Asked by: Nick de Bois (Conservative - Enfield North)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners who were born as female but now live as men, have been moved to men's prisons; and how many such prisoners have self-certified gender recognition certificates.
Answered by Simon Hughes
It is not possible to report on the number of prisoners with Gender Recognition Certificates or on the number who were born male but now live as female. Section 22 of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 prohibits disclosure of the fact that someone has applied for a Gender Recognition Certificate or disclosure of someone's gender prior to the acquisition of the Gender Recognition Certificate.
Individuals with a gender recognition certificate are recorded on administrative systems as their legal gender, and are not identifiable as having changed gender. To use any other source of information to identify such individuals would not be appropriate.
In accordance of the Equality Act 2010 and the Gender Equality Duty, NOMS is committed to paying due regard to the need to address and eliminate the unlawful discrimination and harassment of transgender individuals.
Asked by: Nick de Bois (Conservative - Enfield North)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many creditors remained unpaid by his Department as at 1 June 2014; and of those how many have been waiting for (a) 45, (b) 60, (c) 75 and (d) more than 75 days.
Answered by Oliver Heald
The table below shows the number of Treasury Solicitor's Department (TSol) invoices that were potentially outstanding to suppliers from the date that an invoice was received on the 1 June. This table includes all invoices including those that cannot yet be authorised as the invoice was disputed or where further information was requested from the supplier.
The majority of TSol supplier invoices relate to disbursement spending on cases and in particular work undertaken by counsel.
TSol* | 46-60 days | 61-75 days | 76 days or more |
Number of suppliers | 138 | 31 | 34 |
* Tsol data also includes Attorney General's Office and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) records a creditor when a valid invoice is received by the CPS' payment centre and the following table shows the total number of creditors for any amount that remained unpaid on 1 June 2014.
CPS | 46-60 days | 61-75 days | 76 days or more |
Number of creditors | 6 | 3 | 12 |
The table below shows the number of creditors that remained unpaid by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) on 1 June 2014 for (a) 45, (b) 60, (c) 76 days and over.
SFO | 46-60 days | 61-75 days | 76 days or more |
Number of creditors | 6 | 1 | 6 |
Asked by: Nick de Bois (Conservative - Enfield North)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many creditors had remained unpaid by his Department on 1 June 2014 for (a) 45, (b) 60, (c) 75 and (d) 76 days and over.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) financial systems capture the length of time the invoice has been outstanding at the point the invoice is paid.
The table below represents our assessment of late payments paid during the twelve months ended 1 June 2014. This does not reflect existing unpaid bills.
Invoices Paid After 45 Days Between June 2013 and June 2014 | ||||
45-59 days | 60-74 Days | 75 Days | 76 Days and Over | Total Over 45 Days |
19 | 6 | 0 | 18 | 43 |
During financial year 2013-14 out of over 4 million correctly submitted invoices the MOD paid 94% within five working days.
Asked by: Nick de Bois (Conservative - Enfield North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2014, Official Report, column 241W, on billing, what the value was of all outstanding legacy creditors on 1 June 2014.
Answered by Dan Poulter
As at 1 June 2014, the value of outstanding legacy creditors was £3,237,153.15.
Following the abolition of primary care trusts (PCTs) and strategic health authorities (SHAs) on 31 March 2013, legacy PCT and SHA finance teams remained in place until 31 August 2013 to process creditor payments relating to pre 1 April 2013. Creditor payments outstanding at 31 August 2013 were transferred to successor organisations, including the Department. The above amount remains outstanding because of due diligence taking place on creditor payments in order to mitigate the risk of making fraudulent or duplicate payments.
Asked by: Nick de Bois (Conservative - Enfield North)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2014, Official Report, column 228W, on billing, what the value is of the sums being claimed by outstanding creditors at 31 May 2014.
Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham
The value of sums being claimed by non-government creditors at 31 May 2014, can be found in the table below. All unpaid invoices are in dispute.
Number of days unpaid | Value |
45 - 59 | £120,891.87 |
60-74 | £293,868.79 |
75 and over | £334,974.27 |
Asked by: Nick de Bois (Conservative - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many creditors remained unpaid by his Department on 1 June 2014; and of those, how many had been unpaid for (a) 45 days, (b) 60 days, (c) 75 days and (d) more than 76 days.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
My Department has a cross-government target of paying 80 per cent of invoices within 5 days of receipt. In 2013-14, we paid 84 per cent of invoices within that target.
As of 1 June 2014, there was just one outstanding creditor unpaid, in each case, for (a) 45-59 days, (b) 60-75 days and (c) over 76 days.
There were a further 24 outstanding creditors of shorter durations.
To place this in context, in 2013-14, my Department paid 11,937 invoices.
Asked by: Nick de Bois (Conservative - Enfield North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many creditors had remained unpaid by her Department on 1 June 2014 for (a) 45 days, (b) 60 days, (c) 75 days and (d) 76 days and over.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The information requested is shown in the following table:
| Overdue period | Payments owing 0-45 Days | Payments owing 46-60 Days | Payments owing 61-75 Days | Payments owing 76+ Days |
| number of creditors | 357 | 71 | 56 | 360 |
When calculating the unpaid period, the Home Office starts counting from the
date when the invoice was due to be paid.
The above figures refer to all creditors, including those with balances below
£10,000.
Invoices may be overdue for a number of reasons including the department
disputing the amount.
Asked by: Nick de Bois (Conservative - Enfield North)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for the Middle East peace process of then-Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's statement in April 2014 that kidnapping Israelis was a top priority on the agenda of Hamas and the Palestinian resistance.
Answered by Hugh Robertson
The statement made by the then-Hamas Prime Minister in April 2014 was deplorable and only serves to perpetuate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The new Palestinian interim technocratic government contains no Hamas members, and has signed up to the international community's principles: non-violence, a negotiated two state solution, and an acceptance of all previous agreements and obligations, including Israel's legitimate right to exist. We now look to the new government to demonstrate these commitments through its actions as well as its words.
Asked by: Nick de Bois (Conservative - Enfield North)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many creditors remained unpaid by his Department on 1 June 2014 for (a) 45 days, (b) 60 days, (c) 75 days and (d) 76 days and over.
Answered by Lord Barker of Battle
The Department's current accounting system recognises invoices when they are submitted if they are made out to the Department of Energy and Climate Change and a valid Purchase Order number is provided.
As at 1st June 2014, the following number of invoices remain unpaid:
Duration | 45 – 59 days | 60 - 74 days | 75 days | 76 days & over |
No. of creditors | 5 | 7 | NIL | 4 |
Total value of invoices unpaid | £9k | £67k | - | £42k |
Asked by: Nick de Bois (Conservative - Enfield North)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what capital funding has been made available to free schools in Enfield North constituency since May 2010.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The Department for Education publishes the final capital costs for all free schools online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-funding-for-open-free-schools