Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of public charging points for electric vehicles due to be installed in (a) Lewisham East constituency and (b) the London Borough of Lewisham in each reporting year until 2028.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
The Government has not set targets for chargepoint provision per region or local area because the exact number and type of chargepoints will be highly dependent on local circumstances, future charging behaviour and the future development of electric vehicle technology. Local authorities have a key role to play as they are best placed to consider local needs. We will require all local transport authorities in England to develop their own chargepoint strategies, subject to consultation.
To date, the borough of Lewisham has been awarded £196,780 to deliver 53 chargepoints through the On Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme.
Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many public charging points for electric vehicles there are in (a) Lewisham East constituency and (b) the London Borough of Lewisham.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
Data on electric vehicle charging devices in the UK, held by the Department for Transport, are sourced from the electric vehicle charging platform Zap-Map. Charging devices not recorded on Zap-Map are not included and the true number of charging devices may be higher than recorded in these figures.
The below table provides the data requested, as of 1 January 2023.
Constituency | Lewisham East | London Borough of Lewisham |
a.) Public charging devices (see note 1) | 68 | 195 |
1) Zap-Map data counts charging devices publicly available at any given point, with decommissioned chargepoints removed from the data supplied to us. Therefore, the number of installed public chargepoints in each given year is likely to be higher as this accounts for the number decommissioned and removed from the data.
Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will review her Department's policy that pets travelling by air into the United Kingdom should be treated as cargo.
Answered by Rebecca Pow
We regularly review our pet travel guidance with stakeholders.
We have no immediate plans to change the process by which pet cats, dogs and ferrets may enter GB by air.
Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with airlines on the transport of (a) dogs and (b) other animals by air.
Answered by Rebecca Pow
We regularly review our pet travel guidance with stakeholders.
We have no immediate plans to change the process by which pet cats, dogs and ferrets may enter GB by air.
Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the number of people in receipt of Carer's Allowance in Lewisham East constituency.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
The most recent caseload statistics for Carer’s Allowance refer to August 2022 and are available on DWP Stat-Xplore. In August 2022, the Carer’s Allowance in payment caseload in Lewisham East constituency was 1,481 claimants.
The link to access Stat-Xplore is https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk
Guidance for using Stat-Xplore is available at: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html
Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Single Justice Procedure notices have been issued in England and Wales in each reporting year since 2018.
Answered by Mike Freer
The volume of defendants dealt with via Single Justice Procedure notices is published on a quarterly basis as part of the National Statistics series Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly. The latest published data is available to December 2022 and can be found at the link below: Criminal court statistics quarterly: October to December 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many equality impact assessments published by his Department since April 2021 have led to the (a) amending of a policy, (b) decision against proceeding with a policy and (c) continuing with a policy despite evidence of a discriminatory impact.
Answered by Mike Freer
In accordance with section 149 of the Equality Act 2010, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) ensures that assessment of the equalities impacts of its policy proposals is integrated in the development, implementation and review of its policies. Where potential negative impacts are identified, including the potential for direct or indirect discrimination, we consider mitigating actions and alternative approaches. We do not keep central records of all our equality assessments undertaken since April 2021 but publish our policy consultation equality assessments regularly on the MoJ consultation hub which is publicly available on GOV.UK: https://consult.justice.gov.uk/consultation_finder/(opens in a new tab).
Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to address the findings of the report by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons entitled The Experiences of Black Male Prisoners and Black Prison Staff, published in December 2022.
Answered by Damian Hinds
HMPPS take the findings of reports from His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons seriously. We recognise that improving outcomes for Black prisoners and staff will require a long-term commitment from the entire organisation.
A full response, which sets out the detailed actions we will take to address the findings of the HMI Prisons Inspectorate thematic inspection on the Experience of Adult Male Prisoners and Black Staff was published on 22 March and can be found via the following link:
Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of 15 December 2022 from the hon. Member for Lewisham East, case reference JD31665.
Answered by Trudy Harrison
This correspondence was transferred to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero on 30 March 2023.
Asked by: Janet Daby (Labour - Lewisham East)
Question
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she is taking steps to implement the 18+1 ethnicity monitoring system for data collection across Government for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
The Cabinet Office’s Equality Hub encourages the use of Government Statistical Service harmonised standards for ethnicity data collection across government departments and other public bodies.
The current ethnicity harmonised standard is based on the 2011 Census questions across the UK. The ethnicity questions were adjusted so they could be used in the 2021 censuses for England and Wales, and Northern Ireland; and the 2022 Census for Scotland.
This means that the 2021 and 2022 census questions are, currently, the most up to date way of collecting data about ethnic groups.
The classification for England and Wales has 19 groups including the categories ‘Gypsy or Irish Traveller’ and ‘Roma’ (https://analysisfunction.civilservice.gov.uk/policy-store/ethnicity-harmonised-standard).