The below Parliamentary question was asked by Poulter on 2016-10-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many UK medical students entered undergraduate training in each year since 2000.
Mr Philip Dunne
Information on the number of United Kingdom medical students is not held centrally; this is collected by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Richard Burden on 2015-11-23.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to prepare for the junior doctors’ strikes due to commence on 1 December 2015; and what assessment he has made of the potential effect of such strikes on NHS services.
Ben Gummer
We are pleased that the British Medical Association (BMA) agreed to suspend the strike. NHS Employers agreed to the extension of the timeframe for the BMA to commence any industrial action by four weeks to 13 January 2016. NHS Employers and the Department have agreed within this timetable to temporarily suspend plans to introduce new contracts to allow negotiations to progress.
We know staff right across the National Health Service worked incredibly hard to ensure that the NHS had robust contingency plans to deal with the anticipated industrial action and that patients will be disappointed if their operations or appointments had to be cancelled or delayed. Our absolute priority was to ensure that patients were not put at risk or harmed. We always wanted talks not strikes and we are committed to meaningful negotiations to agree a new national contract that is fair, safe which put patients first every day of the week.
Negotiations will be on the basis of a memorandum of understanding between the parties which acknowledges a shared responsibility for the safety of patients and junior doctors and the desire to achieve and implement without undue delay a contractual framework that provides fair reward and a safe working environment for junior doctors throughout the week.
We now have the opportunity to work together to develop a new national contract that helps to meet our shared ambition to make NHS care the safest and highest quality in the world.
The agreement can be found on the ACAS website at:
http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5557
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Percy on 2015-12-15.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions his Department has had with clinical commissioning groups on the implementation of recommendations contained in NHS England’s Nutrition and Hydration Commissioning Guidance.
Jane Ellison
Several clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) worked with NHS England to develop the guidance (Stafford, Leicesterand Rutland, Gateshead and Salford) and discussions continue with them about the ongoing implementation of the guidance.
NHS England’s patient experience team has had discussions with Sutton CCG about implementation of the guidance as part of the Care Home Vanguard programme there.
The five CCGs which make up North Central London Strategic Collaborative Commissioning Group are proposing to have one CQUIN to ensure they are ‘commissioning excellent nutrition and hydration’ services. This will be used for all nine acute providers that cover Barnet, Camden, Islington, Haringey and Enfield. They are going to share their proposed outcome measures as soon as they have been agreed.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Robert Flello on 2016-01-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what information he holds on the number of Iraqi and Syrian Christians and other religious minorities who have been murdered or displaced from their homes by Daesh in each of the last five years; and what steps he is taking to provide practical assistance and asylum opportunities to persecuted Christians seeking to flee that region.
Mr Tobias Ellwood
We do not hold figures for the numbers of minorities who have been murdered or displaced by Daesh. The situation is desperate for many communities within Syria and Iraq. We condemn in the strongest terms the atrocities committed by Daesh against all civilians, including Christians, Mandeans, Yezidis, and other minorities, as well as the majority Muslim population in Iraq and Syria who continue to bear the brunt of Daesh’s brutality.
The persecution of Christians, and individuals of all faiths, anywhere in the world, is of profound concern to us. The freedom to practice, change or share your faith or belief without discrimination or violent opposition is a fundamental human right that all people should enjoy.
The Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron) announced that the existing Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement (VPR) scheme would be expanded to resettle 20,000 refugees during this Parliament. The Syrian VPR scheme is based on need and does not discriminate on religious grounds. As many Christians are likely to be particularly vulnerable it is highly likely that some will qualify under the scheme’s criteria.
Ultimately, the only way to protect Christians and other religious minorities from Daesh is by defeating this terrible organisation, which in turn requires, amongst other things, ending the conflict in Syria. The Prime Minister set out the UK’s comprehensive strategy for defeating Daesh and finding a political settlement to the Syria conflict in his response the Foreign Affairs Committee on 26 November 2015.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2016-02-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many properties have been purchased through the Forces Help to Buy Scheme in each month since its inception.
Mark Lancaster
The requested information is provided in the following table:
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Month |
Number of Forces Help to Buy Payments Made |
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April 2014 |
8 |
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May 2014 |
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June 2014 |
|
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July 2014 |
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August 2014 |
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September 2014 |
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October 2014 |
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November 2014 |
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December 2014 |
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January 2015 |
|
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February 2015 |
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March 2015 |
306 |
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April 2015 |
|
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May 2015 |
|
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June 2015 |
|
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July 2015 |
385 |
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August 2015 |
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September 2015 |
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October 2015 |
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November 2015 |
317 |
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December 2015 |
315 |
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2016-03-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, who was on the interview panels for the recruitment of the Pubs Code Adjudicator.
Anna Soubry
The following individuals formed the Interview Panel for this vacancy:
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Crispin Blunt on 2016-04-18.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what forecast he has made of the number of households within the 55 day-evening-night equivalent level noise contour of aircraft arriving and taking off at Gatwick Airport in the event that a second runway at that airport was to become operational.
Mr Robert Goodwill
On 14 December 2015, the Government formally announced that it accepted the Airports Commission’s case for new runway capacity in the South East, as well as the Commission’s three shortlisted schemes.
The Airports Commission undertook a thorough assessment of the noise impacts of each of the three shortlisted schemes, across a wide range of metrics, including the 55 day-evening-night sound level.
The Government continues to consider the comprehensive evidence published by the Airports Commission, including on the noise impacts of the three schemes.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2016-05-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the average hourly earnings were of her Department’s (a) BME and (b) non-BME employees in (i) 2015 and (ii) 2016.
George Eustice
Defra employees are paid within salary bands according to their grades, they are not paid by the hour. The tables below set out a calculation of average hourly pay for all employees within the central department, by grade, and by BME, Non-BME, and Undeclared ethnic status (employees that have not declared their ethnicity).
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2015 |
BME |
Non BME |
Undeclared |
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AA |
* |
* |
£8.96 |
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AO |
£12.15 |
£12.17 |
£11.43 |
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EO |
£14.96 |
£13.92 |
£13.80 |
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HEO |
£17.29 |
£16.79 |
£15.98 |
|
SEO |
£20.54 |
£19.96 |
£20.05 |
|
G7 |
£27.43 |
£27.33 |
£26.30 |
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G6 |
* |
£32.62 |
£33.10 |
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SCS |
* |
£39.77 |
£46.42 |
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2016 |
BME |
Non BME |
Undeclared |
|
AA |
* |
* |
£9.84 |
|
AO |
£12.06 |
£12.17 |
£12.16 |
|
EO |
£14.89 |
£14.41 |
£13.99 |
|
HEO |
£17.23 |
£16.66 |
£16.05 |
|
SEO |
£20.47 |
£20.51 |
£20.42 |
|
G7 |
£27.40 |
£27.35 |
£26.65 |
|
G6 |
* |
£33.04 |
£32.84 |
|
SCS |
* |
£42.62 |
£48.85 |
*Number of staff in this group are below publishable level
Good progress is being made on actions in the Government’s Talent Action Plan and Defra’s Diversity Strategy to ensure that Defra is able to recruit and retain employees from a diverse range of backgrounds, and to enable them to develop and progress on merit.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Knight on 2016-07-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason his Department deploys speed cameras that photograph vehicles from the front in addition to speed cameras that photograph vehicles from the rear; and for what reasons his Department does not have a single policy on the deployment of such cameras.
Andrew Jones
It is for local authorities and police to decide how they wish to operate speed cameras. The Department issued guidance in 2007 entitled “Use of speed and red-light cameras for traffic enforcement: guidance on deployment, visibility and signing”. I wrote to all local authorities in England and Wales on 20 October 2015 to remind them of the guidance which is available on gov.uk.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jon Trickett on 2016-10-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many trainee GPs have been informed by Capita and Primary Care Support England that they are no longer allowed to practice as they are not currently on the national list for medical performers.
David Mowat
NHS England advises that, currently, there are approximately 720 applications for general practitioner (GP) trainees to be added to the performers list.
The processing of applications to join the National Performers List was taken over by Capita in September 2015, and there have been some delays in Capita’s processing of applications. NHS England is working closely with Capita to identify all cases which may be affected by delays in processing applications, and those identified are being investigated and urgent cases prioritised. NHS England expects all GP trainees to be on the performers list by the end of October when their grace period for inclusion ends.
The decision to admit a GP trainee to the performer list is the sole responsibility of NHS England rather than Capita. There have been some instances where Capita have informed GPs that they cannot practice because their application to the performer list has not been completed. Where we are aware of such instances, those GPs have been contacted by NHS England and provided with the correct advice relating to their individual circumstances. Where necessary, NHS England has taken further action to expedite the performers’ list process.