Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the number of organised crime gangs operating in (a) Merseyside and Cheshire, (b) North West England and (c) England.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office does not hold any publicly available data or information on the number of organised crime gangs.
Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 31 March to Question 174223 on Cancer: Halton, how many and what proportion of cancer patients in the Halton Local Authority area who received an urgent referral received their first treatment within 62 days of that referral in the latest period for which data is available.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This information is not collected in the format requested. Data on cancer patients who received an urgent referral and the time in which they received their first treatment is not collected at local authority level.
NHS England publish cancer waiting times data at trust level. Provisional data from NHS England for February 2023 shows Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provided first treatment to 27 patients who received an urgent general practitioner referral for suspected cancer within 62 days of that referral. This equates to 57% of all cancer patients who received an urgent referral to Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of cancer patients in Halton constituency who received an urgent referral received their first treatment within 62 days of that referral in the latest period for which data are available.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The information is not held in the format requested. Cancer waiting time data is not collected by constituency.
Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers have been placed in each (a) constituency and (b) English local authority area in each month since 1 April 2022.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The latest published Immigration Statistics detail the number of asylum seekers accommodated in each local authority area. These statistics can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#asylum-support(opens in a new tab) Data is published on a quarterly basis, with the latest information published 23 February 2023.
Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many infantry there were in the army in (a) 2010, (b) 2015 and (c) 2022.
Answered by James Heappey
The below table shows the Army Regular Trade Trained Infantry personnel, as at 1 April 2010, 1 April 2015 and 1 April 2022.
Date | Total |
1 April 2022 | 17,752 |
1 April 2015 | 20,134 |
1 April 2010 | 24,945 |
The decrease in infantry strength is relative to the overall strength of the British Army. Infantry personnel made up 25.4% of the Trade Trained Regular Army in April 2010, 25.3% in April 2015 and 24.2% in April 2022.
Table notes:
Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much money has the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme paid out in each year since 2005.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
This information is already in the public domain available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/armed-forces-compensation-scheme-statistics-financial-year-202122
The attached table has been copied from Table 19: Armed Forces Compensation Scheme Expenditure, by financial year, 6 April 2005 to 31 March 2022.
Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to publish the results of the UK wide survey for veterans and their families.
Answered by Johnny Mercer - Minister of State (Cabinet Office) (Minister for Veterans' Affairs)
The Veterans’ Survey was the first UK-wide data collection from the veterans community that was led by the Government. It was a huge success, with more than 30,000 responses received.
The results of the survey are expected to be available by autumn this year and will be published on the Office for National Statistics’ website in due course.
In the meantime, we have recently launched the Veterans’ Data Dashboard, bringing together veterans’ data from different public bodies for the first time. The Dashboard will provide a snapshot to the public, veterans and service providers so they can learn about the community, as well as the different services offered by the Government to support veterans.
Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many veterans and their family members have contacted Veterans UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by Alex Chalk - Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
It is not possible to establish the number of individual contacts for the different services provided by Veterans UK.
However, I can confirm the number of calls the Veterans UK helpline received and they are detailed in the table below. Data prior to 2017 is not held.
Calendar year | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 to date |
Calls offered | 142,806 | 143,954 | 123,805 | 53,863 | 34,949 | 57,376 | 11,857 |
Calls answered | 130,225 | 128,373 | 129,428 | 48,074 | 33,977 | 54,932 | 10,851 |
In 2022 The Veterans Welfare Service has had 40,276 client interactions to date, and these include calls, emails and written correspondence.
Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many veteran's badges have been issued in each year since 2004.
Answered by Alex Chalk - Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
The attached table details the number of veterans badges which have been issued in each year since 2004.
Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Halton)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the Army will have a warfighting division of 10,000 troops.
Answered by James Heappey
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to Question 127277 on 25 February 2022 to the right hon. Member for Wentworth and Dearne (John Healey). The British Army already has a warfighting Division, the 3rd (UK) Division, which has in excess of 10,000 troops