Tag: 2014

Liz Kendall – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

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

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

Emily Thornberry – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Attorney General

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

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 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

2012/13

2011/12

2010/11

2009/10

2008/09

2007/08

Number of investigations opened

Number of individuals charged

Number of corporates charged

Number of convictions secured

Number of prosecutions completed by defendant (including those convicted)

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2014-06-24.

To ask the Attorney General, how many (a) investigations were carried out, (b) individuals were charged, (c) corporates were charged, (d) criminal prosecutions were launched and (e) criminal convictions were secured by the Serious Fraud Office in (i) 2012-13 and (ii) each of the five preceding years.

Mr Robert Buckland

11 convictions were secured in 2013/14 and 16 prosecutions were completed in 2013/14 (including those with convictions).

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigates and, where appropriate, prosecutes cases of serious or complex fraud (including cases of domestic or overseas bribery and corruption) which, in the opinion of the Director of the SFO, call for the multi-disciplinary approach and legislative powers available to the SFO. Since April 2012, the SFO’s caseload has been recalibrated so that it is taking on fewer and more complex cases, as envisaged by the Roskill model.

The SFO’s Intelligence Unit will assess all matters referred to the SFO whether by the public, the police or other agencies or organisations and refer those considered suitable for acceptance to a Case Evaluation Board before submission to the Director for his decision to open a criminal investigation under the Criminal Justice Act 1987.

SFO investigations are complex, and this can sometimes lead to investigations merging or splitting into different parts. For instance, the Libor investigation is into numerous financial institutions, and there are other large investigations which have been subdivided.

The information requested for earlier years is contained in the following table.

Note 1: Two cases have been opened, closed, and then re-opened. These have been counted only once in the data above.

Note 2: Prior to April 2012 the SFO did not collate all of its casework data centrally and it is therefore possible that some records form this period may not have been identified. The SFO is currently carrying out a project to ensure that its reporting systems are more robust in the future.

November 2, 2022

Lyn Brown – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lyn Brown on 2014-06-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will publish his Department’s risk assessment of the potential under-resourcing of fire and rescue services during strike action.

Brandon Lewis

The levels of crewing available for each authority, whether or not during periods of strike action, are dependent upon a number of factors. These include the duty system being worked locally, availability of on-call firefighters and, during strike periods, local contingency arrangements, which are the responsibility of each fire and rescue authority. The Department collects details of appliance availability from local fire and rescue authorities on a confidential basis. The arrangements for business continuity planning during strike action are kept under review by the Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser.

The principles of the recall to duty protocol, published as National Joint Council for Fire and Rescue Services Circular NJC/09/13, were agreed between the Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser, the Fire Brigades Union and the National Employers. Appendix 1 applies to fire and rescue authorities in England and makes clear that the Chief Fire Officers are responsible for arrangements locally, in accordance with their service’s major incident policies. I am confident that should there be a major disaster, striking firefighters would return to work.

November 2, 2022
Susan Elan Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Susan Elan Jones on 2014-06-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment he has made of the effect of carbon reduction targets on jobs in the wood panelling sector.

Gregory Barker

The Government is committed to ensuring that industrial sectors maintain their competitiveness during the transition to a low-carbon economy, and continue to invest and provide employment in the UK. We have recognised the additional costs that climate and energy policies can place on energy-intensive industries, including the wood panelling sector, and announced a range of new measures in Budget 2014 to radically reduce these costs, in addition to the compensation measures already in place.

November 2, 2022
Philip Davies – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2014-06-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many DNA profiles of current prisoners have not been added to the DNA database.

Karen Bradley

The information requested is not held.

November 2, 2022