The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gerald Kaufman on 2016-01-19.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he intends to answer the letter to him dated 23 November 2015 with regard to Ms A Gledson.
Mr Robert Goodwill
My Rt. Hon Friend wrote to the Rt. Hon Member on 15 December 2015.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Philip Davies on 2016-02-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department and non-departmental public bodies receive (a) home to work travel allowance, (b) a car allowance and (c) subsidised health insurance.
Karen Bradley
The Home Office does not pay a home to office travel allowance for staff to travel to their normal place of work. There is one employee of an Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB) who is paid an allowance for home to work travel.
Neither the Home Office nor its NDPBs pays any of its staff a car allowance.
Neither the Home Office nor its NDPBs provides subsidised health insurance to any of its staff.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lilian Greenwood on 2016-03-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has issued guidance to public bodies on the sale of land containing disused rail lines.
Claire Perry
No such guidance has been issued.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Bridgen on 2016-04-14.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of administering European Social Funds in each of the (a) last and (b) next five years.
Mr Shailesh Vara
The Department cannot separate out the costs of administering the functions for the European Social Fund (ESF) programme.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Roger Godsiff on 2016-05-18.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the changes to junior doctors’ contracts and NHS working patterns on hospices and other institutions providing end of life care.
Ben Gummer
Most junior doctors working in hospices do so as either a volunteer or as part of their training placement with a National Health Service trust or foundation trust, who under the new contract will appoint a guardian of safe working hours.
It was also agreed in the May negotiations that non-hospital employers with fewer than 10 trainees (this could include palliative care) must contract the guardian of safe working hours at a neighbouring NHS trust to oversee the safe working of trainees.
The trainees affected by these arrangements will be represented in the Junior Doctor Forum and the Guardian must either be familiar with the issues face by the trainees working in the relevant setting or have access to support and advice on such issues.
Hospices will decide locally how to deploy trainee doctors and on-call arrangements.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Simpson on 2016-07-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how her Department plans to encourage more farmers to submit their Basic Payment Scheme payments applications online.
George Eustice
For the Basic Payment Scheme 2016 over 80% of farmers chose to apply online.
For the Basic Payment Scheme 2017 the Rural Payments Agency will have a planned campaign of activity to encourage as many as possible of the remaining 20% of customers that applied on paper to apply online.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Goodman on 2016-10-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what schedules his Department has prepared for World Trade Organisation tariffs on goods and services for the period after the UK has exited the EU.
Greg Hands
The UK already has World Trade Organisation (WTO) schedules for goods and services, contained within those of the EU.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2016-01-19.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2015 to Question 12356, when he expects Network Rail to publish an update to its industry electrification strategy.
Claire Perry
It remains the Department’s expectation that Network Rail will publish the industry electrification strategy as a draft for consultation in early 2016, taking into account Sir Peter Hendy’s report of Network Rail’s programme of rail investment.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Fiona Mactaggart on 2016-02-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects to publish the results of her Department’s assessment of exit checks data; and if she will make a statement.
Karen Bradley
I refer the Rt Hon. Member to the answer I gave the Hon Member for Morley and Outwood (Andrea Jenkyns) on 17 December 2015 to Question UIN: 19792.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Richard Fuller on 2016-03-08.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what deadline Govia Thameslink Railway Ltd has been set to meet the terms of its Remedial Plan.
Claire Perry
The Secretary of State has accepted Govia Thameslink Railway’s Remedial Plan that sets out the steps the operator is taking to improve their performance and it will shortly be published on the Government’s website. The plan covers the period to September 2018.