Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Foreign National Offenders were (a) on bail and subject to electronic monitoring and (b) actively monitored in each year since 2016.
Answered by Michael Tomlinson - Minister of State (Minister for Illegal Migration)
The information requested is not available from published statistics, however the Ministry of Justice does publish statistics which includes information on the number of individuals fitted with electronic monitoring devices. This can be found on the link: Electronic Monitoring Statistics Publication - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many military personnel reported non-freezing cold injuries in each year since 2018.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The number of UK Armed Forces personnel with a record for a Non-Freezing Cold Injury (NFCI) in each year since 2018 is presented in the table below:
Year | Number |
2018 | 406 |
2019 | 334 |
2020 | 263 |
2021 | 354 |
2022 | 302 |
2023 | 421 |
The data is compiled from the following medical, safety and casualty reporting systems to provide the most complete picture possible:
These systems have been searched for coded information or text entries relating to NFCI: information entered as free text is not included.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the cost to the public purse of cancelled removal flights in each year since 2015.
Answered by Michael Tomlinson - Minister of State (Minister for Illegal Migration)
We are determined to remove those with no right to remain in the UK – including dangerous foreign criminals.
All spending is carefully scrutinised to make sure that every pound of taxpayers’ money is spent in the most effective way.
The Government’s efforts to facilitate entirely legitimate and legal returns of people who have entered the UK illegally are often frustrated by late legal challenges submitted hours before the flight.
The information requested would require a manual reconciliation of the individual cases against financial records to see if a cancellation cost was levied. This could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many community payback supervisors were employed in each year since 2010.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Community Payback allows the public to see justice being done by ensuring offenders are making visible reparations for their crimes. We have invested £93 million in Community Payback over a three-year period to boost the delivery of placements in local communities.
The new unified Probation Service launched in England and Wales in 2021. The Probation Service now has responsibility for unpaid work delivery, which had previously been the responsibility of Community Rehabilitation Companies, as such we do not have staffing data before 2022.
Yearly data since 31 December 2021 has been provided in table 1 below. The quarterly HMPPS workforce statistics publication covers staffing information, and the latest publication covers data up to 31 December 2023.
Table 1: Band 3 Community payback supervisors1,2 in post each year, as of 31 December 2021-2023
(full-time-equivalent) | |
Date | Number of Community payback Supervisors in post |
31-Dec-21 | 427 |
31-Dec-22 | 576 |
31-Dec-23 | 635 |
Notes:
1. The community payback supervisor job title was first recorded on the SOP HR reporting system in October 2021, and therefore data before this point is not available.
2. Includes Probation Service pay band 3 staff.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average vehicle availability rate was for (a) Chinook, (b) Wildcat Mk1, (c) Wildcat Mk2 and (d) Merlin HM2 in each year since 2018.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 20 December 2023 to Question 6474 to the hon. Member for Easington (Mr Grahame Morris).
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many security inspections were carried out by the Office for Nuclear Regulation in each year since 2015.
Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has carried out 1583 security inspections over the period January 2015 to end December 2023. The below table details the number of security inspections for each year over this period.
Year | Number of ONR Security Inspections |
2015 | 240 |
2016 | 197 |
2017 | 220 |
2018 | 146 |
2019 | 169 |
2020 | 144 |
2021 | 136 |
2022 | 178 |
2023 | 153 |
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average vehicle availability rate was for (a) wheeled support vehicles, (b) Landrovers, (c) Typhoon and (d) Lightning in each year since 2018.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The British Army holds and maintains an appropriate amount of all its platforms to meet operational requirements. For security reasons, I am withholding further information on the number of wheeled support vehicles and Land Rovers available for operational deployment.
Average annual Forward Fleet figures for the Typhoon and F-35B Lightning fleets are given in the table below.
Year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
Typhoon | 96 | 100 | 100 | 101 | 100 | 99 |
Lightning (1) | 7(2) | 11 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 24 |
The Forward Fleet comprises serviceable and short-term unserviceable aircraft. Typically, the short-term unserviceable fleet aircraft are undergoing minor works, forward maintenance or other unforeseen rectification or technical inspection that can arise on a day-to-day basis. The number of aircraft varies day-to-day, according to normal flight management activities.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of his Department's ammunition stocks.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) holds sufficient munitions to conduct current operational tasks. Munitions stockpile levels are kept under review balancing current holdings against threats, availability, industrial capacity and evolving technology. We are investing in munitions. The Defence Command Paper 2023 announced that the MOD would spend an additional £2.5 billion on munitions. This is in addition to the Government's provision of £560 million over two years in the Autumn Statement 2022 to build our munitions stockpiles and a further £1.9 billion over two years announced in the 2023 Budget for investment in wider readiness and resilience.
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many (a) minor, (b) moderate and (c) major incident notification forms were submitted to the Office for Nuclear Regulation in each year since 2015.
Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Office for Nuclear Regulation's (ONR) incident notification process requires dutyholders to state their judgement on the significance of an incident as major, moderate and minor in an initial incident notification form. Incidents could relate to safety, nuclear security and/or safeguards.
This categorisation is the dutyholders’ initial perspective when they first reported the incident. This means that a “major incident notification form” does not necessarily align with a “major incident”. ONR’s guidance is that the dutyholders should use the plain English interpretations of the words and their judgement on the significance of the incident. ONR inspectors use the dutyholders’ perspective as one aspect of the diverse information that informs their judgements on the significance of incidents.
ONR reports each financial year on the number of incident forms it has received, including the dutyholders’ initial perspective on incident significance, in annex 3 of the Chief Nuclear Inspector’s Annual Report on Great Britain’s Nuclear Industry 2022/23 (onr.org.uk).
Summary of dutyholders’ reports received 2015 to present:
Financial Year | Minor | Moderate | Major |
2015/16 | 300 | 11 | 2 |
2016/17 | 514 | 33 | 2 |
2017/18 | 571 | 60 | 1 |
2018/19 | 578 | 50 | 1 |
2019/20 | 707 | 39 | 4 |
2020/21 | 642 | 57 | 1 |
2021/22 | 855 | 47 | 3 |
2022/23 | 644 | 82 | 5 |
2023/24* | 491 | 60 | 3 |
*up to 28/02/2024
Source: ONR Information management system
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the findings of the Environment Agency’s research report entitled Measuring resilience to flooding and coastal change, updated on 14 November 2022, when he plans to introduce a national set of resilience indicators.
Answered by Robbie Moore - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Government has committed to develop a national set of indicators to monitor trends over time in tackling flood and coastal erosion risk in England. To inform the development of long-term indicators an Environment Agency led research project Measuring resilience to flooding and coastal change was published in November 2022. Further research is now exploring data collection and development of potential indicators through the £200 million flood and coastal resilience innovation programme. The Government will provide a further update on progress to develop a national set of indicators in due course.