The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2014-04-30.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what average extra costs are incurred by disabled people as a result of their disability.
Mike Penning
We do not hold current information on the extra costs incurred by disabled people as a result of their disability.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Woodcock on 2014-04-30.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of the 20 per cent most disadvantaged two year olds who are currently taking up their free childcare place.
Elizabeth Truss
In February 2014, local authorities reported that around 103,000 two-year-olds were already accessing a funded early learning place. Of these, around 95,000 were from the 20% most disadvantaged cohort, which represents 73%.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pete Wishart on 2014-04-30.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many pregnant woman in Scotland were denied section 4 support under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 for reasons that included an assessment that they were fit to travel; and what the gestation stage of each such woman was when that decision was made in each of the five years to 2013-14.
James Brokenshire
The information requested is not routinely collected and could only be provided
by examining individual case records, which would result in disproportionate
cost.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alison Seabeck on 2014-04-30.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions probation staff have taken cases to employment tribunals on grounds of discrimination in each of the last three years.
Jeremy Wright
Data on the number of claims made by probation staff on the grounds of discrimination are not collated centrally either by National Offenders Management Service or HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS). This information could only be provided at a disproportionate cost by manually checking hard copy files or judgments.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andy Sawford on 2014-04-30.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect on the public funds available to local authorities of the creation of a Single Fraud Investigation Service.
Esther McVey
The Local Authority Administration Grant for 2014/15 will not be reduced due to the implementation of the Single Fraud Investigation Service. The proposals for 2015/16 and 2016/17 onwards are currently out for consultation with our key stakeholders, including Local Government representative groups.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2014-04-30.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many of his Department’s agencies, non-departmental public bodies or sponsored bodies have developed their own global health strategies.
Jane Ellison
In addition to the cross-Government global health strategy, Health is Global: An outcome framework for global health 2011-2015, published in 2011, Public Health England is developing a global health strategy.
This will complement, and will be consistent with, Health is Global.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gloria De Piero on 2014-04-30.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people in Ashfield constituency were homeless in each of the last five years.
Kris Hopkins
[Holding Reply: Tuesday 6 May 2014]
Statistics for decisions taken on homelessness applications and acceptances in each financial year since 2004-05, by local authority area, are published in live table 784, which is available online at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-homelessness
Figures are not collated by Parliamentary constituency.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Selous on 2014-04-30.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many private abortion clinics are situated on the premises of NHS hospitals in England; and how many such clinics are run by (a) BPAS and (b) Marie Stopes International.
Jane Ellison
There are 17 independent abortion clinics situated on National Health Service premises in England. Of these, 11 are run by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service and three by Marie Stopes International.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2014-04-30.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) assaults and (b) serious assaults on staff per 1,000 prisoners there were in each prison in each of the last four years.
Jeremy Wright
The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) does not tolerate violence of any kind in prisons and any instance is taken very seriously.
NOMS is committed to exploring options to continue to improve how violence is tackled in prisons to keep both staff and prisoners safe. It is currently reviewing the policy and practice of the management of violence.
Over the last 5 years the rate of assaults has fallen by 13%.
Risk of assault is distributed unevenly around the prison estate. Gender, age and other factors such as the size and composition of the prison population, can affect the number assault incidents that occur in a particular establishment. Therefore, careful interpretation is needed of the incident and rates tables at a prison level.
The number of (a) assaults on staff per 1,000 prisoners in each prison has been placed in the library.
Due to the low number of serious assaults on prison staff at prison level, the information requested on rates (b) cannot be provided in order to protect the confidentiality of those staff involved.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Flynn on 2014-04-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether any restrictions exist in (a) Wales, (b) Scotland and (c) Northern Ireland on upland farms contaminated by radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear accident in April 1986.
Jane Ellison
I have been asked to reply.
There are no longer any restrictions in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland on upland farms contaminated by radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear accident. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) previously restricted the movement of sheep in certain upland areas to prevent sheep with higher levels of contamination entering the food chain. Over time, controls were removed where the evidence showed they were no longer necessary. All remaining controls were lifted in Northern Ireland in 2000, in Scotland in 2010 and in Wales in 2012. Similarly, the final controls in England were lifted in 2012.
Information on the historic controls and the decision to remove restrictions can be found on the FSA website:
www.food.gov.uk/science/research/radiologicalresearch/radiosurv/chernobyl/