The below Parliamentary question was asked by Rob Marris on 2016-09-05.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions his Department has had with NICE on increasing capacity for highly specialised technology evaluations.
Nicola Blackwood
There have been no such recent discussions.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Royston Smith on 2016-10-14.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the proposed changes to university admissions for foreign students will be tailored to different (a) courses offered and (b) educational institutions.
Mr Robert Goodwill
The Government will shortly launch a consultation on the proposals announced by the Home Secretary. The consultation will include looking at whether our student immigration rules should be tailored to the quality of the institution.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kevin Foster on 2015-11-03.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what value of NHS property has been (a) acquired and (b) sold in each (i) parliamentary constituency and (ii) clinical commissioning group area in each of the last five years.
George Freeman
Information about the value of property and land sales for the National Health Service is held centrally only for 2013-14 and 2014-15. We do not hold information by clinical commissioning group or parliamentary constituency. Information about acquisitions of property by the NHS is not recorded centrally.
(a) Value of property sold:
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2013-14 |
2014-15 |
|
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NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts |
£179.9 million |
£155.8 million |
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NHS Property services |
£24.9 million |
£57.8 million |
(b) Value of property acquired. We do hold this information for NHS Property Services and this is shown below:
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2013-14 |
2014-15 |
|
|
NHS Property Services |
£3.0 million |
£18.1 million |
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NHS Trusts/Foundation Trusts |
Not recorded |
Not recorded |
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2015-12-01.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of lone parents in receipt of (a) jobseeker’s allowance and (b) income support moved into work after successfully applying for a vacancy advertised on Universal Jobmatch in the most recent month for which figures are available.
Priti Patel
The information requested is not available.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Amess on 2016-01-06.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much HM Revenue and Customs spent on IT contractors in 2015.
Mr David Gauke
HM Revenue and Customs’ financial management systems do not hold the information requested because all costs relating to IT Contractors are classed within the generic value for IT Services and Project Development, so individual contractor costs are not identified separately.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Meacher on 2016-02-01.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they define vexatious” in relation to the objections submitted to the Office of the Schools Adjudicator by secularist campaigning groups over the last two years.”
Lord Nash
On 25 January 2016, the Secretary of State announced changes to the school admissions code, in order to give parents more of a say in the school admissions process so they can be confident the system works for them.
The Government proposes that only local parents and local authorities should be able to refer objections about a school’s admissions arrangements to the Schools Adjudicator. The Government wants to ensure that the Adjudicator is able to focus on any concerns which parents may have about the fairness of the admission arrangements of their local school, and that adjudications are not held up by the need to consider large numbers of objections referred by interest groups from outside the area.
The Department will conduct a full public consultation in due course and will give careful consideration to all the views expressed in that consultation.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Watson on 2016-02-25.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how he plans to reduce the cost per participant of the National Citizen Service.
Mr Rob Wilson
Consecutive, independent evaluations have demonstrated that National Citizen Service (NCS) delivers value for money and that the cost per participant has fallen since NCS began. In 2013, the NCS Trust, an independent social enterprise, was established to manage NCS and deliver the programme. Cabinet Office is working closely with the NCS Trust to develop their plans to extend NCS to 360,000 young people per year by 2020, whilst ensuring value for money for the taxpayer.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alison Thewliss on 2016-03-21.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department plans to include non-prescription incontinence pads, maternity pads and breast pads used by breastfeeding mothers in the definition of sanitary products for the purposes of zero rating under VAT.
Mr David Gauke
The zero rate of VAT will apply to any sanitary protection product that is designed and marketed solely for the absorption of collection of menstrual flow or lochia, including:
Eligible incontinence products, for sale to disabled people, are already zero rated.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Patten on 2016-04-26.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of anti-semitism within bodies representing students in English universities.
Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
The Government is clear that there is absolutely no place in higher education or anywhere else in society for bigotry, hatred or any form of racism such as anti-Semitism.
Recent reports of anti-Semitism are extremely concerning and must be met with a decisive response. We expect all bodies with a role in English higher education to be absolutely clear in their opposition to racism in all its forms, and to have robust policies in place to tackle such hatred and support victims.
At the Government’s request, Universities UK has set up a taskforce to examine what more can be done to tackle harassment and hate crime on campus, including anti-Semitism.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2016-06-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what guidance he has issued to supported housing providers about funding following the absorption of housing benefit into universal credit.
Justin Tomlinson
The Department provides guidance for any changes made to Housing Benefit.