Category: Speeches

  • Nicholas Soames – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Nicholas Soames – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2016-06-07.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will commission research into the costs to the NHS of delayed discharges.

    Alistair Burt

    The Department and NHS Improvement are working together to implement Lord Carter’s recommendations on hospital productivity. As part of this the two organisations are working with providers to develop a richer dataset around all aspects of the patient pathway, including discharge.

    At the same time, the Department continues to work closely with the National Health Service and local government to help local areas improve transfers out of hospital, share best practice, and reduce unnecessary delays.

  • Kirsten Oswald – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

    Kirsten Oswald – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kirsten Oswald on 2016-09-02.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what procedures his Department has in place for the regular receipt of information on non-combatant casualties arising from US airstrikes which are conducted from UK airbases.

    Mike Penning

    Airstrikes from UK airbases are not a routine occurrence. The Secretary of State would approve such a request only if satisfied that the operation was compliant with UK and international law. Individual permission is granted for each operation. Similarly, battle damage assessments of such operations are shared with the UK on a case-by-case basis.

  • Lisa Nandy – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Lisa Nandy – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lisa Nandy on 2016-10-19.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what expenses were claimed by Dame Lowell Goddard during her time as Chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse; and if she will publish a breakdown of those expenses.

    Sarah Newton

    On 12 March 2015 the former Home Secretary established the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse under the Inquiries Act 2005. The Inquiry is independent of the Government and is responsible for the management of its own budget and the publication of its own financial reports.

  • Lord Marlesford – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the The Lord Chairman of Committees

    Lord Marlesford – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the The Lord Chairman of Committees

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Marlesford on 2015-11-11.

    To ask the Chairman of Committees which peers who were Members of the House of Lords throughout the 2014–15 parliamentary session attended on fewer than 25 per cent of sitting days, indicating in respect of each peer the number of days attended.

    Lord Laming

    The House sat for 126 days in the 2014/15 Session and therefore members needed to attend at least 32 times to reach an attendance rate of 25%. For the purposes of this answer: an attendance is counted as an attendance in the Chamber, in Grand Committee, in a Select Committee or a vote in the division lobbies.

    The following members attended on fewer than 32 days. The figures do not include members who joined part way through the Session, members who died or retired part way through the session, or members who were disqualified or on leave of absence throughout the Session. Some of the Members listed were unwell and have since died, and some took leave of absence in the next Session. In discharging their parliamentary duties members of the House of Lords can draw substantially on experience and expertise gained outside Parliament. Therefore members may devote considerable time to maintaining and increasing that knowledge.

    Members who took leave of absence for part of the Session and attended fewer than 25% of total days that they were eligible to attend:

    Days attended

    Total sitting days that member was eligible to attend.

    Dixon, L.

    0

    32

    Mogg, L.

    0

    35

    Janner of Braunstone, L.

    0

    36

    Hutton, L.

    1

    109

    Brooks of Tremorfa, L.

    2

    27

    Evans of Parkside, L.

    2

    35

    Thomas of Walliswood, B.

    3

    41

    Other members who attended fewer than 32 times:

    Days attended

    Grabiner, L.

    0

    Healey, L.

    0

    Inge, L.

    0

    Mayhew of Twysden, L.

    0

    Neill of Bladen, L.

    0

    Saville of Newdigate, L.

    0

    Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, L.

    0

    Archer of Weston-Super-Mare, L.

    1

    Baldwin of Bewdley, E.

    1

    Browne of Madingley, L.

    1

    Goldie, B.

    1

    King of Lothbury, L.

    1

    Peel, E.

    1

    Weidenfeld, L.

    1

    Williamson of Horton, L.

    1

    Bell, L.

    2

    Cameron of Lochbroom, L.

    2

    Campbell of Loughborough, B.

    2

    Ezra, L.

    2

    Falkender, B.

    2

    Malloch-Brown, L.

    2

    Turner of Ecchinswell, L.

    2

    Wolfson of Aspley Guise, L.

    2

    Alliance, L.

    3

    Burns, L.

    3

    Carter of Barnes, L.

    3

    Heseltine, L.

    3

    Lloyd-Webber, L.

    3

    Sacks, L.

    3

    Tombs, L.

    3

    Sharman, L.

    4

    Parkinson, L.

    4

    Bamford, L.

    5

    Coe, L.

    5

    Feldman, L.

    5

    London, Bp.

    5

    Smith of Kelvin, L.

    5

    Waldegrave of North Hill, L.

    5

    Wilson of Dinton, L.

    5

    York, Abp.

    5

    Collins of Mapesbury, L.

    6

    Freyberg, L.

    6

    Fritchie, B.

    6

    Guthrie of Craigiebank, L.

    6

    Williams of Oystermouth, L.

    6

    Wolfson of Sunningdale, L.

    6

    Haughey, L.

    7

    Rogers of Riverside, L.

    7

    Stevenson of Coddenham, L.

    7

    Winchester, Bp.

    7

    Young of Graffham, L.

    7

    Darzi of Denham, L.

    8

    Kestenbaum, L.

    8

    Nickson, L.

    8

    Rotherwick, L.

    8

    Chelmsford, Bp.

    9

    Hall of Birkenhead, L.

    9

    Myners, L.

    9

    Renwick of Clifton, L.

    9

    Richards of Herstmonceux, L.

    9

    Bristol, Bp.

    10

    Rix, L.

    10

    Browne-Wilkinson, L.

    11

    O’Donnell, L.

    11

    Vallance of Tummel, L.

    12

    Carrington, L.

    12

    Browne of Ladyton, L.

    12

    Drayson, L.

    12

    Glendonbrook, L.

    12

    Green of Hurstpierpoint, L.

    12

    Leach of Fairford, L.

    12

    Sheffield, Bp.

    12

    Currie of Marylebone, L.

    13

    Hattersley, L.

    13

    Macfarlane of Bearsden, L.

    13

    Mandelson, L.

    13

    Ryder of Wensum, L.

    13

    Sassoon, L.

    13

    Truro, Bp.

    13

    Blackwell, L.

    14

    Canterbury, Abp.

    14

    McCluskey, L.

    14

    Tordoff, L.

    14

    Davies of Abersoch, L.

    15

    Hogg, B.

    15

    Leitch, L.

    15

    Neuberger, B.

    15

    Tanlaw, L.

    15

    Willoughby de Broke, L.

    15

    Falconer of Thoroton, L.

    16

    Hardie, L.

    16

    Haskins, L.

    16

    Montagu of Beaulieu, L.

    16

    Palumbo of Southwark, L.

    16

    Saatchi, L.

    16

    Stair, E.

    18

    Levene of Portsoken, L.

    18

    Edmiston, L.

    18

    Imbert, L.

    18

    Joffe, L.

    18

    Worcester, Bp.

    18

    Birmingham, Bp.

    19

    Kalms, L.

    19

    Lichfield, Bp.

    19

    Owen, L.

    19

    Patten of Barnes, L.

    19

    Young of Old Scone, B.

    19

    Feldman of Elstree, L.

    20

    Livingston of Parkhead, L.

    20

    Smith of Leigh, L.

    20

    Allan of Hallam, L.

    21

    Chadlington, L.

    21

    Chandos, V.

    21

    Durham, Bp.

    21

    Leicester, Bp.

    21

    Portsmouth, Bp.

    21

    Greenfield, B.

    22

    Macdonald of River Glaven, L.

    22

    Valentine, B.

    23

    Home, E.

    23

    Howard of Lympne, L.

    23

    Montgomery of Alamein, V.

    23

    Rochester, Bp.

    23

    Richardson of Calow, B.

    24

    Rosslyn, E.

    24

    Stern of Brentford, L.

    24

    Alli, L.

    25

    Magan of Castletown, L.

    25

    Puttnam, L.

    25

    Cullen of Whitekirk, L.

    26

    Levy, L.

    26

    Mar and Kellie, E.

    26

    Moore of Lower Marsh, L.

    26

    Palumbo, L.

    26

    Walker of Gestingthorpe, L.

    26

    Manningham-Buller, B.

    27

    Fellowes of West Stafford, L.

    27

    Turnbull, L.

    28

    Carswell, L.

    29

    Sugar, L.

    29

    Goldsmith, L.

    30

    Coventry, Bp.

    30

    Walker of Aldringham, L.

    30

    Cohen of Pimlico, B.

    31

    Judge, L.

    31

    Krebs, L.

    31

    Shaw of Northstead, L.

    31

    Sheldon, L.

    31
  • Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

    Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh on 2016-01-12.

    To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department has taken with the UN and others to establish a regular, scheduled UN-facilitated cargo flight service into Yemen.

    Mr Desmond Swayne

    DFID has provided £1 million to the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) to establish a regular flight between Djibouti and Sana’a for the exclusive use of the humanitarian community. UNHAS has provided 88 flights since the crisis began, carrying 2,129 passengers and 8.6 metric tons of essential medical supplies. 14 UN agencies and 28 NGOs are now using the service. We are also working with UNHAS to establish other regular flight services to Yemen.

  • Barry Sheerman – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    Barry Sheerman – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Barry Sheerman on 2016-02-01.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the volume of (a) office equipment and (b) printer cartridges sent to landfill sites in the UK in each of the last three years.

    Rory Stewart

    Neither Defra nor the Environment Agency hold any specific data on waste office equipment. The data on waste tonnages accepted in disposal and recovery facilities is based on standard European Waste Classification (EWC) codes. These codes do not map directly to waste office equipment. Therefore, the data provided is based on the most relevant codes. These relate to ‘wastes from electrical and electronic equipment’, ‘separately collected fractions from municipal wastes’ for discarded electrical equipment and ‘wastes from the manufacture, formulation, supply and use of printing inks’. Figures for discarded equipment will not include office equipment only.

    Waste electrical and electronic equipment and waste printer cartridges accepted at landfill sites in England (tonnes):

    2012

    2013

    2014

    Discarded waste electrical & electronic equipment*

    101.03

    99.64

    134.92

    Waste printer cartridges**

    134.15

    159.30

    136.57

    * based on EWC code 160213.160214, 200135, 200136.

    ** based on EWC code 080317, 08318.

  • Robert Neill – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Robert Neill – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Robert Neill on 2016-02-25.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of applications for Disclosure and Barring Service checks (a) nationally, (b) in London and (c) in Bromley and Chislehurst constituency met the published service standards for waiting times in the last 6 months.

    Karen Bradley

    The published service standards are to complete 85% of disclosure applications within 21 days and 95% within 56 days. The tables below show the proportion of applications which met the service standards a) nationally, b) in London and c) in Bromley and Chislehurst.

    A) Nationally

    Month

    % Completed within 21 Calendar Days

    % Completed within 56 Calendar Days

    Aug-15

    83.4%

    94.9%

    Sep-15

    87.3%

    95.1%

    Oct-15

    87.6%

    95.4%

    Nov-15

    86.3%

    94.5%

    Dec-15

    86.0%

    94.3%

    Jan-16

    85.8%

    93.9%

    Total

    86.1%

    94.7%

    B) London

    Month

    % Completed within 21 Calendar Days

    % Completed within 56 Calendar Days

    Aug-15

    83.5%

    86.7%

    Sep-15

    85.2%

    87.6%

    Oct-15

    85.7%

    88.1%

    Nov-15

    83.7%

    86.2%

    Dec-15

    80.8%

    85.5%

    Jan-16

    81.2%

    83.9%

    Total

    83.5%

    86.4%

    C) Bromley and Chislehurst

    Month

    % Completed within 21 Calendar Days

    % Completed within 56 Calendar Days

    Aug-15

    85.9%

    89.1%

    Sep-15

    86.5%

    89.7%

    Oct-15

    85.4%

    88.9%

    Nov-15

    86.5%

    89.5%

    Dec-15

    80.2%

    86.2%

    Jan-16

    84.7%

    87.7%

    Total

    84.9%

    88.6%
  • Christopher Pincher – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    Christopher Pincher – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Christopher Pincher on 2016-03-24.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many tonnes of air pollution control residues were recovered into end-of-waste products in 2015; into what types of products those residues were returned back into the environment; how those products can be traced in case of recall; and what estimate she has made of the number of tonnes of air pollution control residues that will be recovered into end-of-waste products in 2016.

    Rory Stewart

    We do not collect statistics relating to materials that meet end of waste criteria. We do not hold information on the number of tonnes of air pollution residues recovered into end of waste products, nor have we made predictions for 2016. We provide opinions on whether materials have met end of waste or not when requested by companies. If a material ceases to be waste the Environment Agency has no further role regarding the regulation or monitoring of that non waste product.

  • Ann Coffey – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    Ann Coffey – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ann Coffey on 2016-05-03.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the 2015 protocol between the association of chief police officers, the crown prosecution service and HM Courts and Tribunals service to expedite cases involving witnesses under 10 years old.

    Mike Penning

    This Protocol provides additional guidance on support to young witnesses at Court. The protocol came into effect on the 1st April 2015; currently there are no plans to review it.

  • Cat Smith – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Cat Smith – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Cat Smith on 2016-06-07.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to reduce the financial burden of indemnity costs on general practice.

    Alistair Burt

    The Department and NHS England committed in the recently published General Practice Forward View to review the current arrangements for indemnity cover for general practitioners. To take this review forward, a General Practice Indemnity Steering Group has been established by the Department with NHS England to look at the rising cost of indemnity, and to bring forward proposals for discussion by the end of July 2016.