The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Healey on 2016-01-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has conducted an impact assessment of the Government’s plans to cap housing benefit for tenants in supported housing at the local rate of Local Housing Allowance.
Justin Tomlinson
I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave to the Honourable Member for Liverpool Wavertree on 11 January 2016 to question UIN 21145 .
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2016-02-02.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to include single parents who are in full-time employment in the extension of free childcare to 30 hours per week.
Mr Sam Gyimah
Single parents will be able to access the extended entitlement in the same way as two parent households. A single parent will need to earn a weekly minimum equivalent to 16 hours at national minimum wage or living wage. In addition, their income should not exceed £100,000. This will include employed and self-employed parents.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hilary Benn on 2016-02-23.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many UK nationals work for the European External Action Service; and what proportion of the total number of employees in that service they represent.
Mr Philip Hammond
The European External Action Service (EEAS) has not published statistics on numbers of permanent staff by nationality since 2013, when a total of 133 British citizens were working for the EEAS. As of April 2015, our records show there were a total of 119 British citizens working for the European External Action Service, representing 4.8% of approximately 2500 total staff (excluding approximately 1000 local agents in Delegations) employed by the EEAS in 2015.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keith Vaz on 2016-03-22.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) DESMOND and (b) DAFNE programmes, in which areas, are provided by clinical commissioning groups in England.
Jane Ellison
This information is not held centrally.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Storey on 2016-04-27.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the decision by the First-Tier Tribunal (Information Rights) in Gabriel Webber v the Information Commissioner (EA/2015/0194) on 22 March, whether they will now release claims made, with supporting receipts, of public duty costs allowances paid to former Prime Ministers, and if so, when.
Lord Bridges of Headley
The Public Duties Cost Allowance (PDCA) was introduced to assist former Prime Ministers, still active in public life, with the costs of continuing to fulfil public duties. The PDCA is set in line with the annual Parliamentary Staffing Allowance allocated to Members of Parliament as determined by IPSA. In addition, former Prime Ministers are entitled to claim a pension allowance to contribute towards the pension costs of their staff. This is limited to a maximum of 10% of their staff salary costs.
The Government is currently considering the decision of the First-Tier Tribunal.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2016-06-06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many projects related to freedom of religion of belief are being funded by the Magna Carta Fund for Human Rights and Democracy; and if he will make a statement.
Mr David Lidington
The Government places great importance on defending freedom of religion or belief globally. The Magna Carta Fund is one of the tools we use to pursue this goal. The allocations for 2016-2017 are still being finalised.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Margaret Hodge on 2016-09-02.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many times his Department has used the services of (a) PwC, (b) Deloitte, (c) Ernst and Young, (d) KPMG and (e) other consulting firms in the last three financial years; and what (i) work was undertaken and (ii) the cost to the public purse was on each such occasion.
Joseph Johnson
The information requested for this PQ is publicly available. Since BEIS has recently been created through a machinery of government change the data is available through separate weblinks.
The ex-DECC link is: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/departmental-spend-over-500. This contains all monthly transactions in excess of £500.
The ex-BIS link is: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bis-spending-totals. This contains all monthly transactions in excess of £500.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jess Phillips on 2016-10-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what international visits (a) she and (b) Ministers in her Department have made since July 2016; and what the purpose of each such visit was.
Caroline Dinenage
Details of ministerial international travel, including the purpose of the travel, are published in the Quarterly Returns on GOV.UK. Information about international travel that has taken place since July 2016 will be published in due course.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-11-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish the report of the Mental Health Taskforce commissioned by NHS England.
Alistair Burt
The report of the independent Mental Health Taskforce is due to be published by NHS England by the end of the calendar year.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Madeleine Moon on 2015-11-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average accommodation and travel costs relating to training at (a) MOD Grantown-on-Spey, (b) MOD Llanwrst, (c) MOD Fairbourne (d) MOD Crickhowell were in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
Mark Lancaster
The information requested is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.