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  • Lord Patel of Blackburn – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    Lord Patel of Blackburn – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Patel of Blackburn on 2014-06-04.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the proportion of ethnic minorities in the senior civil service.

    Lord Wallace of Saltaire

    To win the global race we need the best civil servants regardless of their background so we must recruit, retain and promote on the basis of merit. We want to see more talented people, whatever their background, reach the very top roles.

    As at 1 October 2013, the proportion of senior civil servants who declared that they are from an ethnic minority background is 3.8%.

    We believe that for too long talent management in the Civil Service has been weak and the Government plans to address this as part of its ongoing programme of Civil Service reform.

  • Lord Addington – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    Lord Addington – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Addington on 2014-06-04.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government what definition of severity for those with dyslexia or specific learning difficulties will be used to justify continued support under the Disabled Students’ Allowance.

    Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

    Extensive discussions are underway with a wide range of stakeholders to help inform the Disabled Students’ Allowances (DSA) Guidance for 2015/16, due this autumn. The guidance will set out the conditions under which DSA will apply. Students will continue to undergo individual study needs assessments, but their needs will be met by DSA and Higher Education Institutions through their duties under the Equality Act.

  • Lord Quirk – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

    Lord Quirk – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Quirk on 2014-06-04.

    To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether it has been their policy for fixed-period exclusions from school to remain broadly constant over the past decade and for permanent exclusions to fall sharply year by year; if so, how they assess the outcome; and if not, how they account for the difference.

    Lord Nash

    Exclusion is a decision for headteachers alone to take. The Government does not set targets or expected levels for exclusion. Rather, the Government’s policy is that headteachers need to ensure good discipline in schools, in the interest of all their pupils, and should feel confident in using exclusion where they believe this is warranted by a pupil’s behaviour.

  • Chris Ruane – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

    Chris Ruane – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-06-04.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the average distance is between an onshore windfarm and its connecting sub-station.

    Michael Fallon

    The Department does not hold this information. Windfarms usually own the cables connecting them to substations. Gathering the information requested would, therefore, require contacting individual windfarm developers at a disproportionate cost.

  • Steve McCabe – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Steve McCabe – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2014-06-04.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 7 May 2014, Official Report, column 222W, on teachers: guidance, if she will place in the Library a copy of the guidance her Department provides to police services as to whether or not to notify arrests to regulators.

    Damian Green

    The guidance to police services on the Notifiable Occupations Scheme is
    contained in "Home Office circular 6 / 2006 The notifiable occupations scheme:
    revised guidance for police forces". This guidance is available on the
    Government website gov.uk.

    The scheme is currently under review.

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

    John Baron – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Baron on 2014-06-04.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS has spent on treating (a) anal cancer, (b) penile cancer, (c) cervical cancer, (d) vaginal cancer, (e) vulval cancer, (f) oropharyngeal cancer, (g) genital warts and (h) recurrent respiratory papillomatosis in the last year.

    Jane Ellison

    The Department does not collect National Health Service expenditure on treating individual cancers or other diagnoses. It does collect reference costs, which are the average unit costs to NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts of providing defined services in a given year to NHS patients.

  • Hugh Bayley – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    Hugh Bayley – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hugh Bayley on 2014-06-04.

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many full-time equivalent civil servants of each Department or Executive Agency were employed in (a) the City of York and (b) the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs central science laboratory at Sand Hutton on 31 March in each year since 1997.

    Mr Nick Hurd

    The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

  • Mark Pritchard – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    Mark Pritchard – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Pritchard on 2014-06-04.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will raise the release of political prisoners in Eritrea with his Eritrean counterpart.

    Mark Simmonds

    We remain deeply concerned at the continued arbitrary detention of political prisoners in Eritrea, including some detained without trial since September 2001. Our Ambassador in Asmara and EU counterparts regularly raise this with the Eritrean Government, calling for their release. I have raised human rights issues with the Foreign Minister and, most recently, FCO officials raised the issue with the Eritrean Ambassador in March 2014. We will continue to do so at every opportunity

  • Barry Sheerman – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Barry Sheerman – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Barry Sheerman on 2014-06-04.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions the Prime Minister has had with the US President and others on the release of the files held by Boston College relating to Northern Ireland.

    Damian Green

    Home Office Ministers and officials have meetings with a wide variety of
    international partners, as well as organisations and individuals in the public
    and private sectors, as part of the process of policy development and delivery.
    Details of Ministerial meetings with external organisations and individuals are
    passed to the Cabinet Office on a quarterly basis and are subsequently
    published on the Cabinet Office website which is available here:
    www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-ministers-gifts-and-hospitality-j
    uly-to-september-2013.

  • David Ruffley – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    David Ruffley – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Ruffley on 2014-06-04.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many undergraduate students were resident in (a) Bury St Edmunds, (b) Suffolk and (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years.

    Mr David Willetts

    The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes data on students at UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The number of undergraduate enrolments to UK HEIs, for students domiciled in Bury St Edmunds parliamentary constituency, Suffolk Local Authority and England and Wales prior to their course, has been provided in the following table.

    Information for the 2013/14 academic year will become available from HESA in January 2015.

    Undergraduate enrolments domiciled in Bury St Edmunds Parliamentary Constituency(1), Suffolk Local Authority and England and Wales, prior to their course

    UK Higher Education Institutions(2)

    Academic years 2008/09 to 2012/13

    2008/09

    2009/10

    2010/11

    2011/12

    2012/13

    Bury St Edmunds Parliamentary Constituency

    2,890

    3,045

    3,125

    3,210

    2,860

    Suffolk Local Authority

    17,020

    17,885

    17,645

    17,975

    16,340

    England and Wales

    1,463,160

    1,501,560

    1,490,205

    1,501,070

    1,379,775

    Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Student Record

    Notes: Figures are based on a HESA standard registration population and have been rounded to the nearest five, so components may not sum to totals.

    (1) Parliamentary constituency is derived from the student’s postcode. Data for 2010/11 onwards is based on the revised boundaries since the 2010 General Election.

    (2) Includes students attending Open University.