The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2016-10-21.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 15 September 2016 to Question 45581, when his Department expects to be able to provide a breakdown of the costs incurred in the creation of his Department.
Margot James
The Department will provide a breakdown in the Annual Report and Accounts 2016-17.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Goodman on 2016-01-13.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many applications not to pay tax on income from rental properties due to the owner’s overseas status were received in (a) 2014-15, (b) 2013-14, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2011-12 and (e) 2010-11.
Mr David Gauke
HMRC does not receive applications not to pay tax on income from rental properties due to overseas status.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2016-02-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what funding has been provided for (a) set-up costs and (b) ongong running costs of the Operational Delivery Networks established to support access to hepatitis C medicines.
George Freeman
NHS England initially allocated £1.2 million and is working with local commissioners to ensure that the necessary infrastructure and running costs are provided to the operational delivery networks.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-02-29.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much funding her Department has allocated to initiatives aimed at preventing female genital mutilation overseas in each year since 2009-10; and which countries were supported through such initiatives in each such year.
Mr Nick Hurd
DFID’s flagship programme to prevent Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), ‘Towards ending FGM/C in Africa and Beyond’, is providing up to £35 million in funding to end FGM in 17 high prevalence countries. The programme includes three core components: work with the UN on challenging social norms and working with governments on policy measures, supporting Africa-led campaigns and a research programme to build the evidence base for tackling FGM.
The countries covered by this programme are: Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mauritania, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Uganda.
Where applicable some DFID country offices also have their own bilateral programmes. In Sudan for example DFID’s regional programme is complemented by a country specific programme to support the scale up of initiatives to end FGM across the country.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Frank Field on 2016-03-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of new universal credit claims were processed within one month in the most recent 12 months for which data is available.
Priti Patel
The information you have requested is currently not available.
Additional breakdowns will be included in future Universal Credit official statistics as quality assurance of data from the Universal Credit systems progresses during 2016.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Matthew Pennycook on 2016-05-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what plans she has to establish a cross-government team on the deployment of renewable and low-carbon heating.
Andrea Leadsom
The Department actively engages with other Government departments, including at ministerial level, on a range of interdepartmental groups engaged in reducing emissions from heating and working towards our renewable energy targets.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Roberts of Llandudno on 2016-06-09.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many overseas citizens work in the UK in (1) hospitals, and (2) care homes.
Lord Prior of Brampton
The number of overseas citizens working in the United Kingdom in hospitals and care homes is not collected centrally.
The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) publishes data on the number of staff working in National Health Service hospital and community health services in England. The HSCIC also publishes data on the nationality of NHS staff, which is a self-reported field within the NHS human resources and payroll system, the electronic staff record (ESR). The nationality information entered by an individual employee onto ESR may reflect their cultural heritage rather than their country of birth.
From the 1,151,138 headcount number of staff working in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups as at September 2015, 1,056,773 have self-declared their nationality. Of these, 217,063 (21%) have declared as having nationalities other than British.
Skills for Care, the partner in the Sector Skills Council for social care, collects information on the nationality of the adult social care workforce in England.
Skills for Care estimates that there were on average 135,000 residential care job roles filled by non-British adult social care workers in England in 2015.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Trefgarne on 2016-09-06.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the nature of the agreement between Morocco and the EU; and in particular whether Morocco has access to the European single market.
Baroness Anelay of St Johns
Morocco’s relationship with the EU is framed through the EU’s European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). Their relationship covers political and economic cooperation as well as trade and technical assistance. Morocco does not have full access to the European Single Market, but a free trade area established in the 2002 EU-Morocco Association Agreement allows for easier trade in goods between Morocco and the EU.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Maginnis of Drumglass on 2016-10-21.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the need for, and benefit to be derived from, the questionnaire issued by Brighton and Hove Council requesting information about children’s self-perception of their sexual orientation.
Lord Nash
These questions refer to an answer given by Viscount Younger of Leckie on 12 October 2016, and also link to previous questions asked by Lord Macginnis, and answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford in April 2016.
As Baroness Williams set out in her previous reply, the Department for Education provides guidance on the Equality Act 2010 to schools which contains advice on the Public Sector Equality Duty and on the protected characteristic of gender reassignment.
The Department is not responsible for the decision by Brighton and Hove Council to include gender identity information on the pupil registration form it issued in April 2016. The Council has the independence to make this decision. The Department has had no involvement and has not made any assessment of the questionnaire.
The Department does not hold details of any additional information collected by local authorities outside of those required by the Department for our centrally specified, mandatory data collections. Brighton and Hove Council is responsible for securing answers and restricting access to information generated by any questionnaire it issues.
The Department has not inquired into the gender identity of children in Brighton and Hove and has no correspondence on the matter.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Hendrick on 2016-01-13.
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he intends to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Preston dated 7 October 2015 on rents for supported housing schemes run by housing associations and local authorities.
Brandon Lewis
This was answered and sent out on 14 January.