Written questions

Ian Lavery

902 written questions tabled, most recent first.

14 Oct 2015 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average value was of voluntary exit payments for Civil Service employees with a value of more than £95,000 made since May 2015.

14 Oct 2015 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many requests for voluntary exit payments for Civil Service employees with a value of more than £95,000 have been outstanding since May 2015.

14 Oct 2015 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many requests for voluntary exit payments for Civil Service employees with a value of more than £95,000 he has received since May 2015.

14 Oct 2015 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many voluntary exit payments for Civil Service employees with a value of more than £95,000 have been rejected since May 2015.

14 Sep 2015 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Crew

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will amend legislation on minimum safe manning levels on merchant ships to require the Maritime and Coastguard Agency to consult maritime trade unions when a shipowner applies for a change to a vessel's s

14 Sep 2015 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Crew

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on how many occasions the Maritime and Coastguard Agency changed the safe manning certificate for merchant ships on the UK Registry in each year since 1998.

14 Sep 2015 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Crew

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what arrangements are in place for determining safe manning levels on UK merchant ships for each (a) classification of ship, (b) trade route and (c) type of cargo.

14 Sep 2015 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Crew

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Maritime and Coastguard Agency is taking to ensure that members of the Red Ensign Group comply with the safe manning levels recommended by that agency.

14 Sep 2015 · Department for Transport

Maritime and Coastguard Agency

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency's Survey and Inspection Transformation Programme to be launched; and how he plans to publicise that programme using his Department's website.

14 Sep 2015 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency on the appointment of a new head of the UK Shipping Register; and whether there is a deadline by which that vacancy must be filled.

9 Sep 2015 · Ministry of Justice

National Offender Management Service: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost was of (a) overtime payments, (b) required hours allowance, (c) Payment Plus, (d) constant watch, (e) bedwatch, (f) tornado, (g) dirty protest, (h) unsocial hours working payments and (i) additional

9 Sep 2015 · Ministry of Justice

National Offender Management Service: Secondment

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost of travel and subsistance has been to the National Offender Management Service for the operation of the nationally co-ordinated detached duty scheme since its introduction.

4 Sep 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Interpreters: Hearing Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reasons his Department decided not to commission an independent body to conduct the market review of British Sign Language interpreters.

4 Sep 2015 · Cabinet Office

Interpreters: Hearing Impaired

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reasons no consultation has taken place with members of the deaf community, service users and British Sign Language interpreters and service providers on the National Framework Agreement for interpretin

7 Jul 2015 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison community impact assessment reports have been submitted by each prison establishment since the introduction of the new joint national protocol between NOMS, the Crown Prosecution Service and the N

7 Jul 2015 · Home Office

Police: Cameras

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish the evaluation being conducted by the Royal College of Policing of body-worn video camera pilots.

7 Jul 2015 · Ministry of Justice

National Offender Management Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what projection he has made of the financial savings NOMS will make in (a) 2015-16 and (b) each of the next three years.

7 Jul 2015 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Officers: Labour Turnover

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison officers (a) were recruited to and (b) left the Prison Service in each month since January 2014.

3 Jul 2015 · Home Office

Amnesty International: Surveillance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the ruling by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal IPT/13/194/CH, that Amnesty International has been subjected to unlawful surveillan

29 Jun 2015 · HM Treasury

Welfare Tax Credits

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment HM Revenue and Customs has made of the effect on levels of tax credits compliance of the redeployment of staff of that department to handle tax credits renewal calls.