Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Labour - Denton and Reddish)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether Mr Andrew Gilligan was subject to the terms of the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers from 25 October 2022 to 20 February 2024.
Answered by John Glen - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
Andrew Gilligan has been a special adviser to the Prime Minister since March 2023.
All special advisers abide by the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers.
Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Labour - Denton and Reddish)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel of the (a) Army, (b) Royal Navy, (c) RAF and (d) Royal Marines were referred to Prevent in each year since 2015.
Answered by James Heappey
Information held by the Ministry of Defence is set out below, detailing the number of referrals to Prevent from a military referrer by calendar year, noting that figures prior to 2018 are not held. A breakdown of the information by Service is not currently available. These figures exclude members of the military who are referred to Prevent by an organisation other than the military, for example the Home Office Police or NHS.
2018 – 5
2019 – 12
2020 – 8
2021 – 13
2022 – 13
2023 – 22
Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Labour - Denton and Reddish)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many times he has visited NATO bases abroad in each year since 2015.
Answered by James Heappey
Every time the Secretary of State landed on an airbase of a NATO ally or attended a meeting in a NATO HQ would need to be counted, and this data is simply not held. Whilst the information could only be gathered at disproportionate cost, the Honourable Gentleman should be reassured that the answer would likely be very regularly indeed.
Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Labour - Denton and Reddish)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times the National Tactical Response Group has been deployed in each year since 2018.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The National Tactical Response Group (NTRG) are a specialist resource that provide intervention options to the Silver and Gold commanders. NTRG is a highly trained team that provide expertise in technical interventions that would carry higher risk of failure or injury, and which require skills and equipment limited only to NTRG staff.
The information requested can be found in the table(s) below.
Number of deployments of National Tactical Response Group (NTRG) by year since 2018 | |
Year | Number of deployments of NTRG |
2018 | 628 |
2019 | 719 |
2020 | 455 |
2021 | 384 |
2022 | 570 |
2023 | 794 |
Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Labour - Denton and Reddish)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people referred to Prevent whilst in prison subsequently committed a terror offence in each year since 2015.
Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
We do not hold data on the number of people referred to Prevent in prison that subsequently committed a terror offence. The below data shows the number of referrals to Prevent from HMPPS since 2015/2016.
Table 1: Number of referrals to the Prevent programme from HMPPS each year, 2015/16 to 2022/23
Financial year | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 |
Number of referrals to Prevent made by HMPPS | 155 | 283 | 269 | 297 | 373 | 335 | 287 | 267 |
This data is taken from the annual statistical release ‘Individuals referred to and supported through the Prevent programme’ which can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/individuals-referred-to-prevent HMPPS includes staff working for HM Prison and Probation Service, including Youth Offender Services.
Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Labour - Denton and Reddish)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times Tornado Teams have been deployed to incidents in prisons in England and Wales in each year since 2018.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Operation Tornado is a national mutual aid plan by which prisons support one another in the event of a serious incident or occurrence requiring a reinforcement of staff. Operation Tornado is employed by HMPPS for three main reasons:
The table below lists how many times Tornado Teams have been deployed at the end of each year since 2018.
Year | Deployments to Prisons |
2018 | 10 |
2019 | 10 |
2020 | 6 |
2021 | 4 |
2022 | 9 |
2023 | 13 |
Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Labour - Denton and Reddish)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many physical investigations the Environment Agency has made into pollutant discharges at (a) Wilson Brook and (b) Johnson Brooke, Hyde in each of the last five years.
Answered by Robbie Moore - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Environment Agency has physically attended six instances of reported pollution on the Godley Brook and unnamed tributaries. The Environment Agency worked with United Utilities and Local Authority Environmental Health Departments who attended a further six incidents and shared the information they gathered to further enquiries.
Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Labour - Denton and Reddish)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether any (a) warnings, (b) fines or (c) prosecutions have been issued for pollutant discharges at (i) Wilson Brook and (ii) Johnson Brooke, Hyde in each of the last five years.
Answered by Robbie Moore - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Including the Godley Brook and its two unnamed tributaries (which feed the Wilson Brook and flow through Hyde Park) there have been five warning letters issued in the last five years (2021 x2, 2022, 2023 x2) and no prosecutions or fines.
Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Labour - Denton and Reddish)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many pollutant discharges have been reported to the Environment Agency for (a) Wilson Brook and (b) Johnson Brooke, Hyde in each of the last five years.
Answered by Robbie Moore - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
In the last five years: one pollution incident in the Wilson Brook has been reported to the Environment Agency (2022) and one pollution incident in the Johnson Brook has been reported (2020).
Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Labour - Denton and Reddish)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to NHS England’s vaccination strategy, published on 13 December 2023, what assessment her Department has made of Integrated Care Boards’ readiness to take on responsibility for commissioning vaccination services by April 2025.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
NHS England and its regional commissioning teams are working with integrated care boards (ICBs) to prepare for any future delegation of commissioning responsibility for vaccination services. This is likely to include a period of formal joint working between NHS England teams and ICBs to support collaborative decision-making. As with any delegation process, an assessment of ICB readiness will be required prior to any changes being made and the Department will be involved in this assessment. Following delegation, ICBs will need to provide assurance to NHS England that they are exercising the delegated functions safely and effectively, in line with the NHS Oversight Framework.
NHS England will remain accountable to the Secretary of State for the delivery and performance of national vaccination programmes as set out in the NHS public health functions.