sfb/SFB_Academies_2016-17_download.xlsx.
Asked by: Simon Clarke (Conservative - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children in (a) Middlesbrough and (b) Redcar and Cleveland achieved the English Baccalaureate attainment measure in each year for which information is available.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Information on the proportion of pupils who achieved the English Baccalaureate in each year is published at local authority, regional and national level in the 'GCSE and equivalent results in England: statistical first release' series[1]; the English Baccalaureate was first available in 2009/10. The percentage of pupils, in state-funded schools, achieving the English Baccalaureate in each academic year is provided in the attached table.
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4.
Asked by: Simon Clarke (Conservative - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many young people in the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency started an apprenticeship in each year since 2009-10.
Answered by Anne Milton
The attached table shows figures for apprenticeship starts in the Middleborough South and East Cleveland constituency since the 2009/10 academic year, including data for the first three quarters of the 2017/2018 academic year (August 2017 to April 2018) as published in the FE data library: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fe-data-library.