The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nigel Evans on 2016-09-05.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS trusts use agency nurses who are brought in from other countries.
Mr Philip Dunne
The information requested is not held by the Department.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Blencathra on 2016-10-20.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 15 September (HL1768), and in the light of the need to maintain compliance with EU law until the UK leaves the EU, what steps they are taking now to ensure that once the UK has left the EU they are ready to move quickly to a new drugs and treatment approval regime.
Lord Prior of Brampton
The Government is now working to understand, in full, the implications of withdrawing from the European Union (EU) and to develop a future approach to medicines regulation. The Government will ensure that the United Kingdom’s approval regime is ready and operational as soon as the UK has formally departed the EU.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Caroline Ansell on 2015-11-03.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which Hospital Trusts have moved out of special measures since the Care Quality Commission inspection regime was introduced; and if he will make a statement.
Ben Gummer
The following 10 Trusts have exited Special Measures since it started in July 2013:
– Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
– Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
– East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
– George Eliot Hospital Trust
– Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
– Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust
– The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kings’ Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust
– Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
– United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
– Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Every patient rightly expects the best possible quality of care and services. We are pleased that following the hard work by staff at these trusts and significant improvement, the Care Quality Commission recommended that these trusts exit Special Measures.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-12-01.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civil servants in his Department are in the redeployment pool.
Mr Julian Brazier
As at 31 October 2015 the number of Ministry of Defence civil servants in the redeployment pool was 240 (rounded to the nearest 10).
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-01-06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2016 to Question 20200, what estimate his Department has made of its total spend on mental health specialists in each of the last five years.
Mark Lancaster
The average costs for military, reserves and civilian personnel for each of the last three years, the period for which figures are available, are provided in the table below.
Where gaps exist in military or civilian mental health services delivery staff, locums may be used, the costs of which are also provided.
|
Year |
Military |
Reserves |
Civilian |
Locums |
|
million |
million |
million |
million |
|
|
2013 |
£15.06 |
£0.37 |
£2.01 |
£3.24 |
|
2014 |
£15.12 |
£0.19 |
£2.06 |
£2.69 |
|
2015 |
£14.18 |
£0.20 |
£3.17 |
£2.77 |
|
AVERAGE |
£14.79 |
£0.29 |
£2.41 |
£2.9 |
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Fearn on 2016-02-01.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of how many community projects the football pools have supported or promoted in the years (1) 2004, (2) 2005, and (3) 2015.
Baroness Neville-Rolfe
According to the website of Sportech PLC, which owns the Football Pools, as of 2015, "the pools" have contributed £1.3 billion, at today’s value, to football, other sports, the arts and charitable initiatives in the UK, in recent decades. More information is available at http://www.sportechplc.com/our-business/football-pools/football-pools-donations-map.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Rebecca Long Bailey on 2016-02-25.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Government’s memorandum submitted to the Lords Secondary Legislation Committee on 28 January 2016, what the evidential basis is for the statement that there will be no cash losers from the reduction of the income rise disregards for tax credits.
Damian Hinds
As announced in the combined Autumn Statement and Spending Review, the amount by which a tax credit claimant’s income can increase within the year before their tax credit award is adjusted (the income rise disregard), will be reduced from £5,000 to £2,500. The reduction to the income rise disregard will stop one family receiving a higher tax credit award over another family with precisely the same income and the same circumstances, which makes the system fairer. The household income of families before it rises will inform how they might be effected by a reduction in the income rise disregard.
The only people who will be affected are those who will see an income increase of more than £2,500 in-year.
Due to the way that tax credits are calculated, the amount an award will be adjusted by – because of an increase in income – will depend upon a claimant’s individual circumstances, such as the household’s income before it rises. No one will be a cash loser because their income will have increased. As an example, for an individual with a wage of £12,000, an income increase of £2,501 would lead to an adjustment in their tax credit award of just 41 pence. An increase of less than £2,500 would see no change at all.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gareth Johnson on 2016-04-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the capacity and the availability of seating for passengers on peak services on High Speed 1 trains between Ebbsfleet and London St Pancras.
Claire Perry
No such assessment has been made by the Department but franchisees have an obligation to minimise overcrowding. Therefore it is the Train Operating Company running the service that is responsible for what rolling stock it allocates to which service, both in type and in quantity.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Diana Johnson on 2016-04-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the treatment of single mothers and victims of trafficking who have been returned from the UK to Albania after their return to that country.
James Brokenshire
The Home Office does not monitor returnees after they have returned to their country of origin.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Neil Coyle on 2016-06-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he plans to take to involve small and medium-sized enterprises in the proposed digital apprenticeship system.
Nick Boles
We are developing the digital apprenticeship service to support apprenticeships in England. It will help all employers to select an apprenticeship framework or standard, choose a training provider, choose an assessment organisation and post apprenticeship vacancies. By 2020, all employers will be able to use the service to pay for training and assessment for apprenticeships and we will help smaller employers to prepare for this.
We continue to work with a wide range of employers to develop, test and improve the digital apprenticeship service.