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To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what timescales the Tax Credit Office in Preston has in place to respond to representations made by hon. Members by (a) telephone, (b) email and (c) letter; and how this Office performed against these timescales in the last reporting year.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what timescales the Tax Credit Office in Preston has in place to respond to representations made by hon. Members by (a) telephone, (b) email and (c) letter; and how this Office performed against these timescales in the last reporting year.
HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) Tax Credit Office aim to prioritise and respond to representations from hon. Members as soon as possible, irrespective of the route by which they are received. HMRC do not, however, routinely record and collate performance against specific timescales for such representations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many men born in November 1954 resident in Preston parliamentary constituency have been notified of changes in the age at which they will receive the State Pension; and on what date his Department contacted those men with that information.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many men born in November 1954 resident in Preston parliamentary constituency have been notified of changes in the age at which they will receive the State Pension; and on what date his Department contacted those men with that information.
We do not have the information requested at this level.
I can confirm that in February 2012, 375,000 letters explaining the State Pension age changes were sent to men and women (across Great Britain and Overseas), with a date of birth in the range 06/10/1954 to 05/04/1955.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women in Preston constituency who were born in November 1954 have been notified of changes in the age at which they will receive the state pension; and when his Department notified each such person.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women in Preston constituency who were born in November 1954 have been notified of changes in the age at which they will receive the state pension; and when his Department notified each such person.
We do not have the information requested at this level.
I can confirm that in February 2012, 375,000 letters explaining the State Pension age changes were sent to men and women (across Great Britain and Overseas) with a date of birth in the range 06/10/1954 to 05/04/1955.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether he has written to congratulate the organisers of the celebrations to commemorate the tercentenary of the Battle of Preston.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether he has written to congratulate the organisers of the celebrations to commemorate the tercentenary of the Battle of Preston.
The programme of events run by the Harris Museum and Preston City Council to commemorate the last battle on English soil - which received nearly £50,000 of support from the Heritage Lottery Fund, alongside funding from other local groups - has been a huge success. I was delighted to write to the organisers to congratulate them on this excellent series of family events.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assistance her Department plans to permit Serco to give the Diocese of Blackburn to facilitate the settlement of Syrian refugees in Preston.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assistance her Department plans to permit Serco to give the Diocese of Blackburn to facilitate the settlement of Syrian refugees in Preston.
The UK has been operating resettlement schemes for many years and we already have established and effective networks to accommodate and support resettled people. It is up to each individual local authority to decide how best to manage the resettlement of refugees in their area, and they are therefore free to choose their own delivery partners.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many households in Preston constituency have gained income under the feed-in tariff in the last four years for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many households in Preston constituency have gained income under the feed-in tariff in the last four years for which figures are available.
The table below provides the cumulative total number of domestic installations in the Preston Constituency that are confirmed on the Central Feed-in Tariff Register and marked as being domestic installations. The latest figures for 2015 go up to the end of September, with previous years’ data provided to the end of each calendar year.
Photovoltaics | Micro Combined Heat and Power (CHP) | Total | |
2012 | 152 | - | 152 |
2013 | 249 | 1 | 250 |
2014 | 327 | 1 | 328 |
2015 (Jan – Sept) | 387 | 1 | 388 |
Data taken from Sub-regional Feed-in Tariffs statistics, with the latest figures published at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/sub-regional-feed-in-tariffs-confirmed-on-the-cfr-statistics.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many full time equivalent staff were employed at the tax credit office in Preston in each year from 2010 to 2015; and what estimate he has made of the size of the workforce at that office in (a) 2016, (b) 2017 and...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many full time equivalent staff were employed at the tax credit office in Preston in each year from 2010 to 2015; and what estimate he has made of the size of the workforce at that office in (a) 2016, (b) 2017 and...
The following table outlines the number of full time equivalent staff employed at the tax credit office in Preston at the start of each financial year.
Financial year | Number of full time equivalent staff |
April 2010 | 2010 |
April 2011 | 1957 |
April 2012 | 1998 |
April 2013 | 2033 |
April 2014 | 1870 |
April 2015 | 1787 |
The projected full time equivalent staffing levels in 2016, 2017 and 2018 are 2,050, 1,941 and 1,834 respectively.
I have visited the bus station in Preston and I know exactly what my hon. Friend means, although I suspect that such a competition would attract entries from around the House. When a local authority gets it wrong, as he suggests the Labour council in Lancashire has done, it will...
I have visited the bus station in Preston and I know exactly what my hon. Friend means, although I suspect that such a competition would attract entries from around the House. When a local authority gets it wrong, as he suggests the Labour council in Lancashire has done, it will...
We do not need a debate on what is the ugliest building in Britain because it is the bus station in the centre of Preston. It would therefore be helpful to have a debate on why Labour-controlled Lancashire County Council has spent £23 million restoring that concrete monstrosity, while proposing...
We do not need a debate on what is the ugliest building in Britain because it is the bus station in the centre of Preston. It would therefore be helpful to have a debate on why Labour-controlled Lancashire County Council has spent £23 million restoring that concrete monstrosity, while proposing...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what facilities are available to enable staff based at the Carer's Allowance Unit in Preston to pay money from their wages into the Guild Money credit union.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what facilities are available to enable staff based at the Carer's Allowance Unit in Preston to pay money from their wages into the Guild Money credit union.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 30 October 2015 to Question 13346, if he will make it his policy to introduce a dedicated team at the tax credit office in Preston constituency to deal with tax credit cases referred to them by hon. Members.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 30 October 2015 to Question 13346, if he will make it his policy to introduce a dedicated team at the tax credit office in Preston constituency to deal with tax credit cases referred to them by hon. Members.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) already has three units which deal specifically with representations from hon. Members in relation to their constituents’ concerns: a dedicated MP hotline for Tax Credits, an MP complaints team that deals with tax credit complaints, and an HMRC Ministerial correspondence team.
The dedicated MP hotline is a telephone helpline to assist MPs, MEPs, MSPs, Welsh Assembly Members and their staff when dealing with constituents’ Tax Credit issues. Advisors deal with around 11,500 calls per year.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what facilities are in place to enable staff based at the tax credit office in Preston to pay money out of their wages into the Guild Money Credit Union.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what facilities are in place to enable staff based at the tax credit office in Preston to pay money out of their wages into the Guild Money Credit Union.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has a process in place that enables serving staff to authorise a deduction of their salary, which is then paid over to third parties such as the Civil Service Benevolent Fund or HMRC’s chosen partner for Payroll Giving. As part of this process, the recipient organisation must appear on an approved list. There are no credit unions on this list and, consequently, it is not possible to make a deduction in relation to credit unions.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 23 October 2015 to Question 12551, if he will invite the hon. Member for Preston to visit the tax credit office in that constituency.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Answer of 23 October 2015 to Question 12551, if he will invite the hon. Member for Preston to visit the tax credit office in that constituency.
HM Revenue and Customs is happy to facilitate visits to their offices from MPs. In the first instance they would ask for the MP's office to send a formal request to communications.corporate@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which hon. Members have been invited to visit the tax credit office in Preston since June 2010.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, which hon. Members have been invited to visit the tax credit office in Preston since June 2010.
HMRC has not invited any hon. Members to visit the Tax Credit Office in Preston since June 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse was for (a) British Sign Language interpreters and (b) communication support workers provided for people in Preston parliamentary constituency with hearing deficits or deafness under the Access to Work programme in each month...
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse was for (a) British Sign Language interpreters and (b) communication support workers provided for people in Preston parliamentary constituency with hearing deficits or deafness under the Access to Work programme in each month...
The table below shows Access to Work expenditure on British Sign Language (BSL) Interpreters for people in the Preston constituency who had a primary medical condition recorded as "Deaf and hard of hearing" for each of the months requested.
Access to Work expenditure on Communication Support Workers for people in the Preston constituency who had a primary medical condition recorded as "Deaf and hard of hearing" relates to fewer than 10 people and has not been provided in order to avoid disclosure.
Month | Support Worker Type |
| BSL Interpreter | |
| Jan-14 | £31,000 |
| Feb-14 | £13,000 |
| Mar-14 | £11,000 |
| Apr-14 | £13,000 |
| May-14 | £9,000 |
| Jun-14 | £8,000 |
| Jul-14 | £14,000 |
| Aug-14 | £11,000 |
| Sep-14 | £4,000 |
| Oct-14 | £6,000 |
| Nov-14 | £11,000 |
| Dec-14 | £13,000 |
| Jan-15 | £8,000 |
| Feb-15 | £31,000 |
| Mar-15 | £20,000 |
| Apr-15 | £8,000 |
| May-15 | £11,000 |
| Jun-15 | £6,000 |
Twenty people in the Preston constituency who had a primary medical condition recorded as "Deaf and hard of hearing" were helped by British Sign Language (BSL) Interpreters as part of Access to Work during the most recent annual period for which data are available (July 2014 and June 2015). 12265
Fewer than 10 individuals in the Preston constituency who had a primary medical condition recorded as "Deaf and hard of hearing" were helped by Communication Support Workers during this period. To avoid possible disclosure the precise figure has not been provided. 12266
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with hearing deficits or deafness in Preston constituency had (a) British Sign Language interpreters or (b) Communication Support Workers provided to assist them under the Access to Work programme between 1 October 2014 and 30 September 2015.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with hearing deficits or deafness in Preston constituency had (a) British Sign Language interpreters or (b) Communication Support Workers provided to assist them under the Access to Work programme between 1 October 2014 and 30 September 2015.
The table below shows Access to Work expenditure on British Sign Language (BSL) Interpreters for people in the Preston constituency who had a primary medical condition recorded as "Deaf and hard of hearing" for each of the months requested.
Access to Work expenditure on Communication Support Workers for people in the Preston constituency who had a primary medical condition recorded as "Deaf and hard of hearing" relates to fewer than 10 people and has not been provided in order to avoid disclosure.
Month | Support Worker Type |
| BSL Interpreter | |
| Jan-14 | £31,000 |
| Feb-14 | £13,000 |
| Mar-14 | £11,000 |
| Apr-14 | £13,000 |
| May-14 | £9,000 |
| Jun-14 | £8,000 |
| Jul-14 | £14,000 |
| Aug-14 | £11,000 |
| Sep-14 | £4,000 |
| Oct-14 | £6,000 |
| Nov-14 | £11,000 |
| Dec-14 | £13,000 |
| Jan-15 | £8,000 |
| Feb-15 | £31,000 |
| Mar-15 | £20,000 |
| Apr-15 | £8,000 |
| May-15 | £11,000 |
| Jun-15 | £6,000 |
Twenty people in the Preston constituency who had a primary medical condition recorded as "Deaf and hard of hearing" were helped by British Sign Language (BSL) Interpreters as part of Access to Work during the most recent annual period for which data are available (July 2014 and June 2015). 12265
Fewer than 10 individuals in the Preston constituency who had a primary medical condition recorded as "Deaf and hard of hearing" were helped by Communication Support Workers during this period. To avoid possible disclosure the precise figure has not been provided. 12266
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many defibrillators there are in public places in Preston constituency; and what the location of those defibrillators is.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many defibrillators there are in public places in Preston constituency; and what the location of those defibrillators is.
This information is not collected centrally.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any Minister in his Department plans to attend celebrations of the tercentenary of the Battle of Preston in November 2015.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any Minister in his Department plans to attend celebrations of the tercentenary of the Battle of Preston in November 2015.
There are no plans for any Minister from the Ministry of Defence to attend the tercentenary of the Battle of Preston. Any representation from the Armed Forces is likely to be at a local level.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 September 2015 to Question 8380, how many burglaries were reported in each ward in Preston City Council in each of the first six months of 2015.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 September 2015 to Question 8380, how many burglaries were reported in each ward in Preston City Council in each of the first six months of 2015.
The Home Office does not hold the information requested centrally. Data is held on burglaries recorded by the police at Police Force Area and Community Safety Partnership level, but not at geographic levels below that, such as ward level.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many burglaries were reported in each ward in Preston City Council in each of the first six months of 2015; and how many of those burglaries were attended by a member of Lancashire Constabulary to investigate.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many burglaries were reported in each ward in Preston City Council in each of the first six months of 2015; and how many of those burglaries were attended by a member of Lancashire Constabulary to investigate.
The Home Office does not hold the data requested. Information is not centrally held on burglary incidents reported to police forces and the status of each investigation. We do expect all crimes reported to the police to be taken seriously, investigated and, where appropriate, taken through the courts and met with tough sentences.
The Home Office collects and publishes data on notifiable offences that are recorded by the police including burglaries and where applicable the outcome of these offences but this data is not available by ward.