Tag: 2014

Alex Cunningham – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alex Cunningham on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the franchise specifications for rail passenger services on the (a) TransPennine and (b) Northern lines contained in his Department’s consultation document published on 9 June 2014 will increase the total number of daily (i) peak and (ii) off-peak services on these routes.

Stephen Hammond

The specifications for both the Northern and TransPennine Express franchises have not yet been decided. A public consultation exercise is being conducted, which will inform these specifications. The consultation can be found at:https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/future-of-northern-and-transpennine-express-rail-franchises. No decisions on services will be made until the consultation process has finished.

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November 2, 2022
Adrian Sanders – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Adrian Sanders on 2014-06-25.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions under the Export Control Order 2008 have taken place in each year since 2008.

Mr David Gauke

There has been one prosecution/conviction under the Export Control Order 2008 since 2008, however there have been a number of successful prosecutions under other export control legislation. Details of those prosecutions can be found in the Annual Reports on Strategic Export Controls in the House of Commons library. The report for the most recent complete year (2013-2014) is due to be published in mid-July.

November 2, 2022
Hilary Benn – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hilary Benn on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he expects to consult on the review of the General Permitted Development Order announced in Budget 2014.

Nick Boles

We will consult in due course. The consultation will include proposals on the wider retail use class announced in the Budget 2014.

November 2, 2022
Jim Cunningham – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what statistics his Department collects on shark populations in and near UK waters.

George Eustice

Defra continues to fund the collection of biological, distribution, and abundance data on sharks through dedicated fisheries surveys. We also work very closely with non-governmental organisations, such as the Shark Trust, which also keep valuable records.

November 2, 2022

Liz Kendall – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liz Kendall on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many residents of care homes presented at accident and emergency departments in England in each of the last four years.

Norman Lamb

Information is not held centrally on the number of calls to 999 made by or on behalf of residents of care homes, or the number of residents of care homes attending accident and emergency departments.

Information on the number of residents of care homes who had an emergency admission to a hospital in each of the last four years shown in the following table.

Number of finished admission episodes for emergency admissions by source of admission in England, 2009-10 to 2012-13

	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13
NHS run care home (from 1 April 2004)	3,428	3,396	3,086	3,538
Non-NHS (other than local authority) run care home	10,965	10,510	11,806	15,158
All sources of admission	5,177,887	5,287,032	5,242,839	5,336,043

Source:

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre

Notes:

1. Includes activity in English National Health Service hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector.

2. A finished admission episode (FAE) is the first period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. FAEs are counted against the year or month in which the admission episode finishes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period.

3. Changes to the figures over time need to be interpreted in the context of improvements in data quality and coverage, improvements in coverage of independent sector activity (particularly from 2006-07) and changes in NHS practice.

4. FAEs recorded as "The usual place of residence, including no fixed abode" may contain a number of episodes where patients may have resided in care homes, subsequently designating it as their usual place of residence. Such FAEs were not recorded as admissions from a care home. The number of times this may have occurred is unknown.

November 2, 2022

Graham Evans – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Graham Evans on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 25 April 2014, Official Report, column 717W, on human trafficking, what information her Department holds on the current safety of victims who received Conclusive Grounds decisions and returned home in (a) January, (b) February and (c) March 2014; and if she will make a statement.

Karen Bradley

The Government does not hold information on the whereabouts of victims once
they have left the victim support service.

Care and support for victims, once they receive a positive Conclusive Grounds
decision is being considered as part of the review of the National Referral
Mechanism and as part of the re-tender of the Government’s victim support
service.

November 2, 2022
Mark Hendrick – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were convicted for providing courts with false information on means forms in (a) 2011, (b) 2012 and (c) 2013.

Damian Green

The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) rightly has a zero tolerance approach to fraud and works in partnership with the law enforcement agencies to support prosecution where appropriate. According to internal management information there were six convictions for fraud against the Agency in 2011/12, one in 2012/13 and one in 2013/14.

November 2, 2022

Mark Hendrick – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims for employment and support allowance submitted by people in Preston in 2013 have yet to be determined.

Mike Penning

We have interpreted the question to be for the number of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Incapacity Benefits Reassessments (IBR), Work Capability Assessments (WCA) which are still to be decided in 2013, for Preston Local Authority and this information is shown in the table below.

ESA WCA assessments still in progress in Preston Local Authority January 2013 to September 2013

New claims – Initial assessments	200
New claims – Repeat assessments	100
Incapacity Benefit re-assessments	–

Source: Data in the tables above is derived from administrative data held by the DWP and assessment data provided by Atos Healthcare.

Notes:

1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 100. “-“ denotes nil or fewer than 50.

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November 2, 2022

Baroness Doocey – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Attorney General

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Doocey on 2014-06-25.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many times the Crown Prosecution Service has made a charging decision not to proceed on the use of section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 in each of the last five years.

Lord Wallace of Tankerness

The Crown Prosecution Service does not hold figures centrally for the number of cases where a decision was made not to charge under section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, including those cases where the victim was under 18 at the time of commission of the offence. To obtain such information would require a manual examination of records which would incur a disproportionate cost.

November 2, 2022

The Earl of Courtown – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by The Earl of Courtown on 2014-06-25.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the value of trade between the United Kingdom and (1) Brazil, (2) Russia, (3) India, and (4) China.

Lord Livingston of Parkhead

According to the latest UK Economic Accounts, UK trade of goods and services in 2013 with the BRIC countries were as follows:

	UK Exports	UK Imports	Total Trade
	£ million	£ million	£ million
Brazil	4,314	3,024	7,338
Russia	7,347	8,002	15,349
India	7,661	8,778	16,439
China	15,701	34,755	50,456

Source: UK Economic Accounts Q1 2014

November 2, 2022