The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2014-06-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of police hunts for all prisoners who have absconded or escaped from prisons in each of the last five years.
Damian Green
This information is not held centrally.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2014-06-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that participants in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014 are prevented from staying in the UK illegally after the Games have finished.
Karen Bradley
The rigorous Accreditation Process that contributed to the success of the
Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012 has also been central to our preparations
for Glasgow 2014.
To minimise attempts to abuse our hospitality after the Games have ended,
comprehensive record checks on all Commonwealth Games participants and Games
Family Members are conducted before they are cleared to enter the UK. We have
also introduced arrangements to confirm that people given Commonwealth Games
clearance have left the UK within their permitted time limits.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2014-06-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made on reaching a settlement with Raytheon Systems Ltd on the e-Borders programme; and when the arbitration progress is scheduled to be completed.
Karen Bradley
The Home Office would like the dispute with Raytheon to be concluded as swiftly
as possible. It is not unusual that an international arbitration of this
complexity should take a considerable time to resolve. The Home Office has
done everything possible to progress the Arbitration as quickly as possible.
The evidential hearings concluded in April 2013.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julian Huppert on 2014-06-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many places in residential care homes were available for people with (a) physical impairments and (b) learning difficulties or complex needs in each of the last four years.
Norman Lamb
Information provided by the Care Quality Commission, covering the four financial years to 31 March 2014, has been placed in the Library.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julian Huppert on 2014-06-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions his Department has had with providers of residential care for people with physical impairments and learning difficulties on proposals for home closure.
Norman Lamb
The Department has not had any recent discussions with providers of residential care for people with physical impairments and learning difficulties on proposals for home closure.
The new Care Act, which will come into force in 2015, will give local authorities a core duty to promote their local market, with a particular focus on ensuring diversity, quality and sustainability which, importantly, will mean there should be sufficient high quality services available to meet the needs of individuals in their local area.
The Department has worked with stakeholders, including provider organisations, to develop draft statutory guidance to support the implementation of the Care Act. The guidance will describe how local authorities must meet these new duties, including encouraging sustainability through appropriate fee levels. The draft guidance was published as part of a 10 week public consultation on the full package of regulations and guidance under part 1 of the Care Act on 6 June.
The Government believes that people who wish and who are able to live in their communities, rather than in an institutional care setting, should be given the support they need to do so.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children aged (a) under 10 and (b) 10 years and over were admitted to hospital with a (i) primary and (ii) secondary diagnosis of liver disease in each year since 1997.
Dr Daniel Poulter
The attached tables give the number of finished admission episodes for children aged (a) under 10 years and (b) 10 – 17years,who were admitted to hospital with a (i) primary and (ii) secondary diagnosis of liver disease from 1997-98 to 2012-13.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julian Huppert on 2014-06-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the availability of a range of housing and care options for people with physical disabilities and learning difficulties.
Norman Lamb
The Department has not made any assessment about the availability range of housing and care options for people with physical and learning disabilities.
A key aim of this Government is to put people with disabilities, including learning disabilities, and the families who care for them, in the driving seat with greater choice and control and able to contribute to and influence decisions which affect their lives, including over where and with whom they live.
The Care Act puts into law a series of reforms to care and support, making it a modern system which is built around people’s individual needs and goals, and which puts them in control of their own care and support. The Act will help to improve care and support for everyone who uses care and support services, by placing personal budgets onto a statutory footing as part of the care and support plan. These reforms will allow people to exercise real choice and control over the care and support they receive, and are supported by new duties around market shaping and information and advice, to ensure that people fully understand the care system and have a wide range of high quality services available in their local area to choose from.
Housing plays a critical role in helping adults with physical and learning disabilities to live as independently as possible. The Department is providing £315 million over five years for the Care and Support Specialised Housing fund. The fund is administered by the Homes and Communities Agency and, within London, by the Greater London Authority. The main aim of the fund is to support and accelerate the development of the specialised housing market for older people and disabled adults, which includes housing for adults who are physically disabled and those with learning difficulties.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people aged (a) under 18 and (b) 18 years and over were admitted to hospital with a condition related to alcohol misuse in each year since 2010.
Jane Ellison
The attached tables contain the sum of the estimated alcohol attributable fractions (AAFs) for admissions for patients aged (a) 0-17 years and (b) 18 years and over for the years 2010-11 to 2012-13.
It should be noted that these figures are not a count of people and represent an estimated number of admissions that were attributable to alcohol.
AAFs are based on the proportion of a given diagnosis or injury that is estimated to be attributed to alcohol. Some diagnoses or injuries will, by definition, be wholly attributable to alcohol and have an AAF of one, others will only be partly attributable to alcohol and have an AAF greater than zero, but less than one. Diagnoses or injuries that are not attributable at all to alcohol will have an AAF of zero.
These figures are derived by summing all AAFs for the relevant admissions and should, therefore only be interpreted as an estimate of the number of admissions that can be attributed to alcohol.
In addition, partial AAFs are not applicable to children aged under 16 years, therefore figures for this age group relate only to wholly – attributable admissions.
The Health and Social Care Information Centre – Statistics on Alcohol: England, 2014 report manually implemented new methodology against the 2012-13 data in their report. However, no change to the underlying Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data has been currently made.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Paisley on 2014-06-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what organisations or individuals Ministers or officials of his Department have met to discuss standardised packaging of tobacco in the last 12 months; which Ministers or officials were present at those meetings; and who represented each organisation present at those meetings.
Jane Ellison
Details of Ministerial meetings with external stakeholders are published quarterly in arrears on the Gov.UK website at:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings-2013#department-of-health-dh
The Department does not keep a central diary of the engagements that every Departmental official has had. In discharging their official duties, Ministers, special advisors and Departmental officials meet with representatives from a range of organisations.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-06-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many members of staff and at what grades work for the National Clinical Director for Cancer.
Jane Ellison
The National Clinical Director (NCD) for Cancer is seconded to NHS England as a senior clinical advisor on cancer. The work of the NCD is supported through a number of NHS England’s priority programmes, including the Prevention and Early Diagnosis Programme, the long-term conditions, Older People, and End of life Care programme. In addition, there are a number of relevant clinical reference groups and other staff supporting specialised commissioning functions who are also aligned with the work of the NCD.
The NCD is not an executive post within NHS England and does not directly line manage any NHS England employees.