The below Parliamentary question was asked by Graeme Morrice on 2014-04-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether her Department has any plans to end the employee trade union membership dues check-off system.
Mrs Theresa Villiers
My Department’s payroll services are provided by the Ministry of Justice. My understanding is that they have no current plans to end the employee trade union membership dues check-off system.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Howell on 2014-06-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many farms in Henley constituency have been subject to restrictions on cattle movements following a test proving the presence of TB in each of the last three years.
George Eustice
Statistics on TB breakdowns are only available at county and herd level. Figures below show the number of herds restricted as a result of positive bovine TB test results in Oxfordshire in each of the last three years:
· 2011 – 30
· 2012 – 29
· 2013 – 27
Bovine TB statistics are available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bovine-tb.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-04-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many parking tickets were issued against owners of vehicles parked illegally on pavements in each of the last five years; and how many such people were prosecuted in each such year.
Mr Robert Goodwill
In London, there is in general a ban on parking on the footway. Outside London, local authorities have wide-ranging powers to make Traffic Regulation Orders to prohibit pavement parking on designated lengths of highway or over a wide area. The former Transport Minister, the Hon Member for Lewes, Norman Baker, wrote to local authorities in February 2011 urging them to take up these powers. Local authorities with Civil Parking Enforcement (CPE) powers are responsible for parking enforcement, including that relating to the footway.
In addition, the Department has developed and authorised new traffic signs for local authorities to use where pavement parking is prohibited.
With regard to the number of parking tickets issued, individual local authorities are required to keep records of all penalty charge notices issued. The Department for Transport does not record this information centrally.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Bingham on 2014-06-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on allowing the transplant of organs from people deceased outside of hospital.
Jane Ellison
Organ donation following death outside of hospital is not broadly practiced in the United Kingdom. For organs to remain viable and suitable for transplantation, they must either be kept supplied with oxygen, blood and nutrients, or kept cold so that the metabolism of the cells is slowed right down. When someone’s heart stops beating suddenly, the blood supply to organs stop and the cells begin to get starved of oxygen and nutrients and start to die. Therefore, there is a very narrow window of a few minutes between the heart stopping beating and the need for organs to be removed and preserved.
A pilot programme is underway in Edinburgh for retrieval of organs from those who suffer a witnessed cardiac arrest from which they are unable to be resuscitated and are brought within minutes to the hospital. NHS Blood and Transplant is supporting this pilot and, depending on the outcome, will support further similar initiatives.
Additionally, health care professionals need to obtain consent and get a full medical history to ensure the organs are suitable for transplantation.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Rachel Reeves on 2014-04-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what happens to a Remploy worker personal budget if the full amount is not used by the individual within 18 months.
Mike Penning
Personal budgets are an important part of the £8 million People Help and Support Package (PHSP) which was not available for those affected by the 2008 Modernisation Plan. Personal budgets provide additional support where other sources of funding are unavailable.
There is no specific funding allocation for personal budgets within the £8million PHSP package and the budget for each former Remploy disabled employee is allocated based on individual need.
We anticipate that all funding for the PHSP package will be utilised by the time the last People Help and Support Package period is completed.
Latest figures as of 18 April 2014 show 1,516 disabled former Remploy workers have chosen to work with our Personal Case Workers to find another job and 727 are in work.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Yasmin Qureshi on 2014-06-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will assess the achievements of Kidney Research UK’s Peer Educator model to support sign-up to the NHS Organ Donor Register in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities; and if his Department will take steps to support rollout of Kidney Research UK’s Peer Educator model across the UK.
Jane Ellison
The Department, as part of its support for the National Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Transplant Alliance, is funding Kidney Research UK to run a Peer Educator Project to raise awareness of the lack of donors and increase the numbers on the organ and bone marrow/stem cell registers within the Pakistani Muslim community in Birmingham. Subject to Parliamentary business, the project will be officially launched by the Public Health Minister on 26 June 2014 and will build upon the success of an earlier Department funded Peer Educator project. The project will be fully evaluated and further lessons learned will be used to inform the roll out of any future Peer Educator projects in other BAME locations across the country.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dominic Raab on 2014-04-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much in cash terms and what proportion of total university funding came from (a) domestic tuition fees, (b) foreign student fees, (c) public funding and (d) external sponsorship in the last year for which figures are available.
Mr David Willetts
Information on the finances of English Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) is collected and published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). A summary of the income of publicly-funded HEIs in England from Home and EU Tuition Fees, Non-EU Tuition Fees, Public Funding and External Sponsorship has been provided in the table.
Income of publicly-funded higher education institutions(1)
English Higher Education Institutions
Academic year 2012/13
|
Academic year |
Income |
Share of Total Income (%) |
|
Total Course Fee Income |
10,142 |
41.7% |
|
Of which… |
|
|
|
Home & EU Tuition Fees |
6,479 |
26.6% |
|
Non-EU Tuition Fees |
2,997 |
12.3% |
|
Other Tuition Fee Income(2) |
666 |
2.7% |
|
Public Funding (3) |
8,580 |
35.3% |
|
External Sponsorship (4) |
5,598 |
23.0% |
|
Total Income |
24,320 |
100.0% |
Source: HESA Finance Record
Notes:
All figures are rounded to the nearest £ million and, as a result, columns may not total correctly.
(1) The University of Buckingham are the only non-publicly funded HEI to return financial data to HESA and their income has been omitted from the final figures.
(2) Other Tuition Fee Income includes income received from FE Courses and Non-Credit bearing courses.
(3) Public Funding refers to funding received from Funding Bodies, BIS Research Councils, UK Central Government, Local Authorities, Health and Hospital Authorities and EU Government Bodies.
(4) External Sponsorship refers to income from non-public sources including research grants and other income from EU and UK industry, commerce and other corporations.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2014-06-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with NHS trusts on the prescription of medicines for psoriasis.
Norman Lamb
We have had no such discussions.
Information on the prescription of medicines for psoriasis is available from a range of sources including the British National Formulary, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and NHS Choices.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chuka Umunna on 2014-04-10.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans his Department has to ensure that the Latin American community is better recognised in official statistics.
Mr Nick Hurd
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2014-06-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether invoices for legal or other work carried out in connection with the Savile Inquiry have been submitted for payment since January 2013.
Mrs Theresa Villiers
No invoices have been submitted for payment in respect of legal work in connection with the Saville Inquiry. An invoice was submitted in March 2013 for hosting of the Inquiry website.