The below Parliamentary question was asked by Richard Burden on 2016-02-03.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many non-EEA seafarers employed on UK registered ships received non-emergency care from the NHS in England in each year since 2009-10.
Alistair Burt
The Department does not hold this information.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Clement-Jones on 2016-02-24.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they expect a reimbursement decision on each of the drugs launched since June 2015 that were affected by the pause in listing new drugs on the Cancer Drugs Fund list.
Lord Prior of Brampton
Since June 2015, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published final technology appraisal guidance on the cancer drugs/indications listed in the following table.
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Topic title |
Final guidance publication |
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Melanoma (unresectable, metastatic) – pembrolizumab (after ipilimumab) [TA357] |
October 2015 |
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Melanoma (unresectable, metastatic, ipilimumab naive) – pembrolizumab [TA366] |
November 2015 |
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Multiple myeloma – panobinostat (post 1 prior therapy) [TA380] |
January 2016 |
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Melanoma (advanced, unresectable, metastatic) – nivolumab [TA384] |
February 2016 |
NHS England has advised that it envisages, under the new arrangements for the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF), that a greater number of cancer drugs will be funded from baseline commissioning. Under the new process, any drugs that receive either a draft recommendation for routine commissioning or, where uncertainty exists, a recommendation for use within the CDF, will receive interim funding from the CDF from the point of marketing authorisation.
NICE has advised that it is unable to provide a forecast as to when this will occur for technology appraisals published during the first year of the new CDF as this will depend on a number of factors including the value proposition put forward by manufacturers.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Brake on 2016-03-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2016 to Question 31488, how many British officials who have provided advice to Saudi Arabia’s internal investigation into the breaking of international humanitarian law in Yemen have visited Yemen as part of this investigation; and where each of those officials was based.
Mr Tobias Ellwood
We will provide advice to the independent committee that will assess Saudi Arabian military activity in Yemen, drawing on a range of information as required. Our Embassy operations in Yemen are suspended and since March 2011 Foreign and Commonwealth Office Travel Advice has consistently advised against all travel to Yemen.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andy Slaughter on 2016-04-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have had employment tribunal fees waived or reduced in each year since the introduction of such fees.
Mr Shailesh Vara
This information is published and available within the Ministry of Justice Official Tribunal Statistics and can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Watson on 2016-06-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent estimate the Government has made of the cost to the public purse to date of the adaptation of the Voyager aircraft for the transport of senior ministers.
Mr Philip Dunne
To date the Departmental spend to convert one Voyager aircraft’s cabin into an enhanced configuration is £8.9 million out of a total estimated cost of £9.6 million.
The aircraft’s primary role will continue to be aircraft refuelling.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Smith on 2016-09-02.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how her Department plans to measure the effect of the adults at risk policy for vulnerable people detained under immigration powers.
Mr Robert Goodwill
Consideration is being given to arrangements for measuring the impact of the adults at risk policy and other initiatives aimed at improving the safeguarding of vulnerable people in immigration detention. The expectation is that these initiatives will result in a reduction in the number of the most vulnerable who are detained. The Government intends to ask Stephen Shaw to carry out a short review next year in order to assess progress against the key actions from his previous report.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Murrison on 2016-10-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what recent meetings he has had with representatives from (a) Iceland, Liechtenstein, (c) Norway and (d) Switzerland on the UK leaving the EU.
Mr David Jones
The Prime Minister has been clear we will not give a running commentary on our EU exit negotiations. We will ensure that we engage closely with all relevant interlocutors.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2015-11-03.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether it is the Government’s policy to increase the membership of the House of Lords by over 100 members during the course of this Parliament.
John Penrose
The Government does not have a policy of the kind described in this question. Our policy on the House of Lords is described in the Conservative Party election manifesto 2015.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Rachel Reeves on 2015-11-30.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the effect on the household income of an existing tax credit claimant family with one earner and two children in (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20 of proposed changes to tax credits, assuming they are migrated to universal credit at the start of 2018 and experience a change in circumstance and lose their transitional arrangements.
Priti Patel
At the summer budget the Chancellor of the Exchequer set out the Government’s commitment to move the UK from a high tax, high welfare, low wage society to a lower tax, lower welfare, higher wage society. This remains the case, and Universal Credit (UC) is delivering this.
UC is a fundamentally different benefit to the legacy benefit system and provides people with support into, and to progress in work.
Therefore there is no meaningful way of comparing an unreformed Tax Credit system with Universal Credit. The Government has committed to transitional arrangements as we reform the benefits and Tax Credit system. Those transferred by DWP from tax credits to UC will receive Transitional Protection. In addition, estimates of entitlements under UC of the sort requested will vary depending on assumptions on the level of earnings.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Green of Deddington on 2016-01-11.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many asylum applications have been made in each of the last five years by applicants who entered the UK on a student visa; what were the nationalities of each applicant; how many of those applications were refused, and how many unsuccessful applicants were subsequently removed.
Lord Bates
Over the last five years there have been 15,470 cases of individuals who have entered on a student visa and subsequently also went on to claim asylum. Details by year and nationality are below.
Unfortunately the way corresponding data is held on asylum outcome means that to obtain the numbers of cases that were granted, refused and removed could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.
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Visa Nationality |
Asylum Year |
Grand Total |
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2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
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Afghanistan |
10 |
26 |
63 |
73 |
69 |
241 |
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Albania |
2 |
6 |
3 |
5 |
16 |
|
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Algeria |
7 |
4 |
2 |
4 |
17 |
|
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Angola |
2 |
2 |
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Armenia |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|||
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Azerbaijan |
4 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
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Bahrain |
6 |
5 |
1 |
12 |
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Bangladesh |
12 |
31 |
167 |
318 |
264 |
792 |
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Belarus |
1 |
1 |
2 |
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Benin |
1 |
1 |
||||
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Bolivia |
1 |
1 |
||||
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Botswana |
1 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
6 |
|
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Bulgaria |
1 |
1 |
||||
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Burkina Faso |
1 |
1 |
||||
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Burma (Myanmar) |
166 |
98 |
42 |
14 |
13 |
333 |
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Burundi |
2 |
1 |
3 |
|||
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Cameroon |
4 |
3 |
9 |
33 |
52 |
101 |
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Central African Republic |
1 |
1 |
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China |
16 |
25 |
95 |
162 |
160 |
458 |
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Colombia |
2 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
11 |
|
Congo |
3 |
2 |
1 |
6 |
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|
Democratic Republic of Congo |
5 |
7 |
5 |
17 |
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Egypt |
1 |
8 |
12 |
15 |
15 |
51 |
|
Equatorial Guinea |
1 |
1 |
||||
|
Eritrea |
6 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
16 |
|
Ethiopia |
9 |
5 |
6 |
11 |
8 |
39 |
|
Gambia |
11 |
9 |
38 |
39 |
32 |
129 |
|
Georgia |
2 |
5 |
7 |
|||
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Ghana |
3 |
3 |
2 |
8 |
||
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Guinea |
3 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
6 |
17 |
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HONG KONG |
1 |
1 |
||||
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India |
10 |
26 |
244 |
320 |
294 |
894 |
|
Iran |
106 |
244 |
464 |
307 |
148 |
1269 |
|
Iraq |
6 |
3 |
15 |
17 |
54 |
95 |
|
Israel |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|||
|
Ivory Coast |
1 |
2 |
5 |
1 |
2 |
11 |
|
Jamaica |
1 |
2 |
2 |
5 |
||
|
Japan |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|||
|
Jordan |
2 |
4 |
4 |
5 |
3 |
18 |
|
Kenya |
6 |
5 |
10 |
12 |
12 |
45 |
|
Kuwait |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|||
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Kyrgyzstan |
5 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
13 |
|
|
Lebanon |
1 |
2 |
6 |
5 |
14 |
|
|
Liberia |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|||
|
Libya |
7 |
114 |
73 |
57 |
86 |
337 |
|
Malawi |
2 |
4 |
10 |
15 |
9 |
40 |
|
Malaysia |
1 |
2 |
3 |
6 |
||
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Maldives |
1 |
1 |
||||
|
Mali |
1 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
|
Mauritius |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
10 |
|
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MEXICO |
2 |
2 |
||||
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Mongolia |
1 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
8 |
|
|
Morocco |
3 |
6 |
6 |
3 |
18 |
|
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Nepal |
4 |
3 |
33 |
37 |
25 |
102 |
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Nigeria |
6 |
12 |
94 |
142 |
136 |
390 |
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Oman |
1 |
2 |
3 |
|||
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Pakistan |
52 |
385 |
1313 |
1471 |
1265 |
4486 |
|
Palestinian Authority |
18 |
24 |
30 |
25 |
30 |
127 |
|
Philippines |
1 |
8 |
12 |
11 |
32 |
|
|
Russian Federation |
2 |
1 |
4 |
3 |
10 |
|
|
Rwanda |
9 |
7 |
3 |
5 |
5 |
29 |
|
Saudi Arabia |
4 |
3 |
6 |
13 |
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Senegal |
4 |
7 |
4 |
3 |
18 |
|
|
Sierra Leone |
1 |
4 |
9 |
2 |
16 |
|
|
SINGAPORE |
1 |
1 |
||||
|
Somalia |
1 |
1 |
3 |
5 |
||
|
South Africa |
1 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
||
|
SOUTH KOREA |
1 |
2 |
3 |
|||
|
SOUTH SUDAN |
1 |
1 |
||||
|
Sri Lanka |
230 |
744 |
1137 |
1171 |
715 |
3997 |
|
St Lucia |
1 |
1 |
||||
|
St Vincent & the Grenadines |
1 |
1 |
||||
|
Sudan |
6 |
11 |
23 |
11 |
9 |
60 |
|
Syria |
8 |
24 |
256 |
251 |
134 |
673 |
|
Tanzania |
10 |
8 |
15 |
17 |
11 |
61 |
|
Thailand |
1 |
1 |
||||
|
Tunisia |
2 |
1 |
3 |
|||
|
Turkey |
6 |
8 |
10 |
5 |
3 |
32 |
|
Turkmenistan |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
9 |
|
Uganda |
7 |
11 |
42 |
33 |
41 |
134 |
|
Ukraine |
9 |
9 |
||||
|
Uzbekistan |
1 |
4 |
5 |
|||
|
Venezuela |
3 |
3 |
||||
|
Vietnam |
1 |
1 |
5 |
9 |
17 |
33 |
|
Yemen |
2 |
5 |
3 |
5 |
15 |
|
|
Yugoslavia |
1 |
1 |
||||
|
Zambia |
1 |
4 |
3 |
4 |
12 |
|
|
Zimbabwe |
14 |
11 |
26 |
15 |
15 |
81 |
|
Grand Total |
781 |
1901 |
4350 |
4695 |
3743 |
15470 |
Note: The figures quoted have been derived from internal management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change.
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