Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people appeared at Aldershot Magistrates' Court in respect of traffic offences in each of the last three years (a) in total and (b) who are resident on the Isle of Wight; and if he will estimate the average travelling time for residents of the Isle of Wight to attend that court.
Answered by Shailesh Vara
Most traffic cases are dealt with on the papers and the defendant does not need to attend court. Data is not collected on how many people appeared at court for the hearing of their case, or on their place of residence.
Average travel times for residents of the Isle of Wight are approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes by car and 4 hours by public transport, although times vary depending on where on the Isle of Wight a defendant lives.
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Government (a) has spent and (b) plans to spend on the proposed London Garden Bridge; and what information his Department holds on the total cost of that project.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The Government announced at Autumn Statement 2013 that it would make a £30 million contribution to the costs of the Garden Bridge, which was matched by a further £30 million contribution by Transport for London. The Garden Bridge Trust, which is promoting and delivering the project, says that the delivery costs are expected to be within £175 million in addition to ongoing costs of £3.5 million annually.
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question
To ask the hon. Member for Mole Valley representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2015 to Question 955, what information the Commission holds on the proportion of hon. Members who travelled from their constituency address to the House in (a) less than one, (b) more than one but less than two, (c) more than two but less than three, (d) more than three but less than four and (e) more than four hours in 2009.
Answered by Paul Beresford
The House no longer retains specific information about Members’ constituency addresses in 2009, nor has it calculated the journey times from those addresses to the House. However, details of Members’ travel costs by category in that year are available online at mpsexpenses.parliament.uk. In addition there is information about distances of constituencies from Westminster in 2008 in the Members Estimate Committee’s Third Report of 2007–08 (HC 578-II)
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question
To ask the hon. Member for Mole Valley representing the House of Commons Commission, what proportion of hon. Members travel from their constituency address to the House in (a) less than one hour, (b) more than one but less than two hours, (c) more than two but less than three hours, (d) more than three but less than four hours and (e) more than four hours.
Answered by Paul Beresford
The House does not collect information on which it could base an answer to this question. Responsibility for repayment of Members’ costs for travel between their constituencies and Westminster transferred to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority in 2010.
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken pursuant to the meeting between the Isle of Wight Clinical Commissioning Group and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Care Quality on 18 March 2015.
Answered by Alistair Burt
The previous Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health, the hon. Member for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich (Dr Daniel Poulter), wrote to Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England, further to his meeting of 18 March 2015 with the Isle of Wight Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), on 24 March 2015.
The Minister asked that NHS England officials continue to work with the CCG to try and resolve the issues they raised, as the allocation of funding to CCGs now rests with NHS England, rather than the Department.
NHS England has confirmed that their allocations working group is continuing to look at the CCG funding formula to ensure it accurately reflects the true cost of service provision for all areas of the country.
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether there are official email addresses in his Department which do not accept emails from members of the public.
Answered by Anna Soubry
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) does have internal email addresses that do not accept emails from members of the public.
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether there is a lower corporation tax limit for clubs, voluntary organisations and charities below which such organisations are not required to submit corporation tax returns.
Answered by David Gauke
Where the corporation tax liability of a club or an unincorporated organisation does not exceed £100, and where that club or organisation is run exclusively for the benefit of its members, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will not generally require that club or organisation to complete corporation tax returns. HMRC review such treatment every 5 years. This treatment does not apply to companies which are wholly owned by, or subsidiaries of, charities.
HMRC recognises that asking a charity to formally claim tax relief every year would be administratively burdensome and therefore they do not require every charity to file a tax return every year.
However, they do require every charity to file a tax return once every few years so that they can check that the charity is claiming any tax exemptions and reliefs in accordance with the law. In addition, charities have an obligation to complete a tax return where they have reason to believe that they should be paying tax on some of their income or gains.
If HMRC send a notice to a charity to file a tax return, the charity must complete it and submit it within the time limits given on the forms or they may face a penalty.
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether there are official email addresses in his Department which do not accept emails from members of the public.
Answered by Helen Grant
There are no email addresses in the DCMS which do not accept emails from the public.
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what public consultations her Department has conducted since January 2014; and how many responses her Department has received to each of those consultations.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Department for Education has conducted 49 consultations since January 2014, and has received a total of 12,891 responses. The list of consultations and the number of responses received is attached.
Asked by: Andrew Turner (Conservative - Isle of Wight)
Question
To ask the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross representing the House of Commons Commission, what the average daily number of letters sent from the House of Commons to Government departments was in each year since 2000.
Answered by Viscount Thurso
The number of letters sent from the House of Commons to Government Departments via the Inter-Despatch Service (IDS) over the period for which records are held is listed below. No count was made of individual items before May 2012 and so no information is available prior to this date.
| Number of items | |
| 2012 (May–Dec) | 31,849 |
| 2013 | 42,243 |
| 2014 | 36,512 |
| 2015 (Jan) | 3,426 |