The below Parliamentary question was asked by Robert Syms on 2014-06-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the unit mitigation cost of Navitus Bay in sterling and in US dollars per Kelvin of global warming abated will be as a result of the proposed wind farm.
Gregory Barker
The Department does not undertake analysis or hold information of this nature relating to specific developments.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mr David Nuttall on 2014-03-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the target time is for a decision on an application for compensation.
Damian Green
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) does not have a target. The average (mean) time between application receipt and the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) initially deciding the case was 8.8 months in 2012-13.
This time taken varies depending on the individual’s circumstances and the complexity of the case: for some serious injuries claims can only be finalised when the extent of the impact on their health or ability to earn becomes clear. The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) seeks to decide cases as quickly as possible.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Thérèse Coffey on 2014-06-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many xx-positive cases have been recorded in the UK in each of the last 30 years.
Jane Ellison
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) advises that no Trichinella infection has been found in United Kingdom domestic livestock in the past 30 years. Trichinella infection in food producing animals is controlled by European Union regulations, which are directly applicable in the UK. UK industry routinely tests export pigs as required by their export markets, and all sows and boars, horses and feral wild boar going through approved establishments for Trichinella (which currently amounts to about 3–4 million pigs a year), alongside a FSA programme of surveillance in wildlife.
Monitoring for evidence of Trichinella infection in foxes has been carried out in the UK since 1999. Foxes are tested because they are a good indicator of the presence of infection. There have been only two incidences of Trichinella Spiralis found in foxes in Northern Ireland, one in 2007 and one in 2009, and just one incident of Trichinella Pseudospiralis in a fox in Great Britain in 2013.
In terms of human infections, Trichinellosis in humans is notifiable to the Department and any case that occurs is investigated and where possible the source of infection is identified. There have been no human cases acquired from meat produced in the UK for more than 30 years.
Ten cases of trichinellosis were diagnosed in the UK between 2000 and 2012, including an outbreak of eight cases in England and Wales in 2000. Eight of these cases were associated with the consumption of imported meat products. The remaining two cases were travel related where infection was acquired abroad: one case in 2001, and the other 2010.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Cathy Jamieson on 2014-03-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what discussions the Government has had with the Scottish Government on the introduction of a Right to Move scheme for social tenants.
David Mundell
Neither my Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State nor I have met with the Scottish Government to discuss the introduction of a Right to Move scheme for social tenants. Under the terms of devolution responsibility for housing, and that of social housing is the responsibility of Scottish Government Ministers. HomeSwap Direct however, does operate across the United Kingdom for those tenants wishing to mutually exchange within the social housing sphere.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Caroline Lucas on 2014-06-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to his Israeli counterpart in favour of the removal of demolition orders from all structures at the Tent of Nations farm outside Nahalin village on the West Bank.
Hugh Robertson
We have no plans, at the moment, to raise this specific issue with the Israeli authorities. However, we repeatedly make clear to the Israeli authorities our serious concerns about continued demolitions of Palestinian property and the need to abide by their other obligations under international law. Officials from the British Embassy in Tel Aviv raised the broad issue of demolitions on 28 May with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dr William McCrea on 2014-03-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Health and Safety Executive has taken to enforce the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 in respect of employees in the traffic management industry in the last 10 years for which information is available.
Mike Penning
This information is not held centrally to the level of detail required to distinguish the traffic management sector from others in the construction industry. It would incur disproportinate cost to find this information.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) works with the industry to help develop traffic management layouts or schemes which improve the safety of those working on high speed roads. It also carries out investigations of incidents and complaints and takes enforcement action in line with its published emforcement policy.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Miss Anne McIntosh on 2014-06-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what future plans he has for community hospitals in the NHS; and if he will make a statement.
Jane Ellison
The majority of NHS services, including services provided in community hospitals, are commissioned by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). Future plans for community hospitals therefore need to be developed locally rather than determined at a national level.
NHS England expects CCGs’ commissioning decisions to be underpinned by clinical insight and knowledge of local healthcare needs and to have regard to the need to address health inequalities.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dr Eilidh Whiteford on 2014-03-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of jobseeker’s allowance claimants in Scotland were referred to the benefit sanctions regime introduced in October 2012 in each month from March 2013 to March 2014.
Esther McVey
The information requested on referral rates is not available
Statistics on the number of Jobseeker’s Allowance benefit claimants, who have been sanctioned in Scotland, by sanction level, from March 2013, up to September 2013 which is the latest data available, are published and can be found at:
https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/
Guidance for users is available at:
https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Stat-Xplore_User_Guide.htm
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Grahame M. Morris on 2014-06-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answers given to the Rt hon. Member for Chelmsford of 4 March 2014, Official Report, columns 768-9W, on cancer: drugs, and to the hon. Member for Wells of 19 March 2014, Official Report, column 614W, on National Institute for Health Research, if he will place in the Library the data used to calculate those Answers.
Norman Lamb
Prior to April 2013, the Cancer Drugs Fund was administered through clinical panels based in each strategic health authority and the Department collected information on spend and number of patients treated by drug.
NHS England has had oversight of the Cancer Drugs Fund since April 2013 and publishes information on spend and patient numbers routinely on its website at:
www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/pe/cdf/
National Institute for Health Research expenditure is reported in the Department’s annual report and accounts.
Copies of the information used to provide answers to the Rt hon. Member for Chelmsford on 4 March 2014, Official Report, columns 768-9W and to the hon. Member for Wells on 19 March 2014, Official Report, column 614W have been placed in the Library.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dr William McCrea on 2014-03-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Health and Safety Executive has taken to recommend or mandate the use of automated traffic management technology to lift and lay cones on the motorway network in the last 10 years for which information is available.
Mike Penning
The Health and Safety Executive has not taken any action to mandate or recommend the use of automated traffic management equipment to lift and lay cones.
The highway maintenance industry has trialled cone laying machines and the decision to use such machines rests with them on a commercial operational basis