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  • Luciana Berger – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Luciana Berger – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-26.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children aged (a) under 10 and (b) 10 years and over were admitted to hospital with a (i) primary and (ii) secondary diagnosis of liver disease in each year since 1997.

    Dr Daniel Poulter

    The attached tables give the number of finished admission episodes for children aged (a) under 10 years and (b) 10 – 17years,who were admitted to hospital with a (i) primary and (ii) secondary diagnosis of liver disease from 1997-98 to 2012-13.

  • Julian Huppert – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Julian Huppert – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julian Huppert on 2014-06-26.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions his Department has had with providers of residential care for people with physical impairments and learning difficulties on proposals for home closure.

    Norman Lamb

    The Department has not had any recent discussions with providers of residential care for people with physical impairments and learning difficulties on proposals for home closure.

    The new Care Act, which will come into force in 2015, will give local authorities a core duty to promote their local market, with a particular focus on ensuring diversity, quality and sustainability which, importantly, will mean there should be sufficient high quality services available to meet the needs of individuals in their local area.

    The Department has worked with stakeholders, including provider organisations, to develop draft statutory guidance to support the implementation of the Care Act. The guidance will describe how local authorities must meet these new duties, including encouraging sustainability through appropriate fee levels. The draft guidance was published as part of a 10 week public consultation on the full package of regulations and guidance under part 1 of the Care Act on 6 June.

    The Government believes that people who wish and who are able to live in their communities, rather than in an institutional care setting, should be given the support they need to do so.

  • Julian Huppert – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Julian Huppert – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julian Huppert on 2014-06-26.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many places in residential care homes were available for people with (a) physical impairments and (b) learning difficulties or complex needs in each of the last four years.

    Norman Lamb

    Information provided by the Care Quality Commission, covering the four financial years to 31 March 2014, has been placed in the Library.

  • Frank Field – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Frank Field – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2014-06-26.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made on reaching a settlement with Raytheon Systems Ltd on the e-Borders programme; and when the arbitration progress is scheduled to be completed.

    Karen Bradley

    The Home Office would like the dispute with Raytheon to be concluded as swiftly
    as possible. It is not unusual that an international arbitration of this
    complexity should take a considerable time to resolve. The Home Office has
    done everything possible to progress the Arbitration as quickly as possible.
    The evidential hearings concluded in April 2013.

  • Philip Davies – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Philip Davies – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2014-06-26.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that participants in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014 are prevented from staying in the UK illegally after the Games have finished.

    Karen Bradley

    The rigorous Accreditation Process that contributed to the success of the
    Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012 has also been central to our preparations
    for Glasgow 2014.

    To minimise attempts to abuse our hospitality after the Games have ended,
    comprehensive record checks on all Commonwealth Games participants and Games
    Family Members are conducted before they are cleared to enter the UK. We have
    also introduced arrangements to confirm that people given Commonwealth Games
    clearance have left the UK within their permitted time limits.

  • Philip Davies – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Philip Davies – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2014-06-26.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of police hunts for all prisoners who have absconded or escaped from prisons in each of the last five years.

    Damian Green

    This information is not held centrally.

  • Tom Greatrex – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Tom Greatrex – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Greatrex on 2014-06-26.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of her Department’s consumption in kWh of (a) gas and (b) electricity in each month since June 2010; and what the cost of such consumption has been in each such month.

    Karen Bradley

    Electricity and gas cost and consumption data for each month since June 2010,
    for those buildings (excluding sponsored ALBs) where the Department is directly
    invoiced for energy, is provided in the following table. Data for financial
    year 2014/15 is not yet available.

  • Sarah Teather – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Sarah Teather – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Teather on 2014-06-26.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she intends to make a decision on the request to authorise water cannon for use by the police in England and Wales; and if she will place in the Library a copy of the advice and business case she has received on the use of water cannon in mainland UK.

    Damian Green

    I refer my Hon. Friend to my answer of 12 May 2014, Official Report, column
    412W.

  • Ivan Lewis – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Ivan Lewis – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ivan Lewis on 2014-06-26.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional support she is providing to the passport office in Belfast.

    James Brokenshire

    The Belfast Office Full Time Equivalent (FTE) workforce in June 2014 was 216.29
    compared with 147.76 FTE in June 2012. The increase in staff has been to deal
    with the introduction of processing of work from overseas in 2013-14 and the
    introduction of an evening shift in January 2014 to assist in dealing with UK applications.
    Currently there are 20 additional staff redeployed to Belfast to assist in the
    examination function.

  • Frank Field – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Frank Field – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2014-06-26.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what financial provision her Department has made to cover the (a) ongoing legal costs of and (b) costs of a potential settlement resulting from the binding arbitration process brought by Raytheon Systems Ltd.

    Karen Bradley

    Ongoing legal costs will be met from departmental resources, although no
    specific financial provision has been made for this or for the costs of a
    potential settlement. The costs of a potential settlement have been recognised as a
    contingent liability in the Home Office accounts since 2011-12.