The below Parliamentary question was asked by Susan Elan Jones on 2016-01-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to improve access to Welsh subtitling for learners and people with accessibility needs.
Mr Edward Vaizey
According to the Television Access Services report of October 2015, S4C provides subtitles on over 75% of required programmes, against the Ofcom quota of 53%.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Debbie Abrahams on 2016-01-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recipients in the (a) work related activity group and (b) support group were also in receipt of the severe disability premium in (i) 2013-14, (ii) 2014-15 and (iii) 2015-16 to date.
Priti Patel
The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Mackintosh on 2016-01-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to encourage research into a cure for complex regional pain syndrome.
George Freeman
The Department’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS). These applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality.
The researcher-led workstream of the Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation programme (funded by the Medical Research Council and managed by the NIHR) is currently funding a £0.7 million trial of low-dose intravenous immunoglobulin treatment for CRPS.
The NIHR Clinical Research Network is recruiting patients to studies of mycophenolate treatment for longstanding CRPS and electrical sensory discrimination therapy for relief of chronic pain in CRPS.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2016-01-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the nurse vacancy rate was on 1 December (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013, (e) 2014 and (f) 2015 in (i) London and (ii) each health trust in London.
Ben Gummer
The information requested is not centrally collected.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2016-01-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on (a) sexual health, (b) drug and alcohol and (c) smoking public health initiatives in (i) England and Wales, (ii) London and (iii) each London borough in each year since 2010.
Jane Ellison
Spending in Wales on these initiatives is a matter for the Welsh government.
Local authorities in England took over public health responsibility from April 2013 and are responsible for assessing local need and commissioning services and interventions to meet that need, using the Public Health Grant. They are free to determine their actual spend on services based on this assessment of need, but are required to report their spending on an annual basis. The Department for Communities and Local Government publishes statistics on local authority expenditure and total expenditure for sexual health services, drugs and alcohol services and smoking in England, London and London boroughs for the years 2013/14 and 2014/15. The links to the data are below:
It is important to note that the expenditure on drug and alcohol services may not reflect all the resources that a local authority may have used on drug and alcohol misuse. For example community care budgets can be used to help people as part of their recovery from drug and/or alcohol dependency.
Prior to April 2013 primary care trusts commissioned public health services and public health expenditure was not published separately. Alcohol misuse services and smoking cessation services were funded from general National Health Service allocations and figures on this spend prior to 2013/14 are not available centrally.
Drug misuse services were funded from the Pooled Treatment Budget and figures for 2010/11 to 2012/13 are available at the links below:
2010-11: http://www.nta.nhs.uk/uploads/adultptballocation2010-11final.pdf
2011-12: http://www.nta.nhs.uk/uploads/drugfunding11-12annexc[0].pdf
2012-13: http://www.nta.nhs.uk/uploads/drugfunding12-13v.xls
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2016-01-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of total health spending in (a) London and (b) each London borough was allocated to general practice in each year since 2010.
Alistair Burt
The information requested is not available for the period prior to the establishment of NHS England.
We are advised that general practices in London held budgets as a percentage of total clinical commissioning group and direct commissioning budgets (excluding specialised commissioning held on a provider basis), according to the following proportions: 8.2% in 2013/14 and 2014/15, and 8.3% in 2015/16.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2016-01-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much was spent on agency nurses by each NHS trust in London in each year since 2010.
Alistair Burt
This information is not collected centrally.
The Rt. Hon. Member may wish to contact each National Health Service trust directly for further information.
Following the Francis report many trusts increased their spend on temporary staffing to meet safe staffing levels. The Department expects trusts to have a strong grip on their finances, and manage their contract and agency staffing spend (including use of locums) responsibly through effective and efficient workforce planning and management and to minimise temporary staffing costs in future years.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2016-01-11.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the five most common causes of deaths were in (a) England and Wales and (b) each London borough in (i) 2014, (ii) 2010, (iii) 2005 and (iv) 2000.
Mr Rob Wilson
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 Caroline Lucas on 2016-01-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2016 to Question 20630, if he will publish the initial findings of the London and South Coast Rail Corridor Study covering the establishment of a Brighton Mainline 2.
Claire Perry
The Government does not propose to publish the initial findings, which are being more fully developed at present. The Study is expected to be completed early in 2016, and the Government will subsequently consider the timeframe for releasing the study findings, including our response.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kirsten Oswald on 2016-01-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the profile of applications to the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency for access to vehicle ownership data for the purpose of enforcing parking penalties was each month in the last five years.
Andrew Jones
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency does not hold vehicle keeper information. This is the responsibility of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA).
Requests to the DVLA for vehicle keeper information can be made electronically or manually by post.
The number of electronic requests made each month to the DVLA by private parking companies since April 2012 is shown in the table below:
|
|
2015 |
2014 |
2013 |
2012 |
|
January |
232,906 |
211,956 |
144,248 |
– |
|
February |
234,175 |
187,247 |
138,392 |
– |
|
March |
274,875 |
218,338 |
149,227 |
– |
|
April |
278,855 |
224,480 |
183,463 |
154,703 |
|
May |
277,534 |
221,337 |
197,278 |
162,954 |
|
June |
300,892 |
229,159 |
183,201 |
151,186 |
|
July |
320,445 |
257,471 |
222,456 |
183,242 |
|
August |
297,060 |
241,344 |
217,557 |
176,121 |
|
September |
325,429 |
285,178 |
202,950 |
172,151 |
|
October |
407, 346 |
287,329 |
223,105 |
164,975 |
|
November |
316,057 |
257,364 |
201,904 |
168,677 |
|
December |
358,150 |
273,749 |
180,675 |
131,696 |
A monthly breakdown of the electronic requests made by private parking companies before April 2012 is not available.
The monthly number of manual requests made specifically by private parking companies is not available. The table below shows the quarterly amount of requests made manually via post. These figures include requests from private parking companies and other organisations or individuals who can demonstrate reasonable cause for needing the information.
|
|
2015 |
2014 |
2013 |
2012 |
2011 |
|
Jan – Mar |
61,996 |
99,720 |
79,996 |
92,002 |
70,453 |
|
Apr – Jun |
57,117 |
89,962 |
98,249 |
94,399 |
72,429 |
|
Jul – Sep |
65,204 |
92,023 |
90,487 |
76,740 |
73,474 |
|
Oct – Dec |
69,183 |
68,341 |
98,405 |
68,604 |
59,013 |