The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2015-11-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of (a) the number of people in receipt of the carer’s credit and (b) the total cost of the carer’s credit scheme in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
Justin Tomlinson
The information requested for Carers Credit is not available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Amess on 2015-12-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether she has written to the European Commissioner for Trade on ending the minimum import price on Chinese solar panels.
Andrea Leadsom
My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State wrote to the European Commissioner for Trade in November, requesting ending the minimum import price.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Mackintosh on 2015-11-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what progress has been made by the Ministerial Working Group on Preventing and Tackling Homelessness.
Mr Marcus Jones
I refer my hon. Friend to the Written Ministerial Statement made by my hon. Friend the Member for Keighley and Ilkley (Kris Hopkins) on 26 March 2015, HCWS498, that sets out the considerable progress achieved by the Ministerial Working Group on Homelessness in the last Parliament. Local authorities and the voluntary and community sector have used the £500 million provided by this Government since 2010 to tackle and prevent homelessness, stopping 935,800 households from becoming homeless in the first place. It has also helped launch a significant number of important initiatives, including:
This Government remains committed to preventing and tackling homelessness. The Working Group is meeting again on Monday 30 November.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nigel Dodds on 2015-12-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions his Department has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on improving access to high-quality services for people affected by Parkinson’s disease.
Jane Ellison
No discussions have taken place between Ministers of the Department and the Northern Ireland Executive on improving access to high-quality services for people affected by Parkinson’s disease.
As health is a devolved matter these issues are not regularly discussed between Ministers and their counterparts in the devolved administrations, however research and evidence of best practice is made widely available throughout the United Kingdom.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Anderson on 2015-11-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel from 13 and 39 Squadron have not taken their full entitlement to annual leave over the last two years.
Mark Lancaster
The number of Service personnel from 13 and 39 Squadrons who have not taken their full annual leave entitlement of 38 days over the last two years is given below:
|
2013-14 |
Number of personnel |
2014-15 |
Number of personnel |
|
39 Squadron |
56 |
39 Squadron |
47 |
|
13 Squadron |
67 |
13 Squadron |
69 |
Up to a maximum of 15 of the 38 days can be carried forward to the next leave year.
More than 90% of Service personnel from 13 and 39 Squadrons have taken 28 or more days leave during the last two years.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2015-12-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust received for treating people from outside the EU in (a) 2011, (b) 2012, (c) 2013 and (d) 2014.
Alistair Burt
Patients who are not ‘ordinarily resident’ in the United Kingdom and to whom no exemption from charges under the Charging Regulations applies should be directly charged.
Clinical commissioning groups are responsible for funding the care of those visitors to the UK who are exempt from charges and those services that are free to all overseas visitors. Data are not collected centrally.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lisa Cameron on 2015-11-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of resources available to (a) primary and (b) secondary school children requiring educational psychology services in each of the next five years; and how much such support will be made available during each of the next five years.
Edward Timpson
The responsibility for educational psychology training and services is devolved. This response relates to the current position in England.
Local authorities are responsible for ensuring there is a sufficient supply of educational psychologists to deliver their statutory responsibilities. This includes the local authorities’ statutory duties in primary and secondary schools for assessing, monitoring and reviewing children with special educational needs.
The Department works in partnership with local educational psychology services in the private and public sector to ensure a steady flow of educational psychologists to the workforce. As part of our assessment of the implications of the Children and Families Act 2014, the government has increased the number of funded educational psychology training places by 25% in response to the needs of educational psychology services. The cost of this training is shared with local educational psychology services. The Department contribution comes to £20,188,857 over the next five years.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Fiona Mactaggart on 2015-12-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made on the evaluation of the Child Trafficking Advocates Trial.
Karen Bradley
Section 48(7) of the Modern Slavery Act requires the Government to lay before Parliament a report setting out the steps it proposes to take in relation to independent child trafficking advocates within nine months of Royal Assent of the Modern Slavery Act. The Government will publish this report and the independent evaluation, by the final day that Parliament sits this year.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kerry McCarthy on 2015-11-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much (a) her Department and (b) each of its arm’s length bodies has spent on staff redundancies in each of the last five years.
George Eustice
The cost of compulsory redundancies is set out in Defra’s Annual Report and Accounts. These are published annually on GOV.UK and links are provided below.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/defras-annual-report-and-accounts-2014-to-2015
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/defras-annual-report-and-accounts-2013-to-2014
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/defra-annual-report-and-accounts-2012-to-2013
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-report-and-accounts-2011-to-2012–6
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-report-and-accounts-2010-11
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chi Onwurah on 2015-12-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to raise awareness amongst solicitors of the risks of their clients being targeted in scams by people purporting to operate in the name of their solicitor requesting transfer of funds; and what estimate he has made of the number of such scams that took place in the last three years.
Mr Shailesh Vara
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), as an independent regulator, is well aware of the risks identified by the honourable member. It regularly issues scam alerts and in July this year published a paper outlining key risks. This paper will be updated again next spring. The SRA has advised that in 2014 it issued 183 scam alerts.