The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tania Mathias on 2016-07-21.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, in which month he plans to make an announcement on airport expansion.
Mr John Hayes
The Government remains fully committed to delivering the important infrastructure projects it has set out, including delivering runway capacity on the timetable set out by Sir Howard Davies.
The Government will carefully consider all the evidence before reaching a view on its preferred scheme.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chi Onwurah on 2016-10-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the future role of open source software in industrial strategy (a) for the digital economy and (b) as an enabling platform; and what steps he is taking to support that software in relation to public sector procurement.
Mr Nick Hurd
The Government’s Open Standards Principles are helping to level the playing field for open source and proprietary software, and disaggregating government IT into smaller, more manageable components.
The Government IT Strategy states ‘Where appropriate, government will procure open source solutions. When used in conjunction with compulsory open standards, open source presents significant opportunities for the design and delivery of interoperable solutions.’
To support interoperability in the public sector, we have a preference for royalty-free software generated in an open and transparent manner, which is often open source.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2015-10-27.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to promote wildlife-friendly farming practices.
George Eustice
Agri-environment schemes play a major role in the conservation of wildlife in England. More than £900 million will be available for Countryside Stewardship for 2014 to 2020.
Biodiversity is one of the main objectives of Countryside Stewardship. The Wild Pollinator and Farm Wildlife Package options within the scheme will be of particular benefit to wild pollinators, farmland birds and other species. The package will play a key role in supporting Defra’s National Pollinator Strategy.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2015-11-23.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of government funding for translational research programmes; and if he will make a statement.
Joseph Johnson
The Government’s Productivity Plan in July set out our ambition that UK Universities will continue to increase their collaborations with industry to drive the translation and commercialisation of research and broader knowledge exchange. Universities’ external income from engagement with business and the community reached £3.93 billion in 2013-14, up by 27% from 2009-10. The World Economic Forum ranks the UK among the top four nations in the world for university-industry collaboration in R&D. The recent Research Excellence Framework 2014 has demonstrated the breadth and extent of economic impact arising from university research, with 84% of submissions assessed as outstanding or very considerable by expert and academic peer review.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Hepburn on 2016-01-06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of jobseeker’s allowance in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK have received a sanction of their benefit in each of the last five years.
Priti Patel
The latest available information on Jobseeker’s Allowance sanctions, including the number of Mandatory Reconsiderations and Appeals, is published at:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/:
Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:
https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started—SuperWEB2.html
Please note Mandatory reconsiderations were introduced in 28th October 2013.
Information for Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Department for Social Development. Northern Ireland statistics can be found at:
http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/stats_and_research/benefit_publications.htm
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hilary Benn on 2016-01-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his oral Answer of 12 January 2016, Official Report, column 697, on how many occasions the Government has used personnel who are present as a quick check when a report has been received of a potential breach of international humanitarian law in Yemen.
Mr Philip Hammond
We have a very small number of staff working in Saudi headquarters in a liaison capacity only to provide insight into Saudi operations. These liaison officers are not involved in the targeting process – whether it be the selection, decision making or directing. They remain under UK command and control.
The role of the liaison officers is to maintain an information flow with the Saudi authorities. When concerns are raised by non-governmental organisations, or in the media, liaison officers pass all available information back to the UK. This will help inform our assessment of compliance with international humanitarian law which is taken in Whitehall.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-02-23.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the total number of students enrolled in the English Baccalaureate in each year since its inception; and if she will make a statement.
Nick Gibb
Information on the percentage of pupils entered for the components of the English Baccalaureate between 2009/10 and 2014/15 is published in the Statistical First Release “Revised GCSE and equivalent results in England: 2014 to 2015”. [1]
[1] 2014/15 revised table can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/494052/SFR01_2016_National_Tables.xlsx. (Table 1b)
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Horam on 2016-03-21.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many homes were completed in each London Borough in the latest year for which figures are available; and how many homes were sold under the Right to Buy in each of those London Boroughs in the same year.
Baroness Williams of Trafford
The figures requested are provided in the table below:
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London Borough |
Dwellings completed in 20151 |
Right to Buy sales in 20152 |
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Barking and Dagenham |
649 |
216 |
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Barnet |
1,500 |
89 |
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Bexley |
603 |
.. |
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Brent |
708 |
60 |
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Bromley |
676 |
.. |
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Camden |
711 |
140 |
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City of London |
10 |
5 |
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Croydon |
1,687 |
160 |
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Ealing |
756 |
105 |
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Enfield |
610 |
144 |
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Greenwich |
1,874 |
240 |
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Hackney |
623 |
241 |
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Hammersmith and Fulham |
290 |
82 |
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Haringey |
651 |
177 |
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Harrow |
561 |
28 |
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Havering |
1,084 |
86 |
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Hillingdon |
537 |
136 |
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Hounslow |
1,043 |
183 |
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Islington |
189 |
176 |
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Kensington and Chelsea |
1,119 |
36 |
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Kingston upon Thames |
46 |
37 |
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Lambeth |
1,302 |
228 |
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Lewisham |
1,118 |
111 |
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Merton |
158 |
.. |
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Newham |
691 |
330 |
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Redbridge |
492 |
46 |
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Richmond upon Thames |
121 |
.. |
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Southwark |
1,466 |
278 |
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Sutton |
194 |
52 |
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Tower Hamlets |
1,138 |
264 |
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Waltham Forest |
1,081 |
100 |
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Wandsworth |
761 |
47 |
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Westminster |
166 |
51 |
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1 source: Live Table 253a https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building |
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2 source: Live Table 691 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales |
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Figures exclude Preserved Right to Buy |
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.. Local Authority owns no dwelling stock. |
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kirsten Oswald on 2016-04-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate she has made of the cost of establishing the Green Deal Finance Company in (a) payments to consultants and (b) other costs.
Andrea Leadsom
DECC has made no payments to consultants in establishing the Green Deal Finance Company, but in other costs payments of £10,294.26 in legal support were made in 2014/15.
The Green Deal Finance Company has not been closed. It is not currently issuing new loans, but continues to collect repayments from its existing loan book. In July 2015, DECC took the decision that the case for further investment was not strong enough in terms of value for money. This decision has no impact on existing Green Deal Finance Plans or existing Green Deal Home Improvement Fund applications and vouchers.
The Green Deal Finance Company is a private company and has its own internal costs which are not included in this estimate.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Margaret Ritchie on 2016-05-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when NHS England plans to publish its response to its consultation on developing a method to assist investment decisions in specialised services.
George Freeman
The proposed prioritisation methodology which went out to consultation was signed off by the Specialised Commissioning Committee at its meeting on 31 May 2016 – for use in 2016/17.
The consultation outcome document will now be published on the website imminently.
There will be further work undertaken on the methodology in due course to refine and improve it for use in future years.