Category: Speeches

  • Paul Blomfield – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    Paul Blomfield – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Blomfield on 2016-04-15.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how the final decision on proposals to centralise all policy functions to one headquarters in London and close the Sheffield office at St Paul’s Place will be made once the consultation on those proposals has finished.

    Joseph Johnson

    The final decisions on whether to centralise all policy functions a single headquarters, and to close the Sheffield office at St Paul’s Place, will be made by the department’s Executive Board following the end of consultation with staff and Trade Unions in May.

  • Ian Austin – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Ian Austin – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Austin on 2016-05-24.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to continue supplying Orkambi to cystic fibrosis patients currently receiving that drug as part of a clinical trial in the event of that drug not being approved for NHS use by the NICE.

    George Freeman

    The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is currently appraising Orkambi (lumacaftor-ivacaftor) for the treatment of cystic fibrosis homozygous for the F508del mutation.

    NHS England has advised that it has published policies that cover the different circumstances where a patient is on a clinical trial and where the drug is not subsequently approved for National Health Service use. In the circumstances of a commercially funded trial it is normally the responsibility of the manufacturer or the hospital to consider whether they wish to continue making it available to individual patients.

  • Maggie Throup – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

    Maggie Throup – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Maggie Throup on 2016-07-12.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to improve the maintenance and safety of unadopted roads.

    Andrew Jones

    The maintenance and safety of unadopted roads or private streets are the responsibility of the land owner. The decision on whether or not local authorities adopt roads, and therefore maintain them at the public expense, rests with each individual local highway authority.

    To help improve the process around road adoption for new developments, my department has been working with housebuilders and local authorities on the production of an Advice Note. This was published for consultation in January 2016 and the final version should be published later this year.

  • Kevin Foster – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Kevin Foster – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kevin Foster on 2016-10-07.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what additional earnings above base pay are received by consultants by decile.

    Mr Philip Dunne

    Relevant information is shown in the following table. This includes deciles of total National Health Service earnings and non-basic pay per person received by consultants for the 12 months ending December 2015. These figures use the earnings of only those staff who worked all 12 months in this period and will not include consultants’ private income.

    Decile

    Total non-basic pay

    Total earnings

    1

    £2,987

    £76,700

    2

    £7,011

    £87,675

    3

    £12,194

    £95,849

    4

    £17,540

    £103,212

    5

    £22,881

    £110,180

    6

    £28,942

    £117,916

    7

    £36,531

    £126,950

    8

    £47,066

    £139,056

    9

    £64,759

    £158,935

    10

    £481,287

    £577,147

    The following table sets out mean annual NHS earnings and mean annual non-basic pay NHS earnings per person received by consultants for the 12 months ending December 2015.

    Mean non-basic pay

    Mean earnings

    £29,225

    £113,569

    Source: NHS Digital, Provisional NHS Staff Earnings Estimates, Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC). NHS Digital is the trading name for HSCIC.

    Notes:

    1. Mean annual non-basic pay per person is the mean amount, over and above of basic pay, paid to an individual in a 12 month period, regardless of the contracted full time equivalent (FTE) and including additional programmed activities.
    2. Figures in the table are provisional NHS Staff Earnings estimates.
    3. As expected with provisional data, some figures may be revised prior to the next publication as issues are uncovered and resolved.
    4. Figures rounded to the nearest pound.
    5. These figures represent payments made using the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system to NHS staff who are employed and directly paid by NHS organisations.
    6. Figures based on data from all English NHS organisations who are using ESR (two Foundation Trusts do not use ESR).
    7. These figures include all payments made through the ESR.
    8. NHS Digital seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data.
    9. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality. Where changes impact on figures already published, this is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses.
  • Andy Slaughter – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    Andy Slaughter – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andy Slaughter on 2015-11-23.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to answer Question 13072, on Ministry of Justice: Departmental Responsibilities, tabled by the hon. Member for Hammersmith on 22 October 2015.

    Dominic Raab

    The answer to 13072 was given on 24 November 2015.

  • Gregory Campbell – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    Gregory Campbell – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2015-12-15.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will consider the proximity of the Irish Republic to the UK when developing his policy on early release of prisoners domiciled outside the UK which is contingent on returning to their country of origin.

    Andrew Selous

    Foreign criminals who break our laws should be properly punished but not at the expense of the British taxpayer. In the last year we have returned more than 5,000 foreign prisoners to their home country, and are committed to ensuring that all means possible are explored to make sure that criminals who have no right to stay in this country are removed.

    Under the Early Removal Scheme (ERS), which has operated in prisons in England and Wales since 2005, foreign national offenders may be removed from prison and deported up to a maximum of 270 days (9 months) before their normal release date. Citizens of the Republic of Ireland are not, as a matter of longstanding Home Office policy introduced in by the Labour government in 2007, deported from the UK other than in exceptional circumstances. Only foreign nationals who are subject to removal by Immigration Enforcement may be removed under ERS and, for that reason, Republic of Ireland nationals are not generally removed under the scheme unless a decision has been taken exceptionally by the Home Office to deport them.

    Foreign national offenders who are not going to be removed by Immigration Enforcement are not eligible for ERS and do not leave prison early; they serve their sentence and are released in the same way as domestic prisoners.

  • Baroness Featherstone – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

    Baroness Featherstone – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Featherstone on 2016-01-26.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much money they have spent in this Parliamentary Session on support for fracking activities.

    Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

    I refer the noble Baroness to the answer my Hon. Friend the Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change gave to the hon. Member for Huddersfield on 21 January 2016 to House of Commons Parliamentary Question 22696.

  • Lord Hunt of Kings Heath – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

    Lord Hunt of Kings Heath – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 2016-02-23.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government, of all the schools that have had their admission arrangements objected to in (1) 2014, and (2) 2015, what percentage were found not to have violated the School Admissions Code at least once.

    Lord Nash

    In 2013/14, the percentage of objections referred to the adjudicator which were not upheld was 14%. In 2014/15, the percentage was 20%.

  • Douglas Chapman – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

    Douglas Chapman – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Douglas Chapman on 2016-03-10.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what support her Department plans to provide to communities that will be affected by closure of coal-fired power stations.

    Andrea Leadsom

    The Government will work with local partners to ensure support is available to help all those affected move quickly into new jobs, including through Jobcentre Plus’ Rapid Response Service. In Scotland, Jobcentre Plus will be an active partner in PACE (Partnership Action for Continued Employment), the Scottish Government’s redundancy support initiative.

  • David Morris – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

    David Morris – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Morris on 2016-04-15.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if his Department has made an assessment of how much it costs on average to fill an individual pothole; and if he will make a statement.

    Andrew Jones

    The Department for Transport has estimated that on average it costs £53 to repair a pothole. However, the cost of filling an individual pothole will depend on a range of variables including geography, the type of road and whether the repair is temporary or permanent.