The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liz Kendall on 2016-01-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how many people of each gender work in her Department.
Mr Desmond Swayne
DFID provides quarterly reports to the Office of National Statistics (ONS). The information provided at 31 December was as follows:
|
Gender |
Headcount |
|
Male |
914 |
|
Female |
1152 |
|
Total |
2066 |
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Daniel Zeichner on 2016-02-02.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disabled people have been affected by the under-occupancy deduction from housing benefit to date.
Justin Tomlinson
The information requested is not readily available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Campbell of Pittenweem on 2016-02-25.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what priority they attach to acquiring and deploying unmanned carrier-launched surveillance and strike aircraft.
Earl Howe
The Queen Elizabeth Class carriers will have an extensive flight deck with hangar and engineering support facilities, which can be utilised to operate and sustain autonomous systems. The Royal Navy recognises that such systems offer a unique opportunity to maintain its operational advantage and it continues to explore how they could augment its capabilities in the future.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kevin Brennan on 2016-03-21.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of online retail fraud was to retailers in each year for which data is available.
Karen Bradley
The Home Office does not hold the information requested.
The Home Office runs an annual Commercial Victimisation Survey (CVS) which asks business premises in different sectors about their experience of various crime types, including fraud, in the latest year.
In order to keep the length of the survey, and hence the burden on respondents, to a minimum, businesses are only asked about the cost of the latest incident of each crime type experienced in the year. Therefore, it is not possible to provide an aggregate cost of fraud or overall crime to businesses in the retail sector.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Campbell of Pittenweem on 2016-04-26.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their programme for the development of the Type 26 Frigate.
Earl Howe
I refer the noble Lord to the answer given by my hon. Friend, the Minister of State for Defence Procurement (Philip Dunne), in the House of Commons on 11 April 2016 to Question 32497.
http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-03-24/32497/
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Deidre Brock on 2016-06-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the coastguard response time was to the incident off Portobello in Edinburgh in the early hours of 15 May 2016.
Mr Robert Goodwill
HM Coastguard were notified by the Scottish Ambulance Service of two persons in the water off Portobello in Edinburgh at 0237 GMT on 15 May 2016. The Coastguard Rescue Teams from Fisherrow and Queensferry were tasked at 0241 GMT and were on scene at 0257 GMT. The two persons in the water were recovered to dry land by the Police at 0304 GMT.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lisa Nandy on 2016-09-02.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether it is his Department’s policy to comply with the EU 2020 target on renewable energy.
Mr Nick Hurd
There will be no immediate changes to our relationship with the EU. Until we have left the EU, the UK will remain a member of the EU with all of the rights and obligations that membership entails.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Joan Ryan on 2016-10-14.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to work with the Palestinian Authority to promote gender equality in the Palestinian territories.
Mr Tobias Ellwood
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office works closely with other government departments, including the Department for International Development (DFID), and with the Palestinian Authority to enhance gender equality in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. DFID has supported interventions to tackle violence against women and girls by working with the Palestinian security and justice sectors. Under the UK’s Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) programme, we attach great importance to gender sensitivity in project design and implementation. Our Consulate General in Jerusalem host events to celebrate the achievements of Palestinian women, including during last year’s International Day of Women.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Stephens on 2016-01-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what impact assessment his Department has carried out on the effects of reductions in the universal credit work allowance on employees of his Department.
Priti Patel
The impact of the work allowance change cannot be considered in isolation – it is part of a broader package of measures announced at the Summer Budget, such as the increase to the personal tax allowance and introduction of the national living wage, which strengthens incentives to find work and better paid jobs.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Berkeley on 2016-02-01.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what (1) proportion, and (2) volume, of excavated spoil from each of the Thames Tideway Tunnel construction sites will be transported from them by river.
Lord Gardiner of Kimble
The Development Consent Order for the Thames Tideway Tunnel (TTT) requires 100% of the specified materials to be transported by river for construction sites on the Thames foreshore, unless an approved derogation is in place. Derogations could include periods when it is not possible to use river transport due to factors such as river closures, incidents, weather and supply chain failures, and for material not suitable for river transport such as contaminated material that needs specialist disposal or material that is too wet for safe transit without specialist vessels.
The commitment to transportation by river from the construction sites was secured through the River Transport Strategy, which was included in Thames Water’s application for Development Consent for the Tunnel, although it only applies to specific material listed in the Strategy (including excavated material from the main tunnel at main tunnel drive sites and material excavated from the shafts at foreshore sites).
Bazalgette Tunnel Limited (operating as Tideway), the company appointed to design, finance, build and operate the TTT, has estimated the proportion and volume of excavated spoil that will be transported by river from each of the TTT construction foreshore sites (see Table 1 below). The percentages shown for each site demonstrate the anticipated effect of derogations on the amounts of excavated spoil they will be able to transport by river.
However, Tideway and appointed mains works contractors have made commitments to maximise their use of river transport and are therefore working on opportunities to increase the extent of river transport further in liaison with the Local Authorities, Greater London Authority, Port of London Authority and Transport for London.
Table 1 – Excavated specified material percentage and volume by river transport
|
SITE |
% of all excavated specified material transported by river |
Volume to be transported by river (m3) |
|
Putney Bridge Foreshore |
90% |
14,000 |
|
Carnwath Road Riverside |
90% |
353,400 |
|
Cremorne Wharf Depot |
90% |
9,000 |
|
Chelsea Embankment |
90% |
44,400 |
|
Kirtling Street |
81% |
693,600 * |
|
Heathwall Pumping Station |
82% |
16,300** |
|
Albert Embankment |
90% |
56,300 |
|
Victoria Embankment |
90% |
27,900 |
|
Blackfriars Bridge |
90% |
72,100 |
|
Chambers Wharf |
90% |
416,100 |
|
King Edward Memorial Park |
90% |
57,500 |
*excludes shaft and excavated material from ‘other’ minor structures, due to restricted river frontage
**excludes ‘excavated material from ‘other’ minor structures’, due to site constraints