Category: Speeches

Roger Williams – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Roger Williams on 2014-06-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much beef was imported into the UK from (a) the Republic of Ireland, (b) the rest of the EU and (c) non-EU countries in each of the last 18 months.

George Eustice

The following tables provide details of UK imports of beef and veal as recorded in the Official Overseas Trade Statistics for the period January 2012 – April 2014.

		Thousand Tonnes				Thousand Tonnes
Imports from	Month	2012	2013	2014	Imports from	Month	2012	2013	2014
Irish Republic	January	12.3	12.1	13.3	Non EU	January	1.6	2.6	2.2
	February	13.7	10.8	12.2		February	1.3	1.7	1.5
	March	14.9	13.0	16.2		March	1.2	1.4	1.5
	April	12.9	11.9	13.5		April	1.4	2.3	2.1
	May	12.5	12.4			May	2.1	2.6
	June	11.8	14.9			June	3.1	3.5
	July	11.3	12.2			July	2.2	3.5
	August	12.4	11.7			August	2.2	3.1
	September	13.8	14.9			September	1.9	2.8
	October	15.0	15.6			October	2.2	3.5
	November	14.0	15.1			November	2.0	2.5
	December	15.1	16.4			December	1.7	2.0
Irish Republic annual total		159.7	161.0		Non EU annual total		23.0	31.7
Rest of EU	January	3.8	3.9	3.4
	February	4.1	3.2	3.4	Ó Crown Copyright
	March	4.4	2.9	3.3	Source: HM Revenue and Customs
	April	4.4	3.5	4.1	2013 & 2014 data is subject to amendments
	May	5.3	3.9
	June	4.3	3.3		EU data based on EU 28
	July	4.8	4.1
	August	4.7	3.7
	September	4.2	3.9
	October	5.1	4.4
	November	4.4	4.6
	December	3.8	4.2
Rest of EU annual total		53.4	45.6

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01/11/2022

Stephen O’Brien – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen O’Brien on 2014-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of changes in passenger numbers on the West Coast Main Line over the next 10 years.

Stephen Hammond

I refer my Hon Friend to my answer of 28 April 2014, Official Report, columns 517-518W (UIN 196423).

01/11/2022
Christopher Chope – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Christopher Chope on 2014-06-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will place in the Library a copy of the Government’s written submission to the European Court of Justice which was the subject of the hearing before the Court in April 2014 about the EU application to accede to the European Convention on Human Rights.

Damian Green

The European Court of Justice held a hearing on 5-6 May 2014 before a full court in proceedings under article 218 (11) of Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union regarding the European Commission’s request for an Opinion on the compatibility of the draft Accession Agreement with the EU Treaties.

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to him on 10 December 2013, Official Report, Column 123W.

My subsequent letter to the European Scrutiny Committee of 20 December 2013, as referenced in the Committee’s Twenty-ninth Report of session 2013-2014 of 8 January 2014, clarifies the basis on which documents in the proceedings are confidential.

My most recent letter to the European Scrutiny Committee of 18 June 2014 outlines that the UK’s oral submissions supported the compatibility of the draft Accession Agreement with the EU Treaties, and sought to encourage the Court to robustly test the draft Accession Agreement and its implications while steering clear of making any findings that prejudge the content of the internal EU rules.

01/11/2022
Graeme Morrice – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Graeme Morrice on 2014-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many meetings (a) officials and (b) Ministers in his Department have had with (i) disability groups and charities and (ii) providers of the Work Capability Assessment in each of the last five years.

Mike Penning

Ministers and officials meet regularly with a range of stakeholders about the Work Capability Assessment, including our health assessment providers, disability representative groups and charities.

The current contractual agreement between DWP and Atos Healthcare contains a number of key performance indicators. DWP monitors and discusses performance with Atos on a weekly basis.

01/11/2022
Julian Huppert – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julian Huppert on 2014-06-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent from its research and development budget over the last five years; and how much such spending is planned for (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.

Dr Daniel Poulter

Revenue expenditure from the Department’s research and development budget is shown in the following table:

£ million

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

provisional

2014-15

planned

885

960

952

985

1,004

1,077

A budget figure for 2015-16 has not yet been set. This will happen as part of standard business planning later in the year.

01/11/2022
Roger Godsiff – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Roger Godsiff on 2014-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people currently receiving a UK state pension and living in the UK who would move abroad if pensions were up-rated for all UK pensioners living overseas.

Steve Webb

The Department has not made any estimate of the number of people currently receiving a UK state pension and living in the UK who would move abroad if pensions were up-rated for all UK pensioners living overseas.

It would be difficult to develop a robust estimate of this, as in practice there will be a wide range of factors that determine decisions to emigrate.

01/11/2022
Mark Hendrick – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2014-06-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many registered nurses were made redundant by each NHS health trust in England in 2013.

Dr Daniel Poulter

The number (Headcount basis) of Qualified Nursing Staff made redundant, from National Health Service trusts, during 2013 is estimated in the attached table.

In November 2013 there was a record full time equivalent number of qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff in the NHS of 312,900.

The 489 redundancies represent just 0.14 % of the total Qualified Nursing workforce in Hospitals and Community Health Services.

The data used in this reply has been extracted from the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Data Warehouse which is a monthly snap shot of the live ESR system. This is the Human Resources and payroll system that covers all NHS employees other than those working in General Practice, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and organisations to which functions have been transferred, such as local authorities. ESR was fully rolled out across the NHS in April 2008. The ESR data used in this response is not centrally validated and its reliability is subject to local coding practice.

Redundancies are identified as those individuals with a reason for leaving of either voluntary or compulsory redundancy. Only those individuals coded as Qualified Nurses, Midwives or Health Visitors are included in the figures. Only redundancies from NHS Trusts are included in these figures, it is possible that Qualified Nurses were also made redundant from other NHS bodies.

ESR reports based on the current organisation structure. This means that if organisations merged during 2013 it is possible that redundancies from, now defunct, organisations are recorded as being from the newly created organisation.

01/11/2022
Diana Johnson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Diana Johnson on 2014-04-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much the Insolvency Service paid for fruitless payments in respect of individual and corporate insolvencies in each of the last five years.

Jenny Willott

The information requested is presented in the following table.

Year

Amount Paid

Number of cases

2012-13

172,560.24

55

2011-12

247,231.73

100

2010-11

279,527.57

93

2009-10

575,783.47

80

2008-09

256,956.93

41

01/11/2022
David Hanson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2014-06-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she expects to respond to the recommendations of the Report by the Joint Committee on the Draft Modern Slavery Bill by the time of Second Reading of that Bill.

Karen Bradley

The Government’s response to the report from the Joint Committee on the draft
Modern Slavery Bill was published on 10 June 2014. Copies of the report are
available in the House Library.

The response was also published on the Gov.UK website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-modern-slavery-bill–2

01/11/2022
Priti Patel – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Priti Patel on 2014-04-10.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the loss to the public purse as a result of illicit, illegal and smuggled tobacco in each of the last five years.

Nicky Morgan

Estimates of the volume and total revenue losses associated with the tobacco illicit market are published in ‘Tobacco Tax Gap estimates: 2012-13′. The figures are available in tables 4.1 and 4.5.

These estimates cannot be disaggregated by the type of illicit activity, e.g. through smuggling, counterfeiting or other fraud.

The methodology for producing the estimates are provided in the ‘Methodological Annex for Measuring Tax Gaps 2013′.

Both documents can be accessed via the following page on the HMRC website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/measuring-tax-gaps

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01/11/2022

Year	Amount Paid	Number of cases
2012-13	172,560.24	55
2011-12	247,231.73	100
2010-11	279,527.57	93
2009-10	575,783.47	80
2008-09	256,956.93	41