The below Parliamentary question was asked by Biography information for Alex Cunningham on Health.
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Jane Ellison
Regulations for making it an offence to smoke in private vehicles carrying children are being drafted at present.
Tag: 2014
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Gregory Campbell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2014-04-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has updated its advice given to UK nationals in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, South Sudan and Gabon or who are considering visiting those countries following the recent outbreak of Ebola in the region.
Mark Simmonds
We have updated our travel advice for the following countries to notify travellers about the recent outbreak of Ebola virus disease: Guinea, Senegal, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania and Cote d’Ivoire.
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice
We advise people travelling to the affected region to check the health advice issued by the National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC).
http://www.nathnac.org/ds/map_world.aspx
We will continue to monitor the situation in each country to ensure that our travel advice is up to date and accurate.
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Biography information for Luciana Berger – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Biography information for Luciana Berger on Health.
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Norman Lamb
NHS England recognises that the number of adults with cystic fibrosis (CF) is gradually increasing over time. The growth in numbers is taken into account by NHS England as part of its annual commissioning process and will be considered in the ongoing development of its five year specialised commissioning strategy.
Information concerning the number of people living with CF in each of the last four years is not available. In the following table we have provided the number of CF patients (adults and children) cared for by specialist centres in England in each of the last three years. This data has only been collected since the introduction of the tariff for CF services in 2011.
Year
Patients
2011
7,291
2012
7,620
2013
7,778
We would expect all CF patients to have a CF specialist in charge of their care and, as part of the ongoing support they receive, to be assessed at specialist centres.
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Cathy Jamieson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Cathy Jamieson on 2014-04-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what progress she has made on the creation of the catalytic fund announced at the Nutrition for Growth summit.
Lynne Featherstone
The new catalytic financing mechanism will aim to provide incentives to attract new private funds alongside increased domestic budgets for high impact nutrition interventions. The scope and governance of the fund is being developed with the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation. No funds have been disbursed. DFID will consider its own contribution once the mechanism and governance have been agreed.
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Biography information for Alison Seabeck – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Biography information for Alison Seabeck on Work and Pensions.
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Esther McVey
The Department provided substantive answers to all parliamentary questions in the 2013-14 parliamentary Session.
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John McDonnell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice
The below Parliamentary question was asked by John McDonnell on 2014-04-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the payment by results pilot in HMP Doncaster has been terminated.
Jeremy Wright
The HMP Doncaster Payment by Results (PbR) pilot was established to test the introduction of PbR to reduce reoffending, in response to commitments made in the Coalition Agreement. The pilot has been running since October 2011, with offenders released from Doncaster prison given additional rehabilitation support to help turn their lives around.
The pilot predates the Transforming Rehabilitation programme and while it has provided important learning to inform our plans, the delivery model at HMP Doncaster is not fully aligned with these reforms. As a result, we have decided to bring the pilot to a close, to help ensure the effective transition to the new model for rehabilitation services and offender management in the South Yorkshire Contract Package Area. No further participants will enter the pilot beyond the end of 2014.
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Biography information for Nicholas Brown – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Biography information for Nicholas Brown on Health.
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Norman Lamb
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) produces evidence-based guidance and advice for health, public health and social care practitioners on both pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments. All work undertaken by NICE is subject to the same high level of scrutiny consideration.
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John Redwood – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport
The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Redwood on 2014-04-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff Network Rail employed (a) in the last year for which figures are available and (b) in 2010-11.
Stephen Hammond
Network Rail is currently a private sector company limited by guarantee, and its annual total staff complement is a matter for the company. Network Rail advises that in 2012-13, the last year for which figures are available, the average number of its employees was 35,190. The figure for 2010-11 was 35,606.
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Sheila Gilmore – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sheila Gilmore on 2014-04-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when each of the 10 Help and Support for Separated Families Innovation Fund projects announced by his Department in December 2013 will start.
Steve Webb
The round two projects delivered by the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, Mediation Now, Family Matters Mediate, Family Lives, Children 1st, Sills and Betteridge, Headland Future and National Family Mediation have all started. Projects being run by NACCC and Pinnacle People have started to recruit parents to the project and will start seeing them before the end of April.
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Chris Ruane – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-04-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department made of Capita’s ability to handle large numbers of personal independence payment (PIP) claims before award of the PIP contract.
Mike Penning
The assessment of Capita’s ability to manage PIP claimant volumes was undertaken as part of the PIP Assessment Procurement exercise, conducted in line with Cabinet Office Guidelines.