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Mike Kane – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mike Kane on 2016-10-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Healthier Together programme.

Mr Philip Dunne

No assessment has been made. These are matters for the local National Health Service.

We are advised by NHS England that effectiveness of the Healthier Together programme will be continually monitored throughout the implementation phase. The aim of the programme is to improve standards and quality of care for all patients across Greater Manchester. To support this, a “Healthier Together Dashboard” has been developed and is now operational. The Dashboard allows real time tracking of compliance with the Healthier Together standards.

This began with the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit standards for emergency general surgery. These are being monitored and improved within and across sectors, to demonstrate how compliance with standards will be improved. The next stage will add National Cardiac Arrest Audit information.

01/01/2023

Lord Falconer of Thoroton – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Falconer of Thoroton on 2015-11-04.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many hours on average each prisoner spent per week (1) in a cell, and (2) on purposeful activity, in (a) each prison, (b) each category of prison, and (c) the entire prison estate, in each year since 2010.

Lord Faulks

Time unlocked and purposeful activity were two of the National Offender Management Service’s performance indicators for prisons until 2011/2012. These indicators were discontinued from the start of 2012/13. However, the figures requested are provided for 2010/11 and 2011/12 in the tables below.

Tables 1 and 2 cover time spent in cell. Average time in cell is measured per weekday and this information is provided by individual prison establishment, by prison category and across the prison estate. The figures for time in cell are derived from information collected on the average hours per weekday that prisoners are unlocked and using these to estimate hours spent locked in cell. It should be noted that time in cell includes time when prisoners are asleep. Time unlocked includes time where a prisoner is either out of their cell or where the cell door is unlocked allowing them to move freely in and out of the cell.

Tables 3 and 4 show the reported average hours of purposeful activity per prisoner per week at establishment level, for each category of prison and across the prison estate

These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.

Table 1: Time in Cell by Prison Establishment: Average Hours per Prisoner per Week Day

Establishment Name	2010-11	2011-12
Acklington	15.5	–
Albany	–	–
Altcourse	11.1	12.6
Ashfield	14.0	14.1
Ashwell	14.5	–
Askham Grange	8.0	8.0
Aylesbury	16.8	16.6
Bedford	14.3	14.4
Belmarsh	15.9	24.0
Birmingham	16.2	16.1
Blantyre House	6.0	6.0
Blundeston	14.0	12.4
Brinsford	14.1	24.0
Bristol	15.1	15.7
Brixton	17.4	17.4
Bronzefield	14.1	14.1
Buckley Hall	15.2	15.4
Bullingdon	16.1	15.6
Bullwood Hall	10.3	10.1
Camp Hill	–	–
Canterbury	13.7	13.3
Cardiff	15.9	16.7
Castington	16.6	–
Channings Wood	15.3	15.4
Chelmsford	14.7	14.4
Coldingley	14.4	14.6
Cookham Wood	15.2	14.3
Dartmoor	13.6	13.4
Deerbolt	17.5	17.2
Doncaster	13.4	11.6
Dorchester	18.2	18.5
Dovegate	14.8	14.3
Dover	11.4	11.4
Downview	13.8	14.2
Drake Hall	5.3	6.5
Durham	16.1	16.2
East Sutton Park	7.0	7.0
Eastwood Park	13.1	15.0
Edmunds Hill	10.2	–
Elmley	–	–
Erlestoke	14.3	14.4
Everthorpe	16.7	16.7
Exeter	16.2	15.9
Featherstone	13.1	14.5
Feltham	16.3	17.1
Ford	11.5	11.5
Forest Bank	13.7	13.7
Foston Hall	12.5	14.5
Frankland	15.1	14.9
Full Sutton	15.1	15.0
Garth	15.1	15.3
Gartree	15.2	15.5
Glen Parva	16.4	17.0
Gloucester	15.6	16.1
Grendon	10.3	10.3
Guys Marsh	13.6	13.7
Haslar	12.0	12.0
Haverigg	9.2	9.7
Hewell	13.3	13.0
High Down	16.2	16.5
Highpoint	14.5	13.3
Hindley	13.9	13.7
Hollesley Bay	8.0	8.0
Holloway	15.0	15.0
Holme House	16.1	15.4
Hull	16.0	16.1
Huntercombe	13.5	14.1
Isis	–	17.4
Isle of Wight	14.8	14.5
Kennet	13.8	13.7
Kingston	14.0	14.3
Kirkham	9.2	9.2
Kirklevington	5.0	5.0
Lancaster	14.9	–
Lancaster Farms	16.3	16.4
Latchmere House	0.0	1.9
Leeds	16.2	13.8
Leicester	16.5	16.1
Lewes	15.3	15.0
Leyhill	8.0	8.0
Lincoln	17.0	16.2
Lindholme	15.7	15.9
Littlehey	16.3	15.1
Liverpool	15.7	15.8
Long Lartin	14.7	15.7
Low Newton	13.4	13.5
Lowdham Grange	13.2	12.9
Maidstone	15.2	15.0
Manchester	13.8	13.4
Moorland	12.7	11.8
Morton Hall	10.4	24.0
Mount	13.1	13.0
New Hall	14.8	15.7
North Sea Camp	6.5	6.5
Northallerton	15.7	15.0
Northumberland	–	15.6
Norwich	15.2	15.8
Nottingham	16.2	16.2
Onley	14.8	14.4
Parc	14.6	14.9
Parkhurst	–	–
Pentonville	16.3	16.6
Peterborough	14.7	14.8
Portland	15.1	15.4
Preston	15.7	15.7
Ranby	14.3	14.6
Reading	15.1	14.4
Risley	15.0	15.0
Rochester	14.3	14.0
Rye Hill	14.8	14.3
Send	12.1	12.1
Sheppey Cluster	15.0	15.2
Shepton Mallet	14.6	14.5
Shrewsbury	15.4	15.4
Stafford	16.6	16.4
Standford Hill	–	–
Stocken	16.1	16.5
Stoke Heath	16.2	15.5
Styal	10.5	11.5
Sudbury	5.0	5.0
Swaleside	–	–
Swansea	15.5	15.4
Swinfen Hall	16.2	17.8
Thorn Cross	9.0	10.2
UskPrescoed	11.6	11.4
Verne	9.0	9.1
Wakefield	14.9	14.8
Wandsworth	17.4	16.7
Warren Hill	14.6	15.2
Wayland	12.6	11.7
Wealstun	16.5	15.7
Wellingborough	14.2	15.0
Werrington	14.3	14.8
Wetherby	14.2	14.4
Whatton	14.2	13.6
Whitemoor	15.5	15.2
Winchester	15.0	16.5
Wolds	12.1	12.0
Woodhill	15.0	14.5
Wormwood Scrubs	16.8	16.9
Wymott	15.5	15.5
National Total	14.5	14.5

‘-‘ Data not available

Table 2: Time in Cell by Prison Category: Average Hours per Prisoner per Week Day

Category	2010-11	2011-12
Category B	14.1	13.9
Category C	14.2	14.1
Dispersal	15	15.1
Female closed	12.8	13.6
Female local	13.5	14.1
Female open	7.6	7.6
Male closed young offender	15.8	16.2
Male juvenile	14.3	14.4
Male local	15.5	15.4
Male open	8.1	8.1
Male open young offender	9	10.2
Semi open	6	6.2
Cluster	14.5	14.5
National Total	14.5	14.5

Note: In the above table prisons are categorised according to their predominant function, though some establishments will have more than one function.

Table 3: Average number of hours per prisoner per week in purposeful activity by establishment

Establishment name	2010/11	2011/12
Acklington	20.7	–
Albany	24.2	24.6
Altcourse	35.2	33.7
Ashfield	29.1	26.7
Ashwell	29.1	–
Askham Grange	40.7	40.0
Aylesbury	20.7	21.9
Bedford	19.2	18.5
Belmarsh	18.5	18.4
Birmingham	21.3	21.3
Blantyre House	52.1	52.2
Blundeston	25.5	24.6
Brinsford	28.0	29.9
Bristol	25.2	22.9
Brixton	17.5	17.7
Bronzefield	26.6	26.9
Buckley Hall	27.0	26.5
Bullingdon	22.6	20.9
Bullwood Hall	24.5	24.0
Bure	21.2	24.6
Camp Hill	22.4	23.7
Canterbury	19.7	21.6
Cardiff	22.6	20.0
Castington	22.3	–
Channings Wood	24.0	23.7
Chelmsford	25.8	26.5
Coldingley	25.6	25.7
Cookham Wood	23.6	26.8
Dartmoor	24.1	23.1
Deerbolt	21.2	22.8
Doncaster	23.4	22.1
Dorchester	17.7	17.2
Dovegate	31.8	33.3
Dover	–	–
Downview	31.4	28.5
Drake Hall	34.4	36.0
Durham	16.9	18.2
East Sutton Park	45.0	45.3
Eastwood Park	21.5	22.4
Edmunds Hill	24.8	–
Elmley	17.1	17.5
Erlestoke	24.6	24.8
Everthorpe	22.5	22.7
Exeter	17.9	18.9
Featherstone	26.4	25.7
Feltham	22.2	20.3
Ford	41.6	41.8
Forest Bank	25.7	25.3
Foston Hall	30.9	29.7
Frankland	19.7	20.8
Full Sutton	20.5	21.1
Garth	25.9	26.2
Gartree	26.4	28.7
Glen Parva	20.7	20.8
Gloucester	20.7	19.5
Grendon	31.9	33.7
Guys Marsh	24.7	23.8
Haslar	–	–
Hatfield	–	–
Haverigg	27.6	25.3
Hewell	25.6	25.2
High Down	19.2	18.6
Highpoint	25.1	0.0
Hindley	30.9	33.4
Hollesley Bay	43.1	43.3
Holloway	23.1	21.8
Holme House	18.9	22.0
Hull	19.8	19.6
Huntercombe	27.0	28.4
Kennet	25.6	25.7
Kingston	29.2	27.3
Kirkham	47.1	49.3
Kirklevington	53.0	51.5
Lancaster	26.7	–
Lancaster Farms	26.9	27.0
Latchmere House	56.5	56.5
Leeds	18.6	18.9
Leicester	18.8	18.9
Lewes	23.0	20.3
Leyhill	39.5	40.0
Lincoln	19.3	18.9
Lindholme	21.4	21.5
Littlehey	20.6	22.5
Liverpool	20.2	20.8
Long Lartin	20.0	21.4
Low Newton	23.8	23.7
Lowdham Grange	27.3	27.9
Maidstone	25.1	25.9
Manchester	23.8	24.7
Moorland	29.0	31.1
Morton Hall	30.9	0.0
Mount	24.4	24.8
New Hall	27.2	25.0
North Sea Camp	45.9	43.1
Northallerton	23.7	23.5
Northumberland	–	20.0
Norwich	24.8	23.9
Nottingham	26.3	27.0
Onley	25.4	26.0
Parc	26.8	26.8
Parkhurst	21.3	22.9
Pentonville	18.1	18.4
Peterborough	–	–
Portland	27.6	–
Preston	20.7	20.6
Ranby	23.9	24.0
Reading	22.4	22.5
Risley	27.1	27.2
Rochester	22.0	22.3
Rye Hill	27.9	28.7
Send	30.6	31.2
Shepton Mallet	23.2	24.0
Shrewsbury	25.8	27.1
Stafford	26.2	26.6
Standford Hill	36.7	40.1
Stocken	25.7	24.8
Stoke Heath	25.6	28.1
Styal	24.7	23.1
Sudbury	43.6	45.8
Swaleside	24.3	26.6
Swansea	21.6	20.4
Swinfen Hall	26.3	23.8
Thameside	–	–
Thorn Cross	45.3	47.0
UskPrescoed	35.0	33.7
Verne	26.7	25.9
Wakefield	20.5	21.2
Wandsworth	17.2	17.6
Warren Hill	29.5	28.5
Wayland	25.2	25.8
Wealstun	20.4	21.7
Wellingborough	26.8	25.4
Werrington	30.8	27.6
Wetherby	29.7	27.5
Whatton	26.0	25.2
Whitemoor	24.1	25.5
Winchester	19.1	18.0
Wolds	24.4	24.1
Woodhill	21.2	20.0
Wormwood Scrubs	17.2	16.8
Wymott	25.7	26.2
National Total	24.7	24.9

‘-‘ Data not available

Table 4: Average number of hours per prisoner per week in purposeful activity by prison category

Category	2010/11	2011/12
Category B	27.1	30.1
Category C	24.8	25.2
Dispersal	20.7	21.7
Female closed	30.9	29.5
Female local	24.7	23.8
Female open	42.5	42.3
Male closed young offender	24.2	24.0
Male juvenile	28.9	27.5
Male local	21.4	21.4
Male open	42.5	44.2
Male open young offender	45.3	47.0
Semi open	43.9	45.6
Cluster	25.6	24.7
National Total	24.7	24.9

Note: In the above table prisons are categorised according to their predominant function, though some establishments will have more than one function.

01/01/2023

Tom Blenkinsop – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Blenkinsop on 2016-01-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to ensure greater collaboration between businesses and education to promote skills for potential future careers.

Nick Boles

We are strengthening business influence in schools, further education, the skills system, higher education and in giving young people a broad experience of the careers options open to them. Our education reforms are ensuring that young people leave school or college with everything they need to get on and succeed in life. The new Careers and Enterprise Company aims to help schools and colleges in England to prepare young people aged 12 to 18 for the world of work, and increase the level of employer engagement in schools and colleges across England.

In further education we have given employer-led Local Enterprise Partnerships significant local influence over the skills system. National Colleges are being established by employer-led partnerships to design and deliver specific higher level training, and we are working in direct partnership with employers in reforming technical and professional education to ensure the new system provides the skills most needed for the 21st century economy. In trailblazer apprenticeships, employers develop the standards themselves.

In higher education, the government fully supports and actively encourages collaboration between universities and business. Partnership is needed to ensure graduate skills and employability meet the needs of business, to maximise the university sector’s capabilities in business-led research and innovation, and to realise the benefits of a strong role for Higher Education Institutions in the development of their local economies.

01/01/2023

Lord Ouseley – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Ouseley on 2016-02-01.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the levels of social cohesion in towns in Britain, such as Boston in Lincolnshire.

Baroness Williams of Trafford

Over generations, we in Britain have built a successful multi-racial, multi-faith democracy. According to the 2013/14 Community Life Survey, 85 per cent of people agreed that their local area is a place where people from different backgrounds get on well together. But the job of building a more cohesive country is never complete and we recognise the scale of the challenge in some communities. That is why the Prime Minister has charged Louise Casey to carry out a review of how to boost opportunity and integration in these communities and bring Britain together as one nation. We will use her interim report to inform our plans for funding a new wider Cohesive Communities Programme, focusing resources on improving integration and extending opportunity in those communities that most need it.

01/01/2023

Baroness Tonge – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Tonge on 2016-02-25.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what their priorities are at the forthcoming World Humanitarian Summit in May.

Baroness Verma

The UK has four objectives for the Summit. Most importantly we want to see a renewed commitment to the protection of civilians in conflict, but also more effective financing, a new approach to building resilience to natural hazards before they take place, and a stronger focus on protecting and empowering women and girls. The global community – humanitarian, development and political actors – must come together to address these challenges.

01/01/2023

Steve McCabe – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2016-03-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease in (a) England and (b) Wales applied for employment and support allowance in each of the last five years.

Priti Patel

The information requested is not available.

01/01/2023

Lord Moonie – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Moonie on 2016-04-26.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many members of the armed forces left or were discharged in the last year on mental health grounds.

Earl Howe

In the 12 months to 31 March 2015, 359 UK Regular Armed Forces personnel were medically discharged with a principal cause of Mental and Behavioural Disorders.

Comprehensive statistical information on medical discharges among UK Regular Armed Forces personnel is published on an annual basis. The latest report, covering medical discharges during the five Financial Years 2010-11 to 2014-15 can be found at the following address:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/medical-discharges-among-uk-service-personnel-statistics-index

Information covering Financial Year 2015-16 is scheduled for publication on 14 July 2016.

01/01/2023

Tulip Siddiq – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-06-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Answers of 25 May 2016 and 31 March 2016 to Questions 37757 and 31997, if he will publish data on referrals made by the Pay and Work Rights Helpline in 2014-15.

Nick Boles

The table below shows the number of referrals (complaints) from the Pay and Work Rights Helpline (PWRH) to relevant enforcement authorities for the 2014/15 financial year.

Table 1: Referrals from the PWRH to each enforcement agencies, 2014/15

	2014/15
HMRC	3,510
EAS	800
HSE	260
DEFRA	90
GLA	50

Notes

1. Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10.

2. Calls can be referred to more than one agency so the sum does not amount to the total number of calls referred for the period.

3. Calls referred to agencies include complaints, complex queries and calls where intelligence was passed to other agencies.

4. Figures include referrals via all PWRH communication channels, including telephone calls, post and online complaints.

5. These figures are based on final data submitted by BSS on closure at the end of March 2015. They may not reconcile with provisional data provided while the old helpline was operational.

01/01/2023

Hilary Benn – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hilary Benn on 2016-09-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will place in the Library all emails, notes, letters or other documents or records relating to his Department’s exercise of reviewing all correspondence and parliamentary proceedings on the subject of allegations of breaches of international humanitarian law in Yemen by the Saudi-led Coalition and on the publication of the Written Ministerial Statement Corrections to Parliamentary Questions and Westminster Hall Debates, HCWS125.

Mr Tobias Ellwood

This information has been requested under the Freedom of Information act and will be placed on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website in due course. I would also be happy to place this in the Library.

01/01/2023

Bridget Phillipson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Bridget Phillipson on 2016-10-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2016 to Question 37587, how many child refugees are planned to be resettled in the UK in the next year in accordance with subsection (1) of 67 of the Immigration Act of 2016.

Mr Robert Goodwill

Local authorities are already caring for more than 4,000 unaccompanied asylum seeking children. The Government has consulted widely and extensively with local authorities across the UK in order to assess their capacity to care for additional unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children.

The Home Office has also significantly increased the funding available to local authorities that are supporting unaccompanied children and offered additional funding to bolster regional structures for the National Transfer Scheme, which is the mechanism for ensuring there is a more even distribution of unaccompanied children across the UK.

Between 12 May and 1 October 2016 over 50 children who meet the criteria in the Immigration Act were accepted for transfer, of which over 35 have been transferred. We continue to work with the French, Greek and Italian authorities to establish the number of children who may be eligible and have seconded UK experts to France, Greece and Italy to support the commitment to transfer eligible children to the UK, where it is in their best interests.

01/01/2023

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