The below Parliamentary question was asked by Catherine West on 2016-10-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department plans to conduct a three and five year post-implementation review of the Taking Control of Goods Regulations 2013.
Sir Oliver Heald
The Ministry of Justice is finalising the one year post implementation review of the Taking Control of Goods Regulations 2013 and a decision will be made about publication in due course.
It is considering the further reviews.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Hepburn on 2016-01-06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS dentists were employed in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 2005.
Alistair Burt
Data is not available in the exact format requested.
The attached tables provide the information for the period 2005-2006 for England, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear Strategic Health Authority (SHA), County Durham and Tees Valley SHA and all the primary care trusts (PCT) in these two SHAs. These data are based on the old contractual arrangements, which were in place up to and including 31 March 2006 and were a count of practitioners on PCT lists regardless of whether they had done any National Health Service work.
For the period 2007-2013, data is available for England, North East SHA and all the PCTs in this single SHA. Data for the post 2006 contractual arrangements only count dentists who have carried out any NHS activity in each financial year.
For the period 2014-2015, following the 2013 NHS re-organisation, data is available for England, Durham, Darlington and Tees Area Team, Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear Area Team and the clinical commissioning groups within these two area teams.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Daniel Zeichner on 2016-01-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data his Department holds on the correlation between cycle usage and household income.
Mr Robert Goodwill
The number of cycle trips and distance cycled per person per year for different household income levels (based on data for households in England in 2014) are given in the table.
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Real household income quintile |
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Lowest real income level |
Second level |
Third level |
Fourth level |
Highest real income level |
All income levels |
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Cycle trips per person per year |
21 |
15 |
15 |
18 |
21 |
18 |
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Distance cycled (miles) per person per year |
50 |
46 |
43 |
64 |
88 |
58 |
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dan Jarvis on 2016-02-22.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the public sector exit cap proposed in the Enterprise Bill on employees of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
Greg Hands
An impact analysis was published within the exit payment cap consultation document which respondents had an opportunity to comment on. Further, the Government has been working with departments, including the Department of Energy and Climate Change, to inform the impact of a public sector exit payment cap set at £95,000 in different sectors and on different categories of workers. The exit payment cap consultation can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-a-public-sector-exit-payment-cap
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Doughty on 2016-03-16.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were registered with HM Revenue and Customs as self-employed (a) wholly and (b) partly for the purposes of tax and national insurance in Cardiff South and Penarth constituency in each of the last 24 months.
Mr David Gauke
The latest available data for the numbers of individual taxpayers with self-employment income, by constituency level, is for 2012-13. There were estimated to be 4,000 individuals with self-employment income in Cardiff South and Penarth out of 48,000 with income from any source.
These estimates are based on the Survey of Personal Incomes and are taken from table 3.15 of the HM Revenue and Customs Personal Income statistics publication. The estimate for 2013-14 is due to be published on the 31st March 2016.
No information on the purpose for individuals registering for Self Assessment is collected.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tommy Sheppard on 2016-04-14.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that UK businesses that operate in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories are aware of the Overseas Business Risk guidance related to Israel.
Mr Tobias Ellwood
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Overseas Business Risk (OBR) service covers 106 different countries. This is voluntary guidance to British businesses, available free of charge on GOV.UK. The guidance is regularly reviewed and updated if necessary. The OBR service is routinely promoted as part of officials’ outreach work with businesses and trade promotion agencies and partners. It is the decision of an individual or company whether to operate in settlements in the Occupied Territories, but the British Government would neither encourage nor support such activity.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Mendelsohn on 2016-05-23.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the findings of the Insurance Fraud Taskforce that detected insurance fraud and undetected insurance fraud costs consumers up to £50 per year; and whether they plan to establish a unit (1) to track the return of those costs to the consumer, and (2) to monitor the performance of the insurance industry in tackling fraud and addressing the practices of claims management companies.
Lord O’Neill of Gatley
A Written Ministerial Statement was published on 26 May 2016 to announce that the Government accepts each of the recommendations addressed to it. We expect that all organisations tasked with taking forward recommendations do so with urgency. The Government will do what it can to assist and, in order to make sure that all of the recommendations are actively pursued, we will seek an update on progress later in the year.
The report highlighted the particular problem of fraud in relation to low value personal injury claims and the Government has established a programme of reforms in this area, particularly in respect of whiplash claims and regulation of claims management companies. We are pleased that the report’s recommendations reflect and support that reform programme.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2016-07-19.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support her Department gives successful schools wishing to establish a multi-academy trust.
Edward Timpson
The Department supports successful schools wishing to establish Multi-Academy Trusts and I refer the Hon. Member to the answer provided for question 42232 on 13 July 2016.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2016-10-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of the staff employed by her Department are non-UK nationals.
Dr Phillip Lee
All Government Departments are bound by legal requirements concerning the right to work in the UK and, in addition, the Civil Service Nationality Rules. Evidence of nationality is checked at the point of recruitment into the Civil Service as part of wider pre-employment checks, but there is no requirement on departments to retain this information beyond the point at which it has served its purpose.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-01-06.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 9 November 2015 to Question 14919, what decisions have been made on how to spend the remaining funds that was allocated for perinatal mental health for 2015-16; and whether NHS England plans to spend the full £15 million allocation by the end of 2015-16.
Alistair Burt
The Budget in March 2015 and the Spending Review in November 2015 both recognised perinatal mental health services as a priority area for additional investment.
On 11 January the Government set out an additional £290 million which will be made available over the next five years to 2020/21 to invest in perinatal mental health services. This builds on the initial investment announced at the Spring Budget, making a total investment from 2016/17 to 2020/21 of £350 million. This new funding, together with the recommendations of the forthcoming report of the independent Mental Health Taskforce, will enable NHS England to design a broader transformation programme to build capacity and capability in specialist perinatal mental health services, with the aim of enabling women in all areas of England to access NICE-concordant care by 2020/21.
In the context of this planned broader programme, NHS England anticipates spending up to £5 million of the original 2015/16 funding of £15 million in this financial year, to lay the foundations for this longer-term work through targeted funding of activities to build capacity in specialist services. This will include, for example, a £1 million investment in strengthening clinical networks across the country. It is also expected to include providing national and regional benchmarking data and analytical support to regions, and developing clinical leadership capacity. Additional work will support both the development of specialist Mother and Baby Units in those regions identified as most in need of new services, and training and developing the perinatal workforce to build skills and capabilities within specialist teams.
NHS England will work with partners over the coming months to develop the new programme for improving specialist perinatal mental health services. This will include setting detailed plans for how the additional investment will be targeted over the period to 2020/21.