Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders in each police force area who were convicted but not sentenced to immediate custody had (a) 26 to 50, (b) 51 to 75, (c) 76 to 100 and (d) over 100 previous convictions or cautions in each year since 2007.
Answered by Gareth Bacon - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) UK nationals and (b) non-UK nationals have received a (i) caution and (ii) sentence for a criminal offence in each year since 2008.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress he has made on reducing the number of prisoners on remand through the use of electronic tags.
Answered by Gareth Bacon - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
We continue to work closely with partners across the criminal justice system to inform them of the availability and capability of electronic monitoring conditions for court bail as an alternative to remand in custody.
In August 2023, we published a new Electronic Monitoring Court Bail Protocol to support effective and efficient practice and to improve the confidence of criminal justice system stakeholders in using electronic monitoring. In March 2024, we distributed posters to be displayed in all magistrates’ and Crown Courts in England and Wales highlighting how electronically monitored conditions and technologies can be used flexibly in response to specific risks. In addition, we are investing £53 million over four years from April 2024 to expand the Bail Information Service to all courts and prisons to support timely decisions on remand including the use of electronic monitoring where appropriate.
Data relating to the progress made on reducing the number of prisoners on remand through the use of electronic tags is not centrally held by the Ministry of Justice.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons the discount rate used to calculate the Resource Accounting and Budgeting charge on student loans is different to the rate used for general policy appraisal.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
The Resource Accounting Budget charge, which is the government subsidy anticipated on student loans issued in any particular financial year, is calculated as the present value of student loan outlay less expected future repayments, in accordance with relevant International Financial Reporting Standards and guidance from HMT’s Government Financial Reporting Manual (FReM).
The FReM requires future repayments of student loans to be discounted at the higher of the intrinsic rate of the financial instrument and the real financial instrument discount rate set by HMT, based on analysis of real yields on UK index linked gilts and are specifically appropriate to central government.
The FReM is kept under constant review. It is updated to reflect developments in relevant standards and best practice.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much his Department spent on refugee integration loans in each year since 2007.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
Refugee Integration Loans were introduced in 2007 following a public consultation and are intended to help people with the costs of integrating into UK society. They are funded by the Home Office, who make the initial decisions on applications. They are then administered and recouped by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
Refugee integration loans are interest-free loans with favourable repayment terms for individuals who are over 18 and meet the following eligibility criteria:
Individuals are currently able to borrow between £100 and £500. Between £100 to £780 can be borrowed if submitting a joint application with a partner.
All loan repayments are expected in full and money recovered can be recycled to provide funds for new refugees
The Home Office work with DWP to administer the loans across different IT platforms. Consequently, data is not held in an easily reportable format and would require a manual search of records that would incur a disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) work and (b) family visas were issued to people aged (i) between (A) 18 and 24, (B) 25 and 34, (C) 35 and 44, (D) 45 and 54 and (E) 55 and 64 and (ii) 65 and over in each year since 2010.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The number of work or family applications for entry clearance to the UK that are broken down by age group does not form part of any current transparency data or migration statistics and is not published.
The transparency data does, however, include a range of processing data and the latest data can be found at:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-transparency-data#uk-visas-and-immigration
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to page 173 of the Levelling Up the United Kingdom White Paper, published the Government on 2 February 2022, what recent progress she has made on targeting at least 55% of domestic R&D funding outside the greater south east by 2024-25.
Answered by Andrew Griffith - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
Following the establishment of DSIT, the department set the aim to invest, over the Spending Review period, a cumulative £1.3 billion more in R&D funding outside the Greater South East than in 2021-2022, superseding the referenced BEIS target.
DSIT and UKRI are working together to achieve this target, delivering the Innovation Accelerators programme to accelerate innovation clusters, investing £200 million in 12 projects across the UK through the Strength in Places Fund, by 2025, and in Autumn 2023 DSIT announced funding for a next-gen Exascale supercomputing facility in Edinburgh, and a new AI supercomputer for the national AI Research Resource in Bristol.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what information her Department holds on the amount of R&D spend by the (a) Government, (b) higher education sector, (b) charity sector and (c) private sector in each region in each year since 1997.
Answered by Andrew Griffith - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
The amount of R&D spend by sector and region is published annually by the Office for National Statistics.
The most recent release of these R&D spending breakdowns can be downloaded from: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/researchanddevelopmentexpenditure/bulletins/ukgrossdomesticexpenditureonresearchanddevelopment/2021
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, what diplomatic steps he is taking to help counter Chinese aggression against India.
Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
Relations between these two countries are a matter for their governments to progress and manage through peaceful means.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were (a) naturalised and (b) registered who were (i) under 18, (ii) 19 to 24, (iii) 25 to 29, (iv) 30 to 34, (v) 35 to 39, (vi) 40 to 44, (vii) 45 to 49, (viii) 50 to 54, (ix) 55 to 59, (x) 60 to 64, (xi) 65 to 69 and (xii) 70 or above in each quarter since Q1 2023.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The Home Office publishes data on citizenship in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on naturalisations and registrations broken down by age group are published in table Cit_D02 of the ‘Citizenship detailed datasets’. Age breakdowns from 2021 onwards cannot currently be provided due to ongoing work to transition underlying systems that are used to produce the data.
Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the year ending December 2023.
Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.