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  • Richard Burden – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    Richard Burden – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Richard Burden on 2014-03-12.

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much each Government department has allocated to charitable, benevolent or philanthropic institutions to deliver programmes through the Charities Act 2006 to date.

    Nick Hurd

    Cabinet Office is investing £470 million over the Spending Review period directly to support charities and voluntary groups. In most cases these payments are made under the Charities Act 2006.

    Data on the legal powers exercised to make these and previous allocations to charitable, benevolent and philanthropic institutions by the Cabinet Office is not held.

  • Lord Ashcroft – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    Lord Ashcroft – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Ashcroft on 2014-06-09.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Liberation and Justice Movement in Sudan has been involved in South Sudan; and if so in what capacity and on what side.

    Baroness Warsi

    We are not aware of any reports that suggest that the Liberation and Justice Movement in Sudan has been involved in the conflict in South Sudan.

  • Kelvin Hopkins – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Speaker’s Committee on the Electorial Commission

    Kelvin Hopkins – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Speaker’s Committee on the Electorial Commission

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kelvin Hopkins on 2014-03-12.

    To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, what the electoral registration figures were for each ward in the recent confirmation dry run conducted in Luton Borough Council.

    Gary Streeter

    The Electoral Commission informs me that the confirmation dry run involved matching all entries on the electoral registers against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Customer Information System database. Entries would be marked as green if they matched with DWP, amber if they were a partial match or red if there was no match.

    Results for all wards are available on the Commission’s website here: http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0003/163146/Confirmation-dry-run-2013-Results-Wards.xls

    The ward results for Luton Borough Council were as follows:

    Ward

    Green matches

    Amber matches

    Red matches

    BARNFIELD

    82.0%

    1.5%

    16.4%

    BISCOT

    68.7%

    5.1%

    26.2%

    BRAMINGHAM

    82.8%

    1.1%

    16.1%

    CHALLNEY

    77.9%

    2.8%

    19.3%

    CRAWLEY

    79.6%

    1.3%

    19.1%

    DALLOW

    66.9%

    5.0%

    28.1%

    FARLEY

    76.6%

    2.4%

    21.0%

    HIGH TOWN

    63.6%

    2.9%

    33.5%

    ICKNIELD

    85.2%

    1.3%

    13.5%

    LEAGRAVE

    79.8%

    2.1%

    18.1%

    LEWSEY

    81.8%

    2.3%

    15.9%

    LIMBURY

    83.4%

    1.9%

    14.6%

    NORTHWELL

    81.1%

    2.4%

    16.6%

    ROUND GREEN

    81.1%

    1.8%

    17.1%

    SAINTS

    74.7%

    3.9%

    21.4%

    SOUTH

    57.6%

    4.5%

    37.9%

    STOPSLEY

    85.3%

    1.1%

    13.7%

    SUNDON PARK

    82.9%

    2.0%

    15.1%

    WIGMORE

    81.9%

    1.2%

    16.9%

    “

  • Baroness Meacher – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

    Baroness Meacher – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Meacher on 2014-06-09.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government upon what evidence they have based their proposals to outsource children’s services to private firms.

    Lord Nash

    The Children and Young Persons Act 2008 (CYPA) allowed some local authorities to contract out looked after children and care leaver functions for a five-year pilot period. As a result, small autonomous practitioner-led organisations (Social Work Practices) were encouraged to develop. Between 2008 and 2012, 15 local authorities were involved in the pilot to create more tailored social work approaches.

    The evaluation of Social Work Practices identified evidence of positive change through delegated arrangements for looked after children and care leavers. As a result, in November 2013, the freedoms in the CYPA were extended to all local authorities.

    Staffordshire County Council have also recently received a ‘good’ rating from Ofsted under the new single inspection framework, which included the social work practice ‘Evolve YP’.

    Some local authorities have asked the Government to extend these freedoms to other areas of children’s social care. The current proposals will encourage greater innovative approaches for all local authorities to take the step from adequate or good children’s services to excellent ones. The consultation on these proposals closed on 30 May and the Government is currently considering the responses.

  • Andrew Gwynne – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    Andrew Gwynne – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2014-03-12.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to reply to the email correspondence from the hon. Member for Denton and Reddish dated 10 January 2014 (reference 7648/Jan14) on Atos Healthcare.

    Mike Penning

    I wrote to the hon. Member on 7 March. I apologise for the delay in replying.

  • Lord Taylor of Warwick – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Lord Taylor of Warwick – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Taylor of Warwick on 2014-06-09.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the availability of beds for accident and emergency patients.

    Earl Howe

    Not all patients who attend accident and emergency departments are admitted into hospital and require a bed. In 2013-14, 24% of 21.8 million accident and emergency attendances resulted in an emergency admission. Information is collected every quarter on bed availability and occupancy, including general and acute beds. In 2013-14 there were, on average, 135,964 general and acute beds open overnight, of which 88.0% were occupied. Information is collected every month on critical care bed availability and occupancy. In 2013-14 there were, on average, 4,274 adult and paediatric critical care beds, of which 82.9% were occupied. This information does not separately identify bed availability or occupancy for patients admitted via accident and emergency or any other admission method.

  • Ms Karen Buck – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

    Ms Karen Buck – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ms Karen Buck on 2014-03-11.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) change and (b) percentage change was in the number of homelessness acceptances arising from the end of a private sector tenancy in each (i) London local authority and (ii) English region between March 2010 and December 2013.

    Kris Hopkins

    To assist public scrutiny, I have placed in the Library of the House, a table showing homelessness acceptances due to loss of private sector tenancy, by local authority, in each year from 2003 to 2013.

    Data is not collected by Parliamentary constituency. My Department does not publish statistics by the former government office regions.

    The dataset shows that under the last Administration, the average numbers were higher than under this Administration, especially when taking account the changes in the overall size to the private rented sector.

    I would note that the rental sector policies of HM Opposition would make the problem worse, by reducing the availability of private rented accommodation, forcing up rents and discouraging investment in the private rented sector. By contrast, this Government is increasing house building, delivering £19.5 billion of investment in affordable housing, supporting billions of private investment in new private rented accommodation, providing £470 million to prevent and tackle all forms of homelessness, and avoiding the excessive regulation which would harm the interests of tenants.

  • Lord Hylton – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

    Lord Hylton – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Hylton on 2014-06-09.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government what measures they are taking to prevent members of Britain First and other extreme groups causing offence in mosques in England; and whether there are any plans to take out injunctions against known offenders.

    Baroness Warsi

    Everyone has the right to feel safe in the place where they worship, free from discrimination and prejudice and we utterly condemn the recent intrusions of Britain First in Bradford and the fear and intimidation this has created among residents. In our country people of all religions must be able to worship without fear of harassment or interruption.

    The Secretary for State for Communities and Local Government (the Rt Hon Eric Pickles) has met with representatives of the Bradford Council of Mosques to encourage them to develop guidance for all mosques on what they should do in case of a repeat of the incidents in Bradford. Freedom of worship is a fundamental and hard-fought British liberty that should be defended and we will continue to work with faith organisations and the Council of Mosques to take the right security precautions and ensure that people in Bradford and elsewhere feel safe

    Injunctions would be taken out by the individual Mosques involved, not by Government. We are unaware of any plans to take out injunctions in this case.

  • Helen Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Speaker’s Committee on the Electorial Commission

    Helen Jones – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Speaker’s Committee on the Electorial Commission

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Jones on 2014-03-11.

    To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, what the electoral registration figures were in each ward in Warrington North constituency in the recent confirmation dry run.

    Gary Streeter

    The Electoral Commission informs me that the confirmation dry run involved matching all entries on the electoral registers against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Customer Information System database. Entries would be marked as green if they matched with DWP, amber if they were a partial match or red if there was no match.

    Results for all wards are available on the Commission’s website here: http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0003/163146/Confirmation-dry-run-2013-Results-Wards.xls

    The ward results for the Warrington North constituency were as follows:

    Ward

    Green matches

    Amber matches

    Red matches

    Birchwood

    83.9%

    1.1%

    14.9%

    Burtonwood and Winwick

    83.4%

    2.3%

    14.3%

    Culcheth Glazebury and Croft

    85.5%

    1.5%

    12.9%

    Fairfield and Howley

    75.1%

    1.8%

    23.1%

    Orford

    83.7%

    1.5%

    14.8%

    Poplars and Hulme

    83.9%

    1.0%

    15.2%

    Poulton North

    84.0%

    1.1%

    14.9%

    Poulton South

    86.9%

    0.8%

    12.3%

    Rixton and Woolston

    86.7%

    1.3%

    12.0%

    Westbrook

    83.4%

    1.5%

    15.0%

    “

  • Gregory Campbell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

    Gregory Campbell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2014-06-09.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much was raised through the implementation of the UK HGV Road User Levy Act 2013 in Northern Ireland in April 2014.

    Mr Robert Goodwill

    The HGV Road User Levy applies to the UK.　 Once a levy is purchased for a foreign registered HGV, it is not possible to assign the levy to the specific country (England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland) which the vehicle visits.　 By the end of April 2014, levy receipts from foreign HGVs visiting the UK were £7.2 million.　 Cumulative levy receipts from foreign HGVs at the end of May were £10.5 million.