Tag: 2016

  • Rob Marris – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    Rob Marris – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Rob Marris on 2016-05-18.

    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information HM Revenue and Customs holds on the number of people engaged in employment through an employment intermediary in each year since 2008.

    Mr David Gauke

    HM Revenue and Customs does not have details of the number of people engaged in employment through an employment intermediary. Employment intermediaries are required to deduct tax and National Insurance contributions from most people engaged in employment and tax returns are monitored, but no count is kept of the total numbers of workers.

  • Andrew Gwynne – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Andrew Gwynne – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Gwynne on 2016-06-24.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to raise public awareness of the calorie content of alcoholic drinks; and if he will make a statement.

    Jane Ellison

    The last Government’s “Healthy Lives, Healthy People: A call to action on obesity in England”, October 2011 states that alcoholic drinks can be high in calories and contribute to the energy imbalance that can lead to being overweight and obesity.

    We welcome the fact that some businesses are choosing to label calories voluntarily on their alcoholic beverages.

  • Mark Pritchard – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    Mark Pritchard – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Pritchard on 2016-09-13.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure more members of the Commonwealth abolish the death penalty.

    Alok Sharma

    The Government supports a global moratorium on use of the death penalty as a step towards eventual abolition. Since 2010 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has funded a number of projects promoting reform of the death penalty in individual Commonwealth countries. We also continue to engage diplomatically and urge Commonwealth countries to support the United Nation’s resolution on a global moratorium on the death penalty later this year.

  • Justin Madders – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    Justin Madders – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-01-20.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when the Government plans to publish the findings of its review of employment tribunal fees.

    Mr Shailesh Vara

    Following public consultation, the government introduced fees in Employment Tribunals as a way of reducing the burden on the taxpayer and to encourage parties to seek alternative ways of resolving their disputes.

    On 11 June we announced the start of the post-implementation review of the introduction of fees in the Employment Tribunals.

    The review will report in due course.

  • Dan Jarvis – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Dan Jarvis – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dan Jarvis on 2016-02-11.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to increase the proportion of cancer patients who are offered the opportunity to take part in research in (a) trust areas in which participation rates are below the English average and (b) other areas.

    Jane Ellison

    The proportion of cancer patients in England who participate in clinical trials and other research studies rose more than four-fold between 2001 and 2012, from under 4% of cancer patients to more than18%. Research participation in countries for which data exists has lagged behind the United Kingdom, at around 3% to 8% of cancer patients. For this reason, several other countries (including USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan) have sought advice from leaders in the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN) and adopted elements of the UK approach.

    Since 2012, the number of cancer research studies to which English patients have been recruited through the NIHR CRN has continued to rise year-on-year. Patients were recruited to 550 different studies during 2011-12, compared with 750 in 2014-15 and over 780 already in 2015-16. However, the nature of clinical research questions has changed, reducing the demand for very large numbers of patients per study. Consequently, despite the continuing increase in research studies, the total number of patients recruited per year fell slightly during 2012-14. However, there has been a 10% increase in recruitment to date in 2015-16 compared with the same months in 2014-15.

    As well as monitoring overall recruitment to cancer studies, the NIHR CRN is continually monitoring detailed performance including regional variation and variation between different cancer types, and taking steps to improve lower-performing areas. From April 2015, the NIHR CRN has comprised 15 Local Clinical Research Networks (LCRNs) and a national co-ordinating centre, which together have responsibility for study delivery in England. The LCRNs include local clinical leadership for cancer research. These Cancer Specialty Leads meet regularly with the national team to compare performance metrics and best practice, so that leaders from below-average recruiting LCRNs can learn from those with the highest performance.

    From April 2015, each LCRN has been required to identify clinical leaders for 13 different cancer subspecialties, each of whom works with the LCRN team to ensure that there is a research portfolio in place for patients within their subspecialty, and liaises with the national group developing trials in that disease type. This new system is improving the coordination of national and local research strategies, and may underlie the upturn in recruitment which is now being observed.

  • Tulip Siddiq – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Tulip Siddiq – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-03-03.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2016 to Question 28978, which Category 2 countries or territories to which her Department made (a) import extradition requests and (b) people were extradited to the UK from in each year since 2009-10.

    James Brokenshire

    Category 2 territories” refers to countries designated as extradition partners under Part 2 of the Extradition Act 2003. The territories listed were Category 2 territories at the time the request was made or the person was extradited.

    Year

    Category 2 territories to which extradition requests were made

    Category 2 territories from which people were extradited to the UK

    2009

    Australia Bangladesh Canada Chile Hong Kong India Jamaica Malaysia Mexico Peru South Africa Thailand Turkey Turks and Caicos UAE Ukraine USA

    Australia Brazil Canada Colombia Croatia India Iraq Jamaica Mexico South Africa Switzerland Thailand Turkey Turks and Caicos UAE USA

    2010

    Australia Bangladesh Barbados Canada Colombia Ghana Jamaica Nigeria South Africa St Vincent UAE USA

    Australia Bangladesh Barbados Canada Iraq Peru South Africa Thailand Turkey USA

    2011

    Antigua Australia Azerbaijan Canada Dominican Republic Ghana India Israel Jamaica Nigeria Norway South Africa Sri Lanka Switzerland Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Turkey USA Zimbabwe

    Australia Bangladesh Canada Ghana Norway South Africa St Vincent Switzerland Thailand Turkey UAE USA

    2012

    Australia Bangladesh Canada Ghana Jamaica Malaysia Mexico New Zealand Nigeria Singapore South Africa Switzerland Thailand Turkey UAE USA

    Australia Canada Grenada Jamaica Nigeria Thailand Trinidad and Tobago UAE USA

    2013

    Australia Canada Ecuador India Iraq Jamaica Nigeria Norway South Africa Switzerland Trinidad and Tobago Turkey UAE USA

    Antigua Australia Canada Ghana India Jamaica Mexico Singapore South Africa Switzerland Thailand UAE USA

    2014

    Australia Bangladesh Brazil Canada Hong Kong Iceland, India Jamaica Malaysia New Zealand Nigeria South Africa Sri Lanka Thailand UAE USA

    Australia Canada Hong Kong Israel Jamaica Malaysia Nigeria South Africa

    2015

    Australia Canada Hong Kong India Jamaica Kenya Mexico New Zealand Nigeria Norway Philippines South Africa St Lucia Switzerland Tanzania Thailand Turkey UAE Ukraine USA

    Australia Brazil Canada Jamaica Malaysia New Zealand Nigeria Norway Philippines South Africa Switzerland Tanzania Thailand Trinidad & Tobago UAE USA

  • Kerry McCarthy – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    Kerry McCarthy – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kerry McCarthy on 2016-04-11.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reasons the Environment Agency’s Climate Ready Support Service has ended; and when the decision to end that service was made.

    Rory Stewart

    The Environment Agency’s Climate Ready Support Service was originally envisaged as a three year programme that was extended to a fourth year in March 2015. This enabled completion of the majority of National Adaptation Programme actions to which the service was contributing. The remaining ongoing actions are continuing without the need for the designated service. Adaptation is integrated throughout the work of all Government departments who continue to deliver, alongside local Government and many other organisations, their commitments set out in the National Adaptation Programme.

  • Rachel Reeves – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

    Rachel Reeves – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Rachel Reeves on 2016-05-18.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with local enterprise partnerships in Yorkshire about the creation of new enterprise zones.

    James Wharton

    In 2015 we ran a competitive bidding round that provided an opportunity for Local Enterprise Partnerships to submit bids for a new round of Enterprise Zones.

    All Local Enterprise Partnerships within Yorkshire successfully submitted bids for new Zones or extensions to existing ones. We announced two new Enterprise Zones in November, in Leeds and York, and at Budget we announced an extension to the existing Sheffield Enterprise Zone that is subject to local approval.

  • Chris Law – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    Chris Law – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Law on 2016-06-24.

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) detainees, (b) security guards and (c) independent witnesses were on board the deportation charter flight from Stansted Airport to West Africa on 24 May 2016.

    James Brokenshire

    Home Office records indicate that, on the 24th May charter to Nigeria & Ghana, 47 detainees were returned with 118 escorts. On this particular flight there were no independent observers.

    This is provisional management information that is subject to change. It has not been assured to the standard of Official Statistics.

  • Alison Thewliss – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    Alison Thewliss – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alison Thewliss on 2016-09-13.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to develop milk banks.

    Mr Philip Dunne

    The United Kingdom Association for Milk Banking promote and support the accountable provision of safe, rigorously screened donor breastmilk for sick and premature babies. However they do not routinely supply milk for mother who through illness cannot breastfeed their babies even though they would consider providing the supply of breastmilk on a case by case basis.

    The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends that all donor milk administered in the National Health Service should be from milk banks that can demonstrate adherence to the NICE guidelines on the operation of donor milk bank services.

    It is up to the local NHS in each area to consider whether to introduce a milk bank for mothers attending maternity units. There are at present 14 milk banks in NHS trusts in England.