The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Flynn on 2015-11-02.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of post-release prisoners who fatally overdose on opioids.
Ben Gummer
Information on opioid-related deaths in England following release from prison is not held centrally.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Kennedy of Southwark on 2015-11-26.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what were the productivity levels in the UK compared with the rest of the G7 in each year since 1990.
Baroness Neville-Rolfe
The data is available on the ONS website, under the international Comparisons of Productivity section. For your ease, I have provided the table below:
Current price GDP per hour worked (UK=100)
|
Year |
UK |
G7 exc. UK |
Year |
UK |
G7 exc. UK |
Year |
UK |
G7 exc. UK |
|
1990 |
100 |
2000 |
100 |
107 |
2010 |
100 |
115 |
|
|
1991 |
100 |
119 |
2001 |
100 |
108 |
2011 |
100 |
114 |
|
1992 |
100 |
116 |
2002 |
100 |
106 |
2012 |
100 |
116 |
|
1993 |
100 |
112 |
2003 |
100 |
105 |
2013 |
100 |
117 |
|
1994 |
100 |
111 |
2004 |
100 |
105 |
2014 |
100 |
120 |
|
1995 |
100 |
111 |
2005 |
100 |
106 |
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|
1996 |
100 |
109 |
2006 |
100 |
104 |
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|
1997 |
100 |
109 |
2007 |
100 |
106 |
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|
1998 |
100 |
109 |
2008 |
100 |
107 |
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|
1999 |
100 |
111 |
2009 |
100 |
110 |
Data are in current prices, allowing cross-country comparison of productivity for each individual year.
Source: International Comparisons of Productivity, First Estimates for 2014, ONS (Sep 2015)
* Productivity data for the G7 are unavailable for 1990 due to the absence of comparable data for pre-reunification Germany.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Daniel Zeichner on 2015-12-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to page 2 of the Government response to the Fifth Report from the Transport Committee, Session 2013-14, on Access to transport for disabled people, HC870, whether he plans to review his Department’s Inclusive Mobility guidance in 2015.
Andrew Jones
This Government plans to review the Inclusive Mobility Guidance during 2016. We are working with the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC) to assess what information should go in this publication and how to make it used and useful to a wide audience.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Hylton on 2016-01-19.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the effectiveness of EU aid to developing countries.
Baroness Verma
The UK continues to work hard to ensure EU development aid focuses on the poorest and most fragile countries and that the EU becomes more open and transparent about the challenges it faces in implementing aid projects. The EU has taken important steps to improve gender equality; to communicate better what its aid programmes are achieving; and for its aid to be more closely linked to countries’ own development priorities and more in line with other EU policies including trade, investment and the environment.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Daniel Zeichner on 2016-02-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2016 to Question 23856, what assessment his Department has made of the reasons for the increase in the number of pedal cyclist-killed or seriously injured casualties attributable to poorly-maintained local roads since 2010.
Andrew Jones
The Department assesses all statistics which relate to pedal cyclist KSIs (killed or seriously injured casualties). The Conservative Manifesto 2015 had a commitment to reduce the number of cyclists and other road users killed or injured on our roads every year. We are working closely with road safety groups to consider what more can be done in the UK and we believe that every death is a tragedy and is one too many.
We have committed £6.1 billion to tackle the condition of our local road network and, as part of our Road Investment Strategy – the largest upgrade to England’s strategic roads for a generation – we are spending around £100million on cycling safety. We are also working with local councils to provide new guidelines designed to ensure their highways are as safe as possible and free of defects.
The change in the number of accidents is likely to result from a combination of a number of factors. These factors will include the natural variation in the figures and the subjective nature of contributory factors.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Morris on 2016-03-03.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of increasing capacity on the West Coast Mainline after completion of the HS2 and related projects.
Claire Perry
Network Rail leads the long term planning process, which works with local authorities and operators to identify and consider future options for capacity improvement across the rail network as a whole. Network Rail studies are underway to consider future capacity on the West Coast Main Line, but no assessment has been made at this stage by the government. In due course, the government will consider the full range of options for capacity improvements on national rail that are identified by the industry processes. These industry options will feed into the Government’s decisions on Rail Investment Strategies for the periods 2019-2024 and beyond, taking into account the recommendations of the Hendy, Bowe and Shaw reports.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-04-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of the officials of his Department he expects to be made redundant by the end of 2016.
Jane Ellison
The Department has begun its DH2020 programme which, amongst other things, aims to reduce the size of the Department by about one third over the course of this parliament. As a result the Department is anticipating moving from around 2,000 roles to around 1,300-1,400 over this time period.
To deliver the reductions, the Department will offer Voluntary Exits and a three month redeployment period for displaced staff, prior to moving to Voluntary Redundancy and Compulsory Redundancy, if necessary. Taking this into account, numbers of redundancies are expected to be lower than the headline numbers given above.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Lammy on 2016-05-18.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what funding his Department has provided for the (a) research, (b) education and (c) treatment of problem gambling in each year since 2010; and if he will estimate the level of funding provided by the gambling industry for such activities in each of those years.
David Evennett
The Responsible Gambling Strategy Board (RGSB), was set up to by the Gambling Commission to advise on priorities for research, education and training (RET) relating to responsible gambling. The Responsible Gambling Trust (RGT) an independent charity, then commissions research into gambling related harm and funds education and treatment programmes, taking into account the priorities set out by the RGSB.
It is a requirement on all gambling licence holders to make an annual financial contribution to one or more organisations that perform research, education or training for gambling-related harm. The vast majority choose to make that contribution to the Responsible Gambling Trust, which has raised £7.5 million in 2016 (unaudited); £6.5 million in 2015; £6.3 million in 2014; £5.7 million in 2013; £5.2 million in 2012; £5 million in 2011 (each year relates to the previous 12 months to 31 March). RGT’s accounts for these years are available on the Charity Commission website and include the breakdown of expenditure between research, treatment and harm prevention.
RGT is committed to working with RGSB to estimate the cost of the education activities identified in the recently published National Responsible Gambling Strategy, 2016-19, that will be expected to raise from businesses who profit from commercial gambling in Britain.
The Responsible Gambling Trust has published a number of research reports into FOBTs since 2010, which are available on the RGT website: http://www.responsiblegamblingtrust.org.uk/research/research-publications/
Further RGT commercial and independent research on Category B Gaming Machines was published on 24 May, and can be found here http://www.responsiblegamblingtrust.org.uk/research/research-publications/
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-06-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has been informed on any occasion by the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise that an event of default has occurred or that such an event was likely to occur.
Claire Perry
We have not been informed by the operator on any occasion that an event of default has occurred or that such an event was likely to occur.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kate Osamor on 2016-09-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the finding of the Review into the Welfare in Detention of Vulnerable Persons, A report to the Home Office by Stephen Shaw, published in January 2016, paragraph 12, that rule 35 of the Detention Centre Rules does not protect vulnerable people who find themselves in detention.
Mr Robert Goodwill
The Government has carefully considered the recommendations made by Stephen Shaw in his review report, and has taken these into account in introducing revised guidance and its new policy on adults at risk in immigration detention. Revised guidance on Rule 35 of the Detention Centre Rules 2001 was published on 12 September 2016. It will support improved reporting quality by doctors working in immigration removal centres and improved consideration by Home Office caseworkers of those reports. The adults at risk policy, which also came into force on 12 September, strikes the right balance between protecting vulnerable individuals and maintaining effective and proportionate immigration control.