Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the savings from legal aid reform and legal aid transformation in 2014-15.
Answered by Priti Patel
The Impact Assessment published at the time of Royal Assent of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 estimated that the savings associated with the Legal Aid Reforms would be £320m in 2014/15 and £360m in 2015/16. The Impact Assessment for Legal Aid Transformation showed steady state savings estimates, rather than how savings built up each year over time. Savings are expected to reach £215M per year by 2018-19.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question
To ask the Prime Minister, when he last received an update on how effectively steps recommended by the Extremism Taskforce have been implemented.
Answered by Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton - Foreign Secretary
I refer my hon. Friend to the evidence I gave to the Liaison Committee on 16 December 2014, in particular the responses I gave to Q54 and Q68. A transcript can be found on the parliament.uk website.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question
To ask the Prime Minister, what recent assessment he has made of progress in implementing each of the steps recommended by the Extremism Taskforce.
Answered by Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton - Foreign Secretary
I refer my hon. Friend to the evidence I gave to the Liaison Committee on 16 December 2014, in particular the responses I gave to Q54 and Q68. A transcript can be found on the parliament.uk website.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question
To ask the Prime Minister, who is responsible (a) in each department and (b) across government for overseeing implementation of the steps recommended by the Extremism Taskforce.
Answered by Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton - Foreign Secretary
I refer my hon. Friend to the evidence I gave to the Liaison Committee on 16 December 2014, in particular the responses I gave to Q54 and Q68. A transcript can be found on the parliament.uk website.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question
To ask the Prime Minister, what processes and organisational structures are in place to ensure that a cross-government approach is taken to tackling extremism.
Answered by Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton - Foreign Secretary
I refer my hon. Friend to the evidence I gave to the Liaison Committee on 16 December 2014, in particular the responses I gave to Q54 and Q68. A transcript can be found on the parliament.uk website.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many Kuwaiti nationals have been referred to HM Treasury's sanctions list in each of the last five years for which records are available.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
There are currently ten individuals on the Treasury’s consolidated list of financial sanctions targets who are recorded as being Kuwaiti nationals. Of these, nine are individuals designated under the UN Al Qaida regime and one under the Terrorism and Terrorist Financing regime. Four of these Kuwaiti nationals were added to the list in 2014. The remaining six were all designated prior to 2010. No Kuwaiti nationals have been removed from the list during the last five years.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding the Highways Agency has allocated for improvement works to be carried out at the Broad End Road junction; and what criteria the Agency used in determining the level of that funding.
Answered by John Hayes
Funding for the improvements due to be carried out at the A47 Broadend Road Junction in early 2015 is approximately £123,200.
The criteria used in determining the level of funding required to complete this scheme includes consideration of all the potential costs compared against the projected benefits achieved. For the Broadend Road Junction scheme this includes the costs of the design work, materials, construction – including the provision of 2 vehicle activated signs on the approaches to the staggered junction plus improvements to the road markings - traffic management and pre- and post-construction safety audits.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he expects the safety works at Broad End Road junction, scheduled for completion before Christmas 2014, to be completed.
Answered by John Hayes
The safety works planned for the A47 at the Broadend Road Junction have been delayed due to further work being required on the scheme design. Work on the white lining and the erection of posts for the vehicle activated signs is now programmed to start in early January and, depending on the weather, to take approximately 3 weeks to complete. The vehicle activated signs will be installed in mid February.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2014 to Question 213850, what estimate she has made of the total number of vehicles entering the UK which were not subject to screening by either body scanning machines or dogs in the last 12 months.
Answered by James Brokenshire
We have made no such estimate as the use of screening is conducted on an intelligence led basis as part of Border Force's multi-layered approach.
The screening of vehicles by Border Force is undertaken through a range of methods. These include Passive Millimetric Wave Imagers, carbon dioxide probes, body detection dogs and heart beat detectors. Border Force has investment in
detection technology over the last 18 months, includes a £2 million scanner upgrade, a further £400,000 committed to infra red camera technology, and a £1.3 million investment in specialist dog search teams, at the juxtaposed
controls.
The selection of vehicles for screening is made on an intelligence led basis. Border Force staff, their contractors and detection technology are deployed to meet the risk.
In 2013/14 Border Force and its contractors detected 18,000 clandestine attempts to enter the UK illegally at our juxtaposed controls. This represents an increase of over 60% from 2012/13.
The UK and French Governments have signed a joint declaration agreeing to work together to improve the quality of border controls.
Border Force deploys 7,500 specialist staff, five cutters at sea and spends £518 million a year protecting our borders.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question
To ask the Prime Minister, with reference to his speech on immigration on 28 November 2014, what the (a) funding and (b) scope will be of the new fund to help meet additional demands on local services in areas that are heavily reliant on migrant labour.
Answered by Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton - Foreign Secretary
As I explained during my speech, details of a fund to help communities and to be taken forward in the next Parliament will be set out before the General Election.