Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many civil law suits have been brought against his Department based either wholly or partially on grounds provided by the Human Rights Act 1998; how many such suits were settled out of court before a court judgment was delivered; and how much such settlements have cost the public purse since 2010.
Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone
The information requested is not available because separate data for cases based wholly or partially on the Human Rights Act 1998 are not recorded.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department spent from the public purse on industrial tribunals in the last 12 months.
Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 2 March 2016 by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice to Question 28629.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many consultants' contracts were terminated early in each of the last six years for which figures are available; and what the cost of each such termination was in each of those years.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This information is not readily available, and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much her Department spent from the public purse on industrial tribunals in the last 12 months.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The cost of Employment Tribunals can be found within the HMCTS annual accounts published at:
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much her Department has paid to staff in overtime in each of the last 24 months.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
In the period January 2014 to end January 2016 overtime payments made totalled (to the nearest £k) broken down as shown below:-
2013-14 | £k | 2014-15 | £k | 2015-16 | £k |
January | 43 | April | 63 | April | 26 |
February | 52 | May | 85 | May | 34 |
March | 58 | June | 10 | June | 32 |
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| July | 60 | July | 34 |
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| August | 38 | August | 22 |
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| September | 30 | September | 21 |
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| October | 32 | October | 23 |
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| November | 47 | November | 32 |
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| December | 59 | December | 37 |
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| January | 36 | January | 28 |
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| February | 49 |
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| March | 49 |
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Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many civil law suits have been brought against her Department based either wholly or partially on grounds provided by the Human Rights Act 1998; how many such suits were settled out of court before a court judgment was delivered; and how much such settlements have cost the public purse since 2010.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
When the Human Rights Act came into force, no specific arrangements were put in place by the then government to record cases in the way requested.
Litigants in civil cases can rely on arguments based wholly or partly on the Human Rights Act 1998. In some cases, the Act is relied on in addition to other claims. Neither Government Legal Department (GLD) records nor the County and High Courts case management systems distinguish between cases where the Act is invoked and cases where it is not. As a result, there are not currently data published which distinguish between cases where the Human Rights Act was or was not invoked.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many times the former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, the former hon. Member for Twickenham, held individual meetings with trade envoys in each year between September 2012 and May 2015.
Answered by Anna Soubry
It is an established convention that Minsters of one Administration cannot see the documents of a previous Administration. I am therefore unable to provide the information requested by the hon Member.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2016 to Question 27903, which countries were visited in each of the overseas visits referred to in the Answer; and which trade envoy undertook each such visit.
Answered by Anna Soubry
The table below outlines which countries were visited, and by which Trade Envoy.
YEAR | TRADE ENVOY | COUNTRY |
2012 | Baroness Morris | Jordan |
2013 | Baroness Morris | Palestine, Kuwait |
2013 | Lord Risby | Algeria |
2013 | Baroness Scotland | South Africa |
2013 | Lord Putnam | Vietnam, Laos |
2013 | Baroness Bonham-Carter | Mexico x2 |
2013 | Richard Graham | Indonesia |
2014 | Baroness Bonham-Carter | Mexico x2 |
2014 | Richard Graham | Indonesia x2 |
2014 | Mark Prisk | Iceland, Finland, Sweden |
2014 | Lord Risby | Algeria x3, Tunisia |
2014 | David Heath | Nigeria x2, Angola x2 |
2014 | Lord Sharman | Morocco x2 |
2014 | Baroness Scotland | South Africa x2 |
2014 | Lord Hollick | Kenya, Tanzania, |
2014 | Lord Janvrin | Turkey x2 |
2014 | Charles Hendry | Kazakhstan x2 |
2014 | Baroness Morris | Palestine x2, Jordan |
2014 | Lord King | Saudi Arabia |
2014 | Charles Hendry | Azerbaijan x2 |
2015 | Charles Hendry | Kazakhstan x2, Azerbaijan |
2015 | Baroness Morris | Kuwait x3, Palestine |
2015 | Lord Janvrin | Turkey x2 |
2015 | Lord King | Saudi Arabia x3 |
2015 | Baroness Nicholson | Iraq |
2015 | Baroness Bonham-Carter | Mexico x2 |
2015 | Lord Putnam | Vietnam x2, Cambodia x2, Laos |
2015 | Lord Hollick | Tanzania, Kenya |
2015 | Lord Risby | Algeria |
2015 | David Heath | Angola, Nigeria |
2015 | Baroness Scotland | South Africa x2 |
2015 | Richard Graham | Indonesia x3, Singapore, Malaysia |
2015 | Mark Prisk | Norway, Sweden |
2016 | Lord Risby | Algeria |
2016 | Lord Hollick | Tanzania, Kenya |
2016 | Baroness Northover | Angola |
2016 | Baroness Scotland | South Africa |
2016 | Jeffrey Donaldson MP | Egypt |
2016 | Baroness Morris | Kuwait |
2016 | Lord Putnam | Vietnam, Cambodia x2, Laos |
2016 | Richard Graham | Indonesia, Singapore |
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many (a) publications, (b) consultation documents and (c) circulars her Department has issued since August 2012; and what the title was of each such publication, consultation document or circular.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
DECC migrated to gov.uk in Jan 2013. Archives of the old DECC website (www.decc.gov.uk) are available from the National Archives:
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/*/http://www.decc.gov.uk/.
From Jan 2013 to date, DECC published a total of 2513 publications and 181 consultations.
Some consultations from before Jan 2013 are included on gov.uk, as the responses to these consultations were published after the Jan 2013 migration. It has not been possible to identify every single piece of material requested due to the migration to the new Gov.UK system in January 2013, and the disproportionate cost involved.
A complete list of all DECC publications can be found at:
DECC publishes a regular email newsletter (DECC Review) to stakeholders. This has been published 47 times since 1 August 2012.
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many meetings he has held with UK Trade and Investment trade envoys since May 2015.
Answered by Anna Soubry
My Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills hosted a roundtable alongside my noble Friend Lord Maude of Horsham at the House of Lords for all Trade Envoys on 9th February 2016. To the best of our knowledge, my Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State has not held individual meetings with any of the Trade Envoys.