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Arun (Electoral Changes) Order

Laid by

The Speaker

Department

Local Government Boundary Commission for England

Type

Statutory instruments

Date

18 July 2013

Reference

SI 2013/2794

House

House of Lords; House of Commons

Councillors: Arun

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 19 January 2009, Official Report, columns 1072-3W, on councillors: Arun, whether the Audit Commission plans to conduct similar exercises in other local authorities in the next...

Asked by

Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative)

Answering body

Communities and Local Government

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

17 March 2009

Reference

489 c1101W;489 c1103W; 263828

House

House of Commons

Councillors: Arun

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 19 January 2009, Official Report, columns 1072-3W, on councillors: Arun, whether the Audit Commission has requested councillors in other local authorities to provide their personal bank...

Asked by

Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative)

Answering body

Communities and Local Government

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

17 March 2009

Reference

489 c1101-2W;489 c1103-4W; 263829

House

House of Commons

Councillors: Arun

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 19 January 2009, Official Report, column 1072W, on councillors: Arun, what the Audit Commission's basis was for the use of its statutory powers to obtain the...

Asked by

Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative)

Answering body

Communities and Local Government

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

9 March 2009

For answer on

11 March 2009

Answered on

17 March 2009

Date

17 March 2009

Reference

489 c1100-1W;489 c1102-3W; 263050

House

House of Commons

Councillors: Arun

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 19 January 2009, Official Report, column 1072W, on councillors: Arun, for what reasons Arun was chosen by the Audit Commission to ask councillors for their bank...

Asked by

Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative)

Answering body

Communities and Local Government

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

4 March 2009

For answer on

6 March 2009

Answered on

12 March 2009

This is an operational matter for the Audit Commission and I will ask the chief executive of the Audit Commission to write to the hon. Member directly.Letter from Steve Bundred, dated 12 March 2009:I"Your Parliamentary Question on what reasons Arun was chosen by the Audit Commission to ask councillors for their bank account details has been passed to me for reply.""The Audit Commission confirms that there was no particular or additional request for data relating to Arun Council or its councillors in relation to the National Fraud Initiative and that they have been treated in exactly the same way as all other participants in the National Fraud Initiative.""One of the key sets of data matched under the National Fraud Initiative is payroll data. For example, by matching payroll data to Housing Benefit claimants' data we can identify potential fraudulent claims or overpayments. All mandatory participants in the National Fraud Initiative (for example, local councils, police authorities, probation boards, fire and rescue authorities, NHS bodies, etc) are required to provide bank account and sort codes in the payroll file submitted to the Audit Commission. The specific (and relatively limited) fields required for the National ""Fraud Initiative are set out in the published 'data specification'. This requires the payroll data submitted to include all individuals being paid a salary, wage, members' allowance or other remuneration at a particular point in time. It therefore covers all employees, board members and councillors.""A copy of this letter will be placed in Hansard."

Date

12 March 2009

Reference

489 c737-8W;489 c739-40W; 262097

House

House of Commons

Councillors: Arun

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 19 January 2009, Official Report, column 1072W, on councillors: Arun, if she will place in the Library a copy of the Code of Data Matching Practice.

Asked by

Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative)

Answering body

Communities and Local Government

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

9 March 2009

Reference

489 c31W; 262653

House

House of Commons

Councillors: Arun

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government for what reasons the Audit Commission has requested councillors of Arun Council to provide details of their personal bank accounts.

Asked by

Robert Neill (Conservative)

Answering body

Communities and Local Government

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

18 December 2008

For answer on

12 January 2009

Answered on

19 January 2009

This is an operational matter for the Audit Commission and I have asked the chief executive of the Audit Commission to write to the hon. Member direct.Letter from Steve Bundred, dated January 2009:"Your Parliamentary Question on what reasons the Audit Commission has requested councillors of Arun Council to provide details of their personal bank accounts has been passed to me for reply.""This matter relates to the data collected for the Audit Commission's data matching exercise, known as the National Fraud Initiative (NFI). The NFI is designed to assist in the prevention and detection of fraud and is one of the ways in which the Audit Commission meets its responsibility of promoting economy, efficiency and effectiveness in the use of public money. We estimate that since it started in 1996 the NFI has helped to detect around £450 million in fraud and overpayments.""The processing of data by the Commission in a data matching exercise is now carried out under powers in Part 2A of the Audit Commission Act 1998, which were enacted in the Serious Crime Act 2007. The Audit Commission does not itself investigate instances of fraud; this is the responsibility of the bodies participating in the NFI and supplying data sets for matching.""Mandatory participants such as local councils, police authorities, probation boards, fire and rescue authorities and NHS bodies are required to submit a number of different dataset types for NFI. One of these datasets is payroll data, that is, all individuals currently being paid a salary/wage/members allowance on a payroll at a particular point in time.""The data sought is limited strictly to those fields that are required for data matching plus any that will assist the investigator in selecting matches where an inconsistency is indicated from the data match that requires further investigation. The fields are set out in a 'data specification'. The bank account and sort code are included on the payroll data specification; however the name in which the bank account is held is not collected so the Audit Commission cannot make a connection to other account holders.""Bank details (bank account number and sort code) are important for the investigation process, but they are not displayed in the reports that NFI participants receive; instead the matching process looks at whether the bank account number and sort code is the ""same or different across the sets of data provided for NFI and then converts this information into a flag (Yes or No). It is then the flag that is included in the NFI reports. This intelligence helps investigators prioritise investigative resources on cases where employment income has, for example, potentially been withheld (e.g. in an undeclared bank account). This data is highly significant in the fight against fraud.""The Audit Commission's Head of NFI has met elected members at Arun Council to explain why these fields are collected, referring to a number of case studies that not only involve public sector employees but also elected members who have been guilty of benefit fraud by not declaring allowances.""A copy of this letter will be placed in Hansard."

Date

19 January 2009

Reference

486 c1072-3W; 246374

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will comment on the circumstances surrounding the sinking of the `Arco Arum' and subsequent salvage attempts in the Thames off Thurrock.

Asked by

Andrew Mackinlay (Labour)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

5 November 1998

Reference

58077; 318 c640W

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will authorise an investigation into the incident involving the dredger `Arco Arris'.

Asked by

Chris Pond (Labour)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

29 October 1998

Reference

318 c249W; 56734

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if he will urge the Port of London Authority to review PLA Pilotage Directive No. 5 following the incident involving the `Arco Arris' dredger.

Asked by

Chris Pond (Labour)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

29 October 1998

Reference

318 c250W; 56733

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, what amount of the cost of the salvage operation involving the `Arco Arris' will be met from public funds.

Asked by

Chris Pond (Labour)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

29 October 1998

Reference

318 c250W; 56736

House

House of Commons

Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, if the dredger `Arco Arris' which recently ran aground in the Thames had a qualified river pilot on board at the time.

Asked by

Chris Pond (Labour)

Answering body

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

29 October 1998

Reference

318 c249W; 56735

House

House of Commons

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