Category: Speeches

Douglas Chapman – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Douglas Chapman on 2016-04-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to test the suitability of the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey for operation aboard the Queen Elizabeth Class ships.

Mr Philip Dunne

The Royal Navy has previous experience operating the V-22 Osprey from HMS ILLUSTRIOUS and HMS OCEAN. It is therefore possible that the Department will engage in due course with our close Ally the United States to explore mutual opportunities to clear US Navy and US Marine Corps V-22 aircraft on Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers.

01/01/2023
Chi Onwurah – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chi Onwurah on 2016-05-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how the planned further opening of the BBC archive will be funded at the stage of (a) capture, (b) preservation, (c) cataloguing, (d) digitisation, (e) storage, (f) licensed use and (g) non-licensed use.

Mr Edward Vaizey

The BBC receives over £3.7 billion of public money each year through the licence fee. As set out in the Government’s White Paper, ‘A BBC for the future: a Broadcaster of Distinction’, we encourage the BBC to do more to open up its archive and ensure that it can be used by the public and as wide a range of institutions and organisations as possible. How the BBC uses the public money it receives to achieve this is matter for the BBC.

01/01/2023
Ian Lavery – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Lavery on 2016-07-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to include a fully-resourced in-house option in value for money tests on potential outsourcing of Defence Business Services.

Mark Lancaster

In the event that the Ministry of Defence decided to outsource elements of Defence Business Services it would, in line with normal practice, ensure that a rigorous in-house benchmark was developed against which the value for money of any commercial bids could be judged.

01/01/2023
Gloria De Piero – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gloria De Piero on 2016-09-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many adults in Ashfield constituency have received carer’s allowance for caring for children under the age of 16 in each of the last three financial years.

Penny Mordaunt

The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

01/01/2023
Andy McDonald – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andy McDonald on 2015-11-17.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the annual change in tax revenue from extending the national living wage to those aged between 18 and 25.

Mr David Gauke

Younger workers tend to have less experience than older workers in the labour market, and so there is a risk that too high a wage rate may make them relatively less attractive to employers. So, to minimise any negative impact on employment of younger workers, the National Living Wage is limited to those 25 and over. The Government has not therefore made an estimate of what the fiscal impact of this policy change would be.

The Office for Budgetary Responsibility estimate that, by 2020-21, the National Living Wage will increase income tax and NICs receipts by around £0.1bn, as set out in Table B.3 in of their July 2015 Economic and Fiscal Outlook. They assume that, by 2020-21, the overall impact of the policy on the public finances is to reduce public sector net borrowing by £0.2bn.

01/01/2023
Vernon Coaker – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Northern Ireland Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Vernon Coaker on 2015-12-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what progress was made at the recent tri-lateral cross-border ministerial meeting on the Stormont House agreement; and what topics were discussed at that meeting.

Mrs Theresa Villiers

The Ministerial tri-lateral on 21 December 2015 stemmed from a commitment made in ‘A Fresh Start – the Stormont Agreement and Implementation Plan’. The meeting’s focus was on law enforcement co-operation aimed at tackling organised crime and criminality, including where this is linked to paramilitarism. Work continues on implementing all outstanding commitments from both the Fresh Start Agreement and the Stormont House Agreement of 2014.

01/01/2023
Kevin Brennan – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kevin Brennan on 2016-01-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate her Department has made of the amount of (a) public and (b) private sector investment needed to fulfil Government targets for low-carbon infrastructure and supply chain investment in each year to 2025.

Andrea Leadsom

The National Infrastructure Pipeline provides annual estimates of investment in the Energy Sector. The 2015 publication of the National Infrastructure Pipeline [1] estimates £141bn worth of investment up to 2020/21 with a further £103bn post 2020/21. The figures do not distinguish between private and public investment.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-infrastructure-pipeline-july-2015

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01/01/2023
Jon Trickett – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jon Trickett on 2016-02-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which providers are expected to provide accommodation for the estimated 20,000 Syrian nationals to be resettled under the Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme by 2020.

Richard Harrington

The UK has been operating resettlement schemes for many years and we already have established and effective networks to accommodate and support resettled people.

This is a voluntary scheme whereby local authorities sign up to accept refugees on a voluntary basis. It is up to each individual local authority to decide how best to manage the resettlement of refugees in their area, and they are therefore free to choose their own delivery partners.

01/01/2023

Jonathan Ashworth – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-03-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many and what proportion of officials of her Department took sick leave for reasons relating to stress in each of the last five years; and what proportion of total sick leave that leave was in each such year.

Mr Desmond Swayne

The table below provides the overall sick leave taken by DFID staff, and the proportion of sick leave for reasons related to stress in each of the past three years. Information on 2011/12 and 2012/13 could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Period	Stress Related Absence (Days )	Total Sick Leave (Days)	Percentage Stress Related Absence against Total Sick Leave	No of Staff who took Stress Related Absence	No of Staff who took Sick Leave	Percentage staff who took Stress Related Absence against total staff who recorded a sick absence
March 2015 – February 2016	1485	9087	16.3%	63	1294	4.9%
April 2014 – March 2015	1642	8889	18.5%	58	1367	4.2%
April 2013 – March 2014	1137	8427	13.5%	39	1180	3.3%

01/01/2023

Jess Phillips – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jess Phillips on 2016-04-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2016 to Question 31449, what the main components are of the expenditure that her Department incurs when a school converts to an academy.

Edward Timpson

The main expenditure incurred relates to the pre-opening start-up grants that are currently available to schools. Currently, grants are intended to be a contribution to the costs of conversion incurred by schools in establishing the academy. These may include legal fees, costs associated with transfer of land, transfer of software licences, Human Resources and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 advice and setting up the Academy Trust.

Grants to schools that become sponsored academies also include an element to support school improvement such as leadership support, teaching and learning interventions, pupil focused interventions, curriculum redesign and staff restructuring.

01/01/2023