The below Parliamentary question was asked by David T. C. Davies on 2016-10-21.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in local authority care are awaiting placement with foster parents.
Edward Timpson
The Department for Education does not collect this information. If any children are awaiting placement with foster carers, that information will be kept at local authority level. As at March 2015 there were 73,845 approved foster carers in England.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gavin Newlands on 2015-11-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2015 to Question 11080, on deportation: appeals, in how many of the 426 cases which were appealed were those appeals dismissed by the relevant tribunal.
James Brokenshire
Of the 426 cases referred to in answer of 14 October to Question 11080:
– none were certification withdrawn
– 359 have been certified under Regulation 24AA
– all data provided relates to the First Tier Tribunal only
– 25 are listed as abandoned or withdrawn by the appellant
– 89 were dismissed by the relevant tribunal
The Home Office does not disclose country specific information as its disclosure could prejudice relations between the UK and foreign governments.
Notes : (1) All figures quoted have been derived from management information and are therefore provisional and subject to change. This information has not been quality assured under National Statistics protocols.
(2) Data Extracted on 28th September, 2015 in line with response to Question 11080
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2015-11-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the location in the UK is of each army regiment.
Mark Lancaster
The UK locations of the major British Army units, as at 26 November 2015, are given below. In line with standard practice, information on Special Forces is being withheld for the purpose of safeguarding national security.
|
Major Unit |
Town |
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Household Cavalry Regiment |
Windsor |
|
Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment |
London |
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1st Regiment Royal Horse Artillery |
Tidworth |
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3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery |
Harlow Hill |
|
7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery |
Colchester |
|
1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards |
Swanton Morley |
|
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers And Greys) |
Leuchars |
|
The Royal Dragoon Guards |
Catterick |
|
The Royal Lancers |
Catterick |
|
The King’s Royal Hussars |
Tidworth |
|
The Light Dragoons |
Catterick |
|
The Royal Tank Regiment |
Tidworth |
|
4th Regiment Royal Artillery |
Topcliffe |
|
5th Regiment Royal Artillery |
Catterick |
|
12th Regiment Royal Artillery |
Thorney Island |
|
14th Regiment Royal Artillery |
Larkhill |
|
16th Regiment Royal Artillery |
Emsworth |
|
19th Regiment Royal Artillery |
Tidworth |
|
29th Commando Regiment Royal Artillery |
Plymouth |
|
32nd Regiment Royal Artillery |
Larkhill |
|
47th Regiment Royal Artillery |
Larkhill |
|
21 Engineer Regiment |
Ripon |
|
22 Engineer Regiment |
Perham Down |
|
23 Parachute Engineer Regiment |
Woodbridge |
|
24 Commando Engineer Regiment |
Chivenor |
|
26 Engineer Regiment |
Perham Down |
|
32 Engineer Regiment |
Catterick |
|
33 Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) |
Wimbish |
|
36 Engineer Regiment |
Maidstone |
|
39 Engineer Regiment |
Kinloss |
|
42 Engineer Regiment (Geographical) |
Huntingdon |
|
101 (City of London) Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) |
Wimbish |
|
62 Works Group Royal Engineers |
Chilwell |
|
63 Works Group Royal Engineers |
Chilwell |
|
64 Works Group Royal Engineers |
Chilwell |
|
66 Works Group Royal Engineers |
Chilwell |
|
20 Works Group Royal Engineers (Air Support) |
Peterborough |
|
1 Royal School of Military Engineering Regiment |
Chatham |
|
3 Roay School of Military Engineering Regiment |
Minley |
|
1st Signal Regiment |
Stafford |
|
2nd Signal Regiment |
York |
|
3rd Signal Regiment |
Bulford |
|
10th Signal Regiment |
Corsham |
|
11th (Royal School of Signals) Signal Regiment |
Blandford |
|
14th Signal Regiment (Electronic Warfare) |
Brawdy |
|
15th Signal Regiment (Information Support) |
Blandford |
|
16th Signal Regiment |
Stafford |
|
21st Signal Regiment |
Colerne |
|
22nd Signal Regiment |
Stafford |
|
30th Signal Regiment |
Bramcote |
|
1st Battalion Grenadier Guards |
Aldershot |
|
1st Battalion Coldstream Guards |
Windsor |
|
1st Battalion Scots Guards |
Aldershot |
|
1st Battallion Irish Guards |
London |
|
1st Battalion Welsh Guards |
Pirbright |
|
The Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland |
Holywood |
|
The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland |
Edinburgh |
|
The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland |
Inverness |
|
The Highlanders, 4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland |
Catterick |
|
1st Battalion The Duke Of Lancaster’s Regiment |
Catterick |
|
2nd Battalion The Duke Of Lancaster’s Regiment |
Preston |
|
1st Battalion The Royal Regiment Of Fusiliers |
Tidworth |
|
1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment |
London |
|
2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment |
Cottesmore |
|
1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment |
Warminster |
|
2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment |
Catterick |
|
1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment |
Bulford |
|
2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire, Worcester and Foresters, and Staffords) |
Chester |
|
1st Battalion The Royal Welsh |
Tidworth |
|
1st Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment |
Tern Hill |
|
2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment |
Colchester |
|
3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment |
Colchester |
|
2nd Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles |
Shorncliffe |
|
1st Battalion The Rifles |
Beachley |
|
2nd Battalion The Rifles |
Lisburn |
|
3rd Battalion The Rifles |
Edinburgh |
|
4th Battalion The Rifles |
Bulford |
|
1 Regiment Army Air Corps |
Yeovilton |
|
2 (Training) Regiment Army Air Corps |
Middle Wallop |
|
3 Regiment Army Air Corps |
Wattisham |
|
4 Regiment Army Air Corps |
Wattisham |
|
5 Regiment Army Air Corps |
Aldergrove |
|
7 (Training) Regiment Army Air Corps |
Middle Wallop |
|
9 Regiment Army Air Corps |
Dishforth |
|
3 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps |
Abingdon |
|
4 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps |
Abingdon |
|
7 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps |
Cottesmore |
|
9 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps |
Hullavington |
|
10 The Queen’s Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment |
Aldershot |
|
11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps |
Didcot |
|
13 (Air Assault) Support Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps |
Colchester |
|
17 Port And Maritime Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps |
Marchwood |
|
27 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps |
Aldershot |
|
29 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps |
South Cerney |
|
Allied Rapid Reaction Corps Support Battalion |
Innsworth |
|
5 Training Regiment the Royal Logistic Corps |
Grantham |
|
25 Training Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps |
Deepcut |
|
2 Medical Regiment |
North Luffenham |
|
3 Medical Regiment |
Preston |
|
4 Armoured Medical Regiment |
Aldershot |
|
5 Armoured Medical Regiment |
Catterick |
|
16 Medical Regiment |
Colchester |
|
22 Field Hospital |
Aldershot |
|
33 Field Hospital |
Gosport |
|
34 Field Hospital |
Strensall |
|
1 Close Support Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers |
Catterick |
|
2 Close Support Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers |
Leuchars |
|
4 Armoured Close Support Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers |
Tidworth |
|
6 Armoured Close Support Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers |
Tidworth |
|
7 Air Assault Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers |
Wattisham |
|
5 Force Support Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers |
Tidworth |
|
1st Regiment Royal Military Police |
Catterick |
|
3rd Regiment Royal Military Police |
Bulford |
|
4th Regiment Royal Military Police |
Aldershot |
|
Special Investigation Branch Regiment Royal Military Police |
Bulford |
|
Specialist Operations Regiment Royal Military Police |
Southwick Park |
|
Military Provost Staff Regiment |
Colchester |
|
1st Military Working Dog Regiment |
North Luffenham |
|
1 Military Intelligence Battalion |
Catterick |
|
2 Military Intelligence Battalion |
Upavon |
|
4 Military Intelligence Battalion |
Bulford |
|
Specialist Group Military Intelligence |
Hermitage |
|
15 (United Kingdom) Psychological Operation Group |
Hermitage |
|
The Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) |
Monmouth |
|
The Honourable Artillery Company |
London |
|
The Royal Yeomanry |
London |
|
The Royal Wessex Yeomanry |
Bovington |
|
The Queen’s Own Yeomanry |
Newcastle Upon Tyne |
|
The Scottish And North Irish Yeomanry |
Edinburgh |
|
101st (Northumbrian) Regiment Royal Artillery |
Gateshead |
|
103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment Royal Artillery |
St Helens |
|
104th Regiment Royal Artillery |
Newport |
|
105th Regiment Royal Artillery |
Edinburgh |
|
106th (Yeomanry) Regiment Royal Artillery |
Grove Park |
|
71 Engineer Regiment |
Leuchars |
|
75 Engineer Regiment |
Warrington |
|
65 Works Group Royal Engineers |
Chilwell |
|
32nd (Scottish) Signal Regiment |
Glasgow |
|
37th Signal Regiment |
Redditch |
|
39th (Skinners) Signal Regiment |
Bristol |
|
71st (Yeomanry) Signal Regiment |
London |
|
52nd Lowland, 6th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland |
Glasgow |
|
51st Highland, 7th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland |
Perth |
|
3rd Battalion The Princess Of Wales’s Royal Regiment |
Canterbury |
|
4th Battalion The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment |
Preston |
|
5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers |
Newcastle Upon Tyne |
|
3rd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment |
Bury St Edmunds |
|
4th Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment |
York |
|
4th Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire, Worcester and Forsters, and Staffords) |
Wolverhampton |
|
3rd Battalion The Royal Welsh |
Cardiff |
|
2nd Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd, 87th and The Ulster Defence Regiment) |
Lisburn |
|
4th Battalion The Parachute Regiment |
Pudsey |
|
The London Regiment |
London |
|
6th Battalion The Rifles |
Exeter |
|
7th Battalion The Rifles |
Reading |
|
1st Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Brigade Specialist Military Unit |
London |
|
1st Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Brigade Specialist Military Unit |
Birmingham |
|
6 Regiment Army Air Corps |
Bury St Edmunds |
|
150 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps |
Hull |
|
151 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps |
Croydon |
|
152 (North Irish) Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps |
Holywood |
|
156 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps |
Liverpool |
|
158 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps |
Peterborough |
|
154 (Scottish) Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps |
Dunfermline |
|
157 (Welsh) Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps |
Cardiff |
|
162 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps |
Grantham |
|
165 Port And Maritime The Regiment Royal Logistic Corps |
Plymouth |
|
159 Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps |
Coventry |
|
167 Catering Support Regiment The Royal Logistic Corps |
Grantham |
|
2 Operational Support Group The Royal Logistic Corps |
Grantham |
|
201 (Northern) Field Hospital |
Newcastle Upon Tyne |
|
202 (Midlands) Field Hospital |
Birmingham |
|
203 (Welsh) Field Hospital |
Cardiff |
|
204 (North Irish) Field Hospital |
Belfast |
|
205 (Scottish) Field Hospital |
Govan |
|
207 (Manchester) Field Hospital |
Manchester |
|
208 (Liverpool) Field Hospital |
Liverpool |
|
212 (Yorkshire) Field Hospital |
Sheffield |
|
225 (Scottish) Medical Regiment |
Dundee |
|
243 (The Wessex) Field Hospital |
Bristol |
|
253 (North Irish) Medical Regiment |
Belfast |
|
254 (East of England) Medical Regiment |
Cambridge |
|
256 (City of London) Field Hospital |
Walworth |
|
306 Hospital Support Medical Regiment |
Strensall |
|
335 Medical Evacuation Regiment |
Strensall |
|
Operational Headquarters Support Group |
Strensall |
|
101 Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers |
Wrexham |
|
102 Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers |
Newton Aycliffe |
|
103 Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers |
Crawley |
|
104 Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers |
Northampton |
|
105 Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers |
Bristol |
|
106 Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers |
East Kilbride |
|
3 Military Intelligence Battalion |
London |
|
5 Military Intelligence Battalion |
Coulby Newham |
|
6 Military Intelligence Battalion |
Rusholme |
|
7 Military Intelligence Battalion |
Bristol |
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Condon on 2015-12-02.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress has been made in 2015 towards ensuring that people with mental health issues are not detained in police cells because no hospital bed is available for them.
Lord Prior of Brampton
According to data from the National Police Chiefs’ Council, the number of people detained in police custody as a place of safety under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 fell by 34% in England between 2013-14 and 2014-15. This corresponds to an increase in the use of hospital-based places of safety of 14%, according to the Health & Social Care Information Centre. The figure amounts to a 54% reduction in the use of police custody since 2011-12, surpassing the ambition of a 50% reduction set out in the Government’s Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat, which was published in February 2014 and is attached. Existing guidance in the Concordat and the Mental Health Act Code of Practice makes it clear that police custody should only be used as a place of safety in exceptional circumstances.
The Concordat – signed by over 25 national organisations – has led to the establishment of 96 local groups covering the entirety of England, consisting of health, policing and local authority partners who have pledged to work together to improve mental health crisis care and set out detailed, publicly available plans, including to reduce the use of police custody for those detained under the Act.
However, although significant progress has been made, the Government has signalled its intention to go further by amending legislation through the forthcoming Police and Criminal Justice Bill, so that, among other measures, police custody can never be used as a place of safety for under-18s and so custody can only be used for adults in the most exceptional circumstances.
Moreover, in May this year the Home Secretary announced that the Government would invest up to an additional £15 million in 2016-17 to reduce the use of police custody as a place of safety. Further announcements around this will be made shortly.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Storey on 2016-01-13.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what strategies are in place to assist universities to monitor companies providing paid essay-writing services.
Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
The Government strongly condemns any form of cheating. All publicly funded providers of higher education courses are expected to comply with the UK Quality Code for Higher Education, published by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA). One of the requirements of the Code is to ensure that students do not obtain awards through any form of unacceptable academic practice relating to assessment, including plagiarism.
There is no centrally held set of data on the number of recorded plagiarism cases in UK Higher Education – responsibility for tackling plagiarism lies with the HE providers themselves, as autonomous organisations.
Institutions have a variety of mechanisms to address cheating by both international and EEA/UK students, including strong policies and specialist software. Between 2012 and 2015, the QAA carried out approximately 650 reviews of institutions. Of these, it only had to make recommendations to 30 individual universities and colleges on the need to improve systems and information related to plagiarism.
The QAA are discussing the legality of essay mills with the Consumer and Markets Authority.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Hayes on 2016-02-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment she has made of the effects of changes in feed-in tariffs on small businesses in the solar industry.
Andrea Leadsom
The Government published an impact assessment alongside the Government Response to the FIT Review consultation on 17 December, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/486084/IA_-_FITs_consultation_response_with_Annexes_-_FINAL_SIGNED.pdf.
This assessed impacts of the changes across the solar industry as a whole.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Matthew Pennycook on 2016-02-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to improve consumer awareness of the presence of high-fructose corn syrup in food with better labelling.
Jane Ellison
The Food Information for Consumers Regulation has recently overhauled the food labelling system. Under the regulations, any corn syrup must be clearly marked on all prepacked food products in the ingredients list. All ingredients must be listed by order of weight and in at least the minimum font size, making them clearly apparent to consumers.
In addition, nutrition labelling of pre-packed foods, including the amount of total sugars, will be mandatory from 13 December 2016. It will supplement the ingredient information on food labels. Some parts of the food industry already provide nutrition information.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keith Vaz on 2016-03-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what scientific testing Spirit Healthcare’s Empower type 2 diabetes education programme underwent for the outcomes it produces.
Jane Ellison
The information requested is not held centrally.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-05-04.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many accountancy (a) practitioners and (b) firms are supervised by (i) HM Revenue and Customs and (ii) each of the other accountancy bodies; and how many such practitioners and firms have been (A) investigated for suspected money laundering and (B) struck off as a result of such investigations.
Mr David Gauke
There are 15 supervisors of the accountancy service provider (ASP) sector in the United Kingdom, including HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
13,131 ASPs are registered with HMRC for anti-money laundering supervision. The professional accountancy bodies listed in Schedule 3 to the Money Laundering Regulations 2007 between them supervise 32,069 firms and individuals. Whilst the statistics vary between bodies as to the number of individuals supervised compared to firms, 18,872 of the 32,069 have been identified as individuals.
HMRC does not record statistics for its investigations in a way that enables figures relating to ASPs to be separately identified. HMRC does not hold data about practitioners and firms investigated or struck off by other supervisory bodies.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2016-06-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will instruct officials of his Department to continue to work with the manufacturers of Nivolumab on ensuring that patients with non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer can access that drug through the NHS.
George Freeman
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is currently appraising nivolumab (Opdivo) for non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer.
As part of its appraisal, the NICE has considered a patient access scheme (PAS) proposal from the manufacturer Bristol-Myers Squibb which has been agreed by Ministers. Departmental officials are open to discussing any further proposals regarding the PAS with the company.
The NICE currently expects to publish its final guidance in September 2016.
In the absence of the NICE guidance, it is for commissioners to make funding decisions based on the available evidence.