The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Renton of Mount Harry on 2014-03-11.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what percentage of United Kingdom exports, excluding oil and gas, went annually to other countries in the European Union 10 years ago, five years ago, and last year.
Lord Wallace of Saltaire
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 Andrew Selous on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 30 April 2014, Official Report, column 760W, on driving under influence: drugs, what the proposed timetable is for the steps his Department proposes to take to communicate the new drug driving offence.
Mr Robert Goodwill
Officials working on the new drug driving legislation meet regularly with stakeholders from both the law enforcement and healthcare sectors. These meetings include discussions on how the new offence will be communicated.
The medical profession has assisted the Department in developing guidance to healthcare professionals to use in discussion with their patients. We expect to publish the guidance later in the summer and will circulate it to the medical profession. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is currently working with pharmaceutical companies to update the product information of those medicines implicated by the new legislation. MHRA also expect to issue a ‘Drug Safety Update’ article later in the summer to include details about the new offence for healthcare professionals. This will be accompanied by an article for patients. MHRA also work closely with the British National Formulary to update the prescribing information for medicines as new safety information emerges and will ensure this new information is brought to their attention. The Think! campaign is in the process of being developed but we expect to start informing the public about the new offence just prior to its introduction followed be a more concentrated campaign on its introduction.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Teresa Pearce on 2014-03-10.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the cost of purchasing a home in (a) London and (b) the South East in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
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 Alison McGovern on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will provide an update on the use of his Department’s resources to help efforts to locate abducted girls in northern Nigeria.
Mr Mark Francois
The Ministry of Defence is contributing to the international effort to find the missing school girls through the deployment of a Sentinel surveillance aircraft to help improve the intelligence picture, complementing other international intelligence and surveillance assets. UK military personnel have also been deployed to a multi-national intelligence fusion team based in Nigeria, whose role is to assist the Nigerians in their efforts to locate the girls.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2014-03-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders have been recalled to prison and given a fixed term recall since 3 December 2012 whilst (a) on home detention curfew and (b) serving a sentence for a violent or sexual offence as listed in schedule 15 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003.
Jeremy Wright
The information required to answer these questions is due for publication on 24 April 2014. I will write to my Honourable friend as soon as it is available. A copy will be placed in the House Library.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Dobbin on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 May 2014, Official Report, column 41W, on drinking water, whether his Department has conducted a study of levels of psychotropic drugs in UK rivers and seawater.
Dan Rogerson
Currently no psychotropic drugs have been identified as Priority Hazardous Substances, Priority Substances or UK Specific Pollutants under the Water Framework Directive. As such no routine monitoring is carried out for these substances in England.
However, previous research by the Environment Agency on pharmaceuticals in surface waters included environmental monitoring for the psychotropic drug fluoxetine (an anti-depressant). In 2005, monitoring was undertaken in rivers downstream of a number of sewage works across England and Wales. Thirty-nine samples were taken with fluoxetine occurring in 85% of samples with a maximum concentration of 0.044 microgrammes/litre (µg/l), and norfluoxetine in 51% of samples with a maximum concentration of 0.083 µg/l.
During 2011, a programme of monitoring for pesticides was undertaken in six catchments. The psychotropic drugs carbamazepine and gabapentin were detected in all six catchments with maximum levels of 0.7 µg/l and 1.2 µg/l respectively.
The report published by the Drinking Water Inspectorate evaluated the risk from psychotropic drugs in river water used for abstraction for drinking water supplies.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-03-10.
To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, which local authority (a) augmented and (b) did not augment Department for Work and Pensions data matching with the electoral register with local authority data matching.
Gary Streeter
The Electoral Commission informs me that 137 local authorities provided data to them on their local data matching activities following the trial of matching with the DWP in 2013. The table below lists these local authorities. Those that did not provide data may still have carried out local data matching work.
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Reported on local data matching activities |
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Amber Valley |
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Argyll & Bute |
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Ashfield |
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Aylesbury Vale |
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Barking & Dagenham |
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Bassetlaw |
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Bath & North East Somerset |
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Bexley |
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Blaby |
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Bolsover |
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Bournemouth |
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Bracknell Forest |
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Brighton & Hove |
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Bromley |
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Bromsgrove |
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Broxbourne |
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Broxtowe |
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Burnley |
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Calderdale |
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Canterbury |
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Carlisle |
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Central Bedfordshire |
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Ceredigion |
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Cheltenham |
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Christchurch |
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Conwy |
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Coventry |
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Dartford |
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Daventry |
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Denbighshire |
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Derbyshire Dales |
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Dudley |
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Dumfries & Galloway |
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Durham |
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East Dorset |
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East Dunbartonshire |
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East Lindsey |
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East Lothian |
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East Northamptonshire |
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East Renfrewshire |
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Eastleigh |
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Eden |
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Edinburgh, City of |
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Elmbridge |
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Flintshire |
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Forest of Dean |
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Gosport |
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Gravesham |
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Guildford |
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Gwynedd |
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Halton |
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Hambleton |
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Hammersmith & Fulham |
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Harborough |
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Harrogate |
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Hastings |
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Havant |
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Herefordshire |
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High Peak |
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Hillingdon |
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Hyndburn |
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Inverclyde |
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Ipswich |
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Kensington and Chelsea |
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Kettering |
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Kingston upon Thames |
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Lewisham |
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Lincoln |
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Luton |
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Mansfield |
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Medway |
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Melton |
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Midlothian |
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Milton Keynes |
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Mole Valley |
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Neath Port Talbot |
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New Forest |
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Newport |
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North Dorset |
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North Kesteven |
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North Lincolnshire |
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North Somerset |
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North Tyneside |
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North Warwickshire |
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North West Leicestershire |
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Nottingham |
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Orkney Islands |
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Oxford |
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Pendle |
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Poole |
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Purbeck |
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Redcar & Cleveland |
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Redditch |
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Renfrewshire |
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Richmond upon Thames |
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Richmondshire |
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Rossendale |
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Rotherham |
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Rushcliffe |
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Rushmoor |
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Sandwell |
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Sedgemoor |
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Sefton |
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Sheffield |
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Shepway |
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Shropshire |
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South Derbyshire |
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South Gloucestershire |
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South Kesteven |
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South Ribble |
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Southend-on-Sea |
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St Edmundsbury |
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St. Helens |
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Staffordshire Moorlands |
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Stockport |
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Surrey Heath |
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Swale |
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Swindon |
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Tamworth |
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Tandridge |
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Thanet |
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Thurrock |
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Tonbridge & Malling |
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Walsall |
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Warrington |
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Watford |
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Waverley |
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West Berkshire |
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West Dunbartonshire |
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West Lindsey |
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West Lothian |
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Wigan |
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Wiltshire |
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Wolverhampton |
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Wychavon |
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Wyre |
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York |
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gordon Brown on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will visit Dalgety Bay to discuss the time taken to clean up radiation contamination there.
Mr Mark Francois
In 2006 the then Health Protection Agency (HPA) Radiological Protection Authority advised that radioactive contamination on Dalgety Bay presented a low risk to the public. A more recent scoping risk assessment undertaken in 2011 by the HPA Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards at the bequest of the Scottish Government concluded that the risk to health was very low.
The view of the Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards (now part of Public Health England) remains unchanged. However, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is completing a detailed quantitative risk assessment to inform the longer term management strategy which will be available in due course.
Copies of the advice received by MOD together with a copy of the more detailed risk assessment, when published, will be placed in the Library of the House.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Lucas on 2014-03-07.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent estimate he has made of the number of children living in households in Wrexham constituency where one or both parents are (a) working-part-time because they are unable to find full-time work and (b) employed on a zero-hours contract.
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 Charlotte Leslie on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the efficacy of the General Dental Council’s fitness to practise regime.
Dr Daniel Poulter
The Department has made no recent assessment of the efficacy of the General Dental Council’s fitness to practise regime.
It is the role of the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) to independently review the performance of the regulators on an annual basis, to check how effective the regulators have been in protecting the public and promoting confidence in health and care professionals.
Further information on the PSA reviews can be found on their website using the following link:
www.professionalstandards.org.uk/