All 18 results for alleged speaker:Damian Hinds

Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Prisoners' Release (11 Sep 2023)

Damian Hinds: The table below shows the number of temporary release failures due to an alleged offence for the year 2022-2023 was 31. Temporary Releases 2022-23 Total number of temporary releases 386,435 Number of temporary release failures(1) 746 Temporary release failures percentage of total releases 0.19% of which, number where the failure was due to an alleged offence(2) 31 Failure due...

Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Public Bodies: Inquiries ( 3 May 2023)

Damian Hinds: ...; Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry 2021 Essex Mental Health Independent Inquiry 2022 Angiolini Inquiry; Dawn Sturgess Inquiry; Fuller Inquiry; UK Covid-19 Inquiry; Independent Inquiry into alleged unlawful activity by British Armed Forces during deliberate detention operations in Afghanistan 2023 to date Inquiry into the preventability of the Omagh bombing

Written Answers — Ministry of Justice: Remand in Custody: Females (19 Jan 2023)

Damian Hinds: ...remand estimation For those in the remand prison population this estimation is based on the difference between the date of an individual’s first entry to the prison estate for the current set of [alleged / proven] offences and the date of the data extract [in this case 30 Sep 2022]. This may not accurately reflect ‘time on remand’ for reasons including that the ‘remand spell’ has...

Written Answers — Home Office: National Crime Agency: Standards (29 Mar 2022)

Damian Hinds: .... The NCA-hosted International Anti-Corruption Coordination Centre (established in 2016) also brings together specialist law enforcement officers from multiple agencies around the world to tackle allegations of grand corruption, including in Africa. The Agency has processes to ensures resource is effectively prioritised and focussed on the highest risk. These processes consider broader...

Written Answers — Home Office: Animal Experiments (23 Nov 2021)

Damian Hinds: ...Office can confirm that no fines or prosecutions have resulted from cases of non-compliance under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 in each of the last ten years.The Home Office take any allegations regarding potential non-compliance with the Act, the Code of Practice or individual licence conditions very seriously. The Compliance Policy, found here:...

Written Answers — Home Office: Extradition (26 Oct 2021)

Damian Hinds: ...efforts to improve the safeguards it has in place to protect human rights and preclude interventions or activities of a political, military, religious or racial character. The Government views any allegation of misuse of INTERPOL’s systems very seriously and works closely with INTERPOL to ensure the legitimacy of the Red Notice system. All Red Notices are subject to review by a...

Education: SATs: Pressure on Students (24 Jun 2019)

Damian Hinds: ...time to get rid of standardised assessment at primary school. As I said earlier, more countries around the world are seeing the value and importance of it. We do not know what the Labour party’s alleged replacement for standardised assessment tests would be, but we do know two things about it: first, it would be less reliable; and secondly, it would require a lot more work for teachers.

Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Social Security Benefits: Children (29 Jun 2017)

Damian Hinds: .... Claimants will be asked to confirm that they are not living with the other biological parent of the child during the process of providing evidence. They will not be asked to identify the alleged perpetrator. Where a pro-forma is provided from a third party, DWP staff will check that the form is complete and verified by an approved third party. Where other evidence is provided this will...

Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Social Security Benefits: Suicide (25 Apr 2017)

Damian Hinds: ...since 2012. The department cannot therefore supply information for Reviews conducted prior to 2012. The following information is held for Reviews carried out in relation to cases of suicide and alleged suicide. 2012/13: 15 2013/14: 14 2014/15: 14 2015/16: 11 2016/17: 6

Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: JD Sports (20 Feb 2017)

Damian Hinds: ...to JD Sports. At a local level, the Jobcentre in Rochdale suspended recruitment activity with JD sports in Rochdale pending the outcome of a DWP investigation into working practices following allegations made by a Channel 4 documentary. This DWP investigation has concluded and we have now lifted this suspension.

Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Social Security Benefits (22 Nov 2016)

Damian Hinds: ...and the deaths of vulnerable claimants. The Department does not collect information on the cause of death of an individual. If information is received that a DWP claimant has died and it is alleged that DWP activity may have contributed to this, we would carry out an internal review to establish whether anything should have been done differently. A decision to impose a sanction is...

Written Answers — Department for Work and Pensions: Social Security Benefits: Suicide (17 Nov 2016)

Damian Hinds: ...a record of the date of death. Suicide is a tragic and complex issue which we take extremely seriously. If information is received that a DWP client has attempted or completed suicide and it is alleged that DWP activity may have contributed to this, we carry out an internal review to establish whether anything should have been done differently.

Written Answers — HM Treasury: Gold: Smuggling (22 Jun 2015)

Damian Hinds: As Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, I have received no recent representations on allegations of illicit gold trafficking from South America by companies linked to the London bullion market. Should such representations be received then they would be treated seriously and investigated.

European Union Referendum Bill: Landfill Tax (No. 2) (16 Jun 2015)

Damian Hinds: ...it to take action against more illegal waste sites and illegal waste exports. HMRC always acts on information indicating non-compliance. For legal reasons, it generally does not comment on specific allegations of tax evasion and fraud. It fully engages with key partner agencies, most notably the Environment Agency, to ensure that compliance and enforcement activity is properly...

Public Administration Committee Report (Charity Commission): Student Visas ( 6 Jun 2013)

Damian Hinds: ...These institutions should not be selling visas; they must be selling education, and we know that there have been recent substantial abuses. The National Audit Office says that in 2009 up to 50,000 alleged students were here primarily to work, rather than study. We had this cadre of serial students who were forever renewing their visas without showing any substantial progress in their...

Backbench Business: Debt Advice and Debt Management ( 1 Dec 2011)

Damian Hinds: ...whereby somebody else will take on the administrative burden and deal with the range of creditors on their behalf and they will focus on the smallness of the monthly payments rather than on how the alleged solution will bring them into long-term financial health. That means, in turn, that the successful companies in the sphere tend to be those with the biggest marketing spend, the biggest...

Backbench Business: Co-operatives and Mutuality (30 Jun 2011)

Damian Hinds: ...and mutuals, so I do not want to draw the hon. Gentleman too much further into this area, but does he agree that part of the problem is that, these days, the route that people end up pursuing in an alleged solution to their debt problems seems to be driven far more by which advert they see first, rather than which type of solution is most appropriate to them? In some cases, it will be...

BBC Licence Fee Payers (Voting Rights): Education Bill ( 8 Feb 2011)

Damian Hinds: ...the status and authority of the teacher, making a clear statement that they have an absolute right to impose reasonable measures to achieve classroom discipline, and to be protected from vexatious allegations. We need to move from a situation in which difficult children mutter, "I know my rights" to one in which all children can say, "I know where I stand." Teachers repeatedly complain...


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