The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Austin on 2015-10-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what average scores are required to achieve Level 4 in (a) reading and (b) mathematics.
Nick Gibb
Information on the point score equivalent of a Level 4 in all KS2 subjects in 2014 can be found at the following link: www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/primary_14/KS2_2014_point_score.docx
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Austin on 2015-10-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what score an entrant needed to achieve to be awarded a C grade in each GCSE paper in each of the last five years.
Nick Gibb
The Department for Education does not hold the requested information.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Stephens on 2015-10-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what meetings her Department has had with representatives of (a) the Taxpayers’ Alliance, (b) the Confederation of British Industry, (c) the Institute of Economic Affairs, (d) the Adam Smith Institute, (e) the Freedom Association, (f) the Politics and Economic Research Trust and (g) the Midlands Industrial Council in the last 12 months.
Andrea Leadsom
Details of meetings between Ministers and external organisations are published quarterly on the Departmental website at:
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Smith on 2015-10-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment she has made of the effect of recently announced changes in incentives for renewable energy generation on the UK’s carbon emissions.
Andrea Leadsom
The potential carbon emissions impacts of individual policy changes on renewable incentives have been set out in the accompanying Impact Assessments.
Even with the proposed changes, we are still on track to deliver at least 30% of the UK’s electricity from renewable sources by 2020 so our overall carbon savings will remain in line with our original projections.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Catherine McKinnell on 2015-10-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) Entry Level and (b) Higher Level Stewardship agreements in the Countryside Stewardship scheme (i) have expired and (ii) will expire in 2015.
George Eustice
Countryside Stewardship agreements do not start until 1 January 2016.
a) As at 30 September, 7,824 Entry Level Stewardship agreements in the Environmental Stewardship scheme had expired in 2015, with a further 4,060 Entry Level Stewardship agreements due to expire by 31 December 2015.
b) No Higher Level Stewardship agreements in the Environmental Stewardship scheme have expired or are due to expire in 2015.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Stephens on 2015-10-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what meetings his Department has had with representatives of (a) the Taxpayers’ Alliance, (b) the Confederation of British Industry, (c) the Institute of Economic Affairs, (d) the Adam Smith Institute, (e) the Freedom Association, (f) the Politics and Economics Research Trust and (g) the Midlands Industrial Council in the last 12 months.
Mr David Lidington
Details of Ministers’ and Permanent Secretaries meetings with external organisations are published up to 31 March 2015 and can be accessed on Gov.uk at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-transparency-publications
Further publications of Ministerial and Permanent Secretaries meetings will be published in due course.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sue Hayman on 2015-10-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Government plans to ratify the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence.
Karen Bradley
The previous Government signed the Istanbul Convention in June 2012. This Government remains committed to its ratification.
The UK already complies with the vast majority of the articles through its comprehensive work to protect women and girls. However, primary legislation will be required to comply with the extra-territorial jurisdiction provisions in Article 44 of the Convention before ratification.
The Government is liaising with the devolved administrations about ratification, including any further legislative steps necessary. The Government takes its international commitments very seriously and will only commit to such ratification when we are absolutely satisfied that we comply with all articles.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Robert Neill on 2015-10-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to ensure that the boards of all relevant NHS organisations are responsible for ensuring adherence to the mandatory funding direction for NICE appraisals.
George Freeman
NHS England is specified in the 2014 Pharmaceutical Pricing Regulation Scheme agreement as the body responsible for ensuring there are no local barriers to ensuring access to technologies recommended in National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) technology appraisal and highly specialised technology guidance.
NHS England has advised that there are a range of initiatives which assist NHS England in this obligation:
– NICE technology appraisalrecommendations are required to be incorporated automatically into relevant local medicines formularies;
– providers are required to publish local medicines formularies;
– the NICE Implementation Collaborative (NIC) examines barriers to the prompt implementation of NICE guidance;
– an innovation scorecard is published quarterly by the Health and Social Care Information Centre and tracks uptake of many NICE-approved medicines by the NHS;
– a joint NHS England and Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry work programme on medicines optimisation is ongoing, which seeks to improve outcomes and value from all medicines;
– NHS England works closely with Academic Health Science Networks to accelerate the adoption and diffusion of innovation.
The Department’s analysis of medicines spend for the first year of the PPRS shows that branded medicines spend grew by 8.2%, with new medicines on the Innovation Scorecard seeing growth of 18.4%. Further details have been published on the Government’s website at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/analysis-of-growth-in-branded-medicines-2013-to-2014
Commissioners are legally required to fund drugs and treatments recommended in NICE technology appraisal and highly specialised technology guidance within three months of NICE’s guidance being published. There is provision for this funding period to be extended where there are particular barriers to implementation within three months.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Harry Harpham on 2015-10-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions his Department has had with NHS England on the contents of the planned Clinical Commissioning Groups’ (CCG) Scorecard; and what steps he has taken to ensure that the CCG’s scorecard secures improved outcomes for people on the autism spectrum.
George Freeman
The King’s Fund published their report on a CCG scorecard, Measuring the Performance of Local Health Systems
(http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/articles/measuring-performance-local-health-systems), on 12 October. The King’s Fund recommends that the scorecard should comprise a small number of headline indicators targeted at the public; a broader set of indicators on performance in delivering national priorities; and a wide set of indicators for local health systems to use for improvement.
The Department will publish further details of how it will work with NHS England to implement the scorecard in due course.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Keith Vaz on 2015-10-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people in each county who have diabetes.
Jane Ellison
The information on estimates of people in each county who have diabetes is not available in the format requested. The table below shows the estimated number of people with diabetes for upper tier district authorities. The estimates ranges from 5.4% in the City of London, to 10.7% in Brent.
Estimated ranges of people with diabetes for upper tier district authorities for 2014
|
2014 |
Number |
Prevalence |
|
England |
3,279,925 |
7.5% |
|
Buckinghamshire CC |
28,986 |
7.1% |
|
Cambridgeshire CC |
35,215 |
6.7% |
|
Cumbria CC |
33,879 |
8.0% |
|
Derbyshire CC |
48,864 |
7.6% |
|
Devon CC |
52,629 |
8.1% |
|
Dorset CC |
30,060 |
8.7% |
|
East Sussex CC |
37,859 |
8.6% |
|
Essex CC |
87,202 |
7.2% |
|
Gloucestershire CC |
36,877 |
7.4% |
|
Hampshire CC |
77,073 |
7.1% |
|
Hertfordshire CC |
62,079 |
6.8% |
|
Kent CC |
90,195 |
7.5% |
|
Lancashire CC |
76,349 |
7.8% |
|
Leicestershire CC |
40,535 |
7.4% |
|
Lincolnshire CC |
48,338 |
8.0% |
|
Norfolk CC |
59,406 |
7.9% |
|
Northamptonshire CC |
41,475 |
7.1% |
|
North Yorkshire CC |
39,207 |
7.7% |
|
Nottinghamshire CC |
49,494 |
7.5% |
|
Oxfordshire CC |
35,376 |
6.6% |
|
Somerset CC |
36,052 |
8.0% |
|
Staffordshire CC |
52,956 |
7.6% |
|
Suffolk CC |
47,835 |
7.7% |
|
Surrey CC |
62,828 |
6.8% |
|
Warwickshire CC |
34,255 |
7.5% |
|
West Sussex CC |
52,761 |
7.8% |
|
Worcestershire CC |
36,287 |
7.8% |
|
City of London LB |
693 |
5.4% |
|
Barking and Dagenham LB |
9,942 |
7.5% |
|
Barnet LB |
23,493 |
8.2% |
|
Bexley LB |
13,716 |
7.3% |
|
Brent LB |
21,497 |
10.7% |
|
Bromley LB |
18,676 |
7.2% |
|
Camden LB |
12,758 |
6.1% |
|
Croydon LB |
23,737 |
8.5% |
|
Ealing LB |
22,765 |
8.8% |
|
Enfield LB |
19,233 |
8.2% |
|
Greenwich LB |
13,330 |
7.3% |
|
Hackney LB |
13,882 |
8.1% |
|
Hammersmith and Fulham LB |
9,120 |
6.5% |
|
Haringey LB |
14,316 |
7.7% |
|
Harrow LB |
18,567 |
9.6% |
|
Havering LB |
14,746 |
7.5% |
|
Hillingdon LB |
16,509 |
7.6% |
|
Hounslow LB |
16,311 |
8.3% |
|
Islington LB |
10,389 |
6.3% |
|
Kensington and Chelsea LB |
11,515 |
7.6% |
|
Kingston upon Thames LB |
9,119 |
6.2% |
|
Lambeth LB |
16,069 |
6.6% |
|
Lewisham LB |
15,799 |
7.1% |
|
Merton LB |
11,751 |
6.6% |
|
Newham LB |
17,950 |
10.1% |
|
Redbridge LB |
19,326 |
8.8% |
|
Richmond upon Thames LB |
10,345 |
6.3% |
|
Southwark LB |
16,709 |
6.5% |
|
Sutton LB |
11,149 |
6.9% |
|
Tower Hamlets LB |
14,360 |
7.2% |
|
Waltham Forest LB |
14,919 |
8.5% |
|
Wandsworth LB |
14,232 |
5.8% |
|
Westminster LB |
15,354 |
6.4% |
|
Bolton MD |
17,905 |
8.4% |
|
Bury MD |
11,054 |
7.5% |
|
Manchester MD |
27,051 |
6.5% |
|
Oldham MD |
14,368 |
8.4% |
|
Rochdale MD |
13,608 |
8.4% |
|
Salford MD |
13,212 |
6.9% |
|
Stockport MD |
17,225 |
7.4% |
|
Tameside MD |
14,001 |
7.9% |
|
Trafford MD |
12,732 |
7.2% |
|
Wigan MD |
18,785 |
7.4% |
|
Knowsley MD |
9,246 |
7.7% |
|
Liverpool MD |
26,281 |
7.1% |
|
St Helens MD |
11,119 |
7.6% |
|
Sefton MD |
17,851 |
8.0% |
|
Wirral MD |
19,508 |
7.9% |
|
Barnsley MD |
14,456 |
7.6% |
|
Doncaster MD |
18,782 |
7.9% |
|
Rotherham MD |
16,434 |
7.8% |
|
Sheffield MD |
33,060 |
7.0% |
|
Gateshead MD |
12,158 |
7.6% |
|
Newcastle upon Tyne MD |
16,034 |
6.6% |
|
North Tyneside MD |
12,242 |
7.3% |
|
South Tyneside MD |
9,982 |
7.8% |
|
Sunderland MD |
17,552 |
7.5% |
|
Birmingham MD |
72,576 |
8.8% |
|
Coventry MD |
20,609 |
7.9% |
|
Dudley MD |
20,361 |
8.0% |
|
Sandwell MD |
22,244 |
9.5% |
|
Solihull MD |
13,109 |
7.7% |
|
Walsall MD |
18,340 |
9.0% |
|
Wolverhampton MD |
19,090 |
9.8% |
|
Bradford MD |
35,136 |
8.5% |
|
Calderdale MD |
12,987 |
7.7% |
|
Kirklees MD |
27,064 |
8.1% |
|
Leeds MD |
45,596 |
6.5% |
|
Wakefield MD |
20,763 |
7.6% |
|
Hartlepool UA |
5,690 |
7.6% |
|
Middlesbrough UA |
8,791 |
7.7% |
|
Redcar and Cleveland UA |
9,121 |
8.1% |
|
Stockton-on-Tees UA |
11,330 |
7.1% |
|
Darlington UA |
6,314 |
7.6% |
|
County Durham UA |
32,455 |
7.6% |
|
Northumberland UA |
21,048 |
8.0% |
|
Cheshire East UA |
22,235 |
7.3% |
|
Halton UA |
7,168 |
7.5% |
|
Warrington UA |
11,560 |
7.0% |
|
Cheshire West and Chester UA |
19,617 |
7.2% |
|
Blackburn with Darwen UA |
9,525 |
8.9% |
|
Blackpool UA |
9,541 |
8.4% |
|
Kingston upon Hull UA |
15,411 |
6.8% |
|
East Riding of Yorkshire UA |
23,168 |
7.8% |
|
North East Lincolnshire UA |
9,927 |
7.7% |
|
North Lincolnshire UA |
10,872 |
7.9% |
|
York UA |
10,873 |
6.1% |
|
Derby UA |
15,433 |
7.5% |
|
Leicester UA |
24,459 |
9.5% |
|
Rutland UA |
2,379 |
7.5% |
|
Nottingham UA |
16,958 |
6.4% |
|
Herefordshire County UA |
12,831 |
8.4% |
|
Telford and Wrekin UA |
9,834 |
7.4% |
|
Shropshire UA |
19,867 |
8.0% |
|
Stoke-on-Trent UA |
15,358 |
7.9% |
|
Bath and North East Somerset UA |
9,907 |
6.4% |
|
Bristol UA |
23,189 |
5.9% |
|
North Somerset UA |
14,094 |
7.6% |
|
South Gloucestershire UA |
14,422 |
6.3% |
|
Cornwall UA |
37,893 |
8.1% |
|
Plymouth UA |
14,805 |
6.7% |
|
Torbay UA |
9,947 |
8.6% |
|
Bournemouth UA |
10,006 |
7.1% |
|
Poole UA |
9,052 |
7.6% |
|
Swindon UA |
11,443 |
6.7% |
|
Wiltshire UA |
27,724 |
7.2% |
|
Peterborough UA |
10,850 |
7.6% |
|
Luton UA |
12,685 |
8.2% |
|
Bedford UA |
10,228 |
7.7% |
|
Central Bedfordshire UA |
14,494 |
6.7% |
|
Southend-on-Sea UA |
10,646 |
7.7% |
|
Thurrock UA |
8,951 |
6.7% |
|
Medway UA |
14,548 |
7.0% |
|
Bracknell Forest UA |
5,833 |
6.1% |
|
West Berkshire UA |
8,445 |
6.7% |
|
Reading UA |
7,789 |
6.0% |
|
Slough UA |
9,181 |
8.8% |
|
Windsor and Maidenhead UA |
8,256 |
6.9% |
|
Wokingham UA |
8,408 |
6.1% |
|
Milton Keynes UA |
13,397 |
6.7% |
|
Brighton and Hove UA |
13,933 |
6.3% |
|
Portsmouth UA |
10,862 |
6.1% |
|
Southampton UA |
12,622 |
6.0% |
|
Isle of Wight UA |
10,614 |
8.5% |
Source: Yorkshire and Humber Public Health Observatory Diabetes Prevalence Model
Diagnosed diabetes prevalence across the four nations of the United Kingdom are taken from the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and represents all patients age 17 and older who have been diagnosed with diabetes and included on general practitioner registers.
In 2013/14, QOF showed that there were 3.3 million people aged 17 years and older with diagnosed diabetes with equals 6.2% of this age group. The break down by country can be found in the following table:
Diagnosed diabetes across the four nations of the United Kingdom -2013/14
|
Number |
% |
|
|
England |
2,814,004 |
6.2% |
|
Wales |
177,212 |
6.9% |
|
Scotland |
259,986 |
5.9% |
|
Northern Ireland |
81,867 |
5.3% |
|
United Kingdom |
3,333,069 |
6.2% |
Source: Quality and Outcomes Framework (Health and Social Care Information Centre)
Public Health England’s diabetes prevalence model estimates total diabetes prevalence for England and for all local authorities and clinical commissioning groups in England. The model reflects the prevalence of diabetes (diagnosed and undiagnosed) and adjusts for the age, sex, ethnic group and deprivation pattern of the local population.
The estimated total diabetes prevalence using the diabetes prevalence model is 7.5% in England in 2014.