The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kevan Jones on 2015-11-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what funding his Department has provided to the BBC World Service in each year since 2010.
Mr David Lidington
In each year from 2010 the department provided the following funding to the BBC World Service: 2009/2010 – £268,043,000 2010/2011 – £268,523,000 2011/2012 – £255,200,000 2012/2013 – £244,200,000 2013/2014 – £238,480,000
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town on 2015-10-29.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they anticipate publication of the results of the review of the United Kingdom’s system for the recall of unsafe products chaired by Lynn Faulds Wood.
Baroness Neville-Rolfe
The Review of UK product recalls chaired by Lynn Faulds Wood is due to be published soon.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jamie Reed on 2015-11-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many of the NHS vanguard sires are supporting the needs of people with inflammatory arthritis.
Jane Ellison
NHS England is working to support and stimulate the creation of a number of major new care models, led by the vanguard sites, which can be deployed in different combinations locally across England. These models are designed to overcome the traditional divide between primary care, community services and hospitals, as well as social and mental health care, which is increasingly a barrier to the personalised, coordinated and integrated services patients need.
Improving continuity of care in this way is particularly relevant for patients with long term conditions (LTCs), such as inflammatory arthritis. A number of the vanguard sites (such as those introducing multispecialty community provider models and integrated primary and acute care system models) are focusing on the care of patients with LTCs. More information can be found at the following link:
www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/futurenhs/new-care-models/
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kevin Brennan on 2015-10-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what ability the Government plans to retain to ensure that the Green Investment Bank operates according to its original purposes after that body’s privatisation.
Anna Soubry
Green investment is what the Green Investment Bank (GIB) does and is where its value lies. It is clear from preliminary feedback that potential investors are interested in GIB precisely because of its unique green specialism and its existing forward business plan and pipeline of green projects. Investors will have sound commercial reasons to maintain GIB’s green focus and continue operating in accordance with its clearly stated green principles and highly transparent and robust green reporting practices.
As a key part of any sale discussions, potential investors will be asked to confirm their commitment to these values and to set out how they propose to protect them. We envisage this would involve new shareholders agreeing to:
It is important to understand Government could not impose binding conditions on future owners of GIB to act in a particular way while also securing our key objective of removing state control over GIB so it can be reclassified to the private sector.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicola Blackwood on 2015-11-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much of her Department’s funding allocated in the Spending Review 2015 will be for research and development expenditure up to 2020.
Karen Bradley
The Spending Review announcement set the overall budget for the Home Office. Officials are now going through the detail and will continue to provide advice to the Home Secretary on individual allocations and spending commitments. We anticipate that funding allocations for research and development will be confirmed in the new year.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-10-29.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will ensure that save-as-you-earn and share incentive plan savings limits are increased in line with inflation on an annual basis.
Mr David Gauke
The tax-advantaged Save As You Earn (SAYE) and Share Incentive Plan (SIP) limits were significantly increased from April 2014. The increases the Government have made are reasonable, given the average monthly SAYE savings and the value of awards currently made to employees under SIP, and they represent the best use of resources. The Government will continue to keep the SAYE and SIP limits under review.
In addition to increasing the SAYE and SIP limits, the rules of the schemes were substantially reviewed and simplified following the recommendations made by the Office of Tax Simplification in March 2012. Last year, the requirement that these schemes must be approved by HM Revenue and Customs to qualify for favourable tax treatment was replaced by self-certification. Coupled with other changes to simplify some technical aspects of the rules, this will make these schemes more attractive to businesses and employees.
No data is collected and no estimates are made of the income levels of the participants in SAYE schemes.
Permitting private equity backed companies to offer all-employee tax advantaged schemes would be likely to involve significant changes to the rules of the schemes, and there would be a number of other factors to consider carefully, including the increased cost and complexity of any extension.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-11-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much the Information Commissioner’s Office has spent on processing assessments pursuant to section 42 of the Data Protection Act 1998 in each of the last five financial years; how many such requests that Office has received in each of the those years; and what the recorded outcomes were of those requests.
Mr Edward Vaizey
Under section 42 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA), any person who is, or believes that he is, directly affected by the processing of personal data, can ask the Information Commissioner to consider whether the processing is likely to comply with the law. On receiving such a request, the Commissioner is obliged to consider the concern and make an assessment. Any such request, and cases taken forward are dealt with by the ICO’s customer contact and performance improvement business areas. The ICO does not cost up S42 assessments separately from other data protection casework, but the total staffing costs for these two business areas for the last five financial years are set out below:
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2015/16 (April-Nov) |
£2,883,256.14 |
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2014/15 |
£3,879,782.83 |
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2013/14 |
£3,969,104.17 |
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2012/13 |
£3,581,161.82 |
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2011/12 |
£3,389,336.87 |
Numbers of assessments received and concluded for each of the past 5 years are set out below:
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Financial years |
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2010-11 |
2011-12 |
2012-13 |
2013-14 |
2014-15 |
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Number of assessments received under s42 DPA |
13034 |
12980 |
13760 |
14738 |
14268 |
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Number of assessments completed under s42 DPA |
14276 |
12725 |
14280 |
15492 |
15052 |
The recorded outcomes of those assessments are set out below:
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Financial years |
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Outcome of s42 assessment |
2010-11 |
2011-12 |
2012-13 |
2013-14 |
2014-15 |
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Not progressed |
14% |
11% |
13% |
14% |
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Compliance likely |
22% |
21% |
22% |
19% |
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Compliance unlikely |
33% |
31% |
35% |
34% |
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Ineligible/Made too early |
27% |
36% |
30% |
33% |
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Reopened – pending final outcome |
4% |
1% |
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No Action for Data Controller |
35% |
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Data Controller Action required |
22% |
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Concern to be raised with Data Controller |
17% |
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compliance advice given to Data Controller |
10% |
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Response needed from Data Controller |
7% |
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Complaint not applicable under DPA |
4% |
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General advice given to Data Controller |
4% |
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Data Controller outside UK |
1% |
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Improvement action plan agreed with Data Controller |
1% |
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Christopher Chope on 2015-10-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2015 to Question 12248, what the gross cost to the Planning Inspectorate was of the examination into the planning consent application for the Navitus Bay Wind Park; and how much of that cost was paid by Navitus Bay Development Ltd.
James Wharton
The gross cost to the Planning Inspectorate of the examination into the planning consent application for the Navitus Bay Wind Park was £995,660. Navitus Bay Development Ltd paid £565,660 of those costs.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2015-11-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many assaults there have been on staff working for (a) London Underground, (b) London Overground, (c) London buses, (d) Docklands Light Railway and (e) Tramlink in each year between 2010 and 2014.
Mr Robert Goodwill
The Department for Transport does not collect this information.
However, I am able to say that the British Transport Police will shortly be launching Project Servator, which aims to detect and deter crime on the railways. It deploys highly visible and unpredictable police patrols to prevent a range of criminal activity, from pickpocketing and theft to more serious crimes including terrorism.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Christian Matheson on 2015-10-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many responses she has received to the recent consultation on proposed cuts to the feed-in tariff; how long she plans for her Department to spend on evaluating those responses; and when she plans to make public the Government’s proposed next steps on this matter.
Andrea Leadsom
The Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) scheme review consultation closed on 23 October and we are currently evaluating the responses received. We have received nearly 55,000 responses to the consultation and we currently estimate that just over 2,600 are unique and detailed responses; the rest are briefer and more uniform responses, generated by campaigns.
We expect to publish a Government response in due course.