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

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

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Leslie on 2014-04-07.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, which five companies were used most often to provide temporary workers for his Department in the last financial year; and how much in agency fees was paid to each of them.

    Gregory Barker

    The Table below details the companies used and the total amounts paid to them in the last financial year. We are unable to identify separately the amounts retained by the companies as fees and the amounts passed on to the temporary worker by the company.

    Agency

    2013-14

    £k

    Adecco UK Ltd

    1,162

    Michael Page International Recruitment Ltd

    533

    Methods Consulting Ltd

    517

    Parity Resources Ltd

    461

    Allen Lane Ltd

    406
  • Ian Lucas – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    Ian Lucas – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Lucas on 2014-04-07.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the gender balance is of his Department’s management board and its sub-committees.

    Hugh Robertson

    The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Management Board consists of 8 executive (5 male and 3 female) and 2 non-executive members (1 male and 1 female).

    The Management Board is supported by the four Sub-Committees which are each chaired by a member of the Board; they are Audit & Risk Committee, Human Resources (HR) Committee, Operations Committee and Health and Safety Committee.

    The gender breakdown of the committees is as follows:

    Audit & Risk Committee (ARC): 2 male, 1 female;

    HR Committee: 9 male, 10 female; and the 20th position is currently filled by two people (1 male, 1 female) in a job-share;

    Operations Committee: 9 male and 8 female; and

    FCO Health and Safety Committee: 18 male and 8 female members.

  • Chris Leslie – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Chris Leslie – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Leslie on 2014-04-07.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which 10 consultancy firms were paid the most by her Department in the last financial year; and how much each of those firms was paid.

    Karen Bradley

    Information on the 10 consultancy firms that were paid the most by the Home Department for the last financial year and how much each of those firms were paid is set out in the table below:

    Supplier Name

    Total Cost/Value

    1. DETICA LTD

    £7,220,985

    2. PA CONSULTING SERVICES LTD

    £6,084,558

    3. ERNST AND YOUNG LLP

    £2,575,080

    4. KPMG LLP

    £2,259,099

    5. DELOITTE

    £855,360

    6. PRICE WATERHOUSE COOPERS LLP

    £676,871

    7. BROADCASTING SUPPORT SERVICES

    £387,268

    8. X-NET

    £298,407

    9. ROKE MANOR RESEARCH LIMITED

    £94,262

    10. iO1 LTD

    £45,704

  • David Blunkett – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

    David Blunkett – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Blunkett on 2014-05-02.

    To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department has taken to ensure that the work carried out under the Girls’ Education Challenge Fund is fully inclusive of girls with disabilities.

    Lynne Featherstone

    The Girls Education Challenge programme has seven projects providing over £9 million to fund disability-focused girls education projects in Uganda, Kenya and Sierra Leone.

  • Julie Elliott – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

    Julie Elliott – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Elliott on 2014-05-02.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps his Department is taking to define and safeguard quality in solar farm developments.

    Gregory Barker

    In April 2014 we published the Solar PV Strategy [1], which set out the principle that Solar PV should be: appropriately sited, give proper weight to environmental considerations such as landscape and visual impact, heritage and local amenity, and provide opportunities for local communities to influence decisions that affect them and gain some form of community benefit.

    The Solar Trade Association has produced “10 Commitments” for solar farm developers [2], and the National Solar Centre has produced its best practice guide for large scale solar PV development [3]. DECC will continue to work with industry through the Strategy Working Group to promote industry best-practice.

    [1]

    https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/302049/uk_solar_pv_strategy_part_2.pdf

    [2] http://www.solar-trade.org.uk/media/STA%2010%20commitments%20v%2010.pdf

    [3] http://www.bre.co.uk/filelibrary/pdf/other_pdfs/KN5524_Planning_Guidance_reduced.pdf

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  • Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    Stephen Timms – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2014-05-02.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people on (a) employment and support allowance and (b) jobseeker’s allowance have moved from the Work Programme to Work Choice since June 2011.

    Esther McVey

    The information requested is not available.

  • 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 2014-05-02.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what financial contributions police services across England and Wales make to Local Safeguarding Children Boards.

    Damian Green

    Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) play a crucial role in multi agency
    child protection arrangements. Decisions by individual police forces to financially
    contribute to LSCBs are an operational matter and the Department does not hold
    this information.

  • Paul Uppal – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Paul Uppal – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Uppal on 2014-05-02.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what figures he holds on the life expectancy of men with metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer.

    Jane Ellison

    The Government’s Mandate to NHS England sets out an ambition to make England one of the most successful countries in Europe at preventing premature deaths from all cancers, including prostate cancer.

    Cancer indicators in the NHS Outcomes Framework and the Public Health Outcomes Framework will help NHS England to assess progress in improving cancer survival and mortality for men with prostate cancer.

    Data related to men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer is not collected to permit the calculation of a reliable figure for average life expectancy.

    However, Cancer Research UK has estimated that men with advanced, incurable prostate cancer treated in trials or under drug access schemes at the Royal Marsden Hospital survived on average 41 months, compared to between 13 and 16 months 10 years ago.

  • Chris Williamson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    Chris Williamson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Williamson on 2014-05-01.

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will stop requesting that government departments review their arrangements regarding employees paying their trade union subscriptions using check-off.

    Mr Francis Maude

    It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation

  • Gregory Campbell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    Gregory Campbell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregory Campbell on 2014-05-01.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will discuss with the devolved legislatures how to ensure best practice is adopted in implementing single farm payments across the UK.

    George Eustice

    The Secretary of State negotiated successfully in the European Council of Agriculture Ministers to secure powers to implement CAP reform in the UK at a territorial level. The responsibility for delivery of direct payments under CAP reform therefore rests with each territorial administration. However, Defra Ministers regularly discuss the implementation of CAP reform with their devolved administration counterparts and officials from all four territorial administrations meet frequently to discuss implementation, share best practice and address UK-level and cross-border issues.