Tag: 2014

  • Simon Kirby – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    Simon Kirby – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Simon Kirby on 2014-07-16.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will estimate the annual cost to her Department of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if she will make a statement.

    Dan Rogerson

    This information is not recorded.

  • Jim Cunningham – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    Jim Cunningham – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2014-07-16.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what information his Department holds on the number of (a) Israelis and (b) Israeli children who have been killed as a result of Israeli military action in the last 10 years.

    Mr Tobias Ellwood

    The Foreign and Commonwealth Office holds no information centrally on the number of Israelis or Israeli children killed by Israeli military action in the last 10 years.

  • John McDonnell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    John McDonnell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by John McDonnell on 2014-07-16.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what payments have been received by the NHS in return for the advertising of Optical Express services on the NHS Choices website.

    Dr Daniel Poulter

    NHS Choices does not advertise services on their website. Optical Express is included within the service directory published on NHS Choices on the basis that it is a provider of NHS services.

    NHS Choices has neither sought nor received any payment from Optical Express in return for this inclusion.

  • Mark Hoban – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Mark Hoban – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hoban on 2014-07-16.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of supporting people with cerebral palsy.

    Norman Lamb

    No estimate has been made of the cost to the public purse of supporting people with cerebral palsy.

    National Health Service expenditure on cerebral palsy is included in the programme budgeting category ‘neurological problems’, but cannot be separately identified. Aggregate annual NHS expenditure in this category in 2012-13, the latest period for which data is available, was £4.44 billion.

    The programme budgeting data return is an analysis of commissioning expenditure by healthcare condition and care centre based on figures provided to NHS England by primary care trusts (PCTs) and PCT successor organisations. Programme budgeting data, as well as further information on how these figures were calculated, can be found on the NHS England website at the following link:

    www.england.nhs.uk/resources/resources-for-ccgs/prog-budgeting/

  • David T. C. Davies – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    David T. C. Davies – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by David T. C. Davies on 2014-07-16.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many meetings Ministers in his Department have had with representatives of (a) the tobacco industry and (b) tobacco control charities to discuss proposals for legislation on plain packaging of cigarettes in the last 12 months.

    Jane Ellison

    Details of Ministerial meetings with external stakeholders are published quarterly in arrears on the Gov.UK website at:

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-external-meetings-2012-to-2013

  • Frank Field – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

    Frank Field – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2014-07-16.

    To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many programmes based in Papua New Guinea have been considered for funding since April 2004; and how many have received funding.

    Mr Desmond Swayne

    DFID does not have a bilateral programme with Papua New Guinea. DFID has funded proposals through challenge fund procedures like the Civil Society Challenge Fund (CSCF) which can be viewed on the Development Tracker: http://devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/location/country/.

  • Mark Hendrick – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    Mark Hendrick – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2014-07-16.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many whole time equivalent staff were employed at each magistrates’ and Crown court in England in each of the last five years.

    Mr Shailesh Vara

    I regret I am unable to collate the information required to answer this request within the normal time constraints of an ordinary written Parliamentary Question.

    Providing details for the requested period of five years requires an extensive manual search of legacy records and reports.

    I will write again in due course with the information available.

  • Simon Kirby – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

    Simon Kirby – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Simon Kirby on 2014-07-16.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will estimate the annual cost to his Department of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if he will make a statement.

    Claire Perry

    The information is not held in the format requested and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

  • Rosie Cooper – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    Rosie Cooper – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Rosie Cooper on 2014-07-16.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in West Lancashire constituency have waited more than nine months to receive a work capability assessment interview in the last three years.

    Mr Mark Harper

    This information is not reported to us by Atos.

  • Menzies Campbell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Attorney General

    Menzies Campbell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Attorney General

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Menzies Campbell on 2014-07-15.

    To ask the Attorney General, how many applications for a preliminary hearing for a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (a) the Director of Public Prosecutions and (b) the Serious Fraud Office have made since 24 February 2014.

    Mr Robert Buckland

    No such applications have been made so far.